Lately, it seems like about .500 is the best I can do. Today is a perfect example. A good cleaning, some silicon spray and paraffin wax for the track and the sliding door no longer sounds like a gravel crusher.
On the other hand, despite the "DYI re-charge", the "AC" on the Miata still feels like a hair dryer. I'm starting to think I may not be mechanical enough to hang out here anymore.
.500 is pretty good around here!
I'm a 100 percent guy. I'm too stubborn to give up without fixing whatever I'm working on. I'm not saying I'm smart or gifted, just stubborn and willing to throw money and effort at a problem until I solve it. It's a vanity thing I guess.
I figure like this...
If you bat 100% on your projects, you're really not challenging yourself enough.
I think .250 would be optimistic for me...
At this point in my life, I don't really care about being "challenged". I just want cars that go, turn and stop. I don't get off on the build or repair side at all anymore. Just a means to an end. If I could afford to pay someone else to build my crazy ideas, I would.
Still working on my first car project...and six years into it.
What kind of ticks me off is I would have been a perfect 1.000, except I got "end capped" at the store with the DYI kit while picking up stuff for the slider project. Totally wasn't planning on working on the AC today, and probably don't have enough background to really pull it off, but the kits were on sale since its nearing the end of AC season.
Necessary definition: "End capped" - when you buy something and start an unplanned project because there's something at eye level, on sale, on the end of the isle you have to travel down. Similar to being "craig's listed".
Batting 0 so far. Mopeds haven't been touched, red truck is sitting, still not running and I havent done E36 M3 to the other one.
Lifetime: ok Last year: complete crap
I just pieced the pos deck back together on my Dad's lawn tractor with parts from the parts mower, installed new blades and promptly snapped the drive belt with 100sq ft left to cut, on the end of the yard opposite from the house/driveway/lawnmower shed, and slightly downhill, which made pushing it back fun.
My Yugo isn't gonna be running this year, and my housing situation is now as such that I will have nowhere to keep it when I move back to Detroit for school anyways.
Furthermore, I had to ford a lot of water in my Prizm nearly up to the doors yesterday(rained really hard, in Detroit) and now it whines when revved up. Have not yet investigated that. I totally have the money for whatever accessory bearing probably shat itself.
i'm batting 1000... but i do sometimes have to change what i consider the final goal to be when i'm getting sick of doing something...
We need a definition of "project." If you count oil changes, coil packs and CV boot replacement, then I'm a superstar. If you count cars that aren't running when you start, but are running when you finish, then I'm closer to .500.
kazoospec wrote: On the other hand, despite the "DYI re-charge", the "AC" on the Miata still feels like a hair dryer. I'm starting to think I may not be mechanical enough to hang out here anymore.
Sounds like my Dodge. Turn the AC on and it only gets hotter in the cab of the truck. Tiff's Tacoma that is the same age blows ICE COLD. I don't drive the truck much in the summer.
not too berkeleying good these days
In reply to rebelgtp:
That is something that I need to do to mine. Some genius decided to DIY recharge it constantly and now the pressure is around 70. I figure I'll grab some gauges and cool the air a little bit til the overcharge is gone.
0.00. Just plain ZERO.
I've had many projects over the course of my 31 years, and I've never finished one. Maybe someday I'll finish something!
.500, exactly half of my 24 vehicles are running
aussiesmg wrote: .500, exactly half of my 24 vehicles are running
ROFL, I am slightly better than that.......4 out of 6 are running here.
I guess i'm at 50%. 3 out of 6 are running. 2 of them in pretty sorry shape, though.
Per the SAS et al:
"Who dares, wins"
I always fix my E36 M3. Furnances, A/C (in the house), drywall, furniture building, whatever. It always takes a while for me to get time (see the truck build thread), and I may not always get it right the first time (water heater and crappy soldering) but I fix it. I draw the line as far as pros go at stupid cheap things ($18 more for the dealer to install an alternator on the Caravan than for me to buy it and do it) and at mold, charging refrigerants, tires on and off wheels, glass, huge capital investments (hired the landscaping company to bring me 3.5 tons of rock) and specialty computer stuff (reflashing PCM and such).
yamaha wrote:aussiesmg wrote: .500, exactly half of my 24 vehicles are runningROFL, I am slightly better than that.......4 out of 6 are running here.
Heh. 6 out of 7 here, if I include the riding mower and the remains of the Berzerkeley.
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