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Barry

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Being covered in transmission oil up to your elbows and your phone rings in your pocket. 

Having to wash your hands before you use the bathroom rather than after. 

Having permanent black spots on the back of your hands and wrists where the oil has got stuck in your pores.

Paying $300 for 4 screwdrivers from snap on and 2 of them go missing.

Realizing a drug addiction would have been cheaper than all the tools you've bought the past year.

Spending half a day trying to trace a no start fault and realizing you forgot to plug something back in.

Dropping a socket between the heads on a V engine and having to take the manifold off because you can't get the magnet into the space.

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@Barry guess its a bad day!

You could mention dropping a spanner or a screwdriver when your working over a pit or on a ramp. And the other one is climbing onto the ramp and forgetting to bring that socket.

Removing the gearbox and it jams against some small object and the gear oil runs down your to arm pits.

Working on your back and debris falling into your hair and eyes.

And finally, the moving rocker gasket..! You have cleaned everything, greased the gasket into place onto the rocker lid and you slowly move the lid into place avoiding all the cables and other obstructions, start the bolts and check all is good. Tighten all the bolts and start the engine with a smile, that's until you see the leaking oil....!!! Start again.. 

 

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I'm actually having a pretty good day today. Have a Bentley in and the KESSY controller isn't communicating with the remote antennas. A couple of MOSFETs and a handful fusible resistors ordered from RS Components. Solder them in and it'll be as good as new. Fixed for 10 bucks in parts. I dread to think what a new controller would cost. 

 

Anyway, back to topic,

Refitting an engine back into a Range Rover. Starting it and oil starts pouring out from the back of the engine. Having to remove the engine again to fit two o-rings worth a dirham because your helper forgot them. 

Changing the oil in an engine. Pour the best part of a gallon into the filler cap. Realizing the oil is running around your feet and notice the sump bung sitting on top of your toolbox. 

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Forgot this one, changing front brake pads. Your pushing back the piston when you remember you did not remove the master cylinder cap..

Pouring the best part of oil into the filler cap and someone distracts you and the rest of the oil misses the filler cap and lubricates the exhaust manifold.  

Happy days.

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just as you think that all the components have been removed by you and your helper now as you ready to pull the engine out a stupid tiny miny pipe is holding it in...:-D

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