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[tphoyt]

I had Homer Simpson moment today.
I had to replace the tailgate window motor in my 4 runner. I had the regulator unit sitting on the bench while waiting for a new motor to arrive and of course it was spring loaded and was being held together by a 1/4 bolt.
I knocked if off the bench and it exploded into many many pieces. It took me 2 hours to find all the parts and figure out how it all went back together. Note to self take pictures of things just in case.

 

[airshot]

I had Homer Simpson moment today.
I had to replace the tailgate window motor in my 4 runner. I had the regulator unit sitting on the bench while waiting for a new motor to arrive and of course it was spring loaded and was being held together by a 1/4 bolt.
I knocked if off the bench and it exploded into many many pieces. It took me 2 hours to find all the parts and figure out how it all went back together. Note to self take pictures of things just in case.

I find myself using my phone camera more and more for just that reason. Not sure how I did things before I had a phone camera !!

 

[BWR1953]

 

[DeepCMark58A]

I was driving on the freeway headed towards New Orleans yesterday, I smoked a buzzard with my rental car. Got lucky it didn't hit the windshield, it caved in the grill and the radiator was shoved back.

 

[Mc Tool]

I find myself using my phone camera more and more for just that reason. Not sure how I did things before I had a phone camera !!

I find myself thinking that I must use my ph camera to compensate for a failing memory.....and then dont think of it again until Im thinking "gee I wish Id taken some pix of this fn thing ...htf does that go on

 

[Scott Danforth]

I take photos of everything I take apart

Only failed me once when the phone fried before I could put the outboard back together in about 2012

I now email myself pics

 

[airshot]

I was driving on the freeway headed towards New Orleans yesterday, I smoked a buzzard with my rental car. Got lucky it didn't hit the windshield, it caved in the grill and the radiator was shoved back.

Take all the pics you can...helps with insurance claims. !! What did we do before everyone was carrying a phone ?

 

[DeepCMark58A]

Take all the pics you can...helps with insurance claims. !! What did we do before everyone was carrying a phone ?

Nope I always get the insurance option when I rent. You just walk away no report no questions no problems well worth $20 a day. 4 out of 10 drivers in Florida either do not have a valid drivers license and or insurance coverage. The dang jeep was overheating every dash light was on it was smoking when I grabbed my luggage out of the back seat. Trouble free motoring.

 

[redneck joe]

I now email myself pics

After a failed laptop, I did that with all my important excel sheets.

 

[Lou C]

Take all the pics you can...helps with insurance claims. !! What did we do before everyone was carrying a phone ?

stand back, look at parts, scratch our head while mumbling....

Started with this, in 1972....yeah those are my 17 year old greasy fingerprints...
back when you could buy them in print I used to buy the shop manual for all my vehicles. Last one I got was for my 2007 Grand Cherokee, it's on my computer, it is 7,800 pages.

 

[tphoyt]

I guy that I do work for had a bug that was I think a 64 that had been in the family since new. It had sat in the garage for years and he would start it now and then but never drove it.
He had decided he would have it restored and found a guy that did complete restorations but was backed up 2 years. The day finally came and he started her to take it to the shop and it caught fire. By the time the FD got there it was toast. It was a very sad day but as he says it saved him $44,000.

 

[Lou C]

The usual cause:
VW used cloth covered fuel lines instead of using clamps when the cloth got old and rotted the lines got loose
Also owners added plastic fuel filters in the line from the pump to the carb, these can crack and split and spray fuel all over the engine
The right way to do it is get good fuel line and clamps and if adding a filter add it to the section of fuel line that comes out from the trans tunnel which is in front of the engine, if that leaks it will leak on the ground not on the hot engine, or use a metal only fuel filter...
These all had rusty old fuel tanks so unless you restored or replaced the tank grit in the fuel was a constant problem, that's why so many added the wrong kind of filter!
My neighbor had a '68 that burnt up from a bad fuel filter, he caught it before it went too far (lol he threw snow and dirt on it, quite a scene!) but the engine harness wiring was burned. Because I had re-wired mine a few years earlier I had the schematic still so I rewired his whole engine harness in his garage in 25* weather in january lol. And it worked fine after that.

 

[FLATHEAD]

I take photos of everything I take apart

Same.

 

[dingbat]

stand back, look at parts, scratch our head while mumbling....
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Started with this, in 1972....yeah those are my 17 year old greasy fingerprints...
back when you could buy them in print I used to buy the shop manual for all my vehicles.

Have the same Bug manual…. Drove dad’s 63 he bought new thru high school.

At one time we had 2 beetles, a bus and a karman Ghia. Don’t know how many motors dad and I pieced together in those days to keep things running. Had engine changes down to under an hour.

Rebuilt the motor in my 72 Super beetle convertible in the basement as a winter project. Over sized jugs, bug spray, etc.

Sold my last bug, a 74 Super beetle, in 1989.

 

[airshot]

Same.

At my age, I am thinking about photographing the steps that I take, so I can remember how to get back to where I came from !!! Lol.....

 

[Mc Tool]

At my age, I am thinking about photographing the steps that I take, so I can remember how to get back to where I came from !!! Lol.....

Oh, I have never got lost on my morning walk ,I just use it to remember where things go ......well actually thats not true ,if , big if I remember to take it to the shed I will forget to take pix and most likely will have to return to shed in the dark to retrieve the bloody thing later on ......when I remember where it is ......far out! I dunno if it was the pot or the beer

 

[redneck joe]

Usually it is both....

 

[airshot]

Oh, I have never got lost on my morning walk ,I just use it to remember where things go ......well actually thats not true ,if , big if I remember to take it to the shed I will forget to take pix and most likely will have to return to shed in the dark to retrieve the bloody thing later on ......when I remember where it is ......far out! I dunno if it was the pot or the beer

Mine ain't either one....just plain getting old !! As my wife often says " the only thing golden in old age is the color of your pee" !