Has your mechanic ever meet his completion date?
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Le Mans Master
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Re: Has your mechanic ever meet his completion date? (bgrice)
Cali...
Getting used to a new clutch after years is definitely something different. You'll get used to the touch and it will be nothing.
Getting used to a new clutch after years is definitely something different. You'll get used to the touch and it will be nothing.
Le Mans Master
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Re: Has your mechanic ever meet his completion date? (Cali,77,L-82)
My clutch is much the same - where it starts to disengage. you do get used to it - although I much preferred it when it was a bit higher. Not so much because of the sensitivity or the short distance before the clutch is grabbing again, but because now I've got this huge required pedal travel of like 4-6 inches (est.)
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Re: Has your mechanic ever meet his completion date? (fauxrs)
My clutch is much the same - where it starts to disengage. you do get used to it - although I much preferred it when it was a bit higher. Not so much because of the sensitivity or the short distance before the clutch is grabbing again, but because now I've got this huge required pedal travel of like 4-6 inches (est.)
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Re: Has your mechanic ever meet his completion date? (Cali,77,L-82)
This last Monday drop for a 'quoted" 4 hour clutch job, Tuesday's completion date becomes Wednesday when they realize they forgot to torque EVERYTHING!!
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Re: Has your mechanic ever meet his completion date? (theandies)
Well as a general contractor at one time, I can appreciate coming in ahead of schedule and under budget....did that many a time, customers happy as hell and I am too...xtra bux if not by contract....by time off, allmost as valuable...
sometimes a weekend had to be donated, but rarely.....
NOW as an amateur mechanic for decades of hotrodding...I can say getting a part that was unsuspected of being bad....there is ALLWAYS something...some damn piece of plastic, or even metal once in a while...and that can tie up an entire job....all's it takes is a few hours....not that I give a damn in my own shop...but on a lift commercially...yeh, that counts....
again, no excuse for sloppy work, BUT it's hard to drain the swamp when your up to your butt in alligators....
GENE
sometimes a weekend had to be donated, but rarely.....
NOW as an amateur mechanic for decades of hotrodding...I can say getting a part that was unsuspected of being bad....there is ALLWAYS something...some damn piece of plastic, or even metal once in a while...and that can tie up an entire job....all's it takes is a few hours....not that I give a damn in my own shop...but on a lift commercially...yeh, that counts....
again, no excuse for sloppy work, BUT it's hard to drain the swamp when your up to your butt in alligators....
GENE
