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Lack of space to work on stuff has always been my biggest gripe, but now that I'm getting older, if I wrench on a car and I've been crawling around all day under it, my body is useless the next day. I have almost every tool imaginable to do all sorts of jobs, but what I don't have is a lift. Even if I did, my damn garage is a 3 car tandem. There's not enough space to work on a car in the single front spot, so that means it has to be one of the back two. Then, it's not convenient to work on a car in the regular parked position, because they are too close to the wall, need to open doors, move around, etc. So I park in the middle of the rear two spaces (which then blocks the front car from being able to get out) and stops our other car from getting back in. It's just a big PITA.
I was going to buy a lift, but ended up not doing it because I'd still have much of the same problems of being too close to a wall for some jobs. We live on a hill so working in the driveway isn't even feasible either.
I hate anytime I have to work on my back and fixing other peoples cars were they dismantled to try to fix a problem and left a mess for me to figure out.
- Getting all sorts of damn fluids on my hands and rest of my body that I have to wash too much and it ruins the skin on my hands
I know latex / nitrile gloves don't solve that completely but I'd never work on a car without them! I'm kind of a freak about washing my hands in general... if I didn't have plastic gloves for cleaning I'd go crazy destroying the skin on my hands washing them so much.
- Rust rust rust (in my case especially because mine are all old!)
- Sitting on the ground and laying on the ground hurts my body
- Cuts
- Getting all sorts of damn fluids on my hands and rest of my body that I have to wash too much and it ruins the skin on my hands
- Taking twice as long to complete something at home than working at a shop on a lift
- My small garage, lack of moving space
- Dark when I work outside
- Tools everywhere on the ground
- Never finishing in time
ARRHH I just am sick of working on my damn cars
Just wanted to vent
Everything said here, and if no one has added it yet, how about blood leaving the arms while you are trying to find the bolt head up in an area that two hands can barely fit. Also, grease under the nails that has to wear off. And for me, the number one reason, torn up knuckles.
The worst to me is getting fluids in a cut. I don't care about it getting on my skin or clothes, but brake fluid (i'm pretty sure, it could be trans fluid) burns like no other!
I also hate not having a lift. At my parents house in michigan between my garage and my brother in laws down the street, we had every tool you could ever need... except a lift. Then to fit in the 1st world problems category... the fact that I couldn't work on my car in the garage because that's where the motorcycles sat.
this is an isolated thing as it's not every time, but turning the key for the first time after doing something major like an engine swap.
This is indirect, but because I worked on my car, I then became the family mechanic.
I know latex / nitrile gloves don't solve that completely but I'd never work on a car without them! I'm kind of a freak about washing my hands in general... if I didn't have plastic gloves for cleaning I'd go crazy destroying the skin on my hands washing them so much.
Yes they definitely do help a lot. I sometimes double up by using latex gloves on bottom and mechanic gloves on top which makes your hands safer from cuts and protects the latex gloves from ripping. Does get hot and sweaty though in the summer as it was for me yesterday. Makes for putting on a new set of gloves hard. Probably how OJ got off ... sweating bullets about going to jail, glove doesn't fit....HMMM!
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