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Cars in their teens are testy like this.
Feb. 21st, 2012 10:20 pmI know my way around a car pretty well. It was one of those things I had to learn growing up. And since I've owned nothing but older, junkier cars, I've ended up doing some pretty fun things in order to get them to run, including:
-Priming the carburetor with gas.
-Crawling under the car to jiggle the starter wire.
-Sticking a screwdriver into an intake valve.
Today I get to add smacking the alternator with a hammer. Something in it was sticking and needed to be loosened.
What's fun about all this is that for all I know about cars, I still manage to screw up the simplest things. I've messed up reattaching a review mirror not once, but twice. And today, I put in the wrong washing fluid (it was for the power washer). In my defense, the wrong stuff was in the washing fluid place in the garage and it does say washing fluid on it.
Yes, maybe I should have read the label a little more closely, but I maintain that it shouldn't have been in the washing fluid place. I do not understand Dad's filing system, so these mistakes are bound to be made when you mess up with the few things I do know.
I'm just saying.
-Priming the carburetor with gas.
-Crawling under the car to jiggle the starter wire.
-Sticking a screwdriver into an intake valve.
Today I get to add smacking the alternator with a hammer. Something in it was sticking and needed to be loosened.
What's fun about all this is that for all I know about cars, I still manage to screw up the simplest things. I've messed up reattaching a review mirror not once, but twice. And today, I put in the wrong washing fluid (it was for the power washer). In my defense, the wrong stuff was in the washing fluid place in the garage and it does say washing fluid on it.
Yes, maybe I should have read the label a little more closely, but I maintain that it shouldn't have been in the washing fluid place. I do not understand Dad's filing system, so these mistakes are bound to be made when you mess up with the few things I do know.
I'm just saying.
