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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22439 Location: UK

What automotive-related tasks do you find unusually satisfying?

Today I was wielding a soldering iron for a couple of hours, and that was good fun - perhaps because it was nice and quiet in the motor house, just me, a soldering iron, a pile of wire, connectors, and a selection of solder for company. For once it felt like I'd actually achieved something at the end of it, and I won't need to spend the evening picking flakes of rusty metal out of my eyes and ears Smile

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kevin2306 · Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2014 9:12 pm Post subject:

My fav is stripping and rebuilding / setting up brake systems on older cars and bikes.

Kev

peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7118 Location: Edinburgh

First starting of an engine you've re-built that hasn't run for 50 years.

Peter
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JC T ONE · Joined: 30 Oct 2008 Posts: 1139 Location: Denmark

emmerson · Joined: 30 Sep 2008 Posts: 1268 Location: South East Wales

Simply seeing the Range Rover sparkling after cleaning it on return from our annual European tour.
Then the next day, do the same with the Royale caravan.
Then the glass of malt to relax!

Penguin45 · Joined: 28 Jul 2014 Posts: 381 Location: Padiham

Virtually any job that goes to plan makes me happy!

P45.
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Fatbloke · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2014 12:34 pm Post subject:

I agree with Penguin45.

Especially as my levels of incompetence ensure that this rarely happens to me...but when it does... Laughing

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Minxy · Joined: 22 Sep 2010 Posts: 272 Location: West Northants

Two things;

Greasing a grease nipple - the new grease going in and the old grease oozing out.

Starting an engine after an oil and filter change. Knowing that fresh oil is surging through the engine coating everything with a lovely fresh golden film.

*note to self* get out more.

Ellis · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2014 6:46 pm Post subject:

Because I have enjoyed restoring old furniture for many years I gained a lot of pleasure restoring the wood trim on my 1964 Mark 2 Jaguar.

I sought the advice of a retired French Polisher on how to prepare the wood.
To my surprise he told me not to bother with French Polish, cellulose, acrylic or 2 pack lacquer but to apply thin coats of good quality polyurethane varnish at high pressure from an American "jam gun" he advised me to buy from the Eastwood company. That was in 1995.
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welder · Joined: 26 Nov 2007 Posts: 265 Location: North Warwickshire

Mending things rather than replacing them does it for me.

Ian

goneps · Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2014 2:16 am Post subject:

baconsdozen · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 1119 Location: Under the car.

peppiB · Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2014 2:43 pm Post subject:

Nowadays it is ANY job I can still manage to do.

Roger-hatchy · Joined: 07 Dec 2007 Posts: 2135 Location: Tiptree, Essex

After a 109 day restoration sailing through the MOT, after the car has sat in boxes for 35 years

Only out sourced work was getting the chassis stripped and painted.

OK so it blew a head gasket in celebration on the way home, alloy head was past it.

Bitumen Boy · Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2014 12:09 pm Post subject:

Putting right previous owners' bodges is always satisfying... eventually Smile