Kevin Lang
Well-Known Member
Why not just post it without the tool list? As a car amateur myself, I understand the want for a tool list, but having everything laid out for you just doesn't seem that great. There are always things you have to figure out on your own, no matter how detailed the project is, and the greater sense of accomplishment which comes from figuring it out yourself is a feeling to revel in. Pride and Glory are inherent traits in all Men.
Besides, working on your car is supposed to be a bonding process between man and machine. The more you know about your car, the more confident and skilled you will be in piloting it, and whether you treasure your car as a valued possession or just have it as a necessity, confidence and skill are 2 things that you most certainly need. I know that I want every driver to be skilled with their vehicle, and anything that increases that skill I am all for.
I have put my blood, sweat, and tears into every car that I have ever owned. My right hand's exterior palm is scarred from pulling out the airbox. My right elbow is scarred from scraping on cement while changing license lights. My knuckles are scarred from manhandling the heavy hood off of my 1992 LeSabre in a solo effort. I have countless other cuts, scars, and bruises, but I wouldn't have it any other way. Scars from valiant effort are something that every man desires and cherishes. Your car gets down and dirty for you every day--how can you say that you would not do the same for it?
I am currently working on restoring my devastated 1992 LeSabre, and I picked up all GM official repair manuals for her off of eBay, and I have to say that even the Worst written project we have on here goes into more detail and is more concise and helpful. The GM guides do not list socket sizes, and they do not even indicate which bolts to remove. They have arrows which say "bolt" on their little diagrams, but when you look at the car you find 6 bolts in a space only wide enough to get 1/8th of a socket twist in, and you have to figure out yourself which bolt to remove. All of our projects here have detailed Real Life shots with arrows, and the process goes incredibly smoothly.
Even without this tool list, I have confidence that Caymen's project will be superior to any manual, created by professionals, and that is more than we could ask for on a free site of enthusiasts from all backgrounds.
With explicit instructions and no experimentation and self-teaching, then you are not learning how to work on your own ride; Caymen is essentially working on the trac himself if he gives you step-by-step instructions. The follower of the instructions would just be a means for caymen to reenact his project vicariously on another truck. If you do that, working only under the direction of others, than your trac is essentially the property of those others, and you should mail the pink slip to them.
Besides, we noobs can't figure out how to do something in a project, then just let us pester Caymen about it, or some other kind forum member who has superior ST knowledge. One can only be taught the fundamentals--anything further must be garnered by one's self. No one started off as a trac expert. It took time and experience, and those who are now experts didn't have anything, let alone explicit instructions, to figure everything out. If you are just an instruction lackey, then you aren't endeavoring to learn anything for yourself, and without that self knowledge, you will lack understanding, and without understanding, you are accomplishing nothing, and clearly have no interest in the inner workings of things, and should just take your trac to a local shop and have everything done for you. The money you spend is the same as the instructions you read--they're doing all the work, so you can comfortably walk away. Real Men don't walk away from anything.
I vote to post the project as-is, unless our ohio-ian friend t
Besides, working on your car is supposed to be a bonding process between man and machine. The more you know about your car, the more confident and skilled you will be in piloting it, and whether you treasure your car as a valued possession or just have it as a necessity, confidence and skill are 2 things that you most certainly need. I know that I want every driver to be skilled with their vehicle, and anything that increases that skill I am all for.
I have put my blood, sweat, and tears into every car that I have ever owned. My right hand's exterior palm is scarred from pulling out the airbox. My right elbow is scarred from scraping on cement while changing license lights. My knuckles are scarred from manhandling the heavy hood off of my 1992 LeSabre in a solo effort. I have countless other cuts, scars, and bruises, but I wouldn't have it any other way. Scars from valiant effort are something that every man desires and cherishes. Your car gets down and dirty for you every day--how can you say that you would not do the same for it?
I am currently working on restoring my devastated 1992 LeSabre, and I picked up all GM official repair manuals for her off of eBay, and I have to say that even the Worst written project we have on here goes into more detail and is more concise and helpful. The GM guides do not list socket sizes, and they do not even indicate which bolts to remove. They have arrows which say "bolt" on their little diagrams, but when you look at the car you find 6 bolts in a space only wide enough to get 1/8th of a socket twist in, and you have to figure out yourself which bolt to remove. All of our projects here have detailed Real Life shots with arrows, and the process goes incredibly smoothly.
Even without this tool list, I have confidence that Caymen's project will be superior to any manual, created by professionals, and that is more than we could ask for on a free site of enthusiasts from all backgrounds.
With explicit instructions and no experimentation and self-teaching, then you are not learning how to work on your own ride; Caymen is essentially working on the trac himself if he gives you step-by-step instructions. The follower of the instructions would just be a means for caymen to reenact his project vicariously on another truck. If you do that, working only under the direction of others, than your trac is essentially the property of those others, and you should mail the pink slip to them.
Besides, we noobs can't figure out how to do something in a project, then just let us pester Caymen about it, or some other kind forum member who has superior ST knowledge. One can only be taught the fundamentals--anything further must be garnered by one's self. No one started off as a trac expert. It took time and experience, and those who are now experts didn't have anything, let alone explicit instructions, to figure everything out. If you are just an instruction lackey, then you aren't endeavoring to learn anything for yourself, and without that self knowledge, you will lack understanding, and without understanding, you are accomplishing nothing, and clearly have no interest in the inner workings of things, and should just take your trac to a local shop and have everything done for you. The money you spend is the same as the instructions you read--they're doing all the work, so you can comfortably walk away. Real Men don't walk away from anything.
I vote to post the project as-is, unless our ohio-ian friend t
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