BangShift Question of the Day: Would You Rather Repair Rust or Fix Busted Mechanical Stuff?

[JOES66FURY]

Re: BangShift Question of the Day: Would You Rather Repair Rust or Fix Busted Mechanical Stuff?

HAVE U SEEN real rust down there..

Yeah, I've seen it, we send those ones to the scrap metal place. You'd be crazy to want to fix a car with real "up north" rust when there are so many decent old cars around.

Guess I'm crazy...


I will take mechanical, or even electrical over rust repair any day of the week...but once I get my $hit together and get the rest of the stuff I need for the welder...maybe that will change...I enjoy welding, so....ask me again in about 6 months.

[milkovich]

Re: BangShift Question of the Day: Would You Rather Repair Rust or Fix Busted Mechanical Stuff?

Mechanical is like a vacation. Rust is a challenge. Wiring is a nightmare.... unless you're starting from scratch, then it's just a challenge. It's strange, I can zone out and block sand for hours but chasing shorts and shitty ground connections is a different kind of patience I lack completely.

[tedly]

Re: BangShift Question of the Day: Would You Rather Repair Rust or Fix Busted Mechanical Stuff?

Fix mechanical gremlins for me. I simply have have very little bodywork experience and no welding experience. I'd love to learn to weld and the ADD perfectionist in me did like doing the little bodywork I have done though.

[82z]

Re: BangShift Question of the Day: Would You Rather Repair Rust or Fix Busted Mechanical Stuff?

I will take mechanical over rust any day of the week. But I don't mind fixing rust if it is on what I want. In order to get the chevelle of my dreams my budget says I will be starting with a shell somebody was too lazy to drag to the scraper.

[Wideglid80]

Re: BangShift Question of the Day: Would You Rather Repair Rust or Fix Busted Mechanical Stuff?

Mechanical stuff is easy. Rust is easy if you can : (a)find new body panels, (b) afford to buy them! Then you still have to have the talent and tools to put it all together. If only somebody could invent an easy way to do the block sanding!

[Barry Donovan]

Re: BangShift Question of the Day: Would You Rather Repair Rust or Fix Busted Mechanical Stuff?

As a native rust-belter, I would definitely rather fix mechanical problems. Although, I do admire those guys who have the metal-working skillz -- it's rather impressive stuff.

I bought my Buick from a buddy of mine in Pittsburgh. He said it was rusty. Heh... to me, it's still pretty solid.

me too..
but then I resized waht rust is.. ven an invisible hadgasket physics can attack a belly or a quarter, strange metal in a fuel pumo can set off the catalyst to attack something else before the back of the car escape route


I learned to respect both. put bigger where bigger needs to go...not much gets smaller

[Huskinhano]

Re: BangShift Question of the Day: Would You Rather Repair Rust or Fix Busted Mechanical Stuff?

Fix the mechanical problems first. At least I can drive it instead of it being driveway art.

[Scott Liggett]

Re: BangShift Question of the Day: Would You Rather Repair Rust or Fix Busted Mechanical Stuff?

Mechanical. I can do the bolt on type of body work, but sanding and dent removal are not in my skill set yet.

[SuperBuickGuy]

Re: BangShift Question of the Day: Would You Rather Repair Rust or Fix Busted Mechanical Stuff?

HAVE U SEEN real rust down there..

Yeah, I've seen it, we send those ones to the scrap metal place. You'd be crazy to want to fix a car with real "up north" rust when there are so many decent old cars around.

no dissing the guys who spend the time and money it takes to save a scrap-yard-bound car from the crusher thus allowing there to remain a plentyful supply of cars for future generations.

In answer to the question.. both, but I always start with mechanical first... the way I'm wired, if I do the body, paint, interior then the motor I'll give up on the project before I ever get it driveable.

[squirrel]

Re: BangShift Question of the Day: Would You Rather Repair Rust or Fix Busted Mechanical Stuff?

I'm not dissing those guys, just pointing out that they're crazy. More power to them...