favorite cars to work on ?

[SpiderGearsMan]

I love K1500 Suburban/Tahoe/Yukon
owners are usually well heeled and the vehicles are just great
and the same things always go bad on them , very cut and dry

[Barry Donovan]

Re: favorite cars to work on ?

all trucks are good. even the old ford "smack the solenoids"..strange electrical anomolies almost matching that of a ballast dodge.

Until working with performance. The cam is acheivable..but one mistake.... :o
rod bearings...

nothing is easy.

I do remember some inline fours that could be ripped apart in car very easy. Good thing, they need that every 4-8 hours. :

the most successful opposite argument for easy accessible reversed...is the boxer engines. They got something to prove, and prove it.

An engine can make an ass of anybody.

[Scott Liggett]

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Mine. I get to enjoy all my hard labor.

[JOES66FURY]

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My ram....been working on it so long I know damn near everything about it.

[oldsman71]

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78 to 87 cutlasses or other G bodies because Ive worked on
almost every part of these cars

[Ron Ward]

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I enjoy working on any car that does not break down!

;D

Ron

[tedly]

Re: favorite cars to work on ?

Favorite car to work on? Mine. No time clock. No boss yelling at you to get that heap fixed and get a new one in. No customer getting pissy. Just me and the problem at hand. I can sit there and stare at it for hours if I have to, just running through things in my mind trying to figure it out. If it's kicking my ass, I can step back and have a smoke or go grab something to eat. Then I can come back to it with a clear head. It's amazing how simple the solution can be once I do that. If I'm stuck, it can sit while I wait for a fresh set of eyes to take a look at it and help me get over that particular hurdle. I can take the time I need to do the job to my satisfaction and look for other problems either upstream or downstream of it. I can head off future issues while I'm there. I can keep plugging at it til I get the damn thing right. I'm a problem solver by nature and have a strong mechanical incline, but I lack education beyond high school and formal training of any kind outside of a couple of years working in shops. I'll get there eventually, it just takes me longer than some.

Second favorite? Someone who's stranded. There is a satisfaction from helping someone out that really needs it that I don't get from a paycheck. I like the idea that this person has no idea who I am and will probably never see me again, but their life is better for me being in it for that short time. Feels good man.

Favorite type of car? Fox Mustang 5.0, probably. They were designed to be easy to work on and easily modified by the owner. Think that has anything to do with their popularity?

[Eagle Kammback]

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I love working on the F150, good bit of room, and fairly easy

though when I replaced the radiator in my old boss's 65 Chevy Stepside, that was eeeaaaassssy, lots of room to work, and it was a 3 speed 6 cyl, making it even easier

[studemax]

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Old stuff has room for my hands and arms to move.
New stuff has room for my pinkie.

[IRONHEAD]

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anything before chips..
so easy to fix it's one of two things fuel or spark..
new cars are fun to fix too, but easy isn't a word I'd use..

[antmnte]

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RWD V8 GM's.

[DanStokes]

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When I was wrenching for a living (WAY back before EPA) I was pretty good with rear drive Toyotas. It was easy to get to anything and pretty instinctive - you didn't need a bag of tricks. I did an exhaust valve on my '74 Celica in 3 hours, start to finish, including an oil change. The Camaro is simple, other than cam changes (that long engine makes 'em hard to slide out). I know the 'Stang like the back of my hand so it's not so much that it's easy - just that I know how it all fits together. Nailheads are like a happy trip in the Way-Back Machine. I also take a certain perverse pleasure in knocking apart a FWD front end and fixing what's wrong - half-shaft, struts, whatever. I've done enough of 'em that they seem easy now.

Dan

[KeithTurk]

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The Camaro.... because I know it front to back.... Exactly... sure it wee's in my Cheerio's now and again.... but it's just easy....

( Please exclude Low or tall deck Big block headers from the "easy" portion of this last statement"

[TC]

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I enjoy working on my own cars when I have time.......


Maybe that time thing will come visit me some day. :


Funny thing is my buddy with the VW shop has been asking me to come do side work for him, those cars are nightmares, so I keep telling him I'm busy, probably should have done the head job on the chevy truck though.......

[sedandelivery55]

Re: favorite cars to work on ?

Anything that I don't have to have expensive scanners, laptops or special tools just to remove a fuel line. I'm a simple man and like my vehicles to be also.