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Morning friends. Today's QOTD...What is the worst experience you've had working on a car?
Nathan Avots-Smith@Basmitharts it has been long enough now that I can admit to the world the incredibly stupid way in which I changed the engine mounts on my old BMW Bavaria…
Scene: we had a very narrow, tandem two-car garage. The Bav was in the back, up on jack stands, with the engine/trans supported by a floor jack (driveshaft removed). Raised the engine enough to get the old mounts out and the new ones threaded to the unibody—how to properly align and seat the engine?
…to be continued…
Scene: we had a very narrow, tandem two-car garage. The Bav was in the back, up on jack stands, with the engine/trans supported by a floor jack (driveshaft removed). Raised the engine enough to get the old mounts out and the new ones threaded to the unibody—how to properly align and seat the engine?
…to be continued…
@Basmitharts this is where it gets really dumb and dangerous.
My husband, bless his heart, takes his life into my hands and gets on the floor under the car. He is manipulating the floor jack, lowering by degrees and pumping it up again as we try to align everything. He’s also majorly risking his fingers, trying to feel for the flanges on the engine block that thread onto the mounts.
…more to come…
My husband, bless his heart, takes his life into my hands and gets on the floor under the car. He is manipulating the floor jack, lowering by degrees and pumping it up again as we try to align everything. He’s also majorly risking his fingers, trying to feel for the flanges on the engine block that thread onto the mounts.
…more to come…
@Basmitharts Where am I? Why, I’m planking on the edge of the front fender, of course, my feet braced on the garage wall, pushing and pulling every which way to maneuver the engine into place from overhead!
No fingers were lost, the repair was a success, one of the best workouts of my life, but so, so dumb.
No fingers were lost, the repair was a success, one of the best workouts of my life, but so, so dumb.
MrRob.in 
🇬🇧@autonerdery @Basmitharts so glad it all worked out ok, it’s amazing in hindsight … what stoopid things we did.