its almost always a good idea to post the city and state you live in, and
don,t be afraid to ask questions or post pictures,
as there,s at least some chance someone reading about your problem,
or question, that has skills and a desire to help might read these posts that lives near you!
one mistake frequently made, is not posting your approximate physical location, someone local to you may know a good shop to suggest or be willing to help personally, someone might have recently had similar issues , so you should at least post the city your located in, when asking advice.
you might luck out and find a helpful mentor within easy driving range willing to help you out or at least get tips on local knowledgeable shops that work on similar cars are reasonable hourly rates, and what dealerships , repair shops, or machine shops in your area, to AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE
If you have pictures of your car or project please post those as it helps other members get to see what your working on and get to know you
what might look like a huge insurmountable issue to most newer guys might be something far less complicated to fix by a member with a great deal more experience, and there's lots of things that might take a great deal of typing to explain on the site that take far less effort to show you how to fix or adjust in person, or problems that require use of a tool you might not have or even know exists
I've seen younger guys spend all weekend trying to get some older muscle car up and running, and the problem was basically a lack of experience working on a car that won,t have trouble codes to download and a carburetor vs computer controlled injection, they were familiar with, just knowing how to adjust valves, set timing and use a dwell meter, and tune a carburetor or trouble shoot in general is something that takes time to learn (experience) and a bit of hands on time watching some old geezer can do wonders.
most of us learn from our mistakes, but you get to bye-pass a great deal of aggravation, if you learn from an older mechanic if hes willing to teach or help, some guy who already knows how to avoid making those mistakes because he has the experience, and believe me most of us older geezers made our share, but learned in the process.\
thats what I started the site for!
to have the more experienced members help as many people learn,
the skills it took most of us decades to acquire,
without needing to spend all that wasted time and AVOID the long expensive process,
of dealing with all the crappy machine shops ,
wasting money on parts and modifications that don,t work,
and waste all that time & money in the process.
I was lucky at times that I had several skilled mentors,
but I also remember making hundreds of stupid mistakes ,
mistakes made simply because I didn,t know better at that time!
and wasting a great deal of my limited cash on junk parts, simply learning what was important and what was trash.
the best bit of advice I can give , is if your in the process of assembling an engine,
or doing some mods to the car,
and you see ANYTHING that looks odd, out of place ,
makes you doubt you did something correctly ,
or you find something does not quite fit,
or you see something just not something you expected,
STOP AND ASK QUESTIONS..,,,
think things through.... but don't proceed until you know your 100% correct.
DO THE REQUIRED RESEARCH and
don't GO ANY FURTHER UNTIL YOUR CERTAIN YOUR CORRECT
There is a reason why you are asking this question,
ASK YOUR MACHINIST AND VERIFY HIS ANSWERS
the just get a bigger hammer approach is surely the fastest way to get in serious trouble that will cost your a ton of cash and time wasted
http://garage.grumpysperformance.co...ber-of-people-that-don-t-use-resources.12125/
http://garage.grumpysperformance.com/index.php?threads/taking-and-posting-clear-photos.5595/
http://garage.grumpysperformance.co...-the-rabbit-hole-with-alice.10933/#post-66925
don,t be afraid to ask questions or post pictures,
as there,s at least some chance someone reading about your problem,
or question, that has skills and a desire to help might read these posts that lives near you!
one mistake frequently made, is not posting your approximate physical location, someone local to you may know a good shop to suggest or be willing to help personally, someone might have recently had similar issues , so you should at least post the city your located in, when asking advice.
you might luck out and find a helpful mentor within easy driving range willing to help you out or at least get tips on local knowledgeable shops that work on similar cars are reasonable hourly rates, and what dealerships , repair shops, or machine shops in your area, to AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE
If you have pictures of your car or project please post those as it helps other members get to see what your working on and get to know you
what might look like a huge insurmountable issue to most newer guys might be something far less complicated to fix by a member with a great deal more experience, and there's lots of things that might take a great deal of typing to explain on the site that take far less effort to show you how to fix or adjust in person, or problems that require use of a tool you might not have or even know exists
I've seen younger guys spend all weekend trying to get some older muscle car up and running, and the problem was basically a lack of experience working on a car that won,t have trouble codes to download and a carburetor vs computer controlled injection, they were familiar with, just knowing how to adjust valves, set timing and use a dwell meter, and tune a carburetor or trouble shoot in general is something that takes time to learn (experience) and a bit of hands on time watching some old geezer can do wonders.
most of us learn from our mistakes, but you get to bye-pass a great deal of aggravation, if you learn from an older mechanic if hes willing to teach or help, some guy who already knows how to avoid making those mistakes because he has the experience, and believe me most of us older geezers made our share, but learned in the process.\
thats what I started the site for!
to have the more experienced members help as many people learn,
the skills it took most of us decades to acquire,
without needing to spend all that wasted time and AVOID the long expensive process,
of dealing with all the crappy machine shops ,
wasting money on parts and modifications that don,t work,
and waste all that time & money in the process.
I was lucky at times that I had several skilled mentors,
but I also remember making hundreds of stupid mistakes ,
mistakes made simply because I didn,t know better at that time!
and wasting a great deal of my limited cash on junk parts, simply learning what was important and what was trash.
the best bit of advice I can give , is if your in the process of assembling an engine,
or doing some mods to the car,
and you see ANYTHING that looks odd, out of place ,
makes you doubt you did something correctly ,
or you find something does not quite fit,
or you see something just not something you expected,
STOP AND ASK QUESTIONS..,,,
think things through.... but don't proceed until you know your 100% correct.
DO THE REQUIRED RESEARCH and
don't GO ANY FURTHER UNTIL YOUR CERTAIN YOUR CORRECT
There is a reason why you are asking this question,
ASK YOUR MACHINIST AND VERIFY HIS ANSWERS
the just get a bigger hammer approach is surely the fastest way to get in serious trouble that will cost your a ton of cash and time wasted
http://garage.grumpysperformance.co...ber-of-people-that-don-t-use-resources.12125/
http://garage.grumpysperformance.com/index.php?threads/taking-and-posting-clear-photos.5595/
http://garage.grumpysperformance.co...-the-rabbit-hole-with-alice.10933/#post-66925
testing a chevy oil pump
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