Things you learn (eventually) when you spend enough time working on a
Triumph:
1. A drop light (a.k.a. safety light) is the most perverse device
ever invented. It will roll around on the floor of a car so as to
point its light either (a) at the floor, or (b) at your face, but
nowhere else.
2. Lightbulbs, even shock-resistant "work bulbs", blow out with the
slightest provocation such as a mild bump. This happens just as
readily to the 4th bulb as to the 1st, even after you have supposedly
learned your lesson.
3. The markings on a socket that indicate its size will always be
3/4ths of the way around on the other side.
4. You will always rotate the socket the wrong way.
5. A nut you are attempting to tighten will become too hard to turn
with fingers long before it becomes tight enough to prevent a ratchet
from backslipping.
6. That 8-inch ratchet extension you need to tighten the bolt at hand
will always be found to have been left on the other side of the car.
7. The difficulty of re-threading a bolt/nut combination in an
awkward location is inversely proportional to the ease with which it
came apart.
8. You can never find in your toolbox the one special tool that would
really help with the job at hand until you have given up and solved
the problem some other way. Then the tool will miraculously appear
at the top of you toolbox, exactly where you thought it was.
9. A dropped nut or washer will always roll into the most
unobtainable place between frame members or under a tire.
9. After you have successfully mated the gearbox input shaft to the
clutch splines and started tightening bolts to prevent everything
from slipping apart, you will discover that the ground strap is
trapped between bell housing and engine block.
10. Beer tastes very very good. Which probably explains why I can't
count to 10 properly.
--
Jim Muller
jimmuller@pop.rcn.com
'80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+
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