On a Scale of 1-10, how mechanically incline are you?

[95Batmobile]

I have some of all of those, so I don't know what LOL. I can do electrical, tranny work, but I havn't learned internal engine work yet.. I dunno what.

[CamaroRob97]

6 or 7
Using manuals isnt cheating guys, you have to know how to do things right with clearences and tq specs and such.

[shenanigans]

I said 8...
I am easily a 7, but I noticed 10 had body, work and I have learned and started to do alot of body work stuff, so I bumped it up to a 8.


Also there are other things... I have been in situations where peopel would have been stranded, but I managed a way to take care of the problem...

Good example, lost a Caliper bolt ~5pm on friday, caliper falls loose and is grinding on one of the wheels. Dealership is closed, auto stores don't carry or have to wait a week for it, but I managed to work something out in ~45 minutes, get my tire rebalanced(lost my wheel weights) and got my car ready to go, drove home went to bed woke up and drove 2 hours to compete in a race event with 12 ~75 second runs on a road course.

Just situations where my car has failed me and I have gotten it to work and be up and running with minimal tools and parts to do it.

[ April 11, 2005, 08:14 PM: Message edited by: shenanigans ]

[WickEdSix9838]

This is a bad question. I've built complete motors, I can build rear ends, i can do all the mechanic work on a car, but I havent ever rebuilt a transmission. Its not that I cant, i've just never tried. I can't do paint and body though.

[jessica2112]

I'm a 5....w/o an sc :( Jessica [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img]

[Mighty Thor]

You know I forgot to mention brakes, as part of number 4. But this is good though. Good feedback, eventhough I'm a good 5 & 6 on my truck and my wife's car. I'm only a 4 on my firebird.

[3.4 slow to go]

Originally posted by WickEdSix9838:
This is a bad question. I've built complete motors, I can build rear ends, i can do all the mechanic work on a car, but I havent ever rebuilt a transmission. Its not that I cant, i've just never tried. I can't do paint and body though.

that means you're one of many 8s [img]smile.gif[/img]

[12secondv6]

I'd say... I'm #5.

I haven't explored inside my engine/ tranny... I leave that to prof's

[Turbo V6 Camaro]

Originally posted by Loochy88:
7, ive tore up the rear axle a couple of times, the only engine ive ever been inside on my own though was my lawnmower engine. Ive repainted my gfx, but i dont think im at 10.

of course i always cheat, and have hanes manuals and diagrams nearby.

thats not cheating thats SMART

i would have to say i'm a 6.5 cauase trannys scare me have done many motor's while not the one in this many 2 cycle all the way up to v6/v8 and looked over a sholder or 2 on disa stuff

my dad is deff a 10.5
lol yeah his body work is not for corvetts but he did fix his trucks and i cant tell one bit.....

[PewterBird]

I don't think it fair that spark plugs are 2. On a normal car, its no problem. But with the 3.8, that **** is hard.

[Jerriko]

Seeing how the words, "doing it right" were not used, I'm easily a ten! ;)

[shenanigans]

Originally posted by Jerriko:
Seeing how the words, "doing it right" were not used, I'm easily a ten! ;)

LOL... and wicked, you are easily an 8, when I consider tranny work, I never considered being able to rebuild my own tranny, no one freaking does that people will build everything and the tranny is alwasy sent to a shop. I have torn down some motors(the easy part ;) ), put a few back together, that came out working better then before. Done it in conditions with only a AA maglite to work with.

[camaro_speedemon]

That scales not very good. I can do pretty much a complete engine rebuild. I could probably figure out how to do a manual tranny rebuild, but never have done it before. So I guess 9 :shrug:

[Pathogen]

I'm a five .... but can also swap motor/trans ... and nearly any bolt on.

I've been inside my motor, but not "deep" into the motor yet.

I hate electrical. lol

[crasher]

I'd say I'm a good 7 right now hopefully I'll be up to 9 after I get done going through UTI.