It's official: I no longer like working on cars

**TonyM** · 04-26-2011, 11:22 AM

Originally Posted by UTRacerX9

Maybe I'm in a funk or something, but the thought of working on cars these days is just completely unappealing to me. I don't know if I'm ever going to like it again either, and that doesn't bode well for owning a 20+ year old modded car.

Word, I don't mind the easy stuff - oil changes, brake pads, etc. I actually find some relaxation in that as long as everything is going well. The Stealth, for some odd reason, I just have no desire to work on, drive, etc anymore. Hence the reason it's for sale . . .

**BigTyla** · 04-26-2011, 12:19 PM

Take a break from it. I started feeling the same way about my car a couple of years ago. I ended up selling it because it was impractical for me to keep at that time in my life, but I would have loved to have been able to keep it and pick up where I left off after I had moved to Huntsville. So for about two years I drove around in my Z and did absolutely NO car maintenance except for oil changes, which I only did twice on the Z since I only drove it to and from school (my wife's car requires changes only once per 10,000 miles and we get that taken care of at the dealership along with the other required maintenance for that particular mileage milestone). Once I moved up to Huntsville, I started to get the itch again, especially with seeing my newly acquired shop empty. That's why I picked up this DSM a couple of months ago.

If you take a good, long break from working on cars, you'll eventually get the itch back.

**UTRacerX9** · 04-26-2011, 01:26 PM

Originally Posted by BigTyla

If you take a good, long break from working on cars, you'll eventually get the itch back.

I hope so. I think part of the reason is that I'm doing more work on/around the house that perhaps I would have spent in the garage. After a day of mowing, trimming, edging, landscaping, etc... Not in the mood to work on anything else that weekend. I'm not getting any thoughts of selling my car, but I am considering selling a few parts for the car that I really don't NEED to install, and just enjoy as is.

**AdamVR4** · 04-26-2011, 02:02 PM

Originally Posted by UTRacerX9

I hope so. I think part of the reason is that I'm doing more work on/around the house that perhaps I would have spent in the garage. After a day of mowing, trimming, edging, landscaping, etc... Not in the mood to work on anything else that weekend. I'm not getting any thoughts of selling my car, but I am considering selling a few parts for the car that I really don't NEED to install, and just enjoy as is.

I'm with you. I can barely even think of working on the VR4 right now. We're moving into the 3-car garage to help me get my drive back... lol... Our situations sound eerily similar. First thing I'll do is seal the garage floor. Then install the sink.

...But, I do feel the itch now that I bought a new OEM trans. Once I get it, all I have to do is swap in the quadco OS, throw it in, take my Hoosiers out of the bags and I can drive it...

It's been YEARS since I regularly worked on the car. As long as the shift linkage isn't fucked up somewhere that I've been unable to spot, it will be race ready. That's one of my favorite things about this car... It can hibernate for years and then tolerate 30 psi again. haha

**FeaRpb** · 04-26-2011, 02:46 PM

I can't wait to get my car finished, when it is done. I will be heading up to OKC to run with the 1% crew for a night, but on my trip we should cruise Adam.

**jba3** · 04-26-2011, 04:19 PM

I broke a piston spreader (twice) and my friggin impact gun on my wife's 07 Pontiac G5 GT, doing the rear brakes. It took over 2 hours for a set of rear pads, between profanity, throwing tools, and finally saying "WTF is going on?!?" and looking online for help. I've done rear pads plenty of times, just not on this car. And I did the front pads and rotors too, since they were almost shot and one of the caliper bolts FELL OFF while my wife was driving down the highway (before I ever worked on the car).

F pontiac. I'm glad they're belly up, and I owned 3 (1 firebird, 2 LS1 trans ams) and used to love them.

The piston literally "screws in". It has to be rotated clockwise to compress. Whoever designed that ... they can kiss my hairy, pale white bawls.

Walk away from it for a while. Hopefully, it'll come back to you.

**BigTyla** · 04-26-2011, 06:05 PM

Originally Posted by UTRacerX9

I hope so. I think part of the reason is that I'm doing more work on/around the house that perhaps I would have spent in the garage. After a day of mowing, trimming, edging, landscaping, etc... Not in the mood to work on anything else that weekend. I'm not getting any thoughts of selling my car, but I am considering selling a few parts for the car that I really don't NEED to install, and just enjoy as is.

I know that feeling. I've had a lot of housework to do over the past few months as I've had to take over some of the things my wife helped with now that she's working part time AND began grad school this semester. Sometimes it's like I don't have enough hours in the day to do everything, and once I have I'm so worn out I decide to use my free time doing something less strenuous. But that absence from working on the car makes me want to do it even more, and makes the time I do get to work on the car that much more special.