evie1g603
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- Jun 4, 2009
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Huntsville,
Alabama
So I overslept today and woke up at about 12:30pm CST. I woke up and thought to myself "dammit, i gotta change that control arm before work at 7pm". So I usually don't do most of the work on my car. Small maintenance stuff, but for the most part, I don't mind paying my friend to do the work for me. So I call my friend/mechanic about 12 times....he must be asleep. So, something inside of me said to just walk over to my car (which was parked behind his apt building) and get to changing it myself. Mind you, I've never worked on a control arm before or even seen one being worked on. Nonetheless, I kept on trucking. I used my scissor jack and jacked the car up.
I laid underneath the car with my 14mm socket hoping that all the bolts were that size. (Who wants to buy me a tool box for Christmas that just passed? Lol.) So the guy comes outside and says "watcha doin trick?" I said, "I'm fixing my car." He said "With no tools?". I said "Yup!" He threw his 84 RX-7 keys at me and said "get ## ass from under the car and no get my jack and my tools.
So I got his tools and got to work. He refused to help me because he knew how much I wanted to learn to do stuff myself. Everything was going rather smoothly until I got to the ball joint. I bang at the ball joint separator for hours and I could not get it off. I cursed at my car a lot and banged my head on the frame a lil bit. Then it got cold....like 15 degrees cold plus wind. Then the sun set. So I got up and got ready for work. The rest of this horror story will continue tomorrow if the weatherman was wrong about that 2 in of snow in Alabama. In Huntsville, the cities panic when it snows. Stupid south. I miss New York.
I laid underneath the car with my 14mm socket hoping that all the bolts were that size. (Who wants to buy me a tool box for Christmas that just passed? Lol.) So the guy comes outside and says "watcha doin trick?" I said, "I'm fixing my car." He said "With no tools?". I said "Yup!" He threw his 84 RX-7 keys at me and said "get ## ass from under the car and no get my jack and my tools.
So I got his tools and got to work. He refused to help me because he knew how much I wanted to learn to do stuff myself. Everything was going rather smoothly until I got to the ball joint. I bang at the ball joint separator for hours and I could not get it off. I cursed at my car a lot and banged my head on the frame a lil bit. Then it got cold....like 15 degrees cold plus wind. Then the sun set. So I got up and got ready for work. The rest of this horror story will continue tomorrow if the weatherman was wrong about that 2 in of snow in Alabama. In Huntsville, the cities panic when it snows. Stupid south. I miss New York.