This is "Zen and the art of autoxing" spending
quality time with your car changing shocks or whatever
helps you become "at one" with the car.
It also seems to be part of the autox credo that you
know how to do this stuff.
Miata front shocks? - any two year old with a BFH and
a big airgun can do them!
:-)
Craig
--- "Mark J. Andy" <marka@telerama.com> wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Kelly, Katie wrote:
> > You might find this hard to believe, but I've
> changed shocks on my car a
> > couple of times. Okay, I had some help. But I was
> there, dammit, and I
> > saw the whole thing.
> >
> > I will never go through that experience again.
> What I mean to say is, I
> > will never put a friend through that experience
> again, spring compressor
> > or not. Unless it's something you love to do,
> there are shops that can
> > do that for you. What took us many, many hours by
> hand took a reputable
> > shop (Jack Chew) a couple of minutes. So, it costs
> a little bit more,
> > but it will SAVE you from the frustration, and
> also the possibility that
> > a spring could go flying into your face.
>
> :-) Sounds like you did the front shocks/springs on
> a miata...
>
> Other cars aren't as bad.
>
> Mark
>
> (and some are quite a bit worse...)
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