I'm saving this one.
Jim Muller wrote:
> 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.
>
--
George Richardson
Wyvern - '57 Triumph TR3, TS15559LT
Griffin - '71 Triumph Stag, LE8176LBW - Daily Driver
Pikachu - '75 Triumph TR6 - undergoing repair
Kitty - '83 Jaguar XJ6 Vanden Plas - temporarily retired
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