That’s true

When I was around 13 my father and I tried to perfect the “One Cheek Sneak” — getting a silent but deadly fart out in public without laughing. We were generally a bit noisy and the other one would detect it. Giggles all around. Anyone pulling off the OCS was supposed to get away scott-free and was legally allowed to…

It’s dead straight. Doesn’t matter how long the trailer is, it’s not that difficult to back a trailer up dead straight. If anything it’s easier using the side mirrors. IMO.

It sounds like the boardwalk was already damaged, steamrolling it back out that way would just tear more shit up.

Structural engineer here. The fact that this is the largest of the 3 (apparent) braces running across the short axis of the car to stiffen the frame rails tells me it has the most load on it (yes real engineering-ish). I’m having a hard time orienting the pictures with each other but regardless: corners are always the…

The system is not broken, it has been this way for almost 100 years. I ran a shop on this system, my guys made bank beating book.

It’s not a salary job, if you want a salary job you’ll have a ton of guys drop out of the industry because then there’s no incentive to work quickly. They’d take a 30%+ pay cut.

It’s only a…

No, that’s not how it works.

You’re doing piece work. If you’re paid to weld 100 pcs you get paid for 100 pcs no matter how long it takes. If you’re cutting grass you get paid per lawn to matter how long it takes.

Mechanics are not hourly workers.

This whole book time thing is confusing you. Most skilled mechanics do…

Book time has been around in one form or another since the ‘20s. For nearly a 100 years mechanics have been paid with the method.

The method is fine, it incentivises techs to be efficient. Some jobs you get good at and beat book, others are a bear and you take a little longer.You need to understand your income will…

He goes on and on about clutch wear but doesn’t even mention the syncros? Clutch wear from shifting gears is almost non-existent. You really found a great transmission expert to teach us about skipping gears.

Tip: If it’s only half a worker, he’s not sleeping.

Big deal. I found half of a sleeping UAW worker under the 3rd row of my Traverse.

No discussion of gear reduction is complete without:

Yep.

As someone who organizes local events, I feel bad for the people who were running the event. How the hell do you turn away Hammond and May (Clarkson comes with baggage, so there is a bit more wiggle room). Hell, if a TV crew showed up to one of our local autox, club trials, or Street Survival Schools (which they have…

Truly, we live in a golden age when we complain that sports cars “only have 335 HP.”

Sad story, but it’s gonna be more sad when they Don’t Total it. Its pretty banged up, but that doesn’t look like $19,500 in damages. Last I heard, it has to be over half the value of the car for it to be totaled. But I didn’t adjust for drop in price after driving it off the lot and I don’t know if that totaled figure…

The details of my life are quite inconsequential... very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he…

Summers in Rangoon? Luge lessons? When you were insolent were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds?

You have an odd idea of what constitutes rudeness.