With the thread running about "Things you've made your spouse do" in relation to working on cars, I thought I'd start one with a slightly different bent. What made me think of it was this weekend while my wife was out shopping I started to do some abrasive blasting. I noticed the media was clumping together as it was moist from all the rain we had this Saturday. I scooped it all out, put it in my wife's roasting pan, and threw it on the gas grill for about a half hour. When I was done, back in the cabinet with the media, gave the roasting pan a quick rinse, and dumped it in the sink. Wouldn't you know it? My wife comes home and goes straight for the roasting pan because she has a turkey breast to cook. "Were you using my roasting pan? What's all this sand in there? Is that stuff toxic? We better not be chewing on sand during dinner tonight!" She was pretty fumed about the fact that I used her cookware for my car project. I ended up washing it really good and she inspected it with a finger looking for traces of sand. Dinner was sand free... Another time she wasn't too please that I used her turkey baster to siphon brake fluid out of a master cylinder. OK, I think my examples are pretty tame. I'll bet some of you guys have some doozies!
Top This One... Early last summer dad and I were putting a new 462 together for the regal. I had read about ceramic coating and dry film lubing for the do it yourself types. Seemed like a good idea to me. Matter of fact it turned out very well. I DFLD rocker shafts, bearings, lifter body exteriors, timing gears and pump gears. The stuff I purchased was water based, not solvent based therefore "ok for use in food preparation ovens". Straight from the vendors website. After proper cleaning and application of the DFL you have to BAKE the items to bond the material. Hmmm..what to do. Of course. I spotted the large toaster oven on the counter and used that. Everything turned out quite nicely. I gave no thought to baking engine parts in a bagel cooker. Then I decided to ceramic coat and DFL my pistons. Since they were still on the rods I had a clearance problem with the toaster oven. What to do... I waited for my wife and daughters to attend a soccer game one Thursday evening and proceeded to use the OVEN IN THE KITCHEN for the baking. Pop said " I don't think you want to use that oven for them pistons boy". I replied " no problem Dad, It will be done and cleaned up and she will never know what was in there". Man am I an idiot. Eight pistons and rods went into the top rack and with the oven preheated to 350*. Well lo and behold copius amounts of rank chemical smoke started to roll out of the top oven vent. I says "HOLY S--T I am a dead man". My dad starts laughing his butt off while I ran around the house opening very door and window. I put fans in the kitchen windows to suck smoke out and fans on the opposite side windows to draw fresh air in. As the cook time increased the chemical smoking decreased. But before the cure time elapsed my wife and kids came home. That started an interesting one sided conversation from my wife to me that I will never forget. MORAL of this story: If usings the WIFES stove to bake engine parts be prepared to: Buy a new oven. Buy a new toaster oven after that was discovered missing. Not sleep in your bedroom for a while. Never live down the "stupid thing" that you did for the rest of your life. George
Let me take it 1 step further, since i have used the oven -dishwasher- the GOOD vacume cleaner-and got grease on everything i wasnt supposed to. How about explaining to your wife why she cant drive her 68 Custom today.....the reason is because i took her plug wires off, and put them in my 68 so i could go bracket racing!!!! :spank: Car guys Wifes have great stories to tell all their friends....they actually love thais kind of stuff!!!! Really!!! :TU:
Yikes!!! :eek2: Ka-Boom!!! Well, my little media drying in the roasting pan incident came home to roost tonight. I got home kinda late after the rest of the fam ate and threw a couple of chops on the gas grill. Turning them just right to get those diagonal grill marks :Brow: I took 'em off and proceeded to chow. As I bit into the first piece of sand, I thought "What the he__?". Then it occured to me, musta got media on the bottom of the roasting pan and it went onto the grill grates! ou: There ain't NO WAY I'm mentioning that to my wife. Wouldn't give her the satisfaction! :laugh: She'd have a laugh and a half. Ah, maybe I'll tell her anyway... I wonder if eating glass bead is bad for you??? o No:
A) New towels to wash and dry the cars...Nothing but the best for the Rivies! B) Formatted/partitioned the brides work laptop so "D" is a 65 Chassis Service Manual, Body manual, and tech info! Shhh. Nobody knows NOTHIN'! C) Whaddayamean the meat thermometer tastes like antifreeze?? D) Using up all the light bulbs because I keep whacking the drop light. Steve
My personal peeves... Using the dishwasher for wash electronic air cleaner filters WITH A LOAD OF DISHES. Everything smelled bad and had black spots on it.... Using the good knives/steak knives for cutting hoses or anything else that's not kitchen related.... Can you say dull? Using the kitchen sponge for mopping up antifreeze... Using my kitchen set of screwdrivers and needlenose pliers - because you can find them - and not putting them away. :rant: :rant: I think that's enough. ShariB
Two things from the kitchen I used the .99 cent plastic popcorn bowl to drain my old oil into. 11 1/2 inches across and 5 inches deep....made a great oil drain pan. Also used one of the good abrasive kitchen sponges to clean the engine grease off of my hands. They're both "mine" now for good. .......John
Don't use your "good" clothes when you work on the car . I didn't know there was a difference??? evidently there is... ou:
Grease splatter screen *alias "Laminar Flow air diffuser" worth a tenth and a half. Bought a new one and gave her the greasy one back. :laugh:
I inherited a China cabinet when I bought my first home. It was found in the garage so I loaded it with intersting curios like Ram Air pieces, starter motors, and brake boosters. Although I'm not married, the neighborhood ladies had plenty to point and whisper at. "I could have used that" was the typical comment. As if I wasn't using it already! :laugh: Uh-duh!
Amazingly, I have nothing to contribute to this thread. Apparantly, dealing with wifey's consternation for just buying the Riv was enough to clue me in that I BETTER NOT infringe on anything of hers. I've lived by that rule and so far she hasn't had to get angry with me for THAT. Now, all those PayPal charges from ebay is an entirely different story...
