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I posted that list of things I needed to do to get the evaporator out of The Beast to a Facebook group dedicated to the car, let me say that again A GROUP THAT'S SOLE PURPOSE IS TO TALK ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR MAKE AND MODEL CAR!
The only two comments were, "what was I talking about?" and after I explained that, "What book are you referring to?"
The comment here, "Why do you need to take off the windshield wipers?"
The comment on the blog, where nobody is expected to be a car person or know fuck all about the Holden WM Caprice is a more intelligent question than people on a dedicated car group!
For. Fuck's. Sake.
I am really expecting someone to ask, "When I remove this nut, what direction do I turn it?"
The utility of the specialized groups is almost non-existent any more.
Primarily it's people selling stuff. I'm about the only person trying to document what I'm doing with my car.
Maybe mention the book that the citations came from? GM shop manual? Haynes? Chilton?
ReplyDeleteThat's the bog-standard Helms shop manual call out for the page numbers. I guessed I'd assumed that people on a special interest group would be familiar because WE are the warranty now.
DeleteEverybody has to start sometime. Thanks.
DeleteNormally "righty tighty, lefty loosey", but that bit me in the behind once on a really old Dodge Dart in the big grey canoe club. I was helping a buddy try and get a tire off to take it into town and get somethingorother done to it. The lug nuts on one side of the car had reversed threads for some reason. Found that out when we ended up twisting the lug bolt apart.
ReplyDeleteI remember helping my dad remove the wrong way wheel studs on his Valiant when I was a wee little bairn.
DeleteThat was an idea that was all theory and no application. Something about the rotation of the tire loosening the lugs from inertia on the nut if you left the one side RH threaded. A solution looking for a problem.
Probably a holdover from bicycles and motorcycles
DeleteAnd I believe the folks here think more then the folks I've seen on Facebook.
ReplyDeleteThe mods/admin on those pages aren't doing anything but hitting "add" to those scammers.
ReplyDeleteMaybe look for closed pages (if you don't already) that sift scammers out.
My page and others I'm admin in have weeding out questions that have to be answered before approval and you can tell it's a bot or scammer by just the answers before even looking at the profile.
I know you're probably just ranting, but?
The retailers have been legit as far as I can tell.
DeleteThe people who don't understand lefty-loosy are active and don't appear to be bots... they just appear to be dim witted. One keeps replying to stuff I've done and even when I'm showing exactly what I've done he's said it wouldn't work... When I have added pictures of it working! And a wiring diagram.
It makes it tedious to get information out to people who might need it.
This quote comes to mind: "I can explain it to you, but I can't comprehend it for you"
Delete-JKing