ok I am gonna come right out and admit it before more pictures of Tomas in the salt and snow are posted here.

I, once again had to drive Tomas today. I am a non-mechanically inclined female who absolutely has no right being in the garage. Much less unattended in the garage, with tools in her hands and the hood of her car up. I successfully destroyed the fuel line going into the filter on my hyundai.....will I ever learn that I am just not cut out for garage work?

hopefully a certain someone who hates my little foreign friend can fix it. If not, I guess it is time to buy another winter car.

 

it is just a fuel line, buy a new one and fix it you have the books and every tool known to man at your disposal to do this operation. send me some pics at work and we'll see if you can do it yourself before he ends up just leaving a pair of coveralls their at the house.


and HA HA, you had to drive the kranch in the snow!!! that's why you have 4x4 drive your truck in the snow and have fun in it instead of worrying about the rust, por-15 will fix any of that anyway.

 

you own a 4x4 and u bought a winter beater to drive in the snow?

 

Skagel, you are the accounting expert, but by my math if you destroy the fuel line on a Hyundai the vehicle is a total loss.
BD

 

yeah pretty much seeing as I have already sunk $200 on new calipers for her.

oh and as for buying the hyundai for a winter car i know everyone thinks it is crazy, but i was raised that way and nobody can change me.....as much as certain people want to.....

 

Change YOU Sarah !!!?

As if !

 

Well, the Hyundai is back on the road.

well, actually it is parked in the driveway behind the back garage.....I can't remember what excuse I made up for why I had to drive the truck today even though the hyundai is driveable again.....oh yeah my baby niece and I went out to pick up guys together.

 

So did you fix it or someone else? And as for buying a winter car, very understandable. I have several cars just to keep miles off the nicer ones like my KR.

 

well, I attempted to fix it myself and that is what got me into trouble. It is a good thing I have a really great friend who despite his hatered for foreign cars helped me out........again. I did have to promise never to go into the garage and use any of the tools unattended unless it was to change the oil and even that is debateable.

 

keep practicing on the rice burner and you'll get used to it enough that you'll be able to eventually work on the ford don't worry. all it takes is a good tech manual and some reading and most anything can be fixed especially with your current tool selection.

 

Actually, this repair required renting tools and borrowing them from work... she seriously mangled the fuel line in the futile attempt to remove it... apparently she didn't have ahold of the line nut while she was trying to turn the filter, and she curled the line right up and sheared it off!! She-Ra called me in a panic saying, "I really screwed it up this time... help?"

To replace the entire fuel line would have easily been an $800 job at the dealer... it's a single piece from the tank to the filter, so it would undoubtedly require dropping the tank which can;t be a quick or simple job on that thing!

So, I wound up wrenching on it for two days because, of course, it's impossible to find metric steel lines and fittings here in Dee-troit... And, given the location of the sheared line, there was barely enough room to get my hand on it, let alone two, to turn wrenches, use a tube cutter, and double-flare the end of the line for the fitting! Then I had to make up a piece of line in a rather unique curl-around because the benders I had at my disposal couldn't make the exact bend I needed to make in that tight little space... a little on-the-job re-engineering was required to make it fit. What a pain! I don't think I've ever worked on a vehicle and got my hands chewed up this bad in my LIFE! My hands currently look like I got into a fight with a cat (and lost!).

Her ban on working on vehicles is self-imposed, by the way... I had nothign to do with that!


-Joe

 

did you at least make her watch and hand you the tools while you did the hard job? now i hope she understands why the proper tool is necessary for each job and a makeshift use of the cresent hammer is improper.

 

I will have you know bro that I know longer use a "cresent hammer" to remove the oil pan plug......I have switched to a Fumoto valve on all my vehicles, all moms vehicles and our little sisters truck.

 

how is that valve working? does it have a cover over it when not in use?

 

it works great. I haven't had a problem with any of them leaking. they have a website that describes them and shows a picture.http://www.fumotovalve.com/