well, I've heard of this disease but now I've experienced it for myself and now I fully understand how it so easily affects everyone when you are working on your cars.
For my current winter project, the original plan was simple, pull the intake manifold and valve covers and clean them up. I also figured at the same time to just simply touch up a few spots of paint on the block that had worn away or chipped off. For my first time working on the car it was suppose to be relatively simple and not too difficult nor too involved.
Well, so much for simple and small projects!
At this point, the carb is packed up ready to ship out for a complete rebuild, the intake, distributor, valve covers, fan blade, pulleys, water pump, exhaust manifolds, fan shroud, radiator, expansion tank, all the heater hoses, and the ignition wires are all off the car.
The exhaust manifolds are glass bead blasted and repainted with manifold stuff, the motor is getting all cleaned up and masked off to completely respray with new paint (so much for just touching up a few areas), valve covers are cleaned up, intake waiting to get done, radiator going out for repair, and a number of small items like the pulleys, fanblade, radiator bracket, fan shroud will all get fresh paint also along with the brake master cylander. All the hoses have been thoroughly cleaned up and dressing put on them except the upper rad hose which I spurged and bought a replacement one, plus all of the clamps I've either bought new clean replacement ones or cleaned up the old one to look good. Most of the bolts from everything i removed i've bought new replacement bolts instead of reusing the old rusty ones. Also bought all new ground straps to replace the old cruddy looking ones. The ignition shielding has already been all cleaned up and looking nice and shiney, etc.
The main problems with this disease is I don't know when it ends.......... now that so much of my engine compartment is stripped of parts and looks so empty I keep looking at it and thinking to myself "hmmm I bet it wouldn't be that much more difficult to just yank that motor out of there completely. Would make it much easier to paint it and with it out I'll have good access to really clean up the front area of the frame now too....."
NO!! No I keep telling myself! I'm NOT pulling that motor out. I know what will happen if I do pull the motor and I'll not allow it to go that far. If I pulled the motor I could clean up the entire front section of the frame but than I'd be upset that only the front section got cleaned up and I'd want the rest of the frame to look as nice so the only way to do that would be to pull the body off........... NO, NO, NO!!!!! It ain't happening I tell you!
It's all your fault CAC people! I tell you it's all your fault!
All I ever wanted was a nice Vette to drive and enjoy, but than I go to car shows and see all these perfect cars and I come onto here at CAC and see all your pefect cars, and I see all the work you do on your own cars and I want my car to look as nice as the rest of yours do. Now it spends more time in paint shops and being worked on then it does getting driven because now I'm obsessed with making it as nice as I can.
I see you guys doing all the work yourself and in the pictures and your description of what you are doing you all make it seem so easy when it's not. But once you start taking parts off than you look at the next part and figure "well, that first part will look so nice and clean when I'm done, it would really be a shame to not clean up this part also".
D*amnit, does it ever end??!! The horror, the horror!
sorry, i just had to vent and rant and get that out of my system.
For my current winter project, the original plan was simple, pull the intake manifold and valve covers and clean them up. I also figured at the same time to just simply touch up a few spots of paint on the block that had worn away or chipped off. For my first time working on the car it was suppose to be relatively simple and not too difficult nor too involved.
Well, so much for simple and small projects!
At this point, the carb is packed up ready to ship out for a complete rebuild, the intake, distributor, valve covers, fan blade, pulleys, water pump, exhaust manifolds, fan shroud, radiator, expansion tank, all the heater hoses, and the ignition wires are all off the car.
The exhaust manifolds are glass bead blasted and repainted with manifold stuff, the motor is getting all cleaned up and masked off to completely respray with new paint (so much for just touching up a few areas), valve covers are cleaned up, intake waiting to get done, radiator going out for repair, and a number of small items like the pulleys, fanblade, radiator bracket, fan shroud will all get fresh paint also along with the brake master cylander. All the hoses have been thoroughly cleaned up and dressing put on them except the upper rad hose which I spurged and bought a replacement one, plus all of the clamps I've either bought new clean replacement ones or cleaned up the old one to look good. Most of the bolts from everything i removed i've bought new replacement bolts instead of reusing the old rusty ones. Also bought all new ground straps to replace the old cruddy looking ones. The ignition shielding has already been all cleaned up and looking nice and shiney, etc.
The main problems with this disease is I don't know when it ends.......... now that so much of my engine compartment is stripped of parts and looks so empty I keep looking at it and thinking to myself "hmmm I bet it wouldn't be that much more difficult to just yank that motor out of there completely. Would make it much easier to paint it and with it out I'll have good access to really clean up the front area of the frame now too....."
NO!! No I keep telling myself! I'm NOT pulling that motor out. I know what will happen if I do pull the motor and I'll not allow it to go that far. If I pulled the motor I could clean up the entire front section of the frame but than I'd be upset that only the front section got cleaned up and I'd want the rest of the frame to look as nice so the only way to do that would be to pull the body off........... NO, NO, NO!!!!! It ain't happening I tell you!
It's all your fault CAC people! I tell you it's all your fault!
All I ever wanted was a nice Vette to drive and enjoy, but than I go to car shows and see all these perfect cars and I come onto here at CAC and see all your pefect cars, and I see all the work you do on your own cars and I want my car to look as nice as the rest of yours do. Now it spends more time in paint shops and being worked on then it does getting driven because now I'm obsessed with making it as nice as I can.
I see you guys doing all the work yourself and in the pictures and your description of what you are doing you all make it seem so easy when it's not. But once you start taking parts off than you look at the next part and figure "well, that first part will look so nice and clean when I'm done, it would really be a shame to not clean up this part also".
D*amnit, does it ever end??!! The horror, the horror!
sorry, i just had to vent and rant and get that out of my system.
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