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More not-so-good memories: Fiddled with something electrical on my Jeep one morning, in a rush to head out for a trail ride. Reached in and hit the starter button, just to turn the engine a hair, or hear it click. Sure enough, without any choke, the engine fired instantly. I got the Jeep...

I'm amazed. At least in the building and shipping department, a Trackhawk is apparently faster and quicker than a Challenger. Today I found out that my li'l red wagon arrived in Salt Lake City yesterday, which is exactly one month since I called and ordered it. Gotta get my butt in gear and...

That shouldn't stop you. I put my 4-post outside. It's not supposed to be, according to the instructions, but has made it for about five years, so far.

Ah, yes, oil stains. A friend and I once managed to empty an entire laundromat when washing off two blankets we had used as creepers during a rear axle swap in a beach parking lot. Not that 90 weight smells good, but it really reeks when in a good clothes dryer.

Yeah, but you weren't dumb enough to forget to disconnect everything, were you?

And another memory resurfaced: Had to remove the transmission in my Jeep to fix the clutch. These were extremely lean days, so to save on gaskets and oil, I pulled the trans and transfer case as one. Not having a floor jack, I set it down on my chest. Since I was on a creeper it was really only...

This thread brings up some bad memories. Like when I used a basic floor jack under the cross member to raise the front of a little sports car in preparation of a simple oil change. Well, I did it on gravel since there's always a little spillage. I thought about the potential of the jack pad...

Thank you, I almost wrote that myself. But didn't want to seem lazy.

Or a 2-post lift, or a 4-post lift, but ramps are still nice to have.

Okay, full disclosure: When faced with lifting a 100-lb. or so tire and steel wheel assembly some 6 feet up, I also cheat. Using a home built "sky hook" and the tractor was much easier than wrestling this trailer's spare into place by hand. But if it was an aluminum wheel, I'd probably given it...

Okay, okay, I'll stop doing it then. Jeez, what is it with you young people these days?

That reminds me of a somewhat similar scenario. Started changing the diff and gears in my Jeep's Dana 44 after work, which was 5 PM. By about 2 AM I finally realized that the book I was using as a guide for contact patterns was wrong. Luckily I had taken notes of the shims used for the first...

Oh, the list is long, but what comes to mind now isn't all bad. I'd bought an engine that was supposedly rebuilt. Yeah, right. So I took it apart, checked bearing clearances and such...sure enough, it was perfect. Now I had to get all new gaskets, which I really couldn't afford.

Maybe I'm not supposed to handle tire and wheel combinations, but am too stupid to know it? With arthritis in my knees since two years old, a bad back since 18, and a hernia from some 15 years ago, I technically shouldn't lift more than a tire iron if the doctors had their way. But I generally...

It's engineered to do that, yes, but consider that those forces are entirely different from a vertical force applied to the center. Actually, a piece of 1/8-inch cable would probably do the job, but wouldn't help any with chassis rigidity.

You believe, or they believe?

That cross member isn't very sturdy. Ask me how I know. No, I didn't try lifting from it, but when our Redeye 1.0 arrived at the dealer, that cross member was crunched. Not that I saw it in person, but what the photos showed wasn't very inspiring from a strength standpoint.

So you're saying the we need to buy an automatic (if we have a stick), and vice versa, to then race ourselves? That sounds like an expensive way to prove the obvious. Okay, so the above was supposed to be in response to Motorhead's challenge in the "We love slow stick shifts" thread. No idea...

They'd be good for transporting batteries, right? Until it was time to fly back.

Apparently it's a type of venomous snake, in the Nile region.