saudivette
Clueless In Sandland
Try mine on for size!
I went to reconnect my started motor today, only to find that the wires had all been seen to by Bubba. The fuseable links had been wired in using the twist and wrap method then the original ends attached to the fuseable links the same way. It really was a shower of shit.
I tried cutting them back and cleaning up the new bare ends and soldering them together but they were just too oil soaked to do anything other than make a burning oil smell.
I finally got to a stage where I thought that I'd just cut the damn things off and go into town and buy some new fuseable links and put it all together correctly - well, far more correctly than it was. All you electricians out there will probably jump all over me but for a dull old aircraft technician, I thought I was being pretty damn clever soldering the wires together and covering the joints with heat shrink!
Of course, it was 1 o'clock this afternoon when I ran the snips through the wires. DOH! Shop's don't open again until 4pm in this dump. So, re-clocked my alternator and tinkered with some other shit that needed doing until 4pm. Drove into town and went to every bastarding spare parts shop in 4 blocks and not a single one of them had a fuseable link - well, a couple had inline fuses for a stereo but nothing big and meaty for a starter motor. One place had a complete positive battery cable to suit a Caprice Classic that he thought I might like to spend (approx) $25 buying so I could hack the fusebale link off the end. Idiot.
Any time I need parts, I don't say "82 Corvette" as they all say that they have nothing to suit it. Bought a brand new A/C compreesor yesterday that fits some kind of Chevy and as soon as I said that it was actually going on an 82 Vette, he said it wouldn't fit and went to take it back off the counter! So, today I'm going into these shops with my sorry looking fuseable links in my hand and saying:
Me: "Hi mate, do you have any of these?"
Stupid: "to fit what car sir?"
Me: "Chevrolet"
Stupid: "what model?"
Me: "Caprice Classic"
Stupid: "sorry sir, not have one for Caprice".
Me: "Ok, what do you have them to suit?"
Stupid: "nothing sir, have none at all - not available in the Kingdom"
AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Took me over an hour to do all that walking and talking with morons and come home with nothing! :cussing:
So, I drive off to one of the malls to pick up my wife. We stay for a coffee then try to leave BUT... The king has arrived YAY!!! The roads are blocked off, traffic being diverted bla bla bla. Took us over an hour to get home where it normally takes 10 to 15 minutes. Morons.
My only other options are to go to the actual Chevy/Dodge/Ford dealers tomorrow and see if their parts department has them. That is, of course, if the traffic isn't all messed up again with the King and every other Middle Eastern leader being here soaking up the atmosphere.
If that fails, it'll have to be www.stupid.little.things.I.can't.get.in.this.stupid.country.com
and a 2 week delay before I even see them!
So, next time you think you're having a bad day, duck out and buy yourself a fuseable link and laugh your tits off at me :surrender:
I went to reconnect my started motor today, only to find that the wires had all been seen to by Bubba. The fuseable links had been wired in using the twist and wrap method then the original ends attached to the fuseable links the same way. It really was a shower of shit.
I tried cutting them back and cleaning up the new bare ends and soldering them together but they were just too oil soaked to do anything other than make a burning oil smell.
I finally got to a stage where I thought that I'd just cut the damn things off and go into town and buy some new fuseable links and put it all together correctly - well, far more correctly than it was. All you electricians out there will probably jump all over me but for a dull old aircraft technician, I thought I was being pretty damn clever soldering the wires together and covering the joints with heat shrink!
Of course, it was 1 o'clock this afternoon when I ran the snips through the wires. DOH! Shop's don't open again until 4pm in this dump. So, re-clocked my alternator and tinkered with some other shit that needed doing until 4pm. Drove into town and went to every bastarding spare parts shop in 4 blocks and not a single one of them had a fuseable link - well, a couple had inline fuses for a stereo but nothing big and meaty for a starter motor. One place had a complete positive battery cable to suit a Caprice Classic that he thought I might like to spend (approx) $25 buying so I could hack the fusebale link off the end. Idiot.
Any time I need parts, I don't say "82 Corvette" as they all say that they have nothing to suit it. Bought a brand new A/C compreesor yesterday that fits some kind of Chevy and as soon as I said that it was actually going on an 82 Vette, he said it wouldn't fit and went to take it back off the counter! So, today I'm going into these shops with my sorry looking fuseable links in my hand and saying:
Me: "Hi mate, do you have any of these?"
Stupid: "to fit what car sir?"
Me: "Chevrolet"
Stupid: "what model?"
Me: "Caprice Classic"
Stupid: "sorry sir, not have one for Caprice".
Me: "Ok, what do you have them to suit?"
Stupid: "nothing sir, have none at all - not available in the Kingdom"
AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Took me over an hour to do all that walking and talking with morons and come home with nothing! :cussing:
So, I drive off to one of the malls to pick up my wife. We stay for a coffee then try to leave BUT... The king has arrived YAY!!! The roads are blocked off, traffic being diverted bla bla bla. Took us over an hour to get home where it normally takes 10 to 15 minutes. Morons.
My only other options are to go to the actual Chevy/Dodge/Ford dealers tomorrow and see if their parts department has them. That is, of course, if the traffic isn't all messed up again with the King and every other Middle Eastern leader being here soaking up the atmosphere.
If that fails, it'll have to be www.stupid.little.things.I.can't.get.in.this.stupid.country.com
and a 2 week delay before I even see them!
So, next time you think you're having a bad day, duck out and buy yourself a fuseable link and laugh your tits off at me :surrender:
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