06-03-2019, 09:01 PM
(06-03-2019, 01:16 PM)IainH Wrote:(06-03-2019, 05:27 AM)Ed Hurst Wrote: I used to poke bolts and stuff into the cardboard trays from cases of soda pop. I used sticks to hold the nuts in place. I could label the parts and draw boundaries to separate them in those trays.
That's what I do with cylinder head bolts, labeled L & R, front and rear. If I had been working on engine or tranny, I would have creaked into the house and used the Glad baggies but, " aw, it just body parts and suspension". Hubris is what it was, I'm such a great mechanic I'll remember where everything goes. The really stupid part was putting everything in the back of my Honda, remember the theme song to the Dukes of Hazzard? Well, we straighten curves and flatten hills, if your tires don't squall on curves, you're going to slow. Gravity mixed up tools, nuts and bolts pretty much everything I took off. That left the minimal organization I had scattered but, none of that matters now because I'm fixing to go ride, bye y'all!
You two have better mechanical sense than I do.
Fridge and freezer doors are still going strong. However, I just realized that, in switching the hinges to the other side, I left two pieces out: the little plastic retainer type things, that look like large screw anchors, sort of, that go into the hole where the hinge posts go. The hinge posts still fit, but I assume the plastic retainers help it from giving the post too much play when you open the doors. Or keep it all from rusting out. They were inserted in the holes on the original side, from the factory, I just didn't bother to put them into the other side. I'd have have to take the doors and the hinge assemblies off completely to put the retainers back in. Maybe I will do it someday. The holes will probably rust out or bend out of shape too much the night before I decide to do it. Can't wait.