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I ran this by Eric some time ago under the suggestion post and with his permission decided to give it a try.
I thought it would be nice to have a little humor in our lives since most of us are stressed to the limit these days with our jobs, and keeping our transportation on the road and with our lives in general.
If you have something automotive related that makes you laugh let us in on it so others can laugh too.
Keep it clean and no racial content so we don’t offend anyone here.
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Here is an oldie but a goodie…
ARC WELDER: An industrial tanning machine that also drops molten steel down
into your shoes thus teaching how to dance at the same time.DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal
bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings
your beer across the room, denting the freshly-painted project which you had
carefully set in the corner where nothing could get to it.WIRE WHEEL: Cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench with the speed of light. Also removes fingerprints and hard-earned calluses from fingers in about the time it takes you to say, ‘Oh sh — ‘
ELECTRIC HAND DRILL: Normally used for spinning pop rivets in their holes
until you die of old age.SKILL SAW: A portable cutting tool used to make studs too short.
PLIERS: Used to round off bolt heads. Sometimes used in the creation of
blood-blisters.BELT SANDER: An electric sanding tool commonly used to convert minor
touch-up jobs into major refinishing jobs.HACKSAW: One of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija board
principle. It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion,
and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your
future becomes.VISE-GRIPS: Generally used after pliers to completely round off bolt heads.
If nothing else is available, they can also be used to transfer intense
welding heat to the palm of your hand.OXYACETYLENE TORCH: Used almost entirely for lighting various flammable
objects in your shop on fire. Also handy for igniting the grease inside the
wheel hub out of which you want to remove a bearing race.TABLE SAW: A large stationary power tool commonly used to launch wood
projectiles for testing wall integrity.HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK: Used for lowering an automobile to the ground after
you have installed your new brake shoes, trapping the jack handle firmly
under the bumper.BAND SAW: A large stationary power saw primarily used by most shops to cut
good aluminum sheet into smaller pieces that more easily fit into the trash
can after you cut on the inside of the line instead of the outside edge.TWO-TON ENGINE HOIST: A tool for testing the maximum tensile strength of
everything you forgot to disconnect.PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER: Normally used to stab the vacuum seals under lids or
for opening old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and splashing oil on your
shirt; but can also be used, as the name implies, to strip out Phillips
screw heads.STRAIGHT SCREWDRIVER: A tool for opening paint cans. Sometimes used to
convert common slotted screws into non-removable screws and butchering your
palms.PRY BAR: A tool used to crumple the metal surrounding that clip or bracket
you needed to remove in order to replace a 50 cent part.HOSE CUTTER: A tool used to make hoses too short.
HAMMER: Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent to the object we are trying to hit.
UTILITY KNIFE: Used to open and slice through the contents of cardboard
cartons delivered to your front door; works particularly well on contents
such as seats, vinyl records, liquids in plastic bottles, collector
magazines, refund checks, and rubber or plastic parts. Especially useful for
slicing work clothes, but only while in use.DAMM-IT TOOL: Any handy tool that you grab and throw across the garage while yelling ‘DAMM-IT’ at the top of your lungs. It is also, most often, the next tool that you will need.
One of my favorite lines from a parts guy…. “You don’t have the wrong part, You have the wrong car”
Top 10 List of things not to say to an Auto Tech:
10. Can you come over to my house and fix my car?
9. The tow truck driver said this car is easy to work on.
8. Can you take the parts off my other car and put them on this one?
7. I know the tires are bald and it has no brakes but I want the stereo fixed.
6. Can you get it done sooner; I’m leaving on vacation to Florida tomorrow…
5. My neighbor and I took this part off on my car so I won’t have to pay to have it done the next time.
4. Can I watch you put the parts on my car so I won’t have to pay to have it done the next time.
3. On the internet it says you don’t have to replace the part, you can just spray it with something like PAM.
2. The drivers door is broken, so you’ll have to get in from the passenger side and scoot across the console to drive it.
1. My Brother-in-Law used to be a mechanic and he says…
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