Best Mechanical Work Quotes

"Stay positive guys, and if you do get a chance, spin a couple of spanners on your rig."

"Another great tool to have in the box if you have to do any kind of internal grooving for seals."

"Hell yeah, I am. This cool Monokuma, the self-proclaimed school headmaster, has trapped you and other high school students in a game of literal life and death."

"Finally after the step side truck is done with the exhaust we're going to be focusing on the ugly truck for a little while."

"Long pattern wrenches I absolutely recommend them."

"We're making progress, one wrench turn at a time."

"You'll breathe new life into her, and hopefully this time, you'll get it right."

"We're almost at the end of a long day again, got the truck back together looking really good."

"Last thing we gotta do here is put this upper axle plate in place."

"For 280 dollars to pretty much nearly fully sort this car at least mechanically."

"I'm all set. I got my wrenches and diagnosticators and hairpins and engine tapes, so I'm all set."

"I think this is the first suspension I've ever done where I torqued everything to spec."

"The grunt work of the project is basically done at this point, so the trans in drive shafts and trans mount all that stuff, that's basically the car."

"This Legends Fest was really, really good overall. Did a phenomenal job."

"Welding done, now onto mounting brackets and reinforcement plates."

"The moment of truth: we actually had to start wrenching on the crusher right in the middle of this giant trade show."

"Surprise bitches they come it drills through the belt."

"What I like to do is I like to break clean you know wipe all the sockets and you know I need super greasy stuff and start putting that stuff away."

"Building confidence in the garage, one bolt at a time."

"From oily hands to high performance, the journey never ends."

"Dropping that exhaust proved to be a bit more difficult than we originally anticipated."

"In order to clamp it to the frame, I needed to tap some holes."

"Undoubtedly we're going to have to clean those of course it's kind of hard to get to we've got this nice little elegant wire loom piece held on by 17 half is this the Titanic why you got to have such big Hardware let's do it a baker."

"Enough contact, we're just gonna weld it on the back because this part is gonna be gone tomorrow."

"All that's left to do is remove the lower control arm."

"It's all good, it's all good next, okay, you're gonna crack the bolts on the cylinder head, yep, and after that we'll find out what we got."

"The fuel tank is in, and I won't say that it didn't try to whoop me, but I won."

"...I know I'm a little weird right now. I still get really excited about replacing a starter on a really old Jeep."

"You want to do a crisscross pattern while sucking your bolts into the ring gear."

"We're gonna put them on here already got five tang your cam in the thing and I sent a super e carb on there and I even check out the heads while we're in there you know do a little cleanup work."

"I'm going to put the new box in, bolt it up, put the steering shaft on, put the steering linkage on, and then I'm not sure, baby steps."

"Wouldn't be a proper carburetor rebuild unless we did it at least twice."

"I like working on tuners. Hopefully, we can get this one to perform. The 7500s were known to be, from what I understand, supposed to be really pretty good tuners, so I'm pretty excited to get this fired up and get it working and back into top shape and see how it performs."

"You just have to get it deep enough so that you can get the entire tire pushed in there."

"We're actually going to weld this thing in there, and it'll give us a pulling point."

"This is the last time you're going to see the cam gears. Now we can put the side cover on there and the new valve cover."

"I kind of cringe at these torque values. I usually go by feel with drain plugs and fill plugs."

"Time to get the rear derailleur installed."

"Next up I got to work on the speedometer cable so I'd taken this off here now I believe this is either a reducer or it gears it up I don't know if you can see in there it's actually got little little gears."

"I don't know about you, but I love wrenching on stuff. I love maintaining stuff."

"...let's get the EGR cooler off next and then the turbo..."

"Nobody wants to commit to a torque spec."

"Well there it is guys and gals, a brand new rebuilt steering box with all new seals in it."

"The plan for this is to completely take the engine out."

"So this is the bolt for the steering shaft that connects the shaft to the rack, and we're gonna have to take that out with a 12-millimeter socket."

"A lot of times mechanics have a lot of tools on their belt."

"I like to pre-lubricate this inner bore with some grease to where it makes the insertion of the new bearing easier."

"The first thing I did was install the rear shock."

"We finally got everything switched over on the bike."

"All right, we're trying it, you think we're even doing anything, put your finger in there, I don't think I will Hunter, go ahead Hunter, give it a whirl, no he tried to have me grab hold of a burning red bolt the other day, I wouldn't do such things."

"Let's get these wheels off and get in there."

"And now it's running great, I just had to kind of blow everything through the lines, I think it just sat for too long."

"How many times have you fitted starter motors and then they don't work? Not many after the first time I did it."

"Every clank of metal on the asphalt echoes all around, your breath rises up in front of you as you struggle with the lug nuts."

"This isn't over yet, so the next thing we're gonna do is get the engine in the car."

"I got that new gas tank seal back in there. I've got everything wired back up, clutch is back in, transmission is in the car, drive shaft is bolted in, everything is tight and torqued down."

"by far the hardest part of this job so far has been getting this bracket back in place"

"Now it's time to get the rings, and we're just one step closer to installing the crank and the Pistons."

"All I did was make sure that it had fire. Okay, it's extremely hard to pull over. This thing's got some serious compression. But I made sure it had fire and it could. Wow, yes, it works. Thank you. Oh, sorry."

"It was quite an involved job, there was quite a lot to do but I learned a lot along the way."

"The head is done, I'm going to take it home, a massive thanks to Gordon for letting us see how to rebuild a cylinder head."

"I've put in the new sump plug, just finger tight at the moment, and then I'll torque it up once I've got it on the car."

"Tools and instrument questions evaluate your familiarity with common tools and instruments used in mechanical work."

"We just need to carefully just tap that bearing out."

"With the spark plugs removed, I can easily turn the engine, and that is a good sign, of course."

"I'm actually excited to just get this thing running and driving."

"It's much easier to do this when you have your engine out of the car."

"Super pumped to finally have the transmission swap done."

"For once, something went perfectly well and it actually turned out really nice."

"I'm either gonna blow up this rotary or it'll run."

"This is my project B5 S4, and over the past few weeks, I've done a lot of work to get this car working well mechanically."

"Getting these cars running in whatever condition they're in is fun. Hearing them make sounds, getting the brakes to work, making the transmission do transmissioning, it's awesome."

"For now, let's work through the Mechanicals, work through the various systems, get the car to function as a car, and have some fun."

"We're done with the bottom of the transmission, so we're going to go ahead and flip it over onto the workbench."

"Using an impact wrench is much easier than using a combination wrench and a socket wrench at the same time to remove bolts."

"What's important is that body man Ron is going to tear down his engine and we're here to learn, moral support or taunt him."

"A chance to work on cars like this is pretty exciting stuff."

"Always start bolts by hand, never run them in with a gun."

"I'm super happy this thing's on all four wheels finally."

"We're going to spend the better part of the morning getting the head on, getting it torqued down."

"Persistence has paid off after about an hour and a half, I've managed to slide this off just giving it gentle pressure with the puller."

"Just like that, the engine is out."

"It's nice doing preventative maintenance and everything, but when it actually fixes something when you do it, it's really nice and so satisfying."

"Let's mount this axle and see if everything clears."

"The amount of mechanical work that you do is only a function of the initial and final states, and does not depend on how you supply the work."

"Well, she sounds pretty good, we got her all fixed up now."

"We got the motor installed, we got the transmission installed, and we got the engine started with no major leaks, no major problems, so we are very happy."

"All right, so the good news that I found out is there was not too many shavings once the oil drained down."

"Once we get those removed, we'll start tackling the gist of it inside the engine itself."

"Come on, baby, need a longer wrench, that's the sound of victory."

"I'm super stoked that that worked and we were able to get the pistons in there without any issue."

"I think the car is good, I'm not gonna lie, that last pass firing the car up after we changed the injectors sounded a lot better."

"And that, my friends, is how you put in a freaking transmission by yourself in the driveway."

"All right, so now is the big exciting moment where we start taking pistons out."

"We're going to torque these to 14 foot-pounds."

"Ask anybody who loves retro bikes, part of the fun is the riding, part of the fun is the collecting, and part of the fun is the wrenching."

"It's always nerve-racking when you work with springs."

"Motor is all put back together after the full rebuild, that was a lot of work I can tell you that."

"You always want to have a breaker bar if you're gonna be working on cars or trucks because it really helps get all those stuck nuts and bolts out."

"Now that we have all these bolts torqued up, our clutch alignment tool should literally just fall in there, spin around easily, there's no binding, no resistance, nothing, everything's straight."

"Every story has a beginning and an end; this is the beginning, and hopefully, the end is a motorcycle that runs."

"I don't like pulling cylinders off; it's very invasive and there's some risk involved in doing it."

"Well, I finally got my hands on a manure spreader, and while this thing is no spring chicken, I think with a little bit of work she's still got some good miles in her."

"The universal joint is a little pain in the ass to get lined up sometimes, but it definitely is worth it."

"You have to turn energy into mechanical work, and in your sport, it's called running."

"Now you know how to rebuild a little motor like that, clean it up, put it back together, and it worked, we saved a lot of money today."