One of his many skills involves working on cars. I had decided that I wanted to change my timing belt. One is supposed to do this at 60,000 miles and as my car had recently passed 86,000, I thought it might be a good idea to change the timing belt. Reading the Haynes manual, we knew it would be a big project. So, we began on Saturday over Labor Day weekend.
I love the Haynes manual. It is a very good guide for working on one's own car. But, the steps can be very misleading. For instance, when it says "remove the cam shaft oil seal" what it doesn't tell you is that you will try for 45 minutes to wedge that stupid seal out with an assortment and combination of exacto-knives, screwdrivers, pliers, etc, all while trying not to nick the camshaft, until you discover that you can take the top off the seal cover and very easily slide it out from there. hmmm. nice. But the steps are like that in the Haynes. One thing may take 2 seconds and the next step after that takes 4 hours. They should have guidelines, like on google maps - step 1: Turn left on "remove timing belt covers" 4 miles. step 2: Turn right on "remove timing belt sprokets" 18,000 miles. And so on.
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