anyone ever notice this happens when they do stuff?
so.. say yer starting a project.. fixing a piece of gear, building a treehouse, or.. like today, changing a radiator hose..
now.. in the end, it might be resolvable to "hey, creature, yer just stupid", which is entirely fair, & may even be correct, but.. the sheer coincidence & difficulty that accompanies simple tasks just sometimes leaves my head wondering if it understands how *any* part of existence actually works..
so.. in arizona, my serpentine belt goes & slices the fuck out of my lower radiator hose.. i jerry rig it & it holds for 15,000 miles, more or less.. it's an expensive piece (130 fucking dollars for a fucking radiator hose!! just because it has a fucking molded junction on it..), but i decide now, since a new trip is in the works & i can get it for 1/2 price online, that this the one main item to change before heading out.. i order & it comes.. i look it over & it looks damn right.. great!!!
i start to rip out the old lower hose.. & this is where i make my first mistake..
i need to pull the 6" exhaust adapter out that i shoved between the 2 shredded ends.. i *cranked* that fucker in there, & it is tough as *fuck* to get out.. one would not think this to be a big issue, but even though i bought supposedly better quality clamps, they decide to fuck with my life.. the engineering was designed for factory assembly & not owner maintenance, so because of lack of accessibility i got a heavy duty 'thumbscrew' style, which fucking broke, but nonetheless held..
well.. underneath the thumbscrew is a *square* 1/4" bolt.. an absolute, absolute bitch to fit, becase even though a 9/32 or 7 mm driver fit, they were hex & kept slipping.. eventually i figure "ok.. i'll invert a 1/4 driver, stick in a screwdriver & use the square end to untighten....
ha ha
ha ha
Ha....
well.. suffice it to say that if there *is* a fucking radiator drain plug it is either *behind* the fan shrouding, or hidden someplace that the fucking engineers were laughing about when they imagined a home mechanic trying to fix his own fucking vehicle, so i decided that since it would probably be best to drain from the lowest point on the hose & which was the point of repair, it seemed logical to disassemble, there.. also, the **upper** clamp is a typical (though 8mm) wormclamp, so i figure that's what i'm working with..
after going through this whole thing with the clamps, & doing the drain, i get ready to pull the other end of the hose... FUCK ME!! I AM A BRAINDEAD FUCKING ASSHOLE!!!.. it is a *spring compression* clamp..
fffuuuucccckkk...
i grab my vice grips & *chawonk!!*.. she's off in about 20 seconds...
fuck..
i am a fucking idiot..
now, i *know* i should have inspected more thouroughly, & i *know* i should not have assumed so much, but.. what gets me is that if shit had not been so wonky to *begin with*, either approach should have been absolutely *fine*.. so.. my metyfizikul question is..
is there any relationship between how difficult a thing is, which should otherwise be nominally 'straight forward' & the attempts of the Intent of Existence to guide us, by making us look under different rocks than the one we are *insistent* upon inspecting??
so.. say yer starting a project.. fixing a piece of gear, building a treehouse, or.. like today, changing a radiator hose..
now.. in the end, it might be resolvable to "hey, creature, yer just stupid", which is entirely fair, & may even be correct, but.. the sheer coincidence & difficulty that accompanies simple tasks just sometimes leaves my head wondering if it understands how *any* part of existence actually works..
so.. in arizona, my serpentine belt goes & slices the fuck out of my lower radiator hose.. i jerry rig it & it holds for 15,000 miles, more or less.. it's an expensive piece (130 fucking dollars for a fucking radiator hose!! just because it has a fucking molded junction on it..), but i decide now, since a new trip is in the works & i can get it for 1/2 price online, that this the one main item to change before heading out.. i order & it comes.. i look it over & it looks damn right.. great!!!
i start to rip out the old lower hose.. & this is where i make my first mistake..
i need to pull the 6" exhaust adapter out that i shoved between the 2 shredded ends.. i *cranked* that fucker in there, & it is tough as *fuck* to get out.. one would not think this to be a big issue, but even though i bought supposedly better quality clamps, they decide to fuck with my life.. the engineering was designed for factory assembly & not owner maintenance, so because of lack of accessibility i got a heavy duty 'thumbscrew' style, which fucking broke, but nonetheless held..
well.. underneath the thumbscrew is a *square* 1/4" bolt.. an absolute, absolute bitch to fit, becase even though a 9/32 or 7 mm driver fit, they were hex & kept slipping.. eventually i figure "ok.. i'll invert a 1/4 driver, stick in a screwdriver & use the square end to untighten....
ha ha
ha ha
Ha....
well.. suffice it to say that if there *is* a fucking radiator drain plug it is either *behind* the fan shrouding, or hidden someplace that the fucking engineers were laughing about when they imagined a home mechanic trying to fix his own fucking vehicle, so i decided that since it would probably be best to drain from the lowest point on the hose & which was the point of repair, it seemed logical to disassemble, there.. also, the **upper** clamp is a typical (though 8mm) wormclamp, so i figure that's what i'm working with..
after going through this whole thing with the clamps, & doing the drain, i get ready to pull the other end of the hose... FUCK ME!! I AM A BRAINDEAD FUCKING ASSHOLE!!!.. it is a *spring compression* clamp..
fffuuuucccckkk...
i grab my vice grips & *chawonk!!*.. she's off in about 20 seconds...
fuck..
i am a fucking idiot..
now, i *know* i should have inspected more thouroughly, & i *know* i should not have assumed so much, but.. what gets me is that if shit had not been so wonky to *begin with*, either approach should have been absolutely *fine*.. so.. my metyfizikul question is..
is there any relationship between how difficult a thing is, which should otherwise be nominally 'straight forward' & the attempts of the Intent of Existence to guide us, by making us look under different rocks than the one we are *insistent* upon inspecting??
