Mechanic simulator is decent at teaching you how cars are put together. Not enough bloody knuckles and cursing though. You'll never have to extract broken bolts, or tap new holes, or weld sleeves to engine blocks.
extract broken bolts
I have gotten entirely too good at this over the years. Fucking rusty pieces of shit.
Pretty sure my entire curse word collection comes from working on old cars that small a bit but need to be running in the morning
I remember I was removing this transmission on a Ford Explorer, bolt came out without a problem the first time I replaced the transmission. The second time I couldn't get it to budge with fire and my 1/2" impact, I had to whip out the 4' 3/4" braker bar, snapped the bolt at the head. I never yelled "motherfucker" so loud, enough it scared the shop cat.
Ye I've had to extract mounting bolts from new cars that have never had a brake/disc change and the thread is always fucked because the metal it's made from is shite lol.
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