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Shoutout to the old mechanic who told me I was torquing head bolts backwards
For 6 years I always did my head gasket jobs starting from the center and working out in a spiral, same as I saw the lead mechanic do at my first shop. Then this retiree stopped by my bay last month and said I was going in the wrong clockwise direction and should be starting from the outside corners and going inward. I argued with him for 20 minutes until he pulled out a 1995 service manual that showed it his way. Now every Cummins rebuild I do uses the outside-in method and I haven't had a single leak since. Anyone else get a game changing tip from a random old timer that made you feel dumb for not knowing it sooner?
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the_sam3mo ago
Last year I watched a 70 year old carpenter spend 10 minutes re-leveling a cabinet I'd rushed through in 30 minutes. He didn't say anything, just pulled out a 6 foot level and started showing me where I'd gone wrong on every single door. Three months later my kitchen reno client sent me a photo of that cabinet still perfectly level. Now I check everything twice before moving on.
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