where did you get your maint & repair skills?

[KenB]

Still self teaching on the Jeep. Spent about 11 years as an industrial electrician, then ended up running maintenance for 22 prisons. They've got more to fix than the Jeep.

 

[BrockGrimes]

I figured by the PINK it was Pre F***ing Mentsrual.

Your pretty quick for an old guy, LOL.

 

[Kane]

I started out learning on my own. I was a Lego head for my childhood life and also I would spend Saturday mornings in my living room watching cartoons while tearing my bicycle down to the last nut and bolt and then putting it back together. My first car was a 1970 Chevelle with a 307 and my 2nd car was a 1969 Cougar with a 302 which needed alot of help. That Cougar tought me alot about engines and my buddies all had muscle cars so we would spend the days working on each others cars. I got my Jeep when I was 19 and still own the same one. I really did my first full motor rebuild on the AMC 258 i6 / 4.2l aboiut 9 months after I got it. At 18 I went to Vocational school for electronics. At 20 I went in the Air Force and became an Aerospace Ground Equipment Mechanic (A.G.E) where I really learned alot about hydraulics, electronic, air conditioning, air compressors and every kind of motor around. After the military I became an industrial mechanic and went to several mechanical and electrical technical schools plus college. I now am a manager/engineer for maintenance department for a Dairy filling plant.

Maintenance has been in my blood from day one. I don't know where it came from because my father was a musician and my mothers side doesn't have any mechanics. I just allways loved to tear things down and see what makes them tick and then make it better.

 

[Thorwon]

I have always loved working on mechanical things. I took my dad's mower apart when I was 11. When he got home from work and saw it scattered across the pick-nic table in the back yard I got my butt tore up. I put it back together and it ran!! The next day he gave me a old mower of my own.
I have been to many back yard hotrod builds and built many myself. I got clocked by the La. state police at 147 in a 67 Chevelle. I have read several Chiltons manuals from cover to cover. I have been to several tech schools J.I. Case diesel and hyd. school, Ford micro-processor, Ford automatic Transmission axle just to name a few.
I have worked as some type of a mechanic most of my life, everything from small engines to the space shuttle tug when I was in the Air force.
I now work as a engineer for Eaton corp supercharger R&D. I don't get to play with the superchargers I cut the prototype rotors for new and experimental units and program the C&C machines that cut production.
It's a blast, I really enjoy my job.

 

[dalefan88]

my dad always messed with small stuff in the garage and some of the bigger stuff he said he cant do. so when i got older and he said he cant do it i started tearing into it. i grew up around a circle track and always loved cars and found out it is a hell of alot cheaper to do it yourself.