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jikelly

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You guys ever work on your car so long that your hands started hurting? The first time it ever happened to me was after 15 of the 24 hours I spent trying to replace all the components in my front suspension.

That was a nightmare. I was still new to the grease monkey crowd back then and not very efficient. That jobs was going pretty smooth until it came time to change the coil springs. I spent hours figuring out how to get the spring compressors to work and once I finally did the compressors went tits up on me. It was cold out and nothing seemed to go right after that.

Anyway I was just thinking about that because my hands are sore again tonight. I spent the day and most of this week working on my car. I was pretty tired this evening after a wrestling match with a tremec tranny today but I couldn't stop myself from planning my next big project. I got my new wiring harness in the mail today so I had to take a look at it. Whew there is about 15 lbs of wire to run.

Oh what fun I'm going to have tomorrow.
 

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It will be worth it! The pain will ease up eventually, but the pleasure of your hard work will last a long time.
 

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I have tendonitis in my hands & wrists and screwed up ligaments in one wrist (plus problems with my knees). I should have bought stock in Motrin.

-Chelle
 

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sore hands are better than a sore rear
 

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Heh, forget sore. I spent 4 days this week contorting myself around my garage floor changing the clutch on my 96. I hate working on the latemodels already, but the chunks of flesh missing from my knuckles are the icing on a very bitter cake.
 
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t_chelle16 said:
I have tendonitis in my hands & wrists and screwed up ligaments in one wrist (plus problems with my knees). I should have bought stock in Motrin.

-Chelle
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You're too young to be in such pain. Might want to scale back all that marching and swing dancing. Keeping active is a good thing, but kind of a catch 22.
 

t_chelle16

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Actually, I haven't done either in at least a year. The swing club on campus fizzled out after I graduated and there's no place local to dance.

-Chelle
 
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