so I tell ya when the wife gets home few minutes later I decide to walk out to have a smoke
I see a battery and a starter for her truck, ok ill get the kid to do this hes always asking her for rides and
he can learn something, the mf punk splits out and im just pissed I tell the wife hes an adult he asks for rides but when you ask him
to do something he says ok and he bails, so there I go yank the old battery out drop the new on in but leave the wires off
cause im gonna crawl under next and change the starter, she has a bad oil leak somewhere so it isn't clean and pleasant under there
im thinking in the future ill yank the drivetrain out of my 92 Camaro and throw it in her truck just for fun heh
so anywho I change everything before the idiot kid comes home we run back to napa to return the stuff with core charges
come back hook the battery up and wtf, get the hot wire on the as I put on the ground its friggin smoking ok somethings wrong
take it off look around don't notice anything do it again this time I notice smoke but I still cant tell
frustrated I go in the house smoke a bowl then another go back out the kids home ok told him to get his ass out there and start exposing the wire from the battery to the starter, he couldn't even complete that the little shit ok so im like disgusted already so
I start checking myself go back add a wire that said do not remove trust me it wouldn't be any issue and that wasn't the cause
so I do that hook the battery up again and I cant tell its still shorting out somewhere, this time I tak e it off and p ut it back on I see a small glow found it found where the cable was shorting out, the way the cable is made you have to put it back a certain way
or it touches the block the damn thing was shorting out on the block gah
ok loosened the nut almost completely to be able to turn the wire in another position locked it back in place
went up hooked the battery up and I could tell immediately its all good, stuck the key in started right up no hesitation
job done with no help from the young adult who catches rides with mommy, hes screwed its expensive here and if you cant do certain things your gonna end up on public transport cause with his skills knowledge and education hell be working hard the rest of his life
unless he gets lucky, too bad he didn't learn from watching his older brother f up or not listen to any advice ive given him
he doesn't understand that even with the money I can make working construction it be hard to afford a lot of what I have if I couldnt do things myself.
hell learn someday im hoping sooner than later, cause I surely do not mind passing on my knowledge to my kids