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Well today was domesticated for me. Performed a 3000 mile maintenance job on my vehicle, as well as, installing a CCV mod kit and I will conclude Tuesday when I get the oil change and service the transmission. While I was working on my Jeep and keeping an eye to the southeast watching a small storm brewing (praying it would come my way): I wondered, what do the HAZ'ers do when their maintenance cycle comes up or they need to repair their vehicle?

Well...I know what to do now...call Abe!

I'm not that good Rodney. Heck, I even messed up on the poll questions trying to figure it out :

Let me know if your jeep makes it for 3 weeks after you're through...that will be good enough for me!

I do it all myself

I have an old jeep pickup so theres nothing complicated, no computers, no fancy parts crammed into the enging compartment, just plain ol' jeep engineering (and a little bailing wire and duct tape).

I do everything on my Jeep (86 cj7), most repairs and maintanence on my 4runner, but I won't touch my Expedition (still under waranty anyway).

I do some routine maint. on my jeeps and leave the rest for the pros. I thing I have noted on some vehicles the lug nuts may be metric or stand and they may have a trim cap. If the trim cap is broke or comes off the lug wrench will not fit the damaged or capless lug nut so I include approprite sized sockets. Another item I have noted is the lugs nuts may be over torqued or even frozen. As part of my routine maint., I remove the lug nuts and apply a little machine oil on the threads and then reinstall.

The, um, gentleman, who owned my truck before me had overtorqued the lug nuts and as a result some of my wheels have five lugs instead of six... The same thing happened to our '92 wrangler. So nighthikers advice would be good to follow.

Of course I leave all the maintenance to the "so called" Pro's , wouldn't want to break my nails or anything like that!

I wish I still had the pic of the gal under the car, well, let's say she tried to fit under it! lol Something of hers got in the way.

Sherileeaz

I own a 1971 Volkswagen Bus named "Ginger"

I know they are supposed to be the easiest car to work on but I'm a novice. I do some stuff myself and have friends show me how to do the stuff I don't know how to do.

If I really screw something up I send it to Richard down at German Autotec.

Maybe someday I will be as good as Abe . . . we'll see.

When ever I get new tires I make sure they don't over torque them to the point that I can't get them off with a lug wrench.

I don't even carry many tools any more, my Jeep Grand Cherokee is way beyond my ability when it comes to mechanics.