Owner maintenance screw-ups

Dave writes:

I'd make it a fiber, and move the bigger boxes to under the rear seat
where cooling and access are both easy. Little box with mike/earphone
jacks going back there.

Not exactly a new idea.

Yep. Back Then, you needed a place for the dynamotor.

But while we don't need one any longer, and adding the fiber connection;
I think the cooling and accessability would offer real advantages. I'd
likely throw in a small Gel-Cell for backup power as well.

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Viperdoc wrote:
As a follow on to Jay's previous post, has anyone attempted an "easy" or
"obvious" repair project, only to do something that really screwed up the
job and made it more expensive or time consuming to recover?

Not in aviation but I was witness to a minor miracle as a youth.
We were both 'round 16 y/o. Just got our driver's licenses.

My buddy owned this 'ol Nova with three spd trans on the "tree". An otherwise
not-so-clever fellow, he commented how he thought the trans was acting up and
that on this fine Saturday morn, we were gonna go in, find out whats wrong
and fix it. I asked if he had ever done it before. He kinda cocked his head
and said, "Nope. Can't be too hard to figger out."
That was sheer madness AFA I was concerned b/c to me, ( another often no-so-
clever fellow but who knows better ) transmissions are a strange mix of
mechanics, random probability and voodoo.
He busted out his tool kit, jacked the front end, dropped the case, laid it
out on the bench and cracked it open.
For me, looking inside that thing was like looking into some angry, many-
toothed beast that would spitefully decide that it's soul had been violated
and no matter how expert or precise the hand touching it...it will never
drive again.

By the gods, my pal reached in there unclipping bearings, un-keying splines
and piling up little helical gears until he found one had a jaggedy, missing
tooth.
In about an hour, he secured a new one from a shop in downtown Detroit.
Believe it? A tiny, third-order helical gear off the shelf. Guess that was
livin' in the motor-city.

He busied me with helping re-order the gears on their shafts, clipping
bearings and giving everything a good lube before we locked the case.
Trans fluid kinda looked like old, venous blood. Like we were giving a
transfusion, we poured some into the thing and hooked up the rods that fit on
the side of the case.

I couldn't believe there were no bits left on the bench as he climbed into
the car and started up. All done in about 7 hours.

The thing ran flawlessly.

It was Unbelievable.
The kid went on to be a hugely successful plumber and plumbing contractor.

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