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Originally Posted by Zabo

I learned kinda hard knocks in a way. While I was going to school (and still am) I really didn't know an open end wrench from a 3/8ths drive socket. But during my junior year I was handed down a somewhat wrecked 86 Nighthawk S and tinkered with that. Coupled with just sitting down and reading the manual; I found out that it was much more straight forward than I had imagined.

Now, a year and a half later I was just weeks from rehabilitating my Honda Magna (remember that bike?) before I sold it off. To go from a simple aircooled 700CC motor to a V4 liquid cooled, crazy arse bike was a headache, but it was fun.

The key to learning it all was just having fun, and finding something cheap to tinker on. After that it just became old hat. Try to find something like an old bike, a scrapped lawn mower..and just explore.

Yea, now I wish I still had my pocket bike, I could take that engine apart, but I sold it. It was a 49cc engine.

Originally Posted by FenwickHockey65

Does your dad work on your cars a lot? Just give him a hand if he's changing the oil or rotating tires or any kind of basic maintenance. I started doing stuff like that when I was only 8. I still don't know about every single part in a car, but I know the basics about how everything works now.

Other than that, I've always been more of a new car sales guy than a car mechanic.

He doesn't work on cars a lot, just when they need something done. I'll keep that in mind for when he works on it again.