[webcat]

This question is for people who live in apartments and so have to do your repairs there!
Whats the most extreme auto repair you have done in your apartment parking lot ?

 

[Mr_Bowtie]

Every apartment I ever lived in had a small garage with it. I changed headgaskets in my old GN in a storage unit with no electricity...if that counts? :lol: Funny thing is now that I have a house with a 2.5 car garage(with electric) I still find myself in my driveway most of the time doing repairs.

 

[webcat]

i used to change engines and stuff in my dads drive way and now that i live in a apartment i'm limited to what i can do but i attempted to install a 350 when nobodys looking ! Probally just end up renting a place to install!

 

[Mr_Bowtie]

Thats a ton of work to do in a parking lot. Next time drive like 9 hours you can use my garage. :thumbup:

 

[Munken]

1976 I had a 69 Pontiac GTO convertible, I replaced the rear axle bearings on it on this parking lot. But it was in the summer. Nowdays I do not even check the oil outdoors.

 

[Jasen]

Lets see. helped a buddy to a timing chain in a Galaxy 500, did a tranny in a old Econoline. We used to go down to the Fred Meyers underground parking to do work. Did an engine swap over a weekend. Started friday night when they closed. Then cleaned up before they opened and closed the hood. Came back the next to nights and finished it up. I dropped the gas tank in my buick, cleaned it out, the fuel lines and carb in the street in the fricken snow!!!!

 

[astro355]

Every apartment I ever lived in had a small garage with it. I changed headgaskets in my old GN in a storage unit with no electricity...if that counts? :lol: Funny thing is now that I have a house with a 2.5 car garage(with electric) I still find myself in my driveway most of the time doing repairs.

That's funny, I did the same thing. Rebuilt a 231 in my 78 Regal in a small garage in Colorado. I spun a rod bearing and rebuilt in three days with no light. The car ran good and used more oil than it did gas on the way back home to Illinois. That was the first (and only) car where I lifted out an engine block with my bare hands. And yes, the block was bare when I did it.

 

[Jasen]

Every apartment I ever lived in had a small garage with it. I changed headgaskets in my old GN in a storage unit with no electricity...if that counts? :lol: Funny thing is now that I have a house with a 2.5 car garage(with electric) I still find myself in my driveway most of the time doing repairs.

That's funny, I did the same thing. Rebuilt a 231 in my 78 Regal in a small garage in Colorado. I spun a rod bearing and rebuilt in three days with no light. The car ran good and used more oil than it did gas on the way back home to Illinois. That was the first (and only) car where I lifted out an engine block with my bare hands. And yes, the block was bare when I did it.

Oh the days of youth. Packin engine blocks around by yourself, bench pressing TH 350's in place and holding it with one hand and your knee while you get the first bolt started :lol:

 

[Munken]

It was good old days. Nowdays you can not do anything without connect the computer to the car first :banghead:

 

[Jasen]

Yup, no more fix'n 'em with a piece of wire you found on the street, some duck tape, your girlfriends bubble gum.
:lol: that brings back memories of some of the jerry rigg'n I did to get my rig home, or make it till pay day.
I burnt the end off the coil wire in a 65 Belvedere. Tore the foil wrapper off my cigarette pack, wrapped it around the end of the wire and stuffed it back on the cap. Drove it like that for 3-4 days.

 

[Munken]

Yup, no more fix'n 'em with a piece of wire you found on the street, some duck tape, your girlfriends bubble gum.
:lol: that brings back memories of some of the jerry rigg'n I did to get my rig home, or make it till pay day.
I burnt the end off the coil wire in a 65 Belvedere. Tore the foil wrapper off my cigarette pack, wrapped it around the end of the wire and stuffed it back on the cap. Drove it like that for 3-4 days.

Much simpler back then. I had a 62 SAAB "oil burner"(two stroke) back in the 80s, it had 4 fuses. I think my 56VW typ1 have 6 fuses, Hi tec :rofl:

 

[Jasen]

Just don't honk the horn with your left blinker, headlights and heater on.

 

[Munken]

Ha ha ha I just remember. I changed to a stronger battery in the SAAB and the heat fan from my Impala 64 I had. It blow so hard I got tears in my eyes, and the ice in the back window went away before the ice in the front window. :rofl:

 

[Mr_Bowtie]

Actually I did have one apartment without a garage.....now I remember. It was when I first meet my wife. Had a '87 K5 Blazer and had to change the radiator in the parking lot. Not very extreme though. :lol:

 

[$uperJoe]

i never did any auto repairs at my appt. i did cut a hole through the wall and install a plug in the closet on the second story patio so i could use the saws and grinders to form fiberglass pods for speakers. maintenance could never figure out why there was white powder by my side of the building.

 

[johnny-77]

Changed a 84 ford van tranny during a snow storm in -20 wind chill. Packed snow around three sides lying on about six layers of cardboard. But it was so darn cold the manager never came out side to say any thing. Black fingers and it wasn't grease. The things you do for family!!!

 

[nielswheels]

My very first Apartment was $100. bucks a month!(1980) It was a two bedroom! The best part of it was it had a engine lift in the back! I pulled a 1970 BMW 2002 engine right out there and rebuilt it. Every other Apartment place that I lived at got mad if you even just looked under the hood!I did change a Water Pump on a Opel in a Shopping Mall parking lot.

 

[Survivalist45]

Not really an apartment, but it was a parking lot.

When I worked at Autozone for a while....we did an engine swap in the small 20 space parking lot after closing one night...

Does that count?

 

[webcat]

Not really an apartment, but it was a parking lot.

When I worked at Autozone for a while....we did an engine swap in the small 20 space parking lot after closing one night...

Does that count?

yep, you win top prize

 

[Survivalist45]

Well, it was more like 3 all nighters......but still...