"RotaryLover" (rotarylover)
11/26/2016 at 10:31 • Filed to: Procrastination
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"RotaryLover" (rotarylover)
11/26/2016 at 10:31 • Filed to: Procrastination | 1
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Not my Miata btw
...when it’s been apart for a few months? I don’t have much to fix to make it start again, but procrastination hits me all the time. It took me 3 months to find the motivation to replace a pulley for the timing belt. The fact that the car got into an accident and the frame needs a tad straightening, doesn’t help at all. What are your tricks Oppo?
S65
> RotaryLover
11/26/2016 at 10:36 |
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do it or you’ll turn into Guy Fieri
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RotaryLover
> S65
11/26/2016 at 10:41 |
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LOL! That’s hard to beat.
daender
> RotaryLover
11/26/2016 at 10:56 |
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If you can’t find the energy to fix, then it’s time to sell and move on?
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S65
> RotaryLover
11/26/2016 at 11:07 |
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I guess I always could have a 3.5mm fish swim up your urethra and die, potentially causing infection possibly requiring surgery to remove but I suppose that’s a minor threat compared to being transformed into Guy Fieri. It’s Vandellia Cirrhosa btw.
PS9
> RotaryLover
11/26/2016 at 11:26 |
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StickK.com
Commit to X hours of work on your car for a specific amount of time. Failure to meet up your commitment and you can set it up to donate some of your money to your enemies. You don’t want those assholes using your money for blackjack and hookers you could be buying yourself, dooo yoooou? Yeah that’s what I thought. NOW GET TO WORK!
Frenchlicker
> RotaryLover
11/26/2016 at 11:26 |
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I haven’t found a trick yet. At some point the motivation will be that I want to pull a David Tracy move out of my ass and have the cheap Jeep up and running.
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RotaryLover
> daender
11/26/2016 at 11:45 |
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Did this with my RX7 FC...regretted it.
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RotaryLover
> S65
11/26/2016 at 11:47 |
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RotaryLover
> PS9
11/26/2016 at 11:48 |
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This is amazing! I actually like this concept.
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daender
> RotaryLover
11/26/2016 at 11:50 |
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Well then, consider not wanting to repeat what happened with the FC by finishing this current project?
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RotaryLover
> daender
11/26/2016 at 11:53 |
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Like I said it’s not much. Problem is, I wanna do a lot of things.....and the gf takes a lot of my time lol.
Joe6pack
> RotaryLover
11/26/2016 at 13:27 |
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It’s easy. Have a boring, efficient and practical daily driver thus knowing that your only possible escape from automotive purgatory is to build it yourself.
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Frenchlicker
> Joe6pack
11/26/2016 at 13:59 |
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That’s the option I am looking into. Plus not having to wrench on a dd makes project car work seem more appealing.
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RotaryLover
> Joe6pack
11/26/2016 at 14:28 |
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I have a Civic Hybrid 2012...it’s gaining me day by day.
Urambo Tauro
> RotaryLover
11/26/2016 at 15:03 |
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Pick something stupid-easy to do. Like “I’m just going to unbolt this one piece and then I’m going back inside.”
Once you do that, you will be tempted to do “one more thing” before calling it quits, and before you know it, an hour passes by and you’ve made some actual progress.
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RotaryLover
> Urambo Tauro
11/26/2016 at 16:04 |
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I like that idea!
Die-Trying
> RotaryLover
11/26/2016 at 20:36 |
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in a small notepad make a list of EVERYTHING that you need to do to it, and get for it. itemize the list so that it is simple, and all the jobs are small. for example if you were working on the fuel tank of an old car
re.re tank.
kill yellow jackets next to tank(buy carb cleaner).......unbolt tank...kill spiders around filler neck... remove tank.......clean rust out of tank(buy marbles....buy berryman)......... buy fresh hoses for tank(3 feet 3/8 )........buy fuel filters/sediment bowl for tank......paint tank.........cut new mounting rubber for tank(get doormat for rubber).....buy new mounting bolts/nuts for tank( buy 3/8 grade 8 2 inch)..... buy fresh hose clamps...... etc.......
as you get the stuff done and bought, you can mark it off the list. feels like progress marking stuff off............