horsepowerherd Tag Posts Index

The Out Of Spec Rebuild! (A Scrap Build!)

Well Hello There Fellow Technicians And Hivers! The What Even Job! This is seriously and without a doubt the absolute worst job I have ever gotten! We got this vehicle

Small Accidents Equals Big Problems

Well Hello There Fellow Technicians And Hivers! The Story Of Two Lost Nuts! So the jizz is up! We know who the perpetrators were! Indeed we do it was these two nuts!

The Quick Build Over! (CVT's Ain't No Fun!)

Well Hello There Fellow Technicians And Hivers! Easiest Job Of My Life! Quite literally! That in a CVT transmission aswell! For some weird reason I have no liking

The Perfect Broken Build!

Well Hello There Fellow Technicians And Hivers! Building The Perfect Broken Transmission! Damn this might be the weirdest thing I have ever said related to anything

Making One Of Two Equals Not Possible.

Well Hello There Fellow Technicians And Hivers! The Client's Request. Okay so this is more of a favour than a request really, we sent some work to the client, some

The Slight Problem Adjustment!

Well Hello There Fellow Technicians And Hivers! A Slight Little Comeback. Not Exactly Though. So we've recently had this walk in client that needed a clutch replacement

Tearing Down Another 10R80 (A Total Joy!)

Well Hello There Fellow Technicians And Hivers! This Might Be One For The Books! I say this because this transmission got a really big failure, a common one but

Our Competitors Aren't Being Competetive!

Well Hello There Fellow Technicians And Hivers! As Ironic As It Can Get! This one is definitely for the books and I mean the big history books if you ask me! Why

Diving Into New Tech

Well Hello There Fellow Technicians And Hivers! Something New! Okay so this is something we've been meaning to do for a long time now! That is to teardown this thing!

How Can Steel Trick?

Well Hello There Fellow Technicians And Hivers! Error Made! Well this is something new, I mean my first real fuckup (Or so we thought) but also the first real head

Some Maintenance Needed!

Well Hello There Fellow Technicians And Hivers! What Feels Like Ages Ago! This is something I never thought would happen, I really thought I was going to be building

If It Has Fuel And Spark It Should Start! (Finalizing The Small Stuff On The Rebuild!)

Well Hello There Fellow Technicians And Hivers! Finlly! I've finally gotten the lucky break I needed to come finish things up on this engine rebuild! Yeahp, well

Rebuilding The Absolute Worst!

Well Hello There Fellow Technicians And Hivers! The Ultimate Break! So this has been something I see more and more and more everytime I tear one of these

All This For Three Bolts? Hectic!

Well Hello There Fellow Technicians And Hivers! This Is Something! It's really weird sometimes how people bring in their cars for transmission repair work and then

Western Star CAT Truck! (PURE SOUND!)

Well Hello There Fellow Technicians And Hivers! A CAT Truck? In my life I have never ever! Never ever seen something like this! Okay that might sound weird but really

The Biggest Differential I Have Worked On.

Well Hello There Fellow Technicians And Hivers! How Time Flies! Okay well before do the little dive into this one I do have to say things have been real hectic lately

Running Costs

I am thinking a lot about money lately. Unemployment tends to do that to a person. I was going to say it does it to a man, but I'm trying to be as appealing as possible

The Accident Build!

Well Hello There Fellow Technicians And Hivers! The Easiest rebuild of my life, well I suppose it is still a rebuild, I do exactly the same I would for a completely

Unintended Rectification

Well Hello There Fellow Technicians And Hivers! The Confusing DSG! Well we got this one of a kind problem! Actually isn't a weird problem at all we just had to scratch

They Don't Make Them Like They Use To!

Well Hello There Fellow Technicians And Hivers! The Yellow Alfa Romeo! Well yeah this isn't going to be the biggest and most baddest post ever! Nor is this going