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Appreciation post: the old mechanic at my shop in Boise showed me why he cleans and greases every bolt, and I used to think it was a waste of 20 minutes
I used to slap bolts back in dry and call it good, now I wire-brush and hit them with anti-seize every time because he showed me a bottom bracket bolt that had basically welded itself in after two winters of road salt. Anyone else got a fix their mentor drilled into them that felt pointless at the time?
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the_emma20d ago
My old boss did the same thing with battery terminals. He made me pull every cable, scrub the posts with a wire brush, and coat them in dielectric grease before I could put the car back together. I thought he was just making me kill time on slow days until my own truck started eating batteries every 8 months from corrosion creeping under the clamp. Now I do it on every single car and it adds maybe 10 minutes but saves people a tow. That 20 minutes your guy spends is nothing compared to drilling out a snapped bolt on a rusty frame.
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