Is your son a better mechanic than you?

[SteveSS]

I was never a mechanic but I've fixed some thing myself. My son Bryce is not a mechanic either but he has a mechanic's brain. When helping him decide what to major in, in college I told him his talent is figuring out solutions. Now he's a board-certified Mechanical Engineer. For instance, our Kubota tractor wouldn't go into fwd. I was ready to haul it to a dealership and pay $250/hr. He looked at it ad tightened a Heim joint and Viola. Fixed. Just now it wasn't starting. I was ready to buy a battery. He found a loose connection on the solenoid and bingo. It didn't evev resemble a solenoid I'd ever seen. I'm sure he didn't recognized a Kubota Tractor solenoid either, he just looks at it and fixes things.

Mysterious!

 

[Don Frelier]

This young man is very talented.
He can diagnose, repair just about anything mechanical.

He put a band in a Saab transmission without removing it when he was 19 years old.

Built a log splitter from nothing.

Rebuilt a lawn tractor engine on the tailgate of his truck taking 2 engines apart and selecting the best parts.

I could go on and on.

 

[DeltaV]

Did you have your son take care of this mower?

Mower smoking. I need to look like I know what I'm doing!

 

[kiwigtx]

Viola.

Size matters.

 

[WileE]

No.

 

[SteveSS]

I ended leaving that job, they pissed me off. I liked my boss Christine but she told me it's the resident's full time job to think of things to gripe about. I told them where to take the mower and that guy fixed it just fine.