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85 Jimmy

85 Jimmy

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Before you get burnt out on working on your truck?

I seem to get burnt out pretty quick now. I'll work on it a few hours one day and then won't want to touch for a week or more.
Maybe it's because it's what I do all day everyday at work...
 
As you may have already noticed.... Not long. :doah:
 
depends what part of it im working on, there were days over the summer where i had over 10 hours daily on it for 2-3 days. basic maintenance is no fun, but fabrication is great
 
Well I have had a modified truck ( blazer or otherwise) for some years now.

The reasons I don't work on it are usually money or time related.

I really enjoy working on it. But I enjoy wheeling it so much more.

I don't think I get burnt out as much as frustrated I can't afford some nice part and have to either build it or make something else that is cheaper work.

Its becoming more obvious though that other responsibilitys have to be done first so unfortunately the truck is coming in after those. Which means I haven't been burned out on working on it for a long time
 
I seem to bounce from project to project for some unknown reason. Usually end up getting my truck driveable, mod it a bit than run it till it breaks and the fix it and finally repeat that whole process.
 
I will die owning my K5 and crew cab weather thay run or not.
 
I don't get burned out as long as I see progress...that keeps you going...it's money and sometimes things out your control that can get frustrating...I've been going for 2 years now but hit a brick wall with finding a decent paint shop...
obviously I do look forward to a time when it is "finished" and I can just drive it and do minor maintenance on it....
It's good to have a project though...especially if you don't have a wife and kids...
and in my case, rogue sharks...in Amity..you say "yaad"..."in the yaad no to faar from the caar"...
 
I usually don't get burnt out, I have a problem with shiny things getting my attention and then I'm off working on another project...

When I do stay on task I get tunnel vision... It drives the wife nuts, cause nothing else in the world can get my attention at that point... I will walk away from a project so I can come back to it fresh...
 
I took on a whole new K5 this past year n I'll never do that again because my attention is too divided between the two. I ended up garaging one and the other sets with a malfunctioning tranny and too little time and definitely too little $$$ to run n maintain both. Especially that they're both V8's. So one is going and one is staying.
 
there are days where I spend WAY more time looking at it then working on it, some times it's spent laying on a piece of carpet under the truck falling off into a nap LOL

then there are weeks where I don't even want to look at it, it's not possible though, sitting 4 feet from my front door and all

but currently, between work and rain, I haven't touched it. It's also running, so working on little things gets put on the back burner in favor of driving it :D
 
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