Big91RustyBucket
1/2 ton status
As topic say's what motivate's you to wrench?
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What Motivates you ?
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People who tell me I'll never finish it, and when I've got lots of money in my bank account
completing the vision in my head... oh, to be rich...
it's hard in my dinosauric days, I'm soooo beat up physically... But I just say to myself, "hey, your getting killed all day, whats a few more hrs?"
I try to make it casual too.. go down work for an hr or so, come up have a beer, check in here, go back down, crank the tunes, etc...
I don't do nearly as much as I did when I was younger, but I'm also much more efficient with my work after a million years of projects, wrenching, etc...
it's hard in my dinosauric days, I'm soooo beat up physically... But I just say to myself, "hey, your getting killed all day, whats a few more hrs?"
I try to make it casual too.. go down work for an hr or so, come up have a beer, check in here, go back down, crank the tunes, etc...
I don't do nearly as much as I did when I was younger, but I'm also much more efficient with my work after a million years of projects, wrenching, etc...
Big91RustyBucket
1/2 ton status
The money thing is what bite's for me right now.
I keep wrenching with the impossible idea that someday I wont have to do it again! Right now I'm undoing what previous owners and myself screwed up doing the first time around. I would love someday to only need to wrench when I break something on the trail, not every weekend just to make it driveable.
It's what I do. It's what I know. I do motorcycles for a living. Cars and trucks are just for me. The last few weeks I've been doing late evenings on my wifes '67 Camaro, often 'till gone midnight. Why? Because I know that if I do it, it'll get done right. It may take me longer, what with trying to fit it in with work, but I'll be comfortable with the end result.
Take my mind off work.
Chrisblazzer89
1/2 ton status
I wrench Because I love it and have been sence I was 7 Im 18 now ands I still love to wrench. And I need a kool ride that I built not bought.
sometimes I like wrenching on mine more then wheeling it. then I go wheeling. 
Thats my motivation, pushing something I built to its limits.
I also enjoy the alone time. I love my wife and son and enjoy the company of my friends, but when I am wrenching on my truck its probably the only time I am actually alone. nobody tells me what direction to go with my build, its all for me.
Thats my motivation, pushing something I built to its limits.I also enjoy the alone time. I love my wife and son and enjoy the company of my friends, but when I am wrenching on my truck its probably the only time I am actually alone. nobody tells me what direction to go with my build, its all for me.
I 3rd that because its my passion and i love just learning new things everytime i do a project but also because i get my alone time, my girlfriend just called tonight and wanted to chit chat but i told her no because guess what i was doing, i was wrenching. I love it " and her too of coures"
cause i dont have to hear the phone ringing when i have loud equipment running...with my work my phone rings 75 to 100 times a day...
The $95 per hour that shops charge, plus the ridiculous markup on parts is enough to get me to wrench on my own junk. 
Not to mention that many shops will do a half-a$$ed job anyway. 
Not to mention that many shops will do a half-a$$ed job anyway. 
I have no motivation to wrench on my own truck because I'm currently wrenching on other people's junk for a paycheck. My trucks in good shape right now. The last thing I had to fix on it was the water pump last year. My motivation was easy on that one. I enjoy working on MY TRUCK. Oh yeah the $$$ is a problem too. I would love to do lots of upgrades & mods.
CDA 455
3/4 ton status
Big91RustyBucket said:As topic say's what motivate's you to wrench?
Because I'm married now and can't dump $1200 on this and $900 on that, like I used to do as a single guy.
But I've also found that when I work on my own stuff, I get a better feeling of 'knowing' my own rig.
because friend built a nice ass rig and therest buddies parents paid for and think they are the cats ass... that bothers me... i will buil dmy own rig and fix it and build it so i can say hey i can do it all
howdiy said:
Ain't that the truth.....I gotta get back in a gym. I'm fat as hell.
What motivates me usually is seeing someone else's rig, or reading about a build on here. I just flat out enjoy wrenching, I wish I didn't have to work so I could do it all the time. That is until I hit the 15 minute spurts where I'd like to burn whatever I'm working on, just because it pissed me off. Haha
bogginboy said:
yes we do. many times I think how different it would be if I still had a small convertible. there is nothing like spending 2 months wrenching on something to not know if it will survive the 9 hours of wheeling you have planned.
