are you as bad at driving around in MA as you are at socializing?

One lesson I learned the hard way is how challenging it can be to work on a D2 without first reading the rave, examining diagrams and taking references pics of the parts you are about to work on. By the sounds of it 04duxlr is quit gifted with auto mechanics, probably born with it - must be in his/her genes but considering this is only the second vehicle ive ever worked on and my novice experience with auto mechanics I think i can afford afew errors along the way to enlightenment.

 

just keep asking questions (after search) and you will learn what you need to know to get by.
Yes; reading some of the responces you have gotten lattly you would think everyone was born with a green oval on thier butt, they were not.
Most of them learn from adapting what they knew of other vehicle or they learn it here, and some just spit out stupid **** and never get called on it.

 

I'm not sure what in that response offended you, it was nothing but helpful for others that may be looking to do this project. Myself and others have made posts in response to some of your statements and questions that were certainly much more harsh than that.

As I have stated before, I offered advice and suggestions to your questions without hesitation when you first starting asking them, but after you began stating opinions about propshafts as if they were facts, demanding that I PM you directions instead of searching for them yourself and basically telling everyone here that you couldn't be bothered to read RAVE I lost my patience. Cosmic gave you some great advice in this thread: https://landroverforums.com/forum/di...-56047/page13/

I'll admit that I am mechanically inclined which is helpful, but more importantly I'm willing to look into the correct way to do a project before I make a mess of them. You need to read RAVE before you tackle something and then search the forums for answers to questions you may still have or for tips and shortcuts. If you still have questions, ask them here. Everything that can be done to your vehicle has already been done by someone on this forum. You will save yourself much time, frustration and money using this approach.

 

And no one to blame but yourself. It was suggested a week before your rear propshaft ordeal to read the manual, and your reply was that you preferred to learn as you went along. So you spent about 50% more than the repair should have cost for your rear propshaft plus nearly killed yourself. I hope you have, in fact, learned.

 

Good judgement comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgement. A smart person learns from their mistakes, a brilliant person learns from the mistakes of others.

And with some self-deprecating humor, even a noob who writes about mistakes actually benefits those who come along the trail later and use the search button.

All boats are lifted by the tide of information that is presented here.

 

Savannah, I agree for the most part. Though I actually try to learn from the mistakes of others, and I'm far from "brilliant". My effort to learn from the mistakes of others stems from laziness, rather than brilliance.

All boats can be lifted, provided the captain navigates away from the misinformation presented.

 

I dont know maybe he took offence to digs like this.

"Of course, once get this worked out you should be ready to install your ACE system."

 

That was one of the more harsh responses I was referring to.

Hey, everybody makes mistakes but repeatedly making ones that are easily avoided should be a wake up call. Like I said, every repair has been done before. Search for some direction, ask questions if you still aren't sure, then have at it. Based on what you can find with a search of the forums, all of the mistakes have already been made. No need to make them again.

 

call it what you want, it was a dig at the kid that you just could let go.