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Toilet paper may be in short supply, but there are now plenty of children wandering around aimlessly after their schools shut down and booted them out the door. Now is a great opportunity to get kids interested in cars. A little tinkering on cars can help teach them how to use their minds and hands to prevent and solve problems. Increased confidence and competence will make them better able to handle and enjoy life's challenges.
If they have replaced heater hoses on a car, then they probably will have the confidence to replace a leaky bathroom faucet in their own homes someday. Instead of feeling helpless and panicky when the toilet paper shelves are empty, they will stay calm, trusting in their ability to come up with their own solutions if necessary; rags, shop towels, thimbleberry leaves, dad's old hankies...
Car "tinkering" does not have to start big. A child's first car project could be as simple as learning how to properly wash a car. It is easy to forget that a younger child may not even yet know how to connect a garden hose to a spigot. He/she will beam with pride once he/she has that knowledge and sees how nice the family vehicle looks after the grime is washed away. The adults involved in all this mentoring will have memories of good times spent with the kids that drown out insignificant memories of empty toilet paper shelves.
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Thanks Rock! That's what I've been doing with my son a couple times a week. A lot of catching up on maintenance. Brakes & Flushing, Transmission Filters and Flushing, Struts, Shocks and even Spring replacement. Doing a muffler delete and learning how, why where the noise is coming from and containing it or moving it else where. He has been assisting but recently we did a full springs, struts and shock replacement on his friend's P71 Interceptor and I realized how much he picked up in a very short period of time.
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Here is the muffler delete. Went from mind numbing drone after the delete to a flex pipe, straight pipe then flex over straight pipe (inside out resonator). Learned as we went and things fell together. Very livable at all RPM's, a little burb and no rasp. Can hold us till we decide whether to buy a welder and fabricate our own dual exhaust. He was thinking we should put as flex as we can on the new system. The last photo is what we are hoping to fabricate.
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