Well, did you learn your lesson?

[RedneckRodder]

I've been working through a few problems that I created for myself, and thought it might be fun to start a thread where we all give advice, big or small, on the general mistakes we've all made.

Think "things I should've done differently" and go from there. Doesn't have to be year, make or model specific, just the little tricks you've learned through doing things the wrong way first.

My grandfather always used to say "You never learn to do a thing right, until you've done it wrong enough times!"



Rule number 1: If the bolt feels cross threaded, it is. Stop there and retap the hole before you have to drill it out and waste 30 minutes on one bad decision.