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Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: West Virginia
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When do you work on your truck?
My garage lighting isn't the best but I'm going to have to begin working on my truck at night if I hope to finish it this summer. When, during daytime or during nighttime, do you primarily work on your truck?
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Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Mission Viejo, CA
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Re: When do you work on your truck?
weekends whenever i can. nights between 11 and 3. i dont do much during the weekdays because im in an office park and i dont want to make a racket while people have business going on. oh and Im supposed to be doing business during the days. the whole money thing...
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Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: nantucket mass.
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Re: When do you work on your truck?
I try to do one small thing at a time. Easy to get overwhelmed . Pick a project or a piece of one and get it done, mostly weekends for me.
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: New Orleans, La
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Re: When do you work on your truck?
My work times are all over the place. I'm a night shift nurse, so I never know when I'm going to get at it. My biggest problem is I do all my work in my driveway, which means if I'm working at night, I can't light up the joint like the 4th of July.
My sister-in-law got us this Coleman tent light for camping. It's way too heavy for backpacking, but great for working on the truck. It has a magnet and swivels. I stick it to the truck, point it in the right direction and love the thing. ![]()
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Location: Evansville, IN
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Re: When do you work on your truck?
Mainly weekends. Occasionally I'm able to take a half-day on Fridays which is really nice. I can get way more done without the any distractions. I may do a small project or tinker out in the garage during the week but not often.
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Re: When do you work on your truck?
I work a single on wednesday and a double on thursday and friday. Even with 4 days off i still only manage to get a day or two a week on my project.
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Re: When do you work on your truck?
I'm retired, so I can work on it anytime really, and I do about 2-6 hours a day. I go in waves though. Sometimes I'll code for 6 months and not really work on cars and sometimes I'll ONLY work on cars for several months. I'm just wired a little nutty, to cross metaphors.
If you're lucky it's also nice to have a little side-project. I installed a 3rd Brake Light strobe (20Hz for the first 5 seconds, then normal) on my late-model today. So nice to work on a modern car for a while. Then back to the truck! I also suck at cleaning my shop. I mean it doesn't get gross, but it gets cluttered where all the workbenches are covered in the middle of some little project that got paused for lack of a part, that sort of thing. I wish I was better at that because I know intellectually that working in a tidy shop is worth way more than the work it takes to tidy it. But I still have to force it!
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Re: When do you work on your truck?
Being retired, I can work on it any time I want.
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Wildrose, North Dakota
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Re: When do you work on your truck?
I work on it when it breaks :P
I farm so rainy days and winter are the general work times. Or you know nice days when all the other tasks are done.
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Re: When do you work on your truck?
Whenever I can, I have 3 kids aged 6, 3 and 1. So it usually ends up being after bedtime.
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Re: When do you work on your truck?
I tried doing it at home with my young sons, but homeowners association hates people working on cars/trucks in their driveway. Too many people with not enough to do I guess. So I moved it to my office which has a storage warehouse area with a large roll up door. Nearly ideal, but I had an employee complain to OSHA about odors, which caused an inspection (no violations!). Like Joint Tech said, I try not to make a racket, I do little things when I can during the day, then wait until after work hours to work with my boys and wait until weekends for test running.
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Re: When do you work on your truck?
"Not often enough" that's why it's been 3 years!!! It seems like I get more done to mine in the winter months. It's nice to work on it in a warm garage when the weather is crappy outside. The summer months seem to busy keeping up with the yard and everything else.
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Re: When do you work on your truck?
When it breaks, or when I have money, or when my 17 year old daughter isn't driving it....
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Re: When do you work on your truck?
On the weekends, and small projects at night during the weekdays.
My garage was dark as well, so I bought three plug in fluorescent lights, and mounted them on the ceiling. Cost a total of $60. I say let there be light! |
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Re: When do you work on your truck?
I've been putting around for a long time, but the wife is going to have knee-replacement surgery next week. I'm taking eight days off work to be home with her. But I plan to use the time to get some things done on the truck that I've wanted to do for a while now.
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Re: When do you work on your truck?
When? When time allows. I don't care what the clock says. I prefer to "not" work on my trucks when the metal's so cold your fingers freeze or when it's so hot sweat is running in my eyes. I can't see chit without great lighting no matter what time of day. In bright sunlight the contrast between bright and shadowed areas even messes me up. I feel the day I stop working on my trucks will be the day my sight gets to where it makes things too frustrating to enjoy it. I see glasses in my future
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Re: When do you work on your truck?
I for one am mostly a saturday guy, i work shift work so it makes it hard to find time with the woman. She works a bit later when I have a day shift so i get a couple hours after work during that time. Usually always have an idea or thinking how to do things with the truck.
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Re: When do you work on your truck?
Lucky you have a garage. I work on mine under a carport, so the weather dictates when I work on it. In the south, the summer time can be MISERABLE during daylight hours and very "buggy" at night unless using nightvision goggles (which ain't very productive
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