4x4 Kubota front axle/hub design - poor?

   / 4x4 Kubota front axle/hub design - poor? #31  
Ha, you think I'd pay a mechanic!? Unfortunately I've ended up justifying 1000$ of dollars of tools that way. Some I love, some just sit.

I hear ya, they aren't cheap. :( I've fought with the universal kind too much in my time though. The "real" kind are just such a joy to use. You can justify cost of tools by taking it out of the labour you'd pay your mechanic. :thumbsup:
 
   / 4x4 Kubota front axle/hub design - poor? #32  
Ha, you think I'd pay a mechanic!? Unfortunately I've ended up justifying 1000$ of dollars of tools that way. Some I love, some just sit.

That's just my point. :thumbsup: Why pay a mechanic for a job that you can do yourself with a small investment of your time and perhaps a tool or two? Besides, a job well done will give you a huge level of personal satisfaction. :cool:

Yes, some tools you buy you won't use very often but usually those are the tools that when needed, nothing will work as a substitute. Only $1000? You can't buy much of a mechanic's time for $1000. You're just not trying! ;)
 
   / 4x4 Kubota front axle/hub design - poor?
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#33  
Yes, some tools you buy you won't use very often but usually those are the tools that when needed, nothing will work as a substitute. Only $1000? You can't buy much of a mechanic's time for $1000. You're just not trying! ;)

I learned that lesson 20 years ago when I hired a contractor to repair rot around my front door. Pull door out - cut out and replace rot - put door back in - job was $350. He didn't show the first day, so I fired him. I bought a Milwaukee Super Sawzall to do the demo, and bought a new door. Did the job in half a day for the same $350, and got a new door and STILL have the same sawzall that I use almost every weekend. The rest is history...built my own house, fix all my own crap, yadda-yadda. Doesn't leave a lot of spare time though, so vacations usually involve changing roofs, landscaping, etc...(keeps the weight down, if nothing else).

Just the other night, my kitchen stove crapped out. I broke out my voltmeter and, after 10 minutes or so, tracked down the problem as a failed circuit breaker in my main panel. I swapped out the breaker, and dinner was cooking 5 minutes later for a total repair cost of $3 (actually zero, since I had a spare breaker laying around). The normal 'call the guy' type would've first bought a new stove, then after that didn't work and they figured out that there was a power problem, called an electrician. Would've taken a week of microwaving and cost roughly $800 to get that $3 breaker replaced. Not that I'm totally immune - I had a well pump failure at a rental property I own this summer and just didn't feel like driving over there, so I "called the well guy". I figured it was a dead pump, but it turned out to be the same failed breaker problem - cost me $300 for the well guys to jump the breaker. Ouch.

I figure I can buy a lot of really nice snap-ring pliers for the $500 I'll not be giving the tractor shop to change that stupid seal.

JayC
 
   / 4x4 Kubota front axle/hub design - poor? #34  
The thousand is plural. Many, many, many times plural. Unfortunately I know they are only worth a fraction of what I paid if I needed to unload them in a hurry!

That's just my point. :thumbsup: Why pay a mechanic for a job that you can do yourself with a small investment of your time and perhaps a tool or two? Besides, a job well done will give you a huge level of personal satisfaction. :cool:

Yes, some tools you buy you won't use very often but usually those are the tools that when needed, nothing will work as a substitute. Only $1000? You can't buy much of a mechanic's time for $1000. You're just not trying! ;)
 
   / 4x4 Kubota front axle/hub design - poor? #35  
I do all my own work too, but my list has grown to hundreds of items long.
 
   / 4x4 Kubota front axle/hub design - poor? #36  
The thousand is plural. Many, many, many times plural. Unfortunately I know they are only worth a fraction of what I paid if I needed to unload them in a hurry!

Ah. My mistake. I don't think I've ever regretted buying a tool, maybe only that I wish I'd bought a better quality tool but never the buying of the tool itself. If things go poorly for me financially, I can use my tools to pay the bills so I can't see ever having to unload them in a hurry. YMMV.
 
   / 4x4 Kubota front axle/hub design - poor? #37  
I do all my own work too, but my list has grown to hundreds of items long.

That's the pitfall that gets me all too often. Knowing when to call on someone else to do the work. I'm getting better at it...baby steps.
 

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