My #1 Helper

libbybapa · Post by **libbybapa** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 10:00 pm

Couldn't resist posting. Here's my 8 year old daughter removing the little nuts from the glow plugs on an engine were disassembling together. Every evening when I get home from work, she'd excited to take a couple more things apart on it. Absolutely Priceless.

Andrew

CoolAirVw · Post by **CoolAirVw** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 10:07 pm

Whats that engine project destined to go in?

libbybapa · Post by **libbybapa** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 10:12 pm

That particular engine will be disassembled and the used for parts and sold. I have one other that will be parts and four that will be assembled for various vehicles. Two of the four will be installed into vanagons. I'm not yet sure what will happen to the other two that I (we) will build.

Andrew

surfcam · Post by **surfcam** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 10:13 pm

My two sons were that age long ago. I call it the age of wonderment. A person really can't get enough of it. Now there in there thirties and now they say I can't fix anything without a hammer. I did notice that big mother in the picture. Keep using it you won't get cabal syndrome.

Vincent Waldon · Post by **Vincent Waldon** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 10:13 pm

A keeper, Andrew.

This is also an excellent picture of the only way the glow plugs are *easy*.

My two daughters 11 and 13 have worked their way up to oil changes... perhaps this picture will inspire them the next time I've got a rebuild on the stand.

I keep telling them about the money they're gonna save over their lifetimes...

libbybapa · Post by **libbybapa** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 10:16 pm

We have a whole lot of fun together. It is particularly exciting that she's taken an interest in this very time consuming obsession of mine.

Andrew

duffer · Post by **duffer** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 8:15 am

Priceless, indeed

.

She's a lovely little girl who's, clearly, enjoying herself.
Would that be one of "Dad's" old shirts she's wearing?

The only picture I have of my two (son & daughter)
"helping Dad fix the car" (oil change) was taken when
we were in the U.K.

A Mercedes 123 series 280T station wagon (quite
common over there, but rather rare on this side of the
water) with two sets of legs protruding from under the
front end.

Enjoy it while you can...nowadays, with all my diesel
stuff, all over the place, they think I'm crazy.

libbybapa · Post by **libbybapa** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 9:01 am

Yup, that's an old shirt of mine. She got in trouble with her mother the other evening when she removed the valve cover and got some oil on a nice shirt.

Andrew

FineFrank · Post by **FineFrank** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 9:02 am

Absolutely Priceless

You must be mighty proud, and with good reason.

No kids of my own but my neices and nephews are with me constantly. My oldest great nephew helped me pull the mill out of an old Ford PU last year. He was a sight in my rolled up coveralls.

CoolAirVw · Post by **CoolAirVw** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 12:45 pm

libbybapa wrote:We have a whole lot of fun together. It is particularly exciting that she's taken an interest in this very time consuming obsession of mine.

So she sits at the computer till 3:00 am surfing the diesel forums too?

Spokerider · Post by **Spokerider** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 12:56 pm

Cute pic! Better start saving for another set of snap ons!

82vdub · Post by **82vdub** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 1:02 pm

CoolAirVw wrote:So she sits at the computer till 3:00 am surfing the diesel forums too?

Where'd you think the creative ideas come from?

libbybapa · Post by **libbybapa** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 8:21 pm

CoolAirVw wrote:
libbybapa wrote:We have a whole lot of fun together. It is particularly exciting that she's taken an interest in this very time consuming obsession of mine.
So she sits at the computer till 3:00 am surfing the diesel forums too?

Jeesh! I resemble that remark.

Andrew

Vincent Waldon · Post by **Vincent Waldon** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 12:46 am

Actually... now we know why "Andrew" sometimes whines like an 8 year old girl...

82rabbitdiesel · Post by **82rabbitdiesel** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 3:22 pm

here's a pic of my youngest 'future' helper:

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