Haynes Manual - THE TRUCTH
Haynes Manual - THE TRUCTH
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fish

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4,063 posts

310 months

Wednesday 29th January 2003
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Had to Share this :

The truth revealed.......

Haynes: Rotate anticlockwise.
Translation: Clamp with molegrips then beat repeatedly with hammer anticlockwise.

Haynes: This is a snug fit.
Translation: You will skin your knuckles!

Haynes: This is a tight fit.
Translation: Not a hope in hell matey!

Haynes: As described in Chapter 7...
Translation: That'll teach you not to read through before you start, now you are looking at scarey photos of the inside of a gearbox.

Haynes: Pry...
Translation: Hammer a screwdriver into...

Haynes: Undo...
Translation: Go buy a tin of WD40 (catering size).

Haynes: Retain tiny spring...
Translation: "Jeez what was that, it nearly had my eye out"!

Haynes: Press and rotate to remove bulb...
Translation: OK - thats the glass bit off, now fetch some good pliers to dig out the bayonet part.

Haynes: Lightly...
Translation: Start off lightly and build up till the veins on your forehead are throbbing them re-check the manual because this can not be 'lightly' what you are doing now.

Haynes: Weekly checks...
Translation: If it isn't broken don't fix it!

Haynes: Routine maintenance...
Translation: If it isn't broken... it's about to be!

Haynes: One spanner rating.
Translation: Your Mum could do this... so how did you manage to botch it up?

Haynes: Two spanner rating.
Translation: Now you may think that you can do this because two is a low, tiny, 'ikkle number... but you also thought the wiring diagram was a map of the Tokyo underground (in fact that would have been more use to
you).

Haynes: Three spanner rating.
Translation: But Nova's are easy to maintain right... right? So you think three Nova spanners has got to be like a 'regular car' two spanner job.

Haynes: Four spanner rating.
Translation: You are seriously considering this aren't you, you pleb!

Haynes: Five spanner rating.
Translation: OK - but don't expect us to ride in it
afterwards!!!

Haynes: If not, you can fabricate your own special tool like this...
Translation: hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!

Haynes: Compress...
Translation: Squeeze with all your might, jump up and down on, swear at, throw at the garage wall, then search in the dark corner of the garage for whilst muttering "bug ger" repeatedly under your breath.

Haynes: Inspect...
Translation: Squint at really hard and pretend you know what you are looking at, then declare in a loud knowing voice to your wife "Yep, as I thought, it's going to need a new one"!

Haynes: Carefully...
Translation: You are about to cut yourself!

Haynes: Retaining nut...
Translation: Yes, that's it, that big spherical blob of rust.

Haynes: Get an assistant...
Translation: Prepare to humiliate yourself in front of someone you know.

Haynes: Turning the engine will be easier with the spark pugs removed.
Translation: However, starting the engine afterwards will be much harder. Once that sinking pit of your stomach feeling has subsided, you can start to feel deeply ashamed as you gingerly refit the spark plugs.

Haynes: Refitting is the reverse sequence to removal.
Translation: But you swear in different places.

Haynes: Prise away plastic locating pegs...
Translation: Snap off...

Haynes: Using a suitable drift...
Translation: The biggest nail in your tool box isn't a suitable drift!

Haynes: Everyday toolkit
Translation: Ensure you have an RAC Card & Mobile Phone

Haynes: Apply moderate heat...
Translation: Placing your mouth near it and huffing isn't moderate heat.

Haynes: Index
Translation: List of all the things in the book bar the thing you want to do!

TheLemming

4,319 posts

293 months

Wednesday 29th January 2003
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Most excellent

There are a couple of similar ones in the "Joke" thread, but these always make me laugh.

danhay

7,549 posts

284 months

Wednesday 29th January 2003
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How's about

Haynes: Reverse Threaded
Translation: That nut you just stripped?... you should have turned it the other way.

>> Edited by danhay on Wednesday 29th January 11:56

Mrs Fish

30,018 posts

286 months

Wednesday 29th January 2003
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I wish you'd double check your spelling before posting

danhay

7,549 posts

284 months

Wednesday 29th January 2003
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Mrs Fish said: I wish you'd double check your spelling before posting


At least I don't double post!

Mrs Fish

30,018 posts

286 months

Wednesday 29th January 2003
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danhay said:

Mrs Fish said: I wish you'd double check your spelling before posting


At least I don't double post!


Hey, I wasn't talking to you

I don't knowingly double post, it was the aliens

danhay

7,549 posts

284 months

Wednesday 29th January 2003
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Hey, I wasn't talking to you

I don't knowingly double post, it was the aliens

Oops, I thought it was because I'd had to edit my post!

Those pesky aliens...

Mrs Fish

30,018 posts

286 months

Wednesday 29th January 2003
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danhay said:


Hey, I wasn't talking to you

I don't knowingly double post, it was the aliens

Oops, I thought it was because I'd had to edit my post!

Those pesky aliens...



No, I'm sorry, I should have made myself clearer, I was taking a pop at my other half, as he spelt the title of the thread wrong.

chris.mapey

4,778 posts

295 months

Wednesday 29th January 2003
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Love it!!

Finally the truth...

Haynes manual for my Mini will never be the same again!

wedg1e

27,031 posts

293 months

Wednesday 29th January 2003
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My dada swears that there was a paragraph in a Hynes manual once that read:

"Undo and remove the four bolts securing the assembly. Note that three of the bolts are inaccessible..."



Ian

agent006

12,058 posts

292 months

Wednesday 29th January 2003
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In the chapter of the Laguna haynes about adjusting the clutch cable:

"When the adjuster is in this position, the cable should move freely..."

then in the next paragraph:
"Under no circumstances should the cable be moved, as this will break the adjuster mechanism"

reardrive

2,218 posts

296 months

Wednesday 29th January 2003
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In a motoring bookshop nr Leicester Sq I heard someone enquire about Haynes manuals.
The proprieter opined that "There's only one good thing about Haynes manuals - they burn well".

>> Edited by reardrive on Wednesday 29th January 23:50