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DanWi 
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 Topic: YouTube doesn't tell you
Posted: 14 Oct 2022 at 12:47pm |
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Watched a YouTube video on how to remove a headlight housing on a 2003 Buick I picked up for a farm beater. Video shows you remove 2 bolts and pull the housing out and disconnect the wiring harness. But if the car spent it lifetime in the upper Midwest you don't just pull the housing out. There is a metal peg that goes into a plastic grommet that holds the housing in the fender, the metal peg rusts and swells and is no longer able to be removed by an average person. It would require a body builder, after some prying and getting some adrenaline flowing I finally got the housing out.
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DiyDave
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Posted: 14 Oct 2022 at 5:20pm |
Using an extenxive salty vocabulary works pretty good for me... 
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fixer1958
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Posted: 14 Oct 2022 at 5:57pm |
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Correct word combination is very helpful also.
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DougG
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Posted: 14 Oct 2022 at 6:42pm |
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Yup , theres always a way !
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DiyDave
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Posted: 14 Oct 2022 at 8:37pm |
 fixer1958 wrote:
Correct word combination is very helpful also.
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The combination and intensity changes, if you have a body part pinched...
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desertjoe
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Posted: 15 Oct 2022 at 9:48am |
Well, Gents,,,ALLL great ideas on how to address and dis"cuss" some of those youtube videos,,,!! You DO have to have some prior knowledge of how to do some of those jobs, tho as some of those YayHoos have no more idea than you do on proper way to do thay stuff,,,,, 
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DanWi
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Posted: 15 Oct 2022 at 10:56am |
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Even when a guy has good mechanical skills changing something like this headlight you think you got the 2 bolts out and it is loose. Is there a bolt you missed can't find anything,make sense that the back just goes into a hole or slot but making sense doesn't mean everything. Even if you had a manual it wouldn't tell you it could be rusted in there like it was spot welded.
Edited by DanWi - 15 Oct 2022 at 10:58am
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steve(ill)
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Posted: 15 Oct 2022 at 12:59pm |
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your right Joe... a lot of the You Tube videos are great , or at least guide you in the right direction to do a job..... and like you said , some of them you watch, then say WTF !! "This guy has no business telling other people how to work on equip "!!
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Like them all, but love the "B"s.
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Posted: 18 Oct 2022 at 11:08am |
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Ya gotta just dig thru the garbage on there til you find something useful. MOST of it on there is a waste of internet space and could get people hurt/killed IF they actually tried it.
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http://machinebuildersnetwork.com/
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Dakota Dave
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Posted: 18 Oct 2022 at 11:30am |
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A1 auto parts makes very good videos they also sell new parts. They dont show getting a rusty part loose but at least you can see who it supposed to go and what the removed part looks like.
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