Auto Repair This is a story about how I got into working on cars, but first I'm going to have to tell you about how my dad got into it. Then I will explain how I got into turning wrenches and I'm going to tell you about the first thing i've ever done to a car by myself. My dad started working on cars with my grandpa when he got his first car in high school. He learned allot through just looking at things and understanding how they work and a little bit of trial and error. He tells me stories about how he used to fix his car, mom and dad's cars, and also my aunt's cars. Then he started working on his friend’s stuff and he did most of the work in his parent's garage and he ended up making a pretty good name for himself that way. He built …show more content…
We had a blast riding for hours. At the end of that day, things went south. Suddenly, I got the name Crash. I am going to explain how. It was a Saturday afternoon in the late spring, it was probably about 85 degrees outside. Me and my friend, R.J. decided to go riding 4-wheelers. I took his Suzuki 450 for a spin. We were riding next to a road, when I noticed this guy in his tan convertible foxbody Mustang. He started racing his engine and we both took off, I was in front of him and I had already burned through all 5 gears and I realized I had to turn. I let off the gas and downshifted to 4th gear and hit the brakes to turn. I was going too fast for the turn so I had to go a little bit wider through the turn and I made it a quarter of the way through the turn . That is when it went bad, the right front tire fell into a groundhog hole. This hole stopped the 4-wheeler dead in its tracks and threw me over the handlebars. I landed on my head and got ran over by the quad. I remember seeing nothing but black and when I stood up and looked around I saw the quad about 300 feet away in the ditch. I walked up to it, got on it, and started it when I realized the front brake lever was gone so I had to buy my friend a new brake …show more content…
I love it so much because of the sense of accomplishment that you get from building something. You stand back and admire your finished product. It is a proud moment to know you did this and it worked. Ever since I was little I would go to the garage where Dad would be working on things. I had my own spot with hammers, nails, and scrap wood. I also enjoyed building things out of Lego’s. When I was in fifth grade I saw my Dad welding so I ask him to show me and he said, “I will but not on this because I had rather you start on something not so important.” I agreed so later on that week he taught me how to weld. I did many odd jobs around the shop welding on things. Then in seventh grade over winter break, I built this sled. It almost looks like a dogsled that they use in the dogsled races. I made it so it was big enough to ride with 1 person standing on the back and 2 people sitting on the front. It took me 2 whole days to build it. That thing was so fast and fun but it was really hard to get back up the hill after you slide down. I modified it by tying on a piece of rope so I could pull it up by the rope. Later on this winter, I had plans to build a 2-man sled using a car hood and building a roll-cage with 2 kirkey aluminum racing seats with an oh-shit bar all the way across so you can hang on extra
I was sitting in a basement that smelled bad and was stuffy, I needed to get out of there. I was with my friend who liked to ride bikes. So, we decided to ride bikes. Outside we only had 1 normal bike, the other was an old bike with a banana seat on it. I lost a coin toss so I had to ride the trashy bike that had trouble even going straight. There was a trail down at the park where we would ride the bikes. We thought we would go there first and then go climb on playground after. At the very beginning of the trail there’s this difficult hill that goes pretty fast and shoots you right at a left turn. If you didn’t slow down and turn fast enough you would crash.
Machines running, hammers dropping, and drills drilling are the sounds of Henry Ford’s revolutionary assembly line. Henry Ford grew up in the late eighteenth century during the industrial revolution. There were no electric lights, only gas lamps and candles. Horses and trains were the only cost effective way of transportation for the public. When Henry Ford was a child, he saw a steam driven car on the road and was mesmerized. At this point, he knew he longed to become a mechanic that works on cars. At the age of sixteen, Henry Ford got a job as an apprentice machinist in Detroit at the Detroit Dry Dock Company. Three years later he returned to work on the family farm, and became adept at operating the Westinghouse portable steam engine. Soon after, he was hired by Westinghouse to service their steam engines, while he was attending college in Detroit. As a concluding point, “Henry liked his work so much that it did not seem like work to him,” work seemed like free time that was never ending (Jonatha 11). Henry Ford had an imagination for machinery and ...
Famous for being one of the few people to greatly influence the twentieth century, Henry Ford was an innovator with a vision for the future. With his astounding work on transforming the automobile from just a simple invention into a great innovation that people to this day still buy and use, he shaped the twentieth century to a great extent. He was an American industrialist who founded the Ford Motor Company in the early nineteen hundreds. Ever since Ford was a young boy he has always seemed to have an interest in machines. He loved to tamper with machinery and other simple mechanisms. His first job was in a machine shop in Detroit which inspired him to experiment with machines and learn how they work. He learned to fix things like watches by trial-and-error and no matter what he did not give up when trying to learn how to fix things. He was one determined young man who worked hard and turned out to be a great leader with a very creative and imaginative mind. By teaching himself how to put a simple wrist watch together, he was able to use his newly found knowledge to move on to designing machines such as full sized steam engines. A few men who ran the steam engines helped to expand Ford’s knowledge of the engines by teaching him how they operated.
Henry Ford was born in Michigan and was the first of William and Mary Ford's six children. With his great imagination, he was fascinated by technology and spent lots of time inspecting watches and trinkets to see how things worked. (Auto 2). Henry began constructing things at a very young age since he did not have much interest in school. Ford learned at a young age the importance of money but since he was so young he failed to understand that staying in school and getting a degree would get you a good job and in turn get you money. Ford thought that if he did not attend school during the day he could work and make more money. Although this is different from what many people think when they hear one of the biggest and most largely known entrepreneurs but it is true. Ford dropped out of the school at the age of fifteen and began working at a relative’s farm. In 1879, sixteen-year-old Ford left home for the nearby city of Detroit to work as an apprentice machinist, although he did occasionally return to help on the farm. He remained an apprentice for three years and then returned to Dearborn. During the next few years, Henry divided his time between operating and repairing steam engines, finding occasional work in a Detroit factory, and over-hauling his father's farm implements, as well as lending a reluctant hand with other farm work. Upon his marriage to Clara Bry...
I start to pull up some wheelies and i was doing good. I could ride one for probably a quarter mile. He passes me and i stay behind and i put my left knee on the seat and stand the bike up into a wheelie. Im in the wheelie and i'm going really good and all asuden i lose balance and my hands come off the handle bars and go to grab for them and i grab the front brake and when the bike lands the front wheel can't move so everything goes down. I was going about 50 mph. I hit the ground and start tumbling. I'm trying to get a grip on where i am and what's going on. When i stop i get up and kyler turns around and comes back to me. I try to get back on my bike but he says no. i look at myself and i'm all scratched up and there is a gash in my elbow down to the bone and my clothes are all tore up. Im standing there with blood running everywhere and he tells me to just leave the bike on the side of the rode and get it ces.
Dad said that I could have the car if I paid for, and did all of the work on it. The first thing I had to do was get a job. I lucked into a job at a local grocery store, no easy feat in a rough economy for a fifteen-year-old kid. Although my father has several power tools, they were off limits. All he let me use were a few hand tools.
Then the accident happened and my perspective changed. I heard a scream. My sister yelled “HELP!!” I watched as what was happening was moving by me speedily, not waiting for me to catch up. It all happened in a blur as I ran out to see what happened. My brother had jumped out in front of the skid steer while it was rolling down the hill. His leg had become wedged between the van at the bottom of the hill and the skid steer fork. There was blood everywhere. My dad was not home. He was at work so he could not come right away. My mom had to move the big van
Well, we took off and left a cloud of dirt in our rear. I could taste the dirt as people in front of me took off. It made my cotton mouth even worse. It was my turn and I hit the gas and took off. I was trying to stay calm but my nerves we...
My parents still tell me stories when my brother and I would fall asleep riding with them. When I was five I got a Mini Z 120 that was the best thing a five-year-old could get and let me tell you I rode the daylights out of that. I only hit two trees and one pickup and the house two times, dad was never happy about that, but then again I was only five. Then when I got older I would ride with my dad on the back and tucker would ride his own and then now and then I would drive with my dad with me. Then one day I was riding on my own. I was 13 and we got to Ventura and we had to get gas so we pull into the gas station there was a DNR sitting there. I didn’t have my
When Henry Ford was born on June 30th, 1863, neither him nor anyone for that matter, knew what an important role he would take in the future of mankind. Ford saw his first car when he was 12. He and his father where riding into Detroit at the time. At that moment, he knew what he wanted to do with his life: he wanted to make a difference in the automobile industry. Through out his life, he achieved this in an extraordinary way. That is why he will always be remembered in everyone’s heart. Whenever you drive down the road in your car, you can thank all of it to Henry Ford. Through his life he accomplished extraordinary achievements such as going from a poor farm boy to a wealthy inventor who helped Thomas Edison. When he was a young man, he figured out how to use simple inventions, such as the light bulb. He then taught himself the design of a steamboat engine. His goal was to build a horse-less carriage. He had come up with several designs and in 1896, he produced his first car, the Model A. When Ford’s first car came out, he had been interviewed by a reporter and when asked about the history of the car, he had said “History is more or less bunk.” Ford worked in Thomas Edison’s factory for years and the left to become an apprentice for a car-producer in Detroit. While working there, he established how he was going to make the car.
My mentor name was David Joe Ursy. He works for Joe McGee Construction. He works for Joe McGee on the farm portion of his business. He works on tractors, combines, welding, and farming crops. He has been working for Joe McGee for 20-30 years. To me it's fun and interesting. I like to do it some people don’t like it. When we started working on my project, I cleaned all the metal with a wire brush. Once I got it all the metal cleaned of rust, I started making the top after I got the top like I wanted it, I welded it and put all the nuts and bolts inside the table. I checked to see how it looked and took them out. I cleaned the camshaft and welded it to the flexplate.
With music blasting, voices singing and talking, it was another typical ride to school with my sister. Because of our belated departure, I went fast, too fast. We started down the first road to our destination. This road is about three miles long and filled with little hills. As we broke the top of one of the small, blind hills in the middle of the right lane was a dead deer. Without any thought, purely by instinct I pulled the wheel of the car to the left and back over to the right. No big deal but I was going fast. The car swerved back to the left, to the right, to the left. Each time I could feel the car scratching the earth with its side. My body jolted with the sporadic movements of the car. The car swerved to the right for the last time. With my eyes sealed tight, I could feel my body float off the seat of the car.
It all started the day that I learned to crochet. One day we had a day off of school while I was living in the group home, and one of the older girls was sitting by herself crocheting a beanie. It was the
He chose his occupation because his father has owned a shop since he was born and grew up with and he fell in love with it. He says he likes his job, but sometimes he wishes he could make money easier, he recommends it to anyone who likes getting their hands dirty and loves cars, such as myself. A description of his job is that he services and repairs cars, performing a diagnosis on a car, doing test drives, completing repair orders, and talking to customers. The field has changed a little, such as, more electronic parts on cars and different places of parts. Something I wish someone told me before I started this career is that tools cost so much money and my body would hurt a decent amount. Chance for advancement in this field is all based on if you have your ASE certifications and how good you are at doing a diagnosis and repairing cars quickly and with perfect
Cars are the ultimate symbol of independence and individualism. They offer more than freedom. No other man made creation but car fulfills a man’s ego. Technology has been the evidence of how cars have evolved for about more than a century now. From a first car packing a single cylinder 958cc, 0.75hp engine to today’s most powerful 8000cc W16, 1300bhp Veyron. We live in such an engineering savvy era where even an increase of few grams in a vehicle’s weight means going back to the drawing board to get unerring dynamic performance. And for these exuberant reasons, mechanical engineering was a mere choice rather than a chance for me.