Funny talk w the wife

Hey Geof,

Thats great way to get em involved. Your offering for them to help. It would have been cool if your wife could have helped assemble the engine with you. It might have been a thrill for her to fire it up the first time after having a hand in its rebuild.

As an instructor which is one of my many work hats i get into the detail of things with trainees and just not the off the top reasons or instructions on how to do something, but the why you do something. Sometimes on a level or a way they can relate to.

Start with small projects. Dissassembling and rebuilding seat tracks. Once done, repainted, and greased its ready for installation. As restored, painted and done part. An accomplishment. Dissassembling ckeaning and rebuilding a headlight switch, then checking it with an ohm meter. Maybe rebuilding the UCAs and LCAs. Always take before and after pix. Its always good to see start and end.

With most folks dissassembling and restoring a whole car can be very intimidating. You teach pieces of it, this way eventually you fill in the dots to show the whole picture.

For some its hard because all the scraping, blasting, painting seems to take forever. A lot of times people want to see the fruits of their labor, and something this large sometimes its hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel. I have done enough of em that even though my project is stalled a bit for the moment, i can envision the end result.

If all else fails start making an itemized list with corresponding numbered boxes of all your stuff with a value on all of it. Keep the list in a safe deposit box, gun safe etc. This way at least she dont get taken advantage of when you pass on. naybe your son will want to pick up the torch and inherit your tools cars parts etc.