Drinking and working
 

How does your drinking and working (on your car) ritual go?

I drink when done working on the car. I'm already stupid enough when sober..:)

Depends. An oil change can be done during/after a few, anything more complex and I wait.

Chris

I went over to my boss' house to install my new suspension a year or so ago. Him and my friend had a bunch of beers, I only had one. By the end he was laying under my car (no where near the suspension) laughing cause he couldn't get out cause his beer belly was wedged under the door frame.

I drink while working on my car...you have to. Wtf are you working on your car for if not an excuse to drink?

I do stop working at some point though. There is definitely a point of no return with the drinking/working on the car.

+1

Perfect excuse to hang out in the shop. Not that I need an excuse, and now that I have an air card for the tuning laptop, there's no reason to come inside.

none of those poll options say "a beer" which is about what i get half way through while working on my car.

I usually smoke a cigar.

I tend to consume beer at a fairly linear rate while I'm working on the car. And yes, I've noted that an inverse relationship between the number of beers consumed over the preceding two hours and my productivity. (Fortunately, no serious injuries have occurred, though there have been some shitty looking welds.)

I use beer to self-medicate busted knuckle soreness.

Unless it's going really good or really bad, I try to wait til after I'm finished.

A wise man once said, "Put some alcohol on it!" :cool:

If I'll be doing menial or tedious stuff I'll crack open a beer or two, but if any brain power is required I'll hold off until the work is done.

The title of the thread mentions nothing about cars, so I was expecting a bunch of replies from people who drink during their day jobs, like carpenters and painters. :D In grad school I used to drink then work (Friday afternoon beer hour) but my current employer frowns upon that type of thing.

I usually pick up an eight ball and start hitting it n wrenchin'. When it's time for the shakedown run nothing's better than boost and a big bowl of salvia. :)

A beer and a dip. Works everytime.

While changing the fuel pump and injectors. ;)

If it's standard shit, like oil changes, suspension, etc. I'll have a few. If it's new to me, like learning to weld while fabbing up my exhaust, I don't need a buzz.

Frank

Get the car up and secure on stands, then crack one open. The rate of consumption changes dependent on complexity of the project, or the chances of it being done that day. If there is a chance the car will be drivable, then no beer.

If its major surgery, I stay sober. However, little shit involves a large dose of #4 from the 512 brewery. Actually, over the last few weeks pretty much anything I've done involves a large dosage of beer. It also helps that the brewery is roughly 1500' from my local eddy control dyno of choice. Large amounts of brew are consumed after dyno play-time.

I measure any job by how many beers it's going to take to do it.

Ex:

Oil Change - 2 beer job (second after done just to hang out in the garage some more)

Brake Pads - 3-4 beer job, usually split a sixer with a friend

Shocks - 6 pack job with hydraulic spring compressor, 0 beer job with suicide sticks

MS - Fuck me, I could have killed a 12 pack last night trying to make that shit run

I do love having a good beer break next to the car in the sanctity of my garage…

Traditionally, the beer was the reward I usually got after finishing the major part of the work, when all that was left was in level with “to put the last stuff back on and get her down from the stands”. Unfortunately, times are different now when I am grown up, settled down in my own country again and live together with the ever car loving fiancée. This means that my garage stints are mostly limited by time instead of going on for “as long as needed”. This demanded a change of system, since the amount of beer otherwise risked to be drastically reduced, due to me often needing a couple of stints to reach the earlier beer trigger state.

So the new rules is that you must, according to a system based on endless wisdom and fair judgement, have either done something worth rewarding to be allowed to crack open the beers…
- You sure put together that car swift and well, man. Have a beer!
- What a miss! That could have ended badly. Nicely held. Have a beer!
- Man you are smooth with that wrench today! Have a beer!
- That was indeed a manly fart. What a foul stench! Have a beer!

…or in some other way fulfilled a reasonable demand for a beer:
- It is 5C inside the garage; I am wearing 5 sweaters, gloves and a hat. But the beer is even colder out there in the snow… Have a beer!
- If I do not start on the beers now, I will not have time to finish them before I promised to come in again. Have a beer!
- Fucking Porsche owner twats… Where do they get all that money from? I bet the damn Nancys sell their little asses down town during the weekends. Have a beer!
- The turbo would have gone right here, if the Swedish inspection service would not have been run by a bunch of car hating Nazis… Have a beer!

I am going to have a couple of beers now…

Now that's how we roll.......

pics of swede wife?

Had to give up beer, and Bourbon isn't exactly something I would drink while doing something on the car. So I don't drink anymore when wrenching since beer is no longer an option.

But definitely a nice double of Kentucky Bourbon afterward sure tastes good.

KMag

I usually drink Wild Turkey mixed with Cherry Coke and I crush up my brother's Xanax and snort it while I work on the miata. Then the next morning when I wake up I have no idea what I even worked on. It's great for wiring shit up...I'll see the housing melted off a wire the next day and be like, "dude, what happened there?"
But seriously. I used to have Yuengling Black and Tan on tap in the fridge about 6 steps away from the car. Needless to say, I'd start to wrench, and I'd wake up under the 1950 Willys CJ laying on the creeper. This isn't good...so now I keep no more than a 6 pack in the house. I thought maybe I was being a smacked ass, but my friend told me he used to be the same way, and he went the no alcohol route. He claims Spaten Optimator was his weekness, he'd drink and not be able to stop, so he had to end it for good. Now he has a '67 Cuda with a Stroked Hemi, custom FI with EMS-PRO, and it runs in the 9's. Go figure.

a couple winters ago i think i drank an entire 24 pack throughout the course of 3 days.

my transmission blew up in my winter beater escort on a thursday afternoon. that friday, saturday, and sunday were spent replacing the motor and tranny. unfortunately that weekend we had ~10 degree weather, and my fathers garage is unheated. god that sucked.

aside from that, i'll usually have 2-3 at most. i generally want to be able to drive the car when i'm done doing whatever i'm doing haha.

Laying on your back with a pinch in is tough business.

Here you go Hustler
 

My Swedish wife...

Torkel,
You should take that picture down before you get in trouble.

Some zigenbock and a couple hits of the bong and I'm good to go....kind of makes things interesting:friday:

Yeah, you are right. Didn't think about that. Thanks for the headsup.

Humm. Beer.:bowdown:. If I know I'm not driving it, unlimited beer is the norm. If I have to drive after, I keep it to one an hour or so. Got a chick in my car club that loves to drive my car, I take her to club events. No limit on beer:eek5:.

Pics of said chick?

Perhaps you need less beer and more chick? Let us see pics and we can help to guide you.;)

Chick is a nice person. Not my type. But a free ride is a free ride(car).:gtfo: