Worse than the OverRepair Compulsion is the Compulsion to not STOP a repair process when you are beaten!
Today I spent 9 hours in my garage trying to replace the CV boots on my 85 300D axles with this Goofy mad scientist Funnel tool that's supposed to use a metal hoop mounted on a pair of metal chopsticks to enlarge and invert the new CV boots over the CV Joint cans. The trouble is I ripped four boots with the tool. That was 10 AM. I should have called it QUITS!!
I know this tool doesnt sound dangerous, but IT IS. Basically you set the Funnel on the Floor and insert the Metal hoop which is mounted on two chop stick like prongs into the new CV boot and push down on the funnel with the boot to enlarge it and make it the small hole big enough to slip over the CV joint can.
But you can exert enormous force on it by pushing down on it!
After ripping the four boots I should have stopped and gone into work! But instead I went to Autozone and bought Four Thicker boots and tried to slip them over the funnel. I mean it, I spent the afternoon slipping and sliding over the garage floor wrestling with the tool. Right now my hands hurt and I pulled a back muscle and can barely walk!
What a stupid idea. At 10 AM is should have called it quits but I kept on going for five more hours, getting angrier and more insane and trying harder and harder in frenzied exhaustion. I didnt stop until 6 PM. That was a full TEN HOURS spent slipping and sliding like one of the 3 Stooges and wrestling with this ridiculous tool idea.
Now iys 10 PM and I finally realize this tool is about as practical as aTime Machine or a Beanie hat with a propeller for commuting to work. Its an idiot's invention, and yes i was fooled by it. The only way to rebuild these CV joints is to cut open the cans like the shop manual says and inspect and measure thoroughly.
Thats the horror of it though. When some of us get tired and angry and frustrated, some of us try harder and harder in direct proportion to our fatigue and we end up wasting valuable money, time and parts , not to mention body parts and limbs.
THERE is a time to stop and walk away. When you are trying to hard, you are bound to fail!!!