What Was Your Greatest Wrenching Success?

Wrenching on a car can be an absolute blast. You get some friends together, throw on some good tunes, and get to work fixing or modifying a motor vehicle. But at the end of your day spent in the Fast and Furious world, it’s nice when a project is actually done — when you have a working, driving car to show off alongside the empty Corona bottles.

Today, we’re talking about those wrenching success stories. From a simple tire change to a drawn-out battle with rusted, stuck-on bolts, the difficulty of the project doesn’t matter. What we want to know is how you pulled it off.

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My favorite wrenching project was likely my first motorcycle — despite it being a far more in-depth project than I’d planned. The bike was a 1978 Honda CB400, one that had been modified to within an inch of its life by prior owners. It was covered in painted-on rust (alongside some actual, real patina), and the handlebars were uncomfortably low, but it ran great — until I stuffed it into a UHaul van and took it home.