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Motorhead350
06-24-2013, 08:52 AM
Yes just as it says.

A few weeks back I broke the idler pulley, spacers and belt. Well, I got so livid I decided to leave the car alone for a week and a half. I started working on it again and accidentally stabbed myself and could not finish the car because my cut kept opening back up. The stabbing was in no relation to working on the car.

So I sat with the Marauder in pieces and being angry that I could not finish the work due to my injury... plus Becky didn't want me messing up my hands.

While at work yesterday, she texts me asking where the car keys are and to my shock she started fixing the car. Not shocked that she had the ability, but shocked that she even bothered to do it because of all of the "maintenance" that has been popping up lately.

Zack and I kept getting picture texts asking

"Does this line up properly?"

"Is it safe to bolt the tensioner on now?"

WOW! :eek:

Here is what she had to say on her facebook...

"And just as the thunderstorm was rolling in, I finished fixing my husband's car. I replaced his battery and my battery. I then replaced his idler pulley, bolted his supercharger back onto the engine block, bolted the tensioner pulley onto the engine block, replaced his serpentine belt, connected the pipe to the supercharger that connects to the air filter and then connected the air filter. Most women don't like to do car stuff, but it really is fun. Especially when your husband is at work and people are looking at you like you have an arm growing out of your head. Thanks to Zack and Dominick Dolio for approving my pics! — feeling accomplished"

So I come home from work at 1am to find my car back together and ready to take on the world.

I married a keeper.

You might say "You owe her big time now and you need to do something special... wink wink."

The truth is I don't. We already do stuff like this for each other, usually randomly and for no reason. We don't wait for someone to be upset and try to cheer them up, or one of us does something the other disapproves of and now we have to do something nice... nope. This is just how our relationship is.

License2Bill
06-24-2013, 08:58 AM
That's awesome!

IwantmyMMnow!
06-24-2013, 09:03 AM
Does she have any single friends or sisters? :D

She's an awesome gal, for sure. :rock:

Curless
06-24-2013, 09:04 AM
AWESOME! That is great Dom, what an awesome story to have for both of you! :beer:

SC Cheesehead
06-24-2013, 09:06 AM
Does she have any single friends or sisters? :D

She's an awesome gal, for sure. :rock:

That she is!

Good stuff, Dom & Becky! :up:

RacerX
06-24-2013, 09:06 AM
Dom, she's a keeper and I bet she'll never put diesel in the MM either. :D

SC Cheesehead
06-24-2013, 09:07 AM
Dom, she's a keeper and I bet she'll never put diesel in the MM either. :D


:rofl: JOCULARITY! :rofl:

1503Marauder
06-24-2013, 09:08 AM
Thats Awesome!!:)

tbone
06-24-2013, 09:31 AM
My wife can hardly turn a screwdriver.

feudingscooter
06-24-2013, 09:36 AM
Rock on! You've got a keeper!

lji372
06-24-2013, 09:50 AM
My wife can hardly turn a screwdriver.


As long as she can make a one :)

That's awesome dom!!

Curless has a cool wife as well. He gets his widened wheels on, we pull up to his house his wife without saying a word walks 20 feet behind it kneels down and says are those as wide as the vette's? Awesome!

VMARAUDER
06-24-2013, 10:27 AM
Great for you
I had to hide all my tools especially the crowbars and hammers

L.Mark
06-24-2013, 12:54 PM
Very nice!!! Eventhough TJ just changed the oil in her car this weekend, I think I'll send her to you for lessons on the Marauder so I can just sit back sip some X-mas in a cup and hand her the tools...:banana:

lji372
06-24-2013, 02:37 PM
Very nice!!! Eventhough TJ just changed the oil in her car this weekend, I think I'll send her to you for lessons on the Marauder so I can just sit back sip some X-mas in a cup and hand her the tools...:banana:

That ^^^^^^right there:D

Vortech347
06-24-2013, 02:47 PM
Nice! When mine helped me do a T5 transmission and rear end gear swap in my Fox early on in our relationship I knew she we as a keeper.

Motorhead350
06-24-2013, 03:27 PM
The car started on the first try. I checked over the belt first, but it's good to go!

Chayton
06-24-2013, 04:00 PM
You are a lucky dude

Mebot
06-24-2013, 04:22 PM
The car started on the first try. I checked over the belt first, but it's good to go!

Very cool Dom! :thumbup: you're a lucky guy

sent from a Samsung Galaxy far far away...

wannabemarauder
06-24-2013, 04:50 PM
Awesome! What a perfect wife for a car enthusiast to be married to, Congrats!!

slickster
06-24-2013, 06:48 PM
What a cool gal

guspech750
06-24-2013, 08:16 PM
That's *****g awesome Dom!!


Sent from The White House on taxpayers dimes.

DTR + 4.10's + Eaton swap = Wreeeeeeeeeeeeeeedom

Jeronimojc
06-24-2013, 08:24 PM
Great post! I am going to have to show it to my wife so she can see what.... On second thought, I may mention that... never mind.

Yes, the first thought is you are such a lucky guy. Though, I am sure it isn't just that you are lucky, but that you have both worked hard to build an awesome relationship. Tell her we all admire her. From my point of view, she gets wife of the year award from the MM community!

MyBlackBeasts
06-24-2013, 08:50 PM
Yes just as it says.

A few weeks back I broke the idler pulley, spacers and belt. Well, I got so livid I decided to leave the car alone for a week and a half. I started working on it again and accidentally stabbed myself and could not finish the car because my cut kept opening back up. The stabbing was in no relation to working on the car.

So I sat with the Marauder in pieces and being angry that I could not finish the work due to my injury... plus Becky didn't want me messing up my hands.

While at work yesterday, she texts me asking where the car keys are and to my shock she started fixing the car. Not shocked that she had the ability, but shocked that she even bothered to do it because of all of the "maintenance" that has been popping up lately.

Zack and I kept getting picture texts asking

"Does this line up properly?"

"Is it safe to bolt the tensioner on now?"

WOW! :eek:

Here is what she had to say on her facebook...

"And just as the thunderstorm was rolling in, I finished fixing my husband's car. I replaced his battery and my battery. I then replaced his idler pulley, bolted his supercharger back onto the engine block, bolted the tensioner pulley onto the engine block, replaced his serpentine belt, connected the pipe to the supercharger that connects to the air filter and then connected the air filter. Most women don't like to do car stuff, but it really is fun. Especially when your husband is at work and people are looking at you like you have an arm growing out of your head. Thanks to Zack and Dominick Dolio for approving my pics! — feeling accomplished"

So I come home from work at 1am to find my car back together and ready to take on the world.

I married a keeper.

You might say "You owe her big time now and you need to do something special... wink wink."

The truth is I don't. We already do stuff like this for each other, usually randomly and for no reason. We don't wait for someone to be upset and try to cheer them up, or one of us does something the other disapproves of and now we have to do something nice... nope. This is just how our relationship is.

You owe her big time now and you need to do something special... wink wink! :D

Awesome!