But I'm thinking more what kind of games and activities you would do with him to teach him to think like a mechanic the way law school teaches you to "think like a lawyer"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5530770&forum_id=2#47677954)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5530770&forum_id=2#47677983)

Now working on a to-scale V8 engine

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5530770&forum_id=2#47677988)

Take agricultural equipment. Do you know how mechanically sophisticated a tractors drive system is? I took a course on it and literally could not grasp it fully. And I may be retarded (I am) but I did score flying colors on Komatsu Forklift training program for engines, hydraulics, transmissions and electronics.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5530770&forum_id=2#47678545)

No more unit injectors actuated by oil pressure, no more rotary pumps or inline pumps with 500 parts. Just two plungers inside their cylinders. Common rail injection. Can be rebuilt by a regular dealership tech without sending off to an injection shop. All that happens when they break is the plunger cracks in half. You pull the head off and remove the plunger to find it is separated into an upper half and a lower half. If it hasn't splintered up then you replace the plungers and done

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5530770&forum_id=2#47678581)

Also wouldn't they be just like hospitalist doctors at that point? Work for a company but still highly compensated.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5530770&forum_id=2#47678666)

Lol looks like I was on to something

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5530770&forum_id=2#47678675)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5530770&forum_id=2#47678571)

I’m really good at this sort of thing. My kid is top 1 percent iq. You think that just happens. Esp when adopted.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5530770&forum_id=2#47681007)

We have already disassembled (but not reassembled) a 7hp Kohler engine.

Currently we are working on a to-scale V8 engine (about 8"x5"x5").

I did recently but a military surplus 2-cylinder air cooled diesel engine for us to tear down and rebuild, but I have nowhere to do it with him.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5530770&forum_id=2#47681009)

Don't you have a yard you could haul it out into if your garage isn't big enough?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5530770&forum_id=2#47681074)

We did the Kohler in a coffee shop. (I was able to get away with that since it had never been run so was whistle clean. It was previously used in a high school shop class to teach engine assembly only)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5530770&forum_id=2#47681076)

Instead of worrying about mechanic exercises for a kid why don’t you worry about him not being ashamed of you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5530770&forum_id=2#47681433)

(by the way I wonder how many people saw what you posted here before you edited)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5530770&forum_id=2#47681068)

Obv this model V8 has some excessive tolerances.

So I'm pulling the crankshaft back and forth to show him what end-play is.

Then went up to the heads and did the same with a camshaft. I ask, "what's that called?" He goes: "Camshaft end-play!"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5530770&forum_id=2#47681539)