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click and clack the Tappert brothers and we're broadcasting this week from

the Do It to Yourself division here at Car Talk Plaza. Well, you know, summer has finally arrived.

Spring never really showed up here in New England did it. I mean, you don't ever get spring.

Boom, just all of a sudden it's summer. But anyway, that means that many of you will be taking your annual stab at doing it yourself.

That is repairing something on your car.

Now, maybe you need to change the plugs or replace a belt or if you drive a real beast like my brother, you'll be taking a hammer and chiseled

with that pile of crud that's built up on the floor of your trunk.

The floor, it's on the front seat.

In any case, those are all, you know, pretty minor repairs, but why not challenge yourself

this year by attempting something more ambitious and really doing it to yourself?

How about attempting like a clutch replacement? I can tell you from personal experience

that there's nothing quite like that moment when you realize that a 200 pound hunk of steel is slipping through your fingers and heading

right for your noggin and you're lying on that creeper now that's doing it to yourself.

It really is. I can remember the very time that it happened to me and that was the beginning of the end.

It was. Yeah. It was indeed the beginning of the... By the way I should mention the reason...

Does it say Fomoko on my head?

I think so.

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