Hey Dummy there's a reason your truck runs like ****.

[Okrazie1]

Back when I was a teenager, I was putting a new water pump on my mom's F250, and I snapped off one of the bolts which screwed into the water pump and secured one of the accessory brackets. I wasn't able to get it drilled out, so we had to get another water pump.

I knew a girl who went to fill up her brother's car and couldn't figure out why she was having so much trouble with getting the nozzle into the filler hole. Come to find out, she managed to fill the car with leaded gas. It ended up trashing the catalytic converter shortly thereafter. (For all of you too young to remember, leaded pumps had a larger diameter nozzle to prevent you from easily putting leaded gas in a car which required unleaded.)

 

[Isles4evr]

Originally posted by nweibley
power steering fluid in breaking system....

That's definitly not good... time for a complete brake re-line after that one.

Chris

 

[Nate1]

Ohh you cant imagine. Everything in the break system was replaced... it made all the rubber swell and harden, and the pads drove themselves into the rotors so hard even THEY had to get replaced.... it was so expensive... I guess that teaches him to wipe the buildup off his caps so he knows he putting the right fluid in the right area... LoL

 

[yob_yeknom]

Originally posted by jjue
I remember forgetting to plug the MAF meter back up

Reminds me of a story. My friend had a truck that he never worked on himself. He had some engine work done (new lifters) one time and it never ran right after that, always ran extremely rich. So rich that raw fuel would drip out of the exhaust and black fumes all the time. The shop never could figure out the problem. It stayed this way for over a year. My brother bought it from him and my dad gave it a tune-up in hopes of fixing it. Guess what the shop had left unplugged and plugging it back in immediately fixed the problem?

 

[Isles4evr]

Oh yes... I have had 1 or 2 cars come into the shop where someone does that and what a damn mess! Everything that is rubber NEEDS to be replaced, and while your there might as well do everything.

The first time I ever rebuilt a brake caliper, I forgot to take out the rubber o-rings for the slides. I proceded to clean the caliper in our parts washer to find out that the slides wouldn't go back in. Last time anything like that happened!

 

[DeagleDave]

i torqued down to hard and broke the screw housing for the silenoid on my 89 F150.

2 weeks or so ago i couldn't figure out why my trucked puked out 3.5 quarts of oil. i was rather scared...i came to board for help, low and behold the old filter o ring stuck to the adapter (that had never happened to me before!)

dropped a socket down the engine, couldn't find it, so i'm driving my truck bucked hard and i think it jiggled down in the way of the belt or something.

 

[Isles4evr]

Originally posted by DeagleDave
2 weeks or so ago i couldn't figure out why my trucked puked out 3.5 quarts of oil. i was rather scared...i came to board for help, low and behold the old filter o ring stuck to the adapter (that had never happened to me before!)

The old double gasket. Ha, done that before, a few times! Must say I abput crapped my pants the first time it happened.

 

[Black Magic]

This all reminds me of the time my best friends little brother took 4+ hours to put oil in his Camaro, via the dipstick tube. He used a very small funnel and got all 6 quarts in there! We laughed at him for ever! LOL

 

[Opera House]

After a few beers and....

you say, "Hey guys - Watch this." Then you need to be worried! Especially when one of them has a camcorder to send the video into "Jackass."

 

[Slick Rick]

ya gotta love the title of this post!

 

[A Quiet Boom]

Back in highschool I had a friend come to me for help because his car wouldn't run right after an oil change, I asking if he put enough oil in and he tells me "yeah I filled it up" so I ask him to start it and it barely turns. For some reason I remove the oil fill cap to find that sure enough he had "filled it up". I don't know how the car even started.

Another time I was doing a clutch job on my 911 which requires the engine and tranny assy to be dropped (actually very easy) after I "finished" I proceeded to start filling the oil tank with the required 12 quarts, after the 4th quart I looked down to see oil everywhere under the car, it turns out I had forgotten to reattach the oil return line between the tank and engine which has an ID of about 1 inch LOL I think the oil left the tank as fast as I poured it in.

 

[Excell]

LOL, That's classic. It's OK, we all make stupid little mistakes.

 

[HH1]

omg! this thread is great.
I put my thumb over a broken brake line and told the driver to pump it while my eyeball was five inches away haha!
lets just say that there is about 50k psi going through that line and my thumb fanned the fluid nicley into that eye.

 

[drmoore71]

i had a noisy lifter on the mustang one time and decided that i should try to fix it. i removed all the bolts holding the intake manifold on and pried it up, only to dump all the antifreeze into the topside of the engine. didn't even think to remove the plugs and roll it over a few times. i ended up changing the oil four times before i got all the water out of the engine. i felt really stupid after that one!!

 

[Crankcase]

Originally posted by A Quiet Boom
Back in highschool I had a friend come to me for help because his car wouldn't run right after an oil change, I asking if he put enough oil in and he tells me "yeah I filled it up" so I ask him to start it and it barely turns. For some reason I remove the oil fill cap to find that sure enough he had "filled it up". I don't know how the car even started.

ROTFLMAO!!! That has got to be the best one yet

 

[Crankcase]

Originally posted by Okrazie1
I knew a girl who went to fill up her brother's car and couldn't figure out why she was having so much trouble with getting the nozzle into the filler hole. Come to find out, she managed to fill the car with leaded gas. (For all of you too young to remember, leaded pumps had a larger diameter nozzle to prevent you from easily putting leaded gas in a car which required unleaded.)

HA HA! That must have taken hours to fill. I have had to use the old leaded gas cans with the wrong nozzle for an unleaded car before, and only a little bit of gas can be put in the filler hole at a time.....Ah leaded gas...when did they fially get rid of that..I'm thinking it was it 1987 or so...

 

[diablo5969]

Such a great thread. Now I don't feel like a complete idiot any more

 

[Isles4evr]

Originally posted by diablo5969
Such a great thread. Now I don't feel like a complete idiot any more

I think that was the main idea of the thread

 

[Strike12]

This is a GREAT THREAD .I have to add mine . My radius arm bushings where worn out on my 82 econoline and I wanted to replace them . I removed all the suspension parts as described in my "handy" Chiltons manuel , but I couldnt get the arm out of the mount .I used a tire iron to pry the arm away from the mount and WHAMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!! IT slipped and there goes $2000 in dental work Call me the toothless wonder.

 

[Black Magic]

Originally posted by Strike12
...and WHAMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!! IT slipped and there goes $2000 in dental work Call me the toothless wonder.

Ok, Speaking as someone who has lost some teeth playing Hockey from a slapshop's stick. That made me cringe! Sux!