fixing/breaking things

[Babaganoosh]

Anybody else have the problem with fixing something then something else breaks? I have been having that luck a lot lately.


At least my parents are not mad about 3+ quarts of oil all over the driveway stained.

 

[chulisohombre]

i always seem to break bolts alot when retightening things.it also gives me new things that are wrong once i tear something apart and see something that is cracked or broken or leaking from behind what i just pulled out.

 

[BS_k5]

I broke a bolt off in the manifold while putting in a new clutch...
I got the horn button stuck in the new gt/grant steering wheel in an effort to test fit it without the spring...ah well just gave me an excuse to get an air horn

 

[scouthead]

usually goes like this:

my truck has a bunch of small nagging problems. I can drive it all day long just like it is now, forever, and just deal with it. No prob.
Then I think it's time to fix one of those small naggers... and something totally unrelated will happen to the damn truck.


drive my s10 jimmy for 8 months with no wiper motor...
fix the wipers and the next day some woman cuts in front of me and stomps on her brakes just in time for me to rear end her.

Small crack in K5 windshield...
replace windshield and next day there is a LARGE crack in windshield. from WHERE?! WTF!?

REplace windshield again...
gasket leaks and new interior is soaked when it rains 2 days later.

Dry out interior and put it back in...
Heater core explodes and soaks interior with antifreeze.

replace heater core. dry out interior again and replace...
rear of top decides to start leaking. WTF?!


F#%& it! I'm gonna let the back end leak! - Yeah right. replace all the hard top seals after the summer and put the top back on...
Heater blows again! $%^! piece of f&*%ing $#@!! %^$!! &*^%^%$^$^$!!!!

You mean stuff like that? No, I dont know what you mean

 

[USSkoval]

usually goes like this:

my truck has a bunch of small nagging problems. I can drive it all day long just like it is now, forever, and just deal with it. No prob.
Then I think it's time to fix one of those small naggers... and something totally unrelated will happen to the damn truck.


drive my s10 jimmy for 8 months with no wiper motor...
fix the wipers and the next day some woman cuts in front of me and stomps on her brakes just in time for me to rear end her.

Small crack in K5 windshield...
replace windshield and next day there is a LARGE crack in windshield. from WHERE?! WTF!?

REplace windshield again...
gasket leaks and new interior is soaked when it rains 2 days later.

Dry out interior and put it back in...
Heater core explodes and soaks interior with antifreeze.

replace heater core. dry out interior again and replace...
rear of top decides to start leaking. WTF?!


F#%& it! I'm gonna let the back end leak! - Yeah right. replace all the hard top seals after the summer and put the top back on...
Heater blows again! $%^! piece of f&*%ing $#@!! %^$!! &*^%^%$^$^$!!!!

You mean stuff like that? No, I dont know what you mean

Bypass the heater core and enjoy a dry interior

 

[Babaganoosh]

Reason for this thread was I replaced the tv cable and I broke the line for my oil psi gauge. I didn't know this and It spewed oil all over my driveway.

 

[Hosalabad]

Warning, non-Chevy anecdote:

I spent 2 days working on the missus' 2002, 160k mile Maxima. I was going to replace the CV shafts and a driver's wheel bearing. The passenger failed a while back and has already been replaced.

A coworker assured me it was cake, with flanges for the cv to tranny connection, and tapered roller bearings for the hubs. Well, the 02 is a bit different from his '89.

The passenger side has a bracket midway through the shaft to support it. The bracket bolts to the engine with 3 bolts, and the shaft slips through it and fastens with 3 bolts. The bracket can be unbolted with a few extensions with a wobbly end and a u-joint. The fun part is that the bracket can't be pulled out with the shaft because it won't fit past the strut, or oil filter. Unbolting the shaft from the bracket was one of those deals where you need 36" of extensions for one bolt, a ratcheting wrench for the other two and, you can only swivel the wrench about one click before you run out of room.

When I pulled the driver's side, the freaking outer race was fused to the spindle and wouldn't press out with a 12 ton press. I spent at least 4 hours with a dremel, BFH and a chisel carefully cutting/griding and chipping out the race until the pressure relieved. Then I was able to lightly tap it out and get back to work.

The good part was that the oil level in the differential sits below the opening for the shafts, so the car didn't puke all the fluid out while I was enjoying Japanese Engineering Humor.

It's always fun when a first time job that probably could have been 4-5 hours turns into a 12 hour over two day marathon. I figure at this point, a new water pump and serpentine belts and I'm set until a timing chain snaps.

 

[medicdave]

Swapped rear axles for a blown up gov-lock, and fragged 2nd and 3rd in the tranny on the test drive (700r4).