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COCHEV

COCHEV

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so i was doin some odds and ends to the burb and had replaced all the rocker nuts cause the old ones kept coming loose. i was finishing it all up with and oil change and fired it up to let the oil circulate before toppin it off. as it ran i walked away to put some tools away and the rig started makeing a hell of a racket like it had just turned in to a hellicopter.

as visions of bent pushrods danced in my head i ran back to find my half empty jug of delo 400 had fallin into fan. my dumb ars had left it up on the core support :doah:so a 1/2 gallon of oil was now all over my engine bay and the driveway. gotta love days like these...
 
Better then bent push rods and makes for a pretty funny story. Glad your rig isn't toast!
 
I had a 1/2" wrench fall into the fan blades as I stepped away. I ended up chasing it down the drive way.
 
on time i left a half qt sitting on the wheel well as the truck was idling and went in the house for a minute and came out to see smoke rising from the bay. it had tipped over and spilt all over the headers, yuck
 
I was doing an oil change on a 6500 at work and left a jug of oil with about 1 qt of oil in it sitting on the passenger front wheel. started backing out and it fell off and i ran it over. made a loud bang and obviously lost all the oil...worst part of it was boss was standing 2 bays away when it happened. he wasn't to thrilled. :doah:
 
Now you have a reason to detail the engine compartment :D . You know you were looking forward to doing that anyway.
 
I didnt check the coupler on a car trailer I was hauling one day. As I pulled out of the parking lot the trailer went over a curb which bumped it off the ball. Realizing that trailer had come off, I eased the brakes on, but the trailer has surge brakes so it didnt stop. The safety chains acted as a pendulum and swung the trailer coupler up into the gas tank of my Burb. Thankfully the 40gal tank only had about 5-6 gallons in it. The plastic sump actually kept a good amount of fuel in the tank, enough to get me home at tleast.

So now I triple check the coupler anytime I'm towing.
 
I had a large metal dog bowl on the front bumper of my old Jeep. Drove about a mile before I really jumped on it (big block and soft springs)... well, it fell of in front of the Jeep and banged and bounced under the Jeep all the way out the back.

I was afraid to look under it to see what I broke. :haha:
 
K10 KRAWLER said:
I had a Cat crawl in the fan shroud once, right before I started it... that was noisy.
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I'll never forget a ticket I got at a shop. "belt came off, all the lights in the dash came on". I popped the hood and found cat hair everywhere. Didnt find a cat but I'm pretty sure it was bald after that. The owner of the explorer gave me 20 bucks to keep my mouth shut, since he worked at the dealership, b/c his wife was a cat lover.
 
iwaxmyjimmy said:
I'll never forget a ticket I got at a shop. "belt came off, all the lights in the dash came on". I popped the hood and found cat hair everywhere. Didnt find a cat but I'm pretty sure it was bald after that. The owner of the explorer gave me 20 bucks to keep my mouth shut, since he worked at the dealership, b/c his wife was a cat lover.
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:haha::haha::haha::haha::haha:
 
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