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Ok, tonight I was very close to getting the truck drivable and in between driving I could work on finishing other things. Among the list of things to do, is a list of things for today :D, and on that list is dialing back some timing. I'm getting some pinging under load. A few days ago I took everything apart and waited for my MSD kit in the mail. So tonight, I changed out my springs to get a slightly flatter curve. Wrapped everything up, including fixing my steering leak etc etc, and went to start it. Would only crank.

Popped the hood and started looking. By this time is was dark, so I was flashlighting it. Only took about a minute to figure it out and 5 minutes to fix.

There, sitting on the inner wheel well behind the coolant bottle.............
































was the rotor.:doah:
 
PS> other than the 700 being on its way out, the truck drove great tonight. Extremely happy right now :)
 
we do that to people who don't pay their bill at the marina...
 
I was changing the oil in the blazer and was in a hurry, started pouring and I hear what sounds similar to pouring water in a cup. At that time my friend pointed out that the oil change wasn't gonna do any good when it was pouring out into my drain pan... :doah: make sure to put the plug back in!!!
 
God I have a million of these stupid moments.


When I first started using the welder at work (mines flux core, work has solid core and gas) I numerous times forgot to turn the gas on. Dropped the cone off the tip and didnt think anything of it (I dont bother with one on mine). The worst one was when I was welding a sliding door track outside and welded for nearly 10 mins with no gas. I would weld 3/4 of an inch, look at it, get pissed, yell about the wind blowing my gas away, try again, over and over...


We also used to have a bad habit of washing things off with paint thinner at work and letting it go right on the concrete floor. Then an hour later I cut some steel plate with the torch and like 2'x5' of the floor was on fire...

I was working on a cobra one time trying to diagnose a spark issue. Not super familiar with how easy it is to trigger the MSD box with the magnetic pickup I proceeded to rotate the dizzy while it was loose and zap myself with the MSD straight off the top of the rotor...























4 times. :doah:



I've learned a lot in the last 3 years. Mostly to be more careful and slow the **** down when doing ****. O and to always double check your surroundings.
 
Replaced the rear main seal on my engine, bolted the pan back up and moved on to the next project. About an hour later I tripped and kicked my oil pump across the floor... sure glad I didn't try to fire it!
 
Did wheel bearings on my van. Put the lugnuts on when it was in the air. Let it down to tighten them. Got disctracted. Later drove half hour to my gfs house. Picked her up. Drove an hour to grand rapids and on the way back on the highway the sob started shakin like mad right before my exit. Got off and inspected the front end... I could spin the lugnuts by hand :doah: luckily i had my 4 way with me lol.
 
Once while doing a tune up and changing the fuel filter in an old s-10 with the carbed 2.8. Forgot to fully tighten the fuel line while we were messing with the other tune-up stuff- it ended up finger tight. We cranked the truck up and it was on fire very quickly- fuel on the exhaust.

Luckily some scorched paint under the hood, some melted wires & vacuum hoses were the only damage. But, running into the house to grab the extinguisher will get your blood pumping.



I can blame my dad for this one as I was still in high school, and he was doing most of the work. He is also the one who had worked as a professional mechanic.

:whistle:
 
Changed out a fuel pump on a friend's '94 Blazer at his place, did the job, there was him, his wife and a few kids running around. Put everything back together, hooked up a fuel ressure gauge to watch it, he tried starting it,,,nothing..

I looked over the wiring for a few minutes, checked what I could, tried it again, still nothing, no pressure or anything.

After a few minutes, a 7 yr old girl spoke up saying, it'd probably start if you put the gas back in... She was a crazy energetic kid, funny the way she almost laughingly, sarcastically said it too, but she was right... :doah:
 
hahaha, good stuff guys

forgot another one:

Working on a very poorly running Sea Doo. Using brake cleaner to clean the motor out some, it had been sitting for some time. I'm used to pulling the plugs, putting them back in the wires and grounding them on small engine toys. After spraying brake cleaner into the engine and carb, I turned the motor over with the button. Doing this twice yielded some results.

Third time was the charm though. Just as I started turning the engine over, spraying brake cleaner into the air, for the faintest of split seconds, I saw the spark plugs sparking and though "Oh, s*** that could be......"


Too late. Caught fire and ended up burning my face and arm. This was all at the campsite too. :doah: I told that story here before with pictures. :)
 
I've done that on a car using carb cleaner, before I knew about brake cleaner,, the carb cleaner pooled up alittle on the intake, didn't take notice of it, when I started it up, it caught fire, was not real easy putting it out either, burnt my hand and forearm.

Also do not use brake cleaner down a carb as a substitute for carb cleaner, it burns and creates a pretty toxic odor out of the tail pipes that makes it real difficult to breath
 
WD40 is a great starting fluid that is way less explosive.
 
Countless times have I done dumb stuff like this.

Way to many to remember.

Worst was years and years ago first motor I ever rebuilt, was a buddies 440 in a Charger we got it done all prettied up got all the hoses connected belts etc. I mean everything we triple checked it all being our first motor ( I was 14 my buddy was 13) We pretty much were on our own doing this.

Well after triple checking everything we went to turn the key, nothing. Just couldn't figure it out, well being young we decided we needed to pull the motor again.

Fortunately for us my buddies Dad walked out ( great mechanic but he was high most of the time) and in one of his best lucid moments pointed out we hadn't hooked up the battery :eek1::doah:

Fired right up and ran great after we hooked up the battery
 
I rebuilt a carb for my 72 K5 once years ago,and I am no stranger to doing Q-jets and other carbs,so its not like I didn't know what to do.....................................................................................................Got the thing all back together,go to fire it up,and the engine floods badly!..I figured the float may have got hung up from flipping the carb around while it was off,so I try tapping on the bowl with a wrench...still flooding bad,it stalls,and refuses to start again...I was pisssed!...then in my rage,I look over at the bench where I sat while rebuilding the carb---and there sat the float!.......DUHHH!...right where I left it...:rolleyes:...............................................................................................................................................................................................Another day I was fiddling around with the valve covers,putting new gaskets on it...and a wrench fell down on the passenger side of the engine,bounces off the exhaust manifold,then lands squarely across the positive battery cable and the purple "crank" wire on the solenoid,and it shorts,and the starter starts cranking away,the truck was in first gear and before I could jump out of the engine compartment,it runs over the top tray of my tool box,and ends up against a concrete wall a few feet away,the starter still humming away,trying to turn the tires!...:eek:.................................................................................................I burned the crap out of my hands while attempting to get the battery cables off too,and destroyed a nice test lamp in the tool tray,that was now pancaked--and then I discovered an allen wrench had puntured my left front tire,that was in the tool tray....:doah::..that was a bad day...now I rarely look under a hood without taking off the battery cable!...
 
I put pistons in upside down once. Felt pretty stupid.
 
I was changing oil in a Jeep and just by habbit I looked under to check for leaks after I started it up. I look under and there is about 5 quarts of oil on the ground and its running :eek1:. The o-ring from the old filter had stuck to the block and I didn't notice and put the new filter with the ring on top of it. That was a hell of a mess to clean up.
 
I rewired my truck.


Apparantly I decided the headlight power wire, and the red Ignition wire, should be switched.
Went to fire up the rig, and the HL's just kept coming on w/ the Ign. switch. :haha:

Now I have new HL's.... :doah:
 
78SWB said:
I was changing oil in a Jeep and just by habbit I looked under to check for leaks after I started it up. I look under and there is about 5 quarts of oil on the ground and its running :eek1:. The o-ring from the old filter had stuck to the block and I didn't notice and put the new filter with the ring on top of it. That was a hell of a mess to clean up.
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That has happened to me too
 
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