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I lost a brake caliper bolt once in my car. It let the trailing side of the caliper grab the inside of the wheel - so it tried to lock itself into the wheel. The noise and jolting was terrible, but the car worked fine in reverse. I was sure the differential was fragged or something and got a ride home. I was really relieved that I only needed a bolt, not a $2k tranny rebuild. The only explanation is that I didn't tighten that bolt the last time I was in there.
 
Oh yeah, maybe the dumbest one -

I took apart the ignition switch in that car to rebuild or replace it. But I forgot to disconnect the battery. :doah:The switch shifted postion into "start" and I had no way to move it back. Of course with the alt spinning, it's too late to pull the battery. I pulled the fuel pump relay, but every time the engine stalled it went back to crank and the pump got power through a different circuit. :confused: Pulling the relay for the ignition module finally did the trick.
 
Most recent, almost burned my car to the ground. Used a self tapper to ground a light bulb for a boost gauge I had installed. No big deal, that was months ago. I was recently under the dash again swapping out the ECM and ignition boxes for "chipped" versions. Had to move some of the factory harness around and evidently didn't get it exactly back to where it was supposed to go. Zipped my self tapper back in under the dash and got sparks and smoke :eek1:. Pulled that sucker out quick and found out it self tapped it's way into the main supply line under there. And boy was it HOT. Had to replace about 6" of melted supply line. Oh, and I rerouted my ground to a safer factory ground terminal. :whistle:
 
This week,working on changing the fuel switching valve on the truck. Put the whole thing together go for a test ride everythings normal(didnt fix what I was hoping!) and start cleaning up.
Wrenches check
Pliers check
screwdrivers check
Flashlight crap!
Crawl under and lo and behold there it is on the crossmember still shining!:doah:
 
diesel4me said:
.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!...
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:haha: this is a good one :haha:

Same idea, but one time when parking my truck in my driveway I used the granny gear just maneuvering around and looking at the sloppy shifter I thought it was in neutral. So I simultaneously jump off the clutch and out of the truck. So with the truck still in gear it jumps forward causing me to loose my balance and hit the pavement ass first. The truck was parked in front of my basketball hoop which was cemented into the ground, so it plowed into it and proceeded to level it by trying to drive over it and if I hadn't scrambled back into the truck and stopped it it would have kept on chugging into my shed... :doah: oh well I was never any good at basketball anyway :doah:
 
That reminds me of my flashlight deal, I had installed some sport springs on my Camaro, back when I owned it, got it all done, tires back on, lowered it down to the ground,,, it didn't look quite right. Seemed one front side was higher than the other, I figured maybe the springs needed to settle.

I backed it out of the driveway and that's when I noticed it just didn't feel right when it came down off the ramp/curb.

I stopped, looked in the wheel well area and couldn't believe that I had left my 3-D cell Maglight flashlight in there.

It was stuck between the lower control arm and something else, preventing the suspension from moving. The whole weight of that corner of the car was all on that flashlight.

pulled it back up in the carport, jacked it up and pulled it out. Car sat fine after that. :doah:
 
I've broken both of my collar bones...

the left was eating sh*t on an insane bs roll-in in a mean backyard kidney trying pick up a chick...... :pimp:

the right one? put a new rear axle in a bud's 70 Hurst Olds, went to drop it off the floor jack, and got crushed between the ground and back bumper.... SNAP! :doah: :haha:
 
Ahhh,injury stories...have plenty of those,but none that gory or major!.....I did take a good chunk out of one of my front teeth when a socket came off an extention while lying under my truck on my back installing the oil pan after replacing the rearmost main bearing and seal in its 250 six...bleeding profusely thanks to the tooth punching thru my lower lip!.............................I've had rachets and crowbars slip off things and clock me in the skull more times than I can remember too......................................................................................................I hate having to finish a job all wouned and bandaged up with duct or electrical tape,we learned at the junkyard to always bring tape with you!..gloves are nice if you can use them,but they are too clumsy to use on many jobs..nothing worse than busting rusted bolts loose with a hand or arm that has just been bashed in hard or cut,etc....
 
Let's see. I've screwed up more Crap over the years, and forgotten stupid stuff.

How about....

This one time I smashed my oil pan on my Chevyll, the came home, drained the oil, sprayed carb clean on the crack, in the drain hole, then blew with air a few times to make sure it was clean before I attempted to weld the oil pan while still on the car.

So laying on my back, under small jack stands, in the dark, I struck and ark with the mig and Ka****ingboom, I hit the back of my head on the concrete and it scared the daylights out of me.

The dip stick shot out, the push in breather blew out and PCV valve came out. I'm.surprised my neighbors didn't come out to see what had happened.
 
diesel4me said:
Ahhh,injury stories...have plenty of those,but none that gory or major!.....I did take a good chunk out of one of my front teeth when a socket came off an extention while lying under my truck on my back installing the oil pan after replacing the rearmost main bearing and seal in its 250 six...bleeding profusely thanks to the tooth punching thru my lower lip!.............................I've had rachets and crowbars slip off things and clock me in the skull more times than I can remember too......................................................................................................I hate having to finish a job all wouned and bandaged up with duct or electrical tape,we learned at the junkyard to always bring tape with you!..gloves are nice if you can use them,but they are too clumsy to use on many jobs..nothing worse than busting rusted bolts loose with a hand or arm that has just been bashed in hard or cut,etc....
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oh believe me, i did it twice last week doing Mutt's suspension, shoulda got stitches from a wrench shot to the eye and I'm currently walking around with a black eye from dropping a crowbar on my cheek... :doah: :haha:

that was just one I thought was kinda ironic and VERY stupid...

most of my mechanic mistakes happened when I was 16, 17.. I did the double oil filter gasket deal, dizzy 180 out, etc... but doing it for a living beats the majority of mistakes out of ya in a hurry... :whistle: :haha:
 
63chevyll said:
So laying on my back, under small jack stands, in the dark, I struck and ark with the mig and Ka****ingboom, I hit the back of my head on the concrete and it scared the daylights out of me.

The dip stick shot out, the push in breather blew out and PCV valve came out. I'm.surprised my neighbors didn't come out to see what had happened.
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That's what us diesel guys call a crankcase explosion :doah:
 
The flexplate in my old truck was missing a few teeth. Occasionally, I had to turn the crank with a wrench to get it to a place on the flexplate so it would start. The broken teeth, eventually ruined my starter and kept ruining starters until I got to the point where I was changing them every 3-4 days. (Thank God for lifetime warranties). Came home one night with a new starter to change out. I had to meet my friends somewhere in 30 minutes. Rushing to change the starter, I forgot to disconnect the battery and damn near welded a wrench between the hot post on the starer and the frame. Barely avoided getting hit in the face by the wrench when it fell.
 
I had a loud air horn on my truck that was wired to the original horn. I forgot why but I was adjusting my steering wheel cause it was off. I noticed it could only go one way, but I said F&@K that and broke the horn assembly thinking Ive never needed to honk once. (being in a hurry to go out). When I started my truck to leave the horn was grounded. So I drove around the whole night with my horn blaring.
 
Chevy305 said:
would have kept on chugging into my shed... :doah:
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Shed? What shed?

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Picture is worth a thousand laughs. Well, maybe not that many, but several...

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A few years ago, after doing some drinking maybe, me and a buddy decided to do a pull off with my Sub against his 85 pickup that he had just dropped a new 5speed in. So it went all well and good but I didnt have 4wd for some reason... So after some more drinking maybe, I pull it into the garage and proceed to "diagnose" the problem, i neutraled the rear output, and put the front output in low, while the truck was idling in reverse... I discovered that a hub was broken, or so i thought, i had the one hub locked in, and as soon as i clicked the other one in, obviously it starts to drive itself out the garage, I then realized, to late though, that when we did the pull off, my buddy locked one hub in, and i went and locked the other one in, and unlocked the one he locked in, thinking he didnt get out and do it, well it ran my foot over, preventing me from hopping in and hitting the brakes, then it started to tear the door off as it caught the edge of the garage door, then finally stopped when it drove all the way up on my buddies car, and planted the receiver through his windshield. :whistle: Needless to say, it wasnt my brightest moment :doah:
 
Priming a brand new rebuilt engine put in five quarts primed it. Noticed some oil in the dirt, forgot the oil filter thought I had lost about a quart. It a different dipstick and oil pan so not sure that was right. Guy who built it ended up dropping the pan and figuring out that it was about four quarts low. :doah:
 
Thru a metal cut-off wheel in my miter saw, forgot to remove the sock which was FULL of wood dust... the clamp/sock rod is still there :D
 
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