Dumbest thing you've ever done while working on your/someone elses car?

[bmatyeah]

when pulling a motor on an mr2 droppping it on a creeper (its how they say to do it) the creepers wheels all broke off so we had to drag a metal creeper across a grage floor.

we stopped labeling where the bolts came from when we pulled out the engine because were just wanted it out..... yeha a headache when we put it back in.

[Evo8kid]

ok my story is about to own everyone elses. Im gonna regret telling this to the world.

I was doing a boost leak test on my car. I was running methanol at the time. The ignition was off, but the meth pump was not run off a key on power source. So everytime i boost tested past 9 lbs, i would inject meth into a non running engine. I didnt realized it was the meth pump i heard running for a while. needless to say the engine was full of a water/meth mix. When i went to start the engine, you cant compress a liquid, thus bending a rod (i guess). TWO WEEKS later it blew up. I <3 the 4G63

[ThePrimerSuspect]

jesus where do i start?

i smacked myself in the forehead with a hammer when trying to break free the flange on my exhaust.

i dropped a brand new expedition off a lift at my first dealership job. (wasnt my fault, it was the lift)

i put an engine in a crv. when i was attaching the trans to the new motor, i cracked the trans case in half. had to get a new case and basically overhaul the trans, which i never did before. but somehow it actually ran when i was done. then, after the car ran, i sideswiped the old motor that was sitting outside my bay. my boss was thoroughly pissed at me.

when i was in atc, i was checking for an exhaust leak on my civic. i climbed up on the lift to start the car, jumped down and checked for the leak. after i found it i dropped the car down. however, i forgot to close the drivers side door. door came down on a metal table and ended up about 6 inches above the roof of the car.

[Renegade_]

Originally Posted by teh DIRT

put an engine 90% into the car (didnt bolt tranny on yet), only to realize the clutch was sitting 10 feet away. Won't happen again, thats for sure.

I remember that hah

I didn't really do anything too stupid...

Other than leave my car in gear when it was rolling backwards off of a flatbed.

That wasn't smooth. I realized after it started bucking... That shouldn't do any damage right?

[halfhorsepower]

This one is just sad. One time i had to pop a wheel off & put a spare on. The sidewall had somehow punctured, and the guy didn't realize till later on. So i'm there, trying to free up the lug nuts these slightly bent bolts from driving miles on the rim. So what you might say. Well, i ended up having to take the sleeve off a weight bar (the kind you use with a weight bench to put lots of weight on) to put on the handle of the lug wrench (stock folding type) to increase the tq to free it up. So, the first time i try it i put my whole weight on it to just get it done, and the lug wrench slips off and i fall smacking my hand on the spare, and my face on the pavement, and get a slight "groin area" injury. Thankfully after laying flat for 10-20 minutes i regrouped and tried again. Took an hour to get that thing off. Eventually they replaced the hub end of the axle etc, but to be able to drive the car to get it fixed i had to get the spare on.

I also accidently unscrewed a lock button on a door i then had to take the door apart to get it back on.

Then there was the time i tried tapping the solenoid on a car to get it to start at like 3 am in belmar right next to the boardwalk. I didn't know anything bout cars back then, so i ended up frying the car's electronics 100 miles from the owner's house, so we were stuck there till replacement fuses arrived 3 hours later. Oddly enough they let me drive home.

- Andy

[omgjacki]

A few years ago I was changing front brake pads on a friend's mom's car in their driveway and had just the front left on the jack. Forgot to turn the wheel for room and so I leaned in and turned it. Well, I forgot to pull the e-brake so when I turned the wheel it pulled forward the car a little and it slipped off the jack. Landed on the rotor and front bumper, whatever else was there. No damage was done, but it scared the **** out of us. Haha

[DPancoast]

Originally Posted by justinlansdale

while swapping a motor into my old MR2, i decided it was a good idea to sit under the car while we lowered the motor under the car so that i could guide it onto the creeper. it dropped a little too fast and the oil pan section landed on my hand with the entire weight of the motor. i have a pretty gnarly pink scar on my hand that reminds me to be more careful next time!

Originally Posted by bmatyeah

we stopped labeling where the bolts came from when we pulled out the engine because were just wanted it out..... yeah a headache when we put it back in.

haha, my car strikes twice...

P.S that not labeling bolts thing SUCKED after I had the car in my possession... haha I just the other day saw the container of bolts at my buddy Matt's house that have the misc bolts from my car. It's a good time haha.

[clay]

watch my friend spray paint his dash, head liner, door panels and rear panels. you drove 20 ft in it and were light headed

[drail182]

I was in a hurry and put my clutch friction disk in backwards i turned ther car on and i couldnt put the thing in gear.

[Oakes]

Originally Posted by typeRdreams

watch my friend spray paint his dash, head liner, door panels and rear panels. you drove 20 ft in it and were light headed

same here, same friend. Almost as good as the surround sound subwoofer kept in the backseat with his seat belt.

[omgjacki]

Originally Posted by Nick'06

Almost as good as the surround sound subwoofer kept in the backseat with his seat belt.

[DropTopChevy]

Originally Posted by halfhorsepower

Post on TST

- Andy

I'll agree.

[lownslow95]

Originally Posted by DropTopChevy

I'll agree.

Ahahaha yeah.

[240sxDann]

Originally Posted by Nick'06

same here, same friend. Almost as good as the surround sound subwoofer kept in the backseat with his seat belt.

lol I had a sub in the back seat of my mustang hahaha

[ItsStetch]

a friend of mine and my brother just got a new car and his brakes needed to be changed, well my brother said he would change them for him as long as he paid for the brakes. My brother is trying to loosen the nuts using a wrench like this

they wouldnt budge so he decided to use his foot well anyway his foot slipped and the pointed end of the wrench ended up going through his calf and ended up having to go to the hospital and got like 14 stitches.

me I was changing the motor mounts in my 94 pontiac sunfire, forgot to support the engine loosened off the old mount and then spent about three hours trying to get it all lined up again...

[joshsayswhatt]

my friends jetta needed brakes bad so i told him to just bring it over and i would change them. i couldnt find this bleeder i had so i rigged something up he kept bitching for me to hurry up so i did and threw everything back on but for got to take the rigged bleeder off his back driver side brakes. well i guess it made all his breaks not tightin all the way cause when he backed out of my drive way he hit his breaks slowed but didint stop and drove his back bumber under my neighbors chain link fence.

[ItsStetch]

Originally Posted by joshsayswhatt

my friends jetta needed brakes bad so i told him to just bring it over and i would change them. i couldnt find this bleeder i had so i rigged something up he kept bitching for me to hurry up so i did and threw everything back on but for got to take the rigged bleeder off his back driver side brakes. well i guess it made all his breaks not tightin all the way cause when he backed out of my drive way he hit his breaks slowed but didint stop and drove his back bumber under my neighbors chain link fence.

haha his fault for rushing you

[clay]

Originally Posted by Nick'06

same here, same friend. Almost as good as the surround sound subwoofer kept in the backseat with his seat belt.

or when we couldnt figure out why his sun roof wouldnt close all the way. we got all technical with it and there was a penny in the track

[Oakes]

Originally Posted by typeRdreams

or when we couldnt figure out why his sun roof wouldnt close all the way. we got all technical with it and there was a penny in the track

or the time he painted his calipers red and didnt really cover anything, looked like he ran over a squirrel when he was done.

[DropTopChevy]

Any of you guys ever work on your car and end up having a few bolts left over after your finished? Well I did.