Dumb mistakes anyone?

[aero]

I know this thread was made quite a while ago, but figured it would be cool to get an update of what stupid stuff has gone on when fixing your car. I've got a few that I'll admit to doing:

1. Was installing axles or some front suspension and took it out for a test drive. I heard this weird grinding sound coming from the front right side. couldnt figure it out.. figured I broke a control arm or something. I called cisco(hondafan), and after some problem solving I said "well I did only tighten the lugs by hand" That was my problem.

2. After pulling the engine for oil pump/rod bearing inspection, put it back in and went to start it up. It was idling like CRAP... was running but hardly. Turns out when I put the timing belt on, I somehow managed to screw the timing up majorly. (The cams were both pointed up at 12 oclock, but the crank was at about 7 oclock, when it should have been 12 aswell). Thankfully no damage from that stupid mistake.

3. doing the valve adjustment on my motorcycle, dropped the feeler gauge down with the timing chain. was magnetic, but kept falling off and going deeper. Finally got it out with a long wire bent at the end.

4. valve adjustment on my car, used inches instead of MM Got all the way done and realized... close call.

Thats it for now, but sure cisco will add more that I forgot about since I always call him in distress. So what will you admit to doing?

[N9netwoAccord]

first day i got my car i was washing everything... and i accidently hit the window lock switch... so i tried grabbing the window with pliers and it ended up breaking the window lol...

[J-specCb4]

did an axle and didnt make sure it was pressed in real well so it clicked for a day until i decided to take it back apart and fix it lol

BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG MISTAKE..............
so i pulled my head on my f22a when i first got the car to do valves etc.. looked at the cylinder walls and they still had crosshatching or so it looked so i just left the rings and bearings thrust washers etc... long story short i put the head back on and the car ran fine other than the fact that it burned oil like a mofo lol so it turned out i got maybe three miles out of a 75 dollar headgasket and it took fuggin forever to rip it apart again just for the fact that i shouldnt have had to..... lesson learned.... if it comes aprt replace everything lol

[SoySauceCb7]

how about this, i fixed my dizzy, took her for a drive adn was riding worst than before, came back popped the hood, adn realized the fucking intake wasnt installed! it totally slipped my midn!

[2.2litrebeater]

while installing a radio in a chevy truck i left it in neutral and watched it roll out of the garage with the door open which caught the side of the garage and bent the shit out of it, however that bent door saved it from rolling into a nissan truck parked behind it. could not slide 2 sheets of paper between the bumpers of the trucks.

[Legacy Accord]

Was doing an oil change on a customers car, forgot to bring over the oil drain pan and didnt relise it left the oil drain 8L of oil on the floor

[aero]

Good ones so far...

while installing a radio in a chevy truck i left it in neutral and watched it roll out of the garage with the door open which caught the side of the garage and bent the shit out of it, however that bent door saved it from rolling into a nissan truck parked behind it. could not slide 2 sheets of paper between the bumpers of the trucks.

I had something like that happen, coulda been worse, but thankfully wasnt. I put my car up on the drive on ramps on my driveway (slanted down, plus the ramps, so the lip holds the car on there kinda). I was checking underneath the car, pulling on stuff, and noticed that the car was moving. Needless to say, I was parked up a slanted driveway, front was up the driveway, and on ramps.. and wasnt in gear, and didnt have the e-brake on. Had it rolled off when I was messing with it, it prolly wouldnt have squashed me since I was under the front, but most likely would have rolled across the road and hit cars on the other side. Stupid me

[ACC0RD22]

well . . . I have kinda a chronological type fuck up, actually its just a series of fuck ups.

i was driving home and heard the sound the car makes when the lug nuts are loose. I tighten the one that was loose and say, why dont I tighten all of them to make sure. I get to the front drivers side wheel and, with the massive pipe that I was using for leverage, snap the lug stud off. this wheel we already missing one. so now Im down to two. to remedy this I decide to to a rotor over hub swap. everything goes GREAT! or so I think. Im driving and the car feels very very floaty. theres also a sound that sounds like the wheel is loose still. so I get back to where I work on my car, take the wheel off and cant find anything wrong, except lots of scoringon the rotor. thats when I figure out the sound was the rotor rubbing against the caliper. so i try to figure out why this was doing it. check EVERYTHING, or so I thought, couldnt find anything and put it back together. still makes the noise. take it apart AGAIN. figure out I left the bolts that hold the wheel bearing on off. yep, problem fixed. I decide, while I have the car down, why dont I install the supsension and stainless brake lines I ordered. I try to get the rear lines off. theyre hopelessly rusted. I twist the end of the hard line off, so now i have to get a new one. get it, install it, its leaky. the front ones wont budge, like the back ones, and Im not snapping them like the back ones. I go to install the suspension, the rear bushing on the passenger side gets fucked up (all else goes well however). I still havent fixed that. bought a new bushing, the hole is too small and out of round. one problem leads to another.

[civic_90_08]

while installing a radio in a chevy truck i left it in neutral and watched it roll out of the garage with the door open which caught the side of the garage and bent the shit out of it, however that bent door saved it from rolling into a nissan truck parked behind it. could not slide 2 sheets of paper between the bumpers of the trucks.

a 91 Chevy Silverodo(2500)

I had something kinda like that happen to me...but not quite like that..

it started out gettin up goin fishin..(blah blah blah) and we were gettin teh boat back up on the trailor...well the emergency brake kinda started losing grip...so my dumdass yells the trucks movin and run up to it, open the door and i fuckin push in the damn clutch instead of the break...you know how it is when you panic, so i was holdin a fuckin Chevy 2500 w/ a boat trailor out of the damn lake...

^^^my big fuck up for the year of 05'

lmao

later
Jordan

[ehulst]

86 accord
i forgot to put my oil cap on, and drove bout a mile up my road till i noticed an odd rattle from the engine bay( the cap falling and hitting stuff)...

93 accord
bout a month ago my R33 front lip, thought id save time and attach it with rivets this time not nuts and bolts.......ehhh car with lip on a non-snowplowed road (8+")= damage.....yeah so much snow go up between my lip and bumper it worked 3 rivets out then managed all the rest exceptthe ends which held the lip up...herd this rubbing sound thought ti was my fender liner since it always did that, nope it was my lip being pushed under my car and being draged down the road.....pulled into my friends drive way and was like WHOA!!! Fiberglass...

[AccordWarrior]

The first non-aesthetic mod I did to my car was a SRI.

I decided it would be a good idea to do it at like 8 at night...on a cold night. So my friend and I ripped everything apart, got it all back together and started the car up. It ran rough to say the least. Sounded amazing (almost like a Ferrari) but smelled like gas.

Freaked out, put the stock intake back...same result. Left my car at my friend's house, figured I"d get it in the morning. Came back...realized I had knocked a spart plug wire off. That'd do it.

[AccordWarrior]

Oh...and Deev broke my axles when we did my suspension.

[bruno8747]

Mines would be: I was setting the timing and had a socket and ratchet on the crank pully bolt and set everything ok, And went to start the car and totally forgot about the ratchet there. Engine starts and I hear a something hit loud, there was the ratchet on the floor bruised and battered.

[HF22T]

decided to teach the gf to change oil while i was doin my headgasket well she got it alldone and decided to leave the pan under her car and the jack aswell so lesson learned and racing jack bought for me by gf

[Clueless]

Forgot to put oil filler cap back on, drove 50 miles.....