Ok Guys I wanna here some stories about ya'll working on the cars and having something stupid happen that make you go oops or stupid me. like this one with me today. My buddy and i were cranking the camaro he was under ther hood it was about to catch we could feel it and we here a clank clank poof my budddy gets out from under the hood wonders aruond a bit and then the negative batter sparks adn shoots smoke and cable comes off. and the lead of the terminal had melted seems that the wires touched a positive wire and melted it off.

 

I did an OBDI conversion on my 96 T/A and the computer I had bought didn't have a knock module in it. I found this out after driving the car around for a few days when the motor developed a nasty knock. Kissed that lt1 goodbye.

Oops.

 

damn

 

i have tons of stories, my dad and i started our own shop abuot 10 years ago. the worst i think is putting a clutch slave cylinder on a long bed x-car ford. it was on the lift (old alignment style) and the truck just fell off.

i also had one a few months ago do a similar thing. had the rear tires off and the jack bent or something the truck fell foward and took half the day to get it back up. it was hung half off the lift.

amazingly neither one was hurt. the lift saftys cought the frame on both trucks but one bent the lift and one smacked me on the head.

 

This one just happened to me today:

Doing an axle job on my Crapbox, something that should take me 20 minutes took all of 4 hours. This is the first wrong-wheel-drive car I've ever owned so I've never done cv axles before. I look up how to do it and spend 3 1/2 hours taking stuff apart just to find out that I unhooked the wrong ball joint. Once I hooked that one back up, I took off the one that needs to come off and WHAM! I have the old axle out and the new on put in, in about 10 minutes.

ANDDDD THENNNNNNN I took it for a test drive and it broke halfway up the street. I had bought the 23-spline when I actually needed the 26-spline. So I took another 20 minutes to change it out again.

 

double damn

 

I've got a good one. I had a 93 Z that had the Z style Ram Air hood and air box (WS6 style). Anyway, after a weekend of racing, I had over revved it and had a bent pushrod, valve slapping piston, etc. Took into dealership for extended warranty after removing most of the aftermarket parts. After about 4 months of arguing with aftermarket warranty company, they decide to cover it and put a new motor in. Well, after about a week of driving it to break it in, I put my aftermarket parts (MSD, etc) back on. Like a doofball, I had removed the air filter from the ram air box and was using the air box (still attatched to the throttle body) as a holding bin for teh small screws and bits. I will give you one guess what happened. After driving for all of 5 minutes, I hear the knocking and slapping again. Turns out, one of teh bits was left in the airbox and was sucked into my brand new motor. Wasn't a real good day.

Kyle

 

what did you do after that man?

 

Well, I can't really say, but I'll let you know that I did get another new motor for free.

Kyle

 

Was changing the ujoints on the duraclak. I was underneth the truck when I popped the drive shaft off. Well, the truck was only in gear and didn't have the e brake on. The truck started to roll forward with me right in front of the back tire. I slid completely under the truck and the tire slid down my arm as it rolled into my driveway. Yep, that one got me pretty shacken up. Another, I was helping a buddy work on his mustang. We couldn't get it to start after putting the motor in. I had my hand on the distributer while he was trying to start it adjusting the timing. Well there was a lone spark plug wire that had come out and touched me. 70,000 volts of MSD ignition went through my arm down through my chest and grounded out on the bumper. Yes it hurt.

 

Put the wheel chocks on, jack it up, put the jack stands in, put on the Hotchkis rear control arms, took out the jack stands, put it back down on the ground, started it up, put it in drive and did not move. Gunned the heck out of it and still nothing. Got real pissed and slammed door to look around, removed wheel chocks, looked around to see if anyone noticed, went for a test drive.