leed

Leaving ratchets on the crank pulley...more than once...all the time lol.

Driving off forgetting to tighten the strut tower bolts.

Have a gas, oil, and water leak on a first start after major work..

Racking my brain for an hour trying to figure out why it wont start...harness plug not 'clicked' in all the way.

Crank pulley falling off....see #1

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OnYx

LMAO leed.. nice

HMT-Admin

Left out the oil drain plug on the Boss's wife's 2003 Xterra SE..

Let's just say we got it covered under warranty

Slo_crx1

Well, i rebuilt a D series mini me after about 200k miles. Got the thing back together and in the car, fired it up, and headed down the road for a test drive. Drove about 2 miles away, stomped on the gas to see how she was doin, and all of a sudden, the tranny started slippin(so i thought). Got outta the car and realized i forgot to put the axles all the way back in the tranny. So, i had to pull the front end apart on the side of the road at 11:00 at night just to drive it back to the garage. Talk about pissed off!

BigJ

Well, my B16 was running Extremely strong with the new turbo, and my great new self programmed P28 ECU. Blundar gave me a base tune for a GSR to work off. I then got over zealous and started to bring the timing closer to stock. Well I was using a cpu at school and didn't have the proper editing software, put in the wrong Hex values. I ended up advancing the ignition past stock and putting a rod through the front of the block.

Yep, thats my big mistake. Pretty ------- domb

Donald125

1)at`s my first "spring job", putting on skunk2 coilover without taking off dust cover on teh shocks...after it get to the ground there`s like 1 feet fender gap... :P
2)putting on fuel pressure regulator with the o-ring smashed, got fuel sprayed all over my face. :P
3)replaced valve cover gasket for my brother, while i put the bolts back on, "click" broke a bolt, so i am telling my brother that`s cool i am going to plug it up and i`d go get one from the dealer tomolo. and guess what one minutes later i broke another two. and it ends up not driviable the next day :P
4)i guess this on happended to everyone whoever worked on a car..u turned the bolt the wrong way while ur tying to loose it..usually it takes like 20 mins for me to fig. out. :P
5) u know ur hands wil ends up banging on something after u get the bolt loosen and get hurt but u do it anyway (e,g exhaust manifold bolts) :P

rollmodel

the other night, i was trying to take off the oil filter on my car to put the block fitting in.. well i have a k&n filter.. (it has the bolt end on it, where you can use a rachet and socket) well i am looking for sockets big enough... i put one up to it.. hey it fits. so i put it on the rachet. wiggle my arms up there. drop everything on my face.. ouch, i quick pull my head up ouch, hit the a arm and drive shaft.. so i quick pull my head down, ouch hit the ground... oh that wasnt one of my finer moments.
-rollmodel

but.. i did get that oil filter off.. and boy did it pay.

BLUEHATCH

Check this out... I bought this stolen recovery 91 hatch SI that was missing lots of ----, I put it all together and the exhaust pipe was the last thing to go in (the car is lowered, i used an original Honda jack to jack the car up, no jack stands... and one wheel on the oposite side of the car from the jack is off), so there i am laing under the car trying to get the damn thing bolted in when i see that the car started to slide over to one side and then BOOOM it fell right on me, knoked the wind out of me and I cant inhail- I am frikin' out, lucky me two of my friends were standing in a garage next to the car smoking and were able to lift the side of the car high enoug so i could clime out, had some sore ribs that day... <---- dumb ***

sohc-zc-14b-turbo

one time when i was doing a swap at my shop i took the transmition of the old engine to use for the new swap but when i put the trany to the block and started to tighten the bolt i hear a big clakkkkk i was like what the ---- was that i look around the engine and not think nothin of it so i tighten it all the way around but when i get to the last bolt i had seen what i did. it wasent good. i didnt line the spacers that conect to the block so it wasent all the way in so it snaped a big part of the trany off. i got in so much trouble with my manager but didnt looses my job.

and a nother time i did a swap for this one guy his engine had cout on fire so i asked him if he drand on oil allready he said yeah i drand it a long time ago. so i cheak the oil cap no oil in there i could see. so i start doing the swap thinking it had no oil and when i take it off the mount i un do the transmtion and then some oil leaked on my so i drop the engine on accedent and oil poured all of the shop deck it was a big *** mess.

when tighting down a fule rail i forgot to put the o ring metal spacer on and when starting the car fule sprad every were it was so funny.

one time when i was replacing a alternater i left the battery conected. so when i was taking it out i blow a main fuse in the guys car i didnt now i did but when i installed it and done was done i tryed to start his car. and there was nothin. i was like ---- and it all clicked. but the sad part was it was 10 pm at night and we couldent get him a fuse in time so we had to drive him home for the night. and then drop his car off in the morning. i didnt get payed for that install. and i wounder why

jwn7

1. first time ever working under the car: (i had a couple beers first) i went to change transmission fluid, put the ratchet driver in the plug and tried loosening it - wouldn't break loose... hmm need more leverage. go get the 1/2" ratchet and adapter. put that in there, still wont come loose, give it hell and it breaks free. plug hits the ground, filled with aluminum from the tranny. yep, i don't know left from right

2. changed coolant, drove around the block to the store to get some food. come back, pop the hood, and decide to have a look in the radiator just to make sure everythings full. start to loosen the cap and HOT coolant shoots out and burns the ---- outta my hand. i'm such a retard, it says real big on there 'do not open when hot' hah

3. removed my entire ac system, and needed to take the now useless belt tensioner off the block. i'm using a 14mm box wrench on the nut that holds the wheel to the thing and god damn is this nut tight. i'm pulling the wrench toward the front of the car hard... real hard. it finally breaks loose, my hand flies forward and my wrist (specifically that big vein) got cut on something in there. i was bleeding soooo much. wrapped it up good with a towel and had a friend drive me to the hospital for some stiches.