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I have so much i can list
1. Have a resistor box that i take in every night so im working on my car 1 morning finishing up from the prev night so i go to start the car up wont start needless to say i spent 1 1/2 hours taking ---- off and inspecting rewiring this and that calling freinds asking what i may have fucked up then my girl comes downstairs and says Dont you need this box to start your car.

On the first civic i have ever owned i was playing with the white igniton box. while striping interior so by this time all the wiring is on the floor panel im hangin half out the Car.I hold my clutch with 1 hand twist the screwdriver with the other ---- starts up it cold so its idling at about 1800 hand comes off the clutch the car's in gear ------- thing drags me about 10 ft and threw a fence before i can rip the ebrake to stop it.

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ran myself over.

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Not a pain in the ass, but I seem to always forget to plug in the VSS after putting a trans back in.


Also lowering the car onto the oil bucket. Kitty litter works great in these shitsuations.

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not me being stupid but the guy i bought the car from

i buy this jetta or golf, whatever it was dude had just replaced the valve cover gasket with his buddy or somthing like that, i think they took way more ---- off then they needed too, because they disconnected spark plug wires from the distributor and a bunch of other ----. he got it back together and it never ran again. they tried to figure it out for who knows how long, then he gives up and puts it on craigslist for like $300

i buy it and tow it home. stare at the engine for a little bit. switch the plug wires back to the right order, it fires right up. they put the plug wires in the wrong order so the car wouldnt start or run :1


im sure i have alot of stories where i was at fault, i cant think of any good ones

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This thread is great, lets keep it alive 8)

More than once I've left a ratchet on the crank pulley when starting, no major fuckups from that.

When I was real young working at an oil change place I pulled the radiator hose when the guy underneath the car downstairs was doing something with it, spilling hot coolant all over him. He swore and I laughed, guy was an ass anyways.

Doing my first engine swap in my civic swapping out the b7 for a z6 Ryan was up top maneuvering the engine in with the hoist and I was underneath trying to line up the rear tranny mount, I think we had the 2 side mounts bolted in loosely then I the rear mount wouldn't line up, I was trying to rock the engine while it was being lowered and all of the sudden there was a pop and blood was dripping on my face, it smashed my thumb and ripped out the whole nail and hurt like a bitch. I was pretty pale from the blood I lost. There's still a stain on my mom's garage floor.

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umm lets see on the 88 camry the auto shifter broke and the car had no tach
so the car got stuck in "2" so i gangster wired it to fire up anyways where I would have to hold the brake with one foot, kick it into neutral with the other and touch some bare wire together with my hands. drove it in "2" for a good 4,000$ miles and eventually killed the motor from holding it at redline

realized later it was all because I jammed the wrong key into the shift interlock hole and broke it off :6

in the q45 I retardedly put a bulb from the fogs into the headlight or vice versa, and after doing one side correctly i was like wtf why wont it fit
so I jammed it in and broke shards all over inside the housing and never cleaned them out. pissed me off.

in the integra I forgot to pull away the jackstands and dropped the car off a jack. dented my doors/underbelly :1
first drive after my auto to manual swap I revved my motor that had never gone past 6400rpm to 7000rpm in 1st because I wanted to see where redline was. spun 2 bearings.

on the bmw I noticed that my wastegate didnt actually work and said ---- it, drove with redline limited boost until i unnecessarily blew my headgasket. continued to drive it for a couple thousand miles. it started to burn 1qt of oil every hundred miles, tried to go on a 300 mile trip and it burned all 6 quars in about 80 miles, engine oil pressure disappeared on the freeway and almost siezed up, knocked like crazy but I filled it up with 7 quarts of super tech and it's ok now. Left the oil cap off by accident so all the extra pressure shoots out of it, no more oil burning :1

a winner was in the freezing cold, like 5*F I had to replace a coolant hose on the bmw, so I did and topped off the car with water from a water bottle. Started and drove the car an hour or so later, overheated like mad. pulled over, the water had frozen and shattered my new hose :1

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Hmm, what I did most recently was putting the intake manifold back on the LS1, i forgot to drop the rear 4 intake manifold bolts in ( they dont fit in place once the intake manifold is where its supposed to sit, so you put them in prior to fitting the intake manifold) and i put the intake manifold on, plugged in the connectors, then realized i forgot to put the bolts on. So i pull it out and in the process i rip the wires out of the MAP sensor right where they meet the plug, and in the process I break the oil pressure sensor. So i have to buy the oil pressure sensor and the socket $100 later I get that in. Then i have to re-pin the map plug with pins i stole form the old EGR crap, rewire it ALLLLL the way in the back of the engine, and put it all back in. Then when I goto the dyno I have the wires all sorts of fucked up, can't tune it, have to go home, buy a $200 scanner and fix it. Bring it back to the dyno, pay $500 and have it tuned. All that ------- money ontop of the H/c that cost $2500 :'(

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Not having a cotter pin in the ball joint and the lower control arm coming off coming out of my driveway :1

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not taking the old o ring out of the coolant temp sensor mount, and tried to shove the new sensor with o-ring in so hard that i broke off the flange.

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dropped a valve down into a cylinder while doing a valve stem seals, ------- $30 air compressor couldnt supply enough pressure to keep the valves seated.
2 days later and a hemastat through the spark plug hole i got that bitch back in the hole.

never trust those air fittings in the spark plug holes, i always use a rope through the sparkplug hole now.