You should probably look deeper into this before you go running your mouth

 

 

dude just GTFO this thread, ive seen you on numerous threads today with nothing to add but whatever garbage runs though your thread, contribute to the threads you post on dont post at all

 

How often do yall forget to screw on the oil filter when changing the oil and it makes a nice puddle? Unfortunately, i've done it once, that wont happen again.

 

Damn noobs. This is why we don't have nice things

 

ive done that before with the filter and ran to go get another quart, the best lessons are the ones that cost you. i agree with you redneck, we just cant have nice things, now this thread will end up being locked then have to be restarted

 

It doesn't have to end up locked. Just because it's a little polluted doesn't mean it's dying. Just gloss over the junk or get it pruned out, and the thread will be fine. It'll only get locked if the mean-spiritedness takes over...

One person adding another valid story gets everything back on track.

Here's an old one...

I was re-routing the wiring for the computer in the back, and like a dumba$$ didn't pull the fuse on the main power from the battery. I arced the ground when I pulled it off the screw it was grounded to in the process of removing everything. I got all the wires tucked away nice and neat and turned the key and the computer wouldn't turn on.

I figured I had blown the power supply out of it, so for the next 3 months I just ran an iPod touch as my head unit. Someone got into my garage and stole the iPod (but couldn't get b52hDUNN's enclosures or any of the rest of my equipment thanks to bolts). I pulled the rear interior stuff out one day to put in my coilovers and found my remote line with one wire running into the wire nut. Guess why the computer stopped working???

In any event... it's nice to have my carPC/touchscreen setup working again.

FAIL.

 

i got you on the grounding issue, was tightening up the connector on my Talon back in the day, slipped of the 10mm nut and grounded the hot side of my battery against my ECU, needless to say it killed it

 

Ok, I got one for this thread. Back when I was a wee newbie mechanic at Midas I did an oil change on a customers 4-Runner. Started up the motor to back it out of the bay and it made a horrible noise that I'd never heard before. Just then I heard something else - one of the more experienced mechanics screaming at me to shut it off. I forgot to refill the oil. Luckily it didn't do any noticeable damage.

 

I had one today....

Since I took my exhaust off my car is super quiet! I can't even tell when it's on soooooo I went to vacum my car and didn't turn it off since it's a quick thing. When I was done vacumming an old friend of mine came up to me and we started talking and ____...catching up you know....anyways I forgot the car was on so i got in, put the cluth in and "started it" It made the weirdest noise, i felt pretty stupid lol

 

doing a wire tuck on my civic, i saw a some wires that looked like they may have been for the more expensive models. Basically a hole bunch of wires that went into a plug that had an OEM cap on it. Instead of tracing the wires to their source or reading diagnostics i decided to cut them all. Taped everything up all nice and ran all my wires clean. Went to start the car...nothing. Couldnt figure it out for days, (the whole time my car is my buddys driveway and as each day goes by his dad gets more and more ____ed.) So i undid my whole wiretuck, had to cut off all my fresh tape and everything. Turns out that those wires went to each injector. Re-soldering was not an option, 6 out of the 8 wires were the same color. FAILFAILFAIL

cost me like $200 to get a whole new engine harness. Not to mention the time spent on tucking the first one, troubleshooting, untucking it, sourcing a new harness, waiting for shipping, swapping the whole harness, and tucking the new one.

 

thats a good one

 

for you. haha

 

i totally know that moment when you realize what you did when you screwed something up, its a strange feeling

 

^^^ That sucks. I'd hate myself for weeks if I did that. lol

Don't know why I didn't think about this earlier. This is probably the biggest brain-fart in the history of me.

I had this '83 Datsun 280ZX. Complete rust-bucket - everything but the engine was falling apart on this car, but the engine ran perfectly. I mean the damn thing could still get 21 MPG after 20 years and 183K miles, but if it ever didn't start it was quite feasible to lift up the carpeting and walk it home in the fashion of Fred Flinstone. Anyways, I'm driving around one day and the exhaust just falls off in the middle of the road. Literally - from the midpipe back - laying in the middle of the street. So I get home and some of my friends are hanging out with me in the driveway and I'm telling them about it. I decide to show them how loud it is, sans exhaust. So, in my infinite wisdom, I reach in through the driver's side window and turn the key to start it... but it's a manual (OF COURSE!). I soon discovered that the clutch safety switch didn't work. So I'm hanging out of the window of my car while the starter is lurching the car forward trying to fire up the engine with the clutch engaged. I see two of my friends do synchronized commando-style dive rolls out of the way so they don't get run over. Finally, the rear tire catches my foot and runs it over, which pulls me out of the window just in time so that I don't get drug straight into the garage wall. The car, however, is not finished. It keeps going... another 30 feet - straight into the living room wall, punching a hole most of the way through it. When it eventually stopped we we're all so stunned that we just stood there with our jaws hanging open for about 20 seconds. Then we all busted up laughing, 'cause really, what else can you do at that point?

This event remains a historical legend among my friends and I to this day. It's not uncommon for someone to bust out laughing with no provocation, and then ask "Remember when Laken's car drove itself through the living room wall?"

 

slight smaller one.

installed a new motor and trans in my 240 in like 16 hours. stayed up 48 hours straight. went to start the car...nothing. did all the basic troubleshooting, couldnt figure it out.

realized a little later that i forgot to plug the ECU back in.

yea, thatll do it.

 

If anyone beats this... I'll be shocked. That is just incredible.

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BTW... totally unrelated (but we do have a super-mod in the thread)... that stupid NOS energy drink ad totally creams my linux box at work. I dunno if it's just the linux version of Firefox or what, but my entire browser locks up when that ad is on-screen. Anyone else have this problem? I run Chrome at home and it's not a problem. It's the only ad on the entire site that screws me up.

 

^ make sure firefox is up to date, they have some program built-in that will lock up firefox if Flash doesnt respond in a certain amount of time.

 

I personally haven't done that before... but I'd say it's fortunate that you/or anyone that accidentally has that happen, that it was realized before starting the car and driving off.
Years ago, a good buddy of mine had just bought a brand new VW Jetta, and took it in to a standard quick oil change place for an oil change. He got in, started down the road... like 2 miles later, he said the car started shaking and sounding weird. Then it quit. Come to find out, the guy that did the oil change DID put the new filter on correctly, but set sail in the FAIL-BOAT by not properly tightening down the oil drain plug. Therefore causing the engine in a brand new car to completely seize. Needless to say the guy no longer worked at that place after they had to fork over like 6 grand for a new engine.

 

^buddy had that happen in his Z, wal-mart FTW