don't do it!

this has been your community service bulletin for the day.

 

that sucks..

 

Ouch! Bust any knuckles when that sucker let go?????

Need a pedestal? LOL Shoot me a PM

Crispy

 

i did actually but i should have one here tomorrow from Glen. thought i had some laying around but i guess not.. luckily the engine was out of the bay when i was taking the line off so i didn't smash anything, the line twisted when i tried to remove it from what was left of the pedestal with my 1/2" impact gun in a vice, it has a death grip on there so the line, fitting and pedestal were a total loss.

 

w00t! Oh I bet it let go! LOL if I saw that line starting to twist I would have broken out the heat to kill that threadlocker. Either way a nice trophy for your wall of failures. LOL wanna see my wall?

L8R,
Crispy

 

oh i have a few, one of the better ones was a S4 n/a rotor housing with an apex corner boot seal pressed into it! lol

 

Damn it funny how some people completely go overboard with these engines.

 

My favorite is a single 10mm nut. Fell down an intake runner with the UIM off. I had to tear that friggin motor right down to the shortblock turbos, exhaust mani and all and with a small magnet on the end of a string at the end of a fingertip was able to fish it out. It was sitting on the spark plug side of the engine on top of the rotor face. I have that string with that very same nut hanging above my workbench to remind to ALWAYS cover those runners the minute the UIM is removed.

but my apologies...I digress...that oil pedestal is a keeper
Crispy

 

about 2 months ago i had a customer who's brand new rebuild had a bolt sitting somewhere in the intake tract that worked its way into the motor after he hit the first bump taking the car and new engine for a drive. unfortunately it wasn't a warranty repair but i still did the best for him that i could.

ALWAYS tape off open engine holes, ugh, i have never ran an engine personally because i am careful but i have also dropped things down the intake just after removing it and i know your pain of fishing for hours..

another of the best was a motor that came in with a perfect indentation of a 12mm bolt and threads pressed right into the rotor face like it was putty taking an imprint.

 

Seems like there are a lot of unqualified hacks working on these cars...... we've seen our share of interesting things at IRP. In more than a few cases someone was trying to save themselves $300 and ended up costing themselves $3000

 

This also almost happened to me. I bought a Jspec engine a while back, I immedialty tore it down and was going to rebuild it. When I removed the lower intake, there was a 14mm nut sitting in the intake runner in the front cast iron. That would have been very bad if I was not planning on rebuilding the engine!!!

 

wow. I hope I don't have to experience anything like that when I put in my respeed pedestal.

 

It never ceases to amaze me how internet mechanics find new ways to screw up their cars.

 

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later

 

i believe the previous rebuild was done by a reputable shop actually but for some reason this banjo bolt was on so tight that it is NEVER coming off. the engine itself was in ok shape except for the 2 cracked 3mm apex seals which luckily stayed in the rotors until teardown. i can only assume they used loctite on the banjo bolt, i have never seen one stuck that tight before.



rotors turned out fine.