MOBEONER

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This thread is to post your dumb mistakes while working on your car.
I was working on my FD doing an auto to manual swap, After getting all the auto stuff out i started instaling the manual trans, drive shaft ect. I had everthing bolted up and i was ready to start installing the exhaust. When i decided to take a little brake and have a slice of pizza and a beer i walk into my garage and guess what i see laying on the floor! !!! MY GOD DAMN CLUTCH DISK !!!

bajaman

Damn man...that would SUCK!

I had my FD in the garage I had built, and I was finishing out the inside with sheetrock, and to make a long story short I dropped a 2 X 4 X 8 on to the roof, denting it....grrrrrr!

kustomizingkid

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I put a clutch disk in backwards.... Got it all together and went to push in the clutch and I couldn't push the pedal down... I was like ****!

Battle Cat

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i was swapping trans, and i had removed all the bolts except for one. then i called it quits for the nite.

i went back at it the next morning, removing the last bolt and had the trans hit me in the chest.


i quickly learned, finish what i start lol

zack4173

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Ouch dude that sounds freaking painful.

moconnor

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I put the oil pressure sender into the unused knock sensor location just above the trailing plug on the rear housing, leaving the sender location (which is hidden behind a spark plug wire) open and happy to spew oil. Turned on the engine and had oil gushing from my engine bay. Caught it in seconds but spent hours cleaning up the oil.

MyRedFD

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^ That sounds like a fun time. Several years ago I was changing the rubber gasket that had cracked on the water pump of my old 87 Cutlass and forgot to put a pan under the car to catch the coolant. Then when I had to put the pulley back on the bolt snapped off, leaving the rest of the bolt in the shaft. I figured screw it and just left it in there.

Prometheus

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I hear you on the ffffffffuuuuuuuuuu factor...

afgmoto1978 and I did this with his HKS twin plate the night before SSXI

He ended up gutting it out and fixing the problem, while I took off to work.

We worked through the night to get that bitch ready for the road trip, and the first part of the road trip was the better part....

The second half, I ended up blowing his motor 800 miles from home.

Talk about fffffffuuuuuuu.

FDWarrior

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I had my FD up on a GM spare tire jack in my drive way. Normally jacking your car up like I did would not be a problem, unless you drive way is a 35 degree slope like mine. I got 1 lug on my back wheel finger tight then the jack snapped in two. Luckily I wasn't under the car, or any of my extremities for that matter.

kyleaudio

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i have a couple of things that happened while replacing my engine.

when i got my new engine i had to put a pilot bearing and seal in (engine was from an auto) and i used a properly sized socket as the FAQ says to do, once the bearing was in it no longer turned! i had no remover... so i loaded the short block into the back of my brand new honda fit and brought it to the mazda dealer to have it removed and replaced, i dont think that they've ever seen anyone bring their engine in to be fixed, especially in a honda.

then on first startup i noticed a bit of smoke coming from the turbos and lots of fuel leaking on the floor, imediately i went to shut the car off to prevent a fire, forgetting all about the turbo timer that i had installed i started to freak out when the car wouldnt shut off, luckly the timer was only set to about 10 seconds... i have never forgotten about the turbo timer since.

grimple1

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I accidentally loosened the radiator filler cap when working on my single...... I made it about 2 miles before I smelled coolant. Luckily the cap was still in place... just leaking coolant like mad.

simple fix.. thank god.

staticguitar313

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Once when i was replacing my Fc trans (for the 4th time) when i was puling it down to get to the clutch. Anyways i had the car on jackstands and i had the trans disconnected from the engine and it rolled off the transmission jack into my chest/face and the leftover fluid poured out of the shifter housing into my ear. was FUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN didn't hurt, just FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU UUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-

KFC3S

luckily for me the only mistakes that spring to mind are driving off with the lugnuts on the rear wheels finger tight (after putting the wheels back on and forgetting to do up the nuts). The other one was doing an oil change, and forgetting to install the sump bolt before chucking the new oil in .

Also, I feel bad, but I cant help but laugh hard at the guy who got an ear load of tranny oil - it just brings such a hilarious mental image of a guys head pinned in place by a gearbox with oil flowing down onto him with no way to move his head away.

zanthrax

I once forgot to put the radiator cap back on after checking the level. (which was fine btw)
About 5 miles from home I noticed a puff of white smoke from under the hood at a trafficlight, at the next light the watertemp was rising and I pulled over. No damage don't but I was atleast 5miles from home with a car that wasn't going anywhere without extra coolant and no cellphone.

And I dropped one of the bolt that normally holds the valvecover into an oilchannel while replacing the headgasket on my civic. Couldn't get it out with a magnet but I did figure outt it was in the oilpan, installed a magnetic drainplug and ordered an extra new bolt. Car was sold some time ago and still runs.

rd_turbo

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Years ago I put a new battery in one of my FBs and it was a dual terminal battery. When I turned the headlights on, one of the headlight retractor arms touched the side battery terminal. I had never seen that much smoke coming from so many locations on the car. That took out most everything electrical. The car was still relatively new so I let the insurance company deal with it....dang faulty battery..... It took a donor car giving up every inch of wire and every electrical bit to bring it back to normal. This was in the 80s and I think the insurance company ended up forking out close to $4k.

wrankin

Getting a friend's FD ready for the track - there were three of us working on it changing fluids, etc. Changed the oil, removed the old filter but forgot to put on a new one. Owner gets in and cranks it up and suddenly we have a geyser of oil coming up from behind the engine. Cut the engine immediately and then spent the next hour cleaning up the engine bay.

sbelyo

I've got two...

I was putting a temp sensor in the side of the block on my 01 Mustang GT. I thought I had everything I needed under the car. The pan I had to cath the coolant was maybe 1 gallon, (there's 4 gallons in there). I soon realized I needed a bigger pan. I found one an caught most of the overflow after I took my antifreeze shower.

A few days ago I gave myself a black eye with the handle of my floor jack. I was stacking tires when I dropped one onto the jack. My head was in the perfect position so that when the tire forced the handle back it went right into my eye! Damn that hurt.

NewbernD

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The first motor I ever rebuilt was an aircooled VW. Didn't realize that I had a turned crank and so I used standard bearings. Don't mind that extra slop.. must be normal. :P (I was young.. didn't even know about such things..) Darn thing ran great and didn't leak a drop of oil but sounded horrible.. like someone was beating it with a hammer. It lasted about 3 weeks.

Force13B

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Just got done doing a full brake work up on my truck and i didn't snap the lid on tight enough for the reservoir. The first good press of the brakes shot brake fluid all over and that stuff eats paint.

Only dumb thing i've done to the 7, so far is I forgot to put the oil drain plug in and dumping 2 quarts right back out the bottom i'm just glad i hadn't take out the oil catcher.

Edit: The first oil change i ever did on my truck i losend up the oil filter and was spinning it off by hand (Mind you the car was still quite warm) soon as the filter came off of it's threading it slipped out of my hand and i dumped extreamly warm oil on my chest

kyleaudio

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haha, yea i did the same thing on my friends truck when we were flushing out the fluid, made a pretty nice mess too because we didnt catch it untill about 6 pumps later...

samseed12

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Onec i was working on my buddys accord. His drivers sid window would not roll down. he started by looking for any lose wires or any sort in the drivers side door, i stared taken out the dash to look at the wiring and it took me a week or so to sheck it and he was getting current on the wier harness and i had him check the door for the sec time. By the time i got the dash back togeather he was like( OH **** THE WINDOW LOCK WAS ON THE WHOLE TIME ) I cant say much cus i should have cecked it myself but oh well

Cgotto6

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I bled my brakes one time, then reinstalled the wheels, set it back down and took it for a test drive...About 1/4 mile down the road I remembered I left the wheel lock key on the last tire that I torqued down. Spent about an hour on the side of the road looking for it but couldnt find it. Ended up having to pound on a socket slightly smaller than the wheel lock onto each lug to get them off.

BlowenByTwins

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Me and a friend of mine were working on his FD and he would use a butane torch to heat up dirty bolts so they would be easier to turn. Well there was a rag by him in the engine bay and he caught it on fire with the torch. To make it worse the car was raised above our heads on a lift so we had to watch the engine bay catch fire while the lift slowly lowered the car. It felt like forever waiting for the lift to move, and he ended up losing his wiring harness to the fire. Didn't damage anything else though. And I wouldn't let him forget it for weeks.


It pays to be careful!

Force13B

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I've had to do that but it was because the new car my friend bought didn't come with the tool. Good thing sears warrantys their tools for life
Just weeks i'd never let him forget it.

Battle Cat

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its all good, ive had to many blunders with my fc lol