Mechanical mishaps Options

[natedogg]

I'm sure we've all done some stupid things when working on our cars so I thought I'd start a thread to share some of this stuff for a little comic relief. Feel free to share. If not, just fee free to laugh at others stupidity and misfortunes. Or if no one else decides to share feel free to laugh at my stupidity.

I'll start. Lets see we already established in another thread that I've
-Forgot to plug in MAF
-Forgot to torque down lugnuts.

Also I've
-Almost killed Akamiami back in the day by using a spare tire jack to hold my old FWD up while we attempted to change the fuel pump. The jack sheared, rear of the car fell, and fortunately didn't crush anything or anybody.
-Poured a quarter tank of gasoline on the floor of my parents garage on the same night.
-Started old GST with no oil in the transmission. Didn't actually drive anywhere. Just sat in neutral and revved it a few times until I started to notice the water and grime on top of the xmsn was smoking.

I'm sure I'll think of more as it comes back to me.

[The Iron Goat]

As stated earlier, I have also forgotten to tighten lugnuts and drove around town all silly like.

Also squeezed out a power steering o-ring and caused an engine fire that took about a month to repair.

Just yesterday I decide to take my strut tower bar off. So, I start undoing the bolts on top, and BAM!!! Once again Joe craps his pants. Logic didn't tell me that having the car up on stands with no wheels on would probably make those struts fall straight to the floor.

My brother was cutting some metal on my Meat Saw-turned bandsaw with an angle grinder. The sparks are streaming into his shirt, but he just keeps a cuttin'. To say the least, he still wears a shirt with a bowl-sized hole in it every now and then.