Your biggest DIY screwups

Mt Tam I am · 10-19-2011, 01:44 PM

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Originally Posted by onzedge

One of my first was when I was doing an oil change on my Roadster when I was about 18 or 19. I was filling up the engine and a buddy pointed out the giant puddle growing from under the car. I learned then that the drain plug needs to go in before the refill (and to not drink beers and change oil).

This almost sounds familiar, but I'd been drinking so my memory is a little fuzzy.

onzedge · 10-19-2011, 01:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mt Tam I am

This almost sounds familiar, but I'd been drinking so my memory is a little fuzzy.

scottIN · 10-19-2011, 02:19 PM

Friend and I decided to put an overdrive pulley on my super-charged Mercedes. Read all the DIYs on it and thought we knew exactly what we were doing. Turns out we didn't. Ran great (extra 3 lbs. of boost) for about 200 miles and then it happened. We had pushed the woodruff key out of the slot and the pulley spun, sheared the key and drove it into the timing chain. Pulley grenaded and took out a bunch of other stuff, too. $2600 fix.

gurneyeagle · 10-19-2011, 02:29 PM

When in college, I purchased a surplus Post Office delivery jeep. Since it wasn't cool, I cut off the roof and made it into a proper jeep. Being a Business, as opposed to Engineering, major, I didn't take into account the loss of rigidity in the unibody.

After about six months, it literally broke in two while driving one day and burned to the ground.

From there, it was on to my first new car, a 1977 Datsun B210, aka "the penalty box". Kinda wished that P.O.S. had burned to the ground. It was replaced by a 1980 VW Scirocco, one of the all-time favorite cars I ever owned.

toxik · 10-19-2011, 02:32 PM

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Originally Posted by gurneyeagle

When in college, I purchased a surplus Post Office delivery jeep. Since it wasn't cool, I cut off the roof and made it into a proper jeep. Being a Business, as opposed to Engineering, major, I didn't take into account the loss of rigidity in the unibody.

After about six months, it literally broke in two while driving one day and burned to the ground.

From there, it was on to my first new car, a 1977 Datsun B210, aka "the penalty box". Kinda wished that P.O.S. had burned to the ground. It was replaced by a 1980 VW Scirocco, one of the all-time favorite cars I ever owned.

lol @ the jeep story. must've looked something like this:

10-19-2011, 02:29 PM	#4 (permalink)
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10-19-2011, 02:19 PM	#3 (permalink)
scottIN Track Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: New Castle, Indiana Posts: 764 Drives: '12 370Z Rep Power: 55	Friend and I decided to put an overdrive pulley on my super-charged Mercedes. Read all the DIYs on it and thought we knew exactly what we were doing. Turns out we didn't. Ran great (extra 3 lbs. of boost) for about 200 miles and then it happened. We had pushed the woodruff key out of the slot and the pulley spun, sheared the key and drove it into the timing chain. Pulley grenaded and took out a bunch of other stuff, too. $2600 fix.