[ktrim]

Today!!! Right Now. Let my mother-in-law borrow the family mini van as there car is in the shop. she stopped to get gas and locked the keys in the car with the car running and my 1 1/2 yr old nephew asleep in the back. only have one set of keys. police want to break the glass. yea me:hurray: :hurray: - just what I wanted to deal wiith on my day off!!!!!!!!!

 

[chevelleguy2005]

i have one from last night. my buddy was moving his 87' toyota pickup. it has a 5 speed, 2WD, and was on a solid sheet of ice. oh yeah, the brakes don't work either. when he put it into reverse to back it off the ice, it just spun the tires like i told him it would. so while the wheels were still spinning in reverse, he gets out and pushes the truck off the ice onto dry dry pavement. it took off like a rocket in reverse and almost smahed into his neighbor's truck. luckilly, he was able to get into the truck and jam it into first and dump the clutch to avoid hitting the truck. after that he owed me five bucks because we made a bet that the truck would do exactly what it did. he now won't even touch the truck untill he fixes the brakes.

 

[old73chevelle]

Dumbest thing I think I ever did,Well done alot but this one puts the icing on the cake-I bought two can of chevrolet orange from fleet farm-started painting my engine and well the can stopped spraying at half a can so I grabbed the other one and started spraying and it did the same thing! Well there I sat there with two half cans of paint and then well I got this bright idea how to get the paint out of the cans so I put the can in the vise went over got my trusty drill and proceeded to drill the can out! Don't ever do that a flame shot out about 2 feet wide and 6 feet long burned my eye lashes and nose hairs off and almost burned the place down if it wasn't for a bottle of antifreeze sitting there to put the fire out! I know I'm a idiot!

 

[ToocoolZ28]

Dumbest thing I think I ever did,Well done alot but this one puts the icing on the cake-I bought two can of chevrolet orange from fleet farm-started painting my engine and well the can stopped spraying at half a can so I grabbed the other one and started spraying and it did the same thing! Well there I sat there with two half cans of paint and then well I got this bright idea how to get the paint out of the cans so I put the can in the vise went over got my trusty drill and proceeded to drill the can out! Don't ever do that a flame shot out about 2 feet wide and 6 feet long burned my eye lashes and nose hairs off and almost burned the place down if it wasn't for a bottle of antifreeze sitting there to put the fire out! I know I'm a idiot!

You win!
Ron

 

[jhunt]

Well, my dumb act was similar to one of the above post.
I was changing the manifold and put some rags in the valley to clean the gasket off the heads and never took them out. I believe it was 3 red garage rags. Well, fired the car up and things were fine with solid lifters, it ran fine, because of no bleed down, until I noticed the oil pressure dropped and we shut it down. Took valve covers off and looked in and saw the pieces of rag. Well,these rags went through the entire motor and when taken to mach shop I was called down to look and,DAMN, it was amazing how far it traveled. To the point of red mud was under the bearings, around the cam, and the crank. To the tune of $2000 to repair and reassemble.
Another time I was working on my daughters honda with the battery, and I have to tell ya that I wear a Mr T starter kit, and my ring while working on the negative post, touched the positive and with the POP I thought I lost my finger. Needless to say that when working on the car I now take the bling off.

 

[Screw_driver2001]

Lol,, ok ive got 2 big ones, that fit into the what was i thinking group.
First, i was around 18 or so, And needed some gas to prime my carb,
So i proceed to lay on my back, and syphon directly off the gas tank line of my 67 firebird. So, Are you visualizing it yet? lol
One hard suck on the end of hose,,, And i got a face full of gas, up my nose, down my throat, in my eyes, i swallowed a good amount of it.
I Flew(litterally,never felt my feet touch the floor) inside half blind, not able to breathe,and stuck my head upside down under the water faucet.
Ohh man did it burn. my mom called 911 to see if i was gonna die or something,, luckily, all that happened is, i permenatly fried my left sinus cavity, coulda been alot worse. (Not proud of that moment)

Second is equally bad,

So im driving around in my 72 chevelle, no hood on it, as i just put eng in and am fine tuning it.
I notice a little flame on the posative battery cable, Right above the battery..
So what do i do?
I jump out, and start blowing on the fire, trying to put it out, with my face 3 inches from battery.
Well, luckily it hit me,, "What the hell am i doing?"
I turned, and ran as fast as i could to get to shelter, as soon as i turned, KAABOOM!!!!,,Battery exploded like a grenade, i got under cover just intime to hear the acid pouring down like rain all over the eng, and street.
I was litteraly 2 seconds away from blowing my face or head off.
Its moments like that, that really make u stop and think before you Do!!
Ive gotten better with age and experience,,lol (God i hope)

Wile E. Coyote; Super genius!!

 

[blu66velle]

my most recent was going to a big swap meet w/my malibu and putting a for sale sign on it ! i figured ," hey i might as well put a price on it since im parked in here " i thought the price was really high (more than double what i have in it ,that includes buying the car) but ive got a few people seriously interested in it calling me now and im temped too sell.......now thats a bonehead !

Brian
66 malibu
55 chevy truck
06 sportster

 

[GtrZan]

Don't think I ever told this to anyone, but here goes...

When I was in school I got a cheap old Fiat Strada for a daily driver. (not a "cool" fiat, looks kinda like a VW Rabbit) Just after I bought it I figured I'd atleast put new oil in it since it had been sitting in some guys garage for a couple years.

Went underneath and drained the oil thinking "my god that's the dirtiest oil I've ever seen. Even has what looks like little flakes of metal in it". Ah well, it runs and the price was right so I replace the plug and fill 'er back up.

Turn it on and head out of the driveway trailed by an enormous cloud of WHITE smoke!

Didn't go far, obviously, which was a good thing considering I had actually drained the manual transmission oil (transverse mounted engine, also explains the metal bits) and put an additional 4 quarts of oil on top of the 4 quarts that were already in the crankcase!

D'oh! Next was a crash course on dismantling the top end of a Fiat motor for a thorough cleaning.

 

[Ron_Long]

Back in 69 I was working 2nd shift. 3pm to 11pm. Incoming shift went to work and out going went home. Not me. 55 chevy would not start. I was working on it for close to 1/2 hour. Got it started. And you know when you are standing on the side of front fender and your pissed about the car. You slam the hood shut.! Well always remember to have your fingers away from fender and hood gap. Believe me, you cant open your hood from that position. I was there for about an hour before a worker from 3rd shift decided to come outside for a cigarette.. I was taken to emergency room and stitched two finger back together. Working fine till this day.