What have you done thats really sucked!!!

[Indyuke]

1. I got an old buick skylark for a few hundred bucks with a bad miss. I tore the top of the engine apart to fix the miss but I had forgotten to check what cylinder was bad first, so I just ended up lapping all the valves something fierce and put it back together. I took a long time adjusting the valves... the motor heated up nicely... oil got all over the exhaust manifolds and WOOMPH! the engine caught on fire. I was outside and had no water, it was either snuff it with an oily rag or throw sand on it. I used the oily rag, which then caught on fire... I threw that into the sand and kicked it till it went out. Interestingly the engine fire went out soon after that. Put it back together, closed the hood and drove it for a year. Didn't even clean up the engine compartment or open the hood again, not even to change the oil.

2. This is just a random story. Had a 72 f100, and every week something would fall of it while driving down the freeway. Big things. I could hear them tear away and and sometimes actually see them bounce clangingly off the side of the road. I was 17 and at first I would get worried, stop and check, but I could never find where the pieces were coming from. Everything seemed in place, even underneath. And the truck ran great... everything worked. To this day I still can't figure out where all those pieces came from. Several dozen lbs must have fallen off that truck in all the time I drove it. I thought every part on a vehicle was necessary.