Ever done something completely stupid while working on your truck?

[jbclassix]

Ummm... rode hanging on to my exhaust pipe down the driveway and across the street (trying to adjust trans shift linkage)

Drilling 1/2 holes in the frame with a 55 degree drill, with a cast after surgery, cought the bit and twisted my hand around pinning my knuckle, and the drills trigger...

Cut my 4th door piece 2 inches to short... don't know how I did that one still

Lots of selling regrets...

[thesledhead]

Originally Posted by RexDodge

I have closed the hood on more eye glasses than I can remember. The best one was around 20 years ago. I built a landscape/pipe rack on my truck with it parked in the garage. When I was done I stood back and marveled at what I had built. Jumped in to back out of the garage and whamo! Had to let most of the air out of the tires to clear the garage door. Luckily it was late and no one saw a thing.
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LMAO that may be the best one LOL


just after I painted and lowered my truck I went to lift it on the hoist and didn't pay attention to the lift arms as they where going up well it left me a nice little reminder to slow down in the passenger side rocker

[El Campo]

Originally Posted by jbclassix

Ummm... rode hanging on to my exhaust pipe down the driveway and across the street (trying to adjust trans shift linkage)

Drilling 1/2 holes in the frame with a 55 degree drill, with a cast after surgery, cought the bit and twisted my hand around pinning my knuckle, and the drills trigger...

Cut my 4th door piece 2 inches to short... don't know how I did that one still

Lots of selling regrets...

At least you werent drilling on a piece of metal that you were holding on your lap and drill slipped into your crotch at full speed and wrapped your jeans and other very important body parts up into the bit before the drill nearly broke your finger with the handle helicopetering around. THAT was painful. Oh and this wasnt working on my truck but it was the most recent dumbest thing I have done: A couple years ago I was putting forward controls on my Harley while I was also working on the carburetor at same time. Well I couldnt seem to get the back brakes bled for some reason but I managed to get the carb working pretty well I thought. So decided to go on a test ride. Got on it to see if I had fixed the miss that it was having (I had). So nearly immediately I am going 100+ MPH when I realize that I am coming up to a 90 degree curve covered in gravel. Never realized how important back brakes were till that instant when I hit the front brake and it instantly locked up and I think I actually SPED UP! I had two options: either try to take the curve and positively lay it down (with no helmet none the less even though I am an ER nurse) or try to go off the road and just pray for the best. I decided to take chances going straight off of the curve and Thank GOD that it was the one field in my entire county that did not have a barbed wire fence around it AND the ditch was very shallow. I did not lay it down or anything and just had the humiliation of having the people in the house across the road looking out being like what the heck is that guy riding his motorcycle around in that field for.

[Lemield]

There have been so many that it is hard to count....but one of my 'best'....
I was dating a gal (who is now my wife) and she had an old Plymouth Reliant wagon. The wagon had so much grease on the engine....so I take the car and her to the car wash about a block from her house...I proceed to wash the engine and the area around the bell housing. So far so good....somehow, I still don't know how, a small electrical fire starts back on the top of the transmission/bellhousing area....I'm out of quarters and have nothing I can think of to put out the fire....so a BRILLIANT idea comes to me...I disconnect the windshield washer line, and have her press the button, thinking that the washer fluid will put out the flames.....forgot that the fluid is mostly alcohol....needless to say....the fire was larger when I got done with that...finally used a floor mat to smother the flames.... It's funny now but was not funny when it happened.

[twouvakind]

Those were the days....windshield washer fluid was something other than the weak blue juice it is today!

[Portmod7]

Originally Posted by jhwkns

I plead the fifth!

Originally Posted by specialtyretail

Most of my mishaps on my cars n trucks when I was younger was because I drank the fifth..

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

[MARKDTN]

Put a 1-pc seal crate motor in a truck and didn't have the later flexplate bolts with smaller heads. Didn't want to go back out to the parts house. Used old-style big head bolts anyway. I thought I could tighten them enough with an open-end wrench. A day later it sounded like it had a rod knocking. Bought (another) new flexplate and correct bolts correctly tightened and it was OK.

[Gene]

Wow! This thread makes me feel much better, I have done a lot of the boneheaded things y'all have done too.
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[nate_g_2003]

It wasn't on my Burb, but a few years back, I was putting in an aftermarket stereo in my '03 Ranger. I had the dash apart, and the driver seat out (to put an amp in). Somewhere in the chaos, I managed to acquire an open circuit. I had no tail lights or park lights. I tried replacing the radio with the stock, and still nothing. Tried putting in a new headlight switch, nope. Ended up taking everything out (stereo and amp), and sending it to the dealer and let them figure it out. In my defense, I was working and going to school, and didn't have the time to chase electrical gremlins haha.

[gearheads78]

I've had a few in my day but the worst was about 10 years ago knowing I stripped a U-bolt nut on the 9" Ford install I had saved 6 months for in my Gbody Malibu. Thinking hey its still got 3 of the 4 holding well as long as I take it easy it will be fine to cruise around a little. 4 hours later I was towed home needing a new transmission case, driveshaft, exhaust system and lots of floor pan damage.

[camrycurt]

Originally Posted by skorpioskorpio

Yea, I backed my '66 Toronado out of an enclosed trailer when it wasn't attached to the tow vehicle, it was on a hill. My stupid assumption was that electric trailer brakes lock up like air brakes when not attached to a power source...they don't. So I back up a few inches, the nose of the trailer goes up in the air and I panic hit the gas, Toronado dies, no tires on the ramp yet, and of course in an enclosed trailer you can't get out, and I go for a half mile blind ride down the street in a 26' trailer doing a wheelie. Lucky for me someone parked a car half way down the hill and provided a nice landing spot.

That stupid enough for ya? Oh and to make it somewhat relevant the tow vehicle that wasn't there was a Suburban.

Holy Cow!! Lol!

[rsavage]

skopioskorpio - That should have been videotaped!

[jbclassix]

Oh yeah, another one is my round scar on my index finger where I drilled trough a piece of metal I was holding into my knuckle... best advice on that one is drill till there are no shards of flesh to pull on, then remove bit.

When I was pressing studs into my hub and rotor I was using a press with a threaded ram. never had it do this before but as soon as I started to put pressure on the stud, it threaded itself in, spinning the disc with it, the sharp edges of the 2 pieces made nice scissor effect taking off all the meat from the bottom of my nail down to the joint! That one didn't hurt believe it or not!

[glider_6969]

I've got one for this post. Way way back when I had my first 72 GMC I thought it would be a good idea to drive my truck to the back of my dads farm, was ok getting in but got stuck on the way out first mistake, but at least the truck was facing the right way for me to hook a chain under the front cross member. Well my second mistake I left the truck running (no not in gear) third mistake I stuck my hand up under the bumper with the chain hook in my hand and figured out in a hurry where the engine fan was. I heard a bang and felt like someone hit the top of my nuckles with fricken hammer,, I got lucky still had all my fingers, just had no feeling in then for a couple mins.
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[gotchamel]

Just recently put about 8 oz. of brake fluid into a power steering resovoir.I t was a brand new{not rebuilt}power steering pump,and yes I went for a test drive.Drained and flushed the system within an hour,so far so good.I realize brake fluid is hard on seals,have to wait and see.

[70c10-08]

A buddy of mine at the place he works at had a 1975 Chevrolet Scottsdale 20 with the most pristene immaculate blue factory bench seat ive ever seen tried and tried to get the bolts off the seat frame couldn't do it so he grabbed the torch and proceeded to remove the seat well a mouse came out of the seat and he turned into the biggest girl ever up went the lit torch and away he ran screaming then he was like oh s**t the seat yeah he brunt up that pristene bench seat

[eagleuh1]

Finished installing my new carpet after pulling out my in cab gas tank in my driveway. Had parked at an angle in the driveway because my travel trailer was in the way and needed the room to pull seat out. Then my wife parked her car at an angle next to my truck bed. When I was done with everything, got in the truck, started it up, closed the door, put it in reverse and then backed straight into the only tree next to my driveway. Forgot I was parked at an angle. Ruined a fairly new bumper, all the bumper brackets and dented my perfect 68 tailgate. : (. My wife, who witnessed all, just folds up laughing her a*s off. She's getting used to the stupid stuff I do.

[skorpioskorpio]

Originally Posted by rsavage

skopioskorpio - That should have been videotaped!

Luckily this was in the early '90s before everyone carried a camera on their hip so my idiocy was not immortalized.

So I guess I should mention that the trailer and the car inside were undamaged, the only physical damage to anything was the near perfect 2 and 1/2 inch hole the trailer jack punched through the hood of that parked car. I felt bad so I filed a police report, but the car had no plates, the cop stickered the car and a week later it was towed and impounded. Still feel bad for who ever that car belonged to, but as it turns out the owner may have never known, or cared, that this event ever happened.

[Eddie H.]

My episodes of doing something completely stupid are too numerous to remember, and certainly not limited to just when working on my truck.

[mygmctruck]

Originally Posted by RexDodge

I have closed the hood on more eye glasses than I can remember. The best one was around 20 years ago. I built a landscape/pipe rack on my truck with it parked in the garage. When I was done I stood back and marveled at what I had built. Jumped in to back out of the garage and whamo! Had to let most of the air out of the tires to clear the garage door. Luckily it was late and no one saw a thing.
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Hey I had to laugh , your in good company . I can say the same thing , but I was just able to get half way out the garage when the pipe rake wedged tight against the header ! I couldn't go back or forward and had to let the air out of tires. The to top it off , my wife says to me . I thought you were some what intelligent ?

[mygmctruck]

One of my big ones was when I was a teen ager. For some reason I decided to remove the valve cover on the 6 banger of my dads 49 chevy. I looked at the rocker shaft and rockers and thought , they sure are dirty , I will clean them up.
I took the shaft off the head and removed every rocker arm not giving any thought to what I was doing. clean them up. Put them back on the shaft ( not in any kind of order ) set the shaft on the head and bolted it down , Some of the bolts I had to force down and didn't understand why ? Well dad got home and saw what I did , blew his stack and we had to go buy a used junk yard rocker assembly and put it on the head.
Note : for some of you younger guys , the rockers are made for each valve and not interchangeable so if you don't pay attention to what the heck you are doing , your in trouble. Guess what I never did that again.

[kaynnon]

I unbolted the seat of my first car so I could pull it out at the car wash to vacuum under it, it made it fine to the car wash, set it to the side and did my cleaning, I set the seat back in and went to leave and the street was busy so first chance I got I dumped the clutch and took off. next thing i know I'm pulling out into a busy 4 lane with my seat laying on its back and my toes pointing up. been 20 years and i still think of that sometimes and chuckle when I'm pulling out into traffic

[mygmctruck]

Originally Posted by kaynnon

I unbolted the seat of my first car so I could pull it out at the car wash to vacuum under it, it made it fine to the car wash, set it to the side and did my cleaning, I set the seat back in and went to leave and the street was busy so first chance I got I dumped the clutch and took off. next thing i know I'm pulling out into a busy 4 lane with my seat laying on its back and my toes pointing up. been 20 years and i still think of that sometimes and chuckle when I'm pulling out into traffic

That' was Great. Almost feel off the chair.

[RustyBucket]

Originally Posted by kaynnon

I unbolted the seat of my first car so I could pull it out at the car wash to vacuum under it, it made it fine to the car wash, set it to the side and did my cleaning, I set the seat back in and went to leave and the street was busy so first chance I got I dumped the clutch and took off. next thing i know I'm pulling out into a busy 4 lane with my seat laying on its back and my toes pointing up. been 20 years and i still think of that sometimes and chuckle when I'm pulling out into traffic

The reverse of that is when you apply the brakes and release the seat adjuster at the same time..

[mygmctruck]

Here's another one , I pulled up in front of a friends house on a hill. The truck is pointed down hill. It's stick and I have it in neutral and the engine running. I jump out of the truck and walk up to his porch and he's asking me where my truck is going ? I look at him like what are you talking about , he says look behind you , sure enough the truck is headed down the hill at some what of an angle , it finally stops after running over kids toys and a couple of bushes and finally stops at a tree that refused to move. The worst thing was the truck belonged to my boss !

Like many of us I could go on and on about this stuff. Made a lot of idiot moves in my life.