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.

[oldblue1968chevy]

thought id hang my door correctly cause it was catching up...

so i thought id adjust it, and shut it and 2 mo. later still cant open the danged thing lol

[Skirkpat]

Dumbest thing I ever did was sell my 1969 Camaro Convertible, oh and my 69Chevelle convertible, and the 72 vert and the 69 SS, and the 72 SS and the 71 GS, and..and...and...and... and well I guess I will never learn?

[boundstaffpress]

I've done the bolt down the distributor hole. That was an entire afternoon I don't want to repeat. I did score some cool tools out of the adventure.

I had a leaky gasket on an intake manifold, so I spread an old t-shirt over the lifter valley to catch all the gasket material. All clean, new gaskets and silicon. Bolt everything together. Look for the shirt to wipe my hands. Back apart after midnight. I wanted to do it before the silicon cured.

I had an old VW with a brand new engine. One icy morning the throttle stuck wide open after I pumped the gas to get it started. I managed to get back to the engine to shut it down. Started it again, and it screamed to a halt. Two months of daily driving was all that engine ever saw. Sold the car without an engine to Kris Kuksi. He makes freaky art you should all check out.

[72BLUZ]

heres one, some are telling of thier younger days. i had a 72 chevelle malibu, which was my first car. my couisins and i had been out playing soft ball and started home after it started raining. my car had a 307 and 3 speed in the floor. we had just went into a sharp curve to the right when my cousins said hey when you get into that curve hit
2nd gear and punch it. against my better judgement i did just that and fished tailed right into the ditch tore the piss out of the passenger side quarter fender. i had to lie like crazy to keep dad from taking it out on my quarter fender.

another time was just about a month ago. me and my bro in law had wired my new covan dash cluster. when i removed the original dash and wired the connector into the truck harness, i spent 2 days trying to fiqure out why it wouldnt work. my bro in law found the problem. i had wired the truck harness completely backwards form the dash plug. i felt like an idiot!!!!