who knew leaf springs aren't sold as pairs, now I have to wait till the other one comes in on wednesday to go home for thanksgiving


I'll go ahead and post for Jeepman too, make sure the old oil filter gasket isnt stuck to the block before putting the new one on, looks like the damn valdez ran aground in his driveway

11/21/2006 11:31:46 AM

lol. i mean who welds on the wrong ring on a beadlock? honestly.

Jeepman walks away with his head hung in shame to grind it off

[Edited on November 21, 2006 at 11:35 AM. Reason : over 3 quarts drained btw]

11/21/2006 11:34:58 AM

I tripped over a dog in the hallway this morning. Damn black dogs are hard to see, on the way to the bathroom in the dark. So basically, I bBusted my ass and damn near pissed all over myself.

11/21/2006 11:35:06 AM

^ bwagaahahaahaha

11/21/2006 11:35:32 AM

Quote :

"I'll go ahead and post for Jeepman too, make sure the old oil filter gasket isnt stuck to the block before putting the new one on, looks like the damn valdez ran aground in his driveway"

lol i did this when changing the oil filter on my Impala... was the first oil change i did since the block was rebuilt and painted... couldnt figure out why oil was pouring out form the filter

11/21/2006 11:41:49 AM

It wasn't today, but the last time I changed the oil on my bimmer I left a rag in the engine bay. Hilarity ensued when I was sitting at a red light and smoke started pouring out of the hood from where the rag fell on the exhaust manifold.

Do you know how pissed I would have been if Jiffy Lube made that mistake?

lol @ myself for that idiocy.

11/21/2006 11:46:09 AM

Lets see what else, was changing the oil in the accord and forget to put the fill cap back on properly, think i just set it in there and forgot to tighten it up

started the car and heard a knock, what i would later find out was the oil cap sliding off the engine and hitting the fan, then didnt think much of it and proceeded to drive 300 miles with it off spewing oil all over my engine bay on that side... though the oil cap was lodged on the frame of the car, so i just had to get it out and put it back in

11/21/2006 11:51:44 AM

Now I see why some folks are so impressed by a pipe routing/welding exercise.

11/21/2006 12:22:41 PM

^ i'm sure this guy has never overlooked anything in his life, what a faggot, i love how n00bs try to come in talking shit before they realize that there are at least 12 guys on here including me that have worked or still are professional mechanics, and just about everyone but gargs has more automotive knowledge than he could ever dream of

11/21/2006 12:26:49 PM

last really dumb thing i remember doin was figuring 26 was half of 48 and welding 3 of the 4 pieces i was doing before realizing it wasnt centered...

11/21/2006 12:32:12 PM

Blind Hate's contribution to retarded things he did today...oh wait, he has none, he is far superior to the little blunders that we all laugh at. Maybe we need an "official dillusional things you did today" thread, just for him.


So you grew up around cars, did ya? How about grow dead in front of one.

11/21/2006 12:37:10 PM

where is my beloved retarded comments thread? we need to bump it for this nutsack

http://www.brentroad.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=333294&page=1#7195514

[Edited on November 21, 2006 at 12:49 PM. Reason : cant bump]

11/21/2006 12:40:34 PM

Quote :

"^ i'm sure this guy has never overlooked anything in his life, what a faggot, i love how n00bs try to come in talking shit before they realize that there are at least 12 guys on here including me that have worked or still are professional mechanics, and just about everyone but gargs has more automotive knowledge than he could ever dream of"

Thats like saying you have to be a physic PhD to comprehend f=ma.

11/21/2006 12:51:05 PM

obviously you know absolutely jack shit about anything automotive, as a matter of fact i saw your bitch showing you how to work the gas pump at the kangaroo, much less could you actually contribute anything worthwhile to this message board

11/21/2006 12:55:22 PM

^^true... maybe underPSI will bump it. we used to give you hell, haha.

i attempted to work on my duster yesterday with my only good limb (hand). didn't go over too well, as expected.

11/21/2006 12:56:34 PM

Quote :

"obviously you know absolutely jack shit about anything automotive, as a matter of fact i saw your bitch showing you how to work the gas pump at the kangaroo, much less could you actually contribute anything worthwhile to this message board"

I guess if you have to resort to such mind numbingly unfunny comments, you've lost, huh?

11/21/2006 12:58:12 PM

no sir, you lose

11/21/2006 1:01:08 PM

Quote :

"obviously you know absolutely jack shit about anything automotive, as a matter of fact i saw your bitch showing you how to work the gas pump at the kangaroo,"

Is this for real? If so, definitely a worthwhile post in this thread. And if not, it's a slam heard all the way in Siberia. Hahhahaaaaa

11/21/2006 1:08:10 PM

Two of you are doing a great job to perpetuate the dumb mechanic stereotype.

11/21/2006 1:12:55 PM

I realized yesterday that when I was bleeding the brakes last weekend I left the cap off for the brake fluid resevoir. Now it's gone. Another trip to the dealer...

11/21/2006 1:15:32 PM

11/21/2006 1:21:23 PM

i ordered a valentine v1 at 3 in the morning

11/21/2006 1:55:55 PM

^ That might be the least retarded thing you've done all year.
Were you crunk at the time?

11/21/2006 2:07:12 PM

lol, nope

i overnighted it

but the mounting bracket wont be here til next week

11/21/2006 2:16:33 PM

duct tape it

11/21/2006 2:18:17 PM

ill have to use the suction cups til then

11/21/2006 2:19:56 PM

i left my headlights on when i went to class today.. but it was only an hour so it started fine..

anyone see it? red 91 jetta on clark..

11/21/2006 2:26:23 PM

I went to work...been downhill since

11/21/2006 5:41:15 PM

didnt happen today but neither has everyone elses: topped off the coolant and left the cap off the resevoir, started car and while driving i realized i was having a helluva time shifting back into first. soon i couldnt get into first at all, limped/ran stop signs back home and realized my dumbass left the cap off and it fell down and jammed in my shift linkage...

11/21/2006 7:14:43 PM

hit my left middle finger real hard with a hammer today nailing a windbreak on my mule's stall. the swelling is starting to go down

11/21/2006 8:06:22 PM

realized that i havent updated the registration on my car

the 15 day grace period is up

and im driving home on the weekend where there will be the most cops on the road

11/21/2006 8:57:03 PM

A couple days ago I was trying to get the driveshaft off my 7 before taking out the transmission. There are four bolts on the rear flange, and you have to take one off, rotate it, take another off, etc. For the fucking life of me I couldn't get that thing to turn. I didn't know what the hell was wrong. I just struggled with it for a while.

Then I said "fuck it, I need to change the rear brake rotors." So I'm trying to get the rotors off, and I'm positive I've gotten the bolts off, but it just won't fucking budge. I spend an hour and a half trying to get either the driveshaft or the brake caliper off.

Turns out I had my parking brake on...

11/21/2006 9:54:39 PM

Quote :

"maybe underPSI will bump it. "

ok

11/21/2006 10:01:49 PM

helped my friend pull the harmonic blancer off his cherokee, got shitfaced drunk and passed out at his house, now i gotta go to a junkyard in the rain hungover to get a "new" one

11/22/2006 7:51:12 AM

dumbest car thing I ever did was catch my dad putting transmission fluid in the engine case, laugh at him, clean it out and then proceed to fill it back up again with transmission fluid. To my defense, the gallon jugs were identical except for in tiny letters it said transmission fluid, and oil. What we get for not using the containers the stuff comes in.

11/22/2006 8:32:18 AM

most recent thing:
was putting an electric motor together at work and had it all back together and I hooked it up to a battery to make sure it's working right. Doesn't even budge, but the control board is getting power, so I'm like shit . . . i fucked up. So I take it all the way back apart and I forgot to engage the springs that hold the brushes on the commutator.

most retarded :
my neighbor had this late 80's civic si beater and we had been working on it in front of my garage. We get finished and he he is putting the tools away so I figure I will crank it up and see how it's running. The car was a 5-speed and for some reason the neutral start switch wasn't hooked up . . . so normally when we we're working on it we'd just reach in the open window and crank it. Well this time he had left it in 1st and I'll be damned if that bitch didn't try to run all the way through the garage when I cranked it. It was kind of a funny sight afterwards . . . me with my legs hanging out of the car because i kind of dove in to hit the brake or something with my hand, my dad's good table saw all mangled bewteen the car and a fridge, a fwe other things between the car and the wall, and my neighbor just standing there like 6 inches from the car with a ratchet in his hand with the biggest "holy shit, wtf just happened" look on his face. If he hadn't been squatting down with the tools the table saw would have got him pretty good. Needless to say . . . my mom was pretty pissed and we still haven't lived that one down.

11/22/2006 8:47:25 AM

still waiting on the ups guy

11/22/2006 3:34:47 PM

still waiting on the ups guy

11/22/2006 6:55:45 PM

on the phone cussing out customer service

11/22/2006 7:11:09 PM

u ever get your shit?

11/22/2006 10:35:50 PM

Not something I did, but still retarded. My brother finished plumbing his car after bolting a turbo to it, and had done all the wiring/preliminary tuning. He decided he wanted to crank it up and did so. The engine made some horrible noises and wouldn't run for more than 1 second. Then we noticed ginormous puddle of oil under the car. Yeah, he forgot to put an oil filter on his car.

11/23/2006 1:05:33 AM

I was replacing a starter on my car which required some deft movemet between the block and the transmission and forgot to disconnect the battery cable. I'm using a metal wrench with no plastic padding on the handle. I go to loosen the nuts off of the electrical connections of the start and touch the back end of the wrench to the block. All of a sudden I've got a fuckload of sparks coming into my face and smoke everywhere. I caught some of my hair on fire too.

11/23/2006 6:36:26 PM

done that before ^

11/24/2006 12:34:18 AM

i backed a forklift into a rollup door at work

11/30/2006 2:49:46 PM

Had the heads rebuilt on the ford.
Went to button everything up, and couldn't find the plastic petcock for the radiator.
Went to the parts store, no petcock for a '73 300 c.i. I 6, grab a handfull of random other makes.
Get one for a 90's Honda (I think) in.
Fire the truck up, it runs like SHIT.
Puffs black smoke for a minute, then the motor clears up.

I think I located the petcock (on top of the piston)

[Edited on November 30, 2006 at 8:17 PM. Reason : asdf]

11/30/2006 8:16:17 PM

well i didnt do it, but i got a call from someone saying that they had broken an injection port for a automated controller on the return line of a 10hp pool pump. i told them to plug it till i could get out there and repair it. when i got out there i noticed two band aids over the broken 1/4" injector hole.

11/30/2006 8:24:48 PM