Stupid Things I've Recently Done

[Strife]

1. When reinstalling my polished/chrome goodies, I tried not to get too excited about finishing it. Too bad I wasn't careful enough to notice at first that the water pump pulley was rubbing on the dipstick holder. Fortunately, I found it and moved it (with great effort, there's still only about 1/16") before any serious harm was done.

2. When I was shaking the car down, I floored it on an open road - and the throttle stuck there! I shut the engine down, opened the hood, pulled the throttle back and limped home, very slowly.

After changing my pants and cleaning the seat, I discovered that the culprit was the poor dressing of the spark plug wires from my $140 dollar ill-fitting ignition wire set. I've tied the offending wires with DOUBLED twist-ties so that this can't happen again.

[ctaylor738]

When I changed the chain on my 380, I put it back together with the tube rubbing on the pulley. I started it and it made this godawful squealing noise like everything was about to come apart. I shut it down, and after a while realized that I would have to run it to find the cause of the noise. So I started it again and looked around for a very long two minutes before I found the problem. I really thought I had trashed something in the process of doing the chain.

[joselu43]

Me too, after replacing the spark plugs and some other stuff that required memoving the air filter, I went out for a test drive. Out of the first light I had trouble accelerating. Stupid me thought nothing of it and just pressed harder. Now the accelerator stuck, I was in traffic (fortunately not heavy) and had a red light ahead. Fun, fun fun. Was lucky and managed to get into a parking lot and fix things. Don't think I will ever forget.

JL