Stupid Things done while working on a 914., C'mon..... Fess Up! Options

[ClayPerrine]

There was a request for a thread on stupid stuff done while working on a 914.

I will start......


I had my six up on my lift working on the rear suspension. I remember looking at the clock and it was about 6:50pm. I stood up to do something (I can't remember what now) and the next thing I know, I am sitting on the floor and my head hurts. I touch my head and I am bleeding. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/ohmy.gif) Seems I raised up under one of the rack arms and cracked my head open. I look at the clock and it shows 7:55 PM. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/dry.gif)

At that point, I decided to call it a night.


When I told Betty about it, she had a fit! (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/mad.gif) Her response was "What if you had been holding a cutting torch!!!". Now she insists on checking on me every so often when I am in the garage and it gets quiet for a long time. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif)

Ok... Who's next?

[Sparky]

Ok so I eluded to a darker learning period in another thread so here goes (note most of these adventures involved myself and DaveC):

#1. While helping out fellow addict with his 6 conversion we get the /6 in and al buttoned up. Figure we'll take for a test drive and see how it feels. Hmmm oil gauge says 0 pressure at idle. Check oil and it's fine. Engine is a fresh build from a solid shop. Ok bad gauge. Second gauge shows 0 pressure. Man were are we finding these bad gauges?! Third gauge shows 0 pressure at idle also. Ok Let's run her around the block. Get 100 yards down the road and SCREEEEECH motors stops. After owing it back home with Land Rover we discover that someone has the oil lines on wrong, feed to return. I recall someone saying "Are you sure the oil lines are on right?" after the first gauge read zero pressue.

#2. After finishing a head job on my 944 we got the engine back together and I was in the middle of torquing the cam rollers when 2 things happened, first a 45 minute conference call with work. Then Dave's 22 year old daughter pops out with some of her girlfriends all in bikinis. Dave's daughter is a stone cold fox as are her friends. I get back to working on the 944 and notice that I've picked up all of the tools while I was on the conference call. Must be done torquing everything down. So i cal Dave out and we decided to give her a crank and see how she sounds. crank crank crank BANG. #3 piston blows a chunk out of the cylinder wall after shearing off a valve. Seems I "forgot" to tighten the main tensioner pulley bolt with all of the "distractions" around me.

#3. Storing a stripped roller in dad's garage on metal saw horses 36" high. Dad needs it moved 4 feet over closer to the wall so we can put his boat in and do some work on it. I ask Mom to come out and assist, I figure I can just lift the roller while she slides the saw horses over. Working on one end at a time it should be a breeze. We get the front moved over and as we head to the rear of the car i give it a good lift and have it about chest high. Mom crawls under and slides the saw horse over and begins crawling out. The roller starts to slip so I lift more and can feel my left shoulder just ripping away. Mom gets out just as the shoulder gave away and the roller dropped onto the saw horse. While trying to explain all this to my doc he stood there with a stunned look on his face and said "I'm not a vet and I'm not used to treating gorillas." Took almost a year for that shoulder to heal right.

#4. Helping Dave with a fuel injection project on his /6. Using early heads with the injector bosses in the heads he upgraded to PMO throttle bodies. Dave bought injector "plugs" for the heads. We got them buttoned up and I was dialing his Electromotive with my laptop. We got the idle set and I'm trying to tweak a fuel curve and lean into the engine compartment when BANG one of the injector plugs comes flying out and parts my hair. It embedded itself in a ceiling joist. At that point I called it a night and had a very tall scotch. No water, no ice, just scotch lots and lots of scotch.

I've got more but these are the best (?!) so far.

Mike D.