Funny car stories, Tell us your secrets Options

[madd_dogg_914]

I know everybody here has at least ONE funny story about working on their cars. This can be a fabulous thread if you all will tell us one story. I will even start it off.
This JUST happened to me last night, it really aint that great, but it made me feels so dumb I had to share it.

I am getting ready to install a new exhuast system on my Lexus today. I jacked up the rear of the car, get under there, take out old system, put in new system, clean everything up. Lower the car. Get in the car, start the car, put the car in to drive. . . car wont budge. I give it a little gas, makes this horrible grinding sound. So I shut off the car, look underneath, nothing. I am completly stumped. It had been a particularly long day, and I wasn't in the mood for this, so I go inside and make some dinner. I eat, then back to the garage to figure this out. I jack the back of the car up again, get in the car, start it up, e-barake off, make sure rear wheels are spinning, they are. Give it some gas expecting to hear grinding, none. Hmmmmm problem fixed itself. Okay, lower the car, get in SAME THING. Car wont budge and grinding if i give it gas. Mad as hell I get out of the car and walk out to the street to get the mail. As I am walking back I notice the big metal wheel chocks I used on the front. I quickly grab them and put them away. Hop in the car and drive right out to the street. Felt so stupid! Parked the car and looked at the driveway, two nice big indents where the choccks were grinding into the pavement. SHEESH!

So come on, I know there are stories better than that. I have tons of them and as I remember them I will be posting them here. Hopefully everyone else will join in and this can be alot of fun!

-Chris

P.S. Whadaya think of my new avitar, pretty nice huh! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[Dave_Darling]

I replaced the rollers on my rear decklid torsion rods. I had read somewhere that it was a good idea to remove the rear deck lid when you did this, as it was somewhat in the way. So I did.

I looked around for something to use to pry the torsion rod down so I could actually replace the roller. I found that a box-end wrench fit OK, and seemed like it would provide enough leverage. Unfortunately, I discovered that it wasn't very stable on there, and would slip around and then come off. So I had to get a very good grip on it to make sure it stayed put while I was levering it downward.

So picture this: Me, laying across the fender with my shoulders and arms in the engine bay, trying to keep this wrench from slipping. Guess where that put my sternum? Right over the little "pocket" that the hinge lives in.

Can you guess what happens next??? Yup. The wrench slips, and the torsion rod catches on the roller pivot, which is a part of the hinge. The hinge rockets up at about Mach 3, and hits me square in the middle of the chest.

The next thing I know, I'm flat on my back looking up at some clouds, and trying to remember how the whole "inhale-exhale" thing works. And I'm in pain. A whole lot of pain.

After about a million years, I finally figured out how to breathe again. It was a day or two before I finished that installation...

--DD