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

[davep]

QUOTE (Eric_Shea @ Apr 3 2006, 06:05 PM)

an acquaintance... how many of your guys are buying THAT? (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/laugh.gif)

Watch it bud, or I'll be selling you more antifreeze for that 914 of yours. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif)

[army dude]

OK, here is mine....

getting ready to pull engine on first 914 I decided to try to see what would happen to the engine when going down a hill, I throw it from 5th to 2nd, tach goes all the way right and needle falls to the bottom of the guage. No idea how many rpms I am turning. Engine holds, front right wheel bearing goes out. WTF!!! I am on a winding road in East San Diego and can't control my steering. Hit brakes. Thought that would be a good idea - wrong! Car pulls left asap and cuts right behind a 18 wheeler and introduces the bumper to the side of the hill. Now car is at a 40 degree angle on the side of a hill, smashed bumper, lost air dam, cracked windshield, dented rims, blown front tires and a hell of a bump on my head where I smashed the steering wheel.

Then I said I would never do something that stupid again.

Then, after car is fixed , and I borrowed two wheels to go driving , I head down to Chula Vista junk yards to get a set of new rims. I find a nice set of alloys and do the swap right there in the parking lot. Now I want to check my car out. Looks awesome. Friend is proud too! We leave and she says she feels a vibration at her foot. Now I do. We make final turn down the hill heading to the highway when passenger tire"S" come off. I get out and look and drivers tires are on by a total of 3 nuts. Lesson - dont try to impress anybody till the job is done.

AND NOW, WHAT YOU ALL HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR!!....................

I am with my buddy in his 74 firebird at Lajolla beach. Car wont start. We have had a few beers. It is Sunday. $10 dollars between us. Figure out fuel pimp crapped out on us. We are both jet engine mechanics/ combat search and rescue divers for the Navy. WE have the IQ points to fix this. Solution. Walk to gas station. Buy only gas can they have. 5 gallon red plastic can with spout. Fill it ALL the way. Get to car, take off air cleaner. Pour gas in cup to see if car will start. Pour in carb, turn it over - no problem. I get volunteered to act as fuel pump. Climb in engine area. Sit fat ass on radiator. Each foot extended to the hood hinges. Fun directly under nutz. Balance gas can on left knee and try to meter fuel into open carb. Car starts and is extremely jerky. He backs up and off we go. Start driving up huge hill from beach to get home. He is trying to accelerate and I am sitting there pouring fuel in trying to keep steady flow. Not working well. Get up to intersection and we are blocked in by several cars waiting for red light. People are lookin at me stupidly. I stick my tounge out at car next to me. He wasnt happy. Light must have turned green cause i am now almost eating the radiator hose. We get going and make it to I-5 and have to get on and then off. Then to the road we live on which is actually a huge hill down then up. Then into our apartments. We park. I have cramps in my legs and both shoes are filled with gas. The guys I stuck my tongue out at followed us and was an off duty cop. He called for an on duty but after we talked to him and the other cop he let us off with a warning. Only cause we made it in one piece. I finally realized how stupid that was.

Oh to be young again.

Ian in Iraq

35 days till stateside
42 days till driving

[redshift]

QUOTE (SirAndy @ Mar 23 2006, 02:18 PM)

it missed my face by about 5" and it went so fast that i didn't even see it. that could have been *ugly* ... (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/rolleyes.gif) Andy

I have seen your green tongue picture... it couldn't have been too bad.. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/laugh.gif)

It was hot, and I was frustrated, and about 23, and my starter didn't work, so I bitched, and took the screwdriver out.. I hit the terminals on the starter..

My girlfriend actually laughed.

The car was in second... if I could have held the screwdriver steady, it would have jumped me... but it pushed me around, and just made a big pinchy tread bruise.

(IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/unsure.gif)

OUCHHHHHHH



M

[redshift]

QUOTE (grasshopper @ Mar 23 2006, 11:24 PM)

I need to work on my temper.... (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/rolleyes.gif)

(IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/ohmy.gif) Oh my GOD NOOOOOOO!

(you need pharmapalogisticals!)

Don't do that, again.



M

[redshift]

QUOTE (Eric_Shea @ Apr 3 2006, 10:05 PM)

QUOTE an acquaintance came to me an acquaintance... how many of your guys are buying THAT? (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/laugh.gif)

(IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smilie_pokal.gif) rofl!


M

[Porcharu]

OT - My father in law told me this one a little while ago. He retired from the United maintenence facility in SFO. A mechanic is working on one of those power units they use to power the plane when the engines are off. He needs to add a hole to this panel to meet FAA regs. He plops the panel on his lap and procedes to drill a hole the drill POPs thru the metal goes thru his pants and into his "unit". The bad part is it gets all wound up on the drill bit. One of the other mechanics gets to unchuck the bit from the drill and haul the guy to the hospital where they unscrew the drill bit from his croutch. This guy had 30+ years at United.