Ever do anything stupid like this?

[Mill Rat]

Today I installed a fuel pressure gauge, (from Geno's ), on the truck. I had tools, parts and wires scattered everywhere inside the trucksince I did a CD changer install at the same time.

I set my "socket set in a suitcase" on top of the truck bed tool box, (bet You can guess what happened), and went on to finish the job.

I then cleaned up and headed out for a test drive, Hey, I got 16 psi at idle, Cool!, down the road I go, 14 psi, Cool again, Well, let's see what we got at full throttle!

Stomped on the pedal and heard the noise of plastic slipping on diamond plate and 100 sockets falling onto a bedliner.

I seriously wonder if I deserve to own such a nice truck after pulling a stunt like this. Oh well, the sockets are back in place and I have a solid 4 psi under sustained full throttle. The lift pump appears to be in better shape than my brain.

 

[WOWZY]

You're lucky!! I dumped my 200+ piece set along 50 yds of gravel driveway at night. The 1/2 & 3/8" sockets weren't that hard to find. It was all the 1/4" ones that had me crawling with a flashlight and knee-pads on the length of the driveway for 2. 5 hours and then spending another hour putting them back in the right places in the case. All was worth the effort as I found them all.

 

[Jeff H]

I love the jug of milk on top of the car cruising down the road.

Oh I feel so much better now. A couple years ago while working on my 72 gmc jimmy I lost a little screw driver . Well I couldn't find it anywhere. Well I finished up working on it and fired up the gmc. Nothing wrong yet. I put it reverse and proceed to back out the driveway. I hit the brakes before I hit the road. Now I hear this thud thud clink clunk. Well I found the screw driver alying on the ground and antifreeze running all over the the driveway. The screw drive fell in between the radiator and shroud. The fan had shot the screw driver at least 5 time into the radiator.

Now when I work on something I don't leave until all tools are acounted for. I also look underneath the vehicle for obstructions I could posibly drive over.

 

[Dkevdog]

Been there done that................

I once (when working for a mobile photgraphy company) left two cash boxes on my diamond plate tool box and proceeded to climb onto the freeway. (oh oh) About 5 miles down the freeway I realized they weren't on the seat next to me and pulled over. Lucky for me they were still sitting right on top of the box where the idiot had left them!!



Kev

 

[Fireman Dave]

Mill Rat:



Your avatar is deeply disturbing.

 

[Mill Rat]

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That's my sister , , anyone want to date her?

 

[Fireman Dave]

ROTFLMAO!

 

[cap-n-cray]

Stainless Steel

I installed a brand new high performance engine into a 1963 Corvair back in 1969. It had four single barrel carbs, two primaries and two secondaries. The secondaries were either wide open or off. I had made a progressive linkage system and after starting the engine was interest in a test drive. Just around the block, you know, to see what the engine would do. I closed the engine hood and climbed in for the test drive. I had failed to remember the tray of stainless steel nuts and bolts used for the linkage on the roof. When the secondaries came on the tray slid off. Several stainless steel nuts found there way to the hood, down through the vents, and one into the air cleanerless right secondary. From there it went pass the intake manifold, pass the intake valve and into a cylinder. It did not find its way out. Being stainless steel a magnet was of no use. After a single cylinder rebuild, the car was very fast. I never put anything on a vehicles roof.

 

[Fireman Dave]

And cap-n-cray takes the lead!

 

[work2muchplay2little]

Used to own a 1987 Sedan De Ville with a transverse mounted V8. Changing out the spark plugs one day, taking the last one out of the back bank (the one against the firewall, with plugs below the exhaust manifold) could barely feel it let alone see it. Well I'm standing on the passenger side running the socket wrench with my left hand - well my brain gets confused and I'm pulling the socket handle toward me - like you'd do if standing on the driver's side doing the same thing. Couldn't figure out why it was so darn tight... bang - it broke Well, spent the next 5 hours trying to get that stupid thing out, finally got a bolt remover driven in and cranking just about as hard as I could (praying like crazy it would come out and I wasn't dumping broken procelain and steel into the cylinder) when it finally came loose, still convinced I had some supernatural intercession from the Master Mechanic Himself..... I've never felt such complete relief before or since that time - made it almost worth it

 

[illflem]

For the very reasons you guys describe I invested $25 on a rolling adjustable height tool tray, no more setting tools and parts on the batteries to short out or the valve cover to lose. The tray is cantilevered out so the base can roll under the rig while the tray can hang right over the engine in easy reach. From Harbor Freight.

 

[WOWZY]

Milk on top of the car.



My poor old Grandmother used to take me with her to the grocery store when I was young. She did this more times than I can remember, all because she would always put the milk in the car last therefore if it wasn't the last item out of the cart, it was placed on the roof.



One time she did it and I knew it but didn't say anything to her. I turned around in the back seat looking out the rear window and waited until it exploded on the road. you could always tell when it was gonna fall off because all of the cars would stay 100yds. behind us. Anyway on this particular day it fell off right after she got on the road. She let out a little "Well, I swear!" under her breath and turned around to go back to the grocery store to get another gallon.



She came back to the car, got in and drove off. I turned around in the seat to watch another white explosion, but she saw me in the rear view mirror and realized that she'd left the second gallon on the roof as well. She put on brakes too hard and the milk tumbled across the hood and exploded in front of the car.



I busted out laughing and got my legs switched for not telling her and for laughing.

 

[merryman]

There are three kinds of people



1) those who have recently done something dumb

2)those who will soon, and

3)those who lie about it.

I fit in groups 1 and 2, at least.



Vaughn

 

[Jeff H]

mmmmm milk.

Good one WOWZY

I knew there had to be a good milk story.

 

[Bad340fish]

Been there!!

There is a curve leaving my parents neighborhood that always dumps any leftover tools out for me lol. Of course these were all of my Dad's tools at the time. I was always working on the car since after 17 years in a field parts failed weekly for a long time. But if I ever forgot to get a tool I could hear it hit the ground on that turn. My dad still blames lost tools on me and I don't even live there anymore lol

Clark

 

[Bigsaint]

Well, I have not done that yet with the truck, but pulled a real good one at work the other day. It was hot and while equipping the car with all of my gear, I placed my water bottle on the roof, wedging same into the front of the light bar. As per usual, I received my first call 2 minutes into the tour and off I went, never even thinking of the water bottle. I had traveled perhaps 10 miles when I made a fast/sharp turn and the damn thing bounced off the hood of the car and onto the ground. I did this and then this after I thought of how many people watched me pass with the lights on and a water bottle sitting on the roof. Feel better now ? .



Scott W.

 

[Fireman]

group #3

I NEVER do dumb things like that , but my brother does !



Fireman

 

[johnrv4]

I was driving down the interstate during deer hunting season. In front of me was a Jeep Cherokee with something on the roof. As I got closer, I could see that it was a gun case and it wasn't tied down. I was trying to catch up to him to warn him, but I was a little too late- the case(and gun) slid off the roof and down the highway at about 75mph. THEN he must have realized what he did. You should have seen the look on his face as he pulled off to the side of the road !!!

 

[DieselDoghouse]

Land O' Lost tools

Emergency repair outside on our plowing tractor at the start of a Noreaster. You can guess came up several tools short. Found them much later - its called Spring! Signed: a few wrenches short of a full set

 

[mbrolin]

I installed a Carter Hi Per carb on my sons car. I was in the process of tuning it and was idling and reving the engine in the drive way. Once I had my face over the carb and you guessed it. A buddy who was helping said it was the purtiest flame he ever saw. Luckily I only had a few singed hairs on my head and beard.