What's the worst thing you've done in the garage, or rather I should say the dumbest? Shall I start? There are many, but two that come to mind immediately. The first is leaving the oil drain plug undone on a Honda MT250, discovering what I'd done a bit later while blatting to work when it started doing lock-to-lock tank slappers at around 100kph because the plug had dropped out and so had the oil, all over the rear wheel. Gnarly. The second, and most memorable was fitting the head on an Austin A55 (I know, I know ). It was sitting up on the pushrods a few inches above the block and when I moved the last pushrod into position the cast iron head, which weighed about the same as the moon, slammed down onto my thumb. It hurt so much I couldn't sleep for two nights and I had to sit at work holding it in a glass of water. The boss was not sympathetic. The hospital found nothing was broken but that thumb has never been the same since.
took my 76 goldwing engine apart...replaced some parts and then put it back together.....first drive out after the refit i found 4th gear was missing.......had to take the engine out again and split the cases to move one washer to the other side of the gear............
Ixion was on hand to witness one of my blunders - after putting the top end on my XT600...I found the 2 chain guides I was having to choose from.
One of my best was at a mates place where he was working on a Corolla SR (remember them?) I was idly playing with the wing mirror and got a finger stuck in the hole on the stalk. He brought the whole family out to watch me trying to "pull me finger out".
Fiddling with the fuel line on the Kombi and the spanner touching the starter motor live terminal and sparks lighting the petrol........quickly snuffed it out with overalls...... Fitting a window to same Kombi and glass broke slicing wrist........ Dropping another Kombi down off axle stands with trolley jack when got hand crushed under bumper.....was ok but fecking sore for days.... Motorcycles are far safer....
Bugger me... You are a disaster looking for a place to happen. Stay away from my place.
thats over a period of years....not the same day. Got Chinese man to fix PC..... him say Virus....... maybe I should not have let Mr Norton expire........any good freeware.....? Man who sold me Norton said " Freeware no good...thats why free.....always behind latest....you buy Norton......" i
I agree....I finally gave up on the free stuff and bought Norton at Xmas......1/2 price.....and very good
I left my rotary powered 1600 Datsun with the rear end elevated on ramps for 2 weeks, while I serviced the diff and drive shaft. I was running a 50/50 mix of 83 and avgas at the time. Because of the steep slope of the ramps, my dellorto carbs flooded and trickled fuel down into rotor housings. When the repairs were completed, the engine would kick but wouldn't fire up. The avgas had rusted the side seals and corner seals together, causing a severe drop in compression. Oh no, not another engine strip down! I got my mate to tow me to see if it would free up the seals. It ran poorly on one bank for the first 1/2 km and then the second bank started to kick in. After 5 minutes of gentle warm up it got it's normal canning. All was good with the world again. LESSON - Don't leave a vehicle that runs avgas on ramps for any extended period. Avgas really rusts up shinny exposed steel surfaces, quick time!!
LESSON - Don't leave a vehicle that runs avgas on ramps for any extended period. Avgas really rusts up shinny exposed steel surfaces, quick time!! I ran my TY250 on Av once, The next time I went to start it the carb slide was stick solid with horrible green shit. It was some left over fuel and the TY was the closest thing to pour it in, should have put it in the car
not in the garage...but my sons bedroom light needed replacing.....i turned the hall light on then turned his switch off....took his lamp holder off and was taking the wires out when the other half arrived and turned the light switch on....so i would have more light to see what i was doing......neighbours heard many a new word that night.............
Talking of other halves, one of my sons was tu-tuing with the old SL125, which had a yamaha gas cap of some sort so leaked. I got up in the morning and there was a very strong smell of petrol in the garage (which is under the house). One of those smells that makes you need to fix it immediately. My wife had also smelled it but her solution was to light a nice scented candle down there
i take it there was not whoofff
my other half and i had a disagreement yesrday.....i was standing beside my daughters car....with a petrol can..pouring petrol into the tank.......she came out and said...."what are you doing"............it didn't go well after that...apparently my answer was insensitive.....
i take it there was not whoofff To this day I'm surprised there wasn't.
