Pics/stories Of Peoples Projects Gone Wrong!!!!!!!

[VHSLX3300]

clear coat....vh...previosly blue and now greeny blue. and yes I will get some pics of before and after.....sobs. Bright side is I have a Vn and the VH will be my first project. Where I hopefully wont be posting here again about

[Pretender]

This should be a horror story but it isn't.

When I was about 13 my mate and I were helping his brother totally rebuild a 173 red motor for his HQ ute. When we started we didn't know much so we worked slowly, double checking everything to make sure we got it right.
We knew a lot when we finally finished.
When we were attaching the exhaust and inlet manifold my mate's brother dropped a nut and washer he was trying to fit and they bounced off his finger and into an inlet port. We couldn't get them out so the guy just bolted it all together.
The car ran fine and he thrashed it around for over two years thinking it would die a broken valve, smashed piston death and never going further than mate's houses in the same suburb just in case. Then we helped put a 308 in it.
I believe the 173 is still in his Mum's shed. I wonder if it will run.

[vlv8vic]

had a very hard time getting the brake calipers off the camry last time i did the pads. took sooo long that it was way to late when i finished. in my haste to get it done i forgot to bleed the lines. got that spongy feeling when i left the shed the next morning. glad i didn't live on a hill!

[Joey_19]

good stories keep em cumin

[bangers]

i did an engine swap in an old morris 1100. i had to have it done before morning to drive several hundred kms to tafe. anyway i got it done about 10pm and my dad came out to help and hooked the power wires up in reverse polarity and fried the whole wiring loom. i then rewired the whole car before morning. worst still cos the car had sat so long without an engine the brakes had silted up and i wrote the car off through a roundabout at 80kms/hr.

my brother-inlaws brother-inlaw is mechanically retarded and tried to change his brake pads. he didn't push the caliper pistons back, he just smashed the pads in with a hammer. needless to say someone had to fix it as the brakes were stuck on and he couldn't understand why there was lots of smoke and the car wasn't driving as well as it had before.

[burnz]

typicly after a rebuild fit the dizzy and you static time it try and fire the motor
some start some backfire swap leads 180 and try again! "right" no biggie.
anyway this perticular motor was supercharged tried to fire the motor
it backfired it riped the supercharger off and blew the valleycover into the camshaft
not impressed
....note to self allway's fit a blowout plate...

[Wombat]

Could reveal a few, but I'll put in some tips first..

One: when upside down under the dash of a Morris Minor, and you are drilling into the firewall to mount a mounting bracket for the Sub wiring to the rear of the car, don't just drill straight into the firewall without checking that the battery isn't sitting right behind where you are drilling...

Two: Don't keep telling your son repeatedly not to leave almost-empty plastic bottles of Ice Break coffee flavored milk on the black front carpet of the black interior of his Twin-Cam Corolla Seca SX...let him learn the hard way after his car has sat outside his workplace in the stinking hot QLD summer sun for a full day, whereupon the bottle explodes and deposits smelly crap all over the inside of the front of the cabin...

Three: It is possible for a Valiant Hemi oil filter to work itself loose and spin off if you've forgotten to tighten it properly. Ford and Holden sixes (the old ones) don't seem to do this for some reason, they just leak oil.

Four: Don't wire up a cheap aftermarket ammpmeter straight across the battery terminals, mounting it inside, wiring it up, and then connecting it to the battery last of all, and walking away to get a cold drink, then returning to wonder why your car is full of white smoke...

Five: When a cop pulls you up for not having a bonnet on a car, and he has just demonstrated his monumental lack of mechanical knowledge by pointing straight at the Ford X-flow 4.1 liter straight six, and asking "so what is it, a V8?", don't compound things when he asks "what if something flew off?", by answering "like what?"...it annoys the hell out of him.

[walesy]

bwahahaha they are classic wombat... specially the milk one

[john6821]

hahahahaa funny stuff

[88GreenVN]

Dont do hand brakies in new Hi Ace vans on air field runways travelling at 130kph. New tyres go pop and become spares real quick!!!

[Joey_19]

this threads coming along nicely keep the stories up fellas

[Not_An_Abba_Fan]

Did an engine rebuild on a Ford 4.1 X flow and it was still stock. Didnt regrind the crank as it was in good shape, just fitted new shells. Start her up and rattle rattle at anything over 2000rpm. Thought **** this can't be good. Started looking at the old bits I took out.....what should I find? The big ends had 10 thou oversized bearings from factory and I fitted standards. So off came the sump and I had to replace the big ends. Not easy on a X flow with it still in the car. I had to stay an extra night where I was working because the town I was in didn't have the correct parts. Moral is to check the sizes of the old bits before ordering the new bits.