over the weekend i made the mistake of losing a screw when i was adjusting my valves. It was one of those spark plug wire guide screws. Anyway, if you ever lose a screw, make sure you find it. Mine unfortunately ended up in the timing belt.

This screw had one hell of an appetite, cuz it decided to eat the whole thing.

Fortunately, i caught it before the belt ripped. I could've founmd a better use of that $50 though.

i'll add this to the list of stupid things i've done to my gs-r.

 

oh yeah, another thing

never leave your coolant overflow resivour (?) near the header when you adjust the headlights

it will melt and then start on fire

after i stopped laughing i was pissed off




[Modified by yaksplat, 1:13 PM 8/28/2001]

 

I bet you left the marshmellows inside, that pisses me off when I catch my car on fire and forgot the marshmellows. sorry to hear that bro

 

LOL! Thanks for the tip.

 

How about this...

While changing my valve springs...one of the valve keepers fell straight down one of the oil return holes! Doh!

Well..its still down in the engine somewhere

 

lol... im sorry its not really funny... but then again it is...

u dropped one of the keepers down the oil drains? lol i took apart a head lat week... the damn keeps kept falling into the drains... except the head was off the car... i would never try that with it on the car with my luck

 

Heh..yea I was wondering why the book said to stuff the oil return holes with rags/paper towels. Eh..who the hell listens to directions anyway

 

How about the time when I accidentally poured water into my gas tank....now THAT was funny....
It all started one day when....... *WHAM* (HT mod slinks off giggling to self)

 

Heh, how about this?
My Jeep has this Coolant Low reminder.
So what do I do? I add coolant/antifreeze to my resivour. That's it. no problem right? WRONG. where's the 50/50 mix?!?!?! I totally forgot that you are supposed to mix it with distilled water.
I was wondering why my therm was only showing 120 degrees in 100 degree weather. opps.

 

A while back, my cigerette lighter was lose somehow and my radar detector would shut off and come back on if I even drove near a crack in the raod. It was pissing me off pretty bad, so I was like, hey when my blinker bulbs would not stay in very well, I just took a screw driver and pulled the prongs out a little more and all was better. Same thing right, wrong! Never stick a screw driver into you cigerette lighter with the ignition on (even if you do want to listen to the radio). When I went to replace the fuse, I pulled one that was for my starter or something because I thought that it was an extra fuse because I lost that little plastic fuse map. I then thought that my Jacobs electronics stuff was messed up and took off my whole bumper to see what the deal was. What a waste of a day.


[Modified by Stu, 8:54 AM 8/29/2001]

 

was helping a friend install a header when the "know it all of the group" snapped a bolt holding the header to the block. say the least my friend was pissed when we had to find a store that was open at 11pm . word of advice stay away from stoopid people

 

I thought I was the only one that happened to. My did not melt. I took a 10 mile drive down the freeway, got off and smelled antifreeze. Then though, oh f@ck, I forgot to put it back. Luckily it did not melt. It was very hot though.

And then there was the time a dime fell into my cigarette lighter. When I would drive my radio fuse would blow, in a mustang. After a box of fuses, pulling out and reinstalling my head unit and several days I finally found the problem. More interesting, I had laughed at a friend a week before hand that had the same problem.


[Modified by vteg, 6:16 PM 8/29/2001]

 

yeah, i went 14 miles doing about 90
so it got a bit hot
at least the smoke stopped once the flames started

 

I too lost a screw and it ended up in the timing belt. Although, it was not noticeable for like a week when it started to get real loud like valves were tapping the pistons. So, after saving all of the money by doing the timing belt and water pump myself, i towed it to the dealer to diagnose the problem and I got to pay them for a new belt install anyway. (And a new valve cover screw)