What's the stupidest thing you ever did that you would admit to?

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Besides My XJ I Have A '76 Blazer With 400Motor And 700Trans On 38s. I Was Gettin On The Freeway Through One Of The Sideways "U" And The Onramp Speed Limit Was 25MPH. Me Wantin To Be A Badass Ripped Around It At 50MPH Spun Out Of Control Did Four Complete 360s And Got My Ass In In The Dirt With My Front End In The Slow Lane. Lucky Me I Didnt Flip .

I Also Mobbed My Blazer Through Peoples Trash Cans Night After Night In That Thing In Neighboring Towns Never Mine, I Use To Try And Hit Them Just Right To Through Them Onto There Yard Or On Top Of There Cars. Always With The Lights Off To. Never Got Caught Doin It, But Always Saw Cops Patrolin Around 1/2 Hour Later:laugh:

 

[-96JeepSpeed-]

Driving in rush-hour traffic in Las Angeles in just about 100 degress. I didnt have A/C on and after about 2 hours of sitting in stoped traffic i couldnt stand the heat, turn on the A/C and about 30 seconds later my passenger side floor was flooded with coolent. It sucks loosing a heater core 100 miles away from home in 100 degree temps.

 

[JAS]

Envision a healthy 304 V8 CJ5. Being off-loaded from the trailer after a hard days wheeling.

Tires were 31x13.50 with about 6 PSI....This gave me about 15 inch wide tread patch on each side.

The road out front of the house had the little black dots of tar poking through from the hot sun beating down all day.
It was starting to cool so it was sticky like an movie theater floor. You could hear your shoes stick as you walked across the pavement.

Brother says "Betcha can't pull a wheelie in the Jeep"
I say "Bet I can!"
Brother says "Betcha can't"
I say "Bet I can!"

I proceed to wind up the V8 as tight I as I dare, in low range, and drop the clutch.

I did manage to get the front end off the ground about 12 inches on the low side. The Torque lifted the high side about 18 inches.

I had no idea that a D44 would let go with 31's while on pavement.

The D44 had pulled the teeth off the spiders, several of the chunks cleanly exited through the diff cover. Chipped several teeth on the R&P. Not very pretty.

Not one of my brighter moments in life.

 

[CodyB]

First Wheeling experience, PROM night, I was in 10th grade, nothing better to do, so a friend and I go to a hole commonly known as Hell Hole, Mistake #1, get all the way through to the very last rut, being three big holes, 1 then two right after each other, really just a high spot in the middle, get to the end, and lose it. Jeep falls into the ruts, leaving me Perfectly balanced on both diffs. Stock '95 XJ,Mistake #2, about 4 hrs later and 2nd set of friends try I'm finally out, but they for warned me about lifting my jeep, I paid no attention, Mistake #3. Moral of the story I should have gone ahead and put 35's under my Jeep instead of 31's.

Many many more, One includes freshly emptied lake, stock, and never getting stuck playing around for about an hour and a half. Even being told to go through the worst part. Street tires too.

 

[CJ's98XJ]

We'll say it was a few years back, just to make me feel better. I was an evaluator for a US Customs marine unit training operation. This op involved the "bad guys" crossing a river on a dark moonless night and the agents locating and intercepting them by boat. Real simple, right? Dunno. Never made it there.

Older NVG's really don't differentiate between sand and water really well. Add some speed and a real gently sloping river bank and a big drop off just a couple feet past the edge of the water.........and what do you get? 1 genuine jeep submarine. And since we were just "evaluating", we didn't bring any of our own comm gear, instead using the cheap radios provided to us. They were about as waterproof as the jeep they also provided................Long, wet cold hike back.

Lesson learned....Vehicles have headlights for a reason.

 

[sharq]

well, i was changing my oil one day and after pouring in about 4 quarts i realize i didnt put the drain plug back in. oil all over the garage. i got under there and quickly screwed the plug back in. i was very pissed at mysellf. went back to wally world for more oil in my brothers car. got home filled it with the 6 quarts and went to work. later that week the jeep started running like shit and smoking everywhere. im thinking WTF? apparently when i put the drain plug back in the oil hadnt finished draining despite the looks of my garage floor. the was way too much oil in there and was blowing my head gasket. i drain some oil out and that solved the problem. it didnt solve the problem all the way. it ended up leaving a passage for a small amount of air into cylinder number 1 which eventually led to predetonation and a quarter sized hole in the piston.

as for lug issues. i was changing out a set of wheels and tires from one jeep to another in a hurry. got all the wheels on one jeep let the jack down quick and BAM! didnt have all the lugs tight and the rotor hit the inside of the wheel. you'd think id be sure to tighten the rest of them down real good. start driving down the road and i feel wobble wobble. i was going pretty fast when it began. got lucky.

 

[Jeepm@n]

Hmmm. How about 10 years old helping Dad wire up his truck for a plow hearing him Bit** abouth the dam wires in the way under the dash. Phone rings Dad says watch the tools. I proceed to help him out by cutting all the wires out of the dash to give him more room. I still hear him screaming when I work on my own crap " WHAT DID YOU F$#$#$ DO TO MY TRUCK?!

:hang:


My other was wiring in my first stereo. It's never a good sign to have all the magic smoke come out of a brand new Alpine cassette deck with CD changer controls. I pinched all the wires to my HVAC on my 83 S-10 4x4 with a freshly swapped 91 Camara drive train. 4 days old. That truck did not look too good after the fire department got there. Still drivable though for about 3 years. Just had to replace the whole interior. Then I wonder why my insurance was so high for so many years. Learned to disconnect the battery first. Being I was 17 Young ,Dumb and full of c**.

 

[crystalship1]

Getting married. TWICE!!!! :looser:

 

[RTicUL8]

Getting married. TWICE!!!! :looser:

I was going to give you $hit about giving a non-tech answer.

However, you're right!

Women can be more technically challenging than any Jeep.

They don't come with a FSM, and don't even bother trying to write one...they keep re-wiring themselves every couple of months - just to keep you guessing.

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[streetpirate]

did both head gaskets on a ford 3.0 v6, with an inch lb torque wrench.
it ran kinda rough, we took the heads off again and the new head gaskets were toast, water passeges all blown out and torn. so we went back to baxters, told them we got some faulty gaskets.
the counter guy said he'd never seen such a thing happen, so he gave us a new set for free. only when were torquing down the rockers the second time did we notice the torque wrench problem

 

[8Mud]

Doing the rear brakes on the wifes XJ, I'd been trying to catch her for weeks to do the brakes. Day before a planned 600 mile trip, she shows up (Sunday, half an hour before dark, 35 degrees out, raining buckets) and wants her brakes done.
Take the first drum off, throw it onto the garage floor to knock the dust off, it breaks in two.
Moral of the story is, if you are pixxed off, don't take it out on the Jeep, it can get expensive fast. Found one shop open on Sunday 60 mile round trip, drum cost me $80. Finally got finished at around 2 AM.

3 AM, driving to pick a buddy up for a hunt. Raining buckets, drive down a sloped road near the river, streets are covered in water, pitch black out. What the heck is that strange sound coming from my motor? Can't see my headlights, maybe it's the alternator? Wipers are throwing quarts of water around, oh wait, since when is rain water green? Hey I better stop now. I've finally figured out thats river water half way up my windshield. The street I was driving on just kind of disappeared into the river (it had flooded sometime during the night) and I never noticed until way past too late.

 

[jeep/bronco]

One day, after doing some work on my front end, I forgot to torque my lugnuts down. As I was making a left into my neighborhood, my wheel came off. But the torque of the rear suspension, kept the front axle from hitting the ground for a few moments. I saw my wheel going down the road away from me, and I was thinking to myself, "someone is a real dumbass and they forgot to put thier lugnuts on.... Wait a minute.... That's MY wheel". Then the front end smacked into the ground. All 5 wheel studs had been sheared off.

i had a similiar thing happen i had a 87 e30 bmw and used aluminum wheel studs so that i could use aftermarket wheels. i was going down an exit ramp and saw a tire pass by me (drivers rear) and thought to myself damn that looks like my wheel i actually made it another 100 ft feet or so before the hub hit the ground thankfully no damage other than the disc shield, the studs, and 2 holes on the wheel were wallered (thats what we call it anyways) out. as far as the stupidest thing ive ever done it would probably be in my old e36 running from cops a few years ago and taking that exit that went downtown not a good outcome. on the other hand i was engaged twice so that may be up there on the list as well

 

[megabyte5689]

I would say trying to out run a mall cop, because I was speeding and he was on foot. I was in my 90 XJ when I done this. Probably the second stupid thing I done was trying to race a 5sp manual saturn LS in the 90 XJ also. Dumb move, I ended up losing because this guy's car was ryced out. Another thing was when my heater hoses gave out, that was stupid.
:wstupid:

 

[BillBraski]

5. Forgeting to put drain plug back in pan on a northstar caddy. Lots of oil on shop floor.

4. Putting on expensive OE rotors on a bonneville and not tourqing lug nuts to spec and warping new rotors.

3. Using cheap autozone duralast junk becuase thats all I could find in a pinch.

2. Using FRAM extragaurd oil fiters built with cardboard bypass valve.

1. Rebuilding a front clip on a Honda Civic, weilding the radiator support before it all fit, headlights were sitting 2 inches too deep, cut new wields pulled supprt out so hood would close and latch and re-wielded, started a small fire becuase of sanding dust. That was fun.

 

[MJR]

Breaking drivers window (laminated glass, I think is was $1000.00 back in 93-94) on a Lamborghini Diablo.

I took the door apart for paint and stuffed the inside handle in the door then rolled the window down and it stoped so I hit the switch again and crack.

 

[BillBraski]

Breaking drivers window (laminated glass, I think is was $1000.00 back in 93-94) on a Lamborghini Diablo.

I took the door apart for paint and stuffed the inside handle in the door then rolled the window down and it stoped so I hit the switch again and crack.

Ouch! Thats a pretty expensive peice of glass!

 

[homebrew]

I got one for the books. I had a noisy belt on the jeep so thought I'd try some belt dressing. That only made the problem worse. So me being a smart guy thought hey why not get a rag with some simple green on it and clean the belt off. While the engine was running. Dumbest thing I have ever done. rag got caught and brought my finger with it between the belt and the power steering pulley. Damn near ripped the end of my finger off. I was wearing a stupid sign for a month(still am secretly)

 

[MJR]

I got one for the books. I had a noisy belt on the jeep so thought I'd try some belt dressing. That only made the problem worse. So me being a smart guy thought hey why not get a rag with some simple green on it and clean the belt off. While the engine was running. Dumbest thing I have ever done. rag got caught and brought my finger with it between the belt and the power steering pulley. Damn near ripped the end of my finger off. I was wearing a stupid sign for a month(still am secretly)

I've seen a guy stick a pry bar in the mechanical fan while the engine is running to see if the clutch was locking up.

 

[CanJeep]

Wanting to see if my front shaft was turning, got out of running vehicle, put hand on clutch and put it in 1st gear, slowly let clutch out as i looked underneath jeep. My hand slipped off the clutch and down the gravel road it went for about 2 km before it hit ditch and rolled onto its side. Next time use jack stands lol.

 

[megabyte5689]

The other night I was driving my XJ and didn't pay attention, I hit a patch of ice and slid and couldn't stop, and I ran over this pole. It bent the pole and their were only some scratches on the underside of the XJ. I still think trying to out run the mall cop was the most stupid thing I've ever done. Stupid but fun.