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

After installing a Ford 9" rearend in my Jeep, I decided to tear the Chrysler 8.25" down and part it out. Removed the 29 spline axles no problem. removed the Detriot Locker and ring gear no problem. Set the locker on workbench and proceeded to hit the ring gear bolts with the impact hammer. Man were they on tight. It took two refills of the air tank for my impact hammer to loosen each one. Cursed out the guy who install ring gear bolts for probably using to much thread locker and over tightening. After all 10 bolts were losened they wouldn't pull out. Tried for two hours using every tool I could thing of and still they wouldn't come up. In a fit of frustration I reversed the direction of the impact hammer in the tighten direction and lo and behold the bolt came out. Turns out ring gears bolts are installed reverse thread. Who knew.
 
helping a friend change the intake gasket on his chevy 350, we decided to be smart and mark the distributor position with witeout. took the brush, marked the points i thought were the ones that wouldnt move, turns out, i only marked the points of the dist. that could move..... HEI doesnt run so good unless its EXACTLY in the right spot. took us 4 hours and another guy to figure out why it wouldnt fire.
 
Pulling into a gas station to get gas on a motorcycle, getting off of bike, failing to put the kickstand down and watching the bike fall into the pump.
Luckily I've only done that once, long ago.
 
One time in on the way to a gun an knife show me and a car load of friends were bein stupid. I had a pop can and rolled down the window to throw it at a sign. we were going about 45 or so and i threw it at the sign. it hit the sign bounced off and flew back through the open window and hit me in the head and flew back out the window. it took me a little bit to realize what happened. we couldnt stop laughing
 
Last Friday I tried to back out of the garage with my driver's door open. And this was before any drinking took place. On vehicle entry I became distracted by my wife's car's garage door being open and asked her to get out and close it as my opener won't operate that door. She got out of the XJ, closed the passenger door and I just started up, threw it in reverse and WHAM! Now I need another door, and am out the vehicle for the time being. Stupid!!! At least the garage is OK! She ended up driving us to dinner in her car. That night I had enough cocktails to forget about the whole thing until Saturday morning when the ruined door was still there...mocking my stupidity!
 
Not buying an XJ sooner...
 
desertrandy said:
After installing a Ford 9" rearend in my Jeep, I decided to tear the Chrysler 8.25" down and part it out. Removed the 29 spline axles no problem. removed the Detriot Locker and ring gear no problem. Set the locker on workbench and proceeded to hit the ring gear bolts with the impact hammer. Man were they on tight. It took two refills of the air tank for my impact hammer to loosen each one. Cursed out the guy who install ring gear bolts for probably using to much thread locker and over tightening. After all 10 bolts were losened they wouldn't pull out. Tried for two hours using every tool I could thing of and still they wouldn't come up. In a fit of frustration I reversed the direction of the impact hammer in the tighten direction and lo and behold the bolt came out. Turns out ring gears bolts are installed reverse thread. Who knew.
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I've done that same exact thing.
 
ontheGaS said:
Last Friday I tried to back out of the garage with my driver's door open. And this was before any drinking took place. On vehicle entry I became distracted by my wife's car's garage door being open and asked her to get out and close it as my opener won't operate that door. She got out of the XJ, closed the passenger door and I just started up, threw it in reverse and WHAM! Now I need another door, and am out the vehicle for the time being. Stupid!!! At least the garage is OK! She ended up driving us to dinner in her car. That night I had enough cocktails to forget about the whole thing until Saturday morning when the ruined door was still there...mocking my stupidity!
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Now you can just get some tube doors for the hot summer months about to arrive.
My wife seens to be pretty good at "throwing sticks into my spokes" as well
 
A couple of months after getting my XJ I went to the steel yard with my brother-in-law to get some steel for our shop. Well it had been raining and the yard was sloppy so seeing the chance to slop some mud on the truck I put her in 4hi when leaving. Well I pulled out on the road in 4WD still so I quickly shifted back to 2hi but it felt as though it didnt disengage so I pulled off into a muddy field next to the steel yard and asked my brother to get out.

Brief history; had an 80 Blazer with a tcase problem that we had to get out to actually see if it went into 2hi.

OK back to the story, So here my brother sits outside in the mud looking under the jeep to see if the front driveshaft is turning.:looney: Well guess what, IT WAS!! We sat there in that field for 20 minutes before realizing what dumba$$es we were. Shifting in and out of gear, backing up, goosing it. :doh:
 
I had just replaced the lube in both diff's, the transfer case and changed the oil. All of which fit nicely into a new sealable waist oil pan. I then placed said oil pan in the roof rack to get it out of the way and do a little under vehical inspection for worn and broken componants. Satisfied that all was well, it was time to hit the trail. About ten minutes into bouncing around in the woods I heard somthing hit the ths top side of my rig... The pan became air born and upon returning to the roof rack the cap on the pan broke into numerious pieces coating the side of my jeep with a good layer of anti-rust agent.
Did I mention that the trail I drove to was 70 miles away from were the oil was changed.
 
I've spent the last 6 weeks trying to diagnose a miss / stumble in my 90 cherokee. I managed to convince myself it was a computer or fuel problem. I have replaced the CPS, TPS, MAP, TB, injectors, fuel filter, ground cables and all kinds of other stuff (luckily alot of it was used stuff off my other cherokee). I decided it must be the cam position sensor and went to put in another distributor. When I took it off I found that the rotor had fallen apart. I'm amazed it ran at all. So I've spent about 40 hours, $200 in parts and who knows how much propane for the shop heater to find a problem that should have cost $5 and 20 minutes. I feel like a complete dumbass.
 
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