Random confession thread

first time i tasted buttermilk: about 6 or so years old and made myself a bowl of rice crispies for breakfast. no idea what buttermilk was and no idea that i should be on the lookout for poison in the fridge. couldn't spit that chit out fast enough. what a surprise.
 
I was building some shock towers for a SAS xterra, cut out all my pieces started burning things together. Then realized I had the sides upside down after doing some of my best welding. Had to cut it all back apart and redo it. I was butthurt all afternoon bc that shit looked good but was back ass ward.


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Nellie Bell booboos since 1992...
installed clutch disc backwards...found out after buttoned up getting ready for wheelin trip
installed flywheel 180 degrees off. Timing marks are on face of flywheel and you looky through a little window in the rear plate to time it. Took several hours to figure that one out and then left it that way till the next tear down.
forgot the clutch fork one time and had to work through a little window in the bell housing to get it under the throw out bearing mount and over the pivot ball.
had a hooked up dis.cap in my hand with my thumb on the center button...hit the remote starter to turn it over and check distributor rotation direction.
 
XJsavage said:
One time I was so broke, I did an oil change WITH used oil.
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back when I worked for Toyota I had a 79 corona with over 300k miles for a beater. When I did an oil change on a customer car with only 3k miles on it, into the corona it went!!
 
My old Grand Wagoneer, in it's last days before trading it, was burning thru some oil. 225k on the 360. A few days before trading it in, I had been in Carthage running chainsaws for two days. Checked the oil before heading home (vehicle like that, you check the oil every time to leave somewhere) and it wasn't even hitting the dipstick. Put in what I had, a gallon jug of bar oil. I put a few hundred miles on it that week, then got it traded in.
 
72Rockcruiser said:
back when I worked for Toyota I had a 79 corona with over 300k miles for a beater. When I did an oil change on a customer car with only 3k miles on it, into the corona it went!!
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That's exactly what I did. Not long after HS days, my mom was driving a pretty new car and had me do the fluid changes on it in exchange for my cell phone to remain under a family plan. On Suncom iirc. Anyways, she was set on every 3000 miles, change oil. I said ok, I'll store it and take it to the dump. I looked at it one day and thought "this shit looks good", so I ran it in my Tacoma 3rz for over a year actually.
 
One night years ago I cranked and was going to do a test drive on the wife's 1993 Nissan 240SX after replacing the waterpump/hoses etc. all afternoon. I apparently was tired/forgot/was distracted by alcohol and left the car idling all night long in the driveway. Imagine my surprise when I found it running that morning when I finally went out to do the test drive. o_O
 
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broncosbybart said:
Reminds me of when I took a big swig of vanilla extract at about 5 yrs old. How can something that smells so good taste so bad?!
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Once when I was maybe 12, I'd been outside in the sun and came inside hot and thirsty. Walked inside, there was a bunch of stuff out on the counter, maybe mom was cooking, I didn't care.
Saw a glass of water and just grabbed it and chugged it.
Turns out it was white vinegar. :eek:
Guess mom had measured and set it aside.
I don't know which was worse, my mom's face of horror or my own.
 
Put an MSD ignition box in my old CJ. Cranked it up to test it, took it for a ride. Thoroughly impressed with everything except for the fact that I had engine run on. Bitch wouldn’t shut off.

Now a simple man would have thrown it in gear, held the brake and dumped the clutch.

not This guy! How does electricity get to the spark plugs? I grabbed the coil wire at the distributor and unplug it...while my leg is leaning against the bumper. LOOK AT ME! The human electrical diode!
 
Just pulled the clutch cover on my son's Honda clone ATV Motor to put a gasket on it put it together and it was poring oil so off it came and I laid the ultra black rtv to it put it back together oil was running out as fast as I could poor it in stupid me forgot to put the oil plug back in [emoji28][emoji848]

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Air arc gouged the old one off. Welded the new one on Backwards. Multipass 7018 too!.
Air arcing this one off and rewelding was done during lunch for free. I was fairly ashamed of myself.
 
So many......................

Many years ago before my oldest son was born(he's 33 now) My brother n law and I decided to run a service station I worked many hours, mostly 7 am till 11 pm every day. 6 days a week. My sister who had been around vehicles since she married my brother in law( he also had a salvage yard, and run a drag car too) was in the garage talking to me and watching as I tuned up a Monte Carlo. There was one plug I just couldn't get started in the head. Finally after about 45 mins, My sis looked at me and said "You might want to try threading the thread end of the plug in, rather than the wire end"

Put a clutch in an old Chevy truck once, everything buttoned up, Got in to start it, realized I didn't put in the release bearing as I saw it laying on the workbench, just before I hit the switch

First time ever making deviled eggs for a family meal. I knew red stuff went on top, didn't know what it was, only thing I had that looked like that was chili powder SMH

Had a family I was good friends with when I was in high school , there were five kids, two of which were pretty girls, so I spent a lot of time there. Their mom was an awesome lady. Always making this or that. She once made me some banana bread. Had never had it before. A few days later, she asked me how I liked it. I told her I did, was real good, but I must have used too much mayonnaise, because when I tried to use that "bread" it fell apart and I had to use a fork for my banana sandwich.

Was putting a Jeep together from many donors. Got to the electrical part, and was transplanting a fuse box from an old rusty body, into the one I was building. Somehow the fuse block was really nasty. I was cleaning it, with brake parts cleaner. It cleaned up really nice, but how was I to know that BPC would melt all the fuses?

I had a Fiestiva once. ran great but used a lot of oil. I kept a case of oil in the back. On a long hwy trip I would have oil running down the side of my car. That car was actually stolen. Fast forward about a year, I was at a friends house. He was changing oil in his daughters car, same car as mine was, even the same color. As he was putting the oil in, I noticed he only had 4 qts of oil, and he didn't even use but half of the fourth qt. So I asked him about it. He says it only takes 3 1/2 qts, I had to look it up in my haynes book, sure enough, that's all it took. So I guess someone had put in a different dip stick in my car, because when I changed oil, it took 5 1/2 qts to fill it to the mark.
 
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