I was at a friend's garage changing the oil in my FD. I punched holes in the top of the oil filter to help it drain, then went off to do something while the oil collected in the pan... An hour later I had to move the car and forgot I had already prepped the filter for removal and ended up shooting oil all over the engine bay. Pretty embarrasing...

 

I was replacing the trans in my friends 86 RX7 and was lifting the new one in, by hand, lost my grip and literally dropped it on my face....

 

Sometimes it comes up in conversation and it's still funny.

 

My sway bar link got stuck in my lower control arm so I decided to cut it out with my new die grinder. Only, I got a little overzealous and cut up my lowere control arm which I had to replace.

Also if its plastic and under the UIM I've broken it.

 

Man, this is a great thread.

I have -

- dropped a tranny off a floor jack onto my arm. VERY lucky I didn't break my arm.

- had the oil filter pedastal on an FC on backwards, sprayed oil everywhere.

- Built a custom brake pressure bleeder with instructions on some website. The reservoir was a plastic sports water bottle, fill it with brake fluid, pressurize, hook to master cylinder, you get the idea. The bottle's bottom split off, pouring a full container of brake fluid all over my freshly painted engine bay, fender, you name it. I've never grabbed a hose and started hosing so quick.

- Working on a friend's FC, pulled the fuel return line off the secondary rail. It was supposed to be depressurized. It wasn't. Full force fuel DIRECTLY in the eyes. Burned like HELL. My wife heard me run into the house hollering and thought I had shot myself or something.

- Put the keyless entry in my FD with a modified JDM door latch. Screwed up one thing on the actuator's bracket, and didn't realize it. Closed the door to test it out, the door WOULD NOT OPEN UP. I had to drill a hole in the inside door skin to remove a bolt in the latch so I could actually open the door. If I would have happend to put the bolt in the other way, I would be drilling a hole in the OUTSIDE of the door to get my door to open again.

I'm sure there's more, but that's some highlights .

Dale

 

There was the time I was underneath, and kicked one of the four jackstands, and it fell over, leaving me under a car supported by three stands (thank goodness for stiff, balanced chassis).

Still have that pair of underwear.

 

i cut my a/c lines out while doing a koyo install......

 

I was changing my clutch and used one of those bunggie cord things to hold up the rear section of the exhaust. I wrapped it around the right axle between the boots.

I was done for the night so i pushed the car out of the shop. The next day pushed it in and noticed that the metal cord end ripped both axle boots wide open from pushing the car in and out of the shop. That was a pretty stupid and expansive mistake!!!!

 

I always say to myself "righty-tighty, left-loosey"......

well, i was excited to install my dads BNR stage 3 twins, and forgot to make sure the ratchet was in the correct direction for tightening...... too me 10minutes to figure out i was turning the nuts and bolts to the left.....

 

i was changing the fuel filter i my fd & when i pulled off one of the fuel hoses about half of a cup of fuel went straight into my ear, that was the worst pain i ever been in. i actually almost past out

 

swapped out for a new set of twins for the first time and changed the plug wires too, everyone said double check or even triple check all vacuum lines so i did. fired up started brap brapin like it was bridged dumb me didnt bother to mess with it for the rest of the night, rechecked it all the next night and decided to just go get some gas in it. boy i was driving down a dark road by myself with my brother and all of a sudden a bright orange glare in my rear view (thought it was a cop for a min) i was like wat is that to my brother n he yellled holy shi* your bumper i think its on fire i gave it a quick rev and it went out it, was a stedy flame like a torch lol bat man lol. i put 20 bucks worth of gas in it got it back home and it drank all of the gas b4 i got home. turns out it was the map sensor hose. i was too woried about the lines for the turbos that i forgot i did my plug wires when i was in there and forgot about that one.

 

i was excited as hell because i just got my stock HIDS in the mail..doing a hid conversion on my 350z.. from halos to hids.. you need to put the headlight in the oven to seperate the lens from the housing to change out the projectors.. the passenger one came out great.. than the drivers side was next.................... turns out i left the wet cardboard and headlight too close to the oven and it caught on fire..

i throw the headlight out of the oven burn my hands and my legs.. im stepping on the fire that is now on my carpet with molten plastic all over my rug of my studio apartament.. and as i finally put out the fire turns out the entire back of the headlight is a melted piece of goop and the front has burn marks all over it

new headlight housings are only about 50-70 bucks used.. but i also lost 500 dollars of my security deposit for the rug that i destroyed lol... yaaaa

 

well, not rx7 related. but crazy...

when i was in the army i was working underneath a tank taking off one of the wheels the track rolls on. when the bottle jack (yes a bottle jack!!!) took a **** with me under it. i was on my side when i noticed it was going to fail. no time to get out, i quickly laid flat on my back as the tank nearly crushed me. it was about an inch from my nose and i was about half a second from being crushed. i had to just lay there until they got something to lift it...

oh and today, i put in a complete new fuel system with all -6 hard lines and AN fittings with a fuel cell. turned the pump on and after a gallon of full leaked from ALL the fittings in about 10second, i realized all the fittings were hand tight. lol...

 

Years ago I bought a 1955 DeSoto Firedome. The brake felt kinda weak so I decided to pull the wheels off and bleed the brakes. I got the two right/passenger side wheels off but, on the left side I could not get the lugnuts to budge, no matter how hard I tried. I couldn't see any signs of rust on them or anything else that would make them so hard to get off, but I did notice the lugnuts had the number 7 stamped on them.



Later that day I was talking to my Dad and told him about the trouble I was having. He was quiet for a minute, then said "That's not a 7, it's an L."

Boy did I feel dumb...

 

put my intercooler back in after doing some turbo work and somehow cut into my engine wiring harness without knowing it.


Drove 2 hrs to college...cross over a train track right when I arrive and f*ck. No headlights, a/c stuck ON!, no engine fans!, no gauge cluster, no blinkers, no brake lights, 100F middle of august in the south.

Temps start rising to 200+F without working A/C fans. Pull over into my apartment complex parking lot, rip apart half of the dash trying to figure out the problem. Meter fuse blows constantly after replacing new one. Ripp apart half of the interior in blazing sun as this was my daily driver at the time.

I did not having any wires or splicing tools so I could not wire up my radiator fans....and had no headlights! I also had to be back in birmingham later that night....so I decided to risk it. Had to drive from 5pm to 7pm with about 30mins in almost darkness with no lights.

Had to run through stop lights to avoid sitting and overheating to make it onto the interstate. Constantly had to speed up to 120mph and back down to 70mph on interstate to drop the coolant temps and keep them under 220. A/C is on full blast, had to pull the fuse and flip heat on. Drove back 1.5hr drive full heat, 100F temps outside, with 4 bottles of water on interstate praying to god I didn't hit traffic.

Took the car to wiring specialist after driving myself nuts and found out it was just a wire above the radiator that had rubbed raw and grounded to my intercooler. Guy wrapped into heatshrink and charged my 400 bucks!


Lesson Learned - Buy a camry for 2200 bucks.

 

lol damn, some of your stories are hardcore. I dont have a hardcore blooper like that.

But one time i was changing my oil and when i was done, i went to start the car. As the car was running, i was putting away my tools etc etc.

Then i figure i go for a quick drive. I started to roll it out of my driveway when i heard a big SCRAPPPEEE sound. I was like wtf, what happened?

I go to the front of my car and look under the front bumper and i see the oil catch pan still there!!

I was like CRAP!!! I tried to pull it from underneath but my car is too low, i couldnt. I had to jack the car up again to get it out. lol

Luckily nothing was damaged underneath, i probably dented the belly tray but i dont care, its old anyway lol

 

Just things like dropped nuts bolts screws down where you cant get them with those magnet things

The best was putting our mustang batt in the 7 to get it started, the terminals are reversed saw some smoke in the eng bay but i guess the wires didnt burn too much.

 

My dumbest moment was minutes ago.

I started my 7 without TPS and then rev'd it up to like 2k (warm) to check a boost issue.

Yeah. Lean ftl. HOping i didn't **** anything up.

Gotta wait for it to cool down and do an idle relearn.

 

I was checking my 12A FB (my first car) with new MSD coils for spark, so with the engine running I pulled one of the spark plug wires and it arced to my ring and I got electrocuted! I couldn't let got of the effing wire and passed out with it in my hand, luckily pulling it out when I fell to the floor. I woke up to the car still running and a huge headache and my heart pounding!


I was using brake cleaner to degrease the driver side of the engine of my FD and I was moving my catch can around to spray it and it touched the positive batt terminal causing a spark that instantly ignited the engine bay from headlight motor back to the cruise control!!!! Man I never ran so fast to get the hose before...

 

Realized my air pump wire shorted itself on the air pump, decided use crimp on quick disconnect plugs and on my way walking to the engine bay with a box full of plugs, i trip and drop all of them inside my engine bay, end up pulling out the air filter, intercooler, battery tray...... 5 min job turned into a 4 hr job......

 

AND TO ADD TO MY OWN THREAD OF STUPIDITY,YESTERDAY I WAS DRIVING TO A SHOP TO GET A PART FOR MY RX7 AND I CRASH MY GAD DAMN TRUCK.OOOO MAN WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS.

I was driving in heavy rain looking at my GPS trying to find the shop,the guy in front of me stopped short and i jammed on my brakes "being that my truck is heavy" it started sliding and i cut a quick left to dodge the driver in front of me and "SLAMMM" head on into a light pole...

SO IF ANYONE OUT THERE HAS DODGE DAKOTA PARTS PM ME.LOL

 

Well I just bought my rx7 and quickly had to but it away for winter. I took it out of storage 1-2 months ago. Recently, after a few seconds after stepping on it the car would hesitate or sometimes start bucking. So I thought I'd change out the spark plugs which would be the first time doing this. Found this article on how to do it entitled "How to install Spark Plugs & Wires" I was like sweet!!! but at the same time it sucked because it seemed like a lot of work.

http://www.rx7.org/Robinette/sparkplug_wires.htm

So I start following the steps... take off the tubes, take off the throttle body... when I get to that point I'm like "something isn't right here". So I go back to the article and read the whole thing. The very last sentence says "It is very easy to change the plugs from the bottom through the A-arm using a short ratchet. Just jack up the front left wheel and crawl under."

It worked out for the best I think because the wires look pretty old, possibly original, so I will be replacing those as well... plus the gasket I broke.

 

Steering wheel, meet face... I even have pics.

For pics click here:
https://www.rx7club.com/3rd-generation-specific-1993-2002-16/check-out-my-nardi-wheel-funny-story-pics-inside-777986/








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It was like midnight before a racing event. I broke a rear and put a new one in and just wrapping up. Now all I needed to do was fill the rear with gear oil but could not find my pump thingamajig, so I decided to make my own with whatever I had in the middle of the night.

Took a gallon milk container and fill it with gear oil. Put 2ft plastic tube (that's all I could find) from the milk container to the rear fill hole. Made another hole and put my air compressor fitting in there and started to apply pressure. It was working! The pressure from the air compressor was forcing the gear oil up the tube into the rear!

It was working great and man was I proud of myself but it was going a little too slow. My friend decides to turn the valve to add a little more air and before I could scream NOOOOOO, the whole contraption EXPLODED and needless to say we smelled like gear oil for weeks!!!

That's just ONE of the many!!!

 

Here's a couple:

Disconnected the parking brake cable at the handle - don't recall why now, but I forgot the brake was the only thing keeping the car from rolling down the slight slope of the garage and into the street.

Fortunately I was near the car and could stop it.
Use those wheel chocks!

While replacing the front sway bar, I undid the last bolt, only to late to realize that it was then going to fall on my head. At least it didn't hit anything vital.