I am soooo Stupid!
#1
I am soooo Stupid!
I took off my stock air filter box to paint the lid and lower body black. I took some paper towels and made a wad of it to stuff in the small opening and then taped it in place so I would not get paint on the inside of the air box. I made sure I cleaned all the parts and washed them before painting. I painted them because of some surface rust that was showing on the lid. When they were finish drying they looked real good so I put everything back on the car and I patted myself on the back. About 2 hours later I decided to goto the store, well all was going well until the car started making this chirping noise then bogged down at the stop sign and shut off! I got it going enough to get to the store and back but my gas pedal was real stiff and the car would only go 10-15 miles per hour.
Once back at the house I rememberd the wad of paper towels I stuffed into the air box outlet hole so I looked in the trash for it to see if it was all still in one piece....then I started thinking..." I don't remember actually removing it before I put it all back together. " Sure enough after 30 minutes of removing car parts I found that the wad went through the air box, through the AFM and came to rest like the cork in a wine bottle right in the throttle body! I went from patting myself on the back to punching myself in the sack! I got it out with some needle nose pliers and it is all good now. I really AM stupid.
Once back at the house I rememberd the wad of paper towels I stuffed into the air box outlet hole so I looked in the trash for it to see if it was all still in one piece....then I started thinking..." I don't remember actually removing it before I put it all back together. " Sure enough after 30 minutes of removing car parts I found that the wad went through the air box, through the AFM and came to rest like the cork in a wine bottle right in the throttle body! I went from patting myself on the back to punching myself in the sack! I got it out with some needle nose pliers and it is all good now. I really AM stupid.
#3
no, not stupid, just human dude. i forgot the dowel pins for my engine the first time i did it (machine shop took them out to plain the block and never gave them back), it even lasted 8000km before it blew the head gasket!!
#4
Man that sounds like when I was doing the fuel rail and I ended up dropping a socket into the car. It got really cold and I didn't work on it for a few days. After I was done I had forgotten to make sure to look for that socket. So I had everything back in, started the car and I heard a horrible noise. Shut it off, found the socket underneath. It had bent the alternator fan blade, cause the belt to jump and get caught around the blades. So I had to replace the belt and bend all the fan blades back into place. Luckily it didn't do more damage.
#5
i think the most Humman thing i have done so far on the z, might be the silicone onthe injector leak, now it's just a whole lot worse. and i got a puddle of gas on my intake manafold under then injector.
#6
Yeah I was doing an intake manifold gasket and stuffed some paper towels into the ports on the head so gasket crap I scraped off wouldn't get in. Well I got everything bolted back up before I spotted a waded paper towel on the floor I had dropped. Thats when it dawned on me that I forgot to remove them. I had to take off the fuel rail and the intake manifold and do it all over again. Thats what happens when I get in a rush
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