BLittle500 Posted January 16, 2010 Share Posted January 16, 2010 I'm sure some of us will make them, might as well laugh about it, and hopefully learn from it. Doing a 6.0 rear engine cover, I got the trans and everything bolted back up, went to grab the cross member and there laid the spacer that goes in between the crank and the flex plate. Dumb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamageINC Posted January 16, 2010 Share Posted January 16, 2010 Ouch. I remember the first time I ever rebuilt a mod motor, I was doing head gaskets on an older Expedition. Literally getting ready to fill the fluids and start it up when I found the crank trigger wheel on the bottom of my toolcart. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Bruene Posted January 16, 2010 Share Posted January 16, 2010 I'm sure some of us will make them, might as well laugh about it, and hopefully learn from it. Doing a 6.0 rear engine cover, I got the trans and everything bolted back up, went to grab the cross member and there laid the spacer that goes in between the crank and the flex plate. Dumb. I did that on the first 6.0 engine I had ever replaced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Posted January 16, 2010 Share Posted January 16, 2010 *sigh* In the middle of re-assembling a 6.0 bottom end after a reseal. "Can you come talk to this customer" Get back, finish torquing the bedplate bolts down, look down and the front of the engine has only one tit-willy hanging out between the upper and lower crankcase halves.... There's the other side of the bedplate gasket set sitting on my toolcart. ARRRRRRRRRRGH. At least I caught it when I did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbudge Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 So a 6.0l needs a high pressure pump, nothing unusual, one gets changed here every other day, it seems. Put the pump on, now no hp oil pressure, zero. WTF, it had some pressure before? Pull the pump off and remove the shipping plug from the oil inlet. The same plug that gets pulled out of every other pump that gets changed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mchan68 Posted January 23, 2010 Share Posted January 23, 2010 So a 6.0l needs a high pressure pump, nothing unusual, one gets changed here every other day, it seems. Put the pump on, now no hp oil pressure, zero. WTF, it had some pressure before? Pull the pump off and remove the shipping plug from the oil inlet. The same plug that gets pulled out of every other pump that gets changed.I made that same mistake, ONCE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mekanik Posted January 23, 2010 Share Posted January 23, 2010 The first time I was replacing as oil pump gasket on a 1993 Villager, I left the dipstick in the dipstick tube. I got the whole thing back together. This is a pretty time consuming job. I an apprentice and it took me ALL day. I put oil in it and then went to pull the dipstick out. The damn thing was stuck. I ended up breaking the dipstick, while trying to pull it out. There is a baffle in the pan that caused the fully installed dipstick to bend in a 90 degree angle and it will NEVER come out like that. It took me another day to fix that mistake. I was paid hourly at the time so I got paid, but it was still VERY aggravating. I never leave a dipstick in an engine like that. Also, when I take things apart I lay the parts out in order. For example, when I remove a front cover from an engine, I put the trigger wheel on the inside of the front cover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shlep Posted January 23, 2010 Share Posted January 23, 2010 Originally Posted By: BLittle500 I'm sure some of us will make them, might as well laugh about it, and hopefully learn from it. Doing a 6.0 rear engine cover, I got the trans and everything bolted back up, went to grab the cross member and there laid the spacer that goes in between the crank and the flex plate. Dumb. I did that on the first 6.0 engine I had ever replaced. Same here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamageINC Posted January 29, 2010 Share Posted January 29, 2010 For example, when I remove a front cover from an engine, I put the trigger wheel on the inside of the front cover. I do the same thing now! Haha.. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Warman Posted January 30, 2010 Share Posted January 30, 2010 The only mistake I have made this year is to put on my pants.... A simple act, indeed.... but, I put on my pants so I can leave the house. I leave the house so I can go to work.... When I get to work, there are ever so many days that, if it weren't for things going wrong, nothing would be happening. Ergo.... using common logic.... going to work = bad stuff.... not going to work = no bad stuff..... putting on pants = going to work = bad stuff. We can extrapolate this to understand that, if I do not "install pants", I will stay at home... If I stay at home, I will be broke but error free.... The only bonehead thing I have done this year is put on my pants..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Browning Posted January 30, 2010 Share Posted January 30, 2010 For some of us keeping our pant ON is a good thing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mchan68 Posted January 30, 2010 Share Posted January 30, 2010 For some of us keeping our pant ON is a good thing!You mean keeping the zipper done up Keith? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Amacker Posted January 30, 2010 Share Posted January 30, 2010 The only mistake I have made this year is to put on my pants. About 20 years ago, my housemate (the guy who lived in the apt. upstairs that preferred not to wear underwear) tripped while he was putting his pants on and zipping his zipper onto- you guessed it, his pecker. Having his leg caught inside the pants leg and his zipper latched onto his dick ripped a big gash in the side of his pecker, needing (IIRC) about 15 stitches at the local hospital. I bet the ER crew got a big kick out of that one. Now THERE'S a true story about making a mistake putting on pants..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LARRY BRUDZYNSKI Posted January 30, 2010 Share Posted January 30, 2010 Bruce......This thread was meant to be about stupid shit we do. You to Jim and Keith...... 2 weeks ago.....taking out the trash to the curb, I myself had a "Bonehead" move. Walking the can out to the curb I accidently hit the sidewalk and did a header towards the can, almost put my frickin head right in it, but instead smacked it on the side of it. Needless to say the can launched across the front yard pretty dam quick that morning. But I'm better now. STUPID SHIT WE DO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Amacker Posted January 30, 2010 Share Posted January 30, 2010 Stupid shit I've done? I don't have enough time to tell all of the stories. Wrecking customer cars (including twice crashing TWO cust cars into each other), driving through garage doors (three times, once with a brand spanking new IH), grabbing hot parts with my bare hands (like almost red kingpins that another tech just glowed to get out), and then just plain clumsy shit like wiping out on my bicycle twice last year, both times making my riding buddy wipe out on top of me because I was in his way. My bike partners give me more leeway now, and my ass is still bruised right now from a wipeout last June. I'm amazed I've gotten this far in life without being in a wheelchair or broke. I had many potential insurance claims when I had the shop but never turned one in. I always paid them out of pocket, which ended up with me buying several of the customer cars from the cust at pre-crash value. Oh, yea, we ended up doing "bodywork", too, if you could call it that. OMG, that just scratches the surface....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Browning Posted January 30, 2010 Share Posted January 30, 2010 Okay, it's about time I fess up. Last summer I backed into the Snap-On dealer's truck as I pulled a dump truck out of my shop. Granted, that day he had parked the truck almost in the middle if the fire lane behind the shop in the busiest area of the parking lot. When I back out of my bay I can't see much and I have traffic coming at me from any of 4 possible directions, 3 of which are blind. I KNEW the truck was there, in fact, I had just been talking to the tool man. The truck was a 1997 F-Super Duty, mason dump with those little extended side tow mirrors that were turned to the inside of the mirror frames and pointed inward. As I backed out from my blind spots, my attention was diverted to a co-worker who suddenly appeared to my left walking toward the shop... then BOOM! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastendpowerstroke Posted January 30, 2010 Share Posted January 30, 2010 I've backed into/onto the hood of a customers mustang with a dump truck that had a road sander in it, I knew the mustang was there and was looking in the mirrors backing into the spot....just never gave a thought to the fact that the sander sticks about 2 1/2 feet past the back of the truck.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieseldoc Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 About 2 years ago I overhauled a 7.3 in a 94 f250 for my buddy. I was putting it back in, and things were going awesome, the tranny splined right up and nothing got in the way. It was the easiest install I had ever done yet. UNTIL....I went to put the trans mounting bolts in and couldnt figure out why the dowel pins wer so long, how come the trans isnt going in all the way?.......Son of a bitch there leaned against the bench is the adapter plate for the starter, you know that 1 inch thick chunk of a aluminum. Needless to say out it came. GRRRRR!!!! And of course it did not go in as easy as it had the first time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Amacker Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 I left the sheetmetal splash guard (between the block and the tranny) out of the first engine I ever overhauled- a 289 in a '67 Fairlane. The SOB had to come back out for the spacer, of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshbuys Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 About 2 years ago I overhauled a 7.3 in a 94 f250 for my buddy. I was putting it back in, and things were going awesome, the tranny splined right up and nothing got in the way. It was the easiest install I had ever done yet. UNTIL....I went to put the trans mounting bolts in and couldnt figure out why the dowel pins wer so long, how come the trans isnt going in all the way?.......Son of a bitch there leaned against the bench is the adapter plate for the starter, you know that 1 inch thick chunk of a aluminum. Needless to say out it came. GRRRRR!!!! And of course it did not go in as easy as it had the first time. Just after I started working in my first dealer, I got tasked with re-assembling a 7.3 that another tech had removed and disassembled - our sales department was refusing to fix it properly and we 'patched' it back together - since I was hourly I was asked by the foreman to finish it up - ran better when done, but never was worthwhile....anyway, I digress....never had a 7.3 torn down this far before, get it all back together, going back in and got the tranny all lined up real nice like, and it won't suck all the way together - about an inch gap....what's going on here?!?! So I ask my mentor and he says do you have the spacer in there? WHAT SPACER???? Luckily it's an E-van, so I backed out the engine enough to slide the spacer in and whala....it all lines up!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshbuys Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 So a 6.0l needs a high pressure pump, nothing unusual, one gets changed here every other day, it seems. Put the pump on, now no hp oil pressure, zero. WTF, it had some pressure before? Pull the pump off and remove the shipping plug from the oil inlet. The same plug that gets pulled out of every other pump that gets changed. Originally Posted By: mchan68 I made that same mistake, ONCE. Never did that one myself, but two of the guys I worked with at my old dealer did that within a couple weeks of eachother....first guy comes to me for any ideas after he put one in and cranked on it for 15 minutes and couldn't get it to fire - said it wasn't building any pressure went over everything with him and was like well - guess you got a bad pump - air checked it - no leaks - time to pull the pump back out - he comes back later holding this pump and his head down - that sucks man - I feel for you guys - fortunately for me I got to see someone else make that mistake so I don't have to, but if we all share ours with others, then we can all make less of our own!!!! We all do stupid things at time - it's HUMAN NATURE - the best thing is to move on and learn from our own and others stupidity!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Warman Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 Several years ago, a shop owner I know was backing out of one of his bays and turning sharply to one side at the same time... he felt a solid <BUMP> and the truck stopped... he pulled ahead and gave it another try.... <BUMP>..... and one more time, just for luck.... <BUMP> - he finally got out and took a look... there, in the blind spot was another car... a customers car... with three large dents in the side.... Bone head moves? Maybe ask Dwayne how his noggin is doing lately (at least he didn't need stitches this time). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabfoes87 Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 First 6.0 complete engine job, 06 f-550 boom truck. Pulled engine and truck sat for at least 1 month before all the t's were crossed and i's were dotted. Went to tow it in and a little miss communictaion between bobcat operator and me. Since it is as big as a small house, no visual conformation of "Go, or no Go", could be easily esstablished. "Ok, count to 10 ten then start pullen slowly." Well some mistakes were made and catastrpohy happened. Trans still in park and bobcat screaming, Trans mount let go and tranny flipped completly upside down and 16 qrts of sp on lot. New trans mount and carrier bearing and she was as good as new. Never been so worried for my job. Dumb! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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