Think your msitake is bad? THE BIGGEST IDIOT MISTAKE OF ALL TIME!!!

#182
i dont know man...few years ago me and a buddy installed a TFS intake on my car one afternoon and got it installed and running and it ran great...let it run a few min then we hoped in to take it around the block...made the first turn and the car started bucking badly and quite running..tryed starting it and the motor was locked up....so we pushed it back to his garage and just looked at the motor awhile trying to figure out what was wrong...tryed turning it over by hand and couldnt...then it got late so i went home

next day we were at it again...stairing at the motor scratchen our heads...so i said "how bout i try starting it"....he said "ok" so i tryed and it turned over...and it actually started...so now its running and we are both looken at the motor again scratchen our heads saying "WTF is going on!?", suddenly i hear this sound...sound of running water or something..so i sorta lean over to the side and look down my car and see liquid running out the garage and down the driveway...i walked back and there was coolent pouring out both tail pipes!!! so i quick shut it off....my friend says "hey, looks like you have yourself a V8 water pump LOL"

i can laugh about it now..but at the time i didnt think it was to funny....oh, and we took the intake off and one of the gaskets slide down and wanst blocking a coolent passage :rolleyes:
 
#188
worst thats happened to me, and probably worst so far (havent read all responses). my car just shut off on the freeway, so i coasted it to the exit which happened to be the one i was getting off of. Pulled over, look around, nothing looks damaged, check under the car and notice oil around the oil drain plug in the front, so i check the dipstick and there was no oil on it... I fugured the motor just seized and had it towed home. It takes me about a week to wrap up the motor i had on the side (stock but rebuilt) between work and other things....So I pull out the old motor and dropthe new one in, hook everything up, go to start it up and nothing... i'm starting to get worried that perhaps i didnt do a good job of rebuilding it. check connections and everything, give it another shot to no avail... it would just turn but not fire up, so i figured it was fuel or spark... fuel was good, so i took the control module and ignition coil to Autozone to have them checked out, turned out the module was bad. that coupled with the fact that the motor once out of the car turned fine(not seized), and there was no metal shavings in the oil pan leads me to believe the motor it self was fine, i just had a bad module and nothing else. I guess I really wanted to put that fresh motor in.
 
#192
VinnySVO said:
Anyone ever snap the heads off the fuel rail bolts?
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Yup. Got in a hurry bolting down the fuel rail on my recently ported explorer lower and snapped the head off the pass side front fuel rail bolt. Worried about it for a minute or two and then got a 1/2" wide zip tie strap that we use for tying down big cables at work and tied the fuel rail down to the hard heater lines. Ran around like that for about a year.
 
#194
holy crap, I couldnt believe when I saw the notification for this thread pop up in my inbox. I remember when I started this thread waaaaaaaay back. Now I KNOW Ill never live this down...
 
#197
89tang said:
I did this to one of the bolts on the pass. side of the fuel rail. Snapped the head right off, this isn't the best part either lol. I left it like this for awhile it was fine i had changed the injectors to 30lbers an was running the fuel psi pretty low. But had problems with the 30lbers so i decided to take them off an put my 19's back in there for the time being cuz i had some 24lb ones on order. So i'm think damn i should crank the fuel pressure up alittle cuz there 19's aren't going to cut it, well i crank it up from about 30 to 45psi. Perfect the car's running good not to rich or nothing, so i decide i'll take it out an hammer on it see how good it's going to do. Get out on the road just giving it hell, it's running great turn onto another back road an hammer it again only this time i smell gas not just alittle i smell it like there's a 5gallon can spilled in the car or something. So i turn off an jump out an pop the hood an check it out (the car is still running too) i peek under the intake where the back pass. bolt i had broke off on the fuel rail and i see that the rail had completely popped off the top of not one injector but two of them an gas was pouring all over everything damn near on fire it was smoking, i shut if off quickly an towed it home. How i didn't blow myself up that day i will never know. I tapped a new hole an now have a big ass bolt in there lol.
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The exact same thing happened to me! except it was on the drivers side.
 
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