ITT: Times you fucked up wrenching your car / bike. I've

>>15658779
> Removing chrome bumper from car
> It's attached with coach bolts
> It's been attached for 41 years
> Struggling to get the nut off
> Pull out the cheater bar and start hammering it
> Snap the nut off and the thread
> Spend a couple days looking at it until I realised I could hammer the rest out with a punch

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>fuel leak
>replace fuel line under intake manifold
>car doesn't start
>turns but no bang action
>start removing intake manifold and icv
Wait a minute...
>Car was out of fuel.
>mfw

Broke a few of those panel clips. That is all.
It's hard to fuck up when you have google and Haynes manuals. As long as you have the right tools.

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> Be installing diff
> Get everything out. Everything is going well.
> Take off old ring gear to put onto new diff
> Bolts won't fucking turn
> Get 5ft breaker bar
> Get all the bolts to turn, just loosen them all up
> Took the fury of 1000 suns to do this
> Look at bolts
> Big "L" on them
> They're left hand thread
> mfw I broke ALL the bolts
> Parts store was closed
>Had to leave the truck without a diff over night
> Next day
> Get new ring gear and bolts
> Everything goes smoothly.

>>15658779
>Replace the entire cooling system becuase of leak.

>No leaks but car overheats now, and the intake has got a vacuum leak becuase poorly designed intake gaskets.

FFS.

'im pretty new to working on cars

i bought a foxbody as my first car and changed the distributor cap, rotor, spark-plugs and spark-plug wires apparently i didn't put the spark plug wires in the right order. now the car wont start

its been a week i've tried so many different orders and still nothing

i feel like an idiot

>>15661279
are you sure you're getting spark? crank it over with one of the plug wires off and near some bare metal, like a bolt head or something. do you see little blue sparks jumping between the wire and bare metal surface?

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>>15661279
try this man, just found on google.

>>15661208

This is why you turn both ways if you think a bolt, or nut is stuck.

>Replacing brake shoes on rear brakes
>Pull off brake drum
>Wheel bearings fall onto the ground
>Put them aside
>Change brake shoes
>Forget which way the wheel bearings went
>Stick them in there in a seemingly logical way
>Put brake drum back on
>Tighten up hub nut
>Crunch
>Remove hub nut and brake drum
>Bearings fall everywhere, some have sheared in half
>Have to leave car on jack stands with rear brake wrapped in a carrier bag
>Take bus to work the next day instead of driving
>New wheel bearing arrives
>Actually read the Haynes manual this time
>All goes well

>replace window regulator
>fuck up somewhere along the way
>door now rattles on rough roads/bumps/closing

>pulling crank pulley off my 2000 neon
>fuck she's tight on there
>start drilling and chiselling
>pulleys fucked now but at least I got it off
>realize i wasn't pushing against the shaft with the puller
>was pushing against the pulley
>this was today

Fuck

>>15658779
>soft top wrangler
>loud af
>driving down interstate on christmas motherfucking eve
>happen to see 'check gauges' light come on
>realize oil pressure reads 0
>immediately start to slow down
>as wind noise quiets, can hear horrible engine noise
>sheeeeeit
>put it in neutral
>shut engine off
>coast/brake to a stop on the shoulder
>call insurance, they send wrecker
>get it hauled 60 miles home
>pull pan
>pull oil pump
>pump shaft has two ears that distributor shaft goes into like a screw driver to drive it
>ears are broken off
>welltheresyourproblem.exe
>buy and install new oil pump
>all is hunkydory
>drive a week
>suddenly 'check gauges' light
>oil pressure 0
>FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUU
>get friend to pull me home
>pull pan
>ears are broke off of new oil pump
>what the actual fuck
>pull distributor
>shaft has like 3/16" of play side to side
>totally wallowed out after 190k miles
>fuck me.
>get new distributor
>get new oil pump (warrantied that shit)
>put it back together for the second time in a week
>break again motherfucker
>I dare you
>I double dare you motherfucker

>>15661223
Bleed your cooling system.

Yes again.

And probably again after that

Most recent was the ol' wrench across the battery terminals.