This happened today (11-20-07)
If you are working on your truck and put a shop towel or ball of paper towels into the intake tube to keep dirt or any other such thing out. Make sure you take it out before you put things back together. OOPS! I forgot. Sounded like a sock being sucked into a vacume cleaner. Took the truck to the dealer. The dealer took it in and cleaned all the bits and pieces of paper towel out of the intake, turbo and intercooler. 3 hours later I got the truck back. Dealer said I was lucky it was a paper towel and not a shop rag. Seems to run fine.

 

I bet that was a expensive mistake! I sure could see how it could happen though. Glad to hear it did not hurt anything. P.S. did they get those pieces from the convertor and muffler ha ha

 

and I suppose this what at no cost? Their payment was laughter in the wind...

 

$265.00 down the tail pipe and Yes, Im sure there was laughter

 

I just arched the battery terminal on the master cylinder brake line. Had to have a brake shop do the mushroom flare since the dealer could not get one for 3 days. That was a 20 dollar mistake and extra few hours to bleed the brakes. On the plus side my brake work better then ever and the line I arced was almost rusted through.

 

I know Im not the only one. Be Brave, lets here your costly mistake.

 

VA 3.2 + Edge EZ+ edge boost elbow= too much for stock turbo Cost=1300 for a new HTB2 62-14
Hot juice+ diablo programmer+heavy right foot+Hot EGTs for too long+ 115000 miles= dropped valve seat= 1500 on new head and gaskets

 

Changing the oil and filter for the first time, replacing it with high $$ Royal Purple . Removed the old filter, replaced it with the new one. Filled up with $75+ of oil. Went to drive the truck up on to ramps to get the fuel filter drained / replaced only to find over 1.5 gallons of oil on the ground!!

Issue: in removing the old filter, the O-ring stayed on the housing. High pressure + stacked O-rings = massive oil spill on the driveway. 15 lbs. of Quick Dry and another $50 in oil made for a frustrating 'economic' oil change.

 

Thanks for the replys. Im glad Im not the only one out there whos made a honest costly mistake. Hopefully I have no problems in the future due to this mistake

 

There's this stump out behind my garage. About 30" high. Backed into it with my 04 truck two years ago and had to get the bumper replaced to trade it in. -- $510.

Two months ago with the 05 truck.... Yep.

These bumpers are mighty thin. We're talking about just touching it here. If I wasn't afraid of tearing up the driveway, a half-inch cable and 4wd-low range would be my permanent fix.

 

Hooking up a cool down timer the other day....unhooked the wiring harness from my sentry box to get some slack on the other wiring harness under the steering column for some wires that needed tapping but in the process unhooking the wiring harness from the sentry box erases the programmed keys from the truck requiring that u have to discard them and get a new sentry box and keys from the dealership costing about 680 bucks from the same dealership. So all in all a 150 dollar cool down timer ended up costing about 820 bucks because of my small screw up

 

went to drill the exhaust manifold right bofore the turbo for my pyro not relizing the was a divider right in the middle. drill bit walked off and i had an egg shaped hole. tapped it anyways put the pyro in used some "high temp manifold repair" kit from autozone so far holding up but i need to get a new manifold some time.

 

I'd have to develop a whole web site to list all the stupid stuff I've done.

 

Ya I did the same thing too, i forgot there was a divider in the middle of the exhaust manifold

 

I've been there, installing the Fass 150/95 on my rig. ALMOST everything went well until it came time to bring the beast to life....electrical. The part when hooking positives and grounds, respectively got me!!!! There was a nasty sizzle, seemingly endless stop in time and a smell that still haunts my senses today! Burned the wire harness on the block, spent two days tracking and repairing them until she came to life! The repairs are less than an inch to the block, I was lucky that day. At some point in the future that mistake will come back to aggravate me I’m sure. I just KEEP telling myself, learn from this one......