I had my vett slide off a ramp, since the tires were too wide to sit in front of the lip correctly. It pushed the ramp right out from under it, and settled on the passenger foot well / floor 'board'. Crunch. You think getting a door skin replaced is tough. Fiberglass repair on the floor pan . . PIA. Anywho, Vette's have the door skins bolted onto a metal frame, if it's a C4. If it's not a C4, I can't help much. I know that sick vette owner feeling. Then there was the time a good friend of mine took the rear bumper cover off my first vette with his van's bumper. That was a friendship straining evening. Well, after I finally found him 6 hours later, and his wife finally opened the front door...


Oh, I also got married a little over a year ago.

 

Drove to MN and when I got there my truck started to run like . Made my future Brother in law drive to two-harbors (2 1/2 hours from their house) to pick up a map sensor. Replaced it; truck ran better . Began driving back to Texas on Sunday and with 100 miles ran like again and found a part store open and replaced the fuel filter. . Went home... Have a used map sensor now.

Getting married in August 08'.

 

I am guilty of the SHOP RAG!!!!!! Went straight thru the turbo and into the cold air side of the intercooler. 3 hrs of blowing and picking out what looked like dryer lint from the tubes and intercoller. Thanks to GAMIKE for helping me with it. The turbo does have one impeller blade slightly bent in the compressor/intake side. So far 20k miles on it with no problems. The shaft has no play, but I am shopping for a new turbo as we speek. It is just a matter of time before the shaft becomes out of balance. Stock turbos are pretty strong.. The whistle sound coming from the turbo is unbelievable, more like a F-15 on steroids.

 

when hooking up the fass by myself I turned the key on with the pump hooked up to bleed out the lines, with the line unhooked at the cp3.......left a gallon of diesel on the ground.....

even worse, I have an old ramcharger/play toy that i've had since highschool, going down the road, a freeze plug fell out, some how the temp. gauge stopped working too, so when I got back to my shop smoke was rolling out of the valve covers.

A couple months later an a new motor got her up an running like new
many more stupid stories envolving a couple of old junk cars, bud light, and some very pretty girls

 

Buying a built tranny and not gettin a billet input shaft. . Well ill get built tranny two back on Tuesday With a billet input. Woops toasted the whole tranny when the input went.

Adam

 

In winters past I parked the skid steer (6'10" tall) in my basement garage (7' single door) to keep it warm and make it easier to start. On day I forgot the door height and put some down pressure on the bucket to push the snow away from the garage on the way out. Anyone who's operated a skid steer will know that when you put some down pressure on the bucket, it lifts the front of the machine up in the air. $500.00 later I had a new door. It needed to be replaced anyway, I was just hoping I wouldn't have to call the repair man out on a very cold day after hours.

 

Does it have to on a truck? How about with a two-stroke quad? Once upon a time, I forgot (i'm sure all of the consumed alcohol had nothing to do with this) to mix two-stroke oil into my VP race gas. I figured it out before I hit third gear at the sand drags. Being towed off the sand drag track at Glamis is quite embarressing to say the least.

Not only did I have to rebuild the top end, but the crake bearings and the rod bearings were burned up....

 

Don't forget to disconect the sway bar links when you install the 2" HBS spacer kit. Those little suckers are expensive!

DT <*)))><

 

I bet those will qualify for the DTR "Y'all hold my beer and watch this" award.

 

Tonight, I was putting a nicer used OEM console in my truck to replace the old one. First I broke the plastic cover that hides the hinge on the side of the console (it's a fold down seat) while trying to take it off the old one, and then the shop light I was using melted my rear seat and made a spot about the size of a baseball. Didn't realize what it was doing until I could smell it. Truck might've been on fire if I didn't come back out sooner. So to make my interior better with a nicer console, it cost me a hinge cover, and a huge burn hole on my back seat. Time for a beer.

 

I spent a lot on a power kit for my 97 from the left coast and replaced it (a little at a time) cuz it sucked! Did the same thing with mufflers til I got the sound (and quiet) I wanted. I'm glad there's a market for used parts - I haven't had to throw anything away, yet. I repaired and charged an A/C for a friend and left a 30lb jug of R12 and my favorite old Robinair gauges on the back of my truck and lost them on the road. That was a little before R12 got so expensive. No biggies on the 03..... yet! Craig

 

Lost the key to my truck friday night/ saturday morning 500+ miles from home and having to haul cattle home the very next morning, had to have the truck towed to a dealer and a new Sentry Key made before they closed. Had to have the truck towed to the dealer, was dollied behind an F350 tow truck, truck pushed through a red light and through 4 lanes of traffic, thought we were going to die!

New key cost $253 by the time I was out of there.

 

Ok, ok. . .

One pitch black night checking on the horses, pulled through a pasture gate and heard a grinding snap. Wondering what it was, I retired back through the gate and heard another loud thud much worse than before.

Sure that I hadn't hit the body on anything went through gate yet again and hear another pop and rattling, then nothing. . . .

Got out, went around to the passenger door. . . no trailer tow mirror.

$538 installed.

 

lost both keys to my dad's 1500 hemi. got 2 new keys and key fobs, 200 dollars later, I found the original keys in my glove compartment. WHERE I HAD ALREADY LOOKED!!! stupid me!

 

Buying my truck in the first place. I have NEVER owned any vehicle that has taken more time and $$$$$$$$ than this one. I love it, but it gets hard sometimes. I call it my automotive black hole, all it does in inhale time and money.
Lets see..... what else needs to be done?
I need a brake job
I need a new intercooler
I need new headlights
My front bumper is all screwed up
My headliner is falling down
My new transmission leaks and is noisy
My right front axle seal really leaks
BUT IT SURE IS A GREAT ENGINE....... RIGHT?????????