- Joined
- Oct 15, 2010
- Messages
- 54
- Reaction score
- 0
- Points
- 0
- Location
- Ft. Drum, NY
- Vehicle Year
- 2005
- Make / Model
- ford
- Engine Size
- 4.0
- Transmission
- Manual
Tell the story of the dumbest thing you've done working on your vehicle.
mine: Putting a new trans in my 94 ranger. My passenger side cross member bolt is rusted into place (impacts and cheater bars didn't work.) so I couldn't use a trans jack. So, I got underneath and had my partner in idiocy finagle my trans on top of me so I could try to man handle it into place. (This is in a drive way with my front end on jack stands.) About twenty minutes in with lots of forcing, grunting and sweating involved I had the trans lined up and up to the engine, while I was waiting for my partner to get a bolt to hold it in place, my sweaty hands slipped, and the trans fell, aaaaand I caught it with my head, against the pavement. I made it out ok, but I had a HUUUGE headache after we got the trans bolted up (35 minutes later.) It was a 5 speed with no fluid in it.
NEVER AGAIN. I will pay to have it done from now on.
mine: Putting a new trans in my 94 ranger. My passenger side cross member bolt is rusted into place (impacts and cheater bars didn't work.) so I couldn't use a trans jack. So, I got underneath and had my partner in idiocy finagle my trans on top of me so I could try to man handle it into place. (This is in a drive way with my front end on jack stands.) About twenty minutes in with lots of forcing, grunting and sweating involved I had the trans lined up and up to the engine, while I was waiting for my partner to get a bolt to hold it in place, my sweaty hands slipped, and the trans fell, aaaaand I caught it with my head, against the pavement. I made it out ok, but I had a HUUUGE headache after we got the trans bolted up (35 minutes later.) It was a 5 speed with no fluid in it.
NEVER AGAIN. I will pay to have it done from now on.
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