Things you learn by not doing the right thing the first time

[Elutheros]

1. If you are putting Explorer heads on your 5.0 replace the valve springs before you install the engine. That fluttering RPM above 2800 is going to really annoy you. Alex's Parts are competitive and mad in the USA.
2. Buy the NAPA valve spring compressor tool #7769094 for $9 you can't go wrong.
3. Buy the NAPA valve Spring compressor tool #7769189 for $22. It's a lot easier to put the new springs and keepers with this tool. Lube the threads before you start and wear some padded gloves. You can also use an adjustable wrench to turn the handle if needed.
4. Use the hose from your compression tester to hold the valves up with compressed air. Before you use it take the valve core out of the hose or it will do nothing and your valves will drop. Don't forget to move the hose every time you start a new cylinder.
5. You will get to tear apart a whole lot of stuff you didn't want to in order to get your valve covers off.

So there, now you know.

 

[Junglejoe]

but... you had fun doing it.

 

[19Walt93]

(1)If you use an air ratchet to remove a valve body from a transmission, make sure the air exhausts toward the back of the ratchet and not toward the socket.
(2) your hair won't blow around once it's sprayed with ATF
(3) if you touch something hot and let go the burning stops- unless you're wearing nitrile or latex gloves which stay hot.

 

[Dirtman]

If you buy a woman's shoe in your size, it will not fit.

 

[RonD]

Never oil brake shoes even if they are squeaking

Yes, I did

 

[Curious Hound]

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If you buy a woman's shoe in your size, it will not fit.

Seems that even if a woman buys a shoe in "her size" it doesn't fit. Will always be complaints about how her feet are killing her in these shoes.

 

[Dirtman]

DO NOT put the following items in a toilet bowl, dry ice, sodium metal, or a burning cell phone.

The first two were pranks gone awry, the third was a samsung phone that exploded and natural instinct was to chuck it in the toilet. A lesson learned in lithium battery fires...

 

[Curious Hound]

DO NOT put the following items in a toilet bowl, dry ice, sodium metal, or a burning cell phone.

The first two were pranks gone awry, the third was a samsung phone that exploded and natural instinct was to chuck it in the toilet. A lesson learned in lithium battery fires...

So you ran out of working toilets and that's why you poop in the furnace.

Now we know.

 

[MikeG]

Never kick a skunk.... or anything in Dirtman's basement

 

[Dirtman]

So you ran out of working toilets and that's why you poop in the furnace.

Now we know.

Eh they were all at work, worst thing I've ever put in my own toilet is Arby's...

 

[Grumpaw]

Never oil brake shoes even if they are squeaking

Yes, I did

Silly...you have to use brake shoe lap grease. Oil is just too light.

 

[RonD]

Silly...you have to use brake shoe lap grease. Oil is just too light.

Yes, that would have been more 007 than the oil, but I still got a pretty good "Smoke Screen" going down the road, lol
Bond, James Bond

 

[adsm08]

DO NOT put the following items in a toilet bowl, dry ice, sodium metal, or a burning cell phone.

The first two were pranks gone awry, the third was a samsung phone that exploded and natural instinct was to chuck it in the toilet. A lesson learned in lithium battery fires...

I am surprised that you were not aware of the reaction between lithium and water until into the cell phone era.

 

[Dirtman]

I am surprised that you were not aware of the reaction between lithium and water until into the cell phone era.

You hold a burning phone in your hand and see which instinct comes first, 6th grade chemistry and then trying to think what kind of battery is in the phone... Or CRAP GET THIS THIS AWAY FROM ME!

Sodium reacts way worse than lithium, the toilet actually broke during that incident. I just thought it would shoot a flame and or spark (I had previously thrown sodium into lakes). But the toilet did not survive...

 

[adsm08]

You hold a burning phone in your hand and see which instinct comes first, 6th grade chemistry and then trying to think what kind of battery is in the phone... Or CRAP GET THIS THIS AWAY FROM ME!

I shine under pressure, and I'm usually particularly calm and aware when dealing with fire.

I would probably have thrown it in the nearest dry ceramic container, like the sink or tub, then thrown a towel on it.

I am also, at all times, fire or no, aware of the reaction of lithium and water, and when possible aware of the nearest sources of both.