Did You Ever...

[Westly]

Did you ever take a car door apart and replace the window regulator and then put it all back together nice and pretty...and then remember you left the regulator and motor only finger tight? Not as bad as doing that with lug nuts I guess...

 

[D.J.]

Or forget to hook up the wiring? That's what I do!

 

[dadsEH]

Did the mancard expire??

 

[Richard Cranium]

I hate forgetting stuff.
But stuff do come apart a lot faster the second and third time.

 

[Milton Shaw]

I had a neighbor get his dirt basement concreted and then noticed the roll of steel mesh that was supposed to be in it. Don't know if he had a lot of cracks or not.

 

[paranoid56]

so i just did this same thing on sunday. however once i finished and all buttoned up, i looked down and realized i forgot to put the speaker back lol

 

[lakeroadster]

I recently installed a window upside down in our garage... noticed it when I went to open the window, slid the window sideways, and it fell off the track.

That was an "oh ****" moment.

Note to self "Don't remove stickers until after the installation is completed"

Rework is tolerable... when the mistake was yours.

 

[AldeanFan]

Guy I worked with got a transmission bolted in and full of fluid before he saw the torque converter on the bench


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[egnorant]

Found my throwout bearing as I was cleaning up after a clutch replacement!

Bruce

 

[VocaTexas]

I left a penlight in the heater box when I was replacing the heater core in my pick up last year. Yep, realized it was missing when I was putting my tools up...

 

[bczygan]

I put drum brakes back together 5 times in one day.........only one of them was correct.

Luckily it was the last one.

Bill

 

[raddksn]

I hate forgetting stuff.
But stuff do come apart a lot faster the second and third time.

Yes! Yes it do!

 

[Westly]

I hate forgetting stuff.
But stuff do come apart a lot faster the second and third time.

It do, boss! Already knowing where the fasteners and snaps were turned it from a 1 hr job to a 3 minute job. And the panel fasteners aren't the kind that break off -- cudos to that guy.

 

[SH7mi]

I did an oil change to my truck only to realize when 'finished' I forgot to install drain plug.
HAZMAT !!!!

 

[LS6 Tommy]

A young kid that used to work for me did front brakes on a late 70's Vette. He had it on the floor and out the door into the lot before I noticed the caliper slider bolts on his work bench. At least it hadn't been picked up before I noticed.

Tommy

 

[ambenz]

I installed EL wire in my door panels to illuminate the interior at evening car shows.

Well damn if every season, the wire breaks internally and I have to replace it, or the puddle lights fill with water and wash out, it is just mind numbing how many times I've been in my doors, working on stuff.

 

[vavet]

I used to work on bmws. There's a 745 somewhere with a flashlight under the intake manifold. By the time I realized where it was, my time was more valuable than the flashlight.

I left the magnets out of the automatic transmission pan. Discovered them after I refilled everything. Ugh...

Saw a trick played on a fellow tech one time. He'd had a transmission out to do a clutch. After he got the transmission back in, One of his "buddies" put an extra flywheel bolt on the lift arm while the guy was away...making him question if he'd installed all the flywheels, did he need to remove the transmission again....ugh

 

[CoogarXR]

Something I always do is forget to slide the heat-shrink tube on a wire before I solder it. Or even better, when soldering/crimping a 2-piece connector, forgetting to slide the shell on the cable first.

 

[bdbecker]

Something I always do is forget to slide the heat-shrink tube on a wire before I solder it. Or even better, when soldering/crimping a 2-piece connector, forgetting to slide the shell on the cable first.

Did this just the other day...

Soldered the first set of wires together but forgot the heat shrink tube. Since I'm OCD about stuff like this, I couldn't stand the idea of not having my joints perfectly staggered so I re-cut, re-stripped, re-tinned all eight wires. This time I remember the shrink tube, but when I heat it up, I grabbed the wrong size and it wouldn't shrink down enough.

Great...

Again, since I'm OCD about this stuff, I cut out all the work and started over, again. It looks great now, but man, I was not happy with myself for about a half hour.