Dumbass DSM Moment

[Calan]

Disclaimer: Beer was involved with this story.

So I'm dropping my rear sub-frame for my rebuild, and it dawns on me that I have a pumpkin full of brand new Redline Heavy Shockproof. And since this stuff costs about as much as a typical Honda, I decided I better try to reuse it.

Looking around the garage I spotted my handy-dandy-pressurized-gear oil-filler-upper can that I made from a 1 gallon plastic gas jug with a little HSP still in it. I also spotted a nice clean small funnel, and life was good.

I broke the drain plug loose, positioned the can under the rear drain with the funnel in the top, and proceeded to thread the drain plug the rest of the way out. This is where that beer/dumbass thing I mentioned enters the story.

Somehow the drain plug slipped through my fingers, and as luck would have it...turns out that not only was it designed to plug a rear diff, it was also designed to flip upside down and perfectly plug a small funnel. I never realized how fast HSP can flow out of the drain; I could have sworn that it flowed MUCH slower when I was trying to pump it in.

And I'm really amazed at how little of it the funnel can hold, because as I knocked the shit out of elbow and smacked my head on the lower fender well scrambling for something else to catch it in, I had just enough time to look over and see all but about 3 teaspoons of it flowing all over the garage floor.

I'm pretty sure someone snuck into my garage and put that other four gallons of HSP in my rear end that came pouring out, 'cause I only remember it holding a little over quart when I filled it up. Have you ever tried to wipe up a small pond of HSP?. It's like thick red KY jelly...which seems appropriate I guess.

Ok... back to the garage. I need another beer.

 

[BigBeans]

It's like thick red KY jelly

Well, maybe there's an alternative use and it won't be a complete waste

 

[4G63_Attack]

Well, I don't think you had it that bad. This story of my is not DSM related but more car in general. One evening or I should say night, I was changing the oil on the corolla. Drain out the old oil and proceed to the oil filter here is the funny part of it all. Well being on my back and in the dark, I spend about half an hour wondering what the frack why the stupid oil filter is not coming off. Then it just hit me, I was tightening the whole time instead of loosing it. From a 10 minute job to about half an hour... FML

 

[brownfinger]

I just added a half-quart to the Murderwagen today. The dipstick said I wasn't quite due to add the half-quart just yet, but I did it anyway. I bought the car back in October, and I haven't changed the oil once yet.. It leaves giant puddles everywhere. It smokes when I boost. But I've added oil twice since then. One half-quart each time. I drive it pretty-much every day. I don't know how it spreads it so thin. It leaves it's mark everywhere it goes, it burns oil, it has a leaky turbo, it has 150K miles on it and is a total POS, but it only goes through a quart every 3K miles.

They're magic.

 

[Lawn_ornament]

YES. We need more stories like these. I have too many to count. Keep on keepin' on dude

 

[EclipticalGS]

Lol and plugging the drain with your finger never comes to mind when you tipsy.

 

[Chaosweaver]

Changing fluids+ beer= hilarity for the most part. I personally did something when I wasn't drunk that I actually regret quite a bit... And here is is.

I bought an universal piping kit for my 95 Talon's front mount.


You guys can guess what I went through from there.

 

[400hp93talon]

If it makes you feel any better a couple weeks back I had my car running open downpipe.....I pulled my fuel rail off to clean the injectors. Put them back in.....I then started my car and it threw a huge flame out of the exhaust off the launch control on to the puddle of gas under my car....I walk away from the car to grab a drink of my delicious rockstar energy drink and notice my f'n car is on FIRE!!!!! I then poured my (wasted) Perfectly refreshing just opened beverage on the fire to extinguish the flames.....Luckily the fire didnt go up in the engine bay other wise I would have been royaly screwed but thank god it didnt and thank god I didn't pour liquid gold onto the ground like you did either hahaha!!

 

[Kingnc02]

my dumbass dsm momment was when i handed over the cash got the title and EXACTLY ONE WEEK the t25 detonated! i bought a 16g to replace it thinking it would take a good weekend to swap it....wrong! i bolted the new header and turbo dropped it in, and it looked funny? it would have helped if i noticed the turbo was facing the wrong way!

 

[BigBeans]

If it makes you feel any better a couple weeks back I had my car running open downpipe.....I pulled my fuel rail off to clean the injectors. Put them back in.....I then started my car and it threw a huge flame out of the exhaust off the launch control on to the puddle of gas under my car....I walk away from the car to grab a drink of my delicious rockstar energy drink and notice my f'n car is on FIRE!!!!! I then poured my (wasted) Perfectly refreshing just opened beverage on the fire to extinguish the flames.....Luckily the fire didnt go up in the engine bay other wise I would have been royaly screwed but thank god it didnt and thank god I didn't pour liquid gold onto the ground like you did either hahaha!!

That could have easily been a disaster!

 

[red_devil]

Mine was when I was having misfire problems for a long time. So I replaced the plug and wires-did not fix the problem, Pulled the injectors and cleaned and checked them-nope, then did a boost leak test-no leaks, replaced fuel filter-still misfires, tired a intake cleaning and gas cleaner-still nothing. Was confused for a long time what was going on, then one day I was cleaning the engine bay and noticed that an injector wire was stretched and another had a lot of slack. I managed to flip the wires somehow and then did it again when I took out the injectors

 

[Steve93Talon]

Funniest thing I ever saw, we were working on my friend's car, getting ready to do some tuning pulls to prepare the car for an event the next morning. Car's on a lift, my friend pulls the drain plug and drains the tank, then lowers the car and starts to dump in a fresh 5 gal. jug of C16 - only to have it gush out the drain hole and all over the floor. He forgot to put the drain plug back in. He immediately scrambles, grabs a drain pan (that turned out to have some oil in it), salvages about half of it.

By this point he's getting more pissed and i'm getting more amused, he doesn't want to waste the fuel so he pours whatever's in the drain pan back into the tank. Turns out it doesn't take much oil mixed into your fuel to make a nice smoke screen while you're doing WOT pulls. Oh, and oil in fuel severely lowers your knock threshold.

 

[brownfinger]

I've shared this here before, but it's so worth repeating:

Talk the girl into taking a ride in my new "score", straight exhaust, and all. And with the half-inch ratchet still sticking out of the crank bolt. It wasn't the first time I've done it, either! It makes a hell of a noise, but the axle seems to knock it off before it can damage anything else.

 

[XiKeiyaZI]

Hrm... there's a few... a lot of them involving a steak knife we have dubbed 'Steaky'.

This one in particular occured shortly after I got my 1G N/T running. It was my first DSM.

Somewhere in moving the car from one location to another, I lost the Intake piping and box...so I stole some plastic piping from a Civic >_> And made my own. Everything worked out great. I slapped my MAF on, plugged it up, and when it came time it fired right up.

One day while Driving home, the car died. I sat on the side of the road for 2 hours trying to figure out WHY my car wouldn't start. Timing? Fine. Belts? Good. Gas? I just put in $25. Oil? Clean. Recieving Fuel? Yeah.. Even pulled off the hose from the fuel rail to check it and the jet of fuel answered that for me. Spark? A screwdriver in one of the plug wires... arcs everywhere...this was done before the fuel of course.

So after lowering my head in defeat and pulling my phone out to call a tow truck, did I notice a little something called "MY DAMNED INTAKE PIPING SEPERATED FROM THE MAS!!! "

Shoved it back on, electrical taped the ever loving f*** out of it... and fired right up. ;D!

Sometimes I miss that c--- Lmfao, I can't say that with a straight face. I love my new GSX... even though I've only driven it in 1st gear.. and can't get the tranny out yet to put my new one up. =/ Stupid damned transfer case not coming off easily and such...

 

[Badarse97]

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