Question for the Mechanics

[rabbidrabbit]

Your name is wrongwayric and you drive a truck for a living?

[Wolfala]

My ex girlfriend did that to my truck once. What a royal pain in the arse. Good luck with getting it all out though i know it ended up costing me lot's of cash because by the time she told me it'd been 4-5 days. The worst thing i ever had happen to me was when they tried changing the anti-freeze to a new type and it was a bluish color, yep, almost identical to wiper fluid. Dumb arse mechanic put it in my wiper fluid tank and when i hit my wipers/spray that night i couldn't see out the windshield. Picture me sitting behind the wheel of a 70,000 plus loaded semi truck and not being able to see worth a dang and running 65mph. Luckily i got it to the shoulder and stopped but what a pain to clean off. Needless to say we stopped useing that type of anti-freeze and mech got a good reaming from me and the boss.

My teacher at A&P class did this. Its not as bad as doing an oil change on a semi and forgetting to close the drain valve. Pumped 13 gallons onto the ground and wondered why it was taking so much oil.

[DrDea]

 Dont feel to bad.I used my roomates gas can to fill my bike the other day and it was a gas oil mix for a weeqd wacker.Still havnt gotten it running.I posted a thread on this for Bike tech weinies.

[wrongwayric]

  That was my first C.B. handle as i was sent on a run out of michigan returning home to illinois, or so i thought. The load was to go to decatur, and since i thought decatur illinois which was 40 miles from the house that's were i went. Unfortunately it went to decatur indiana. Who knew the boss would be mad about a 180 mile mistake?

[DieAz]

There is a story behind this begging to be shared.

like we all are going to be eventually, he is getting old and senile. according to Nwbie, he sings funny too.      

[wrag]

like we all are going to be eventually, he is getting old and senile. according to Nwbie, he sings funny too.      

You just wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


OOOHHHH am I gonna sing next time your on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DieAz]

what makes you think I want to hear a screeching cat being strangled? <what he said it sounds like>       

[bergy]

Don't feel bad, this kind of thing happens all the time.

When my sister was getting her drivers license, my dad made her do an oil change on the familly truck for educational purposes. Being the know-it-all that we all were as teenagers, she told us to get lost and she could do it herself. My dad gave her a case of oil and a filter then left her to do the work.

Remarkably she did a pretty good job, drained the oil without making a big mess, got the oil filter off without a wimper, and put the drain plug in without cross threading or stripping the bolt, very good.

When she was done, my dad came out to see an empty case of oil and twelve emptys quarts of oil in the trash...OOPs. Yep she put the whole case of oil in a small block chevy! Dad was pissed!

[Hornet33]

Damn Wrag, I'm a guy and I don't always read the instructions for things, but didn't the big letters on the side of the bottle saying Transmission Fluid kinda give you just a little hint???

Yeah I'm picking on ya but you have to kinda laugh a little bit about it. It is funny in a way.

[xbrit]

He reads like he sings !!

[SD67]

I saw a beauty once when somebody changed the coolant in their car without flushing it first. They just dumped the bottom pipe and refilled it with the new coolant.
The car started to over heat almost immediately. Turns out the two coolants were incompatible and when they dumped the old stuff without flushing it they left about 20% of the original coolant in the system. This was enough to react with the new stuff and it turned it into a thick jelly like sludge

[Grayeagle]

Then there's the tune-up .. oooyaaa .. new plugs, new wires, new cap and rotor ..ya bay-bee ..she's gonna sound *right*

Umm.. wouldnt start.

Not even a pop.

One more try I think left in the battery ..I look up
..and spy the shiny new rotor sittin on the fender near the windshield
..right where I'd put it after trashin the old one.

Ya.. that ol' 426 fired up on the last erg the battery had left.

-Frank aka GE

[Jackal1]

Then there's the tune-up .. oooyaaa .. new plugs, new wires, new cap and rotor ..ya bay-bee ..she's gonna sound *right*

Umm.. wouldnt start.

Not even a pop.

One more try I think left in the battery ..I look up
..and spy the shiny new rotor sittin on the fender near the windshield
..right where I'd put it after trashin the old one.

Ya.. that ol' 426 fired up on the last erg the battery had left.

-Frank aka GE

  Been there, done that.

[wrag]

Damn Wrag, I'm a guy and I don't always read the instructions for things, but didn't the big letters on the side of the bottle saying Transmission Fluid kinda give you just a little hint???

Yeah I'm picking on ya but you have to kinda laugh a little bit about it. It is funny in a way.

Actually, when I looked at the bottle later, the bottle was MINUS any label.

[DieAz]

<snork, cough, choke , inhale> LMAO
2 words  well ok make it 3 words I gotta say. you might know where it is from.

"You big Dummy."   Fred G. Sanford

  

Actually, when I looked at the bottle later, the bottle was MINUS any label.

the bottle was MINUS any label.