funny stories

We had a Ford van come in with the rear brake drum hub separated from the outer part of the drum. Center would turn while the outside was stopped. The shoe retainer clip came off and the shoes cut the drum. I've seen lots of cars with spokes for front rotors, after driving with worn out pads. you would think the driver would hear that:)

A friend of mine had a Suzuki motorcycle. We were going trail riding so he took all the lights and stuff off. He couldn't get it started so he pushed it down the alley and jumped on. It started "Wide open." Not wanting to over rev the engine he started up shifting. When he realized he had removed the kill switch, and had no way to shut it down, he purposely hit a bunch of trash cans. Turned out he had the top off the carb and put the slide in backwards. It would have been a lot funnier if he wouldn't have got hurt so bad.

Al

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Big Al
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Elliott

sounds like more bullshit

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TranSurgeon

I've never heard of any wrong direction threaded camshaft gear retaining bolt problems. As a matter of fact the cam sprocket is pressed on to the camshaft and doesn't even use a bolt to hold it in place. I've never known one to come loose either. Just because it's a Chevy NG doesn't mean you can make stuff up about Fords....lol. Bob

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Bob

I believe he's talking about the dizzy driven gear, and although I did have a ford 300-6 at one time, (I quickly yanked it and put an Olds

350 Rocket in it's place.) I have no idea on whether it's true or not.

-Bret

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Bret Chase

The driven gear on the dist. is also pressed on in addition to a roll pin which keeps it lined up. I have seen sheared roll pins cause a no start on these engines. They still have spark but the timing is way off. Bob

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Bob

I was told there was a retaining bolt at the front of the camshaft where the sprocket is put on. Our local Ford engine guy also told me in the first few years of the 4.9L it was threaded in the wrong direction, backing out and allowing the sprocket to spin on the camshaft. If he was BS'ing us, then he got a laugh out of it. We had many of them fail in the first two years the 4.9L came with FI and electronics. If you say there's no bolt then we'll believe you, there's no bolt. I do know we sent a lot of 4.9L's to him for the same problem. We also made sure the roll pin wasn't sheared in the distributor gear. We could see the camshaft NOT turning while cranking the engine.

Nothing was 'made up'.

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Hank

At my parts store there is a caliper w/ single piston in it from an RV. The pads had worn completely off, and the piston was being pushed into the rotor, melted, and smeared in the direction of travel. The piston is actually in two pieces, taped together, because the 'lobe' that was being smeared got rubbed off (if that makes sense). The guy was told he needed a new rotor, new pads, and a new caliper. He got new pads * a new caliper - and just left the rotor!

~KJ~

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KJ

"NoSpam" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com...

My experience with this was as an 18-year-old mechanic at some hole in the wall german car place.. The owner was doing a favor for someone so I had to change the front brakes on a 77 Honda POS...

The garage was on a really busy street frequented by fully-laden dump trucks.

I lowered the lift, started the car and rolled out of the garage and approached the driveway as normal... went to press the brake... floooooor.. just as I yanked the emergency brake (which i just checked for inspection, fortunately), a dump truck flew past..

... a couple funny stories.. I'll try not to be too verbose!

The best one I can think of -- One fine morning at the afforementioned garage, the boss had to go to court downtown for some reason or other (probably lein on a car). As usual, he cut it to the last minute and then hauled ass in his '84 Mercedes 300SD... well somewhere up the street, he lost first and second gear (accelerating from the light down the street, no doubt). I get a call on the shop phone "Yeff, bringt heir yust mein 380SLC.. die Tranzmitsion is gone in my diesel.. I am yust up die Street"... So I fire up his 380SLC (which used to be a 450) and blast down the street to the rescue. He hops in the 380 and tells me to drive the 300SD - in reverse - to the shop... I get in the car and I'm thinking, "Yeah right, i'm going to die doing this"... So I threw it into reverse and nailed the gas and off I went... I turned into a neighborhood immediately opting not to have traffic come up my rear (as it's a divided four-lane busy street)... drove backward up the correct side of the street. Came to a stop sign, put the left signal on to make a right turn... proceeded through the neighborhood backward. Came back out to the main street where I could turn to get to the garage. Put on the left signal again and make another right turn at the stop sign... turned out onto the steeet and a city bus came up behind me (actually in front of me)... so here I am, staring the bus driver in the face and she was probably thinking "What the hell is going on"... I made another right turn at the stop light and backed into the shop's driveway.. it was about 8 blocks maybe total distance... quite fun, actually.

Another -- Same shop... one of the mechanics was getting a bit drifty.. This peugeot

505 turbo came into the shop for improper performance. In the troubleshooting this mechanic did, he pulled the fuel rail out of the engine with the injectors still attached and still attached to the wiring harness to check the spray patterns. Anyway, I don't know why the guy left the rail out, but he decided to check for spark right after pulling the fuel rail. He pulled a wire and set the spark plug on the valve cover then went inside the car to crank it. I saw this about to happen but wasn't quick enough to say anything before he hit the key and WHOOOOSH! What a beautiful, pulsing fireball!!! I yelled "FIRE!" and the guy freaked out and blasted the engine compartment with the extinguisher, as shit was still burning. The customer came and got his car after it was "fixed."... he came back raving mad because the car didn't perform for shit and he saw the chemical fire extinguishing substance in the engine compartment. Turns out, the air horn on the airbox was melted so badly that it the opening was now about the size of a quarter.. The other mechanic had no recollection of setting the car ablaze.. imagine that.

Last one.. sorry! :o) -- I worked at a large ship-diesel place for about 6 months. We had a large piston come in from a Man B&W diesel from the USNS Harry L. Martin our job was to clean it and "inspect it" to see if it was suitable to keep for a spare aboard the ship (the main engine is 30 years old... about 25,000 horses.. crankshaft is directly connected to the output shaft...).

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Thetech. rep. from Man B&W came by the shop and used his "eye-micrometers" andmeasured the piston and compared it to the spec. that was listed in hisbrain somewhere "Ja, das ist viss-in specs," said he... so we set tocleaning it up and replacing the O-rings. The piston started out on thetruck as it was in the picture at this address:
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lifted it off the truck with the shop overhead crane (5ton) and laid iton the floor as it was on the truck. We cleaned it a whole lot.. it wasvery foul. Engines that run on heavy diesel see some serious buildup ofsheeeeeeit. The time came to stand it on the crown end using the crane.There are two old swedish guys that work at the shop and they have sort of arivalry going... one tells everyone the other is an idiot and vice versa.They were fighting over the crane and they muttered something in Swedishthat amounted to "okay asshole, you run the crane" ... and the controls werehanded to a new pilot. Up... up... up... the piston got to the point wherethe crane couldn't hoist fast enough to keep it from tipping over the otherway because the rod was obviously a lot lighter than the piston crown.*THUNK* went the piston on the 12-inch slab in the shop... I felt it from 20feet away. The piston tipped and busted the gearbox that makes the craneboom slew off the top of the crane.... WHEEEEE a 3.5 ton piston swingingaround the shop! What fun! Needless to say.. I didn't work there formuch longer after that.If you are interested in learning about crosshead diesel engines.. check outthis site..
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interesting stuff..

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Celica Dude

You reminded me of another funny story. I worked at Missouri Pacific RR for a while. We had a problem with a traction motor. This is the electric motor that drives the wheels. During lunch time a guy with a new Ford pickup walks into the shop and says he's supposed to pick up the traction motor. The crane operator was out to lunch but one of the electricians saw his golden opportunity. He asked if the guy wanted it in the truck. He said yes. Only the electrician was aware that the truck was about to be crushed, for about two minutes. Then everyone knew:) Poor truck, the cab and bed were instantly married. They hauled it out on a flat bed. The electrician played dumb, he just did what the guy told him to do...

Al

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Big Al

oh man, that must have been great! :oD

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Celica Dude

That was DAMM mean thing to do to someone, NOT FUNNY!!!!!

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LARRY929

Absolutely. The electrician should have found himself picking up some of his teeth.

Garrett Fulton

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Garrett Fulton

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