Whats the worst thing that has happened while you were working on a car? Something like a tune up that turns into huge job because you snapped a sparkplug in a head and had to r&r the head.
I luckily haven't had that many bad experiences, but the one that I remember the most, I was doing a water pump on a 99 caddy northstar. I didn't have the correct tool to remove the pump from the housing. If you don't know, on the northstar the pump is driven off the cam by a belt, and the actual pump just locks into an aluminum housing. Well i didn't have the correct tool so i just tried using a chisel to spin it out. well i ended up punching through right through the housing and took a huge chunk of the sealing surface out.
I ended up having to replace the entire housing, which is covered by just about everything on the drivers side and it runs the width of the engine. What should have been an hour or so job turned into a 2 day job. pretty big pain in my ass.
so what kinda horror stories you guys got?
I luckily haven't had that many bad experiences, but the one that I remember the most, I was doing a water pump on a 99 caddy northstar. I didn't have the correct tool to remove the pump from the housing. If you don't know, on the northstar the pump is driven off the cam by a belt, and the actual pump just locks into an aluminum housing. Well i didn't have the correct tool so i just tried using a chisel to spin it out. well i ended up punching through right through the housing and took a huge chunk of the sealing surface out.
I ended up having to replace the entire housing, which is covered by just about everything on the drivers side and it runs the width of the engine. What should have been an hour or so job turned into a 2 day job. pretty big pain in my ass.
so what kinda horror stories you guys got?