My brain took a vacation......

So I go and brag the other day about driving my olds for the first time and I'm all happy and then **** turned, well, ****ty. I back the car out of the shop and it's not running to good. I drive it out in the field and turn it around and try to pull it back in the shop and it won't do it. The back tires go in, but the fronts get to the edge of the concrete and the car just stalls. I push down the throttle to get over the 2 inch bump and it dies. It restarts, but as soon as I try to go again it stalls & dies again, this time for good. I try & try and can't get her to fire, so I start looking in the dist. and checking this and checking that. Nothing. This is when I smell something funky, I seemed to have ran over a HUGE pile of dog **** in the field, now its tracked all over in front of my shop and of co**** the tire's turned just a little so I have to dodge pooh while I'm leaning over the car. I got mad and left it there. SO I go back later, take the fuel line off, **** around thinking my 52 year old fuel pump is wasted when my buddy comes over and quickly figures everything out, he's a proffesional mechanic, went to college and everything. His diagnosis?
It's F-ing out of F-ing GAS.
I'm a retard...............and now it runs.
Ever had one of those days??? Part of being a car guy I guess, sometimes days just **** and your brain goes on vacation.

Later- John

 

LOL! great story. it happens to everybody.

 

haha your not alone

 

Man that was awsome! Good thing it was nthing serious.

 

I,m picturing Billy Bob Thorntons Slingblade character saying " Its outta gas,yep ahumm!"

 

Let he who is without screw ups, cast the first stone. If we were perfect, we'd all have television shows building cars.

 

Sure glad I'd never be so foolish as to do something like that.

 

I find in troubleshooting the first thing to do is check the obvious. Half the furnaces I had to fix had the power switch shut off. Don't ask how many hours I spent looking for a good problem that didn't exist. Pat.

 

Been there, done that...but thankfully I was only a block past the gas station when the engine died. But do you realise how hard it is to find a gas container at a filling station? I finally had to push the car back down to the station to fill it up.

 

Ha ha, I knew you guys could relate!

Later- John

 

been there before, only i replaced my fuel pump before figuring out there was no gas...

 

great story dude!

 

join the club. here's your sign

 

It's O.K. to it once....twice and you get put in with a DIFFERENT group of people. I am trying to get my 55 Olds going. The back 2 oil drains in the heads are plugged, and are about to wear me out. At least you got to drive yours! How about some pics?

 

i did the same thing with my big block chevelle.except instead of checking the fuel cell i go get the new pump take the line off and realize nothings coming out.
sometimes ya gotta check the simpliest things first

 

I might have thought to check the gas, but I can guarantee that if there was a pile of dog **** in a one mile radius,I would have managed to get in it somehow