On Hemi cylinder heads,install spark plugs,so you don't drop the valve lash caps,into the cylinder,especially when you are between rounds at the racetrack!
That other guy (not us) that everyone is talking about once spent the better part of two days trying to get a motor and tranny to slide together. Somehow forgot that the motor used to have a manual tranny instead of an auto, and the now un-needed pilot bearing was still in the crank!?!? CHAZ
Yeah, then there was the time we switched from an automatic to a standard trans; and forgot the pilot bearing. Started OK, but first power shift KO'd the trans!! (it was NEW too!)
when pulling on a wrench or ratchet, make sure your face is not in line with the direction of release when it slips. rhinoplasty anyone???
Don't reach through the window and start the car after you just took off the oil filter.It will ruin your shoes and socks. 40 plus pounds of oil pressure feels like 500.
Ah yes, I learned that one, and it only cost me 600 bucks for a replacement tooth! At work, we have automatic oil dispensers, you set the dial to the amount you want and pull the trigger, it turns itself off when done. A buddy of mine set the dispenser to 8 quarts, stuck the nozzle in the oil fill, pulled the trigger and went to lunch. He came back an hour later to find 8 quarts of oil all over his bay, seems he forgot to put the drain plug in!
Not sure if this is on topic but you should remove you hidden pot from your shotgun barrel before useing the gun.
Thanks, guys, for reminding me of most of the things I have done wrong. Remember never to sit with a wire wheel cup on your 6000 rpm industrial grinder, in shorts. And if you do, don't try to make it across your wife's new carpet to the first aid kit.
Don't leave your brightwork on the floorpans of a stripped car as you shoot epoxy primer. Lots of work...
Refrig tech found a socket in the crankcase of the recip compressor for the office building. Our mechanics engraved their names on everything. Guy just gave me this sheepish grin when I dropped it in his hand...must have been there ten years or more. He was a good mechanic, so we just left it at that.
It is possible to install a fan backwards....and it's not good when you do. Fan blows out through the radiator, air tries to come in through the radiator....these two forces cancel each other out and your car heats up.
if you flip a fan backwards, the pitch is still the SAME direction and pulls air the same direction. you have to actually reverse pitch of the fan to change direction of flow
It is really a bad idea to remove, rebuild and replace a motor, only to have a buddy "helping" drop a 1/2" spadebit down the distributor hole instead of using it on a drill to prime the oil pump. Good news was he told me he did it. The bad news was it was in my boat, and he "remembered" to mention it right after we re-launched it and I was cranking it over. Boat came back out, motor back out, oil back out, oilpan dropped, tool removed, oil replaced, motor replaced, sold the boat. Happiest day I ever had with that boat was delivering it to the new owner.
Yeah, ok. You can buy a fan that flows the WRONG direction, install it, find your mistake and then have to take it back and get another one. I suppose I should have stated it that way. ....or are you talking electric fans. I've never installed an electric, so I don't know.
No, I was talking mechanical fans. If you have one lying around your garage, take a look at it. If you flip it, the pitch or angle of the blades does not change, therefore the flow will be the same. BUT, I am looking at a stock fan off a 60 Impala right now. Some of the fancy flex fans may differ in design. In which case I believe they won't flow in reverse, but just be way less efficient if installed backwards. So, I guess we both have points. I was responding while having that stock fan in my hand at that very moment for some reason. I hope this makes better sense. PS-see below post also
Anyway, I had one like this in mind. In which case they flow the same either way of mounting. Sometimes one way might cause interference issues with accessories if the blades are offset slightly off center fore and aft. But it'll blow the same direction.
It's 3:00 am (in the morning), just finished gluing the pan gasket on with 3m weather strip adhesive, look across the garage and see a small square box, said box has a brand new oil pump in it...... nice. Put 5 quarts of oil in, dip stick says zero, something coming out from under the car..... nice. That's enough.
Groucho, aaahhhh....I see. The one that I installed wrong was a flex fan. I believe I bought the wrong one and it simply blew the air forward instead of sucking it back towards the engine. If I remember right there are clockwise and counterclockwise flex fans. I need to go and look at a flex fan to see if you can install it backwards or not.......hmmmm....now I'm wondering. At any rate, I do remember buying a fan and putting it on only to have my car almost overheat. I took a look at it and it was blowing the air toward the radiator. I can remember taking it back to the store and getting another. At the time I felt like a total moron....and now you're making me discuss it over and over and over on a public forum!!!!! I'm going to have to see a councelor now. Thanks.
don't tell a story about leaving the fuel pump eccentric and camshaft bolt on the table behind you while you fight the timing cover for 3 hours when you are doing the same thing on another engine...history repeats itself
Never rely on anyone to do THEIR job and put: 1. Water in the radiator 2. GASOLINE in the fuel tank I cranked on my first flathead for HOURS and couldn't figure out why the engine wouldn't start right, but was burning the paint off the block. I built the engine and JUST KNEW it had to be my work. After stepping back and repeating very familiar words of my father "Come on Idiot Girl, think EASY"..........I realized the doofus who was SUPPOSED to fill the radiator with water hadn't and he filled the fuel tank with DIESEL. BTW, we work at the same Case dealer and I CONSTANTLY remind him of his screw up.
I put one of these on backwards once. Was stuck on the coast with a bunch of old farts. One of them had a 55 Chevy that spun the center out of the water pump pulley. They wanted to pull the radiator and fan shroud to fix it............I just pulled the fan and what was left of the pulley. Fixed it blind, but did install the fan backwards til one of them leaning over the fender realized it. Came home with a sunburn, an arm covered in bruises and a rug burn from the rug used to stop the fan from spinnin. BTW, I LOVE that fan.
Nope, it was the Oilfiller hole on the Front of the Intake. I was putting the Thermostat Housing on... Fortunately I was able to drop the Pan without pulling the Engine. The bolt was lying on the inside of the Timing Chain... Its all back together now, I started it up this afternoon. Reading other peoples Fuck Ups made me laugh a couple of times...
That's pretty funny bro. And yes, there are reverse flow fans I believe for some of the later surpentine belt stuff out there that spins everything kittywampus from what we're used to. Maybe you got something like that. I believe I did as well about 15 years ago too and had the same problem as you.
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