231 Buick V6 head gaskets.

231 Burnt pistons.

Padless clutch plate

AND SO IT BEGINS......................

I know Frosty will display his stripped steering wheel nut.     Great stories will work justas well, if ya didn't get pic's people.  

Not really an epic parts failure, more like a momentary lapse of brain function! This is what happens when you forget to completely tighten down the distributor.

You wipe out 4 pistons, I.E. break every piston ring in at least 3 places!

Edited April 18, 20224 yr by Last Indian

I know there are more of these we can all smile at now.  Maybe NOT when it happened, but funny now!  Show us whatcha got!

14 hours ago, JUSTA6 said:

I know there are more of these we can all smile at now.  Maybe NOT when it happened, but funny now!  Show us whatcha got!

I could tell more, but fortunately for me I try not to photographically record my stupidity! 😁

I don't even want to share this but feel strangely compelled to do so. When I was playing around with my distributor internals I managed to fit the rotor on the wrong way, ie. 180° wrong, and then cursed because the car wouldn't start. Despite GMs best efforts to ensure that no dickhead could ever get it wrong, I managed to put the square bit in the round hole and vice versa.

I used to laugh at warnings on takeaway coffee cups that say 'Warning - Contents May Be Hot.' Maybe they were written for me. D'oh! (slaps forehead.)

Ah the old square peg round hole trick !!! 

mate your not alone in the miss happs department 

i haven’t done anything worthy of this thread 

but my f- wit younger bother has ! 

Back in the day we both had fe holdens 

his was a runner,  while I was still building mine ... this super cleaver guy took off one day from our family farm 

and 30 minutes latter  turned up back at home on foot ... white as a sheet ... 

he had lost a front wheel that he had just fitted ... it took off down a big hill in front of him and the fe came to a messy Holt ! 

I will never forget him banging on about how it must have been faulty wheel nuts .... he is a mechanic 🙄

he did it again a few year later when he did a skid in his mk 3 cortina ... this time it wasn’t a wheel ! It was a drive shaft he had made out of exhaust tube !!! 

It twisted  itself in half and came up through the floor behind the drivers seat and chopped up the floor ... he was very lucky that day !!? 🙄

family !!! Durrrr 🙄🙄🙄

Edited April 21, 20224 yr by 64 kiwi boni

Holding a spot here for Frosty to post a pic of his oil pan.   Operator fail before parts fail this time.

I can only wonder at the horror he must have felt upon the realisation of his mistake. In his defence, it's easy to do - lots of stuff going on under a car. More importantly, we are gonna give him so much shit! Aren't we???

1 minute ago, Fitzy said:

I can only wonder at the horror he must have felt upon the realisation of his mistake. In his defence, it's easy to do - lots of stuff going on under a car. More importantly, we are gonna give him so much shit! Aren't we???

Actually for a change, I wasn't gonna mess with this one.  Knowing the placement of your jack is crucial. One slip N your a Justa nother wet spot on the floor for somebody to stick a finger in and say.....Trans fluid or Frosty?  I feel bad for the costly damage to the car,  but would have been much worse if he had gotten hurt.  Glad your here to make us smile about some other silly thing your gonna do.  That said,  there is a body tool you could rent that welds the stick to metal.  Then uses a slide hammer to pull out dents.  Grind off the tabs when you are done N hit er with a LIL paint.   FAAAR less work than raising the engine as LastIndian stated.  Tons less work than pulling the engine as Frosty said.  If you have to, raise it til you can pull the pan bolts.  Drop the pan til you are able to access the bolts that hold the oil pickup tube on.  Thats all that would be in the way to pull the pan.  Gotta ask.... You have jack stands right??😟

Is this the Toyota Yaris Repair Forum? Oh, good.

So, to add to the Epic Parts Fail, today I broke a wheel stud - first time for everything. My new (17 years old) buzzbox must have spent some time by the beach coz when the car turned up I noticed some rusty wheel nuts. Just in case I ever got a flat tyre, I thought I'd remove all the wheels and do some preventative maintenance on the studs & lug nuts to ensure a speedy roadside repair, if the event were ever to arise. EVERY wheel had to be hammered and then prised off with a wrecking bar! EVERY nut was rusted on and in addition where the wheel's centre sits on the hub, that was rusted too! I cleaned, wire brushed, derusted & lubed every item. It's the Pontiac all over again! I have ordered a new stud & nut and am looking forward to hammering the shit out of the old broken stud and replacing it tomorrow. I had a look on YT and some dude used a device called an air hammer. An air hammer! Never heard of it. I'm getting one. It pushed his old stud out like nothing. 

Pontiac is running fine, so I am now forced to give you guys Yaris fails! Forgive me.

Edited June 30, 20223 yr by Fitzy
Forgot something

How come your working on the Toyota ? 
you should be knitting warm clothes to wear on your nz trip !  
it’s bloody freezing here !!! 🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶

Does the Yaris even have a working heater? 

Especially after Fitzy finishes taking a spanner wrench to it!

Edited June 30, 20223 yr by Frosty

Looks like a GM donut spare.  😁

6 minutes ago, Frosty said:

Does the Yaris even have a working heater? 

Especially after Fitzy finishes taking a spanner wrench to it!

We are waiting for visual verification of a dented oil pan.  Even saved ya a post here.

Warm and wet here - global warming doing it's thing. Yes, Gary (the Yari) has a functioning heater AND the aircon works! I'd forgotten just how much fun it is to throw around a modern small car - on the windy mountain road that we need to negotiate to get down to Cairns, it's a hoot. Weighs less than a ton, so almost no weight transfer as you go from apex to apex and with a zippy, fizzy little twin cam, it's just fun.

Are you guys still gonna talk to me? I still have the GP you know. Look at it this way - the GP is sorted and it's repair journey is over for now, so the newest car is just another set of problems for you to laugh at.

19 hours ago, Fitzy said:

Are you guys still gonna talk to me? I still have the GP you know. Look at it this way - the GP is sorted and it's repair journey is over for now, so the newest car is just another set of problems for you to laugh at.

Yes, mate! We will still point and laugh at you! Count on it! 

That didn't end just because the Crimson Terror is back together.

Edited July 1, 20223 yr by Frosty

I thought I'd update y'all on the wheel stud replacement. The first place sold me the wrong one - well there's a surprise. Who knew there are so many permutations of wheel studs? So, I do more research and manage to bring up a part number that corresponds to the measurements I took with a micrometer. I pick up the part but before leaving the store, I ask for a micrometer so I can verify the specs. Of course it's wrong. The dude behind the counter becomes defensive and says he just goes by the computer and doesn't measure everything before he sells it. I look at him as if his spaceship has just landed in my backyard. I never once was nasty or anything but civil and would never have a go at someone for something that clearly isn't their fault. What a jerk! I figure he has mental problems and also decide that I can live with the extra 3mm length - all other dimensions check out. So I am refunded the original part, pay for the new one and exit that place vowing never to return.

I get home, whip the wheel & brake drum off and get ready to pound the old broken stud out. I am dreading this moment - I have visions of it being held fast by 17 years of neglect and of me pounding away at it until I have flattened the head of it and the car has fallen off the jack! 2 decent swings of a 5 pound hammer and that sucker was gonski! Inserted the new one, pressed it into place using washers and a lug nut to seat it properly and gently and voila - 4 studs hold the wheel on again. Another ordeal.

One last thing: the Pontiac GTMow is back in service and runs sweet. I am now resurrecting my other old mower from the dead and was stuck with a wheel bearing that no force of nature could remove. I could see that it had to be pressed out. I have a look at the price of a shop press. Cheap as chips. I bought that and an air hammer (chisel.) The press made light work of that silly bearing and I am yet to use the air hammer. I shall report once I get to destroy something with it. Get yourself a press - all of a sudden, impossible jobs become doable.

Nice mate!  
a man can never have enough tools 👍👍👍

I bought my press to do bushes on my 2nd 56 Chev years ago 

and have used it many times since 👍

I wasn’t working on the 64 this weekend 

I did get to take the mk1 for it’s certification recheck Saturday morning and I have posted pics on the this will make u smile thread 

I spent most of the weekend working again !!! 
but did get some work done on the alterations and managed to take a chunk out of my arm 

Finished the weekend by heading to the pub with the boss for surf n turf ! And a cold beer ! 

Wow - nice work. When we're not breaking things or swearing at some recalcitrant part that won't fit or come off, we're severing limbs and/or fingers. Beer will fix that.

Here is what jacking up the car by the oil pan and NOT the crossmember will do....oops!

This is the carnage JUSTA wanted to see....where it is in all it's glory!!!

yip yip yip its stuffed. and the pick up will be pushed up too.

7 hours ago, Frosty said:

Here is what jacking up the car by the oil pan and NOT the crossmember will do....oops!

This is the carnage JUSTA wanted to see....where it is in all it's glory!!!

Welcome to the club/thread.......

Pfft…. Justa what I wanted!!! Another badge of stupidity!

4 hours ago, Frosty said:

Pfft…. Justa what I wanted!!! Another badge of stupidity!

nah mate its justA called life !🙄

Edited July 7, 20223 yr by 64 kiwi boni