DumbasSi

Don't you just hate it when you decide to work on your car and something just doesn't go right? You break something, lose a part or just forget something.

Well today being a nice day and all, I decided to start taking some of the aftermarket parts off my car and replaceing the stock parts.

I was at Image Honda today getting the brakes on my 03 serviced, so I picked up a shifter rebuild kit. It consists of new rubber O-rings, bushings, nut and bolt, some spacers and a shiny new bearing piece.

So I jack up the car and disconnect the shiftage. It was kind of a pain becasue the exhaust gets in the way, but I managed. I take everything apart and give it all a good cleaning with Varsol. I replace all of the worn pieces in my OEM shifter, but when I was re-installing it into the linkage, I tore the dust boot that covers the ball of the shifter. DAMN!

No biggie. I head up to Sterling Honda for a new boot. Guess what? They have to order it and it won't be in untill tommorow afternoon.:cry:

So now my car sits up on jackstands, shifterless and undriveable until Thursday when I can fix it.



Me

BBProductions

lol, yeah weird stuff happens to me alot...
very rairly does n e thing go 100% first time for me lol, weird

Notorious

Damn, it coulda been alot worse.

My last week wasnt so pleasant with the car! Now all is good.

imported_kIeRaN

bahhh, thats not even that bad. go learn how to ride a skateboard!

imported_Cablerat

YOU!

imported_Bruce Fee

garbage.

Si98

snapping a seized bolt is by far my worst nightmare when fixing a car

Nova_Dust

One of my torex screw was so tight so I had to drill it out. **** happens.

imported_viper_2_4

happens to me everytime I do anything on my car, rust sucks

cibs

seizing a bolt and then trying to drill it out and find a bolt that will fit, or retapping the hole is by far the biggest pain in the ***... although i know the feeling, the other day i had to sit in my driveway for 3 hours so i could wait for my mom to come by and let me use her car to go to CT and get a bolt...

GRRR

imported_kIeRaN

lol

shlammed

i have the best one

this was on my piece of **** 89dx

i wanted to change my break pads

BAD IDEA

first...the last time i did whatever to my car i totally overtorqued one of the lug nuts...ended up snapping a stud trying to get it off

(note to self: if you get pissed off by something like that, STOP WORKING ON YOUR CAR IMMEDIATELY!)

So, I continued. I meant to take the nut off that secures the calliper, but my mind was elsewhere. Next thing you know, there's brake fluid all over the driveway. Yup, that's right, I loosened the bleeder screw.

Result: Had to drive 10km/hr for about 3km to the nearest Canadian Tire to have a new stud put in and get my brakes bled.

$180 bill.

Younes Si

I hate it when siht like that happens

imported_nnniiiccckkk007

i guess you current set of wheels is the loser-cruiser, oops i mean the bus... i can say this because I take the bus... don't forget to thank the bus driver...

heck, why am i complaining? life could always be a lot worse. i should look at the positive

hey! at least I am not riding the short yellow, or DARTS

(no offence to those who need that, it wasn't me intention to be mean spirited)

imported_Fug

hell that happens to me all the time.......rarely on cars though....like I can break apart a whole room while trying to put my pants on when i am drunk..lol...i put one leg in, fall backwards and land sideways on my bed.....bounce off the end and knock over my lamp....pick it up to realize its hot then drop it again shattering the bulb.......get a broom to sweep it up but knock over my wayne gretzky bobble head in the process somehow.....it lands on my keyboard and breaks 3 keys off....so i stand there for a second shaking in anger cuz everything is going wrong....i take like 3 steps forward and trip over my alarm clock cable and knock it onto the floor..i get pissed off...kick the alarm clock into the wall...the wall has a hole in it...and there goes a very interested night.,....so u'd better not be angry about something like a shifter!!!...lol

Krazy Civik

thats an everyday thing for me.. lol

chunky_civ_lovr

I RIDE THE SHORT YELLOW BUS MY MY CIV's BUSTED. DON"T BE A PLAYA HATA!

steeleclipse

Thats ALWAYS the case

imported_doggy69247

why u cant blead your brakes yaself its easy all u need is some pipe


i used 2 have tropikal fish and u get this thing called a non return valve with the air pump it stops water comeing back down the hose wen u turn the pump off and syfening the tank

get one of them from the fish store like 99cence or somethin and some hose whilst u are there and u dont need a 2nd person just get little clips on the hose so it dosent fall off and put the non return valve on the end of the hose and boom ya done u push the brake and it comes out the end then u let go and no air gets sucked back in its sooo simple

DumbasSi

I finally got the parts I needed and replaced the shifter. The stock shifter's throws are so long compared to my Skunk2. It's like driving a bus.