Have you ever did anything stupid/dumb while working on your car?

[GM Man]

When I was 17 I was trying to change a tire on my Z and didnt have jack stands, but we had a big rock in front of the house. The rear axle slid on the rock and almost crushed me, I came damn close to making some brownies in my pants! Rocks suck for jackstands...

[third_shift|studios]

ok, now that' was REALLY dumb right there....GEEZ!

[johnd]

The latest stupid thing was when I was doing the clutch on the Z28 the last time. Since the weather was bad, I had the car in the garage with the door shut and up high on stands. I lowered the front of the car without opening the door and it wedged my rear bumper into a metal hinge on the garage door. Stupid.

One of my favorite stories that you run into on the diesel truck forums is the number of times that guys have drained the oil for the first time and not realized that the drain container they used was something like half the capacity of the oil pan.

[Hi-Po]

When I was 17 I was trying to change a tire on my Z and didnt have jack stands, but we had a big rock in front of the house. The rear axle slid on the rock and almost crushed me, I came damn close to making some brownies in my pants! Rocks suck for jackstands...

wow that is really dumb.

[MadSeason]

Torqued the crutch sleve down too hard when doing a gear swap and couldn't figure out why my rear end moved so hard in neutral... car sat for a weekend before i realized what i did after going over the backlash ect... also got a nice 4" scar out of it on my back cutting myself on one of the wheel studs when i changed the axel.