Stupid things you did when you were young thread

The dumbest thing I did was when I was about 18. I was working on putting a new engine in my '70 mustang and the water pump pulley wouldn't line up with the crank pulley. I decided that it would be ok to space it out with spacers. They all weren't the same size and the very first time I took it out and hammered on it, the water pump shaft broke off and the fan and pulley, which were still bolted to the snout of the water pump shaft came up and put a big dent in the hood, went through 2 of the 3 rows of the radiator and last but not least, went down and cut both transmission lines. All this happened when I was around 5000 rpm's and with the tranny lines cut, it went into neutral at this RPM, with my foot to the floor. I had a solid lifter cam in it and of course no rev limiter, because I didn't think it would be needed yet. Bent every single valve in it. It was already running pretty warm being a new engine and by the time I got it pulled over, all of the water/antifreeze was gone when the radiator got trashed. That being the case, when I pulled the heads, the #1 and #2 pistons (front 2 on pass. side of a Ford) had started melting and left melted aluminum all down the cylinders. I have to say, reading the Captain Kirk tread about his early car days sure reminds me of things I did when I was younger.:violent1:

One other thing, I didn't do, but my cousin did, was pretty funny. He had an early 80's Chevy truck, jacked up. He was doing neutral drops and broke the rear u-joint on the rear driveshaft. He went to the auto parts store and got a new u-joint. They convinced him that it would be ok to tie up the rear driveshaft with bailing wire and lock in the front axle to get him home. Needless to say, that driveshaft came loose and started flying around under the truck. Broke the tailshaft housing off the transfer case and beat the hell out of everything else. Just thought I'd share this one too, because It's one of my favorites.:drunken: