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I just wanted to hear what the worst mistake any of you have ever made when rebuilding a motor. A couple of weeks ago , I made a horrible oops on a customers truck ( thank god this was not a p car), and I was hoping some of you could make me feel better with some of your own horror stories.
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Old 05-08-2008, 04:15 PM
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I'm not proud.....

hooked the oil lines up to the wrong in/out on a remote oil filter on a freshly built formula vee engine and proceeded to roach it during the first practice session. Again, thank goodness it wasn't a Porsche engine....

but to my defense, the oil filter adapter was marked incorrectly.

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Old 05-08-2008, 06:19 PM
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I broke the corner off a compression ring and didn't discover it until the engine started burning oil. Ruined the cylinder.

-Andy

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