Got my shifter back from Ed, went for a drive :)

Went down a hill near the house to avoid one of the roads that has more potholes than I can count...

Scraped the front spoiler turning off one street on to another.

Not too bad, but Dammit.

Re-assembling my steering and front suspension. Can't find the steering shaft bearing for the life of me - have to call off the project until I can order a used replacement. 4 days later back at it and find the original one had rolled under a tool box. New one's in better condition than the original, but still, damn it!

Owning a Cabriolet, I say Damnit each time it rains.

Rich

Measured them. Too thin.

Had no oil pressure after rebuilding the engine in my MGB while in college.
Pulled the motor out to find that the oil pump gasket was installed upside down. Damn!

Mid 80s I worked as a Technician in a Porsche dealer and just forget to replace the starter ring doing a clutch job.
Those flat rate hurries.

Yesterday I went to an autocross at Columbus Motor Speedway which is an oval track. First run my car bottomed three times when transitioning from the banking to the infield and back. I raised the front and hit only once on the second run which is the attached video. I then raised it again to get just enough clearance. At :30 in video I hit bottom and if you listen close I say the the "D" word on cue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CYu_8cC9p4

Had a rough running and then no start issue. After a few days of diagnosis I decided to do a cold leak down test...

#1: 3%

#2 5%

#3 100%...

damnit!

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1130391030.jpg

First car I ever owned was a '66 El Camino that I bought as a roller when I was 15. My folks surprised me with a mild 454 big block for Christmas. I spent a year or so working, saving every penny, selling my motorcycles, etc. to put the car together. Drove it for two weeks just doing burnouts all over the place and taking friends for scary rides doing a proper 'break in'.
A rod started to knock and oil pressure dropped. Pulled the motor and tore apart to find that a bunch of mice had nested in the oil pan while the motor sat on the garage floor for a year before going into car. Dammit!!

I have decided you are getting old when you go to the store for a new tool and select it based on the color. IE: my brand new bright yellow staple gun. You are really old when despite the bright yellow color you can't find the d*mn thing and you are looking right at it.

Allowed a cylinder to go cockeyed while tapping in the wrist pin, exposing half of the oil ring. Instead of pulling it off and doing it the right way I think "ah I can press that in with a screwdriver and slide it back in". Snap, dammit, account for all pieces, pelican order, do it correctly.

This past Saturday, same motor, final assembly, cannot find the clips and screws that hold the blower motor to the shroud anywhere. Three trips around the garage looking at every shelf, drawer, box, baggie. Dammit, give up, go to store, get clips and screws, install clips, pick up blower.....so that's where I put the clips and screws, dammit again.

Came home on a red eye flight after a long work week. I was looking forward to a nap and then re-installing the WUR that I had sent off to Tony (boyt911sc) to be recalibrated. We hired a contractor to do a remodeling project and he scheduled a dumpster for the debris. I pulled in the driveway at 7am to find that the dumpster came a day early and they left it right in front of the garage door I keep the 911 in. Dammit!!!

Then I opened the garage door to find that the contractor has been using the other bay for his chop saw and table saw because it had been raining. The entire garage, including the 911, is covered in a layer of sawdust.

Double dammit!!!

First world problems... I know. And it cleans up. After a long week and a red eye that was NOT what I expected to come home to.

after putting My 4 7 inch Fuchs ( that i got for 500 bucks ) on the car to replace my cup 2s it came with i went out for a drive really excited .. rubbed like crazy and played with the alignment and camber for a week trying to get it to not rub ....

Only to realize although i had 7s all round i put wider tires on the back than the front and forgot this when put them back on the car .. inadvertantly put a wider tire on the front left .. damn it damn it damn it ..

New Turn Bulbs
 

Cleaned fuse block corrosion & replaced fuses while my buddy rebuilt tag lights & added(drilled) water drain weep holes to fiberglass duck. Replaced spent 1157 front bulbs. Went for a twilight ride with all circuits working and discovered the paint shop had crossed front running & turn signal wires to screw up driving with lights on. I had to cut ride short & beat cheeks to get home before dark. DOOH!!!!

I forgot to replace the plastic drain plug in the trunk under the vacuum booster.
So I loosened everything (booster/master cylinder) up and replaced it - only to find out the PO must have done it incorrectly the first time.
I could have / should have simply plugged the hole from under the dash.

replaced front crank shaft seal while the motor was out for tranny rebuild. put everything back together (one man ops), start, drive around, only to find out oil puking out of the seal.
DAMNIT!!!

finding out that the seal installed crooked...

Dammit #1:
First oil change on the new-to-me 84 Carrera. Find that PO had replaced oil tank drain plug with "quick release" drain. Not too sure I like that, as this is now a track car (visions of 10 qts of oil on track), and spend the next few minutes wondering whether I should replace it with standard drain plug, meanwhile pouring in qt after qt of new Brad Penn.

Finally look down and see all of my new Brad Penn pouring into my catch pan, as I had forgotten to slide the little drain lever back up. Oh well, at least the oil tank is now flushed.

Dammit #2:
After working on Pooschey's exhaust system, casually opened driver's door and switched on the conveniently left side mounted ignition, without bothering to check that the car was not in gear. You know where this is going, don't you? Yep, that 30 year old beaut of an engine fired right up in 1st, totally ignored my just rebuilt e brakes, and took off like a scalded dog. If the garage had not sacrificed itself, I'd probably still be chasing it. Can't believe that rear tire missed my foot.

Got to hand it to Geico, they took it like a champ and haven't cancelled me yet. And you better believe I now never touch the ignition without first checking that the car is in neutral and the e-brake is pulled up hard, you idiot!!!!

DAMMIT!!!!

Last three runs of an autocross last weekend ended with my ball rod being "jerked" out of the plastic socket that connects it to the gas pedal, so at the exact location on course each time I went to give it throttle the pedal was on the floor. drive off course, snap the rod back into the pedal and finish the run with the added insult of having to drive through the finish gate in order to keep the timers synched up.

Dammit.

Quick oil change in the pits of a drag track with a Ford 427 (big oil pan)....14 quarts of oil on the ground....forgot to put the drain plug back in....Damnit!!
Coming into the shop to finish the build on a small block Chevy....remove the plastic sheet covering the engine on the stand...and finding about 1 1/2" of cigarette ash in the valve galley...with more "smuged" all over the area...seems my parner
had been showing off to friends about how we built them.
Cigarette ash is metallic...if it gets in the oil...it tears up the bearings...so....complete tear down and cleaning...again....(urge to kill partner was immense)....DAMNIT!!
Bob

Pull the CIS out of the car with engine in place, rebuild it, reinstall it and find a nut missing...seem to remember the sound of something dropping when I removed it...where did the @#!! drop Dammit !