What was your worst project day?

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I was up until 2:30 am after starting to replace on of my U-joints and it got me thinking whats your worst project day?

 

here's how my Saturday went:

 

1. got up at about 8:30 feeling good.

 

2. started my drive to my dads house(My car is an hour away from me.)

 

3. my van stalled on the on ramp for the interstate(coil roast.)

 

4. two coils later and a lot of heartache, it is now 11:30 am and I am finally at my dads house.

 

5. 1:30pm: two hours later my dad pinned down the electrical problem and fixed the van(I'm not the best at electrical work, I'm lost AC or DC. feeling confident that my van is now fixed, I pull it out of the garage and go to start my Z.... dead battery, no problem quick jump and I start to roll it into the garage.....

 

upon entering the garage my car makes a hideous scream and dies... dropped the transmission, apparently it developed a slow leak the two weeks it was parked and had no fluid what so ever in it.

 

no problem I figure, I have a spare.

 

6. 8:30pm: well that's over, with new transmission, it will be fine now... as I was leaving the underside of my car I noticed a rather bad gas smell, I glanced to the rear to see gas dripping from the top of the gas tank... well I figured, "Its already on jacks."

 

7. 11:30pm: after replacing every single piece of hosing for the gas tank, that managed to disintegrate in only two weeks, I felt that all my problems were finally behind me. after pouring my siphoned gas back into the tank I started the car and let it warm up.

 

8. 11:40pm: I hop in my car and flip on my lights to discover to my amazement, I don't have any, at all.

 

9. 12:00am: it's not the fuses not the fusible link. I've checked all my grounds and traced every wire... in sear frustration I kick the tire... bingo! Lights on and I'm starting my drive home... only to find to my amazement, I forgot to plug in my reverse lights.

 

10. 1:30am: after spending an hour and a half trying to make them work, I quit in frustration, and started my drive home.

 

11. 2:30am: I begin wondering what I really accomplished that day, My car runs no better than before and I'm pretty sure that the light situation is going to come back and haunt me sooner or later.

 

So somebody cheer me up, lets here your story.