ok, I know we've all had those moments while wrenching, wheeling, or just plain driving where we say to ourselves "Why the heck did you do that dumb a$$?" I wanna hear those stories no matter how embarrasing.

I have quite a few of them but I'll just name one that happened today. My rear diff was leaking pretty bad so I decided to change the gasket. Pulled off the axles and diff, put them back on no problem. Then I got the tires on and started to tighten the lug nuts when I started to hear a crunching. Bewildered, I got up to stretch and then noticed my drums laying on the ground! :twak:

so what's your story(s)? ;)

honestly....
I put those mental lapses out of my head as soon as possible....

If I can bring one back up I'll post it.

ya when i tried to cross a damn river :doh:
so nuff said on that subject, thoise who have kown me for a while know the story :damn:

:) you were living in a Blue submarine.....

yes it was to bad it sunk like one with screen doors

most of the stories involve the gf.

my school is off of a farm road and about 2 miles from where it dead ends. one day, myself and the gf decided that it was just too crowded at school, so we hopped into the bronco and drove to where there is a nice little turnout and a 4 foot berm that gets you off the road. i have been up this berm many times before in 2wd, but in my stupidity, i forgot that it was still muddy from recent rains. as i was driving up the berm, i kind of noticed that there was a puddle just on the other side of the lip, right in the perfect line to get up the berm. as my front tire crests it, my worst fear happens: THUNK!!! :oops:
i am now nearly high centered and my tires are spinning wildly. the puddle was hiding a hole that was about 2 feet deep, and just about a tires' diameter across. my right front tire is barely on the ground because of stupid swaybar TTB flex. so i lock the hubs and try to back out but the 4wd is basically useless, because the open diff is just spinning the right front, which had no traction. the whole time the gf is laughing btw, which made me feel real cool :brownbag. now i think i'm ****ed, because i can't back out and i can't really go forward either. after about a minute of trying to gas it, crank the wheel, or idle it to get it out, the left front pops out of the hole and i'm free until a second THUNK!!!, louder than the first happens. by now i'm just pissed and i want to get out so i gas it hard and the back posi gets me right out, but not before the bumper hooked on the lip and acted like a 6 foot ice cream scooper and drug a shit load of mud with it bending it up about 2 inches on one side and about an inch up at the bottom. so i ended up trying to be a hero, but i was just a zero that day. :brownbag :damn:

moral of the story: get a higher bumper or find a better place to make out

and yes i got the "i told you you shouldn't do that" line a lot from her

no one else? don't be shy

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Ok mine is really embarrasing.

This one time, I bought a chevy.

That was definitely the dumbest thing I have ever done relating to cars.

:mrgreen:

Well for me,

I jsut bought my bronco, and my buddy wants to head up to Azusa, I saw, ok, but with no lift and 31" AT's I decied that I won't hit the mud and and jsut go watch the big boys plays. So we head out there and pay the toll, kick the truck into 4high ( not having to lock the hubs thnx to Fords Autolocking hubs) and proceed down the hill to the dirt, we go we cross the water and start down to the mud pit. We get to the mud pit, I have to wait for a truck to cross before I can pull up to the pit and watch. So I stop The truck passes infront of me and when I start to go the engine revs but bronco no go. I give it alil more gas and then I feel the back end start to sit down. hmmm, seems like I was in like 6" of mud and the posi was'nt getting me out of it. My buddy comes over and says "put it in 4high, I check my dash button says that I am engaged. he says put it in 4low, I hit the button and here the Tcase engage and give it gas, and down goes the rear a little bit further.

Turns out that my Pass side hub was blown, So I got pulled out of the monster 6" mud pit by a Jeep:(

There ya go

ok...it doesnt involve only me...but I wont name names, so the guilty can remain innocent.

while pulling a fellow member up a certian hill at Hollister 02 in a seriously wounded truck.... communication was being done by yelling back and forth between the chain of Broncos. The relay lag and quality only added to the "fun" of the moment. It wasn't until someones wife calmly mentioned that we were all stupid for NOT using our CBs (which we had just been talking about). she said it rather calmly..."wouldn't that make it easier to hear each other?"


Yes it did. :doh: why didn't I think of that.

Jon you probably remember that

haha! Yeah I remember that cause I didn't have a CB. I remember trying to listen to the yelling then it suddenly stopped :mrgreen:

had two zuk third members on ths floor. they look near identical
i put the front one toghter and had the axle all toghether, and i go to do the rear, and for some reason i put the rear third in the front, and the front in the rear. the bigger spiders the rear takes made it so the shaft wouldnt fit in. talk about a DUH!

I was trail leader, started to turn left, decided at the last second to go straight, and...
http://www.superford.org/registry/vehicles/users/2721/1725/SOLV_cleaup_4-26-03_090.jpg
Slid into the ditch. Everyone had a nice laugh at my expense...Could have been worse.

This happened to my brotherinlaw last night.........

He was sitting watching TV when he heard an alarm go off. Figured it was a house alarm because it was real loud. After about an hour and a half....He gets pissed and calls the cops. About 10 mins later he hears banging on his front door, and the cops tell him to shut the alarm off on his bronco.


DUH.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

I got one from today.....I figured I would mess with my trac bar adjustment a little...well not thinking I adjusted it only to F up my aligment for the wheel. I got it as close as I could to where I had it and deceded to leave it alone

LOL, just today I had to pull out my front axles and I put the whole thing back together and looked down and i forgot the damn spindle bolts! So I had to take it all apart again and put them on!

:stupid:

puttin a starter in my bud's 87 crown vic yesterday. Of course, with any starter job it's pouring rain :flipoff: and i was in a hurry. got the bolts out but it wasen't movin so i pry'd it with a screwdriver and dropped it right on my friggin face. Sometimes i'm just plain retarded. ;)

pry'd it with a screwdriver and dropped it right on my friggin face

ouch!!

well the other day i was changing my negative battery cable and i was having trouble getting the bolt off the block. well i decide to get some the wire out of the way so i cut some off to the point right at the second ground there on the frome, 6 inches from the block. then i get the bright idea to cut on the other side of the part that bolts to the frame. well 3 days later i still haven't been able to get the bolt off the frame and i just thought of if had just left the 6 inches connected to the frame i couldve cut the new cable and bolt it to the old wire to the frame and it would carry over. good idea. u think it's a little late? :shrug

My truck didn't want to start the other morning for work. I found out I forgot the foglights on. I when to jump the truck with the wifes minivan. Dumba.. me placed the + on the + and the - on my steel under the hood, than when to try to start my trck, it didn't work , found out that I had the cable backwards on the van. Smoked and partially melted my cables. Switched the cable on the van than was able to start my Bronco. I felt lika an A_ _ all day at work.

Oooooo that sux

here is mine but it was in the taurus not the bronco, and may i remind those who do not know that my taurus does 0-60 in 5.5-5.7seconds stock. yesterday i decided to have a little fun and squeeled the tires to do a burnout. or do donuts in a neighborhood park parking lot. or 90 in a 30 which i have never been pulled over for, no tickets or warnings, i just drive it like that cause that the way cops drive their cars and i don't want the car to get out of the routine. just a little excuse i like to use. when ever i drive the taurus i like to look around for cops and if their are none i like to do crazy crap with only the taurus. just cause its fun too. now it is too much of a habit and i will today stop doing this cause it will get me into serious trouble.

This one time... in band camp... :roll:



OK, what the hell...
I had this neighboor of mine do the paintjob on my Bronco... Oh wait, you all already know this one! :finger:

Ok here goes...shortly after lifting my Bronc my buddy and me took it out to a local mud hole, which at the time was not off limits..after a fun filled afternoon of wheeling around in the goo, I tried to go up a steep hill that some jeeps had been going up..my Bronc bottoms out before even hitting the hill..I'm sitting but up to the front feder in mud, had to climb out the window..after several attempts and no luck being able to get pulled out, I didn't know anyone with a winch or a fullsize big enough to get it unstuck, I called the only 4x4 wrecker in town..me and my buddy, walk to the nearest gas station to wait..while we're waiting, we see a police helicoptor, and 4 or 5 cruisers heading towards where my rig was stuck..the wrecker gets there and drive us over the the scene of the crime..there's cops everywhere, the helicoptor is circling overhead with his light shining down..what a scene..The wrecker pulled me out, lightened my pockets by $150 bones, I got a warning from the cops and was sent on my way..Guess what?? 3 weeks later I went back and got stuck in the same f***ing place, only this time no cops..When the wrecker came out this time, the owner commented on the fact that I must have shoot for brains and he would be more than happy to take my $150 bucks any time...

OK finally thought of one. Involves me getting stuck in a parking lot.


So it was the night before my truck was going under the knife(I worked Swings.) My buddy decides to try to find a spot in the front of the parking lot for his saturn. He follows the path of the plow which takes him in the wrong direction so he turns off into like 8" of snow and plows threw for about 30 yards it till he got to the very edge where it was packed from the plow. That was before work. SO after work my entire shop, except one fat kid that runs to his truck so he can get to midnight chow before they close, go out to try to help this guy out. One guy in a C1500 decides to try and pull him out the way he came even though he is literally 3 feet from the edge so he drives all around in the snow. I try helping by digging snow out of the way of the tires and we try putting his floor mat down and pushing stuff like that. So im getting real jealous of the guy driving his Chevy around in the snow, and I know my truck isnt gonna be moble for a while so as soon as we get him free I hop in my truck and plow into the thickest most packed part of the snow pile with my bald a$$ 33s and its just off the pavement so I get all the way into the pile and its perfectly keeping my axles up off the ground and im spinning my tires like mad loooking like a complete jackass. Well after trying to rock it and realizing I aint goin no where my supervisor yells at me all 15 guys I work with are looking at my truck and laughing, and then 5 or 6 guys get on the front and push while I was in reverse and out I came.

That was the second time being stuck in the parking lot at work, the first I had to hook up to a K5 cuz I was straddling a 2' snow bank and couldnt steer off of it, could only go fwd and reverse.

Talk about a lot of wheeling I do... those are the only 2 times my bronco has been stuck. And they were both bonehead moves.

okay, doing a clutch on this f150. the owner says he wants to learn, so i let him install the flywheel and clutch, he guides the pilot shaft into the crank while im lifting the trans up. shure enough he doesnt know how to get it up there, i look at it and take the trans down. he forgot the sheild between the flywheel and engine.
second try, he disassembled it and put in the sheild, i go to buck the trans up, and i get the pilot in, and go to align the holes in the sheild and guess what, the sheild turns with the flywheel. He pinched it.
he disassembles it again
he starts reassembling it, and he says the pressure plate not goign even with the flywheel like before. he thinks soemthings wrong. shure enough he has the disc in ass backwards.
that was it, i told him to just get the bleep out and come back tommorow. When he came back the next dayall he had to do was hook up lines, linkages, and driveshafts, as i had the trans bolted up, T case in, cross member in and other little crap

Sometimes its not worth helping people, you should just do it top begin with.

I was out wheeling a couple weeks ago. When I got to some easier stuff I took the truck outa 4wd to see what I could climb with the help of my new detroit. Well I twisted the cv off my rear driveshaft and the driveshaft got pinned up under the mufflers. So I crawl under the truck with my tools and my roomates new digi cam to take pics of the sheared shaft. Well I ttok pics and then proceded to remove the shaft as soon as I got the shaft off the truck started to rol down the steep hill rather quickly it was I I could do to grab onto the fram and put my legs over the axle and go for aride. When the truck finally stopped I crawled out feeling that awesome adrenaline rush and hiked back up the hill to pick up my driveshaft and thats when I saw it. One busted up $350 digi cam. :cry:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: , you're lucky it was just a digital camera and not you that was all busted up.

Badass/Roundlights,
That was some pretty funny stuff to read! :beer :lolup Well, I have quite a few hilarious stories, but I'll just tell one and see where that goes...

My 14 ft boat w/85 hp Thunderbolt Merc was in the front of the house. We needed to get it in the backyard, but the driveway leading to the backyard has a 30 degree angle of depression. The boat was light enough so me and my brother could manuever it quite easily. That day it was drizzling so the concrete was wet in the driveway leading to the backyard. Anyways, we decided it was too much of a hassle to position the truck, hook it up and back it down to the backyard- SO, our plan was to position it in the driveway, put blocks down every 2 ft or so ( for safety) and ease it on down by ourselves, all the while knocking the blocks out of the way. We first, put a couple blocks down. Then, we line up the boat 'n trailer. As my brother is in the front attempting to steer the trailer, I am in the back acting as resistance- holding it, if you will. So, as we slowly start to inch the boat back, I try to slow it down by pushing on it. It then becomes apparent to me that it ain't slowin down, so I yell to Jon to throw a block in back of the tire. He throws it, but the trailer runs right over it and the other 2 we laid down, all the while I'm in the back screamin for dear life. Since the concrete was wet, I had no traction whatsoever and I was sliding down the driveway, with the boat in front of me- my feet never lost contact with the ground- just sliding/loosing traction all the way down! Seconds lasted like hours, and as my unfortunate azz was sliding down the driveway at 10-15 mph, I look up at Jon and his face is white with his jaw dropping to the floor. He couldn't believe what was happening. I slid about 50 ft. down the driveway and into the backyard before I and the trailer/boat came to a complete stop- That day, my bro and I soiled our pants the same day, same time... http://www.fourdoorbronco.com/images/drinkingbuddies.gif

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Workin with electricity when your tired suxs. I was training my new grunt and were in this crawl space makin up the j box live(done it a number of times) there is a low voltage trans former for a door bell in the box. I disconnect the neutral and tell the green to watch it cause it will hurt like a b!tch. I move the wires and BOOM knocked on my ass. He starts laughin at me so I tell him to shut up and Boom there I go again on my ass. Now he goes and shuts the power off. Should have done it in the first place.:banghead :brownbag

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I got a Good one.

One day me and my Friends decide to go ridin in my Bronco I just bought 10 days Earlier. We are ridin around and muddin and all that good stuff. We come back to the Main Highway and say hmmm I'll take a shortcut home! :duh So we head on down the highway and turn off on a Dirt Road. Goin down the road puttin along and I wanted to scare my friends a lil. So I floor it down a straigt part of the dirt road. My friend ridin shotgun says "Man slow down, theres a curve up here, we are gonna flip!" So come up on the curve, i let off the gas, look at the Speedometer, goin bout 45, not a sharp turn. Then we meet a Truck on My side of the Road Head On. I hit The Brakes and They lock up. :banghead :cry . The rest was a Blur. Next thing i know the Drivers Side hits the Ground 1st and then bounced over on the Roof. All I see now is Red Clay and a Cracked up windshield! Both my friends get outta the truck and it takes me bout 5 minutes to get the seat belt Undone. Get outta the truck and the guy we almost hit asks us if we are okay. Well me and my friends turn around and look at how bad the truck is. Pretty F***ed up! We look back to see what the guy is doin and he got in his truck and hauled ass!! :enforce Well turns out i have a Broken steering Box and some major body damage.

6 Gallons of Bondo, a new steerin box, a new windshield and 5 months later, it was rollin again. Its almost been a year now and no Problems since. Ill have to post up some pics of when i bought it, when i wrecked it and What it looks like now! I still punch holes in the wall when i think about that day!!! :mad:

Hey yall watch this!


I sure was a victim of alot of that growing up in FL

Hmmmm, I guess when we were heading down to The Badlands last month. We had just left our hotel, get on the freeway doing almost 70 and after about 9 miles I look at my shifter and it's NOT where it's supposed to be..............I forgot to go into 5th :banghead I chimmed in over the cb telling what I did.........so EVERY time we got to an intersection, everyone would chime in over the cb for me to shift.

That was sooooooooo embaressing.......If I could I would have :twak :lowblow to myself

so you burned a little gas. NBD. at least your truck has OD, mine wont anymore

Yeah but it was still WAY embaressing. :goodfinge :D

you were really testing how it would drive without OD....
or you were doing a rev test.... :toothless

Yeah a rev test! That's it!! :beer :D Thanks for helping clear that up for me. :kiss :D

Originally posted by Queen of the Forest
Yeah a rev test! That's it!! :beer :D Thanks for helping clear that up for me. :kiss :D

anytime QOTF.

I assumed it passed the rev test with flying colors.... :D :thumbup :beer

Okay, I'll throw my two stories in here, one very simple, not a big deal, the other was alot more involved.

The easy:

When gutting the smog pump I removed the fan belt then tried to take the pulley off of the smog pump. Without the belt the pulley just spun as the wrench did, put the belt on take the pulley off, take teh belt off, problem solved.

Now the bad one:

In doing the engine swap we were ready to prime the new engine after we had put it in and filled it up with oil. After our first run on the drill, we raise the drill and the drive shaft that runs from the distributor to the oil pump fell into the oil pan. Now I know this sounds bad, but had learned we had installed it incorrectly and had we started the engine there would have been no oil moving. So we pull the air conditioner and power steering off and out of the way, the timing chain cover, the timing chain and gears and dropped the oil pan as far as we could with the cross member in the way. With a little finesse, my buddy was able to take the oil pump off, put the drive shaft in correctly and get the pump put back on. We get the timing chain cover, accessory bracket, powersteering and air coditioning back on, and tighten the last bolt up. It was at this time I look behind me and see the timing chain and gears. :banghead :banghead :banghead :banghead :banghead :banghead

So, we have to pull everything back off, put the chain and gears back on, and put everything back on again.

That was the night we were suppose to be starting for the first time in 2 months, alas it had to wait, it was to da*n late!

MM

Wow....Thats smooth.:toothless

Originally posted by locopny
anytime QOTF.

I assumed it passed the rev test with flying colors.... :D :thumbup :beer

Yeah I think she passed............just need to find a way to test the suspension now :hump :chili: :D

Originally posted by Queen of the Forest
Yeah I think she passed............just need to find a way to test the suspension now :hump :chili: :D

how 'bout you and your "friend" find a way to test the suspension
:lolup :thumbup :beer

Oh, I'm late to this topic, :beer

I own a B&M drag AOD in my Bronco only cause I broke off a tranny cooler line while doing a snow run, then drove home 20 miles cluelessly. Next morning I had 1st gear and 2nd up to 40MPH, then it was nuetral :shrug

Pull over check it out :banghead OPPS!
Now I have a tranny temp guage and a engine compartment skid to prevent that from ever hapening agian.


I have my 5.8L lightning spin off cause my 302 had a 2 piece crankshaft, broken timing chain, dizzy gear. AND pulled the #1 main cap right out of the block. OPPS!


When I was 16 I had a 78 Zypher, open diff in Michigan. :mad:
Well I thought 300Lbs of concret bags would help traction some :shrug
Well the concret slid around in the trunk...
broke the tail light housings pretty bad, and smashed the gas filler tub pretty good. :twak

Originally posted by SMOOTH
After our first run on the drill, we raise the drill and the drive shaft that runs from the distributor to the oil pump fell into the oil pan.

Man I did that but luckily it only went in crocked, so I was able to take some of those really long needlenoses, grind the tips even smaller and after about 2 hours, my buddy who can always drop my distributor right, and has no problem messing with little tedious stuff like that got it lined up and it went in the hole. The guy knows nothing about engines, but he saved my butt a few times so far.

OK some of ya'll have seen the pics. well heres the story:
One night/morning after working late I'm driving home and pass by a local trail. I know that this trail is hella nasty and me and my buddie had thought about runnin' it one day when we could get a group together to go out. (it's bad enough that we didn't want to go out with just us two) It's 3 A.M. and in the 30's I'm alone and curious. I head down to where the trail begins and there are 3 mudholes leading up to where it gets bad. I skirt around all 3 (they span the whole road but I drove through them close to the edge) and get to where it begins. I get out of my ride and check things out. It was a full moon so I could see good. It had been raining and was pretty nasty. I think to my self "yea we gotta come do this!" I crawl back in my rig and on the way out I follow the same drive angle I came in on....... till the last hole...........I stop in front of it...you all know that antsy, excited curiosity I was feeling parked right in front of the mudhole that appears to be about 2 feet deep! I decide what the hell! (hold my beer and watch this!) I ease into it...the front of my rig starts to sink...WTF?? I decide somethings not right, it's sinking way too much to be 2 feet. I put it in reverse.... and spin! I lock the hubs...and spin! I put it in 4lo and still spin. I decide ok...it's only about 4 feet deep, I'll just have to try and forge through it. Pull it down in first gear and floor it....BAD MOVE! ....I sunk up to the head lights....SCREWED! I crawl out the window and over the top of the Bronco to see how bad. One word.... PHUCKED! I gotta get help so I walk about 1/4 of a mile towards the nearest phone and remember, ....my cell phones in the Bronco!:duh I walk back and call a wrecker. He says he can't get around me to pull me backwards I gotta come through it! I crawl into the mud to hook the cable and discover why I'm stuck. it was about 2 feet of water on top of about 4 feet of mud!!!!:mad: I ended up with my head under water just to reach a hook point!!!:eek: He pulled me through the mess, and wet, muddy,cold and ashamed I limped her home! $4200 later She's finaly back running good! The realy screwed part is that the mud hole was only about 3 feet deep every where except where I had driven! Someone with 44's (at least) had wallowed out a rut right in the middle and I drove blindly into it!!
See below:
http://www.superford.org/getfile.php?id=70439&toggle=fullsize

P.S. I haven't been back....Better judgement--->:twak <---Me!

Damn blaze..that was one $$$$expensive mud hole..

You got that right....and the bill keeps growing!:banghead My tranny is going and I'm sure it's directly related....:shrug

What? Is it slipping, hard shifts, shuddering or all the above??

Slipping in second/passing gear....I had it serviced when I had my little under water adventure, and the guy said it had a little bit of water in it and he felt like it was only a matter of time!:banghead Well, I guess it's time....:shrug

That truly sucks..I've noticed some slippage in mine if I'm going over a hill, sometimes when I first start in the morning before the tranny gets warmed up..I figure I can nurse it for another 15k and then sport for a rebuild.

Yea that just sounds like it takes a min. for the trranny to warm up and get fluid circulating....:shrug

another not so smooth move:

just finished putting my new hubs on the other day, and as i look down, i see the axleshaft snap ring sitting on the ground:banghead

Here's a couple quick ones.

I went offroading in my Nissan and was cranking through some pretty good sized mud holes. I cam upon a REALLY long hole that i knew that I wouldnt be able to clear. So I pull all the way up to it and decide that I'll turn around. I get the truck side ways and as I'm backing up the truck goes over one rut right into another. I had both my front wheels in a rut and my rear wheels in another. My truck looked like a see-saw. So then me and my buddy decided that he could jump up and down in the bed while i railed the gas and we'de get out...wrong. I ended up going to a farmers house at midnight to see if he could bring out one of his tractors. Thankfully he was glad to help

The other one is i was changing my head unit and i wasnt thinking. I took the wire cutters and just chopped across ALL of the wires....needless to say it gave me a pretty good jolt :brownbag

i've posted the stories or video's of all my bronco fun, but one day before i had the bronco me and some friends were out playing in some ruts, we didnt' have anything great (my buddies S10, another friends old chevy 2wd, and my dakota 4x4), well since nobody had really done anything to crazy that day i decided to try some pretty deep ruts, i was sure i'd get stuck but i wanted to do it anyway, so i barrelled into them which is probably the only reason i got back out because the momentum carried me far enough through the ruts that i got past the really nasty parts... but i still ended up getting stuck on my axles pretty bad, so my friends are convinced i'm not getting out, so while i'm rockin it back and forth tryin to get past this next part they are hookin up the towstrap lol, luckily for them they didn't hook it to any other trucks cus i ended up getting past the next part and driving out of the ruts which would have dragged them right in behind me :D, they were extremely suprised that i ended up driving out of the ruts but i was confident that it could be done haha...

When I first started working on my bronco II(when I was 16) I knew very little about engines. I knew that the engine wasn't firing on one of the cylinders so I was trying to locate it by pulling off the spark plug wires one cylinder at a time(with the engine running). I was told to do this by a friend, needless to say that he forgot to tell me that I was supposed to have a heavy rag over my hand. 20,000 volts never felt so good.... Yep that scared the shit outta me:brownbag When I got shocked I flung my arm up in the air and hit it hard on the hood.

My turn my turn,

This just happend last sunday. A buddy of mine found out about this place down by the house called HELL'S HOLLAR. And soon I would find out why! Well we get there I in my 86 fullsize and he in his 84, at frist we was like hummmmm this aint nuttin, (this my be alittle long by the way) so we ride and it gets alittle rough but nothing major, so then we come to a very narrow trail. up ahead we see some folks riding down on some horses. the people pull the horses off to the side so we can pass but before we do the guy stops us and ask "ya'll aint about to go anyfuther are ya?" so I say I dont know why and he tells us " you can only go about 100 more yards and then your trucks will not make it cause the rest of the way only ATV'S are able to get through" so we say ok and head on down and see whats up. so we get to the top of the hill and scop this out and I say there aint nothing wrong here. so my i radio to my buddy and his wife (who by the way had my little 4 year old girl in the truck with him yall stay here and i will check it out. so me and my wife ( WITCH WAS TELLING ME DID YOU NOT HEAR WHAT THAT MAN TOLD US) BLAH BLAH BLAH!!!! but anyway I said I jus want to see ( you know yall have done the same thing) :twak So I start back down the hill. so far no big deal well I get about half way down the hill and I am thinking at this point. ( to myself) OH NOW I SEE WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT! So I ask the buddy that was riding with me and my wife, " hop out and see if I can turn around here." "YEAH SURE YA CAN" WRONG :banghead :banghead :twak :twak It was rut city. Not little ones.. but huge ones. all on soft dirt. SO i start to try and turn around and my left front tire and my back right tire gets in a rut. My back end goes way down and all I was thinking OH CRAP I AM ABOUT TO FLIP. Keep in mind i was going down a steep hill full of big ass ruts. So anyways i get out of that and get pointed back down the hill and try to hug the biggest rut. bout 2-3 feet deep. well just as I think i am making it my driver side SLAMS down in the rut. I aint moving. stuck as hell. we try and try no go.. have to leave it walk back up the hill (WIFE CUSSING ME THE HOLE TIME) blah blah blah!!!!!! so me and my buddy have to go back monday night after work IN THE PITCH BLACK OF NIGHT and take his bronco down the hill trying like hell to not get his stuck to get mine out. we got it out after about 4 hours of trying and we both ride back up the hill and get home.. I should have listened to the man on the horse but we all know WE JUS GOT TO SEE FOR OUR SELFS!!!!!!! So today i am going to look the rig over and see what damage i have.... I know of one. I can't open my driver door :banghead :banghead :twak :twak and thats my story

BroncoHounds post reminded me of the last time i went wheeling. Me and a friend in his jeep decided to go do some off roading cuse he just got a winch and we hadnt been in a while. Well it hadent rained in a couple weeks so we didnt expect it to be too bad. but once we got there we found the mud to be gumbo mud. well i go first down the trail and get stuck in a nice gumbo mud rut hole. that was mistake 1 of 2 that day because i forgot my all terrains have turned into racing slicks due to the pavement pounding. so i didnt get any traction and i found myself upto the hubs. ugh ok so we winch in all directions and then we winched me backwards out of the hole. ok so now i dont want to have to reverse all the way back out of the trail especially cuse i dont have much traction at all. so decide to pull out my handy DMV moves and do the good ole 3 point turn. so i back up left and then put it into drive and go forward and then DIP i go into the rut so then im like ok since i cant drive up the rut ill just back up. so i back up and then my rear end goes DIP and then im like damn so basically im just going forward and then reversing just back and forth for like 5 times and then finally my friend in the jeep realizes ohh yeahh i have a winch. we hook it up pull me over and then go back home lol. but the worst thing was when i got home i found out my dad died :cry so not only did it suck that i got stuck but my dad died the same day that day was the ultimate bummer day for me :(

Originally posted by Marauder
BroncoHounds post reminded me of the last time i went wheeling. Me and a friend in his jeep decided to go do some off roading cuse he just got a winch and we hadnt been in a while. Well it hadent rained in a couple weeks so we didnt expect it to be too bad. but once we got there we found the mud to be gumbo mud. well i go first down the trail and get stuck in a nice gumbo mud rut hole. that was mistake 1 of 2 that day because i forgot my all terrains have turned into racing slicks due to the pavement pounding. so i didnt get any traction and i found myself upto the hubs. ugh ok so we winch in all directions and then we winched me backwards out of the hole. ok so now i dont want to have to reverse all the way back out of the trail especially cuse i dont have much traction at all. so decide to pull out my handy DMV moves and do the good ole 3 point turn. so i back up left and then put it into drive and go forward and then DIP i go into the rut so then im like ok since i cant drive up the rut ill just back up. so i back up and then my rear end goes DIP and then im like damn so basically im just going forward and then reversing just back and forth for like 5 times and then finally my friend in the jeep realizes ohh yeahh i have a winch. we hook it up pull me over and then go back home lol. but the worst thing was when i got home i found out my dad died :cry so not only did it suck that i got stuck but my dad died the same day that day was the ultimate bummer day for me :( my dad died the same day

:cry damn bro that does suck.. I am sorry :(

Sorry to hear about your father, dude, my condolenses (sp).

Here's my latest:
You all know the story of the Mudtoberfest incident when me and Bobby locked up our engines (if ya don't, do a search!:goodfinge) anyway like that wasn't bad enough of a stupid mistake! ( this can also double as a Bobby stupid story too. Cause he watched me lock my shit up and decided he could make it, so he tried the same watery mud hole, same results!!!) :banghead I'm out on the trail trying to get my rig back running and in the process take out the main fuse. After hours of messing with it I say "the hell with it!" and decide to tow it home. Well as ya'll know I discovered the engine was locked up, so I bought a new engine, did some mods...blahblahblah..Anyway I get ready to fire this thing up and can't...I searched for hours trying to find the problem before I realized I never put the fuse back in! :duh

I'm not a hard core wheeler... but I have gone off-road a little... nothing major... But I once forgot to put a front driveshaft back on... I was working on the truck the night before, and figured, aw hell, I'll just finish up in the morning... and went n and got cleaned up and went to bed... the next morning, a friend of mine with a Jeep calls and says to come on out and play... so.. I got up, got dressed, and ran down and fired up the truck and off on my merry way... I wasn't even thinking about the driveshaft until about the time we headed off the pavement... then it dawned on me... my front driveshaft was on the floor in the garage... DOH!!!!! 40 miles away... well.. I got to watch that afternoon, cuz I wasn't drivin all the way back home to out it on... well.. I did put it on that evening... oh well... boys will be boys I guess...

Yup, got one for ya. Took my new to me 89 FSB out for a test mudding near where I work. There is some construction going on and they are leveling a field, and most of it is great dirt that when wet turns into awesome mud. On the side of the field the sifting machines made a huge pile (10 feet or so) of all the big rocks that they had cleared out of the field. Trouble was, the rocks was covered with dirt, so to me... at 8pm running my high beams... it looks like an awesome dirt berm! Hit the berm at around 15 mph, popped the front into the air, front wheels crest over the top, rear wheel traction goes south... and the truck drops down and I here a huge BANG. Reverse down the hill, open the door, spin around to get out and fall flat on my chest and face into the mud. When the truck came down on the top lip of the stone berm, the truck didn't land on the frame, it landed on my aluminum "Bully" step-ups. The bang I heard was the shattering of both driver and passenger side steps. When I got out I instinctively stepped to where they were before and splow! no step = mud in the kisser. Just bought my new STEEL HORSE Contoured truck steps, and can't wait to put 'em on this weekend. And - oh yeah, any time you see rocks, take off your steps!!!

EEEWWWWWW that had to hurt! Is that all the damage that was done? If so ya got lucky bro :beer

This was in my first Bronco:

I was at Pismo beach and I was cruising around with my girlfriend, her brother, and his girlfriend just having a good ol' time. We were headed out toward Comp hill and there is a little section of whoops between two fence lines. My Bronco had a 4 inch lift and 32 inch AT's and I hit the whoop section a little too fast. Hit the first one and all was good until I hit the second one, and the I began the whole "nose to tail" bounce. I was having a blast just romping it...but little did I know that no one else in the Bronc was having any fun.

I hadn't noticed that my tool box, which weighed about 50+ pounds had broken free from its tie down. At sometime during my nose to tail bounce from whoop to whoop the tool box had become air born and flew from the back of the Bronc and nailed my girl in the back of the head. Nor did I notice that my axe had also broken free and hit the can of red primer, which decided to explode in the back of the Bronco all over the windows, top, and lets not forget to mention the back of occupants heads in the back seat. Lets just say everyone was a little upset with me...

Lesson: Tie things down a little tighter and hit whoops a little slower.

I had fun... :toothless

Suddenly I don't feel so stupid having trashed my cheap add-on steps. DUUUDE! Someone could have gotten way ouched.... hmm that gives me an idea.

Whoop tee doos + Ex wife = honest officer I didn't know my axe collection would just start flying around!!!!!

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Well the most embarrasing thing I have done has nothing to do with cars or trucks. My shop got a call from the flightline saying they have a write up on a parking brake cable, apparently the pilots were complaining it was to hard to apply the parking break. Now on a C-130 to get to the parking break cable, pilot and copilot sides identicle, you have a kidney panel. I would say it is 10-12in by 8-9in on both sides. when you pull the panel off you have directly over head the quadrant, four flight control cables, that sit a half inch above the opening. The parking brake sits about 1ft-11/2ft up. There is a metal plate that is held by two arms when it is set. To adjust it there is a bolt on the back you set at different lengths to make it where you dont have to push so far/hard on the pedals to make it catch. well I got tired of sitting with my head out and both arms up inside this kidney panel trying to adjust it. Arms getting tired quick and couldnt see sh!t. So I decide shove my arms up through the quadrant and my head on the left side of the quadrant. Well after about 10 minutes I realized, wow this is a lot harder and decided to go back to the other way. well when I went to move I couldnt bend my arms to get them down due to my head shoved up there. Well I got myself in a tight spot, cause I couldnt get my head out either. I was standing there on what we call a milk crate, big wood box for setting on the door when you loor the ramp sometimes, with my head and arms stuck. Two guys in my shop just busted out laughing when I started calling for help and asking them to get me out. After 15 minutes of them laughing they start trying to push the cables far enough to get my head out, no use, and ends up snapping me in the face. Well a couple of loose cables I finally got out. But ended up doing three times more work because I had to go through all the rigging procedures for the loosened cables and finish the p-brake.

:stupid :slap

About 20 some years ago I had bouught a 70 Dodge Swinger from a guy who was re-doing it and literally had every nut, bolt, and screw possible out of it. I took this basket case home and spent four months cleaning, painting, detailing it out, and re- assembling the whole darn car. I spent about 5 grand building the crap out of the 440 engine for it and Installed it. I spent about 1 grand on a transmission. And another $500 on a thick radiator and hooked it up. I did the last few little things that needed to be finished up. It was very late at night when I got to this point. I had already fired it off and let it idle a while, revved it a few times and it sounded soooo sweeeet! I coudn't stand it anymore and had to take it for a test run. I backed on to the street and eased on down the street, everything working good, so I stopped and was going to launch it one time to see how it was going to do! Tached it up to 3500 rpm's, dumped the clutch and she stood up was feeling great and then CRUNCH, GRIND, HISS, and BUZZZZZZZZZZZ. I'm thinking oh$h!t. I shut it down and coasted back to the house, popped the hood to take a look. All I could do is laugh and shake my head. I forgot to put the top bolts in the radiator and it was just sitting on the bottom ones. the only thing holding it away from the fan was the hoses. So there went that radiator and fan.
:shocked :banghead :twak :shrug :beer :histerica

I was 18, my first truck '89 nissan hardbody. I was at work one Saturday night kinda slow so I decided to go accross the parking lot to get smokes. When I was gonna head back to the shop I noticed a cup sitting on my tailgate, so I was gonna wip around and see how far I could launch the cup. Well I never got to see that cause next thing I know I plowed right into a light pole. Not just any pole one of those ones with the huge piece of cement around them. I tried to back up but I my steering wheel just spun around. So I got out to use the phone and call home and I noticed to hotties in a blazer laughing away. The most embarrassing part was that the parking lot was empty except for those chicks and the store owners cars. Had the truck 3 weeks didn't even make one payment on it yet. So thats my most embarrassing moment. :brownbag

I was at Pismo beach and I was cruising around with my girlfriend, her brother, and his girlfriend just having a good ol' time. We were headed out toward Comp hill and there is a little section of whoops between two fence lines. My Bronco had a 4 inch lift and 32 inch AT's and I hit the whoop section a little too fast. Hit the first one and all was good until I hit the second one, and the I began the whole "nose to tail" bounce. I was having a blast just romping it...but little did I know that no one else in the Bronc was having any fun.

those whoops are fun, just hit them at like 40 and you won't even feel them there.... :toothless

Hey Andy, what DIDN'T break when you landed?

I was 18, my first truck '89 nissan hardbody. I was at work one Saturday night kinda slow so I decided to go accross the parking lot to get smokes. When I was gonna head back to the shop I noticed a cup sitting on my tailgate, so I was gonna wip around and see how far I could launch the cup. Well I never got to see that cause next thing I know I plowed right into a light pole. Not just any pole one of those ones with the huge piece of cement around them. I tried to back up but I my steering wheel just spun around. So I got out to use the phone and call home and I noticed to hotties in a blazer laughing away. The most embarrassing part was that the parking lot was empty except for those chicks and the store owners cars. Had the truck 3 weeks didn't even make one payment on it yet. So thats my most embarrassing moment. :brownbag

:histerica :histerica :histerica I nearly spit water all over my monitor. That's great.

I'll share a similar story that involves me, but it wasn't MY smooth move.

I was out in a parking lot one winter on the way to school, back in senior year, doing donuts in my old stang. It was a daily ritual.

One morning I was down there with my buddies spinning around when I saw a kid in mommys lumina trying to do them. I drove over and recognized the kid from school and proceeded to explain to him that the dumbass was driving a FWD. I told him to throw it in reverse drive like 10mph and cut the wheel and gun it. It would send him into a very nice spin.

He took off down the lot and as I am watching (WAY OUT OF HIS WAY) he swings the front end around right into a big light post. It nearly ripped the entire front end off that car. I peed myself a little when I saw that!

i was cleaning my engine, i was scared of gettin water in my intake so i jamned a rag in the tube to stop water, got done washing and scrubbing the engine, i lator that night plan to go out, try to start it but cant, start flippin out, check the distributor, the battery everthing, 35 minutes lator it hits me, " i forgot to take the rag out of the intake". :banghead :banghead

I like that one stang... Yall have heard one of mine and my friends do a search its somewhere in the stories section, its something like two good offroading stories i believe, he submerged his truck a little more than halfway.

This is another embarassing one... I was on the way to a Pat Green concert. I had turned down a ride with one of my friends parents so I could drive on my own. He kinda looked at me like I was stupid because he thought that my Bronco couldn't make it. I had my g/f (sorta) in the car with me and it was just us two. Well it was a long 1 hour drive to the theatre where he was playin. We were late for the concert by about an hour, so needless to say i was goin fast. Well we were about 1 mile from the concert and she says there's a cop behind us, so I stopped speeding just to make sure. The shoulder dissapeared and so did the center line and I wasn't paying too much attention till then. I moved back onto my side kinda faster than I should have. The cops switches on his lights. He makes me do a sobriety test (two kids goin to a Pat Green concert must be drunk) he takes my licensce and looks it up. He saw an empty box of .45 ammo in the back of the bronc, he then proceeds to search me in front of my g/f who is FREAKING OUT. She ended up calling about 5 people while the cop was doing all of this, everyone knew what happend. I didn't get a ticket or anything, but I looked like a dumbass. It was embarrasing, and a little funny.

:histerica :histerica :histerica good one stang
that was planned right :brownbag

i was out muddin locally, and was going through a set of ruts just fine, well, i went and picked up a friend, picked up a sixer and went back out. we went through the ruts, and my friend (first time in the mud) says "how can you do this without breaking anything?" i say its a tank and keep truckin. well wanting to show off my capabilities off road, i decide to go through the ruts in reverse. i made it through, pulled it out of 4 hi, and put it in 2wd. got stuck halfway through the ruts. jumping the gun, i forget its in 2wd, and winch out. well when i went to turn around for another pass, i noticed an odd sound/clunking noise/vibration. decide to call it a day. on the main road i couldnt go over 15mph, turns out, my rear axle had shiftedup, so the driveline was not aligned, and was making the truck shimmy violently. also one of the leaf spring bases broke a weld, and slipped a shim halfway out.

luckily a shop was open and only 1/2 mile away. took it there and fixed it for only 30 bucks.

also, it had rained really hard, so i went out in the mud, a spot that is normally rutted was completely underwater, thinking i knew where the ruts were, i proceeded with caution, well, i didnt line up right, and dropped the front end into the ruts, the water was over my bumper, and coming in under the doors. luckily i eventually made it out, scared the bejeezus outta me.