Trying to prime engine for spring startup but can't spin distributor with drill

Rigged up my old distributor with a bit welded to the top, inserted it fine into the hole, put a drill motor on it and it won't spin for sh1t. WTH

 

You took the distributor gear off, right?

Devon

 

Ummm, no. he he. What a freakin idiot I am. I'm glad I didn't try to horse it. Holy crap. Thanks so much Devon. Totally freakin blanked on that. :beer

 

We've all done stuff like that more than once, Ken!

Devon

 

Don't feel bad I spent a whole Saturday afternoon trying to figure out why my brake lights wouldn't work on my '65. Turns out the key has to be in the on position for the brake lights to work on a '65. I didn't feel to smart after that.
Rick

 

:bla: :bla: :moonu:

:Smarty: :beers2:

Now that was funny

 

wow... that could have been expensive.

Those are the worst kind of mistakes. :blast:

 

With enough torque I figure it would have sheared the pin before the gears got hurt.

Devon

 

The 1/2" drill I have would have sheared the pin or an arm! :laugh:

 

Here's one, a few weeks ago completely assembled my new 455 on the engine stand, painted and ready for install. Moved some parts around on the shelf, saw the oil slinger staring at me. What an idiot!

 

Ive never done that!!!!:laugh: :bla:

But i did forget to tighten the oil line fitting to the gauge & pissed oil all over my floor when i primed it.p :spank:

 

On the same subject, I had an 455 sitting on the garage floor, bought it for parts. The oil filer had been all dented and squat from leaning against it on the floor.

I decided I was gonna test a oil priming tool I made from an old distributor, and when I started to prime, the oil filter blew up like a baloon to its original shape! LOL

I never realized that much pressure went though it. Of course It did have pin holes in it from the kinks and spayed oil over about a 5 ft radius around me until the pressure was gone. :spank:

 

I won't even start with all the stupid stuff I've done, Thank goodness my wife never learks around here. I'm sure she would share a story or two

Not laughing at you Ken, just with you :laugh:

 

Seems like a great place to start a new thread: Tell us something stupid that you did. I'll begin...

 

We had a guy in our old car club decide to clean his gas tank out using his wife's tank style vacuum cleaner. Do I need to say more? She wound up with a new vacuum after he cleaned up the shrapnel.

 

in high school i had a 57 chevy 350 2x4 4speed 4.11:bglasses: . i could race:3gears: it all night till sunup on the weekends and the car stayed on about 195-210 degrees. but each morning when i drove it to school it would be very overheated from the normal drive of 3 miles on the highway.

for the longest time i couldnt figure out why.....:af:
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.BTW ... i would store my snare drum in its case in front of the radiatorou: on the way to school .... the drum stayed home on the weekends:shock:

 

Read about my headgasket fiasco in the "stupid" thread...

 

I fully dissasembled and rebuilt a 455 in my...... living room! (I was single then and the land lord was pissed) Complete engine all painetd and purtty sitting there on the stand. Then I started to think about how I was going to get it outside to the driveway to set it in the car. :idea2: Oops. Shouldda thought about that Bfore I put it together. Long story cut short.... me and some buddys worked it out to the edge of the front door, called a wrecker with an extendable boom. he backed up to the front of the house, stuck the boom inside the door and picked up the engine and set her in the Riv. Best 45.00 I had spent to date.

 

I had a feeling you'd enjoy that one. :grin:

 

HAHAHAHAHAHA that's hilarious :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: