im a dumba**

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03-07-2013, 12:21 PM
mattjones

im a dumba**

so i replaced my intake manifold gasket last night along with my knock sensors because i had the old style orange gasket. after i get the intake loosened and ready to come off i remembered i had to remove the egr bracket because i had a plug in there instead of the intake manifold for some dumb reason. as i move the bracket i see the plug is super loose and thats where my leak was all along. but i still updated to the new gaskets and did my knock sensors and all that jazz. i felt so stupid when i realized it but the whole process only took 2 hours so it wasnt a big deal. have ya'll ever made stupid mistakes like that?
03-07-2013, 12:58 PM
Blackpearl

Happens all the time. Just learn from it. I've tried to fix parts on my own truck just to find the cause was something else. At least it wasn't a customer's vehicle and wasn't really that expensive.
03-07-2013, 02:04 PM
Botlfed

Yea me and another member on here went full retard one time buy no one will ever know what actually happened :lol:
03-07-2013, 02:15 PM
badboy956

It happens bro but you live n learn!
03-07-2013, 08:01 PM
mattjones

thanks guys your making me feel better to know im not the only one out there and yeah ive learned my lesson! that was the first time i had "dug" into my engine and until now i truely didnt realize just how straight forward and easy these motors are to work on.
03-07-2013, 09:01 PM
screaminchicken

When I was in middle school I used to race the super mini class and had a Yamaha big wheel 80 punched out to 105cc. I was getting the bike ready for the weekend and it would not start. Tried all the tricks....nothing. So, I proceeded to take apart the carb, found nothing wrong, cleaned it, tried again.......nothing. I then dissasembled the reed valves to maybe find a broken one......nothing. I was running out of time so I just put it back together. As I was raising the fuel tank to attach it to the bike again I realized it was empty :sigh: I filled it with fuel and something amazing happened....it started!!! Happens to everyone lol some mistakes are worse than others.
03-09-2013, 06:49 AM
bstill

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Originally Posted by screaminchicken

When I was in middle school I used to race the super mini class and had a Yamaha big wheel 80 punched out to 105cc. I was getting the bike ready for the weekend and it would not start. Tried all the tricks....nothing. So, I proceeded to take apart the carb, found nothing wrong, cleaned it, tried again.......nothing. I then dissasembled the reed valves to maybe find a broken one......nothing. I was running out of time so I just put it back together. As I was raising the fuel tank to attach it to the bike again I realized it was empty :sigh: I filled it with fuel and something amazing happened....it started!!! Happens to everyone lol some mistakes are worse than others.

I did the same thing the other day to my blazer after the cam swap. It would halfass fire and shut off again and again. I checked everything; all sensors plugged in, fuel pump running, and so on. I knew I put the cam in right but was about to tear it down just to check. Then it dawned on me, check the tank. Had a Slingblade moment. "It ain't got no gas in it." Put gas in it and it fired up. I felt like such an idiot. Sometimes it's the simplest things that are the easiest to overlook.