So I decided to take the NX wet kit that is on my L and was on there when I bought. It's basically brand new and was only used a few times but I don't want to spray so I decided to get take it off and sale it for some other mods. Well I take everything off...ya know no bigie an hour job at the most. Then I get to the line that is taped into the fuel rail and I'm like damn I'm going to need to cap it off now once I take the line off, I look for a bolt and find one, I figure it should work untill I get a cap tomorrow (all part stores all closed) So I'm putting the bolt on and it gets tight, I tighten it a little more, start her up to check and it spraying out a little so I shut it down, tighten a little more and I feel like the bolt striped....it didn't, it broke clean off, now part of the bolt is stuck in there....&*E##*_*_*#$#@$! ...I say to myself. So I start it up to see if it will leak and it does just a tiny tiny bit. Tomorrow I will be buying some new tools. A DAMN EZ out kit. I should have just left the line to the fuel solenoid and got a cap tomorrow but at the time I wasn't thinking. Damn I am a moron... U LIVE AND LEARN...So I know there are some people out there that have screw something up or messed up something while working on ther L or even another vehicle, lets her em...LOL

 

Well I almost lost a hand putting on the shackles on my truck, and it took me about forever to get them on with all that undercoating crap ford uses...

 

Welding sealed aluminum tanks can have an explosive side effect.

 

oh man...if i told all my stories people would probably think i'm nuts for working on my own vehicles

I think by the time i get done buying all the extra parts that i break plus the new tools i need it usually costs me more to do things myself than to take it to a shop... but that's okay cause i'd still rather do it myself...best way to learn about the vehicles!

a few examples for me are while dropping the gas tank on my grand cherokee i didn't see a plastic fuel line that was still connected... i can't even begin to explain how sad my face looked when i heard that snap and smelled the gas Of course this was at my parents house while i was in college and my school was 2 hours away....took me a week to get the new fuel line.

Another time i was running late trying to finish up in the morning before going to work and broke the bolt holding my trackbar to my axle... ahh...good times good times lol

I haven't caused any damage to the L yet and i'm gonna try to keep it that way!

 

I stripped the threads on the manifold that the 7mm coilpack bolts thread into. It was the last one and i was anxious to get the job done! Oh, well... taught me to never rush a job...

 

What, only the dumb things I did today?
When I was younger, my dad had a mechanics pit in our old garage. A friend wanted to pull the motor on his '64 Mustang, so he bought it by one night, we get the motor out in a couple of hours & call it quits around midnight. Neither one of us thought to cap off the fuel line and overnight the entire tank drained into the pit. When I got up the next morning to go to school, the garage reeked of gas, luckily, garage door openers hadn't been invented yet! I dread to think of what just one spark would have done.......
Robert

 

I did the same thing with the second to last one on the drivers side. Got in a hurry, always the wrong thing to do when you are working in a tight spot.

Mark

 

It really doesn't take much to strip the aluminum, does it? I used a few washers to hold my coilpack in place.

 

I know our frames are "waxed" from the factory, but to my knowledge the undercoating is not Ford installed. I know that I sure don't have any.

 

You know what happened dont you, this is a sign from GOD saying leave the nitrous on there or something

 

I wish mine didnt have it, im black everytime im under my L but i guss its gonna come off eventually if it keeps getting all over me

 

i did the same damn thing... .number 7

that manifold is easy to strip

 

HEE.. HEE.. This board ain't big enough!
35+ yrs ago Laying in driveway arc welding shackle mount on 57 ford, sparks went down my neck moved wrong stick went acrossed gas tank, burning hole in bottom,nice little fire trail And I got hooked on the damn shackle mount trying to get out, got a little warm.

 

The fuel line that goes into the fuel rail doesn't have to be capped off when you take it off. There's a valve in the end of the fuel rail that prevents fuel from coming out.
Just unscrew the line & you'll see what I'm talking about. It looks like a tire valve.

I'm guessing that you put the bolt into the end of the NX kit fuel line? Really couldn't make that out.

 

thats what I was thinking, Iwas trying to figure out what he trying to cap off. the line should have been installed on the schrader valve.


Dale