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Do you think this site will still be around by the time I get done?

Used one of those vacuum pumps thru dipstick to drain oil. Put tube in to far and got wedged in crank shaft. Had to pull motor and pan to remove hose. Never used that piece of crap. Only positive was pulled a cap and bearings looked perfect and installed a good oil change system.

My screw up.
Long ago while winterizing a boat I owned I added a bottle of fuel stabilizer to the gas tank. Somehow I never put the fuel cap back on. The boat was stored outside with a blue tarp covering it but it still allowed a bunch of rain and snow melt to run down the sides and into the fuel tank. Had to pump the tank in the spring, close to 150 gallons plus a number of other issues with residual water in the tank, carbs., filters and plugs.

My sons.
On the same boat he once pumped gas into a fishing rod holder by accident. Fortunately I immediately realized the error and the cleanup wasn't that difficult.

I pulled one motor thinking it had major lower end damage. Come to find out it was the little splash shield on the bellhousing. The little bolts were to long by a hair and would just let it rattle at the right rpm's even though the bolts seemed tight.
Another time I install those built in flapper exhaust tips over the winter and come spring I spent days looking for a rod knock and eventually pulled the motor just to be safe. Never found anything wrong with the motor and it didn't dawn on me until the motor was literally dropping in the boat that it could be the new tips. Went out for a test drive and the same knock was back. Went home and saw-zawed the flappers out and put rubber cap flappers on and knock was gone.

We had a 1968 18' Donzi 2+3 with a healthy 351 Ford. I wanted to use it on the weekend , but the Holley D/P needed a needle&seat. Dad said he would rebuild it at work if I took it off before I went to school.
I pulled carb and put the trickle charger on the battery , then headed off to school.
Heres the good part!!! I get home , jump in the boat that is backed into the attached garage , and spin it over to see if the battery is charged. Well ,the battery is charged, the fuel line is pointing at the open intake plenum that I didnt cover, and the motor goes to valve float (7000rpm+). First reaction was to grab the throttle ( oh sh!t , no carb!!! ). Second , shut off ignition , which caused a backfire out the intake , which sprayed fuel and flames everywhere.
I get the fire put out with a moving blanket and, after changing underwear, survey the damage. Not bad ! a couple hours cleaning and some wires and I'm back in business. Dad gets home with carb and admires my work.The only thing he asked me was why I changed plug wires that were less than a year old...

Lol these are all good....when i first got my boat i finally got it running in the driveway and we were rushing to get it in the water but we started it on a jump box so i ran and grabbed a new battery and in the rush and being an idiot i hooked the terminals up backwards and fried the alternator wire and without hesitation my buddy grabbed the powder fire extinguisher and started spraying everything i was still in the bilge... what a mess and that sh!t was everywhere i wish he had at least let me jump out before he decided to do that...afterward was just the awkward silence staring at him covered in that powder and knowing that boating wasn't going to happen for awhile

Really Stupid......I was washing the ski boat in the driveway. Driveway slopes ever so slightly downhill. The nose was downhill. I washed the boat, and even with the tongue jack all the way up, water wasn't completely draining out.
So.....the Jeep was in the Garage, and I had a HI-Lift jack on it, affectionately known as a "widow maker". Anyway, I used it to jack up the front of the boat by the trailer side rail, and waited for the water, as I didn't want the kids to crawl in the boat and have the jack fall.
AS I was standing there, watching the kids in the yard, I had my hand resting on the top of the Hi-Lift, waiting.

Unbeknownst to me (as a dumbass) the boat was creeping ever so slowly forward, leaning the Hi-Lift towards the front of the boat. As I am watching the kids, I realize my hand is becoming trapped between Hi-Lift and the tongue jack as it's rolling forward.
The jack started to really fall, and my hand was stuck between them, so I pushed back on the boat and I panicked and yanked my hand out of the way. Most of it came out!

I only cut off my little finger!!! (They sewed it back on--doesn't bend well, but I don't have to buy custom gloves!!!) To this day I feel like such a dope!

YOU WIN... Hands down

The sad thing almost everything I have read I have done short of cutting off a limb.

Nearly killed by motor hoist.
I pulled over a Gantry Crain one day that nearly killed me. I have to block mine up being my driveway is un-level so no rolling. Pull the motor from the race boat, drop it on the ground, pick it up with my cherry picker and drag it all in the garage with the lawn tractor. And most of all double check no hose clamps are hooked on the chain hoist chain. Like Maxwell Smart used to say, "it missed me by that much" and proceeded to bend over top of the motor like a piece of cooked pasta. Used my truck to bend the beam back (still had a motor to install) and still using it today. Just a little more carefully.

Set a boat on fire.
Was starting a boat's motor I just restored for the first time. Had the air cleaner off and was dumping gas down the carb from a glass jar trying to keep it running until it drew gas from the new tank in the bow. Well, it coughed and blew a flame out the carb which immediately set the jar and my hand on fire. I'm thinking not panicking but I'm moving quickly. In the split second I conclude I will throw the jar in the grass and put my hand out. Throw the jar. It hits the side of the boat and rolls back in the motor box and under the motor leaking flames all the way (it was so little gas but like f_in wow there was a lot of fire). Now it's put hand out and get fire extinguishers before I burn down the house and the 2 classic boats sitting next to it. Not sure when the hand got put out due to there being a burned hand print in the new paint where I would normally put it when jumping out the boat. I then set off two full fire extinguishers into the flaming motor box. It was weeks before I was back to where I was before I started the day. Lost all my hair on my hand and it was like a slight sunburn but nothing more. The hand print on the boat required repainting.

Boat and trailer rolled away.
My old driveway used to be off this tight little alley. If someone next door didn't park perfect I couldn't get the boat out. One early Sat morning the neighbors had people over and my boat was stuck. So I decide screw it, it's only a 19' boat, I will roll it to the end of the driveway, turn it 90 degrees and hook it to the truck. Pulled the second chuck out which they never seemed like they were stopping the wheels from rolling before and all of a sudden the boat starts rolling (it has a wheel jack also). I run to the front to stop it and find out how steep my little flat driveway is. Down the driveway it goes (I'm just getting out of the way at that point) and into then through the chain link fence on the other side of the alley like a spear then trough the stockade fence on the side of it. It stopped when the chain link caught where the trailer Y's out. Now I have a boat stuck in a fence, across the exit of a one way street, alley and I cant get my neighbors up to move their cars. Not a good start.

Then there was the time when me and my buddy were kids we picked up a boat we were going to fix up and the hitch broke off the trailer and the boat and trailer rolled past us and down into some woods.
When I bought Scott's Monza (the OP) the trailer hitch latch also broke and fell out. The hitch popped off over the next bump and I drug it by it safety chains through a major intersection. That had to look ghetto but I learned from the first time to use safety chains.

They are cool stories now. At the time they sucked hard.

1994 TOP GUN / 572's

Pulled the boat out of salt water on Sunday afternoon. Closed the water valves to flush engines on land, Boat sat until next Saturday. Planned a big day with 4 friends to take a 1.5 hour boat ride to a beach bar IE "hairdresser/stripper day"...this was a BIG DEAL...

Put the boat in water on a BEAUTIFUL SATURDAY MORNING....and forgot I closed the water valves the previous Sunday.....1/4 mile down river my temp gauges were pinned! Open the hatch and I could just hear everything crackling with heat! Steaming, melted hoses, ect......Got towed back and had 4 very disappointed friends.....Fukin dumb ass!!!!