There was a thread like this on another forum that I belong to. Seems like a lot of us amateur mechanics run into the same issues. I'll start it off.

Don’t you hate it when you’re working on your truck and…

- You drop a socket in the engine bay and DON’T hear it hit the ground.
- You can’t find the tool that you were just using because you are sitting on it.
- you break something else when putting your truck back together.

 

or drop tiny bolts and they are somewhere in the engine

 

when someone that is helping you makes it worse by breaking a bolt because they don't know how to use a torque wrench or refuse to use one.

 

when you finally fix all the steering stuff so you can get your truck aligned and the shop tells you that you need to change other stuff. In the mean time, your tires are being shafted and destroyed due to being extremely out of alignment...

 

-When your going to school so u dont have anywhere but the parking lot to work on your truck, yet u still cant say no to 4x4ing so u break stuff anyways and get weird looks when ur wrenching on the side of the road/parking lot.

-When no matter how much u wash the bottom of ur truck, dirt always fall in yours eyes

 

when you drop a starter bolt into the flywheel, disconnect the bellhousing from the engine, tear apart the clutch, then find the bolt on your frame rail.
when you take something apart then find out the auto store gave you the wrong part

 

Or a defective part!

 

true....

 

when you take your interior panels off to install stereo components, and they never fit quite right ever again.

when you put something back together, and you have a couple screws/bolts that look important, but you can't seem to figure out where they go.....and whatever you fixed works just fine without them, so you leave it anyway.

 

When you don’t look to see what your hand is going to smash into if the wrench slips. …And then the wrench slips!

 

Murphys law for working on vehicles:

"When a tool is dropped, it will find it's way to the exact center of the vehicle on the floor of course."

 

when your working on it..get done and your problems are worse

 

^^^ i second that one..

when you're doing an engine swap in your front yard cuz you can't do it at work cuz they don't have 220 outlets for your welder, and the county code official/enforcer comes by and tells you it's a code violation and only have xx days to finish it or get finned 1k a day for every day over that deadline, and you have no time to work on it after work cuz it's near dark and ACE hardware is closed where you have to get those pesky nickel and dime bolts, washers and nuts!!! BAAHH!!

when you're welding on the frame and then move to another spot, and lean on the spot you just welded not thinking about it, HOT HOT HOT!!!

when a bolt breaks and you have to drill & tap it out, *sigh*...

or you can't find the tool that fits nicely in that one spot, and it takes forever to get something loose that should've taken 5 seconds.... then you find the tool after you got it loose... :-/

 

When you are worse off than before

 

after you are done fixing one thing, something else breaks...

 

...when you replace your exhaust, but accidentally bend a heat shield up and out a tinny bit so that it slowly wears a hole in your brake line.

yea, oops, dont try that

 

when your battery post bolt snaps off at 2am on your way to work...in the rain..

 

when you rebuild your entire alternator in a Walmart parking lot 400 miles from home then find out that the only problem was a dirty connector...

or how about when you drop a tiny little screw in the engine bay and just say "screw it it wont hurt anything" and then when your driving on the freeway 2 states from home that screw somehow finds its way into your alternators field winding and grounds the winding blowing up the entire unit...

 

That's just making your vehicle lighter which will improve your fuel mileage.

 

...or when you hit your knuckles into something-ooouucchh!