The "Thread of Shame"

chubby53 · Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 9:34 pm Post subject: The "Thread of Shame"

So i talked about this in my build thread so here it goes, hopefully everyone will post to it. Lets see any of your whoopses, uh oh's, damnit's, good ideas gone bad. Whether with your build, driving, or things that happened that you had no control over. Here's one for my, you've all seen this before, but here is another view of my "good idea" to slide around a corner going downhill. I will post my bondo baja soon.

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thext94 · Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 7:17 am Post subject:

Thats a great picture

Not my baja, but my uncle's while we were running the Poker Run

shred625 · Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 7:56 am Post subject:

How in the hell did you do that? There isn't more than a pebble on that road!
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Skidmark · Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 8:04 am Post subject:

Here I am teetering on a 150 ft drop off, with the right front wheel in the air. Needless to say, my shorts lived up to my nickname that day! Shocked

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It's a play thing · Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 8:15 am Post subject:

It will buff out...
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Wayne26 · Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 10:45 am Post subject:

Playing Easter Sun with the wife, it was a bit cold and I did not want to get soaked so I was going slow. I made it through twice, then I stalled it and the engine filled with water. Im pretty sure every bearing in it spun by the time I got it home.

of course she got the buggy with the 31's.

wish I had a sound file of how a motor sounds running milk water after 10 miles. haha

blitzschnell racing · Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 11:25 am Post subject:

Laughlin Rage at the River 2009

retterath · Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 2:44 pm Post subject:

The old roached out rail, high centered in Florence.

The really shamefull thing is that I haven't driven the Baja in something like 2 years. Embarassed

tanner_122 · Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 6:17 pm Post subject:

^^^^^
lol dont feel bad i did the same thing kind of... Twisted Evil

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KrAzY-BaJa · Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 7:19 pm Post subject:

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KrAzY-BaJa · Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 7:50 pm Post subject:

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spize909 · Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 8:28 pm Post subject:

spize909 · Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 8:43 pm Post subject:

This one almost resulted in a roll-over.......would have taken me to the bottom of that face had I gone over.

We got it back on when the "Rescue Rhino" brought me out 6 gallons of air..............barely enough pressure to pop it but it worked.

XLR8 · Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 12:55 am Post subject:

no pics

i was doing a search for good trails in my PINK 71 autostick super after school. so i had NO recovery gear with me and i was in my white shirt-navy pants school uniform Laughing

went into some ruts, got stuck. had an idea, left car in reverse and running (autostick) and went round the back and yanked on the rear bumper while goosing the throttle then raced to get back in before it rolled away Laughing

the other was when i was doing some difting on-road in the wet in the same car. too fast, not enough practice before hand, typical noob behaviour.
over steer, too much correction, more over steer, more correction then jammed on the brakes and slid into an electric fence.
not a single dent in the car and not many scratches either. spent the next 2 hours fixing a LIVE electric fence with only a pair of fence tensioners i borrowed from a lady up the road. bug drove up the bank and out of the paddock easy and i made sure not to rip up the grass.

not as gnarly as you guys have got but it was my version of the "oh shat" moment.
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txdunebuggy101 · Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 6:19 pm Post subject:

well i don't have a roll over or anything cool like y'all do,but title says "thread of shame", so...... My trusting personality sent a Samba member a new ignition kit to replace the one he fried. Was just being helpful, as usual. All i asked was that he at least reimburse me for the shipping to him. I know times are tough, I got 9 mouths to feed before i can eat. So i tell him, " if u got $10 send me $10, if ya got $20 send me $20..."
Needless to say, i guess he had nothing, cause that's what i got in return.
I KNOW,I KNOW..... You can say it.... DUMBASS.... and that's why I'm posting it here, the thread of SHAME Shocked

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pafree · Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 6:48 pm Post subject:

no shame here. everybody has buried their car in the mud up to the transaxle three times and burned out reverse gear twice. ripped the rear cage off trying to get it out and blowing out the u-joints on my wife's explorer pulling it out. did i mention the cheapo bolt on side nerf bars will not the weight of the car if you put a jack under them to lift the car out of the mud.

remember to always use wheel chocks on your front wheels if the rear of your car is up on ramps while you are installing a engine. made it half away across the yard before we stopped it.

The Phil · Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 9:29 pm Post subject:

I've got 2 shame moments with my 66 baja. my first and foremost shameful is when i was driving hot headed and went around a very long nearly tight flat left bend. my car is a swing axle. i was going about 45-50 and next thing i know, my wheel is starting to tuck so i tap the breaks and correct it, that rolled the other wheel and then i tried to correct that. i ended up going from the left lane, to the right lane hitting the curb, back to the left hitting the curb and breaking my drum around the axle, and then spinning around 180 to face oncoming traffic. i just about Sh-t myself.

my second time i was driving down a old high pressure gasline road in my neighborhood, i'd just found this road so i wasnt quite used to it. as you drive down this thing, you come over a small hill tht descend very very sharply, but just on the other side of the hill that you cant see is a 3 foot wall of cactus, which i flew into at 20 mph. took almost 2 hours to get myself free.
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Smackfest04 · Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 10:02 pm Post subject:

Here's my story,been redoing my sandrail all winter, new beam, arms, lift spindles, that's just the front end, well finally got it so it would go under its own power. Apparently when we put the front arms on we just set some 3/8ths bolts in to hold the link pins, took off down the road, hit third and the front left wheel started shaking violently, top linkpin came out. Sent me left then sideways right, went through a driveway and into a ditch on 1 wheel almost rolling it. Broke the inner tie rod end, steering box, and cracked the rear torsion where the spring plate sits....... lesson learned is double check your work lol

chubby53 · Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 4:40 pm Post subject:

here's my "shamefull" bodywork. I'm no body man be any means.

I should of bought stock in bondo! haha
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KrAzY-BaJa · Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 4:53 pm Post subject:

from my last tip: destroyed tire,bent shock bolts,cracked combo spindle,2 coilover spring sliders blew up again,collapsed torsion bar, and brake lights ripped off Confused

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