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Here's a couple that make me laugh when I think about it.

Ford motors are built ford tough right? Right.
I had just got done putting a motor in my 87 ford truck, I had the remote starter button hooked up to the solenoid on the fender.
For reasons I can't remember now I went to crank the thing over and didn't realize I had the ignition on, well you guessed it, that thing fired up on the first revolution, which wasn't so bad, least I knew I had the timing pretty close...lol but there this one little detail I forgot to mention, the upper plenum wasn't on yet!
It went from start to 10 thousand rpm or somewhere near there in the blink of a eye.
I ran over and killed the ignition as quick as I could, my heart was pounding wondering if I just grenaded my new motor, nope.
Buttoned it all up cranked it up and it ran great, needless to say I was easy on the throttle a few days before I opened it up but heck I drove that truck for 2 years before I ended up selling it, now that's the proper way to break in a motor....lol


Now this is more of a testimonial than a mishap but I thought ya'll ford guys would like it.
I had worked at several ford dealerships over my career as an automotive tech.
One day this customer brought in this beaten down work truck, under warranty of course> it was knocking its butt off - so knowing how the warranty system works, the service writer had asked me to grenda the thing so we could just put a complete motor in rather than patch together a worn out motor.
So I promptly drained the oil and went for a drive, I drove it and I drove it and I drove it, I stopped and floored it, I did burn-outs, it got louder but I could not make that thing come apart. finally gave up and just took it apart hoping I had caused enough damage to warrant a whole motor, mission accomplished....lol
Have a little fun and tell on yourself or if know of someone elses funny mishap, tell it, lets keep this thing going.
later, Charles