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Can we handle the truth?
I'm talking about the mistakes we've made on our vans over the year's.I know most of us here are perfect and don't have "Ah Crap" moments but how about back when,like when we started vanning.

Drilling a pilot hole in the ceiling of your 76 Chevy and when removing the drill noticing daylite?

Make a template for a cabinet/wall/headliner,carefully laying it out marking it then cutting it out,only to realize we did it on wrong side so it's reversed and won't fit?

Happily sinking screws in the floor plywood on your 72 Dodge Maxi and started to smell gas?

Not that I would have first hand knowlage of these things but perhaps others here would admit to a boo boo
It's all in fun so anybody want to tell the truth?,even if it's not you but somebody you heard about that had an "Ah Crap" moment while working on "Their" van

I ve heard of a person that unloaded a parts van off their tow dolly "all by theirself" only to have the wheels turn sharply when the swivel plate swiveled unexpectedly only to have said parts truck turn sharply and crush in the side of an early Econo rust and dent free pickup truck recently purchased for $3500. No first hand knowledge of course,just heard about it. Also heard that same person never unloads any vehicles alone anymore too.

not a van wise...
but towing a truck with my lightning... engine was blown... so we used another vechile to pull it on the tow dolley... well lets just say this... my ford lightning at the time had under 10K on it... and my face turned blue. i cried. fearing the worse. Truck came off the front of the tow dolly, my tailgate was done at the time... it missed it by 1/2IN... holy god i was happy... but pissed at the chick in the driver seat of that truck. had to take a forklift to get that truck on the towdolley PROPERLY.

But Sixshot if thats true on the gas tank... thats priceless.

That's a good story Tim... I wonder how you ever "heard" that story! Welcome BTW! Great to see you here! Corey

Cool topic SixShot... I have no idea what you are talking about!!!

All true
New member Klink asked some questions in the interior topic which got me to thinking,which I'll admit to not doing much of from time to time.I've got more which I might post,we'll see if others have any good ones.

I put a slant six together one time realizing that after I had finished putting back together that I had forgotten to put the lifters in.

Oh boy where do I begin,

One of my first vans I used what I thought was "Hot" glue sticks in my hot glue gun only to open up my van during a steamy August day too find that every piece of fabric trim was on the floor, I learned that day that there are different temps that glue sticks come in.

That is all I'm willing to admit too at this time..LOL!

Nope, Never made any mistakes.
Now for the truth, I could probably fill a page, but don't have that much time. I'll have to come back to this thread later!