# People never cease to amaze me **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [February 8, 2005, 12:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/people-never-cease-to-amaze-me/172193 "2005-02-08T12:56:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![imported\_weaves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bc8723/32.png) [@imported\_weaves](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/imported_weaves)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 12:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/people-never-cease-to-amaze-me/172193/1 "2005-02-08T12:56:18Z")
If this guy did this, this is truly one of the dumbest things that I’ve ever heard. … A friend who does honda stuff told me i should clean my engine bay sometimes, that itll keep it looking nice. So i decided to tackle it this morning. I went out to autozone and got a jug of simple green degreaser put it in a spray bottle. He told me to get it on EVERYTHING to completely cover anything that might be dirty with it. So i did, i got all over the turbo, the block, sides of the engine bay and **i even figured id clean the pistons off too** so i pulled my spark plugs and sprayed it down into each cylinder, i figure if they got any carbon on them this should take care of it. I left it for about 30 minutes to let it soak, break everything down. came back and got a pressure washer and hosed it all off. Once all the simple green was done i put the spark plugs back in and reconnected the wires and everything but now the car wont start. First time i tried it made this awful awful knocking noise now it wont even turn over. Could i have mest up the electronics with the water? he didn’t tell me to cover anything and he wont be back in town for a week. Any help is appreciated. [Link to SRTforums](http://www.srtforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=115125&page=1&pp=40) :stupid: ---
**Author:** ![HaNnIBaL64](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/hannibal64/32/5954_2.png) [@HaNnIBaL64](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/HaNnIBaL64)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 12:59pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/people-never-cease-to-amaze-me/172193/2 "2005-02-08T12:59:18Z")
im guessing its made up ---
**Author:** ![T70\_Tsi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@T70\_Tsi](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/T70_Tsi)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 1:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/people-never-cease-to-amaze-me/172193/3 "2005-02-08T13:00:03Z")
been hearin that since i’ve been on car forums ---
**Author:** ![smokeyburnouts](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/smokeyburnouts/32/5987_2.png) [@smokeyburnouts](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/smokeyburnouts)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 1:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/people-never-cease-to-amaze-me/172193/4 "2005-02-08T13:02:29Z")
ya prob made up. i think i have seen that once before also. thatd be funny if it did happen tho ---
**Author:** ![oneslowbowtie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/d78d45/32.png) [@oneslowbowtie](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/oneslowbowtie)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 1:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/people-never-cease-to-amaze-me/172193/5 "2005-02-08T13:04:11Z")
Sounds like Sloshelby… ---
**Author:** ![imported\_weaves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bc8723/32.png) [@imported\_weaves](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/imported_weaves)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 1:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/people-never-cease-to-amaze-me/172193/6 "2005-02-08T13:05:18Z")
It sounded made up to me too, but I think that I know people this stupid…and there are certainly enough dumb kids on SRTforums for it to be possible. ---
**Author:** ![HaNnIBaL64](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/hannibal64/32/5954_2.png) [@HaNnIBaL64](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/HaNnIBaL64)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 1:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/people-never-cease-to-amaze-me/172193/7 "2005-02-08T13:05:41Z")
> [@oneslowbowtie](#): > > Sounds like Sloshelby… 🤣 yeah but his would have a firehose and the jaws of life involved in it somewhere ---
**Author:** ![OLDS\_ROCKETMAN](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/olds_rocketman/32/5942_2.png) [@OLDS\_ROCKETMAN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OLDS_ROCKETMAN)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 1:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/people-never-cease-to-amaze-me/172193/8 "2005-02-08T13:07:43Z")
someone this stupid wouldn’t certainly not be able open the hood let alone take the spark plugs out. ---
**Author:** ![imported\_showtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@imported\_showtime](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/imported_showtime)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 1:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/people-never-cease-to-amaze-me/172193/9 "2005-02-08T13:12:20Z")
well…heres one for you…my aunt’s fiancee (Michael) was over a guys house & the guy was adding oil to a car & kept filling it up intil it got to the top??? micheal said he was like what are you doing that way too much & the guy said he was wondered why it was taking so much oil. ---
**Author:** ![imported\_showtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@imported\_showtime](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/imported_showtime)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 1:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/people-never-cease-to-amaze-me/172193/10 "2005-02-08T13:12:54Z")
> [@Cutty](#): > > someone this stupid wouldn’t certainly not be able open the hood let alone take the spark plugs out. or type on the interweb ---
**Author:** ![OLDS\_ROCKETMAN](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/olds_rocketman/32/5942_2.png) [@OLDS\_ROCKETMAN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OLDS_ROCKETMAN)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 1:20pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/people-never-cease-to-amaze-me/172193/11 "2005-02-08T13:20:14Z")
its pretty common for people to put coolant in the winshield fluid and vice versa. ---
**Author:** ![fshowcars](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fshowcars/32/5937_2.png) [@fshowcars](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fshowcars)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 1:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/people-never-cease-to-amaze-me/172193/12 "2005-02-08T13:57:00Z")
i was in a parking lot behind my buddy’s house when some huge black guy in a metro rolled into it… car was smoking and bucking, white smoke… stops the car and there is just coolant pouring out of it… my buddy and i offered to fill up his rad with water so he could leave and he insisted it was the oil… we kept telling him otherwise and showed him the coolant and he kept responding, " i think it’s the oyyee" i’m like, “dude, that’ scoolant… . it’s green” … he’sl ike “i think it’s the oyyee” … so we let him pour in some oil and start a drive a car with a bone dry radiator… :dunno: ---
**Author:** ![OLDS\_ROCKETMAN](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/olds_rocketman/32/5942_2.png) [@OLDS\_ROCKETMAN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OLDS_ROCKETMAN)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 2:01pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/people-never-cease-to-amaze-me/172193/13 "2005-02-08T14:01:06Z")
> [@fshowcars](#): > > i was in a parking lot behind my buddy’s house when some huge black guy in a metro rolled into it… car was smoking and bucking, white smoke… stops the car and there is just coolant pouring out of it… > > my buddy and i offered to fill up his rad with water so he could leave and he insisted it was the oil… we kept telling him otherwise and showed him the coolant and he kept responding, " i think it’s the oyyee" i’m like, “dude, that’ scoolant… . it’s green” … he’sl ike “i think it’s the oyyee” … so we let him pour in some oil and start a drive a car with a bone dry radiator… :dunno: a friend of mine, black guy, sold his caprice to another black guy. He asked why the oil was a milky color, my friend’s responce : “its that special racing oil” ---
**Author:** ![T70\_Tsi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@T70\_Tsi](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/T70_Tsi)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 2:01pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/people-never-cease-to-amaze-me/172193/14 "2005-02-08T14:01:34Z")
> " i think it’s the oyyee" i’m like, "dude, that scoolant even funnier if you would have said it that way ---
**Author:** ![BlackZ28](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blackz28/32/5932_2.png) [@BlackZ28](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BlackZ28)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 2:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/people-never-cease-to-amaze-me/172193/15 "2005-02-08T14:26:50Z")
> [@Cutty](#): > > its pretty common for people to put coolant in the winshield fluid and vice versa. my grandma’s husband put washer fluid in the radiator overflow tank in his Lesabre last week… lol ---
**Author:** ![imported\_Violator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f04885/32.png) [@imported\_Violator](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/imported_Violator)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 3:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/people-never-cease-to-amaze-me/172193/16 "2005-02-08T15:00:19Z")
> [@weaves](#): > > It sounded made up to me too, but I think that I know people this stupid…and there are certainly enough dumb kids on SRTforums for it to be possible. Like the kid on SRT’s forums that couldn’t get the oil drain plug loose so he decided to spin the filter off and run the car for a little until oil quit comming out. Insisted that he wasn’t about to let a stuck drain plug beat him. ---
**Author:** ![The1SloR\_T](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/the1slor_t/32/5984_2.png) [@The1SloR\_T](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/The1SloR_T)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 4:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/people-never-cease-to-amaze-me/172193/17 "2005-02-08T16:21:09Z")
> [@oneslowbowtie](#): > > Sounds like Sloshelby… wtf! what makes you think i would do that? ---
**Author:** ![smokeyburnouts](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/smokeyburnouts/32/5987_2.png) [@smokeyburnouts](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/smokeyburnouts)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 5:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/people-never-cease-to-amaze-me/172193/18 "2005-02-09T05:16:29Z")
> [@Violator](#): > > Like the kid on SRT’s forums that couldn’t get the oil drain plug loose so he decided to spin the filter off and run the car for a little until oil quit comming out. Insisted that he wasn’t about to let a stuck drain plug beat him. ya i remember readin that one, haha ---
**Author:** ![imported\_showtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@imported\_showtime](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/imported_showtime)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 10:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/people-never-cease-to-amaze-me/172193/19 "2005-02-09T10:34:00Z")
not on the maintenence topic, but still stupidity… I was pumping gas and a woman drives up & runs into the gas pump…the other side of the one i’m using…i was like WTF… that might be one of the last things i would want to run into. ---
**Author:** ![rookee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rookee/32/5972_2.png) [@rookee](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/rookee)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 1:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/people-never-cease-to-amaze-me/172193/20 "2005-02-09T13:13:02Z")
> [@showtime](#): > > not on the maintenence topic, but still stupidity… > > I was pumping gas and a woman drives up & runs into the gas pump…the other side of the one i’m using…i was like WTF… > that might be one of the last things i would want to run into. see if i was president and my ‘bureau of common sense’ saw that occur. license goodbye… and maybe exicution if she got lippy 🍺 :dunno: [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/people-never-cease-to-amaze-me/172193.md?page=2)