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Originally Posted by DanEC
I was working on my car today which I normally keep on a set of Harbor Freight dollies I bought when I was building it.
I rolled it out and reached in from the outside and turned the key to start it and it fired up but was making a weird rumbling sound. I blipped the throttle a couple times with no change and glanced in the cockpit and noticed the transmission appeared to be in first and the speedometer was running at 5 - 10 mph. I thought what the heck - reached in and shut the motor off, pushed the stick into neutral and re-started it and everything sounded normal. The parking brake wasn't on either so I couldn't figure out what was going on. Then I noticed a little pile of rubber at the back end of the rear dollies and realized the car had been running in gear on the dollies like it was on a chassis dyno. 
Fortunately, other that a bit of rubbed off paint on the dollies where the tires were slightly in contact - no damage done. Stupid mistake but I'm impressed the car didn't climb off the dollies and that the rollers on them kept up with the tires. |
You're lucky you don't own my Harbor freight cheaper dollies. I have no rollers on mine, just a cradle with 4 little wheels. You would have shot that thing right out and then would proceed to cause a lot of damage to something!
I have done plenty of stupid things (still doing a few today actually). One of the things I can think of right off the bat is not using jack stands and going under a car!!! STUPID!!!!
OK, so back in the late 70's, I was visiting my mother. She lived on a steep hill on the end of a cul de sac. The street was curbed. I needed to adjust something under my Camaro or do some sort of maintenance, actually, I think it was an
oil change. So I just put the front end up on the curb, put the car in park, did not apply the E-brake or it did not work (I don't remember) and crawled underneath the car and started working. Can you guess what happened next???