Carb Cleaner Straw goes into intake...

[Hassmeister]

Well almost. I just about (s)hit my pants cleaning my throttle body with carb cleaner when the First push of the spray button goes pisssst and the RED straw disappears. I thought fer sure it went in my intake. So I start to take the throttle body off and look down at the belly pan and see this long RED thing. Low and behold it's the straw. Thank you Jesus! Things have jsut been happening to me or what?!

[Mike~p]

hahahah, im sorry man that sucks, but it is funny u gota admit

[Jon_Rhea]

damn, that would have been bad.

[DRA4]

You are lucky it didn't go inside the intake, it would have been drinking coke all day.

[1Reidiculus-A4]

close call, very close call

[bitterchild]

meh

[Pureaudi]

ooooo, daaammmn that would have blown.

[Monchichi8]

yikes....glad it worked out for the best.

[Hassmeister]

You think I'm bad at blasting myself. You shoulda heard what the wife said when I told her before I found the straw! (When the heats too hot in the kitchen ... stay away from the cook).

I laughed my (a)ss off! :0))))))

[Hassmeister]

Originally posted by DRA4
You are lucky it didn't go inside the intake, it would have been drinking coke all day.

I drank two beers when I tought I lost!

[A4 in SC]

Damn, that would have SUCKED! On a similar note - I changed my fuel filter on Friday. Very easy to do w/ the right tools. Anyway, I had put it back in and started the car. OH CRAP! My fuel line now has a nice pinhole in it, right at the banjo fitting. Needless to say, I spent the next 8 hours attempting to get it fixed. The part is on order (only $25 from the dealer, no less) and I'm mobile again. I finally got it to stop leaking by lutting a piece of rubber hose around it and putting two 'conventional' hose clamps on it. Luckily, it hasn't leaked a bit. Obviously, I'll swap out the line as soon as it comes in, but I am so happy it's not leaking. I am 99% sure it wasn't leaking before, but somehow it appears that I 'aggrevated' the line. I am also pretty sure I didn't 'nick' it. Not sure what happened. Also, from the way it looks, the filter was the original, after 102K miles... You could say it was a little clogged... I should gain at least 1 mpg or two from this one...

Glad to hear you didn't have to start tearing into Hass! Too bad I can't say that. It looks like I *may* have to drop the tank, if I can't get to the top of the tank from inside the hatch. I'm dreading it, and am avoiding looking until the fuel line comes in....

Mike

[Hassmeister]

Stuff happens! I just wanted to get things cleaned up on the car for our trip to Eastern Side of the state Friday(Grandma's 90th B-Day) and going up to Canada on Monday for our 7 day Royal Caribbean Cruise to Alaska (with our friends) and back and then close on our house and move into the new one on the 24th. Stress - just great ! What next. Good luck with your endeavour; hope it all works out!
:0)
BTW, I pitched the RED Straw!