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Post a pic if you got em. But what was the worst injury/injuries while working on a car/truck? Any creativity with bandages, EX. duct tape, glue, etc....
Myself, slipped wrench on clutch and hit block with right pointer, 10 stitches to seal it up.
Sliced hand wide open when i got aggrivated with a thin shim when doing gears. Super Glue!
bench pressing a transfer case up into a jeep wrangler and the driveshaft fell out of its propped position and the yoke caught me in the 4-head. blead like a stuck pig but i never let go of the transfer case...i just kept yelling get some bolts in it to my buddy while blood filled up my eye socket hahaha. had a small cut and a giant knot on my noggin.
SUPER GLUE ftw. got a scar from it now:(
Was an idiot and jacked the rear of the truck up on a slope without chalking the wheels up and the truck started rolling and pushing me backwards. Big gashes on my knees from where it was dragging me on them
Jeeezz My mechanic has been blown up in a carb backfire. Steamed by a radiator and numerous other events. He wont weld a thing now. He will still use Oxy acetylene though. That crap scares the crap out of me.
was beating a balljoint out with a mini 10 lbs. sledge. i hit the ball joint and it flipped, then it hit my hand. bled for a minute and then held it under the parts washer. couldn't feel my hand for what felt like an hour.
I've been bashed, cut, burnt, bruised. My hands are just a little scarred.
installing an overhead monitor in a 08 Envoy last year 6 miles on the odo. headliners are very rigid and hard to cut. I changed the blade in my razor and thought to myself "I hope I don't cut myself with this fresh blade." first cut, slipped out and almost gashed the back of the front seat. second cut I moved my lefty up a little bit to help keep from going into the seat, righty slipped and bam! right into my left index finger, all the way to the bone. Good thing is that i didn't get even a single drop of blood on the light tan interior.
I know what you mean. After 5+ years of doing car stereo I have scars on top of scars. all over my hands and up and down my forearms.Quote:
Originally Posted by sleeper1500
Poked a hole through my nasal septum with a pocket screwdriver.
Got hit in the face and knocked silly by full length Cadillac exhaust system that sent me for stitches.
Broke my hand when it got stuck in an engine hoist.
I'll think some more.
Jebus man how did you stab yourself in the nose with a screwdriver?Quote:
Originally Posted by GasGuzzler
I'd have to show you in person.
thats about the extent of mine too....my hands are ALOT scarred tho...lolQuote:
Originally Posted by sleeper1500
LOL sounds like a you tube video. I bet it hurt like heck.Quote:
Originally Posted by GasGuzzler
I know, this isn't me. I'm not nearly that fat.
It was a bad day at the DB shop.
I think we would all like to forget this day.
But for all of you that know Kurt (DBTBSS) I think this explains why he is the way he is.
Keep both hands on the grinder Kurt!
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f4...k7T7/kurt1.jpg
so what happened to him? Surely a grinder didn't beat him up.Quote:
Originally Posted by 1320
Looks like you got youre azzz kicked ,to me ,is that the case ?or did a grinder really go haywire out of kurts hand,?Ive seen grinders take off on people so it is possible for sure .
was working at a tire shop, putting customers spare on his dodge dually back up under the bed. tire kept getting caught on his aftermarket exhaust. slid underneath to get it lined up and the cable broke landing the spare on my head. kind of a blur after that.
I'll let Kurt tell yall about that one if he wants to.
We were working on Scrappy's S-10.
Here is my wife's boo boo.
Slipped and stuck her arm into the windshield (broken) of and old GMC Sonoma.
That white thing is a TENDON!!!! GROSS!
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f4...7/photo002.jpg
^^ wow, thats just sick. Bet it left a nice scar
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Originally Posted by 1320
i guess that booboo of kurts was before my time.Quote:
Originally Posted by 1320
So thats why she is always wearing that cast thingy... Yall never told me that story. Looks like it hurt. I would have cried like an infant if it were my arm.
I think the worst I have had is gasoline in the mouth... knock on wood.
couple of stitsches, lots of cuts bruises,
got a real good black eye one time when a PHR came down and hit me in the eye.
why dont you ask tyler what he did to dannys wife
:imwstupid:
Myself - twice:
(1) explosion of brake fluid in the face directly in the right eyeball - excrutiating pain for hours, left eye totally blind for 3+ days, right eye totally blind for over a week, sensitive to sunlight for almost a year (could not go outside without HEAVY sunglasses) and today this is why I have 'droopy' half-closed eyelids (I got into the habit of carrying them that way);
(2) caught between 2 moving cars and while escaping jumped straight in the air, caught my left foot between the bumpers crushing all 5 toes - on crutches 11+ months, took 2+ years to heal.
Both are very entertaining stories :D
Mr. P. :)
I was installing a Billet battery tray top, and I touched the ground and hot terminal with the topper by mistake. The battery blew up and gave me 2nd degree burns on my hands and face, I still have some nice scars from that. To this day I will not mess with a battery, I would rather pay someone to install my battery!
besides busted knuckles, and i dislocated my shoulder pulling a trans, but thats it, my uncle had a car fall on his face 756 sutures and staples and 3 plastic surgeries, car wasnt on jack stands and the jack gave gave out, he looks freakin knarley now. this is why im a safety freak when getting under a car or a big woman :spit:
Before debit cards, I got a nasty paper cut writing a check to a mechanic. Then got a nice black eye, when my wife found out how much I spent on the ol truck!
I have had several deep cuts. Nothing major that duct tape can't fix...
"If you can't duct it...."
That is major funny right there!!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by stssilverado
Around 15 I got my ring finger "modified" by an engine fan (running of course).
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Originally Posted by SCIV
I stopped a fan on a running engine yesterday to complete my failed clutch diagnosis.:burnrubb:
same here..I fell out of my chair watching someone work on my truck once...got me all dirty..DOH!Quote:
Originally Posted by stssilverado
Well lots of bangs, busted knuckles, cuts etc from this trade! A few come to mind though. Doing control arm bushings in a Grand Prix. The bolt was seized in the damn bushing. I beat and beat and beat on it, finally I got mad and took a swing with my 5lb mini sledge. I guess I moved my back the wrong way, or too fast and put my lower back out. I was crippled for 2 days on the couch before I could move.
Another one was not that long ago, checking u-joints on a truck, had the end in the transmission and just set the back on the rear yoke so I could bend down and get a bolt I dropped. The damn thing slipped off and came down and hit me right on the top of the melon! I swear I nearly saw stars. Funny thing is, is that I had a headache before it hit me, and as soon as that happened the headache was gone! Knocked it right out of me. :lol:
I'll probably think of some more.
nothing too bad for me, a bunch of busted knuckles and black fingernails. but i guess the worst i can think of was when i was pop-riveting a body panel on my race car and i already had all the rivets in their holes and when a rivet popped the rivet gun slid and i basically punched a 3/16 inch rivet... there was a nice hole in my finger. good thing was it was one of those things that didnt really hurt or start bleeding for a minute
Didnt happen to me but I was standing about 4' away.
Mechanic at our shop checking on some big semi-truck batteries
we had charging.
Caps were loose to vent and he messed with a clamp making a spark
KA-BOOM
You havent heard loud until you've been standing next to an exploding diesel truck battery.
He got a away with some acid burns to his hands and couple of small
pieces of plastic in his face.
Sister was dating guy back in the day who had that happen too.
They were digging plastic out of his chest and face for years.
Personal note to self. Never mess with big truck batteries.Quote:
Originally Posted by r.barn
I had no clue those were dangerous. Shows what I know.
The gasses coming out of any automotive wet cell battery are HIGHLYQuote:
Originally Posted by zeake
explosive.
Careful when jump starting a car, charging a battery or even just unhooking a battery.
Make sure caps are tight.
Glad I have a sealed gel battery.Quote:
Originally Posted by r.barn
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Originally Posted by 00shortbox
Not to poop on the story or make fun of Canada but I heard through the grapevine and interesting and slightly related write-up on an RO (we're talking shop here as GM techs).
Tech's comments: "Rotor rusted, had to beat off."
Not sure why a rusted rotor would initiate such a response but.....:ugh2:
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Originally Posted by GasGuzzler
LMAO! :spit:
Someone wasn't thinking before they made that comment! I've seen other guys make funny ones for the clunking steering shafts when GM wanted us to "excersize" them
Cause: steering shaft dry
Correction: stroked shaft
:LOL:
we had one that read: c/s blinker acts like it is on crack.
a misprint was, c/s vehicle is only getting 100mpg.
X2-optima's kick assQuote:
Originally Posted by zeake