color me stupid

so everyone knows about my attention whore's need for maintenance. Well, today I noticed that she had leaked out a lot of water while I was at physical therapy. I started her up and drove her around the corner to the water machine at the gas station. I lifted the hood, touched the radiator cap, it wasn't hot (I had only driven it less than a block) so I put my hand on it and gave it a twist, suddenly the radiator cap was about 200 degrees and I scalded and blistered the palm of my hand! Son of a bitch that hurts! I SO should have known better. So my question is, what vehicular maintenance injuries have you given yourself that make you want to kick your own ass for their stupidity (or is it just me?) :)

just 5 minutes ago dropped a screwdriver onto my foot and the phillips side hit and cut into my foot.. started bleedin like crazy.. i figure i should pry put some shoes on..

youll scream when you hear about my buddy, he was helping me work on a 85 camaro and he slipped
while the car was running and his fingers got caught in the serpentine belt. nearly chopped them off, it broke 4 of them. i had to rush him to the hospital.

ok tacoma, you win!

WHEN I CHANGED MY THERMOSTAT I HAD A PIECE OF WOOD HOLDING THE HOOD AND I GUESS I SHOOK THE CAR TOO MUCH AND THAT FUCKEN HEAVY HOOD FELL ON ME, THAT WAS THE WORST, DO YOU GUYS KNOW HOW HEAVY A 3rd GEN HOOD IS

i bet there are a ton of horror stories out there..

WHEN I CHANGED MY THERMOSTAT I HAD A PIECE OF WOOD HOLDING THE HOOD AND I GUESS I SHOOK THE CAR TOO MUCH AND THAT FUCKEN HEAVY HOOD FELL ON ME, THAT WAS THE WORST, DO YOU GUYS KNOW HOW HEAVY A 3rd GEN HOOD IS

as a matter of fact I do, your 2x4 hood holder is the same design I use on my 3rd gen. lol I'm glad to see I'm not the only one sporting wood under the hood (and that's literal, not figurative ;) )

advance has the hood shocks for 14 bucks a piece

i bet there are a ton of horror stories out there..

I'm sure there are horror stories, but I want to hear about people getting hurt because they are stupid like me! :loser: :lol2:

advance has the hood shocks for 14 bucks a piece
what is advance?

Well I Got My Hood Shocks Now, And Damn I Can't Believe I Waited So Long To Get Them, Now When Ever I Open The Hood My Hood Just Opens Right Up And Stays There

what is advance?

advanced autoparts......my bad.

oh! duh. see? stupid girl. ;)

my dad almost got his brains knocked out over them hood shocks....mom had a sharp blue 85 Z28,
it was around 8 or 9 years old when the shocks actually gave out while my dad was working under the hood. it come down on him, could have killed him. it gave him a mild concussion.

yikes! that's what 2x4s are for! lol

Hey Grease Monkey You Should Buy Some Hood Shocks Before That Happens To You Trust Me You Never Want That Heavy Hood Falling On Your Head, It Hurt Real Bad I Had Such A Big Lump On My Head, I'm Glad Nothing Serious Happened Just A Few Dead Brain Cells

I know, I need to, but I only have so much money and it's divvied up according to importance. I figure as long as I make sure it's secure, I'm ok.

Just Make Sure You Wedge That Piece Of Wood Real Good,

oh believe me, I do! I now how heavy that hood is, I can hardley lift it (yes, I know I'm weak). I can't imagine it falling on my head.

yuo can always take a sledgehammer and say screw the hood shocks, and hammer it till its leaning on the windshield

ummmm, I think I'll stick with my 2x4 thanks.

or you get just get a fiberglass hood like min damn thing only weights like 30 pounds

I'm broke. anyone wanna buy it for me? lol

im broke now too damn insurance bill was 340 this month and celly was 175

hmmm, rent, 2 cell phones, car payment, car insurance, student loan payment, storage rental, credit card, IRS taxes, the list goes on and on and on and on.....

when i was re-installing my differential from changing the gears, i pulled out one of the shims that came in the install kit, looked at my buddy, and said, "damn look how thin these are, someone could cut themselves on these things" ten minutes later when i was trying to push one of these shims into the rear-end, my buddy who was holding the diff slipped and my hand slid and i sliced the palm of my hand open on the shim. he asked if i was ok, i replied with, "remember how i said some one could cut themselves with one of these shims? yeah, well its true"...

when i was re-installing my differential from changing the gears, i pulled out one of the shims that came in the install kit, looked at my buddy, and said, "damn look how thin these are, someone could cut themselves on these things" ten minutes later when i was trying to push one of these shims into the rear-end, my buddy who was holding the diff slipped and my hand slid and i sliced the palm of my hand open on the shim. he asked if i was ok, i replied with, "remember how i said some one could cut themselves with one of these shims? yeah, well its true"...

you jinxed yourself! :cwm27:

Ahahaha omg, you guys think the hoods are heavy??? Try having the WHORE OF A SIZE hatch fall on your shoulder. Guess I shouldnt have trusted the old broomstick that came with the car to hold it up. The trans ams with those crappy urethane spoilers weigh even more its retarded. I think I paid like 80 bucks for new hatch struts, but now when I pop the trunk the thing comes flying up because I can even get around to there.

if i had a nickel for everytime ive been shocked by a car battery, or any 12volt source from a car, id have a lot of nickels...

using 2x4s and broomsticks is sooo ghetto. I love it.

Two coworkers of mine broke a drill (bit) and had it go into their hand IN THE SAME DAY spaced about 3 hours apart. Both had to go to redimed. :disappoin

i was at work once and i jacked up a i think it was a 93 tempo...i took the tire off...i was checkin the brakes...i had my hand under the rotor...the car fell...my hand hurt..

Well a person i know almost had a tranny fall on his head, But his wife came out and wanted to ask him something, as soon as he slid out a bit, the tranny fell and left a small cut on his forehead...to think if he didnt move...

This one is part stupidity part gross. When I was still working at the Mustang shop I use to work in the machine shop a lot. If you ever been in a machine shop you know that there are metal shavings all over the place and flying everywhere. Well the stupid part is I almost never wore my safety glasses like I was suppose to.

One day I was working and some metal shot in to my eyes. I quickly went and washed it out and it felt fine. Next morning I wake up and I can't open my left eye at all, covered in nasty crusty shit and it burns like a fucker. I goto the eye doc he prys my eye open takes one look and says you work in a machine shop right?

I guess some of the metal slivers dug into my eye and it healed over. Problem was the metal rusted and was causing all my issues. Here is the gross part. The doc had to freeze my eye and then drill my eyeball to get the metal out. Needless to say I always wear eye protection now. loL

well I can definatly say Ive had my share of Ghetto rigged hood supports!! New ones around here are like $40 a piece..
2x4's dont work so well.. Clumsy and oddshaped.. I liked using a rake.. or broom stick.. My favorite was a pair of locking pliers!! Just clamp a pair onto one of your hood shocks and you can have a pow wow under that hood and it wont come down! Providing the locking pliers are on tight enough...

Ive also had a 700R4 fall on me, both hood and hatch from 3rd gen fall on me.. Anyone ever been pushin REAL hard on a ratchet?? Had the ratchet slip off because you were using a big wrench as a snipe instead of a snipe? Well its not pretty.. Large gash on my forhead from hittin it on the edge of the hood and all the skin was torn off my knuckles from the turbo elbow.. hurt like a muther%##$#@!

yuo can always take a sledgehammer and say screw the hood shocks, and hammer it till its leaning on the windshield
That's not Ridge Runner you're talkin to there.

yeha, not too long ago I was trying to pull the hi=ose off the hearter coil and unbeknownst to me, it was melted on there, so I was twisting and pulling enough to blister the my thumb and 3 fingers. Try opening a jar or a bottle of pop with that.

i was removing my driveshaft and had the retaining straps off of the pinion yoke, and the thing would not come out. i was shaking it and pushing on it and the thing wouldnt come out. finally, while i was laying underneathe the shaft, i shoved a screw driver in between the yoke and the u-joint; damn thing popped off the yoke and landed right on my chest...

back in the day when i was 10...

..i was putting air in a tire and it blew up in my face..i didnt get hurt but it scared the shit outta me O.o

god damn these stories really suck ive never had anything happen to me even tho my friend was watchin his niebor cut down tree branches with a chainsaw and needless to say he slipped and there went his hand

taking temp sensor out from underneath and had a rush of hot coolant come pouring out.

when i worked at the lube center at the wal-mart in town, a big truck came in (dodge 3500 i think) and i was in the pit. the plug is on the back of the oil pan facing towards you, and i couldnt get it out so i repositioned myself(misjudging how far out the oil would come) and when the plug came out i caught about a quart of oil with my face...

and i wont get into my chain saw stories...

My uncle had a starter motor fall off his mustang and hit him on the head i think. He was trying to show his boys how to do it right and when he went under to fix what they'd done it fell off and i think landed on his head... sounds fun.

well, ive probly got more stupid accident stories than my fair share, working on an LS1 is like sifting your hands through a bag of razor blades, but the worst by far ive seen, was a guy with a ponytail setting the timing on a 1970 nova. ponytail got caught in the belt, wrapped around a pully, it pulled is face down into the cooling fan, and ripped a part of his scalp off. it was bad. only thing that saved his life was he managed to pull the coil wire off the distributor and coil to kill the engine.

uh....
i slammed a door on my thumb when i was like 6 or 7...
i um... hit my head getting into my car once...
:/

well, ive probly got more stupid accident stories than my fair share, working on an LS1 is like sifting your hands through a bag of razor blades, but the worst by far ive seen, was a guy with a ponytail setting the timing on a 1970 nova. ponytail got caught in the belt, wrapped around a pully, it pulled is face down into the cooling fan, and ripped a part of his scalp off. it was bad. only thing that saved his life was he managed to pull the coil wire off the distributor and coil to kill the engine.

now that story caused me to squirm in my chair. OUCH

I don't have too many car injuries yet....but when I was about 6 years old, a few friends and I were playing on a house just being build, and I was standing on the edge of the sundeck and some other kid pushed me off!! :mad: I landed straight on my head into a pile of broken up concrete. Split my head right open.

bet you had a splitting headache from that one.

this has nothin to do with cars ,but a guy i know grabbed onto a hot curling iron when he was little. it took the skin on the palm of his hand right off. so he went to the hospital and they took some skin off of his stomach and put it on his hand. now he grows hair on the palm of his hand. :eek:

Lolololololol

well, ive probly got more stupid accident stories than my fair share, working on an LS1 is like sifting your hands through a bag of razor blades, but the worst by far ive seen, was a guy with a ponytail setting the timing on a 1970 nova. ponytail got caught in the belt, wrapped around a pully, it pulled is face down into the cooling fan, and ripped a part of his scalp off. it was bad. only thing that saved his life was he managed to pull the coil wire off the distributor and coil to kill the engine.


damn long haired hippies! lol - that's why I make sure to put on a ball cap or a do rag or something to keep the hair away from things. yikes

...I make sure to put on ... a do rag or something...

?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
O.O

also known as a bandana or kerchief...you know, a do (dew) rag

yea i associate do rag with erhm.... rappers and the like

you don't think i'm ghetto enough for a do rag? It's not one of those lame nylon ones, just a regular hanky.

yeah thats actually not a do rag, do rag is a seperate thing entirely, but nice try, you just wear a bandanna ;) also, lets not turn this into a random injury thread, keep it car related please.

well, back on topic, the blistered hand has healed up nicely, it's a releif that the palms of your heands heal quickly, though I was hoping it would keep me out of work....no such luck. :( lol

pretty much my hands no longer consist of skin, its either callises or scars. the signs of years of good old fashioned hard work...

i'm still cringing from the hair on the palms one

I droped a torque arm out of a 2000 TA on my head, had to get stiches in my eyebrow. :screwy: