Worst thing that happened to you while working on cars?

[99slverZ]

By worst I mean dangerous, shitty, funny, painful.

Mine was my own dumbass fault. Last year I was undercoating the bottom of my Moms truck in the driveway with one of the spray cans...with no safety goggles on. So here I am laying on my back looking up and spraying away. If you have ever worked with this shit then you know it literally dries in a second, its very tacky, nasty shit. I guess I sprayed too much in one area because as I was looking up wide eyed a huge gob fell down directly on my damn pupil of my eye. So what is your natural reaction when something hits your eye? You blink. WRONG IDEA. As soon as I blinked my eye was "undercoated" shut. It was one of the worst stinging pains I have ever felt, so bad it made my vision blurry in my other eye. To make it worse my eye was watering so the tears were seeping through the undercoat. I limped to the bathroom and sat at the sink for hours like a sissy bitch. It was on like the inside of my eyelid, my eyelashes, my whole eye was covered. The stuff is nearly impossibly to get off, and I wasn't about to scrub my eye with brake cleaner. Warm water with tons and tons of soap and water. It took me HOURS to get that shit out of my eye.

I've broken my arm twice, cracked bones in my back, etc. This hurt FAR WORSE than any of those. Probably because it lasted so long and I hate touching my eyes.


Worse time ever. What reminded me of this was my trip to the hospital over the weekend because I got sandblasting sand in my eye, which is now scratched to fuck, and I get to put this special "gel" on it every 3 hours.:barf:. I really need to invest in a pair of safety glasses. oke: So lets hear em. What you got!?

 

[b78cobra]

about the same here. Almost everytime I'm under the car I get shit in my eyes, and I'm still to big of a dumbass to were eye protection. This summer I was pulling my trans and it damn near dropped on my head, but it missed by a few inches.

 

[webleedorange619]

once I busted a nuckle





the end

 

[BrainFearGone]

I once had a good size chunk of rust fall in my ear. That was pretty uncomfortable to say the least.

 

[347convert]

One time I was doing the Ol' loosen up the h-pipe, jack it up with a jack and tighten it back up so it doesn't hang. I was laying on my stomach pushing with the ratchet in my left hand and pulling with the one in my right. All of a sudden the one in my right hand slipped when it was TIGHT and I hammered myself square in the face.

 

[99slverZ]

One time I was doing the Ol' loosen up the h-pipe, jack it up with a jack and tighten it back up so it doesn't hang. I was laying on my stomach pushing with the ratchet in my left hand and pulling with the one in my right. All of a sudden the one in my right hand slipped when it was TIGHT and I hammered myself square in the face.

:lmao: OUCH bet that didn't feel good.


Another STUPID thing I did was recently, JDP and I were taking the K member out of my car. After we took it out the car was angled in the garage. I got into the drivers seat and was going to turn the wheel to straighten it out. I went to grab the wheel and then thought..oh my god im an idiot. :lmao:

 

[FlyLike]

rust/dirt in the eye (I wear shop glasses after that one), cutting myself on a header heat shield.

 

[ItsAllAboutTheT&A]

one time I was doing a ball joint or tie rod or something (cant remember), and the box end wrench I was pulling on with all my might finally broke the nut free and my hand swung back and a codderpin went right through my thumbnail.

Another time I was welding on a exhaust and when I lifted my mask a goop of hot slag dripped down in my eye. Actually, I happened to blink right as the slag hit me causing my eyelid to melt shut. I thought I was blind. I was freaking out. My eyelashes were all melted and burned and I had a scab right in my field of view for a little while.

Another time...this is going to sound stupid as hell...It was early and I just got to the shop. I wasn't looking where I was going and walked right into a hoist arm. It gashed the side of my face pretty good and blood was gushing out of it. I felt like a dumbass.

 

[347convert]

:lmao: OUCH bet that didn't feel good.

LOL the worst part is my friend was laying on the other side of the car talking to me....... watched the whole thing go down. He must have laughed for 20 min while I bled all over the lawn, lol.. the things you learn.

 

[347convert]

one time I was doing a ball joint or tie rod or something (cant remember), and the box end wrench I was pulling on with all my might finally broke the nut free and my hand swung back and a codderpin went right through my thumbnail.

Another time I was welding on a exhaust and when I lifted my mask a goop of hot slag dripped down in my eye. Actually, I happened to blink right as the slag hit me causing my eyelid to melt shut. I thought I was blind. I was freaking out. My eyelashes were all melted and burned and I had a scab right in my field of view for a little while.

Another time...this is going to sound stupid as hell...It was early and I just got to the shop. I wasn't looking where I was going and walked right into a hoist arm. It gashed the side of my face pretty good and blood was gushing out of it. I felt like a dumbass.

HAHAHA I'm sure you could go on all day, you ogre.

 

[ItsAllAboutTheT&A]

HAHAHA I'm sure you could go on all day, you ogre.

Yeah. I'm really clumsy.

 

[347convert]

Yeah. I'm really clumsy.

Well yer tall, even the hoist all the way in the air makes it eye level.

 

[Wizeguy]

I had a empty bottle of Apple juice on my box (I forgot was empty)....One of my mechanics cleaned it out and was using it to hold brake fluid and put it on the bench...me walking by it, was thirsty and drank a mouthfull! uke:

 

[ItsAllAboutTheT&A]

Well yer tall, even the hoist all the way in the air makes it eye level.

:lol: And it was all the ways up. It hit me right next to my eye on the side of my head!

 

[Golden]

I did an oil change on my old Jeep (lifted XJ) before I took off to Silver Lake, and just as I finished up, my neighbor came over and started talking to me. This distracted me from moving the oil drain pan from the front of the rear tire, so I forgot about it. After he left, I went to pull the Jeep out of the garage, and ran it over! Oil was all over the garage, all over my tires, undercarriage, and rockers. I was NOT happy.

 

[1BADAIR]

taking an exhaust clamp off once with an impact. clamp broke and spun around and hit my finger on the trigger and held it there. only took 8 stitches to fix that leak

 

[JoeliusZ28]

two instances, and i think both were rear lower control arm bolts.

the first time i was under the car trying to break one of the rusted bolts loose. I was laying beneath the axle yanking down on the breaker bar i was using. Well i was lifting my entire weight off the ground and finally it snapped free. This resulted in my elbow driving straight down into the concrete with every bit of force i could have mustered, and DAMN it hurt. I for sure must have chipped a bone.

The other time i was wrenching on either a lower control arm bolt or a brake caliper. Anyway i ended up taking a socket wrench to the face. It hit square on the cheekbone and i swear there was wrench-to-bone direct contact.

It only left this little mark, but damn did it hurt like hell. bled like crazy. scar is still there too.

 

[91Notch]

burning my hand/arm on a hot header

 

[soap]

Putting my cage in my car I had to trim the plastic interior panels. So I removed them and began to trim them with a box knife. The pieces were very difficult to cut so to get enough force I decided to pull towards myself instead of pushing away (bad idea). Well the blade on the box knife pulled out of the plastic and I stabbed myself in the inner thigh. I had on jeans at the time so all I saw for a split second was the slice in the jeans.......then all red. I tore open the hole in the jeans and saw a bunch of fatty tissue and knew I fucked up. No one was home so I put a couple "clean" shop towel on it and drove myself to the ER to get stitched up.

--Joe

 

[Duke]

Worst working on a car for me was putting an engine in a car. I was trying to guide the engine onto the mounts. Had one hand on the front of the engine and the other on the back, on the driver's side cylinder head. The engine starter to teeter on the mounts and the guy running the hoist let the engine drop. It fell and came backwards crushing my hand between the firewall and cylinder head. I need to dig up my x-rays from it, the right hand ring finger is basically held on by a metal bone now.