Worst thing that happened to you while working on cars?

Oh I forgot this one. When I was a teen my father brought home a caprice from work and locked the keys in it. I had a slim jim and tried to unlock it, but instead got it stuck in the door. So like a moron I grabbed it with both hands and pulled as hard as I could. It came loose and I ended up stabbing myself in the right eye-- luckily it just wounded the lid and I must have missed my actual eyeball by about 2mm. That was almost the point where my future career path would have changed dramatically. :scared:
 
I was teaching/showing my cousin how to change pads and rotors on his Jimmy. We were bs’ing while cleaning the new rotors with brake clean. My can ran out and I asked him for his can and he threw it to me and I put it down for a second to continue to bs a little more picked up the can not looking and went to spray the rotor and shot my self really good in both eyes. I never felt my eye burn son bad.

I am also guilty of doing the double gasket oil filter

My brother in law cross threaded his drain plug and didnt know it and dump 4qts of fresh oil on his new drive way
 
Mustang hood closed on my left hand, right near the hinge. Had to yell and scream for my buddy to come pull the hood latch since I couldn't reach it.

Had was swollen like a little ham for a couple days.
 
Got a good one, not so much painful but a good one......

I was under one of my old fox bodies with my buddy filling the T-5 with one of those stupid cheapo hand bulb style pumps........ when my brother (Phatstang) says...... "Hey man, this shit is taking too long....do this"

He grabs a empty 80w 90 bottle and cleans it out with some brake clean, somehow attached an air fitting in the bottom with a blow off gun as a controler and attaches a small hose to the end of the cap. and says to me "use this"....lol
We say...."oh cool"!
So, everything seems to be working great until the freaking bottle starts to build too much pressure and explodes all over both of us. Tranny fluid in our hair, eyes, mouths....we were completely covered, the underbody of the car was covered and all we could do was laugh.....seriously u had to see it. looked like we were covered in blood.
I think Parke (Phatstang) knew it was gonna happen all along or turned the pressure up on it....lol
 
last year I was working on my Merkur, I had just finished a tune up when I noticed the exhaust pipe was loose, so I jacked up the front end under the steering rack, and literally 5 seconds before I got under the car it slipped off of the jack, and the oil pan landed on the jack, so as I am thanking god that I was not under it when it slipped I noticed that the oil pan got pushed up into the crank shaft, and I broke the right side motor mount which was impossible to find without spending $200, but with the help from a MM member (thanks QuirkyMerk) I found one. so I bought a new oil pan, and gasket and when I got done and put everything back together it had a minor oil leak ( I opted for the cheaper less effective 4 piece gasket set (big mistake). so that whole scenario with this car still pains me to even think about.
 
I was 16 "working" on my second car. I didn't have a clue
what I was doing. The old Ford LTD had some kind of gas
leak at the carb. So with the car running, hood up & me standing
in front of the car, I rest my hands on the radiator and lean
in towards the carb to see a little better.

The next thing I know I'm spun around 180 degrees
like someone grabbed my arm and pulled me!

I'm now facing away from the car, not understanding
what just happened. No one else was around, how did
I get spun around - I asked myself....then my right hand
thumb starting throbbing.....hurting.....then it hit me what
just happened!

As I leaned over, my right hand thumb came in contact the
the running car's fan, the fan hit my thumb so hard that it
spun me around & kicked be back. I then just stood there
in shock, I could not believe I still had a right thumb!

The right hand & thumb were fine, not broken, not cut!
 
Doing headers, got covered in grease and dirt and then the power went out for two days...water at my house is supplied via a well, with an ELECTRIC well pump.
 
fiveohcrazy said:
Got a good one, not so much painful but a good one......

I was under one of my old fox bodies with my buddy filling the T-5 with one of those stupid cheapo hand bulb style pumps........ when my brother (Phatstang) says...... "Hey man, this shit is taking too long....do this"

He grabs a empty 80w 90 bottle and cleans it out with some brake clean, somehow attached an air fitting in the bottom with a blow off gun as a controler and attaches a small hose to the end of the cap. and says to me "use this"....lol
We say...."oh cool"!
So, everything seems to be working great until the freaking bottle starts to build too much pressure and explodes all over both of us. Tranny fluid in our hair, eyes, mouths....we were completely covered, the underbody of the car was covered and all we could do was laugh.....seriously u had to see it. looked like we were covered in blood.
I think Parke (Phatstang) knew it was gonna happen all along or turned the pressure up on it....lol
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LOL.....:flip:
 
My dumbest move ever was unloading my Turbo 400 tranny off the back of my truck by myself. I had strained my back earlier in the week but didn't want to wait for help that day. So I scooped my arms under it and picked it up off the truck. Then I turned around to set it down. I squated down to place it on the ground and promptly pinned my arms to my thighs between the trans and my legs during the the squat. Dohhhh!

I sat there stuck in a crouch for a bit while I pondered how I was going to get it the next 20" down to the ground. Naturally in my rush I had failed to setup up a stand to place it on before starting this dumb move. My back wasn't going to be happy rolling the load forward and trying to place it "gently" on the ground.

So I finally gave up and rolled back on my butt and to my back (which wasn't happy at all) and just barley managed to controll the shift of the load to prevent it from rolling up my chest and cracking some ribs. Wouldn't that have looked great trying to explain to the EMT guys how I pinned myself to my garage floor with a transmission. :D

The good news was no broken ribs (some nice bruises though), no damage to the transmission and I managed to get it to the ground just before the neighbor walked in to my garage to see the results of my stupidity. :D

Rick
 
Many things.... including:

trying to diagnose a noise in the left front wheel of my GTI. I had the car jacked up and was spinning the wheel by hand. I went to spin it one last time and got my middle finger caught between the wheels spoke and the brake caliper.

ripped my fingernail completely off as well as my entire fingerprint and 2 broken knuckles. These pictures were taken a week later
 
boosted gt said:
oh, i also shot myself straight in the eye with brake cleaner before. it felt like my eyeball was shriveling to a rasin. ill never do that again!
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x2, I hate that. I had an engine on a stand and I was giving it a bath with brake clean... sprayed it right into a corner on accident and it came right back at me and into my eye. I was freaking out because I was blind in that eye for a minute or two on top of it burning like hell. I wear glasses when using brake clean now.

Another time I was taking pictures of a subwoofer out of my car to sell on ebay. Went to flip it around to get pics of the backside, well I rotated the thing on two of my fingers under the edge of the basket. Yeah, made a DEEP slice into my left ring finger right from the nail, 180° around my finger, and down to my first knuckle. Still have a scar from it but insisted on not going and getting stitches. Healed up just fine, although I'm 99% sure I saw bone under there when it was sliced open. It was bleeding so profusely it was hard to tell. Damn thing felt cold and numb for hours, took at least an hour to get it to stop bleeding. I felt really dumb after that one.
 
moneypit said:
ran myself over with my own car
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:lol: No further explanation needed!

robvas said:
Mustang hood closed on my left hand, right near the hinge. Had to yell and scream for my buddy to come pull the hood latch since I couldn't reach it.

Had was swollen like a little ham for a couple days.
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Reminds me of the movie Black Sheep

Fbomb said:
Doing headers, got covered in grease and dirt and then the power went out for two days...water at my house is supplied via a well, with an ELECTRIC well pump.
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That sucks! Uggg..I know that feeling.

avbcon12 said:
Many things.... including:

trying to diagnose a noise in the left front wheel of my GTI. I had the car jacked up and was spinning the wheel by hand. I went to spin it one last time and got my middle finger caught between the wheels spoke and the brake caliper.

ripped my fingernail completely off as well as my entire fingerprint and 2 broken knuckles. These pictures were taken a week later
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BLAAA! That sucks man. I've come very close to doing this many times. Those pics make me cringe.
 
Stupidest thing I ever did, was when I was under a mini van, and took it out of park by moving the linkage while under the vehicle. I almost ran myself over. I touched a hot cat, to see if it was still hot. It was. Burned my whole palm. Got a metal sliver in my tongue, while hammering a chisel. Shot a piece into my tongue. Had to get it xrayed. First time they ever xrayed a tongue. Got brake cleaner in my eyes once. But that was while cleaning cosmoline off a gun.
 
When I was pulling the drivetrain from my mustang, I had the engine still dangling from the cherry picker when one fo the chains slipped, it happened after I closed up the garage for the night, and I heard from in the house. so I went outside to find out what the hell that was. and my neighbor comes out too, he was wondering the same thing I was, he tells me his wife woke him up because when she heard from anther room she thought he had fallen out of bed.
 
Back in high school I was pulling the motor out of my 69 coronet and had a socket on the inner fender. I was under the car taking off the exhaust and the socket fell and hit me in the eye. Got a nice black eye from it lol. Thats about the funniest everything else is the usual rust in the eye, ear and wrench slipping off a bolt.
 
Speedy said:
Back in high school I was pulling the motor out of my 69 coronet and had a socket on the inner fender. I was under the car taking off the exhaust and the socket fell and hit me in the eye. Got a nice black eye from it lol. Thats about the funniest everything else is the usual rust in the eye, ear and wrench slipping off a bolt.
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:lmao: I HAD THAT HAPPEN! A big socket was in my Kooks headers, I was under the car doing something it came down and hit me straight in the forehead. It hurt like a SOB! I didn't have enough room to move so all I could do was close my eyes and pray lol.
 
I was pulling spark plug wires 1 by 1 to find the bad cylinder

early 80's GM big cap electroninc iggy with a accell 50,000 volt coil

grabed the wire found out why it was missing (bad wire)

hit me so hard I fell to my knees and slamed my face on the fender on the way down

wound up with a bloddy nose and a chiped tooth
 
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