I'm an Idiot!
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I was getting ready to pull a 4-bolt main 350 out of a 74 chevy truck for my 84 GP. I disconnected the fuel lines and let them drain into a bucket underneath. I forgot completly about it until I was using the cut off wheel on a grinder to cut the front rad saddle and the bucket caught fire lol.
A buddy of mine was disconnecting the fuel lines on a late 80s/early 90s ford truck to pull the engine in shop class. He didn't realize that the high pressure pump was in the tank and the pressure hadn't been bled off yet. As soon as he undid the clamp gas sprayed right into is face and eyes.
Lots of busted knucles/cuts/burns etc. nothing too serious yet tho. When lowering an engine into a 1990 Bonneville I set it on my hand. Was able to each the chain fall tho and pick it back up
A buddy of mine was disconnecting the fuel lines on a late 80s/early 90s ford truck to pull the engine in shop class. He didn't realize that the high pressure pump was in the tank and the pressure hadn't been bled off yet. As soon as he undid the clamp gas sprayed right into is face and eyes.
Lots of busted knucles/cuts/burns etc. nothing too serious yet tho. When lowering an engine into a 1990 Bonneville I set it on my hand. Was able to each the chain fall tho and pick it back up
Yup, I have the scars to remind me the dumb things I do sometimes...
- I have an 8" smiley face in my leg just above the knee from where the grinding cut-off disk broke, then the grinder jumped back and took out a chunk of my leg ( I took the safety cover off to get into a tight space and tied the extension cord to the grinder because it kept unplugging so it actually cut into my leg 3 times and took 3 layers of stitching to pull the muscle and leg back together )
- 4" scar on the back of my head where a section of racking I was putting up came down on me ( that was good for a fractured wrist & ankle & some cracked ribs to go with the gash on the back of my head )
Otherwise I am the victim of forgetting to tighten the lug nuts on my car once after a brake job and almost lost a front tire on the highway.
Someone once said " to err is Human ! ""
- I have an 8" smiley face in my leg just above the knee from where the grinding cut-off disk broke, then the grinder jumped back and took out a chunk of my leg ( I took the safety cover off to get into a tight space and tied the extension cord to the grinder because it kept unplugging so it actually cut into my leg 3 times and took 3 layers of stitching to pull the muscle and leg back together )
- 4" scar on the back of my head where a section of racking I was putting up came down on me ( that was good for a fractured wrist & ankle & some cracked ribs to go with the gash on the back of my head )
Otherwise I am the victim of forgetting to tighten the lug nuts on my car once after a brake job and almost lost a front tire on the highway.
Someone once said " to err is Human ! ""
one of my biggest ones was with my first car a 78 4dr malibu I was swapping the seat belts out (or trying to) and I could not get the damn bolt to break loose on the drivers side so I think I will get this ****er with a cheater bar so I found a piece of pipe about 3' lond and put it on the end of a 3/8" ratchet dumb I know but hell I was 16 lol and it is one of those little b*st*rd throx bolts right by the b pillar and I start leaning on it pretty hard when the socket sheared off hit myself right between the eyes and layed me out cold lmao my mom woke me up laughing her *ss off since she watched the whole damn thing 😳
laying under a 68 camaro ss that hadnt been moved in 30+ years. i'm pulling the 396 and muncie out of the car well i'm down there taking out the trans crossmember to pull the whole shebang at once. here i am hammering away at this crossmember. got my lil red jack sitting there to hold the transmission up and what not. the crossmember finally comes loose shooting across the car. transmission falls out. funny how those little red jacks only work when you put them under the trans and not beside it 😳 . also crossmembers hurt when doing 90mph, didnt break anything but that hurt too much to cuss
Slightly off topic, but when I was in school for auto mechanics, there were some kids who were genuine 'idiots'. Some of their best moments:
One d-bag was told to check on an overheating issue on an early 90's Nissan or some other turd. To get it up to temp, he redlines it for 5 minutes.
Same kid, when asked if the truck he was about to work on was 2- or 4-wheel drive, asks 'How do I tell?'
The best was when it took a group of about 10 of them (new students, but still, c'mon!) over half an hour to identify an ignition coil on a car. This is with a couple different text books, and AllData to help them...
It's just my opinion that if you are getting to the field of auto mechanics, you should have at least a tiny bit of mechanical knowledge, or at least some common sense.
One d-bag was told to check on an overheating issue on an early 90's Nissan or some other turd. To get it up to temp, he redlines it for 5 minutes.
Same kid, when asked if the truck he was about to work on was 2- or 4-wheel drive, asks 'How do I tell?'
The best was when it took a group of about 10 of them (new students, but still, c'mon!) over half an hour to identify an ignition coil on a car. This is with a couple different text books, and AllData to help them...
It's just my opinion that if you are getting to the field of auto mechanics, you should have at least a tiny bit of mechanical knowledge, or at least some common sense.
this one isnt MY "im an idiot" story but, a buddy of mine told me about a time he was replacing the rear speakers in his 84 cutlass. the new speakers were bigger so he was laying inside the trunk prying on the tension springs. you guessed it, spring pops off and the trunk closes with him inside. he layed in there for 2 hours until his wife came outside looking for him! :lol: :lol: :lol:
maliburacinfreak said:
reminds me of an incedent I had while running a shop a long while back...
our trans rebuiler was 6 hours late in getting a caravan trans back to us, which ended up with me getting it back in for a single mom in a rural community, at about 5 in the morning after working all night on it.... when I went to get the cv axles back in the hubs, I used a long heavy truck tire tool to pry the LCA down to swing the hub outward.... I had the van only a couple feet off the ground, and was looking upward as I put tension on the tool, only to have it slip out and nail me in the forehead :shock: . I came to about 5 minutes later with a nice welt that matched the tire tool! 😳
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