Lesson learned!!!!

[diesel4me]

Yikes! --I can think of 100 other ways I'd rather die,than having my guts sucked out by sitting in a runaway diesel engine's intake!......

"Coroner's report stated cause of death was "extreme suction of the intestinal tract" cause by victim getting an unexpected "Diesel-scopy".......

I remember well the photo at vocational school taped to the wall behind the wood lathe--it showed a bloody man's face with one eyeball hanging out by threads and what was left of a nose,with a story about how that guy put a 6x6" wood block in the lathe to make a bedpost,and someone had left the lathe on its highest speed--flipped the switch on,it shook like crazy,and before he could get it shut down,fast as you can say "oh S***,his face was about torn off by the wood block that got chucked out at 200 MPH!....

.then there was the photo by the drill press with a guy's beard wrapped neatly around the spindle,along with most of his face!..--my teacher might have been a sadist,but he got the message across!..

 

[DokWatson]

I see way too many people get reaaally close to the clutch fan doing stuff in their engine bay. Sledhead told me about a guy who was leaning into his engine bay and got gutted by a flex fan

 

[yellowK20]

Guys who wear there Wedding rings while working freak me out.

I've seen one guy loose his finger at the knuckle from arcing a Cat starting battery with his ring, and another who peeled all the skin and muscle of his finger when his ring caught on the boarding ladder on a 980 loader.

 

[gotblazers]

I see way too many people get reaaally close to the clutch fan doing stuff in their engine bay. Sledhead told me about a guy who was leaning into his engine bay and got gutted by a flex fan

I was getting ready to leave a wheeling trip and i was checking my fluids. I decided to hop in the engine bay while it was running to be cool or something, I dont really remember but i leaned forward and reached with my left and automatically kind of put my right hand back and out to balance myself and i heard ZZZZZZZZZWHACK is the best way i can describe it and my entire right hand was so full of vibrations i could hardly feel it. I thought i had lost a finger for sure and i brought it up to my face and i saw a indent in one of my nails about a centimeter. Thank god i hadnt trimmed my nails in a while . Completely amazed and grateful i've learned to be a bit more careful. Dad says i have 2 guardian angels working overtime on me

 

[496truck]

I see way too many people get reaaally close to the clutch fan doing stuff in their engine bay. Sledhead told me about a guy who was leaning into his engine bay and got gutted by a flex fan

ooooohhh, that reminds me. Can't believe I forgot that one. While going to school in IL my roomate had a nice 80something Olds Cutlass that he had put an sbc 350 in. He was concerned the clutch fan was not pulling enough air to cool it (no shroud either) so he swapped on a flex fan one afternoon. He was doing this by himself, no one else home at the apartment. So, while taking one hand and hovering it over the fan to check for airflow (engine running, and remember no shroud) and with the other hand operating the throttle link on the carb revving the engine... do you see where I'm going with this? He pretty much cut off his thumb and at least one finger, kinda split his hand down the middle. Lucky for him someone was home in one of the other apts and heard him screaming and came out and drove him to the hospital. All I really remember was coming home from work to one less roommate and a bloody mess in the parking lot.

 

[Fordum]

Guys who wear there Wedding rings while working freak me out.

I've seen one guy loose his finger at the knuckle from arcing a Cat starting battery with his ring, and another who peeled all the skin and muscle of his finger when his ring caught on the boarding ladder on a 980 loader.

UUUUGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!

Why did you have to bring that up?
I had sucessfully put this one out of my mind.

Several years back, a friend of mine was running a road grader. He got back to the shop, parked it and hopped out.
He was holding to the door frame with his left hand when he jumped, and there was a loose piece of metal there.

It went under his wedding band, and when he ran out of arm, it ripped his finger out by the roots.

When I say roots, I mean it. The tendon tore loose back about his elbow, and there was this long white string thing hanging down attached to the finger.

 

[diesel4me]

I watched my friend nearly have his finger melted in half when he was installing a battery in his car--the wrench touched the radiator support while he was tightening the positive cable bolt,and his class ring got trapped betwen the support and the wrench--it turned orange almost instantly,and the SMELL was horrible--like burning hair only ten times worse--he screamed and ran for the garden hose,and doused it with cold water--then his dad rushed him to the ER..they were not sure if they were going to be able to save the finger,they had to cut the ring off with a dremel tool--took him a good year to get the finger fully healed up,it never was quite the same after that though..

 

[Steedjr805]

I thought i was bad when, when i was messing with something under the hood and i hit the alternator fan with my finger and it ripped off the nail completely, it was not fun!!!

but after the other posts , i think i was lucky!

 

[dremu]

I personally know of three people who put the car in park, slid under and removed the driveshaft.

You know four, if you count CK5'ers.

The fourth was on a creeper and had forgot to set the parking brakes or chock the wheels. When he realized his truck was rolling, his scooted that creeper so damn fast he impacted the fence eight feet away and bounced. Said red-headed idiot had some abrasions from rolling off the creeper and scraping the driveway, but surprisingly no damage to his pants from body fluids

http://coloradok5.com/forums/showthread.php?t=150470

-- A

 

[Fordum]

BTW, only slightly offtopic, just so you know its not totally an urban legend, a friend of mine in high school had the rear end of his Galaxy 500 caved in by his idiot brother due to the old 35mph auto transmission thing.

Back in the day, automatic transmissions had a pump on the output shaft. So it could be push started if the battery was dead.
I'm quite sure there is a good reason why they don't now, but its still a shame.
The only problem was, you had to be going about 35-40 for the pump to build up enough pressure to shift it into gear.

The legend is, a guy with a dead battery gets a little old lady to give him a push.
He tells her she has to get going to 35 for it to work. He is sitting in his car waiting, looks in the rear view mirror, and sees her coming at him at 35.......

It was raining when my friend got to school, and he left his lights on. When school was over, he flagged his younger brother down in his jeep and got him to push him.
After the brother pushed him all over the parking lot too slow, the older brother got out and chewed him up and down for not pushing fast enough.

He wound it up with "now damnit, I want you doing 40, OK stupid?"

I was sitting on the hood of my jeep with a set of jumper cables waiting for them to stop d*cking around and let me jump him off, and heard the whole thing and saw the results.

I think that was the hardest I laughed until years later when I watched my distant cousin slam his thumb with the hammer....twice.