a customer of mine jumped up on the back of a real little trailer he had hitched to the back of his truck and it came unhitched.the trailer was so small that when he jumped on it the tongue flew up and smacked him in the face.i know it's hard to picture,but it really messed him up bad.
Won't say I've done it all, but most of it. Like stripping a compressor and plugging in the mainslead to check it out, while my buddies holding the other end. Picking up acetone instead of flux while soldering a joint. Dumping buffing dust in a burning bin to please the kids with the sparks and landing on my butt four feet away. (That one made them laugh) You know what they say, experience is what you get when you expected something else.
"Instead of "painfully dragging myself straight up the wall" could you have reversed the snout cranking rotation? Just a thought. -stick " Only with great difficulty, as it was getting real difficult to reach over the radiator--although I had no difficulty with the last couple of yanks that pinned me! I had to levitate with my legs locked straight at the knees...and a shelf over my head. Another early Ford special tech to impress your friends: I had to load the front end of my deuce onto a trailer to use it to support another festering pile of rust I was bringing home. The thing probably weighed about the same as I did, and was about as awkward a lump to lift as could be imagined...AHA! I could just stand in the center of the radius rod triangle, and easily lift it by the tie rod, which was pretty close to the CG! It pivoted smartly in my hands as I lifted, bringing the pivot ball at the rear into sudden contact with the back of my skull...fortunately, teenagers are indestructible...
[ QUOTE ] I don't doubt that there are people dumb enough to do this... but this picture is fake. [/ QUOTE ] So they managed to Photoshop a truck into the air, chocked up with wood, but messed up the guys ass fitting him into the picture??? Yeah, right! Or, the truck was already chocked up in the air and they chopped the guy in there? Why would anybody have a truck up like that if they weren't gonna work underneath it?
I hooked up my sears lawn tractor to pull my 41 Ford sedan (Olds powered with a dead starter) up my driveway. A chain around the bumper (it was a beater) to the seat support. No need to bend all the way over and hook the chain to the tow hitch. Not quite enough oomph to get the pig rolling, so a little tap up on the dash mounted throttle. not yet...a little more... Ok give it some gas!! WHOOP an instant wheel stand knocking my foot off the clutch. I bent the steering wheel down around the hub on both sides trying to slow down the rapidly advancing tractor hood. By now I'm squatting stradling the rear tires which drove right out from under me. At the last split second I turned my head to the right to avoid scarring my Adonis like face. The now over vertical tractor is spinning it's wheels while having my skull trapped between it's hood top and the nose of the 41's hood. At that point we reached an equilibrium. I had enough strength combined with my rather dense skull to over come the spinning wheels but...I was afraid to let go of the wheel to kill the switch or knock down the throttle. It must have taken my buddies 15 minutes to control their laughter and realize I was in trouble. They finally composed themselves and turned off the key at which time gravity took over returning the vertical tractor and myself to the horizontal position rather rapidly I might add. I just layed there in the driveway and laughed after I realized my skull wasn't crushed. Eventually my heart rate returned to normal.
look at this pic since i litghten it up some sure looks real to me, but what bothers me more is the fact it looks like he welding on the gas tank...joe
Tip #346: When SPRAYING undercoating from a CAN inside of a car body, do not use a lighter to "see what you are doing" while you are 10" away from the spray pattern. You may lose an eyebrow, and destroy the car in the process. And burn the shop down. Luckily, I only lost part of an eyebrow and gave myself a haircut from the ensuing fireball.
Starter circuit on '50s Buicks is like a golf cart: toggle the key switch to the "Run" position, mash the gas pedal, engine starts. While working on the engine one day, I had the key in the run position, but the engine wasn't running. Doing something on the carb, I grabbed the carb linkage and pushed it all the way forward--the same thing that happens when you matt the gas pedal with your foot to start the car. Did I mention this is a stick shift car? Of course it was in gear. Car jumped forward and rolled right over my foot. Being the hard learner that I am, I left the toggle in the Run position a different time, which energizes the coil. A coil, when energized for about 45 minutes, will become just slightly hotter than the surface of the sun. I grabbed onto it and almost instantly blistered the palm of my right hand. I had to call my wife down to the shop at 2:30 in the morning to come get me (a 20 minute drive each way), because I couldn't drive my stick shift truck home. On the plus side, I had to use my left hand for the rest of the week, so it felt like someone else -Brad
I was ready to leave for the good ole Street Machine Nationals in 1998. Just got the Hellcamino back from paint. Almost everything on it was new. The problem was that the carb was junk. It got something in it during the bodyshop/paint visit and decided to manifest itself the morning we were leaving. I yanked a plug. Sure enough, gas poured out of the hole... so, I yanked all of the plugs and prepared to crank it over to clean out all of the cylinders. At this point, I should mention, that in checking for spark, I used a seperate plug wire and spark plug near the frame. The ensuing fireball engulfed the whole front of the car and looked real pretty. Luckily, it didn't mess up the new paint, only discolored a few plug wires. Rule #321 when 'cleaning out the cylinders,' please remove the coil lead.
I got a couple for ya...a neighborhood kid was installing a stereo and amps/speakers in a Jeep Cherokee. He drilled a hole thru the metal cover and into the POLY TANk full of gas with a cordless drill-full of gas and IN the garage.....believe it or not no fire! Another was this ol boy locally was a mechanic/ran a gas station...always had a 22 cal auto pistol[ladie killer] in his overalls or coveralls pocket. one day he was "leaning in" to an engine bay and it dropped out and shot him dead. lots of this shit must go on!
one day while pulling the carb and msd box out of my ford (dont ask me why i still dont kno i think the carb needed a rebuild and the box was wired wrong??) i clppied the constant hot lead to the msd and left it dangling next i diconnected all the carb stuff including a fuel line which i then left uncapped and had just a small trickle of fuel come from it i mustve bumped the hot lead cuz it caught the block sent a spark and lit the top half of my motor on fire pretty pitted if you ask me ------------------------------------------------------------ nother one, my buddy with his buick always had electrical fuel pump problems so he carried a few spares in the trunk one day after changing it he left the electric connections bare and there mustve been some extra fuel hangin around cuz it caught fire while he was driving he grabs his trusty fire extinguisher (when ur is a flamethrower carry one i do) and puts it out. but like those birthday candles that never blow out the fire came back again and again and again he then realizes he forgot to turn the key off so the trusty fuel pump kept on doing its job pumping fuel and reigniting the fire bottom line alwayd disconnect your battery when working w/ anything electrical
I was trying to get a water pump off and the neighbor's kid was watching. He grabbed the dam hood prop rod and yanks it out ... Whap! I made sure his dad beat that ass too
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