I had a 66 Bronco that I was rebuilding and lifting the suspension on. My little floor jack and jackstands wouldn't reach the frame, so I found some landscaping timbers and stacked them up.
I was really putting some force on an old rusty bolt, and didn't realize the whole truck was rocking back and forth on the jack stands. Well, I'm lucky I wasn't underneath the thing (I was earlier) because the truck came crashing down onto the floor.
I've also crushed some ramps by bracing them with boards against the front of the garage so they wouldn't slide when I pulled up on them. I lost confidence in their strength after that, and have another set that I never use now, unless I jack the car up and then put them under the tires. Even then, I use jackstands also.
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Thats easy, drilled a hole in a golf ball and got sprayed by some kind of fluid, turned to be mineral oil, in the olden days golf balls were solid rubber or rubber bands, not no more ! stupid idea.
Thats easy, drilled a hole in a golf ball and got sprayed by some kind of fluid, turned to be mineral oil, in the olden days golf balls were solid rubber or rubber bands, not no more ! stupid idea.
I remember taking a golf ball apart and it was made of rubber bands wrapped around a black marble-sized mushy ball filled with some sort of white ooze that smelt kind of funny. I don't know what they are made of now but this was in about 1968. That was before I started making giant firecrackers...
I bought some industrial style ceiling fans at a yard sale and went ahead and installed them in my garage. I thought it would be a good way circulate the warm air in the winter. So, I finish all the mechanical and electrical connections and turn them on. They are on a speed control so I crank it it up to see how fast they will go. It took them a while to reach speed but they are really moving, I laughed thinking it sounded like the garage was about to take flight. So now I've got this windstorm in the garage and several years of previously undisturbed dust flying around and getting into my eyes. I do the logical thing and roll up the garage door, actually I threw it up quickly as I was starting to choke on the dust. As soon as my fingers let go of the door I realized that I forgot to check for clearance.......I had mounted the fan too low and the door smashed right into the fan! Door was OK, fan not so good...
Another time I was building the front veranda and had to get the roof done. So I have the ladder up, grab 4X8 sheet of plywood and head up the ladder. I get to about the fifth rung and a gust of wind comes along. I end up parasailing across the front yard! Thank god I wasn't further up the ladder the only thing that got hurt was my pride.
In hi school a friend of mine was fixing up his '69 Cougar in his garage. He was standing in front of the car working on it when he decided to start the car from under the hood. Unknown to him was that his little brother had been playing in the car and left it in gear. The car starts up stays in hi idle and pins him against the work bench breaking his leg. The car is now spinning it's tires so he reaches in and pulls the ignition wires to stop the engine. He then pushes the car back enough to free his leg and manages to lay himself down on the work bench totally exhausted and in pain waiting for his father to get home from work 3 hours later. Ouch!
i was trying to get my mower started this summer and for some reason it wasnt getting gas so i took a 5 gallon gas can and dumped some gas in ther carb well needless to say i spilt the gas well i didnt think anything of it and tryed to start the mower when it fired it shot flames out the carb and cought the spilt gas on fire and me not thinking i grabbed a bucket of water to put it out and being that gas floats so did the flames i ended up causing about 500 dollars in damage to the grage and mower (mostly burnt insluation in the walls and melted plastic on the mower. so from now on i have a fire extingwisher arround anytime im messing with gas
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I was stationed in Lemoore Ca.
Just got my Firebird repainted.
went to the autohobby shop on base to do a tune up...
as I was driving between the lift pillars...
I leaned out of the window to see how close to the stantions on the deck I was,
well, the car started moving forward because I was leaning out of the window too much and my foot accidentaly let off of the break...
once I noticed that I was moving forward I slamed on the break as hard as I could...
(it wasnt the break that my foot slamed on it was the gass...and I hit the 3/4in metal shop bench infront of me pretty fast)...
now in the Lemore auto hoby shop, there is a huge dent in the cabinet door of this bench and my firebird is whearing a brah... I dont think that Ill ever live that one down...
Ah Lemoore. No further comment. I'm sure you're glad to be in Key West now.
I have to add this one to razz on my wife. One of her first cars was an old Dodge Colt that burned oil. So much so that she added a quart of oil once a month. Not long after we met she was driving her mom's Mercury Tracer, and it started blowing smoke really bad. I asked her what she had done recently to the car, and she said she filled up the gas tank, added a quart of oil, and when she started the car it started blowing smoke. My cousin worked at a dealership, so he took it in and checked it out for us. Turns out there was too much oil in the engine. She had been adding a quart of oil once a month to the Tracer without even checking the dipstick. My cousin drained out the FIVE extra quarts of oil and it ran fine after that.
Attempted to change the fork oil on my race bike while the bike was tied down on the trailer. Fork spring blew the cap and the socket off the top of the fork like a rocket and hit me between the eyes. Wore two black eyes for about three weeks ...
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I just have to mention the time my sister was changing the oil on her 65 mustang, poured four quarts of oil through the engine and onto the ground when she forget to put the drain plug back in, of course we've never let her live that down. in fact we used to get her various boyfriends to go to the Volkswagon dealer next door to pick up a radiator cap for a 76 beetle ! that always worked. har har.
Ah Lemoore. No further comment. I'm sure you're glad to be in Key West now.
I have to add this one to razz on my wife. One of her first cars was an old Dodge Colt that burned oil. So much so that she added a quart of oil once a month. Not long after we met she was driving her mom's Mercury Tracer, and it started blowing smoke really bad. I asked her what she had done recently to the car, and she said she filled up the gas tank, added a quart of oil, and when she started the car it started blowing smoke. My cousin worked at a dealership, so he took it in and checked it out for us. Turns out there was too much oil in the engine. She had been adding a quart of oil once a month to the Tracer without even checking the dipstick. My cousin drained out the FIVE extra quarts of oil and it ran fine after that.
YOUR wife might be dumb as hell as my brother in law!!!!!!
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my brother and i went to the junkyard, on a Sat. The moron(my brother) was using a A/C compessor as a hammer, he puts his finger by the A/C compessor. hits the thump, cuts it and starts bleeding, we went to the hospital and he gets 5 Stitches
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I was at work,.. I work on residental homes/Remodeling. Usually, when I leave a clients house for the day I lock up the house and exit through the main garage door by pushing the automatic door button and running and jumping over the obstruction beam. I have done this thousands of times before, but I failed to realize that this door was a standard door (single panel) unlike the roll ups. Man,.. I was running full force when I jumped over that beam and the door slamed down hard on my head just as I jumped.. lol It knocked me out flat on the ground. Sure my coworkers had something talk about the next day but more importantly I learned to take a good look at the mechanics of something before you attempt it. Later I found out that homeowner had new springs installed days after.. lol
Those are some funny mental malfunctions. I have one that's kinda funny. I was helping a friend change the brake fluid and pads on his Harley. We purged the old gray looking DOT 5 fluid into an empty Corona bottle, we were also drinking many of them for this procedure. When we were finished bleeding the brakes my friend already half soused grabbed the bottle of old brake fluid in the corona bottle and took a couple big chugs off of it! I saw him pick up the wrong bottle but couldn't warn him in time as beer was already coming out of my nose. He gagged, spit, cussed and yelled at me for laughing at him. He still won't tell me what it tasted like.
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4 weeks ago i was doing some welding on the car hauler, and brushed against the mig, not realizing i turned the wire speed up to hyper. a couple seconds later i hit the trigger on the wand, and the wire shot out, straight through the meat of my left hand, hitting the frame of the trailer after coming out. needless to say, it got very hot, very fast. as i let go of the wand cussing, my helper turned white and almost passed out when i took a pair of side cutters and cut the wire at the wand and pulled it out of my hand. hurt like a son of a gun, but no blood, the hot wire quarterized the holes and pass through.
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