I'm almost embarrassed to post this, but since the internet is anonymous, I figured what the hell. So last night, I decide to lube my chassis, and as you guys know, if you don't have the exact fitting for the u-joints, it's a bitch to grease them. I find it alot easier to pop the joints out and then stick the grease gun on them...anyway, I'm humming right along get all of them done exept for the main driveshaft to the mating shaft joint. My ******* didn't set the e-brake and am doing this on my driveway which slants downward. Thank GOD my truck has a 12" lift on it. I go to pop off this last joint and am thinking to myself how fkn hard it was to pop off. I brace myself, slide a wrench in there and pop it out....now what??!! Of course, my truck rolls down the driveway, the gas tank gashing my head as I roll out from under it, jump into the cab and hit the brake right before it hits the car parked in front of my neighbors house across the street. So here's my truck in the middle of the street, drive shaft hanging, and I have blood squirting out of my head. Thankfully my drive shaft just hit the concrete a couple times and sustained no damage. I go get my wife, have her get in the cab and monitor the brake while I push it halfway up the driveway........Lesson learned, don't forget the damn emergency brake.

 

Sounds like it could have been a lot worse. Count your blessings.

 

I don't think I would have told that.....

 

Here is one for ya. My buddy is building a new home went to take a look at it. While he was there he had to take a dump so he drove around the corner to the port-a-potty. put the truck in park and went in. While sitting there he hears a lot of yelling going on steps out and says "where is my truck" Some guy yells it is down the road. It apparently was not all the way in park shifted into reverse. it zig-zagged down the street hitting a dumpster which caused it to turn. It went down around the corner and smashed his soon to be neighbors brand new dodge cummins. (the dodge had less than 200 miles). So he walks up laughing and says hey nice to meet you i'm your neighbor. The little poindexter looking guy is crying. Brian goes hey its insured.

Fire rooster

 

We in the Fire Rescue business proclaim that our job will never be in jeopardy due to misshaps like the above mentioned. It happens to the best of us! You ain't the first, and certainly not the last. Glad you didn't get hurt worse.

 

Philn,

Where do you work?

fire rooster

 

Plano, Texas for about 18 years.

 

Lucky man - you were just plain lucky!! I had those moments where it was like "What the heck did I just do" but I probably won't be posting about them... Glad you're still with us!

 

or as we in the fire service say.. "job security".. lol as stated, glad no one was hurt in either incident. time heals all wounds and u can laff about in 2 yrs from now. stay safe ... jimmy

 

The heck with the emergency brake......buy some cheap wheel chocks!!!!!

Here's my embarrassing story......though it's not on my truck. It happened on my '64 Thunderbird. When I went to tune the engine the manual said that the idle needed to be set while the car was in drive and the AC was on. So I set the emergency brake, turned on the air and put her in drive. the E brake had no problem holding the car back at idle. Now I notice that the AC is not on....but why? Oh ya, it's probably because of this vacuum line I disconnected (can't quite remember why it's disconnected) so I'll just reconnect it. Unfortunately, that vacuum line also controlled the emergency brake release when the car goes into drive. Away the car goes and smashes into my tool chest in the back of the garage. Fortunately that house had one of those curbs as the rear of the garage that stopped it and prevented it from doing the house any damage, It sure was a pain trying to get my tools out of that crushed tool chest though!!! Now I never work on a car without the chocks in place.

Jeff

 

Majorpecs,

It happens to most of us. Having a brain fa-t, and not thinking ahead a few steps. Or at least some of us are able to admit it and laugh about it. I did almost identical thing once several years ago. When I crwaled under my pickup, I hadn't intended to disconnect the drive shaft, so consequently left it in park with the e-brake not set. Anyway, while under there, decided to disconnect the drive shaft. Same thing. I learned how to roll out from under the pickup real fast once it started rolling out of the driveway. I couldn't get in and stop it before it rolled across the street and rolled up in the neighbor's yard, and grass, and stopped just a couple of feet short of hitting his house and aerating his bedroom. Fortunately he was not there, and never knew......

 

I have to agree with everyone else and say that you're one lucky guy. It really could have been worse, but look at it this way, one day you'll look back on this and laugh. BTW, TJC1989, pricelesss.....

 

Philn

Good to see another FF in here. I work for Phx Fire. Love it!!!! Smoke eater what about you?

Fire Rooster

 

I'm a driver engineer/paramedic. About half the time I'm in the seat when one of our officers is gone so I get to hold the radio and direct. Not my favorite job. I'd rather be on the business end of an attack line than talking on the radio. I do HVAC work on the side and just the other day shocked the crap out of myself while connecting the service voltage to a furnace. Of course I was in my own fire district so one of the other shifts would have responded if I hadn't gotten up. How bad would that have been to have one of the other shifts come to my aid. Right after it happened I had to laugh and say to myself, "Job security." Too bad I would have been on the receiving end though. No matter how careful you are eventually you get caught doing something less than brilliant. Sorry to highjack the thread. We've gotten a little off track.

 

A similar thing happened to me while I was fixing my mom's car. The alternator in her chevy cavalier had died again and I volunteered to replace it. I had loosened the fanbelt and most (not all) of the necessary bolts and wires in order to get the alternator out. I don't know what came over me, but somehow I forgot to disconnect the battery. I grabbed my socket wrench and headed for the final wire on the alternator. As soon as my socket wrench touched it, a spark flew. I dropped my wrench, jumped back, and probably said a few "colorful" words before I realized my mistake. After that I had a good laugh and learned my lesson.