What has been your worst injury as a Dieselhead from working on cars? I am out of surgery and back to full health after an extremely harrowing brush.

Miy situation was pretty embarssing but I might as well tell everyone the truth. Two years ago I was working on my car in a tight space and I had it on 4 jack stands to be super safe. So to get to the engine was like crawling in a pipe. I was close up to the engine taking off the computer on the intake when one of the electrically neutral 8 mm carbon graphite bolts literally fell into my mouth and it happened so quickly I reflexively swallowed it. Those bolts are really expensive and hard to come by!

I went to the emergency room and told them I had swallowed a bolt and when the Doctors finished laughing they said "Don’t worry, a foreign object that size will pass through your intestines."

Except carbon graphite has a peculiar quality--the body confuses it with biological tissue and accepts it and it actually grew a cyst and sat in my intestinal wall.

The last few months I was getting very physically tired and winded easily. I thought it was over stress or over work or sleep cheating or old age.I felt like I was 80 and went form 222 pounds to 198. I didnt realize that sometime last year the bolt had become infected and I was very, very sick.

Well Sheehan Medical center removed the bolt through a 1" incison yesterday. They even handed it back to me.

Boy I feel better now! They said I could start running tomorrow. I feel like 25 again!
And that bolt? I never did order a replacement since each one of them was $72.90. So last night after surgery I couldnt wait to get home to jack up my car and put it back on.