Rich, glad to hear that "everything came out OK"

So far about the only injuries I've had are the usual busted knuckles, minor burns and scrapes. (Knock on wood....my head) (A few near misses reminds me that my guardian angel may be getting pretty beat up at times.)

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Sam

84 300SD 350K+ miles ( Blue Belle )

Glad to hear your all right! Other then a few busted knuckles and some minor cuts I have been lucky.


I better not hear of a MBshop member putting there car up on cinder blocks, if I do I will drive right over there and knock some sense into you.

If you are to cheap to spend $30 on jack stands use blocks of wood insted.

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2016 Corvette Stingray 2LT
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

Junk Yard fun. I was pulling some air cleaner parts from a ,Japsomething that was on the junk yard four steel rims under the frame, as were all of the cars. Not under it thank God! I guess I leaned too hard and the whole car went to the side into the car next to it and it went down as well. As I jumped back, I fell over the #$@# on the ground and busted my ass! Watch out for the junk yards, they are not thinking of YOUR safty!!!!!
Other than that, my wife wants me to stop throwing tools at the shed.

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1985 300D burning WVO using 26 FPHE, half gallon heated fuel filter,glow plug heater,home made injection line heaters. Home made cold air induction. ALDA full out.
2003 F350 7.3(the last of the great motors)
1987 Paint Horse-non running too, just walks!

Luckily these were not mine and some before I even existed.

Original owner, torch work under car, standing in the pit, gas fire. That's back in the old days, so nothing they could do. Took him 3 days to die of the burns. In the same bedroom I will sleep in tonight.

Father walks into house one day after working on widow ladies car in a horrible snowstorm. Had cut himself badly, but was not bleeding, that is until he started to warm up. Still remember standing there in the kitchen staring up at my hulking father in horror as that man cursed and slammed drawers looking for a bandaid. A bandaid!!! Blood was everywhere!!!

Father terminally ill with cancer, they do x-rays. Hmmmm, "Did you ever break your arm?" .... "No".... Well it grew back together. He did nurse it along after smacking it one day when he was torquing down something on a tractor, high torque, slipped off and smacked his forearm.

Other one - not my garage. Torch under trailer, slag, lack of welding helment, slag goes into guys ear, he comes flying up, stands up, it has burned through his outer ear canal and into his mouth, spits it out and drops like a rock. Luckily did not go through eardrum, so he was "fine".

Nice topic, I've only recall the flesh wound variety for me.

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raMBow

1999 E300DT Obsydian Black Metallic, Heated Full Leather Parchment options, E2, K2, 136,000+, best 36.5 mpg - GP's 12-04 & 11-12 Zero Stuck
2010 Honda Odyssey - The BrideMobile - best 26.5
(2) 2005 Honday Accord- (1 -Corporate 1 - Personal) - 110,000 4-cyl 30mpg
2000 VW Golf GLS TDI, Upsolute Chip (sold to Brother, now 300+k on it) 48.5 mpg like clock work
1987 Honda CRX HF - Sold 87,000 always over 50 mpg Max 67 mpg

With all of these stories it really makes me think someone is watching out for us. Either that or the human body is amazingly resilient... or both. It is amazing that there are so many stories, yet very little permanent damage to any of us. Well... certain mistakes you can only make once, as my dad would say, so I suppose those people aren't here to tell their stories.

My worst injury was hands that looked like I got in a fight with a cat after attempting to stuff things under my sagging drivers seat.

Close call: I recently replaced my alternator. Stupidly, I did not disconnect my battery cable. When I went to insert the electrical connector, I was a little fumbly from the awkward position (laying under the car, no jack) and as I went to insert the connector, I didn't notice that the little wire clip on the alternator (which is supposed to hold the electrical connector into the alternator) was in the way. WOW, the electrical connections were bridged by the clip. it was a big spark and it took fractions of a second to burn right through that metal clip and blow the plastic back off of the connector. The remains of the clip were still glowing like a lightbulb a few seconds later when I finally figured out what had happened. I never found the back to the connector. I was surprised once I got it all back together and running that nothing electrical was damaged in the car.

Since everyone else seems to have stepped on a nail, I'll make my story short: when I was a little kid, I didn't believe when told by my dad that a nail would go right through your shoe and into your foot. I decided to test this theory by intentionally stepping on the nail which was sticking out of a board. It turns out I was wrong.

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When I was in High school, my first car was a 1966 Corvair monza shaped pile of rust. I loved that car, but as a teenager I didn't figure out that the brake and the gas pedel were not binary devices. I either had it floored out, or I was in a four wheel slide with the brakes locked up. My insurance rates were outrageous...all the local cops knew me and my car.

As a result, I was working on the car constantly. I shreded the clutch disk on a couple of occasions, broke probably half a dozen pistons....I was constantly having to call someone to tow me home and I kept a tow starp in the trunk. So as a metal shop project (the shop teacher wouldn't let me make those cut down quick steering arms I wanted to do) I decided to make a tow bar. I had it all welded out and drilled and due to the heat it had tweaked a bit. So put in a vice and heated it up with a torch to roughly the temperature of the sun so I could straighten it. Then I flipped it over and put the other side of the a frame in the vice...in the process I put my bare hand right on the secion of square tubing I just heated up previously. It pretty well cooked the inside of my hand. I almost made it to the door of the shop before the pain hit. I've never quite experienced anything like it.


Next a few years later I was riding through dallas on a 1967 BSA Spitfire mark III and one of the exhaust pipes fell off. Anyone who has owned a vintage brit bike understands that this is something you come to expect. Also anyone who has ever driven in Dallas knows that nobody is going to let you over to the shoulder when you break down I was trying to find a spot to get up on the little center concrete thing by the guard rail and I thought I saw an place where the curb was actually road lever from where they had just resurfaced the road and I thought I'd be slick and hit that spot and get off the main hwy. Next thing I knew I was sliding down Interstate 30 with a BSA on top of me. Mind you, this was painful, and my right knee still doesn't work right but then the motor hung wide open and since I had bypassed the kill switch the only way I had to kill the motor was to yank the spark plug wires. Say what you will about Lucas electrics, but it had PLENTY of spark that day.

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1983 300D
1978 BMW R80/7
1997 Jeep TJ

I've heard of a couple of fatal accidents caused by a Bic lighter in a shirt pocket touched off by welding sparks. Steve

I have had welding slag in my ear as well, not pleasant. I was welding under a 60 Comet that I put on an S10 pickup frame. Anyway I danced around shaking my head trying to get the hot metal out for a while. It didn't come out my mouth though About 6 months later I had an ear infection. Went to the doctor, he looks in my ear, looks puzzled, looks in the other ear, comes back to the infected ear and looks again. " Ahem... It appears you have a foreign body in your ear. So he flushed and flushed, then brought out the forcepts. Having that dork poke around in there with forcepts hurt worse than the molten metal. In the end he figured it was best to just leave it and it would work its way out. Not sure if its still there or not? This was 5 years ago.
Basically the only way to prevent this accident is ear plugs or muffs.
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For Sale: 1982 MB 300TD
1995 Chevrolet Suburban 6.5TD

Sold: 1980 IH Scout Traveler- Nissan SD33T Diesel

30 years ago I was converting my Sunbeam Alpine from disc wheels to wire knock-offs. This involved changing out the rear axle (no problem) and the front spindles. My father-in-law (now ex) wanted to help. We had the front end up on jack stands with the wheels off.

Somehow he managed to tip over the jack stands and the car landed on him. I had one of those adrenaline moments you read about, I lifted the front end of the car up and he scrambled out. Six broken ribs.

You better believe I don't go under a car without more than one support.

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1983 300SD "Guderian"
1987 MR2
2015 Camry
2015 Chevy Spark
2006 Hyundai Tucson

Aging is an injury. 3 years ago i did a one day engine swap. How did I do that! The years 20 to 40 are the greatest!