It Happened In The Shed

[bezender]

hey guys,

got (read: stole) this idea from another forum.

fess up to any funny or tragic accidents that you have had while working on your car. (pls dont expect sympathy )

i'll kick it off.

i pulled the coil lead out of my mx83 cressy while it was running cos i was curious about how quickly the motor would stop LOL

got a decent zap and black marks on my fingers... and yes it stopped quite quickly

[CRoNic...]

Came home super late one night, had 4 cars already in the driveway. Didn't want to park the GTR in the street.

So sneaked inside (Mum was sleeping), got her keys, tried rolling the Corolla down the drive without turning on the engine by just letting down the handbrake... once the car slowly started rolling, I tried pressing the brake but it didn't work as the engine wasn't on. Ripped up the handbrake but was too late. Corolla ran into the front of my old Familia! Luckily only a dented number plate but f**k did it make a loud bang when it hit!!

[PhilKenSebben]

My mate removed the gearbox from his dad's Falcon while it was up on ramps. Handbrake wasn't on. Falcon rolled onto mates head. Mate felt head crumbling and tore it out before it was crushed. 42 stitches in head. Lots of blood. Hair now grows in odd patterns. Mate was unhappy. Laughs had by all except mate.

[heslo]

My mate removed the gearbox from his dad's Falcon while it was up on ramps. Handbrake wasn't on. Falcon rolled onto mates head. Mate felt head crumbling and tore it out before it was crushed. 42 stitches in head. Lots of blood. Hair now grows in odd patterns. Mate was unhappy. Laughs had by all except mate.

[bezender]

Came home super late one night, had 4 cars already in the driveway. Didn't want to park the GTR in the street.

So sneaked inside (Mum was sleeping), got her keys, tried rolling the Corolla down the drive without turning on the engine by just letting down the handbrake... once the car slowly started rolling, I tried pressing the brake but it didn't work as the engine wasn't on. Ripped up the handbrake but was too late. Corolla ran into the front of my old Familia! Luckily only a dented number plate but f**k did it make a loud bang when it hit!!

lol reminds me of doing a similar thing in my 1963 EJ at 5am, i didnt want to wake anyone, so tried ot roll it, and i did into a wall LOL i had my head out the window to see how close i was getting, and i scored a nice bruise on side of my head after it hit the B pillar when i rolled into the wall.

sheet PhilKenSebben , that is harsh, hope the scars are in a stylish pattern

[ItsBoostin]

Was replacing the rotors on the skyline spent 45mins trying to figure out why the new rotor wasnt just sliding into place finally realised i was trying to put the rear rotor on the front hub lol lol only took 5mins after that lol

[DamageInc]

me and two mates were taking the 26 out of my skyline and the engine crane jumped forward 3m while i was holding onto it resulting in epic whiplash

[D_Stirls]

:-Fell down the pit and bruised a couple ribs and breaking the LED head light my missus just bought me for x-mas.

:-Pulled the gearbox out of the car had undone every thing except for the clutch line, didn't realise until i slipped the box back and then tried to put it down only to realise i couldn't. So then i was left with the gearbox resting n my right shoulder while trying to undo the line with my right hand. Lucky the 10mm spanner was within reach.

:-There are plenty more to come as well

Edited May 18, 2009 by D_Stirls

[PhilKenSebben]

sheet PhilKenSebben , that is harsh, hope the scars are in a stylish pattern

Nope, and I'll get you a photo if I can get him to shave his head again. Shouldn't be too hard, a night of drinking normally does it. The hair only looks weird when it's really short but there are some VERY impressive scars dwelling beneath. Then again the same dickhead went to hospital after falling off a car roof at 110km/h mainly because he failed to tell the driver he was climbing out to do it so by the next time I see him he'll probably have a few more scars to prove his stupidity.

[Madaz]

hahaha good idea for thread maybe we can learn some donny donts

[nos man]

i didn't put the socket on a air impact gun properly and it flew off and missed 4 cars and into my mates head! how it hit him when he was inside a car with the window down and 4 cars in the way is beyond me!

[Tangles]

last saturday finished the turbo install

was sore etc, and my hip flexor was popping in and out

a massive week of uncomfort later and it seems Ive pushed the hip bone onto the sciatic nerve

OUCH

havent been able to sit down for a week&half now

LOL at crushed head

[gtrkiet]

i didn't put the socket on a air impact gun properly and it flew off and missed 4 cars and into my mates head! how it hit him when he was inside a car with the window down and 4 cars in the way is beyond me!

LOL ouch!

[-RBD2-]

when i was about 16,i was pulling out the engine from my old wrecked datto 1200 sedan (to put into my 1600 shell) over the pit in my parents garage.was down the pit loosening things and basically cutting the front rails out the car with an angle grinder to get the engine out(chassis was farked anyway) used the grinder while in the pit for about 10minutes,got out for a break and fresh air,started up the grinder again(this time i was above the pit) and KABOOM!sparks ignited the oily sand in the bottom of pit and instantly ingulfed the car.i managed to lean in the window of the car and drop the handbrake and push the car back about a metre so that the tank wasnt directly over the flames.got out of the shed with thick black smoke billowing out the door,mum rang the fire brigade while the next door neighbour hosed down the shed roof from their backyard over the fence.got taken to hospital for smoke inhalation and i reckon by the time i got home from the hospital,the fire brigade was done and my olds had a cement mixer back up into the shed and filled in the pit with concrete

can laugh about it now,was a close shave,but definately wasnt funny at the time.safety first these days in my shed...

[Benzino33]

My mate removed the gearbox from his dad's Falcon while it was up on ramps. Handbrake wasn't on. Falcon rolled onto mates head. Mate felt head crumbling and tore it out before it was crushed. 42 stitches in head. Lots of blood. Hair now grows in odd patterns. Mate was unhappy. Laughs had by all except mate.

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[D_Stirls]

was fitting a spare R200 to a mates SR20de Silvia, Had the front of the diff sitting on the sway bar and the rear diff bolts just sitting in the cradle. My mate bumped the car and the diff fell out of the cradle on to my head which was resting on the concrete floor. Lets just say that it hurt a bit, and the EGG come up before i got out from under the car (have a photo some where).

Can we include on the farm stories, my brother and i grew up in the country and i have so many stories from the farm.

[TALBO]

I split my head open above my right eye when the pliers I was using to re-install brake shoe springs (Holden HT Kingy) slipped of off the spring.... only 5 stitches required!!

Another (I can laugh about it now) was when I had a flat battery in my Subaru Wagon. I was pushing the car out of the driveway so that I could get my Torana onto it to jump start, so I had the drivers door open so I could push backwards and steer at the same time.... all of a sudden the car doesn't want to go nowhere because the open door glass had caught itself on the carport. Of course those old subie's had frameless windows, so when I forced the car not realising that it had caught on the carport the window popped into a billion pieces!!!

[RubyRS4]

I've been tinkering with cars and bikes for 20 years ... where do I start?

A mate of mine (who was a small engine mechanic) and myself worked on a ride on lawnmower. Ripped the engine down and bored it out and fitted another block, crank and pistons from whatever we found to fit. Turned out to have prob double the horses and quite a bit of torque. We had it in his shed at like midnight popping wheelies with it. Giggles all round, until his old man had a go, flipped it right back and cracked his skull on the cement floor. Out cold. We shat ourselves! Later sold the ride on lawnmower to some guy who raced them! It was too fast and couldn't take corners.

Another one was at a mate's property out bush near Swan Reach. Had a massive shed with a caravan inside and an old car body (can't remember model now). It was raining outside and we were repairing some of the dirtbikes we stacked up during the day. We were cold, so we started a bon fire in this car body in the shed (it was a big shed I tell you). Well the car never really had all its fuel drained, so after a while we hear a loud "Whoosh" and a massive "pop" ... never ran for the garden hose as quick as we did in our lives

Its a miracle we're still here after some of the shit we did.

[Weezy]

Putting a bosch 910 and new fuel filter in my old calais, fuel gushed out of the old fuel filter, and into my eye, i jumped up so quickly from the shock of fuel burning my eye, i smashed my head on the towbar 'brace thing' and almost K.O'd myself lool, working on cars late at night trying to get things done quickly always fails

[RubyRS4]

Hmm, the amount of times I had to kick the door to alert my (ex)wife to open it, because I'm using my hands to stop myself bleeding to death, is numerous. I'm surprised I've still got a right thumb after the amount of times an angle grinder has almost taken it off. I have pretty good reflexes, but its not good sometimes when you drop a running grinder and your reflex action is to catch it! Scars all over it and it 'clicks' now

My mate burnt himself good and proper when I welded up a top mount manifold for my CA18DET with steampipe bends. I went to remove it from the jig (with welding gloves!) and my mate decided to grab it too to help. Boy did he cry like a little girl.