Working today on the ZJ and XJ removing a 249 and a 242:
* Several bleeding cuts and scratches on both hands
* Couple nice bruises from slipping the 242 and landing it on my left hand
* Got fairly dizzy from inhaling the brake cleaner fumes and drinking a few beers
* Got some oily crap onto my eyes and in my mouth
* Snap ring came flying off the snap ring plyers, hitting me in the nose (this was before the brake cleaner and beer)
In other words, a fairly normal day working on the Jeep
I haven't had any real serious injuries, but a couple close calls and several mild ones like having pretty much every possible liquid in my eyes (I'm suprised I can still see
), the normal bruises and cuts on my hands, etc...
The worst close call was when I was in the army, we were doing some routine maintenaince on a large army truck close to the battery tray, when a friend of mine dropped a wrench right between the battery poles on a 24V quad- battery system. We took off pretty fast, the last thing I remember seeing when I looked back was the glowing red wrench
Didn't take too long for the batteries to launch towards orbit. Good thing was at that point we were about 10 meters away behind a wall. It was a mess, wasn't too nice cleaning the remnants of the battery acid and all other crap :laugh:
The funniest must've been when I was rebuilding the top-end of a V6 DOHC engine a few years ago during summer holiday. We got fairly drunk during the warm summer day with a couple of friends, figured it was time to stop working on the engine when I ended up falling head- first into the engine bay and it took quite a few efforts to work my way out of there. I guess we had a bit too much beer that day..
The engine came out good though, and fired up on the first start