engine concerns

[Supra2NR]

i ddnt do anything stupid this time it was an accident
here's the story

i changed the oil in my car (went fine)
i drove around my neighborhood after the car was warmed up and made sure the engine is getting the oil,
got back to the house
i check under the hood making sure everything is alright
(everything was)

and then whoooosh!!

to anybody that is a fan of the long t-shirt, dont wear it while working on your car

to my suprise my shirt got on the radiator cap
and i got a coolant bath
on the contrary for something they call "coolant" that shit was hot as hell

well i got treated for minor burns, jus 1st and second degree burns nothing serious (thats for anybody who cares)

well dont worry about me tho
i jus wanna know since my engine took a coolant shower too with me, is there any of the electronics that i should look at again , the car started after i dried up most of the spill, but if theres anything else

your opinion is greatly valued

[jfunez]

it shoul be fine, except for the coolant stains and the smell.

[Supra2NR]

yeah i know aobut the coolant smell, i smelled like that for the rest of that day, and even inside the car

[theWeezL]

Post a video or it didnt happen.....


just kidding but I wish I had been there to see it...NOT that I would revel in your misery....


ok, yeah.....yeah I would.

[Supra2NR]

u r jus straight up cold blooded, u know that shit sucks right?

like i said b4 , for something called coolant that shit was hot as hell, it look like geyser for a second when it was swishing out of the radiator

[theWeezL]

ok, I will relate a story that will undoubtedly make you feel better.

A couple years ago my wife and I were living in this little house in Central Oregon. It was this tiny little cottage that had been renovated with all new everything. Anyways, one night I am going to take a shower and I remember that hte faucet on the tub had been dripping for a couple weeks and at about 11:30 at night with my wife sleeping I decide NOW is the time Im gonna fix it.

Well I shut off the water going to the faucet (or so I thought) and start to unscrew the hot and cold fittings. I took the cold off no problem. I am taking the hot off and there is a little dripping, but I figured its just pressure still in the system. WRONG! I get the fitting out to the very last little bit of thread and.........PSSSSSHHHHHHHH!!!!!

It starts shooting water at full force across the tub. I am frantically trying to put the fitting back on, but with the water coming out, I look like a monkey trying to put the coconut back in the dam, and the water is getting hotter! But I figure if I can just hold on a little longer I can get the fitting in place...and I know Im getting burned now, but I keep trying for a few more seconds..

I CANT do it! water is hitting the back of the shower wall so hard its spraying out and now the floor has at least an inch of water on it. I close the shower curtain and go to the hot water heater. Which in this little cottage was put in a corner of the kitchen behind a screwed in cabinet wall, next to a refrigerator. Well after I got the refridgerator out of the way and the cabinet wall off, I find I can barely turn the valve on the heater because now I notice that skin is hanging off my hand! large white flaps of skin are now rubbing off on the valve.

Well, I finally got the valve turned off. I woke my wife up (she slept through the whole thing, and I considered leaving it that way and denying the whole thing...except that I have no idea how to explain my hand). She mopped up the bathroom and I spent the night with my hand in a bowl of icewater. The next morning I went to the hospital, called a plumber, and got drunk.

The moral of my story...if your not qualified to do the service, pony up and pay a professional.

(I know, it has almost nothing to do with the thread...but it was a good story and it was a good lesson)

[theWeezL]

maybe a kindly moderator will see this and change the topic to something like..."engine concerns - gashes and burns"

A couple weeks ago I was working on some wiring stuff and didnt think my cigarette lighter was working...so I pushed it in, waited only a few seconds and then pulled it out. Initially I couldnt feel any heat off it and the element wasnt glowing so I stuck my finger on it..............my brain must have been sound asleep cause it took a good 2-3 seconds before I realized that I was burning the snot out of my finger. When I pulled away and looked at my finger there were white circles burned into my fingertip...I think I actually altered my fingerprint with that move.

Normally my brain is on overdrive, but I guess that day it was taking a vacation...

[dcrusupra]

I did that on the 4th of July. I wanted to light a sparkler and I didn't have a lighter. So my brain said, hey, stove, gets hot, will light sparkler. So I turned the stove on. The coil didn't turn red, and I held the sparkler there for 30 seconds or so. No smoke, no red on the coil. Then my brain said, touch it, maybe its not connected all the way. So I touched it, I had my finger on it for like 5 seconds before I even felt anything. When I did I threw the sparkler across the room hitting my friends mom in the head and I ran around the house screaming and touching anything that was cold. It turned out to be a fun night. It ended with me shooting bottle rockets at an ex girlfriend.

[Supra2NR]

got nother one,

this one time i was putting sum light bars on the door panels, i was splicing the wires and i did not remember that the battery is still connected

do not underestimate 12 volt systems , the hair from my finger to my halfway my arm were all burnt off

i was stuck to that wire for a good 6-7 seconds b4 i actually pulled my hand away

after all that i jus said to myself " so this is what the electric chair kinda feels like"

[burton51m]

i bet we all could go on and on about the stupid stuff we did and it wouldnt end.

once i was riding my dirtbike at dusk on a big field of grass. there was dew on the grass and i had just got done washing it so the side pannels were off and the hotter part of the muffler was exposed. i wanted to get all the water out of it so i rode it down the wet grass field and hit the brakes and somehow layed the bike down on top of my leg. the side that the hot muffler was on was now on my leg under the bike. it burnt the skin off (just the first couple layers) of the inside part of upper leg(quad). it hurt soo much to walk after that.

just a couple months ago i fell riding it on the street going around the corner...muddy tires dont grip the road well is what i found out. i dont know what i was thinking ...in means of going fast around the corner with muddy tires. it ripped through my jeans and screwed up my knee and my hip.



i have pics of my knee all bloody but i dont know if i should post them