Wanna know what’s fun?
What’s fun is laying on your back on the cold concrete floor while you take the last bolt out of the skid plate under the explorer.
You don’t KNOW that it’s the last bolt- you think there are three more.
But it’s the last bolt. And all 35 lbs of hotrolled steel skid plate come thundering down.
On your face.
Yeah, that’s fun.
Whoo hoo.
16 comments Og | Uncategorized
Yee-fucking-haw.
Bet that felt good.
Bet it hurt more when you got warm?
Don’t know. I’m trying to think of a good reason to thaw my face, and I can’t.
Were we wearing our bump cap, goggles, face shield, and OSHA-approved nitrile gloves? Hmmm?
I’ve also had steel hit my face while under a car (the car was on a lift, so it knocked me down, too) and it was not fun. Shake it off, work through the pain, are we not men?
Yep. I usually rate jobs by skinned knuckles (the gas tank looks to end up a 3) but I may have to add “flattened nose” to the rating system somehow.
The Colonel once dropped a transmission on his nose. Never was the same after that (the nose — the transmission was fine).
M
I worked wiht a guy named Stan, who had a flat head like Frankenstein. He would pick up a transmission on the top of his head, and walk up under a car, and bolt that trans in place. Stan was a dumbass. But he could put a trans in fast.
Good luck with the tank. I hope ford has better connections that GM for the gas tank. Usually have to reach into a space about 4 inches wide to run a wrench and get them loose.
Sounds like from the earlier posts you might be on the right track.
THese have those annoying push-to-connect connectors. Bastids. Still, it came out easy enough (though the tank is still under the truck- cannot get it out without lifting the vehicle another foot or more, so I took the pump/sending unit out under the truck.
I feel your pain.
I have done that type of buffoonery way too often.
Hang in there.
Wuck Finter!
Mark
Permission granted to make yourself a heat lamp bank for winter work in the cold garage.
5ea 65 watt heat lamps
1ea 2X4X4
5ea Ceramic lamp bases
Romex to fit
Screws to mount all
1 ea Extension cord, 25′
Wire nutz and electricians tape and some GE 5300 adhesive for good measure.
Assembly time, 45 minutes. Time saved using tools with warm hands, priceless.
I have a kerosene heater (which, of course is not much value during gas tank repair) but this is an attached garage, and heating it only involves opening the kitchen door for a while.
I have done the heat lamp thing, though, I even thought about putting an array of them in the ceiling- but I’d RATHER build an external garage with a furnace, which is my goal.
At the risk of, yet again, losing my membership in the “Man Club”, I will only state that this is the very sort of thing that makes me happy to pay someone to work on my car for me…
;)
Reading that it happened to someone is also fun.
That’s why I know I can always count on you, Vman. Wait till you start to rebuild that windmill. I can practically taste the knuckle blood now.
As an update, og, you’ll be gratified to know that I now sport three skinned knuckles and two split fingertips from swapping out the mirrors in my Ram (I lost the driver’s side mirror last week in a joust with a Titan. Took his, too).
But now there’s no way in hell I’ll give the dealership a red cent to install the replacement towing mirrors in the spring… :)