So this thread is to see what kind off injury you guys have suffered when modding your max. Mine when doing my system got shocked pretty badly lol. Sliced my finger all the way down installing my a-piller...

 

i sprayed some adhesive remover in my face while removing my emblems... now i am retarded and suffer from brain damage.

 

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that was the funniest thing I've read all night.

OP: Scraped knuckles, scraped knuckles, road grime in eyeballs, scraped knuckles, and oh yeah, did I say scraped knuckles?

Also, I don't know if this counts, but when I used to live at home, and had my 93, I probably injured my sister first off because of the "tastefull" language I would use when replacing the entire front suspension (I didn't know she was there once, and I was saying things that would make a sailor blush).
Right around the same time, I was replacing both axles, and I did my driver-side LCA. I have never, ever been more covered in dirt and oil in my life, literally, head to toe, soaked through the shirt, face, hands, arms, legs, neck. I was working on wrenching it in, and she looked under the car, and saw a person she wasn't expecting (she was 3, I don't think she was able to discern that is was me but I was covered in oil) and screamed bloody murder into the house. My mother ran out because she thought my car fell off the jackstands on me lol. When I was doing that LCA, I almost wished it had lol

 

Bwinter, between you and Seby, I am having a hard time keeping my dinner down!

This is the perfect pick me up I needed. Imagine it for a second, my entertainment, totally free, at everyone else's self admitted injuries! Just what the doctor ordered.

The worst injury I've had is scraped knuckles also. Oh wait, I've gotten my palm pinched in vise grips....Blood blister and all.

I also inflicted pain on a 17mm socket while trying to drop a friends car. Cracked it in 6 places....

 

I was installing illumina rears on the car, jacked the car up wrong, I actaully jacked it up on the rear swivel point. I loosend the rear strut bolt from the swivel and couldn't figure out why there was so much resistance getting out, I took a hammer to it and it came out then the car dropped down 4 inches or so, my right hand got cut, cut a vein and severed some nerves, I took a leather belt to squeeze off circulation, wife freaking out cause of the blood, I thought it was just a flesh wound and tried to finish the job before I went to the ER. Got 6 stiches and the area between my knuckles of my first and second finger have a dead spot nervewise. Learned a valuable lesson that day..first time doing rear struts, but no matter what pay attention to what you are doing and make sure the car is jacked up properly. It's been a couple years since but have the scars and nerve damage still, no big deal tho, it could have been way worse.

 

Did your wife get all the blood out? Question is, does she let you work alone anymore?

(being a woman, I get her totally when it comes to panic, and yet I enjoy working on my car as well. I understand both sides of the coin).

 

@seby
@maxgtr2000

I was on the way to spray the final coat of clear on my friends max when I realized that when I closed the paint booth door my finger was stuck.I had sliced the skin off the tip.Didnt want to look at it so it was covered up with some rags and a glove till I was done.Afterwards when it was finally examined I got dizzy and almost fainted.

 

i cut my finger trying to install my headlights and tail lights. also got sunburn too =/

 

I once sliced my hand nothing to bad.

if this was a computer injury thread, I'll admit i've been electricuted 3 or 4 times...the key is to remember to ground yourself

 

Putting my exhaust on, dropped a big *** socket wrench on my fingers. not too bad.

 

Crap/dirt falling into my eyes while under the car (don't forget to wear safety glasses), sore back and muscles, numerous scraped knuckles, and other minor cuts. No horrific stories from me.

 

Same with dave

 

I have 9 & 1/2 fingers after an exhaust removal incident.















































not really

 

Touched my header with Mechanix gloves on and it still burned through. Wasn't too bad though. LOL.

 

wow

where in the heck do i begin

busted up all my nuckles (all of them) trying to loosen 20yearold bolts
tasted antifreeze, oil, tranny fluid, gasoline(it makes you pee fast)
got gass in my left eye, antifreeze in my right
got oil, antifreeze, tranny fluid in all of the cuts that ive gotten
have seen the muscles in 3 of my fingers
burned off my fingerprints once (learned quick on that one)
bumped my forehead on my crossmember
shocked my self through the alty (buzzed a lil bit but im ok)

now i wonder if i got cancer, but i know i knocked at least 5 years off my life....

 

last year my friend helped me put on the front springs only at the time. the driver side was a piece of cake, 2 hrs for first experience. the passenger side front was goin good until we tried to get my tokico strut back up in the hole lol it took us the longest cuz it wasnt fitting back in there. so from 6pm to that 130 am LOL i was like f this and used all my freakin strength and messed up my wrist doing it. i didnt care how bad it hurt as long as i got it back in the hole that night-morning. till this day its still messed up if over worked (no thinkin nasty guys)

 

congratulations, you are now ready to become a nascar driver.

 

burnt coutless times from melted plastic while dremmeling..2 weeks ago
i have no knuckles
broekn nose, lug wrench wouldnt budge and um then it did and i lost my balance and it spun right around and hit me right in the right side of my nose...bout two months ago
end of the pinky sliced comple***ly open twice, brand new xacto blade while blacking out my chrome trim...last month
dozen blisters from the chissiling of sound deading...last week
sunburn from painting my car...last week
burnt forearm from exhaust...last month
lots of bumps on the head, while gutting my taurus...last week
broken nose(no biggy happens alot,boxing)black eye and a shoulder bite from a now ex partly due to putting too much time into my cars and not enough into the relationship...3 hours ago
thats all i can remember right now

no pain no gain

 

lol dam bro.....

 

dude, i said "adhesive remover", not "crack-cocain mixed with gasoline".... theres a difference.

 

damn, people ate getting pwn3d by their cars!!!

I've gotten the usual stuff + finger-nail that got CRACKED in half while removing front struts!

 

Lots of scrapes and cuts when I went to replace the trans.

 

The usual scrapes, cuts, and minor burns. I broke one of my fingers when I lost my grip on a drum brake spring. But seems everyone wants a laugh and I've had a couple that qualify so here goes:

Working on my Dakota a few years back replacing a crank-shaft sensor. Move the truck to get it into the shade and crawl under it. Did you know a catalytic converter gets to full operational temperature pretty darn fast? Neither did I, then. Reached up and heard/smelled/felt the inside of my arm sizzling as it touched the side of the cat. I, of course, yelled a 4 letter word pretty loud…then sat straight up, forgetting I was underneath a pick-up. Gashed my scalp on something underneath there. Needed three stitches for that one.

 

reseting the computer i was unbolting the battery....and the wrench slipped and got stuck to the negative bolt and threw sparks everywere and burned my left hand as i was moving away....i grabbed a little dodger bat i carry in my car and hit it off...lucky my system didnt get fried ....but my hand did lol

 

haha !!!!!!!!!!!!!! im an IT techy that made my day lmao.

 

Dad's got pins in couple fingers from being crushing by flying suspension parts. This's back in the 70s when he worked for FireStone.

Jae

 

my eardrums have permanet damage from my wife yelling at me about modding my car which i never let her drive and that she swears i am having an affair with so the only way to shut down the voices in my head was to get her one of her own and now she wont stop yelling at me about NOT modding her car!

yes that is a run-on sentence. :0

 

fawked up my eye while using a dremel = emergency room and eye numb-er

 

Ive hard the average cuts and smashed up fingers from workin on the maxima.

But the worst by far is workin on smallblocks! Ive had a starter fall down on my head, eye brow burned off from a backfire that went through the carb.

 

I was installing a cold air intake on one of my previous cars and couldn't get the original equipment intake off. I pulled and pulled but it wouldn't budge. Finally I put one foot on the top of the engine, got under the hood, grabbed the intake with both hands and reefed on it as hard as I could. Well it came off alright !!! The momentum caused the intake to hit me in the face which caused me to bash the back of my head on the open hood. I had to get a couple of stiches to close the cut where my teeth went through my lip, but the knock on the back of my head almost knocked me out. I couldn't stand up without getting dizzy for about 30 minutes

 

i feel you on the teeth going through your lip....i had that happen to me during a basketball game in high school

 

Scrapped knuckles, cut up fingers and arms, scrapped up forehead, a few bumps on my head (forgetting that the lift I was using wasn't high enough for me to stand under) and um... yup I've had my Max for a month now

 

Front caliper to the skull.....
not a fun day

 

Besides the many, many cuts and bruises, the scars of which my hands are full of, when I became possessed by the demon of the Q45 caliper retrofit, I was made to grind the side of my right index finger on a stone grinder. For those who don't believe me, I've got pics. Fair warning though - they are not for the fainthearted.

 

Lol great stories guys.. Surpised some off you still mod after hearing a few off them lol

 

I always use protective gear like gloves, long sleeve shirts and close toe shoes for whatever I do in my car. But when I was opening some bolt with flathead screwdriver it slipped off from the bolt and made an 2 inch long cut on my hand. For 5-6 seconds it wasnt blooding so I still have a memory of how my hand looks under its skin.
Moreover, when I was changing oil on my dad's camry for the first time so I had trouble getting off the oil filter. It was getting dark so I didn't want to go to parts store again so I used all my wristpower and took it off! Guess what for couple of weeks I had to wear wrist guard from my skating gear. Next time OIL FILTER WRENCH for me, please!

 

I've had lots of bumps, bruises, scrapes, and burns. never any stitches or broken bones, but here's the worst of my injuries:


bout 4 years ago, I was welding together a custom 3" exhaust for a friend (.orgy member to remain nameless).... I was laying under the car on my back with everything from the cat to the muffler together and in place held up by jack stands, all that was left was to tack the cat converter flange onto the downpipe coming from the header.

I slide into place and just as I'm about to tack it with the MIG, my friend decided he didn't like where the muffler was sitting so he grabbed it and moved it over about 2"...

This caused the entire section from the cat to the muffler to fall......... and LAND ON MY FACE!!
it broke one of my front teef in half and punched a hole through my lower lip with the broken tooth. all my teeth are whacked out of alignment, and I'll have to go through ANOTHER 2 years of braces to line everything up if I want it all fixed properly.

the guy didn't even offer an apology or anything, and it's going to cost me $500 just to get the tooth fixed- even with insurance. not even going to think about the cost of braces again. so I still look like a redneck 4 years later going around with a broken front toof. Serves me as a reminder to never work on a car with morons around.

 

well the useualll, burns cuts etc, best <most painful> dropped a entire engine on my leg trying to get it out of a truck , many fractures, I slipped on oil on the floor and lost my balance.
Many bumps and cuts to the head also from walking into lift supports while under cars. Thats why iam retarded and speshul now

 

All the info you need when fixing problems with your car and entertainment too.Apart from bumping my head on my garage door a hundred times a day and bruised knuckles I would say I AM STILL IN THE PINK.