Your injuries while working on Charger

[Charger_Croatia]

We have better weather here and I had a chance to do some cutting of rusty metal. During that, I lost my attention for a while and cut my thumb pretty bad. It will be fine but I can't use it for a week at least.
I'm just curious about others. Anyone?

[AKcharger]

A bizarre yet interesting post

[tan top]

cuts on my hands ,fingers,arms. smashed knuckles .mig splatters ( molten metal droplets)  arms ,legs,hands, back, chest, ear and head. rust & metal particles embedded in elbows, knees & eyes. strained back a few times . car paint ,thinners, paint stripper, wd40, carb cleaner in the eyes .  all of this buy working on my charger on and off for almost 20 years.   wearing the proper safety equipment as well , does not make sence i know   but only a few small cuts  / grazed knuckles and splashes with thinners doing my day job  being a mechanic/ body & paint guy for 20 years

[4402tuff4u]

burns from welding and the splatter from the mig. Hate it when weld splatter finds it way down your work boot!! It hurts for a couple of seconds until your flesh cools the particle enough to stop the burning. 

[TruckDriver]

Lotta of small cuts and bruises. Pretty much a given for me every time I work on any car.

[andy74]

i broke my hand once,pulling front seats out and the bolts were frozen with rust,damn thing broke and my hand smacked the door frame-broke 3 knuckles and 2 bones in my hand,that really sucked

[hemihead]

I was seriously injured once but not on a Mopar at all.I was putting a 351W engine in an 82 T-Bird and it fell on my head.I crushed C2,3,4,5 and part of 6 in my neck.I was in a Halo for 6 months and the DR. was amazed I wasn't dead or at least paralyzed.I am an inch shorter now. 

[tan top]

I was seriously injured once but not on a Mopar at all.I was putting a 351W engine in an 82 T-Bird and it fell on my head.I crushed C2,3,4,5 and part of 6 in my neck.I was in a Halo for 6 months and the DR. was amazed I wasn't dead or at least paralyzed.I am an inch shorter now.

 
                 damn  ( hemihead) you was lucky .that does doesn't bare thinking about you are ok now though ,
               

[Charger_Croatia]

I was seriously injured once but not on a Mopar at all.I was putting a 351W engine in an 82 T-Bird and it fell on my head.I crushed C2,3,4,5 and part of 6 in my neck.I was in a Halo for 6 months and the DR. was amazed I wasn't dead or at least paralyzed.I am an inch shorter now. 

Huh, that was serious. I hope you're OK now.

[greenpigs]

   Numerous smashed fingers and more cuts than I can remember. The car requires BLOOD before it will start each year also...its true. The worse was when I was replacing the trunk floor and cut my hand..no stitches but a couple scars.

[is_it_EVER_done?]

You forgot to add the "ALL OF THE ABOVE" vote! These cars are like women, -- bloodthirsty, vicious, and insanely expensive. All while maintaining an overpowering desirability.

[PocketThunder]

You forgot to add the "ALL OF THE ABOVE" vote! These cars are like women, -- bloodthirsty, vicious, and insanely expensive. All while maintaining an overpowering desirability.

You forgot Jealous.

[Mrfixit]

So far nothing major, mostly flesh wounds.  An updated tetnis shot might be in order.  But like a lot of things, your own blood, sweat, and tears makes it worth while.( i keep telling myself that)

[BigBlackDodge]

My car demands blood sacrifice for each minor repair.............................................lets not talk about major work!


BBD

[RECHRGD]

The usual scraped knuckles and such.  This weekends injury was from a single sided razor blade (w/ cardboard cover) that I keep in the door panel pocket to scrap the numbers off the windows when I go to the drags.  I stuck my hand down there looking for my tire guage and sliced right through my middle fingers nail right into the meat.  Lot's of blood and good fun showing people which finger sustained the injury.  Bob

[73dodge]

Bought a pair of mechanics gloves a while back

Best damn $10.00 I ever spent in my life, you won't believe how grateful you will be the first time your hand slips trying to get a rusted bolt off and instead of smashing a knukle and tearing the skin off you just get a small bump and no blood and man it's nice man handling a piece of rusted jagged metal without ripping your palm open on it.

But they are not perfect I've gone through 2 pairs already because they get beat up pretty bad but better a tore up mechanics glove than a tore up hand i say

[TruckDriver]

Lotta of small cuts and bruises. Pretty much a given for me every time I work on any car.

Ha! I had to quote my self here. Today in fact I sliced my left hand "bird" finger while using a new razor blade to cut off the old tape from the engine wiring harness. I didn't even notice til I started seeing blood on the wires. Only about a quarter inch long and not that deep. But it hurts a little cause it's right along my finger nail.

[Old Moparz]

Had a cheap wrench snap while I was trying to loosen a rusted bolt on a shock absorber that was probably in place since 1969. Smashed my knuckes on the leaf spring, & came out with every four letter word I could think of. Lots of blood & missing skin, but no stitches. I took the car to a repair shop to have the new shocks put on. 

Never crushed my head.

[hemihead]

Thanks guys, I'm ok now except stiff all the time and a little pain when it rains.
   I have worn gloves working on cars the last about 13 years and is the best thing I've ever done.Now they just get bruised instead of cut and bruised.

[253862656971]

I came this close to being smashed by my Charger.  I had the rear up on jackstands and was just crawling out when it slipped off (didn't block the wheel duh!).  Had I been about 2 feet farther under it I would most likely not be here today.  Other than that the worst thing I did was whack myself in the head with a cheater pipe.  I was taking the bolts off the exhaust flange and they were rusted and heated TIGHT.  I had about a 3 foot cheater on the wrench pulling for all I was worth when the bolt finally broke.  The pipe came up and hit me in the forehead.  I was on the verge of blacking out but it never happened.  I had a lump shaped like half a golf ball on my head. 

The worst accident I've heard of happend about a year ago to a kid I know.  He as working on his chevelle when it slipped off the jack stands and crushed him.  He would've been a Junior in high school this year.  His brother and I had several classes together and I was a TA in one of the kid's classes.

Bad things can happen so you gotta be careful.

[The Ghoul]

Worst I hurt my self while working on the charger was shooting my self in the eye with PB blaster (pennatrating oil). It stung for a week.

I think the worst I hurt my self over-all working on any car was the day I learned that torque converters are heavy!!
I was swapping transmissions and my dad told me to take the TC off before I lower the trans all the way down. I asked him how heavy they were and he said 'starter heavy'. So, I slid it off the input shaft of the trans with one hand. It instenty pinned my hand to the concreet. I was almost sure that I broke it.

[ChgrSteve67]

Few smashed toes, Lots of smashed knuckles, many layers of skin lost, to many burns to count (Damn Shop Light).

Thankfully with all of the crazy crap I've done while working on cars there has been no injuries requiring the medics.

[Crazy Larry]

Bought a pair of mechanics gloves a while back

Best damn $10.00 I ever spent in my life, you won't believe how grateful you will be the first time your hand slips trying to get a rusted bolt off and instead of smashing a knukle and tearing the skin off you just get a small bump and no blood and man it's nice man handling a piece of rusted jagged metal without ripping your palm open on it.

But they are not perfect I've gone through 2 pairs already because they get beat up pretty bad but better a tore up mechanics glove than a tore up hand i say

absolutley agree with this one - those gloves have saved my hands and fingers many times - especially in the engine rooms of my ship back in the military.

[SeattleCharger]

A bizarre yet interesting post

    lol

[Slowpoke]

Only the normal blood sacrfices for the charger but like Hemihead my worse was with a Ford 351cleveland,
I managed to tin a freshly rebuilt one in to my lap, yes it was on one of those 3 point engine stands.
Luckly I was near the walll and just slowly sild down to the floor so nothing was really damaged but it sure didnt feel good .