Your injuries while working on Charger

[The Ghoul]

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.

I tried the mechanics gloves for a bit but realized I cant feel around that well, and they get nasty grubby quick.
What I do, and its been working out great, Is for $5 you can get a box of 100 letex gloves.
I love this because they cut way down on the little nicks, scratches, and cuts you normaly get. You can feel what your working on. and when your all done working on what ever, you just take em off and toss them... they cut way down on after-shop clean up.  Plus they are very handy to have around for the times where you dont want to get any thing on your hands (like por 15!).
you also dont have to buy hand cleaner any more with them

[Charger_Croatia]

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.

I tried the mechanics gloves for a bit but realized I cant feel around that well, and they get nasty grubby quick.
What I do, and its been working out great, Is for $5 you can get a box of 100 letex gloves.
I love this because they cut way down on the little nicks, scratches, and cuts you normaly get. You can feel what your working on. and when your all done working on what ever, you just take em off and toss them... they cut way down on after-shop clean up.  Plus they are very handy to have around for the times where you dont want to get any thing on your hands (like por 15!).
you also dont have to buy hand cleaner any more with them

I agree with you about "feeling thing" with standard mechanic gloves.
And I will try to use that cheap latex gloves, good idea. 

[resq302]

A couple years ago I was replacing the rear leaf springs on my 69 charger and has having difficulty getting them out of the rear shackles.  They were already disconnected from the front perch and the rear axle so I was trying to wiggle it out of the rubber bushing and all of a sudden it let loose.  My right thumb got sandwiched between the sharp edge of the quarter panel and the leaf spring.  Needless to say, it cut through my thumb nail, through the skin pretty deeply, and I now have a nice diagonal scar from the nail bed to my nuckle.  I think if it wasn't for my thumb nail, it would probably have went down to the bone.  Let me just say, I have never seen blood gush like that before.  Also probably the first time I almost passed out as everything started going white.

[SeattleCharger]

Bought a pair of mechanics gloves a while back

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.

What I do, and its been working out great, Is for $5 you can get a box of 100 letex gloves.
I love this because they cut way down on the little nicks, scratches, and cuts you normaly get. You can feel what your working on. and when your all done working on what ever, you just take em off and toss them... they cut way down on after-shop clean up.  Plus they are very handy to have around for the times where you dont want to get any thing on your hands
you also dont have to buy hand cleaner any more with them

    These rubber latex gloves work great.   I first saw em when my step dad would be wearing em to do stuff, looked very unnecessary to me.   
             But once I tried em a couple time, now I use em almost everytime I get at my engine, changing the oil, changing a starter, alternator, I even
              wear now when I am shining up my tires, the rag is oily, or waxing my car, the wax goes through your skin, or polishing my rims with Mother's. 

            After wearing them for all this, if I don't now, I really notice how much this stuff is going through my skin, - just pull off the gloves and toss them, clean hands. 

[dodgecharger-fan]

Just a few nicks and cuts here and there.

and a sore back, shoulders, arms, legs, feet.....

[4402tuff4u]

Oh!! I forgot the bleeding ears and stress from the taunting and nagging    when the wife opens the credit card statement showing the cost of parts!! (actually the wife has been surprisingly quiet and great - that scares me even more!!! )

All I can picture when the Charger is done and at home and the wife saying: " honey, where are the keys to the R/T?, I'm meeting my girlfriends for lunch" then what?

[hemihead]

She will just be seeing how many young men will look at her driving it! 

[dodgecharger-fan]

Oh!! I forgot the bleeding ears and stress from the taunting and nagging    when the wife opens the credit card statement showing the cost of parts!! (actually the wife has been surprisingly quiet and great - that scares me even more!!! )

All I can picture when the Charger is done and at home and the wife saying: " honey, where are the keys to the R/T?, I'm meeting my girlfriends for lunch" then what?

Nah. It'll be more like when you open up the statement and see the $700 bill for new foo-foo frilly curtains and bedding, and wallpaper, and paint, and... and... and...
Are you going to give her a hard time afer she didn't give you such a hard time about the parts.
Nah! I wouldn't either.
Besides, you sleep with your eyes closed, right? Me too.

"Flowers on the bedspread? Yeah, whatever you want honey."

[squeakfinder]

Take your watch off when reaching under the dash.

Maybee not one of the worst injures but the most strange I've had. It was a few years ago and I can't remember what I was reaching for under the dash but my steal watch band got hooked on the ammeter posts. It shorted so quickly the band left a burn mark on my wrist. Also, one of the posts was touching my wrist, it got hot so fast it melted a spot on my skin.

[CB]

same here, cuts and so

[Brock Samson]

well,..
  ...I got the usual nicks, gashes, scrapes and the occasional bruise and sore back (i sure hate working under dashboards) but the most notable "injury" i ever received was i when i had a can of hemi orange spray paint and it was clogged, and i stuck the sharp end of a pair of scissors into the biz. end to unclog the thing and I got a good coat of HEMI orange on and in my face for my efforts, up my nose and in my mouth too,.. as I said something when this unexpected event transpired,..  i was alone in the garage and completely blinded as it also went into my both my eyes... and,.. it surprised me so bad I bolted my head up out of the engine compartment and took a pretty good sized divot outta the back on my head on the hood latch... 
I can't remember what i wanted to paint orange either as my small block was blue and there was absolutly nothing orange on or in my Charger till I finally got the 440 ten years later... 

I swore pretty good for a long time and used alotta words multiple times and in complete and incomplete sentences...
See?.. So That one injury sticks out pretty good in my memory still...   

[Charger Steve]

Just a resonse to this, no injury to me but I bought a cherry picker type engine hoist from a guy for $40 because he broke his ankle while putting an engine in a car. He was sitting in the engine compartment while someone else was lowering the engine in and it hit his ankle and broke it. He blamed the hoist insteasd of himself and his helper. There was nothing wrong with the hoist just the way they went about doing it. He didn't want the hoist after that, maybe he thought it was possesed or something but I was at the right place at the right time and bought dirt cheap. I have dropped engines in many times with it and it works just fine. As for myself, like they say it takes blood, sweat, and tears to restore cars and I have experienced all of them. In the end it is worth every drop of blood.

[Sublime/Sixpack]

 Nothing serious, just a few almost humorous little inciidents like when I was using a hammer and chisel and a small piece of the chisel broke off and apparently went into my cheek (I didn't know for sure). I noticed blood, and slight swelling, so I got out a mirror and a magnet. Sure enough when I placed the magnet near the wound the skin lifted to the magnet. Off to the hospital for minor surgery and a shot.
Another time a automatic trans slipped and fell on my left middle finger. The sharp edge of the pan cut the finger leaving a flap of skin dangling. I was in a hurry and had to get the job done so I used tin snips to cut off the flap of skin and threw it away, then wrapped the finger with a paper towel and electrical tape to stop the bleeding, and allow me to finish the job. Once I got to the Dr's office he said "you really shouldn't have cut the flap off". He was right, now theres a lump of scar tissue there thats a bit annoying.
Then recently I was working under the hood of the Diplomat when the wrist watch (metal band) I was wearing made contact between a hot lead and a ground. It got hot quickly and actually spot welded the hasp of the watch band so I couldn't get the dang thing off. The watch band was so hot it burned my wrist pretty good. All I could do was grab a spray bottle with water in it and spray the hot metal to cool it down. Had to grind downt the spot weld to get the wrist watch off.
Funny how these stupid little things happen. Although they do tend to be the things you remember and laugh about later on.

[squeakfinder]

Yep, read the post about my watch band experience.

[71440charger]

well all i can say is minor dents and scratches and my wife beeating me to death for spending so much money i have had to pull glass out of my arm from her breaking a glass bowl.