I'll try to get to the point...but I have to go through a few particulars first. I look back and think was I really that stupid?

Pulling the motor on my 67SS (396). The car is on stands...(1st mistake) cause I figure it will provide more room to maneuver around the car (my garage is small). I buy a decent 1/2 ton chain hoist that I use for this process. I decide to put the hoist about a foot or so infront of the engine block overhead instead of putting the hoist directly overtop the block (2nd mistake). Now....thinking I'm being a safety conscious person I put the floor jack positioned underneath the front of the car with it jacked tightly up to the frame...oh...Like all floor jacks it has rollers (3rd mistake). Now getting to the "funny after the fact" incident. I proceed to pull up the engine block which is pulling nicely upwards and forward to me. The block makes a movement forward, to which it suddenly stops because one of the block mounts catches. Well, as you can probably anticipate, this starts a chain of events....the stands start tipping, the floor jack starts rolling, and I'm with my back against the work bench with nowhere to go, I side step the rolling floor jack handle that procedes to take out my craftsman tools (In a rather cheap plastic container), this gets sent off the bench behind me and deposits the sockets and wrenches in a scatter across the floor. The engine block stops about a foot from me. The floor jack handle stops the car because it luckily hits a 2x4 on the bench instead of going through the drywall and through me.

I left the mess where it currently sits. I think I'll take this weekend off.

I have never done anything like that. Nope, would never do such a thing. ;)

Not me, but I witnessed a guy do this. My father in -law had a rubber strap, specifically designed to bolt to the ends of the heads, and used to pull engines out of the car/truck . A guy I know saw this, and had a bright idea. He was pulling a friend's engine out of his truck, and used a serpentine belt! This idiot actually had the front tires off the ground, (as he forgot to unbolt the motor mounts), and kept pulling more and more with his chain hoist. The lower support of his roof truss broke into, and the truck came crashing down. with the chain hoist just missing the front windshield. My friend picked his truck up the next morning, and hired someone else to install his new engine.

I'll try to get to the point...but I have to go through a few particulars first. I look back and think was I really that stupid?

Sound like you ought to be in thunder this thread:http://www.chevelles.com/forums/showthread.php?t=106735

All I could do is quit at that point and go change my drawers. I'm afraid to go back into the garage and look.

The really amazing thing is nothing happened to me....well other than the #2 in my shorts.

I allways have the vehicle on stands and the jack under it when I pull an engine. There is no misstake there!

I love a good chain hoist story. My favorite involves a 1/2 keg of beer, 8 guys, a junk car (motor donor) and 2 trips to the hospital. While 6 guys are busy destroying the car with hammers, axes, arrows and what ever else they can get ahold of, the other 2 are taking out the motor. They forgot to undo a motor mount and got the bright idea to push the car backward until it ripped free, with the chain hoist doing its best to pull down the beam it was attached to. They guy who was pushing from the rad support lost a few fingernails as the engine swung forward and the fan sliced across his fingers (hospital trip #1). A bit later, a guy who was in the car decided to exit through the driver's door window. As he slid out, he came across a big gash in the door made by the aforementioned axe. The jagged metal sliced his right butt cheek wide open (hospital trip #2) and he needed stitches inside and out to close it up.

Well...I guess this is just my sort of luck then. I tend to be a bit cursed when it comes to these things.

I'm still putting the tires back on to ensure no future mistakes in that area. I'm sure I'll have lots of future stories since I'm quite the amateur when it comes to rebuilding engines.

Kind of reminds me of the time I helped Rich (Hi-po ss454) remove his 4 speed out of his 68 Camaro.

He calls me up and tells me he did all the grunt work, getting drive shaft out, tranny bolts loose, shifter off, etc.

I pull up to his garage, he has the car up on fricken SAW horse's..... :eek: They were heavy duty mind you but still saw horses. I cringe at the sight of it.The rearend of the transmission is supported by a belt, yes a leather belt that is looped thru the floor pan where the shifter was..... :sad:

Well I wasn't going under there as he ASSURED me it was safe. Rich is a rather portley (round ) fellow, and waddles down to the creeper and slides under the car. After handing down numberous wrenches and sliding the floor jack under he manuvers it to where the transmission in ready to be slid out.

I slid out the tranny & bell housing and Rich follows grining from ear to ear happier than a preist in boys town.......

As soon as he rolls over on the creeper and claws his way to an up right and standing postion, all hell breaks loose. He forgot to support the rear of the engine, it tilts backwards, falls striaght down to where the tranny USED to be and lands up side down on the floor. All the movement must have made the "SAFE" saw horse weak because it POPPED and the wooden saw horses splintered in a million pieces, The Camaro landed on top of the fallen out engine and knocked the Uni-body car clean off the frame...... :clonk:

We hauled butt outside and Rich needs a cigarette. Well as he lights up and fires his match to the ground I see that fuel must have leaked from the wreckage or it was just the oil soaked side yard he has, (the place is a real pig sty) and you guessed it..........POOF now the freaking ground is on fire heading towards the garage.

I managed to grab Rich's 64 ounce Super size Coke and douse the flames.

I get in My car and didn't look back..........The guy is an IDIOT !!!!!!

You thought YOU had problems?? your a genius compared to this fool !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wonder what Hi-Po SS454 will have to say in defense? :D

I wonder what Hi-Po SS454 will have to say in defense? :D
Ha,
I would be embarresed to show up on this thread.....

i cant wait to hear his side of the story!!

Can't say I'm real proud of the incident. But you know the saying..."if you can't laugh at yourself..." It brought quite a few chuckles at work today...then followed by a "your lucky you weren't crushed" and then proceeded by more laughs.

I had another close call last year. I was taking the carb off the car...the lines were filled with 110 Av Gas and Premium. Its a bit cold up here, so I had the garage heater a blazing...propane. I ended up dumping a bunch of it on myself sitting underneath this heater which always has a pilot light going. Still can't believe nothing caught blaze. I'm usually due for one boneheaded move a year.

If any body believes ACLineman's dream story, call me, I have property for sale on Mt St. Helens..Also have some broken saw horses for sale (firewood)...

I sure hope they're not due to let anyone OUT of that place that is just south east of disorder !

just a couple of months ago.... my 98 Z71 cought a flat in my driveway (slight incline) so I go out at 12:30 pm to change the tire.... I don't have my chocks, or my good floor jack with me, so I use the factory jack. I think "they, bright idea, lets park the 97 corolla behind the truck incase it rolls".....(it'll never roll backwards) because I have the truck that is now on a WET DRIVEWAY chocked with WOOD! Up the rear end goes.... off the tire comes..... creak, creak, creak... CLANK.... the truck rolls backwards, off the jack, onto the drum, and rolls into the corolla, where the trailer hitch proceeds to go THROUGH the bumper...

what I moron I am.

Stupid truck could have fallen on me and crushed me.

If any body believes ACLineman's dream story, call me, I have property for sale on Mt St. Helens..Also have some broken saw horses for sale (firewood)...

Yaeh, AC sure is having some wild dreams lately....:D

Math equation for the thoughtless:
Total Energy - Potential Energy = Pain

If any body believes ACLineman's dream story, call me, I have property for sale on Mt St. Helens..Also have some broken saw horses for sale (firewood)...cool rich
I'm looking for a spot up real high
so I can have a great view
plus I could use a set of saw horses
as for believing harry's story
it wasn't that hard to do
since it was me and you standing there watching him wrestle with that shifter
oh and guzzling all harry's beer
it was funny how he had to coax her with some donuts to get off

cool rich
I'm looking for a spot up real high
so I can have a great view
plus I could use a set of saw horses
as for believing harry's story
it wasn't that hard to do
since it was me and you standing there watching him wrestle with that shifter
oh and guzzling all harry's beer
it was funny how he had to coax her with some donuts to get off
How about when the jack fell on his head, that was a winner.. Ha ha ha ha

here's one... working on the '77 bmw r100/7 (bike). it has dual fuel feeds one into each carb. i was rebuilding the petcocks (fuel shutoff valves) took em apart not realizing that the fuel would come shooting out once the guts were removed. so about 10 gallons of gas on the floor. wife comes into the garage to see what the smell is. i scream at her not to hit the light switch. then calmly explain the mess. then wipe it up with an old blanket and throw it in the back of the truck. later once the job is done, we go to get gas in a gas can to fill the bike back up and test it out. so me in coveralls still totally soaked in gas and filling the gas can in the back of the truck with the soaked blanket right next to it. and i look up to see her calmly smoking a cigarette!! I come unglued at that point and ask her if she is trying to collect on life insurance on me and she goes "doh oops sorry" and throws it on the ground (sparks everywhere from the cherry). i cringe and don't go up in flames. we both laughed about our combined stupidity later when we were all safe and not crispy critters. still scares me a bit thinking about it.

How about when the jack fell on his head, that was a winner.. Ha ha ha hayeah it was so swollen he needed dialasys(sp)
'cause he couldn't relieve himself

This may or may not qualify - but it was stupid and I should know better.

Heater core started leaking two weeks ago, so I bypassed the core and attached the two lines together. The core still had some fluid dripping out and I didn't want that to go on indefinitely. I searched for a scrap piece of hose to attach to the core to blow out the rest. Not finding any in 2 seconds of searching, I grabbed the air line from the compressor and proceded to shoot 90 psi into the core inlet. Needless to say, I got soaked from the core outlet. No permanent vision loss after the recommended 15 minutes of flushing.

Taste sweet doesn't it!

I sure hope they're not due to let anyone OUT of that place that is just south east of disorder !
LOL

I try to lighten up the board a little with some Hi-po stories and you guys are Sooooo ungrateful............. :sad:

And Tom I am totally shocked that you would turn around Rich's misfotrune on me.........

Shall I start squawking about your bone head adventures,and the time you told me you were going to jump that bicycle with the rockets strapped to the rims so you can get your speed up and make it across the pit??????You required 94 stitches and two cast's for 6 months, Opp's maybe I said too much........

When I was replacing the clutch on my '65 Elky, while I was on my back, reaching over the transmission in order to reconnect the shift rods, I fell asleep.
A few friends stopped by to "help" me with a couple of beers. They left and I continued on. I remember my mother coming out to the garage at 7 AM and waking me up. I had to push the arm back over the trans cause it was dead. Took about two weeks for the arm to stop tingling.

LOL

I try to lighten up the board a little with some Hi-po stories and you guys are Sooooo ungrateful............. :sad:

And Tom I am totally shocked that you would turn around Rich's misfotrune on me.........

Shall I start squawking about your bone head adventures,and the time you told me you were going to jump that bicycle with the rockets strapped to the rims so you can get your speed up and make it across the pit??????You required 94 stitches and two cast's for 6 months, Opp's maybe I said too much........it was 95 stitches
man you told me you were never telling anyone about that
what about the time you and your midget buddy were on the teeter totter and he jumped off and it hit him in the face
and you were trying to stop the bleeding with bandaids
and then you super glued his teeth back in
that was killer funny
keep it up and I will get rich to show the video

Best I have done is set an oil pan on a fender when the three wheel hoist tipped...dented the fender, not damage to soft tissue.

This thread is Soooo Funny keep it going with the stories, Iam ****ing my pants..reading all the mishaps you 3 did, just too dam funny!

If any body believes ACLineman's dream story, call me, I have property for sale on Mt St. Helens..Also have some broken saw horses for sale (firewood)...
Don't worry Rich, nobody is going to believe that story. Maybe the part about the sawhorses, sure. Or the part where things go up in flames, Harry gets scared and wets himself, putting out the flames, yea I can buy that, sounds like Harry. But him going from NJ to CA to help you pull a motor, no way!

OK,OK,
Here's one more.

After Tom got the cast on from the bike jumping incident , he had an itch in the cast that wouldn't quit. We'll Rich being an Army guy said he had seen a guy once with the same problem. What he proceeded to do will make your skin crawl.
He put fleas, YES Flea's down inside Tom's cast swearing that they would go down and releive the itching sensation. To our dis-belief IT WORKED, Rich was hailed a HERO. (Or so we thought)

After a day or two, the itch came back 5 times worse and we had to Slap Tom silly just to calm the bi tch down...... Aparently what had taken place was the fleas were eating each other and procreating inside the cast from the warmth of the body heat..... :eek: :eek:

Well Because we were miles from a hospital or doctor, and Tom was being a baby (normal) about the whole thing, Rich decide he could saw the cast off and clean up this whole mess. This is where it get gross.

After slapping Tom into unconsusnious (sp) we clamped the cast firmly into the bench vise. Rich set the depth on the Skil saw to about 1/2 just the thickness of the cast (or so we thought) and started the saw across the gain of Poor Tom's arm.
Hind sight being 20/20 I guess the case of beer might have been a bad idea. Needless to say the wing nut on the skil saw depth gauge wasn't tightened, Rich tripped on the cord and the rest is history, The cast came off with the arm inside :clonk: We immedaitly put on a tornaquet to cut off MAJOR blood flow.....

Tom comes too screaming (fricking baby) So much blood squirting all over Rich's face he looked like Sissy Spacek in Carrie........
Rich drops to his knee's (normal position) crying and vomiting, Now I have two whiner's under my care.......
Thank GOD the neighbor came home, He is a paramedic, and cleaned up Rich first (he said Tom was still whining too bad to look at his wounds) Rich needed Oxygen and some slaps to the face, (why he dropped his draws and begged for his rear end to be slapped was beyond us and rather odd, we dis-missed it for a California thing or maybe just from being in shock :confused: :confused: )
After about 7 hours & a 1/5 of Jack, Tom calmed down enough for my neighbor to have a peek, (NOT GOOD)

To this day Tom must wash,wipe himself, and take care of his business with his left hand, All thanks to Rich Hi-po ss454................... :sad:

Then there is the bonehead (me when I was about 25) that decides to put his Chevelle up on jackstands on a dirt driveway. Next, I decided to crawl under the car completely, and you know the rest....... dam lucky I made it out before it hit the ground.

"Yes I am a Pirate, 200 years too late.
The cannon's don't thunder there's nothing to plunder, i'm an over 40 victim"

Heck no, we still have priates today, attacking Cruise ships.

Sorry I had to post after AC last post, this is a dam poor follow-up to that.

Fred.

Sorry I had to post after AC last post, this is a dam poor follow-up to that.

Fred.
Not to worry Fred, AC gets posted frequently .....:D

EXCELLENT AC on the story, I was laffing my A$$ off so hard ,I cant wait to see Toms NOVEL reply to this one, LOL


Tom called me tonight to warn me about this HOT thread so I just had to take a peek.
Glad I did.:thumbsup:

EXCELLENT AC on the story, I was laffing my A$$ off so hard ,I cant wait to see Toms NOVEL reply to this one, LOL


Tom called me tonight to warn me about this HOT thread so I just had to take a peek.
Glad I did.:thumbsup:
:D

well I am starting to get feeling back in my right hand again

the neurologists said it would take some time

really stinks cause I am not left handed

anyway harry the crybaby - worse than me while I was being disected by rich

doesn't want anyone to know about the time he and his midget buddy were paid to blow up a car

he melted his lips on the tailpipe

and here is a picture of harry the day before my mishap trying to do the same thing as me
except he had an exhaust pipe
http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/4161/alternativefuel1pd.jpg (http://imageshack.us/)

You guys just have way to much fun on these boards. Go back to work

Dude that was Rich on the bike.
For starters the date on his shorts is the year he returned from the mental instatution and into socitety plus,
Remember, he told you waxes his arse ,and there is not NEARLY enough hair for that to be me....... :D

Dude that was Rich on the bike.
For starters the date on his shorts is the year he returned from the mental instatution and into socitety plus,
Remember, he told you waxes his arse ,and there is not NEARLY enough hair for that to be me....... :D
that's funny
I thought I was telling rich to shoot that picture
you guys look so much alike I can't tell the difference

Watch youself man, Your walking a thin with THAT comment.....

You wouldn't want me to tell the story of your bachloer party/wedding mishap would you???? :clonk:

here we go

Dude that was Rich on the bike.
For starters the date on his shorts is the year he returned from the mental instatution and into socitety plus,
Remember, he told you waxes his arse ,and there is not NEARLY enough hair for that to be me....... :D
Wrong again Pogo Stick, I don't have a Harry ass like that...

You wouldn't want me to tell the story of your bachloer party/wedding mishap would you???? :clonk:

Oooohh, I would!

That picture is Harry because your the one always eating the Heinz baked beans from a open can...

Now tell the story about Toms party.
Also isnt that the same bike that Tom mangled himself up on?
Who fixed it Harry or Rich?

marci,

you were there weren't you

I thought you were our dancer

I was pretty drunk - but, I don't forget a face

or those high heels and fishnets

you were the best dancer there

so I think you are just trying to help harry bring the story out

you guys really play dirty

but the stuff rich was doing was really funny

go ahead harry tell them

Heck yea, Marci was their she was a WILD GIRL!!!!

I Rember the 8 inch spiked heels she had on.

marci,

you were there weren't you

I thought you were our dancer

I was pretty drunk - but, I don't forget a face

or those high heels and fishnets

you were the best dancer there

so I think you are just trying to help harry bring the story out

you guys really play dirty

but the stuff rich was doing was really funny

go ahead harry tell them
Dude you WERE drunk, That was RICH you jack ass NOT Marci. I will tell you guys ALL the dirt when I have more time.... :waving:

No time I bet you with the AC wench shemale?

harry, Tom told me you smoke alot of tumble weed! And Tom loves the RUM, lol me too, lol

Dance?! Are you kidding? With those shoes, all I can do is lay down! ;)

Dance?! Are you kidding? With those shoes, all I can do is lay down! ;)that's the way we like you
or was that lick

Yummy!!!!

Oh boy this thread has gone south in a hurry!!!!

For the record, i'm not involved with it's demise..........Sorry Marci............

Oh boy this thread has gone south in a hurry!!!!

For the rocord, i'm not involved with it's demise..........Sorry Marci............sorry Marci
dude she fired us up
now we know that you really are a softie :D

that's the way we like you
or was that lick

Now careful, fellas.....we're not in Current Events anymore...:eek: :D

lol that hilarious:hurray: hope this does keep going gives me something to laugh at when im not :sad: about my car sitting even longer in its state

i need 2 cc of money stat :)

Now careful, fellas.....we're not in Current Events anymore...:eek: :Doops
I didn't realize that

oops
I didn't realize that
HA,
Like that matters to you..................................Moron, :sad:

Doh,:clonk: