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Old 05-24-06, 06:02 PM
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Re: Safety Safety Safety !

An old topic but I feel the need to contribute. A few years back my friends dad was trying to figure out why a car wouldn't start, tinkering around in the engine bay. Well, he got the car to start, but the fan took his pointer finger off at the knuckle.

I was replacing a fuel pressure regulator in my stanza one time. Did most everything right, released fuel pressure before I got the line off. Well I put everything back together and tried starting her up. Running really rough, I got out to see what was up. Fuel was spraying everywhere. So I did the job over again, this time not forgetting the O-Ring between the FPR and the fuel rail. I consider myself really lucky that nothing ignited, what with fuel spraying onto a running engine.

My brothers friend had a car drop on his head (my brother now is very adamant about properly holding the car up). Not much to say about the poor guy. Imagine the worst.

And finally my brother did the same thing, opening a hot radiator. I remember the sight of him sitting on a chair in the shower under some very cold water. Not something I want to go through. Ever.