Battle scars from working on your truck?

A thread about stupid injuries youve received while wrenching and the tales behind them..

Ive had the knuckles and such but punching myself in the face a couple of days ago while dismantling my tracracs is my new favorite..


What have yall got?

 

I smacked myself between the eyes and split it wide open with the end of my torque wrench while torquing down rock sliders. Have a nice scar from that.

 

Too many to count and too many more to come

 

But at least you were torquing things properly

 

Once while lying under my previous truck doing some work, a piece of dirt fell off the frame and into my eye. I reflexively tried to sit up and hit my forehead so hard on the frame that my head bounced off and I smacked the back of it on the concrete driveway.

Not my only, or worst, injury working on vehicles but my dumbest by far.

 

Almost cut my nuts off with an angle grinder. Was cutting a piece of .250 wall DOM tube and it kicked back at me. Was sober as a bird.

 

Wow
That could have been bad!

 

im seeing double now am i?
https://www.tundras.com/threads/battle-scars-from-working-on-your-truck.70939/page-3#post-1829578



then it occurred to me im on the tacomaworld and tundra sight at the same time. DOH

 

Yikes!

 

Was gonna say.. wrong truck
I had a Taco, have a Tundra now but like the peeps on this forum so I still harass everyone here too. Although I will say it seems like a lot more injuries on the Tundra side. Or chattier people.

 

Plenty of scars from the "wheel of death". I've opened up several fingers and my palm pretty deeply. The palm strike went right through a leather glove. Opened up a palm with a cotter key removal tool. It's like a screwdriver but the end turns 90 degrees and comes to a point. Once, when pulling a key, it went right across my left palm and opened up about three inches. As soon as it did it, I thought, "Oh crap, this is going to hurt". Then, my palm sprung open from the tension I guess. It looked bad but didn't hurt as much as I thought. It took a long time to heal. The most painful thing was having a clamping plate from a sheet metal brake fall on my foot from about three feet. I was wearing flip flops. I know, stupid and I got an earful about it. It broke several toes on my right foot, I lost some nails, and the end of my foot was black for a month. Had to wear flip flops while it healed because it hurt and I couldn't get a shoe on.

 

Damn talk about pain. Hands and feet are the worst to heal.

 

Agreed. Anything extremity-related.

Was never so humbled physically until I had my shoulder surgery and couldnt even dress/shower/feed myself. Running out of pain meds three days after the surgery and being unable to refill due to being out of state was fun (they wont call in controlled narcotics). They forgot about the holiday and told me to call in for a new, smaller dose after I got home. Well.. i forgot because anesthetics.. Basically had to suck it up once the nerve block and meds wore off within about 4 days after surgery.

0/10 would not recommend..

 

Scars are just tattoos with better stories, right?


I get lots of scrapes, but not really any scars from working on the truck. I have plenty of scars from other stupid shit though

 

Luckily this is the worst one, cut pretty deep with an angle grinder. Right up there with getting a tiny speck of metal removed from my eye and the rust scraped off of it. Knock on wood I’ve been pretty lucky while wrenching.

 

God damn, nice chunker missing there

 

That one left a nice scar. I kept on asking my wife if I needed scars but she told me to suck it up

 

Just finished waxing the truck, was climbing out of the bed after doing the roof, one foot in bed, other on the bumper. Bumper foot slips. Body ends up on the ground.and then the sound of a screaming 10 year old girl. Oh wait, that was me. Torn ACL... ouch.