Hiya all,
My starter motor was playing up, see my thread in the discovery section, mine is a V8 3.9 and the engine quite modified amongst other things it has a set of headman exhaust headers and a custom exhaust system.....this is relevant for my story....
Well I've just got back from A&E..
Who would have thought fitting a new starter motor could be so dangerous ???
New starter motor turned up today (excellent service from Rimmers by the way) So off i go to fit it, how hard can it be??? Well very as it turns out.
Only two bolts a big wire a little wire and an earth, easy peasy lemon squeezey.
After farting about for nearly an hour I decide to take the prop shaft off so I can at least get to one of the bloody bolts, this done the first of two bolts are taken out...
I then spend over an hour trying to get the next bolt out and then come to the painful decision that I'm going to have to take the right hand exhaust header off....it was at that point that my 8LB club hammer fell off the chassis rail where it had been carefully placed and hit me square in the face.. I was lying under the car at the time... was a bit dazed at first then managed to get out from under the car.. two loose front teeth one now with a crack in it a BIG fat lip and a rather startled look from me
Ive taken a few punches in my time, trust me the club hammer wins every time..
So I have a cup of tea and crack on.....
Headers come off with all the aggravation I was expecting...it was just a [!Expletive Deleted!] job, the last bolt of the starter motor ,terrified, gave in immediately and before I knew it the new starter is fitted and even the headers go back on to the block relatively easily, so then I pop under the car and go to connect the collector to the y piece, put some exhaust paste round the joint and push them together at that point a dollop of the paste falls from the pipe straight into my eye
Immediate pain oh my GOD evacuate from under the car fast as you like pain pain pain banging head, wrist, back, shoulder trying to get out OOH MY GOD PAIN PAIN PAIN run into house and dump water into my eye look in the mirror and freak out my eye is completely red with a jelly like goo oozing out of it oh and I cannot see anything from it... complete freak out time, Miriam took me to hospital, she phones ahead to make sure there is an optimologist (?) ready (its good to have a partner in high places) and off we go... being blind in one eye would be a really bad career move for a projectionist.
So I'm back now I can see out of the damaged eye, turns out although the stuff wasn't corrosive or caustic, my eye had an allergic reaction to whatever it was.. hence the goo and the redness. had my eye irrigated for what seems like hours and I have a scratch in the lower part of my eye that will hopefully not have any impact on my vision.
cars not going anywhere till the exhaust and the prop are put back on, doesn't matter because I can't drive for at least a week... might be sooner subject to another examination tomorrow...
OH POOOOO
Andy
