[n559br]

I knew this car would take out it's price in blood. I have recently installed the steering column and cockpit aluminum along with the firewall. Have you noticed that the Whitby steering column is about the same color as powder coat silver? I bent down to get something out of the foot box and WHAMMO! right in the middle of the forehead. It took 3 hours for the bleeding to stop. At least no stitches but everyone at work wondered where my wife got the fruing pan. 2 days later it still hurts. BTW there is now a red rag permanently attached to the steering column.

Ben

 

[forrest1]

Ah yes, I bumped that once or twice, too, but no major injury, luckily.

The big one for me was when I slid out from under the front and sat up quickly into a quickjack. I peeled back a V-shaped flap about an inch long from my head. Bled like stink, too.

Now I hang rags on the quickjacks and everything else that sticks out, when I'm working on the beast.

Forrest

 

[Ed Reynolds]

I know the feeling. I walked into the spindle tonight, and the cut on my shin is still seeping 3 hours later. I forget how much wider the car is with suspension...

Ed Reynolds
FFR3619

 

[paul burchett]

The ends of the dash hoop are kind of pointy. I would suggest covering those with rags also.

 

[Cobra54]

uhm, since were confessing, I dropped the starter while laying on my back during install, had a shinner for 4 days - nasty black then yellow job.

 

[Mark Watson]

Seems to me the quick jacks serve no usefull purpose other than to rip the skin off your shins. I can't count how many times I've done it....

[ August 11, 2002, 10:35 AM: Message edited by: Road Toad ]

 

[gtp231]

mine was the donor gas tang.. those edges are SHARP!! i used masking tape on the edges, but, man, are those scars deep..long after the cobra is gone(let that not be until i am old and senile), i will have a scar reminding me of the most fun of my life

 

[JerryH]

Didn't draw blood, but almost knocked myself out polishing the aluminum panels. Had a panel on the work bench, was polishing away when I got too close to the cord, it proceeded to wrap around the polisher and pull itself out of the outlet. Caught the cord end right square in the forehead, buckled my knees for a second, before I realized what happened. From then on, instead of using an outlet on the workbench, I used an extension cord to the other end of the garage.