Here’s what I don’t understand

[Jeepwalker]

Yep! Agree with you guys. Vehicles have become so dependable, the vast majority of drivers don't have/need mechaical knowledge or maintenance skills. It's just a transportation appliance.

To me ...driving a vehicle is being in a symphony of precision-made parts each doing their part making beautiful music!


...till it goes "clunk!", of course! LOL

 

[Sherman Bird]

Yep! Agree with you guys. Vehicles have become so dependable, the vast majority of drivers don't have/need mechaical knowledge or maintenance skills. It's just a transportation appliance.

To me ...driving a vehicle is being in a symphony of precision-made parts each doing their part making beautiful music!


...till it goes "clunk!", of course! LOL

"Clunk".... maybe, but "BOOM!?" Now THAT'S really something!

 

[indept]

And these days, with our litigious society, the lawyers correctly assume people are too stupid to check the fluid with the vehicle in neutral, as ma mopar does things, without killing themselves or someone else.

Years ago a guy at work was in the parking lot working on his car. Not sure what he was trying to do but he started the car by puting a screwdriver across the starter solenoid. It started and since it had stalled initially in gear the car went forward running his foot over & crashed into another car. So there is some validity to your statement.
First time I've ever heard first hand about someone running themselves over.

 

[Wild one]

Years ago a guy at work was in the parking lot working on his car. Not sure what he was trying to do but he started the car by puting a screwdriver across the starter solenoid. It started and since it had stalled initially in gear the car went forward running his foot over & crashed into another car. So there is some validity to your statement.
First time I've ever heard first hand about someone running themselves over.

I had a buddy who decided to pull his driveshaft on his old Ford F100 on his driveway that had a pretty decent incline,after he pried the back u-joint out of the rear yoke,the truck took off down his driveway,and across the street into the park across the street.Only thing that saved him was the truck was on 35's and he just happened to be laying far enough off to the side the axle tubes rolled over him with-out a scratch,he's never done that since,lol

 

[Jeepwalker]

Aaaahh the floodgates have been opened for juicy idiot stories! ha ha..


That guy who ran over his foot probably had an older ford with a starter solenoid on the Pass inner fender. You jumped the 'switch-side' of the starter solenoid to the (hot) batt cable side (right next to it). Oldest trick in the book. The 'book' should have reminded him to wear steel toes..

 

[indept]

Aaaahh the floodgates have been opened for juicy idiot stories! ha ha..


That guy who ran over his foot probably had an older ford with a starter solenoid on the Pass inner fender. You jumped the 'switch-side' of the starter solenoid to the (hot) batt cable side (right next to it). Oldest trick in the book. The 'book' should have reminded him to wear steel toes..

That guy wasn't the sharpest bowling ball In the bunch.

 

[Jeepwalker]

We had a neighbor farmer when I grew up who jumped a tractor starter and it drove right through the block wall of a dairy barn. It was something like a JD 4020. Lucky for him he 'just' managed to crouch down under the axle as it went over him. Happened to not be much of a loadbearing section of wall. Narrowly escaped a Darwin award.

Yeah guys. Be careful. Use jackstands, and the rest of the 'best practices' for safety...

 

[Jeepwalker]

Side story: I dinged my finger up pretty bad a week ago. Nothing serious ...but didn't look pretty at first. My buddy said "email me a picture of your finger!" I did a google search for "Mangled finger" ...to be a wise-guy and send him a terrible picture. Man!! Don't do a search like that unless you want to see some seriously terrible cut-off finger pics!! Great reminder to be extra-cautious!!!

 

[gofishn]

One Time, in Band Camp .......