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Originally Posted by TomC750
Bottom line, I this helps anyone else to remind themselves to slow down and really thinks things through, the time typing this will be worth it.
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Sorry to hear about your accident Tom and as we know with age, it's never just a couple fo days to heal.
.I find that with aging, that I, always one to focus too much on a task and barge along, that I'm not slowing down to do something properly or doing something dangerously stupid without giving pause.
An example, a couple of months back my stater wouldn't one day leaving the garage and thankful that it happened there and not on the road. The front little bracket to the oil pan rail had fractured (after market part BTW). With the starter just held at the back it loosened a few of the rear oil pan bolts and the bolt inside the starter hole to the bellhousing. I struggled maybe two hours to tighten up the obscure hex head bolt. I got it done and then said why didn't I just use an Allen head bolt??
Two events as a young guy stuck with me. One, a local kid was working on the ice and snow under his car with a bumper jack. He got pinned and died underneath it. Another was the manager of another Shell station across town, died one day when revving an engine when the fan exploded, I think it was one of those Chevy fluid drive ones, he died instantly. When I'm working with jacks and inline with the fan, I ALWAYS remember those hard lessons.