Fan Belt Change

Here's one for you guys.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQhfcdQf1QA&feature=player_embedded

Holy crap! They call that guy stubbie's!

You mean there's ANOTHER way to change VW pulley belts? NOW you tell me...

my mechanic charges $30 but i notice he is missing 3 fingers...hmmm

I don't have the balls to even try that... with my luck I'd wind up with a screwdriver sticking out the side of the car!

.......or out the side of your rib cage.

Yup, not gonna try THAT any time soon.

Used to work in a machine shop. A lathe operator was using a 12 inch mill file, without a handle, to remove the burrs off the rotating stock. The last time I saw him, he was being escorted to the ambulance with the mill file embedded half through his hand.

Don't be stupid!

Very humorous video. Hey, didn't any of you guys ever suck gasoline through a hose? Or do anything weird in your youth? C'mon it's worth a yuck or two!?

Sunoco 240 tastes way bad ~

Scott / Alan, exactly! Here's what happens when you've done THAT too often...

That guy won't need any depilatory cream now, or perhaps ever, again...
(TOUGH pair of Levi's I have to add)

Anybody got a wire brush wheel mounted to a 6"+ bench grinder? GREAT for getting rust off of small parts, nuts, bolts, etc. How many times have you been de-rusting sumthin and all of a sudden it gets grabbed by the brush and launched to the outer limits of your shop? THEN you spend half an hour trying to find the thing.

How about getting your shirt caught in an electric drill? Winds that puppy up REAL fast!

I was de-rusting my current kit pan with an angle grinder using a wire brush wheel (kinda like a portable bench grinder, huh?) and wailing away on a rear drum backplate which I was holding down on a milk crate with my foot. The wire brush caught an edge and launched into my shin, buffing off the surface skin. Oops! Gotta watch that! 15 seconds later, same damn thing about an inch higher. Finally shifted the part for enhanced safety.

I guess I've been lucky in the shop (knockin a lot of wood, here). Pushing 60 years old and haven't broken anything other than my thumb when I was a kid (fell off of a water tank on the farm). Haven't cut anything off with power tools, either, although there WAS the time I was making some custom wood moldings with a molding cutter on a radial arm saw. The cutter caught a knot in the wood, grabbed the piece and blasted it out the other side of the saw at 100 mph and put a ding into a concrete wall. I looked at the wall and called it quits for the night.......

Waaay back in the 60s, I spent six weeks in the Prototype Body shop at Fisher Body Central Engineering. We made wooden dies for pre-production bodies. One common tool was a 16 inch tall vertical high speed router with about six blades held in place with grub screws. NOBODY in that whole shop had all ten fingers!

In my youth I've done some rediculously dumb things with drill and grinders, was very lucky! Routers command my utmost respect; can you spell a-n-a-l!?

Well I might put one back on that way if it broke out on the road. But it would have to be raining , or I was in a hurry, or some thing extreme,,but I would never try taking it off like that.

I'm sure a savvy German mechanic would do it.

but Like ya said I kinda wanna keep my fingers