This morning I was awoken very early in the morning (8:30AM) by my lovely sister Emily, as she wanted me to change the oil in her car. I was like PUH, b/c that marked me having slept for only 4 hours at that point in time. I decided to actually be nice and go and do it. I started off by attempting to take of the bolt that would allow me to drain out the oil. I knew this was going to be a pain in the neck, since it was last changed by the people over at FireStone, so it was tightened on there like no other. I used the lovely 11/16th wrench around the bolt and start to hammer away at it with a hammer to loosen it like I do on mine. Well, on mine, it had been loosened by a correct 17mm wrench initially after firestone got their grubby paws on it, so whereas the 11/16th works fine on mine, it was a little, very tiny tiny, bit too loose on my sisters. The bolt got a tiny bit "stripped", but nothing bad, so I told my mom that I needed a 17mm wrench because the 11/16" wasn't cutting it. Unfortunatly even after hammering away with the correct size, that fit nice and snug on the bolt, it still wouldn't budge. Partially because the bolt was stripped just enough to make the wrench hammer loose and not stay on it like it should. ::sigh::
In the process of hammer, I ended up hitting the top of my left pinky finger ever so slightly. Not hard enough where it really hurt from the impact, but the impact did cause some skin to peel off from my finger, just the annoying kind of peeling though, nothing bad. I ended up pouring some hydrogen peroxide on it (as my sister told me to, her being a nurse) then some good ol' neosporin and a sparkly silver bandaid. Yeppie.
See, Erik, Token, Adam, I can work on a car too........ sorta...
TUMEO.
wow.. i hate when i bring blood working on a car... did you at least get the bolt out?
Posted by: cptnmat at March 17, 2004 08:03 AMlol......... unfortunatly no........ ><
maybe later when i have more time, she had to get down to texas, was trying to get it done before she left.