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Appleseed
Appleseed SuperDork
8/23/11 5:02 p.m.

Weird. When the plastic overflow cap cracked and I melted the skin off my wrist, the skin grew back permanently tan. BTW it sucked. Sucked hard. And that's only 4 square inches of skin. Best of luck to your buddy.

93gsxturbo
93gsxturbo HalfDork
8/23/11 6:14 p.m.

I overheated my Talon bad once. Had no money for cooling fans, but had plenty for a big turbo, FMIC, etc. Young and dumb. Pull it back in the driveway and go to pop the hood, as I approach, BAM!

Coolant hose let loose. Hot pressurized coolant blew out of the grille and the gaps by the headlights. Good thing the hood was down.

Slyp_Dawg
Slyp_Dawg HalfDork
8/23/11 10:34 p.m.

All these stories are seriously making me shudder... Although it does bring rise to another possible reason the original "peoples car" was air cooled...

neon4891
neon4891 SuperDork
8/24/11 12:00 a.m.

My worst was a lung full of coolant steam on my way back from OzzFest in '06. I was coughing bad for the 3 hour drive home.

Best wishes and all.

wbjones
wbjones SuperDork
8/24/11 4:52 p.m.

damn ... hope he recovers soon / well

when I was in the Navy we lost a shipmate when he was straddling a high pressure steam line ( many hundreds of degrees ... maybe even 4 figures ) when it ruptured

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