I'm about 8 days into my first job as a mechanic at a Toyota dealer. I get this Jeep Comanche pickup truck thing that needed some power steering work done, a hose or pump or something. Well, I go to bleed the system and reach in to start it, and it's a manual transmission, and it starts. It stopped when it hit the workbench. Thought for sure I'd get fired, but nope.
Same place, a guy who worked across the shop from me suspected a bad fuel pump on one of those Toyota pickup motorhome conversion abominations. It's fuel injected. He decides the best way to test the pump is to remove it from the fuel tank (which you have to drop out to do btw) and then proceeds to place it in a metal drain pan full of gasoline. He grabs his handy 12 volt battery, some jumper wires, and places the pump in the pan of gas and connects her up. Well, it sparked and the ensuing flames spooked him causing him to knock the pan of gas off of the milk crate it was resting on. This is about the time, as I'm working across the shop from him, that I notice a co-worker walk by and grab the fire extinguisher off the wall behind me. I figure this is worth peeking out from around the open hood, and it was. Once everything settled down I walked over there. There was fire extinguisher stuff EVERYWHERE, but the funniest was all his sockets in the top of his tool box were filled with the stuff!
Then there was the FJ60 Land Cruiser I put about 3 rear main seals in because they wouldn't stop leaking. Come to find out I nicked the crankshaft on the first one, so I ended up putting a crankshaft in that beast of a thing. I only got paid for the first seal too!
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