Skip to main content
Gerry | Vanagon
Checking account...
← vanagon.com home · Continue the discussion in the forum
VanagonEuroVan
Subject:Re: Why you stick your head in your engine now and again...
From:Janne Ruohom�ki
Date:Tue, 25 May 2010 12:54:05 +0300

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:20 PM, David Cohen <Mtbdavid2@aol.com> wrote:
> Hi Robert,
> �I am glad your experience of looking under the hood in your Vanagon
> didn't turn out as disastrous as mine. �My Vanagon has been running rough �for
> quite some time so I thought I would check for an air leak. �I started �up
> the motor and put my head into the engine compartment, with my ear to the
> motor. �Next thing I know I am on the ground with a splitting headache and
> blood dripping from my forehead. �I forgot that I had a hoody on with tie
> strings on the hood. �The strings got caught in the alternator belt when I
> turned my head towards the motor, then my forehead was immediately slammed in
> the tin where the is supposed to be a seal but mine was missing where I �hit.
>
> To make a long story longer I ended up at emergency to get my head stitched
> �up. �I have a nice new C shaped scar above my eyebrow going up my forehead
> �and my motor still runs rough. All I can say is Do Not wear a hoody with
> tie �strings when you work on a running motor.

 Whaat.. You went through all this and no link to youtube ?!

 I did the same with my long hair once, but with more like D-shaped
scar. Does that mean You did it better ? Good thing neither of us got
an F.

 Lucky me, since I bought my van the pace of my hair loss has
quadrupled. I dont use hoodies so soon Ill be completely safe from
this without any unnatural and painful hair cutting . Anyways I am
planning to spend most of the summer under my van, so I wont be
getting any sunburns to my virgin hairless head.

Have something to add on this topic today? Revive this thread in the forum »