so i'm having some starting prob's on my ol small block 350. i jsut did the intake and slapped it all back together. so i figured maybe i got no spark...

well lets just say i had spark. lol unplugged the boot from the plug, got up on my milk crate so i could see inside the engine bay. grabbed my trusty flat head screw driver. stuck it into the boot, told my gf to crank the key... wow was that NOT a good idea. lol Arm still hurts from the spark and i think my heart should be good tell i'm 90 now. lol

not sure why i posted this, but i felt it was needed to share with the general car lovers. lol

oh and now i understand why my boss won't let me do eletrical work. lol

 

Umm, maybe lowered your life span.
First rule with electronics, dont touch somethign that will spark. Put the screwdriver down, haha.

Which reminds me of my story. I had my strobes on when I was testing them, looked at one that wasnt doign anything, saw the red wire that was no attatched. So I grabbed it to look at it, and it of course still was getting power (12+ power, going to the strobe box thta has a cap). I couldnt pick up anything for 5 minutes, and my arm was numb for a good 10 minutes.
I was just sitting in my car laughing. My sister walked by and thought I was weird.

 

lmao ppl ppl haha i have a storey like that to jsut about the same as the 350 one

 

Ah the classic change the intake, now your timing is off. It happens.

 

Yup, can definitely relate to both of those. I seem to really remember the strobe one more for some reason though.....LOL

 

yeah its gotta be the timeing. as i have spark, fuel and air. lol i think i just need t turn the dizzy 180 and thn try it again. as i was top dead center on #6 when i did my compression test. lol

 

Dude... leave the wiring to the electricians, or at least someone who isn't gonna kill themselves...

FYI, the worst shock I ever got was from an isolated high voltage line... at a certain voltage the line acts like a capacitor and can store a pretty good charge, so they're always grounded before we work on them. This one section was isolated before each side was grounded, so it was still charged... reached up to touch it and check the bolts on it, arm was against the casing... it hurt all day long. 3 years later and I still remember that jolt. I'm lucky it went in my hand and out my shoulder of the same arm... across your heart can kill you.

another useless fact: electrocution can kill you up to 8 hours after the shock happens, and if you go to the emergency room and tell them you've been electrocuted, they'll put you on a heart monitor for 8 hours, no waiting.

 

^^^ I never knew that!

 

good to know , you know they make little spark testers they are about 3$ you put them in the plug wire and ground them , there is a nice little window to were you can see the spark but not actually get shocked . you might want to think about purchasing one .