Barry Jones

Wishing you a speedy recovery !! Try vitamin e oil - it works really good for the healing process

coppercutlass

Guys I want to thank you all for the well wishes. My spirit isn't crushed just yet. One week along on recovery and im starting to feel normal. Im excited to get my engine back in . I got word from my buddy and member 67cutlassfreak that he finished breaking in the cam and has it running good. Although I wont be able to make the local bop race in sept. there is one more bop race that is 2 hrs away and im going to push for that. I busted my *** all summer working on my car and im so close giving up now makes no sense at all. Im recovery fast or so I think and I cant wait to be back in the garage again.

Sampson

Wow I missed this the first time around Copper. Sorry for the bad luck and Glad you are on the mend.

Bernhard

Copper glad to see you are on the mend and that your spirit is not crushed .
Hope you get to enjoy your car still this year.
Take Care
Bernhard

Hawghead

Ouch,
That's gonna leave a mark. They say it isn't yours if you don't have some blood in it, well it's definitely yours now. Take it easy and heal up soon and be more careful next time you could really hurt yourself.

Scott

coppercutlass

I can say I have been branded by my olds now lol. In 10 years of messing around with cars this is the first serious injury I have had. It is a lesson well learned and makes me think of the other bone head things I have done.

Eubiedad

Ouch! That hurts to look at...wishing you a speedy recovery.

Just a piece of advice, try "second skin" and an elastic bandage rather than gauze and creme. My wife used it on a serious case of road rash. The lost skin healed quickly and almost no scarring. Walgreen's or Osco should have it.

MDchanic

That's okay, so long as it doesn't make me think of the bonehead things I've done.

Glad you're getting better.

- Eric

camshaw

yikes!.......get well soon!......thats nasty!..........I never break in a fresh motor with a thermostat!....extra fan blowing on the radiator and then after a good 3500 rpm run at 15 minutes i shut it down to thermal heat cycle the motor....all would be fine but you have an untested thermostat on a new motor and air pockets and no bleeder screws to bleed the stystem....glad it didn't hit your face!....no thermostats and no antifreeze for break in....

ps....roller cams are heavy and over rated and require way too much seat pressure for a street car in my opinion....guys running 10 second ets all day with out them and valvesprings are happy...my two cents..

73aussie455

Speedy recovery and best of luck for the healing. Watch you don't get the areas infected. More power to you.

I got parts of myself coated in molten plastic some years ago working on the pipes and spent too long in hospital having multiple skin grafts after they cut it all off. Long recovery in the hottest part of Australia in summer. Unpleasant memories.

Burns suck.

Redog

UGH, I can't look

Glad it wasn't too bad, we had a guy at work get hit with 185* water, got the entire front part of his torso from his upper chest, to his thighs.

Greg Rogers

Wow... I'm so very sorry that happened to you. Thanks for posting it because it may save someone else from having a similar accident. You are so right about we tend to not realize how many risks are involved w/hot water under pressure in our cars. Good luck to you and I hope for a speedy recovery.

Grace Stinespring-Welch

that really sucks, but at least you are still here to talk about it. happy healing.

TripDeuces

That will buff out.

coppercutlass

I was oxy acetylene welding today so no fear on getting burnt just gotta be careful.

Blackpage

DAYUM Copper. I just came across this thread. Like someone said earlier, I thought you got scammed on parts or something. Glad you got back on the horse. Godspeed.

Professur

I'm curious .. what were you wearing when that happened?

coppercutlass

@ joe im healing fast and no infections im at the point where I just have to make sure I don't get a tan on my arm.


@prof I was wearing a t shirt.

steverw

Im also sorry to see this happened to you, burns can easily get infected so use what ever meds the docs gave you until its healed. It looks pretty bad to me but i have worked in a burn center, some of the things i have seen would make you cry. It did me.
God bless you to a speedy recovery
Steve

Olds442redberet

Wow!
That's a bad area of the body to get burnt.

coppercutlass

Joe im doing good. My arm is all healed up and I now have a two toned skin lol. The color should come back but my t shirt sleeve covers 90 percent of it so no biggie. I got a lot going on personally so I have not really been on the site too much.