Nightmare scenario, but it all worked out, Punctured coolant line under car (ej swapped 914) Options

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Yesterday me and my friends went on a day trip to hurricane ridge from Tacoma wa (if you haven’t been there you need to go). About half way there my friends volvo broke 3 out of 4 front brake lines. We replaced all 3 at the cheveron it rolled to and we were off again. We ended up making it to hurricane ridge. About halfway up the ridge we wanted to take some shots of the cars driving past. My friend gets out of my car, we get the shots and as i go to make a u turn to go pick him back up the rock I thought was small got really big really fast. The rock goes under my car makes some very bad noises. I stop immediately open the door and look underneath to see what had happened; my coolant line was dangling and it was leaking water at the front. This is my nightmare scenario. Me, my friends and a guy in a truck with a lot of the tools we needed immediately go into surgery mode, cutting off the blood flow, elevating the wound and finally removing the punctured bit of coolant line. We reattached the coolant line and bled the system on the side of a mountain mind you. Anyone who owns a watercooled swap, knows its hard to bleed the air out of the system, but somehow we managed. We install the one remaining clap and tie the back end of the coolant tube up with some wire and set off. This setup made it the 100 mile trip back home snd then some. Im very happy to be able to type this story from the comfort of my home!