My favorite JRitS posts of the week, Vol. 54

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
04/29/2018 at 13:00 • Filed to: justrolledintotheshop, just rolled into the shop, reddit, wrenching, fail

Reddit’s !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! is a veritable cornucopia of the many !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! of shop lyfe. You never know what’s gonna roll in. Here’s what caught my eye this week.

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HOW is that even holding?

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Engine was up to temp, radiator was pretty close, clutch was very easy to overcome.

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F150... 2013 if I remember right.

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This one came off of one of the police training vehicles. They usually burn up from driving them so hard and the gear oil just can’t handle the heat. I’ve replaced a lot of them.

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Oh look a GMT400 dump truck. Neat.

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Tbf his interior are in like new condition for 40k miles. We’ll take care

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If only there was some way to tell...

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It’s funny when liars have trust issues.

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“Replaced everything” but mis placed something, apparently...

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When you need a code to read codes...

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the worst part was she took it to her mechanic yesterday & he told her nothings wrong with it it just needs new tires & an alignment...

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Welp, those studs are duds.

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Just like playing Operation...

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Paper wasps right behind the grill on a 2001 Nissan Xterra. About 20 wasps and their nest.

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That would bug me.

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So the story is a morning guy installed the diff, could have filled the diff but didn’t. Job rolls over to a green night guy to finish up the job by installing axles, should have confirmed that there was oil in the diff but didn’t and sent the truck out.

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No flex section. It’s literally cat, then 2 feet of pipe to 2 90 degree sections with a vibration dampener, THEN a hanger. It’s very poorly designed

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Electric power steering control box. Side by side was flipped and sat on its side for days while the battery leaked acid on it.

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460 from a 95 F-Superduty box truck.

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Obligatory brake post

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Obligatory tire post

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DISCUSSION (5)

shop-teacher > Urambo Tauro
04/29/2018 at 23:48

Liars always have trust issues, for the same reason I would never buy an ex-rental car ... I know what I’ve done.

As for the GMT-400 dump truck, we have a local hoarder who’s entire minivan is packed like that.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Urambo Tauro
05/06/2018 at 13:14

Darn, my post didn’t make the cut.

Urambo Tauro > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
05/06/2018 at 13:54

Did I miss it? I guess it’s possible, with over 300 posts a week haha.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Urambo Tauro
05/06/2018 at 14:34

It was the one about the mouse nest in the blower motor. https://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/8g2kg1/cs_heat_doesnt_blow/?utm_source=reddit-android

Urambo Tauro > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
05/06/2018 at 15:00

Dang, I must’ve clicked right past it. Sorry dude.

When I put these roundups together, I prefer to work on a draft post a little every day while I browse through the most recent JRitS posts on Reddit (about 50 posts per day). But I slacked off this week, and had about a dozen pages of links to go through on Saturday. It takes me a couple of hours to catch up and compose the Kinja post at that point.