My favorite JRitS posts of the week, Vol. 57

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
05/20/2018 at 13:00 • Filed to: justrolledintotheshop, just rolled into the shop, reddit, wrenching, fail

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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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The chosen one has brought balance.

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Bet that cost an arm...

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“Payne, I can’t feel my legs!”

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ZERO. POINT. ZERO.

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On the next episode of Roadkill...

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Why have slotted or drilled rotors when you can get punched ones instead?

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...we don’t re-chain them. Ever. It requires a special tool that Nissan doesn’t supply

... second hand shops do this but the cost to rebuild through Nissan with labor is higher than a replacement so, to save the company money, we replace

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Jack-o-can’tern

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2.7 TT. The plastic water outlet for the T-stat is behind the timing belt...

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Tiny Pixie Mixer System

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There’s a spider on the tire, on the tire...

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Leaking straight though the filter, as soon as I moved it from the holding bracket it started pouring out.

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Who needs a broom? just grab a magnet instead.

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Could be wurst

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He kinda panicked.

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(click for video)

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Freightliner CHM (chassis module)

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Now we’re cooking!

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You do the math.

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Oh it’s screwed alright.

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Leak it or not...

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Arc the herald angels sing

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The end of the axle snapped.

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Obligatory brake post. (There were a LOT of brake posts this week, plenty more horrific than this...)

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Obligatory tire post

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DISCUSSION (3)

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Urambo Tauro
05/20/2018 at 13:12

Kinja'd!!!

again?

come on... if a wheel is that wonky replace it

you’ve done something horrible to it... own it

winterlegacy, here 'till the end > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
05/20/2018 at 15:44

or the last tech to put weights on it doesn’t understand what weight distribution is

His Stigness > winterlegacy, here 'till the end
05/20/2018 at 16:06

It’s amazing how stupid tire techs are. Just before I left America’s Tire (good learning experience to learn what real work is, and see what the bottom of the barrel has to offer) they hired some idiot. He spent several days on the spare tire machine trying to learn how to mount and dismount tires. He never got it. And balancing was just black magic to him. He just didn’t understand it. He would just listen to the machine. It was so funny to watch him struggle to balance a tire and would always counterbalance them.