My favorite JRitS posts of the week, Vol. 75

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
09/23/2018 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.

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

Improvise. Adapt. Adapt. Adapt. Overcome.

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

...wherever the department gets their service done there was a tech who drained it but didn’t fill it. After it blew it was inspected with no oil on the dipstick. After sitting and checking it again oil magically appeared. At least that’s the story I heard.

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

There’s supposed to be friction material there.

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

It left a trail of roller bearings pulling into the bay

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

He’s putting racing stripes on it.

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

it has an electric pump to run coolant the the water to trans cooler, the pump failed, drove 4 hrs with the car unable to go over 50 mph through the mountains. died a block from the shop

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

1991 Mazda 626... we told the guy just to scrap it before the rust falls away and it’s worth less!

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

...the internals of the cv joint at transfer case

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

...A small oil leak on a beater Chevy wasn’t something I was gonna drop everything for. Told them I’d be out in a few days. In the meantime I get a text saying they stopped the leak but not it won’t start.. gasket sealer on a crankshaft position sensor will tend to do that...

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

Don’t forget to change your window tint every 3000 miles!

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

You sure it wasn’t a HURR DURR ?

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

Here is the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! ... Yea it sucked balls, took me and a few other students about 4hrs to clean up.

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

17 Silverado Duramax... It ended up having a turbo underboost code along with a mass airflow code so he believes that something definitely got in there and did some damage

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

Gx670 vtwin (on a grain auger), can’t be more than 5 years old, still has the price tag

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

Better than a garbage bag, that’s for sure.

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

“I wasn’t asking”

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

(click for video)

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

We get it, you brake.

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

Update to !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! (seen in JRitS vol 65)

The adjuster came out and I got pretty sideways with him over their choice to fix it. He was adamant that it needed to be fixed and not totaled. He said the price they needed it at before it would be totaled out was $37k.

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

The smell was highly offensive.

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

No oil pressure, you say?

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

Obligatory brake post

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

Obligatory tire post

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

DISCUSSION (8)

Junkrat aka Rick Sanchez: Fury Road Edition > Urambo Tauro
09/23/2018 at 13:25

Like others said in the the thread of the truck struck by lightning, sell it as fast as he can.

What’s up with Mazdas and structural rust ? My area is not know for rust at all and there is an abnormal amount of surviving 70s/80s/90s econoboxes that are still daily drivers. The 90's/early 00's Mazdas can’t even make it here.

That torque converter got a little warm.

jimz > Junkrat aka Rick Sanchez: Fury Road Edition
09/23/2018 at 13:46

IIRC for the longest time they used a simpler pre-primer dip process which offered less corrosion protection than the multi-step process other car companies use:

Also, the other causes of r usting from the inside out is inadequate sealing of seams which the anti-corrosion dip can’t get into, and the body design not avoiding “traps” where water and salt can get into and stay there.

I would say all three contribute to this:

Kinja'd!!!

MM54 > Urambo Tauro
09/23/2018 at 13:51

I am genuinely impressed that the transmission that clutch pack came out of still worked. The worn-off friction material must have clogged up the pressure relief or something to be able to clamp those now-smooth discs together!

Urambo Tauro > MM54
09/23/2018 at 13:57

You almost can’t even tell that those were the frictions! At first glance, I thought those were the steels, with some schmoo on them. Had to pay attention to the inner and outer teeth to tell them apart.

MM54 > Urambo Tauro
09/23/2018 at 14:05

Likewise. If there weren’t a hint of friction material on the one I’d have trouble believing that that’s a set and not from two different packs and the photo staged .

shop-teacher > Urambo Tauro
09/23/2018 at 14:36

That insurance one is mind boggling.

Nom De Plume > Urambo Tauro
09/23/2018 at 15:28

That automotive school film was an unflinching behavioral examination. Pathos, awe, “oil-proof boots”, and at the end of the day friendship.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Urambo Tauro
09/23/2018 at 18:27

Crunchy and rusty but with just a hint of spectacular lubrication...so I laughed!