My favorite JRitS posts of the week, Vol. 91

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
01/13/2019 at 13:00 • Filed to: justrolledintotheshop, 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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Wait did you say gallons ?

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Seal of approval

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Oh yes they can

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Very very temporary

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Engine idling with no oil and the input shaft wanted to connect to the mainshaft.

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He was literally dragging one wheel, the diff was trashed. After I pulled both axles it spun “free”
Also for anyone who cares this was on. 12’ Chevy 3500 with a 6.6 Duro.

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...this tray is mounted in the back of a Ford Explorer. We strip the vehicles down, run our wires, install a bunch of shit (laptop stands, partition, gun lock etc) then reinstall the factory stuff and the electronics tray is the last step and ties it all together.
Lights, siren, etc...

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The original shifter assembly had soda spilled all over it causing the solenoid to stick. We replaced the shifter with a factory Ford part and this happened. We ordered another one, and the same thing. Upon further investigation we found 2 wires were mispinned in the connector of the new shifter assembles. Fucking bullshit.

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RIP

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[time for a] New tank and ring. Or if your my dipshit boss, go to my bay while I eat lunch and chisel away at the rust until you puncture the tank, and then get a new tank and ring.

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...this is his daily driver

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Found both outer tie rods not even connected. Begs the question of how the vehicle got this far without the driver noticing anything.

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Fatigue failure and consequential damage. Turbine was also broken off. Almost 500k miles on a semi truck

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Firestone over tightened so hard that it rounded off.
We get the Jeep.
Then when we get the extractor socket to finally grip it.... it sheered the lug nut in half before loosening at all.

Got em
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$65 labor and $14 parts. Smh

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