My favorite JRitS posts of the week, Vol. 116

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
07/07/2019 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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...plumber’s business van, his floor board w as rusted out and he filled the holes with the same silicone caulking.

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Pictures you can smell

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He came back 45 min later and the pulley from his alternator was gone and new belt torn to shit again

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Cusstom

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Wookiees are known to do that...

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Bop it, twist it, pull it, replace it, ship it.

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Ah, the blue pill approach.

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...the builder is 100% paying for this.

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...customer pulled in hours after we were closed. ...The fire department put it out last night. For such a heavily modified car, fire extinguishers would’ve saved him... The interior of the car literally all melted. Everything. Even the seats.

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New out of the box with no threads.

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The customer did this because the head gaskets were leaking oil...

A Subaru that was filled with some form of block sealant. EVERYTHING was clogged up. Coolant passages, radiator, heater core, cross over tube, everything. The car overheated so badly from lack of coolant flow that the engine lost compression.

After a Subaru short block, remanufactured heads, all new hoses, new radiator, and new heater core it got out on the road again.

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03 Chev Astro van 4.3L

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...No oil on the wheel though so that thing had been done for a while

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13 Elantra

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He was trying to see if the intake had a vacuum leak... he hasn’t touched a can of carb or brake cleaner since lol

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Chassis harness for one of our Mack Dump Trucks.

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Putting the UGH in ugga dugga .

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Type F to pay respects

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Obligatory tire post

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Obligatory brake post

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Bonus brake post! (click link for video)

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DISCUSSION (6)

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Urambo Tauro
07/07/2019 at 13:18

Kinja'd!!!

*gags*

how did you get all those down there?

im a smoker and now hate smokers

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > Urambo Tauro
07/07/2019 at 13:37

Even though I’ve already cut the grass and had a couple cups of coffee, Sunday doesn’t start until this is posted. Good stuff as always.

gin-san - shitpost specialist > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
07/07/2019 at 13:51

Honestly, just throw it into a can or bottle. Apart from a house, the car is probably the next most valuable thing people own and they treat it like this... their house must be a disgusting sty.

His Stigness > Urambo Tauro
07/07/2019 at 13:58

Brake terminals are the devil’s work. I know I’ve arced them a few times over my career causing some pee to come out, but when I first started I dropped my extension across both long enough to interrupt power and leave a scar on the extension. That scared the shit out of me.

It would be really nice if every manufacturer covered both God damned terminals.

His Stigness > His Stigness
07/07/2019 at 18:31

Wow.

Battery terminals*

Urambo Tauro > His Stigness
07/07/2019 at 20:57

Haven’t arced anything yet, but I’ve come close.. . The battery is such a convenient place to set tools down!