My favorite JRitS posts of the week, Vol. 140

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
12/22/2019 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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...eclipse strut tower

I pulled it in my bay, then out of my bay, and not a foot further after making it very, very clear this was unsafe

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The diff breather was re routed on the truck and was plugged close

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...The store that did this was a chain shop (unnamed) and will be paying for the coolant flush...

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It wasn’t a crazy leak but audible in the car

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The insides of the insert are all burnt up and the two pieces are not separable.

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...this is an air tractor 602 and this is out by the wing tip. In the bottom of this pic you can see the aileron.

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Video: kxw223

He ended up changing his mind, after finding out a replacement can be here in 2ih days. Thank god. Were lucky it didnt smack the operator.

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I was standing over 10 ft away when they were trying to pop the trunk for the tire that needed repair (key wasn’t working) and I smelled it

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...It happens once a year at least...

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Resting in the hood spring spot, battery was installed backwards.

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...we don’t really know how he did it.

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Photos: thelastleroy

This one tragically met its no-core exchange fate after personal advice not to try and drive it in. Owner knew the fwd diff was lunched and decided to try his luck with the inter axle lock engaged. Didn’t make it, still tow truck bill and no core exchange on this disaster of a differential. Some lessons must be learned through suffrage.

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With us moving to a new shop in around 20 days, they slapped a do not use sign on it and called it good.

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Obligatory Christmas post

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They had mouse problems so the dude made one they can’t eat

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Hey, cut. It. Out!

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Minnesota! ...this has like 250,000 miles...

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All cars left longer than 5 days will be used for comedic content

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My lift failed and I was told by my manager to pinch the sides of the lock release when lowering the car. Well when the car (Honda CR-V) hit the lock point it snapped back catching the tip of my finger in the lock leaver with the weight of a crv

...my coworkers are saying sue cause we’ve complained about this lift for weeks

https://old.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/edv4h1/lift_failed_and_claimed_my_finger/

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