Well that's not good

"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher) 01/06/2019 at 11:25 • Filed to: Rust monster

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I didn’t park my truck in its normal spot yesterday, so I could try put my new jack. This morning I found a chunk of my truck laying on the ground. That doesn’t make me feel great.

It’ s th ick and flakey.

Balls.

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > shop-teacher 01/06/2019 at 11:33

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But how did it taste?

I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > shop-teacher 01/06/2019 at 11:38

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Oof. Did you crawl under and see where it fell from?

Also, how did it taste?

shop-teacher > I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker 01/06/2019 at 11:39

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Not yet, but I need to do that today.

Salty.

Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! > shop-teacher 01/06/2019 at 11:40

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Hey look it's either rocker panel or door or frame

shop-teacher > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul 01/06/2019 at 11:40

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Salty.

I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > shop-teacher 01/06/2019 at 11:42

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Hm. My rust chunks are usually smaller and flakier, and taste kind of sulfur-y. 

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > shop-teacher 01/06/2019 at 11:44

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You should move.

shop-teacher > Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! 01/06/2019 at 11:45

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Based on it's location under where I found it, I'm guessing frame.

shop-teacher > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/06/2019 at 11:47

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In all seriousness, we have discussed moving because the teacher pension system is so badly screwed up in Illinois, but I have no idea where we’d go or how I'd make a living . Hard to get a teaching job when you're 13 years in, and Masters +45.

MM54 > shop-teacher 01/06/2019 at 11:50

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The crown vic does this regularly and has for years. At some point it’ll run out of rocker and pinch weld and stop dropping material, right?

nermal > shop-teacher 01/06/2019 at 11:53

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The proper response here is not to pick up the chunk of truck , but rather to kick it under somebody else’s vehicle .

Then it’s their problem and not your’s. 

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > shop-teacher 01/06/2019 at 12:06

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New Mexico is always hiring teachers, but the pay stinks here. The consolation is warmth, lack of rust and a cheap cost of living.

Maybe that was just some extra truck you didn’t really need.

Wheelerguy > shop-teacher 01/06/2019 at 12:07

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shop-teacher, I don’t feel so good...

shop-teacher > MM54 01/06/2019 at 12:08

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SSsuuuuure :)

shop-teacher > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 01/06/2019 at 12:10

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I mean, I still have a truck, so I guess I didn’t need that part :)

Pay stinks for teachers in most places. I actually make a decent salary here, making it that much harder to leave.

shop-teacher > nermal 01/06/2019 at 12:11

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The only other vehicle here is my wife's CX-5, sooooo

shop-teacher > Wheelerguy 01/06/2019 at 12:11

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Ah jeeze!

Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks > shop-teacher 01/06/2019 at 12:12

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You could always come to Ohio! Our teacher pensions aren’t completely FUBAR and our teacher pay isn’t a total joke.

Oh wait, we abolished public education in favor of “ charter” “ schools.”

shop-teacher > Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks 01/06/2019 at 12:13

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Ugh.

Too bad, I kinda like Ohio.

MM54 > shop-teacher 01/06/2019 at 12:13

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I tried to include a picture in that reply of a 16+ inch long section of pinch weld it dropped a while ago, but Kinja.

shop-teacher > MM54 01/06/2019 at 12:15

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That’s actually rather impressive.

Kinja, figures.

Urambo Tauro > shop-teacher 01/06/2019 at 12:17

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I never figured out where to draw the line between flake and chunk , but a piece that big always makes my heart sink.

Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks > shop-teacher 01/06/2019 at 12:22

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Well you could go work for a “charter” “school” of course. Their staff make millions of dollars a year since the company rakes in billions from taxpayers.

Unless you don’t know one of the owners.

Then you’d make more working at Walmart.

But at least there aren’t any students either.

And hey, it’s not like you have to worry if they get shut down by the state for fraud. They’ll just start up under a new name again.

MiniGTI - now with XJ6 > shop-teacher 01/06/2019 at 13:08

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You remember my Jaguar right? The whole passenger floor pan and transmission tunnel was made of that. You should have seen my driveway the day I brought it home.

I did have my Jag mechanic weld in a new floor and patch up the worst of the rest. Of course that was a bit expense …

shop-teacher > Urambo Tauro 01/06/2019 at 13:29

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When it’s nearly an 1/8" thick, it’s a chunk.

Yeah, my heart sank too.

shop-teacher > Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks 01/06/2019 at 13:30

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Ugh. Hard pass.

shop-teacher > MiniGTI - now with XJ6 01/06/2019 at 13:31

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Yeah, I remember it. Rust repair ain't cheap! I'll have to do the rockers of my truck in the next couple years.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > shop-teacher 01/06/2019 at 13:41

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Taos, New Mexico. They're recruiting hard for teachers. Homes are cheap. And cars don't rust. Remarkably diverse, too.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > shop-teacher 01/06/2019 at 13:42

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Top scale is $54k in Taos. Plus health insurance.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks 01/06/2019 at 13:43

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That reads like a bit of hyperbole.

shop-teacher > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/06/2019 at 13:51

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That’d be an awfully big hit in the wallet for me ... I'm considering it though!

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/06/2019 at 14:15

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Taos (and Santa Fe) are about the only expensive to live areas of New Mexico. In Santa Fe, relatively few people that work there can actually afford to live there unless they bought a house before the 90's.

MM54 > shop-teacher 01/06/2019 at 14:30

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Last photo a ttempt:

Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/06/2019 at 14:33

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It’s not. It’s not even a little bit.

This is what is actually fucking happening in Ohio. Click the links. That’s just scratching the surface. Most “charter” “schools” will only hire ‘TFA’ victims and fresh-out-of-college kids, adjunct basis, less than $15 per hour. There are absolutely no salaried positions. It’s all adjunct hourly.

The average public school teacher salary in Cleveland, Ohio is about $59k.

The average “charter” “school” teacher salary is about $36k.

See for yourself:

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/ohio-elementary-school-teacher-salary-SRCH_IL.0,4_IS2235_KO5,30.htm

Every single one of the Charter school positions is half the public school salary for the same position and area.

Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks > shop-teacher 01/06/2019 at 14:35

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But who will we get to completely and utterly destroy everyone involved in this shitshow then?

Seriously. Seizing the assets of all these criminals is not even a good start. There needs to be deaths for what they have done to society and education. A lot of death. Their shit has set society, education, and research back at least five decades if not a full century.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 01/06/2019 at 14:49

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I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, so almost everywhere else looks cheap.

shop-teacher > MM54 01/06/2019 at 15:26

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DAAAAYUM!

shop-teacher > Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! 01/06/2019 at 16:11

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Trailer hitch.

At least it's replaceable.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks 01/06/2019 at 16:15

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I believe you. Is this a Betsy DeV os deal?

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks 01/06/2019 at 16:16

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The state of families nowadays is not helping any if that.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > MM54 01/06/2019 at 20:29

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Weight reduction.

MiniGTI - now with XJ6 > shop-teacher 01/06/2019 at 21:00

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Think I’ll just not worry about the rest, it’s not too bad and I avoid driving it in the wet so hopefully it won’t get much worse. Otherwise it’s been running really well and I’ve put almost 8000 miles on it. Will roll over 100k pretty soon.

Nibby > shop-teacher 01/06/2019 at 21:36

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the top picture looks like a brownie

shop-teacher > Nibby 01/06/2019 at 21:48

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Didn't taste like one.

shop-teacher > MiniGTI - now with XJ6 01/06/2019 at 23:31

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Nice!

shop-teacher > I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker 01/06/2019 at 23:36

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It fell off the trailer hitch. Some more of it fell off into my hand. At least that’s replaceable.

I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > shop-teacher 01/07/2019 at 04:00

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Wow, a bit crusty under there. 

shop-teacher > I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker 01/07/2019 at 07:02

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Yeah, just a bit.

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > shop-teacher 01/07/2019 at 10:14

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Mazda’s do have rust issues......

shop-teacher > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 01/07/2019 at 11:55

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They used to, but m y wife’s ‘ 06 3 didn’t have a spot of rust on it when we traded it in after 8- years.

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > shop-teacher 01/07/2019 at 12:18

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I have a feeling you likely take good care of your vehicles.

In reality though, I see plenty of early 2000s Mazdas around here that still look great, so it doesn’t really surprise me.

shop-teacher > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 01/07/2019 at 12:41

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I take reasonable care of my vehicles, but I don’t go crazy. I try to keep them washed in the winter, and I do my routine maintenance on a reasonable schedule . I just don’t beat the crap out of them.

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > shop-teacher 01/07/2019 at 12:48

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I beat the living hell out of my vehicles, but they are meticulously maintained and cleaned, so you’d never know by looking ( unless you happen to see the rubber spray around the wheel wells ).

shop-teacher > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 01/07/2019 at 12:49

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Either approach works pretty well :)

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > shop-teacher 01/07/2019 at 12:50

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I figure I must be doing something right, I manage almost 200k out of Chrysler transmissions.......

shop-teacher > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 01/07/2019 at 12:53

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That is a feat to be proud of my friend.

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > shop-teacher 01/07/2019 at 12:59

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If you saw what I put them through, you’d be very impressed.

My last failed one ended like this at 199,500 miles :

Got it with 48k. Ran it in auto-x with the engine cranking about 50hp over stock, numerous reverse/neutral drops, continual manual shifting, etc. Never gave any sign of giving up until it let fly one day picking the kids up. 

shop-teacher > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 01/07/2019 at 14:03

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WOW!