My favorite JRitS posts of the week, Vol. 94

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
02/03/2019 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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Taurus

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I’d be too mad to hold the camera steady, too.

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...drove for 6 hours straight and apparently didn’t have the presence of mind to check her fluids before doing so. When she got to town she then drove it around all weekend while she was here, then tried to leave on Monday and got all of 15 miles from here before she cooked the engine.

this one gave it’s last breathes rolling off the trailer into this spot. If anyone is wondering it’s an 05 Saturn Vue with the 4 cylinder and a manual transmission.

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He called me about it saying he was gonna have it towed over here. He shows up today and he’s got his buddy with a truck flat towing it with a rope and this is what greeted me.

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Waiters gonna wait

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Original air filter at 160000 km, all torn and soggy.

Combine with bald rear tires in winter and it was probably wot spinning in place quite often.

The van originally came in crank no start, checked a few things and noticed massive errors in vvt angles while cranking, lifted valve cover and found cam angles to be incorrect, started teardown for a timing set + phasers and found sand in everything. The engine oil was full of bearing material, so the teardown was stopped, job changed to engine R&R.

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2019 Chevy Express 2500 Cargo... The wire is routed inbetween the rotor and heat shield. It is supposed to be inboard of the heat shield. Wiring harnesses generally do not hold up well to the 400+ degree temps of hot rotors on cargo vans.

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Dropped this bad boy down from an enviro 300 bus...

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It died whilst driving on the highway, oh yeah there’s internal damage. Fortunately I’m not the tech working on it, but I believe it was estimated for a full long block before it got pushed back outside.

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This is why Takumi uses regular water.

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Hyundai Veloster, no valve cutouts on piston. Only two pistons have the dents, the ones with no compression.

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Oil filter from an 09 BMW 318D. No idea on how long this has been.

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Mercedes e350 with diesel om642 engine, this is typical for non sprinter v6 engine. Car not driven enough on freeway, short drive cycles, plugged dpf filter, frequent regen, manual says 10k mile oil change, welcome locked up crankshaft

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For those wondering this is in the Midwest in the USA but it’s not really a big city everyone just doesn’t take care of their battery’s

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No boost for you!

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No timing cover or anything! 2.0 contour

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Vauxhall insignia 2.0cdti, dash has an oil quality meter that when it gets to zero means it needs an oil change. Driver thought it was an oil level meter, to be fair it’s actually not totally obvious, and added oil, then more oil. Thought something was up when it would rev up on its own when stopped and smoked a lot. Suspect it briefly ran on its engine oil through the breather system when they came to a stop at lights.

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...the ring gear got into an argument with the cover. And won!

Customer didn’t authorize opening it up. Drove it home.

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What you’re looking at is the spider out of a differential with the torched-off axle shafts stuck in it. Some nitwit put in an axle shaft that was too long. He used the studs to just force it the last 1/2" or so. Well, it friction welded. Whole 3rd member had to be torched to pieces to get this out.

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The battery was pressed up against a pulley and the belt.

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Vid eo: -E-Cross

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DISCUSSION (15)

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Urambo Tauro
02/03/2019 at 13:22

Kinja'd!!!

welp.. oil pumps are metal... i vote for torching everything and hoping its left afterward

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Urambo Tauro
02/03/2019 at 13:38

“why can’t we have autobahns in the US”

“I’d like to introduce evidence 1-26"

His Stigness > Urambo Tauro
02/03/2019 at 16:41

Let me start our own Oppo JRitS.

Kinja'd!!!

I turned it away.

Urambo Tauro > His Stigness
02/03/2019 at 16:59

Oof, I can almost smell it from here . That thing made it all the way int o your service bay before it got rejected, huh ?

facw > His Stigness
02/03/2019 at 17:49

Yep, I feel like shops that get some of these awful cars should tack on some $200-300 cleaning fee, and send it off to a cleaner if the customer accepts. No one should feel they have to work on that.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > His Stigness
02/03/2019 at 17:53

wtf is that on the floor?

His Stigness > Urambo Tauro
02/03/2019 at 18:10

This was a smog, and I’ve never turned away a car for being gross before. I’ve sucked it up and put on extra gloves and then burned the uniform I was wearing. But this was extra special gross, and I knew it would fail, so thag meant it would have to come back again, so that was the final straw for me.

Oh and it was raining so it was extra special smelly.

His Stigness > facw
02/03/2019 at 18:11

When I own a shop and something comes in like that I would basically refuse to work on it for sanitary reasons. But if they insist then I'll tell them we'll have to get it cleaned and charge them for it. Let them write a bad review, the only people who would care would have cars in similar states of decay.

His Stigness > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
02/03/2019 at 18:12

I was too young to die so I didn’t investigate.

But I think it's a combination of bird food, peanuts, and other bits of trash and food.

shop-teacher > His Stigness
02/03/2019 at 22:17

Gadamn!!

shop-teacher > Urambo Tauro
02/03/2019 at 22:18

This week was the sludge edition!

Urambo Tauro > shop-teacher
02/03/2019 at 22:33

Batteries too! BAD week for batteries lol .

shop-teacher > Urambo Tauro
02/03/2019 at 22:49

Yeah, those too!

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > His Stigness
02/06/2019 at 22:32

You would have been justified fixing it with a book of matches. Is that soup and a soup catcher, for like 6 soup?

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > His Stigness
02/06/2019 at 22:36

I had one which poured rodent turd like sand though an hourglass when you removed any bolt from the dash. And one “skinbox” car. Remember Goldmember saving one for the skinbox? he drove a ‘99 saturn. (It was blackGOLD! for good measure)