My favorite JRitS posts of the week, Vol. 98

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
03/03/2019 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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Driving is hard

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We’re gonna need a LOT of rice.

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...they told me it was the right one
...might have to use the shrinker

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Neither rad nor cool.

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...the noise was obvious, not to mention the wheel leaning inwards really bad. Dude declined the work initially (drivers UCA, 4 tires, rear brakes, alignment), but then later changed his mind. He only got 1 tire (drive front, belts were showing), the UCA and the alignment.

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So we had a 6.6l come in with no oil pressure, running fine though. Scanned it, no oil pressure showing and after testing the wires decided it needed an oil pressure sending unit. Pull the sensor out and diesel fuel starts coming out...hm, that’s odd. Maybe it’s fresh oil, not likely to look that clean when it’s an 03, but going through the process nonetheless. Pull the drain plug and it poured gallons worth of diesel fuel...

Customer doesn’t want to pay for the extra diag to check the injectors, so we filled it back up and they’re gonna pass it off to the next person

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Using an abrasive pad like a Scotchbrite or Brillo to clean the gasket surfaces will cause very abrasive particulate to get into the oil channels. When you fire up the engine after doing the job, there’s a momentary oil starvation aggravated by the abrasive particulate, and scores the rod bearings, halfshells, etc until the galleries are full of oil and everything resumes flowing normally. 10-15k down the road, you get a catastrophic crankshaft wobble...

https://old.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/av0s7o/n55_crankshaft_failures_after_oil_filter_housing/

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One post actually failed over night then the car slipped and got caught on the the side that didn’t fail. Crane had to put its arm inside the shop and lift with cables, then retract the arm with car attached. Total mess...

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Golf ball dimple aero

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Really tricky spot. Got it half way out with a ball joint press and the rest of the way with the slide hammer. !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!

Here’s the space the ball joint press doesn’t fit

Air hammered it back in. Not on the stud obviously

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So the story behind this one the car was towed into our shop from another shop. The owner had driven it there for a routine service. That shop called her and told her that they had tried to change the spark plugs but someone had put oversized ones in before and now they have to pull the cylinder head off. She told them to go ahead with it then they rang back telling her it needed a new engine. Since she had driven the car there and it was running fine before this she thought something was odd. So she called us and arranged to have it towed to our shop. This is what we can see. Not 100% sure what the other shop did but it was nasty!

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Nice pressure or crack pipe

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It’s dead, Jim.

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So the story is apparently that someone also threw up in between the back seats, pressure washed it and put hay on top of it to suck the moisture out. It really does smell like absolute shit.

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What in TARnation?

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I felt horrible for the guy, he just bought it from a shady dealer without a ppi...

Front and rear suspension over haul, headgaskets, valve cover gaskets, steering rack, p/s pump. Tgv deleted, countless codes, wont pass emissions. The list goes on

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Warranty work

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...this one has been a while. The service writers have it on display as what not to do

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Cars a fuckin turd... Every possible service light on, wheel bent in front, that broken tie rod, control arm bushings with a lot of play, needs new tires and new brakes.

...Its a caddy cts.

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...I don’t understand how people crash their cars into the VERY LARGE RED TRUCK COVERED IN FLASHING LIGHTS!

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Manual wipers

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Obligatory tire post

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Obligatory brake post

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DISCUSSION (10)

VincentMalamute-Kim > Urambo Tauro
03/03/2019 at 13:53

I like these posts. You’re also making me fearful of half the cars driving next to me.

shop-teacher > Urambo Tauro
03/03/2019 at 14:02

Man, I was mad when my daughter left a car door open in the garage, draining the battery. I can't imagine finding that in the morning.

Future Heap Owner > Urambo Tauro
03/03/2019 at 15:13

A hoot as always. I loved the “Russian wiper system.” Took me a few seconds to realize what I was looking at, then I lol’d.

That poor sap with the STI, tho...

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Urambo Tauro
03/03/2019 at 17:26

There’s some nice Australian content this week ...

...though may the world never bring the Ice Age into my vehicle interior.

facw > VincentMalamute-Kim
03/03/2019 at 18:25

And these are the most interesting posts from JRITS, not the most deadly.

facw > shop-teacher
03/03/2019 at 18:27

Cars really should be smarter about their batteries anyway. Like tracking charge and going into a power saving mode to limit draw by powering down non-essential components like dome lights as the battery starts approaching a level where it couldn’t start the car.

shop-teacher > facw
03/03/2019 at 19:00

Yeah, my 13 year old base model truck has that. Battery rundown protection, is what GM calls it. I was pretty pissed to find out my 3-year old top trim Mazda does not have that :/

pip bip - choose Corrour > Urambo Tauro
03/04/2019 at 04:46

i shudder at the cylinder head one and the Subaru with JB weld

BigBlock440 > Urambo Tauro
03/04/2019 at 11:55

It took a bit to figure out what was going on with the obligatory brake post, but when I saw it...

Urambo Tauro > BigBlock440
03/04/2019 at 12:41

These pad orientation post s and the bleeder-on-the-bottom ones always make for some good “when you see it...” puzzles.