My favorite JRitS posts of the week, Vol. 100

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
03/17/2019 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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Call the dentist!

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Don’t be bitter, be glitter!

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How strong does a filter socket even need to be?

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...it’s a road salt spreader, that’s road salt covering the shop floor.

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Torque converter judder. Previous repair facility (non- franchise, privately owned) replaced tires, axles, 2 engine mounts chasing a “vibration on acceleration” concern...

...While driving the car with the computer linked, when the car is doing what the customer is concerned about, I can hit the “trigger” and the computer records all the data for the transmission. When I get back to the shop, I can configure all the sensor readings I want to see, convert it into line graph form, and voila! You have squiggly lines that represent what the customer is describing. Which also confirm that the problem is isolated inside of the torque converter.

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Customer was driving it and “BOOM” he thought that someone shot at him.

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Bet that was fun to roll in.

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Cage match!

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Run a mix of peaches and milk, and yes, it backfires pretty regularly

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Photos: j_agee

This was a while back I was the first tech at a dealership in the US that had one of these out and tore down was one hellava project

It had oil starvation to one of the cylinder heads that ate up the cams and head

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vf Holden commodore... I really don’t know how the o2 sensor and trans mount haven’t taken a hit

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14 Sierra. My mistake actually, I put a radiator in and didn’t get a cooler hose seated all the way. I cooked the tranny on a test drive....

I wish I had realized what happened. But I didn’t until it started slipping and it burnt up quick. I’ve seen these things towed in bone dry. we usually just fill them up and ship it. I didn’t get so lucky though. Yeah free rebuilds

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Rags to cringes

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I can’t even

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2007 Toyota Matrix

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Customer hit the [retention cables on the freeway] doing god knows what and actually slipped between them. The whole shop was trying to guess what did it until the customer fessed up.

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1/2 drive 14mm 12pt impact. Beaten half to death by me and my 4 pound hammerpurse. Lug nut started out life as a 19mm.

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Impreza/WRX

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Caught it in the nick of time!

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Transmission is falling out. 8 of 12 bolts missing and the only ones it has are at the bottom. Clutch pedal wouldn’t always return or go into gear every time. Clutch looks newer so probably didn’t get tightened it improperly tightened when reinstalled trans. Cummins ISX with 10 speed behind it.

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Things that make you go HMMMM

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She is very aware of it and in fact she was aware before I touched it because she had the front gasket done a while back and it was the same way.

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No pinch.

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[Airport limo] Since 2010

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Did he leave the keys behind too, I wonder?

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Obligatory brake post

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Obligatory tire post

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DISCUSSION (23)

jimz > Urambo Tauro
03/17/2019 at 13:10

that last one made my arse pucker. I hated when idiots wouldn’t tell me they dumped in Fix-a-Flat before I put the wheel on the machine and broke the beads. shit stinks like ammonia and leaves nasty residue anywhere it gets on you.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Urambo Tauro
03/17/2019 at 13:14

Kinja'd!!!

one way to do it i guess....

Goggles Pizzano > Urambo Tauro
03/17/2019 at 13:23

100 ! T hanks again.

Future Heap Owner > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
03/17/2019 at 13:41

Maybe he’s trying to move up in seniority...

Future Heap Owner > Urambo Tauro
03/17/2019 at 13:43

IDK if the posts were more cringey and less puzzling this week, but I figured out the issue in almost all of them pretty quickly. I did listen to some Car Talk yesterday so maybe that’s temporarily boosted my powers of automotive deduction (though it’s certainly done little for my hands-on skill).

Thanks as always!

shop-teacher > Goggles Pizzano
03/17/2019 at 13:55

Yes! I second that!

shop-teacher > Urambo Tauro
03/17/2019 at 13:56

The baby sleeping while hanging from the engine lift, is freaking adorable!

BvdV - The Dutch Engineer > Urambo Tauro
03/17/2019 at 16:11

Thanks for 100 of these amazing posts. You really have a nose for picking out the best ones!

MM54 > Urambo Tauro
03/17/2019 at 17:05

Congrats on 100 of these, lookin g fo rward to the next 100!

facw > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
03/17/2019 at 18:59

Thing is those cages do bend in an explosion, though here it seems like mainly the ceiling would be at risk.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Urambo Tauro
03/17/2019 at 22:59

Push every button!!!

Congrats on the century...it is SO much appreciated as it keep me out of the Reddithole.

MiniGTI - now with XJ6 > shop-teacher
03/17/2019 at 23:17

I took mine to work a couple times when he was little enough. You might remember I’m a pipe organ technician- nice of the builders of this one to have installed changing tables:

Kinja'd!!!

It was fun climbing the ladder with him in the carrier ha.

shop-teacher > MiniGTI - now with XJ6
03/17/2019 at 23:31

How thoughtful of them!

pip bip - choose Corrour > Urambo Tauro
03/18/2019 at 05:08

that NZ police commodore. seen VicPol do that on the divvy vans here so many times too

HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute > Urambo Tauro
03/18/2019 at 08:46

I saw your FP comment about the new CT5 and I have no commenting rights in the Jellopicnic so I wanted to let you know this: CTS stands for Cateta Touring Sedan, not Cadillac Touring Sedan because the CTS was supposed to be the direct successor to the Cavalier-based Catera in 2002 for the 2003 MY. Here's your comment in question: https://jalopnik.com/1833370504

HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute > Urambo Tauro
03/18/2019 at 08:47

Also, congrats on the 100th JRitS!!! Good stuff, keep it up!

Urambo Tauro > HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute
03/18/2019 at 10:19

“CTS” stands for Catera Touring Sedan , but “CT5” stands for Cadillac Touring 5 . Source: Cadillac Names Its Flagship “CT6,” Will Name All Future Cars CT#

HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute > Urambo Tauro
03/18/2019 at 10:24

Ah. So NOW the Catera is officially dead 100%.

Urambo Tauro > HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute
03/18/2019 at 10:32

Yeah, GM plays so many name games, it’s hard to keep anything straight. From FWD “Blazer”s and “Monte Carlo ”s to rear/mid-engine “ Corvette” s, to “ Lumina”s that could be either cars or vans ... and don’t even get me started on what they did to t he “ Cu tlass”!

GM has a big problem with brand identity.

HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute > Urambo Tauro
03/18/2019 at 10:37

Nothing beats BMW though....I don't even wanna get into their name game

Urambo Tauro > shop-teacher
03/18/2019 at 10:43

Who did it better?

Kinja'd!!!

Urambo Tauro > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
03/18/2019 at 10:50

Thanks! I gotta ad mit though , y ou guys are really missing out if you’re only watching my roundups . Every we ek I have to trim off some really good ones to keep it down to about two dozen entries. This week, I almost posted a tire that was full of Great Stuff instead of the Fix-a-Flat one... that was a hard call to make.

shop-teacher > Urambo Tauro
03/18/2019 at 10:53

I give them both an A+ in D adlopniking!

That one is extra cool, because the kid is awake and watching :)