My favorite JRitS posts of the week, Vol. 103

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
04/07/2019 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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Got eem!

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So I took it apart. The booster pushes on the piston going into the master. The piston has fluid filled behind it in the master, and has two rubber seals keeping fluid out of the booster. This car had a very very slight leak into the booster, causing brake fluid to pool at the bottom. Over a long enough timeline, it rusted apart to the point that the booster completely separated. There was no brake application at all, and it threw a CEL due to the vacuum loss and an ESP light due to loss of travel sensor signal. Pretty interesting failure compared to most days.

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Lube rack kid threw up. I felt like I opened a mummy’s crypt and let out a poison cloud.

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[Vehicle owner] is a college freshman...

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There was no history of the person at our shop in our records, I’d assume a DIY person. I forgot to ask the tech who worked on it if they talked to the owner or not lol

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No joke these are going back in the machine. We had the same situation a few months ago and we have all the drawings to get new gears and the wheel that the bull gear is attached to. Just had to get a machine shop to make them and we could rip them apart and replace everything in a day.....my shop doesn’t do things like that...

The manager should be convincing the GM to spend a few thousand to save 10's of thousands.

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Snap on, surprisingly. I bought a new tool set for school and along with this socket I got a hex head socket that wasn’t press fit correctly so the physical hex part could slide up and down and it was super loose. Was pretty surprised to find two defective sockets but my tool rep took care of it with no issues.

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...this was a service body truck that had 7 50" lightbars, 4 spotlights, 2 compressors and a crane on it

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So, it is a 2019 with a 1000 miles on it... The rear end is trash and has to be rebuilt. We just got these new lifts installed about 6 months ago... Our dealership is very dysfunctional with high turnover.

$8000.00 estimate from body shop and my co worker didnt bother to call customer today. We will probably try and trade him out

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Video: Coosabrew

Runs rough complaint... Buick Century, 1995

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Shocking!

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My man! The hunt is over before it even began.

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Is this real life?

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Attempts were made.

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Pop goes the weasel!

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I just changed it for the guy. Now it looks like a normal truck again... Not sure how it ended up like that in the first place though

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This is out of a D13 diesel out of a Volvo... It sent cylinder 5 to hell and created a 14 inch long viewing window into the side and a smaller hole on the other... That is the Air compressor and tandem pump on the ground during the tear down of the engine.

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Taking torque steer to a new low.

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...I was changing a center support bearing and ran into this. Was still on the vehicle working.

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Chevy Silverado, all white newer model I think it was a 2015

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Nothing is operable when turning the key except the CEL. A battery and a terminal is a starting point then see if anything else comes on line. I anticipate the ‘well, you’re still screwed’ phone call to take place Monday as I already warned them about.

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Don’t forget to trim your exhaust pubes!

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Obligatory brake post(s)

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Obligatory tire post

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DISCUSSION (5)

jimz > Urambo Tauro
04/07/2019 at 13:08

that service body truck doesn’t surprise me at all. let’s just say the quality of work by vocational upfitters can be... highly variable.

Deltyn drives a meh car > Urambo Tauro
04/07/2019 at 13:19

Ill be joining this thread on Reddit. Thanks. Lots of weird ones for sure.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Urambo Tauro
04/07/2019 at 17:28

A lovely mix of ignorance, stupidity, mystery and broken metal in this week's episode.

MM54 > Urambo Tauro
04/07/2019 at 18:30

I had something similar to the brake booster happen on my crown vic. The MC seals had failed and been leaking fluid into the booster for who-knows-how-long before I got it; not long after purchase (I’d replaced the MC but not booster, still worked) I noticed a weird bubbling/percolating sound from in front of my while the engine was running.

After much investigating, the booster was full of fluid and the bottom of the seam had rusted through, very slowly dribbl ing out fluid when off, and when vacuum was applied (i.e. engine running) air was bubbling up through the fluid, hence the comical blub-pop-bloop from directly in front of the driver.

shop-teacher > Urambo Tauro
04/08/2019 at 07:11

Man, there’s a lot of ca rnage this week!