My favorite JRitS posts of the week, Vol. 142

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
01/05/2020 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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This is a rear diff out of a underground mining transportation bus in Australia.

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Cue the circus music...

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Upper timing chain guide broke off and it jumped time. I’m still going through everything to see what all is damaged. Vehicle is a 2010 Mini Cooper S

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10/10, would take on a Long_Voyage

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Funny-looking fuel pump...

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...14 ram 6.7

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So hot right now

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Story behind this. Customer came in after both motor mounts failed when he went over a speed bump.

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Da bigga da gob, da betta da job

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Shop hockey, anyone?

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I work on the lift in front of it, I was doing my stuff and I heard a loud crack

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How low can you go?

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Towed in, customer said its been making a growling turned grinding noise for over a year. Was driving down the highway when he heard a pop. The only thing holding the wheel on the car was the rotor.

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07 Audi A3 2.0

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...I had just vacuumed and charged the S10 only to find that it had a leaky service valve, so I knew that it was full of clean refrigerant.

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How much is your job worth?

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...shit was falling off of it while moving it. It’s all just fucking glued on.

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Was sitting in a farm tractor that hadn’t been used in years. Charged it, and boom

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Welp, time to go back to H6054 buckets

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Obligatory tire post

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DISCUSSION (10)

jimz > Urambo Tauro
01/05/2020 at 13:16

It’s funny how these “techs” bitch about Ford lug nuts when it’s “techs” like them hammering on the things with worn out impact sockets which are ruining them.

lone_liberal > Urambo Tauro
01/05/2020 at 13:31

The kid (I hope it’s a kid) with the Toyota spent an incredible amount of money to make his car look good and in the end a ‘95 Voyager looks better.

Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo > jimz
01/05/2020 at 13:47

Currently replacing “Ford” lug nuts on 2 vehicles. Can confirm it gets worse every time I take them to a tire shop.

jimz > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
01/05/2020 at 13:57

yep. they’re not rusting or swelling, unlike the ones Chrysler used in the ‘80s. the chrome cap is crimped air-tight onto the nut. Hammering on them with old impact sockets deforms the caps.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > lone_liberal
01/05/2020 at 14:10

Nah that’s The work of a small town car show boomer.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Urambo Tauro
01/05/2020 at 14:18

If I had to work on that FRS And work needed to be do e u der the hood, I’d just tell the owner to take it back because I don’t want to break any of his little art installation.

MKULTRA1982(ConCrustyBrick) > jimz
01/05/2020 at 15:04

You’re misunderstanding. I’ve dealt with these myself on a friends fusion. The cap swells and the normal sized socket won’t fit on, and sometimes the cap bends and strips while the actual nut doesn’t move. If you simply got a socket that fit without hammering it simply spins the cap.

I’m sure the wheels had been taken off before so maybe the wrong sized socket was used before, but they didn’t look deformed at all and I have never had this problem with any other car I’ve had.

A Boy and His Longtail > lone_liberal
01/05/2020 at 16:43

Seriously though, that Voyager is clean!

Brickman > Urambo Tauro
01/05/2020 at 17:58

Im drooling over that 95 Voyager :D’

That poor FRS, BRZ or what ever it used to be :(

pip bip - choose Corrour > Urambo Tauro
01/06/2020 at 02:05

that poor yellow Toyota 86 /BRZ