My favorite JRitS posts of the week, Vol. 144

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
01/19/2020 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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...I lose my mind down here during water-torture season...

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Video: fizzy_drips

Lowered ...G35 sedan

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didnt get a picture but I tore the boot off to check and it was bone dry / rusty. If they had a zerk fitting from the factory they’d still probably be good, 170k mile on this one surprisingly.

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07 Dodge Ram Cummins

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Customer laughed and said ‘Ha, shit happens!’
I think I like her. Wouldn’t have her work on my car, but I like her.

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Video: Angrydwarf2000

Who needs bearings? Good for another million.

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Video: ayokona12

So this car came in after the customer did the clutch job at home and then the car had no crank no start after. Found out they squished the wiring harness between the engine and transmission so I had to pull the transmission back to pull the harness out. I was gonna take the transmission completely out until I saw this abomination. I’m assuming they didn’t have a 12 point swivel socket or wrench and they decided to weld nuts onto the 12 point bolts so they could turn them

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Rusty valve springs, came off a 2000 Chevy Malibu v6

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...the PCV valve and oil pressure sensor where all plugged up with rock hard oil

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Give me some slack bro!

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Manager was pretty sad that he had to do it. He tried to convince corporate to let it slide

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It was missing several of the bolts for the cover which let it run out of oil slowly. Lack of lube makes heat which ruins the heat treating on the gears.

...also it got hot as fuck and the teeth that were laying in the bottom of the housing were bluish

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I put the wrench there, I was about to drain the oil when I looked up at the subframe

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Video: boof_patty

Before that dude took it home we named it “2012 bmw 535xi”

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A never-ending source of counter-intuitive frustration

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Yours is fast but mine is slow...

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...both front CV’s bands came off the boots and they were fillled with water. That’s cv grease and water/mud, etc.

They are the factory’s... The clamps still look completely in tact. No evidence of strike, tears, nada. And it’s BOTH sides equally. Same condition.

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...it’s a 25 year old forklift that has many problems...

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Obligatory brake post

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Obligatory tire post

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DISCUSSION (21)

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Urambo Tauro
01/19/2020 at 13:06

I’m still pissed at lock tite. They have been like this for years.

lone_liberal > Urambo Tauro
01/19/2020 at 13:14

I don’t know if the woman who put the screw through her roof should be driving. Her spatial awareness seems to be way off.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Urambo Tauro
01/19/2020 at 13:22

Kinja'd!!!

Urambo Tauro > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
01/19/2020 at 13:44

Kinja'd!!!

ClassicDatsunDebate > Urambo Tauro
01/19/2020 at 14:05

That valve is a work of art.

Nom De Plume > Urambo Tauro
01/19/2020 at 14:10

Yeah, that last one is why nationwide such scrutiny and active patrolling is devoted to vehicles above a certain size and/or weight.

Like this change towards video/slideshows that don’t require clicking through to view.

Nom De Plume > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
01/19/2020 at 14:17

Corporate did these men a favor by cutting out the middle man by depositing it in the sewer. One “Supper Club” and you’d be putting a finger down your throat.

Urambo Tauro > Nom De Plume
01/19/2020 at 14:28

It’s not as much of a change as I would like, TBH . I still haven’t found a way to embed reddit videos into Kinja , and any attempt to download the video for reuploading elsewhere results in loss of the sound track. Since some vids don’t have sound to begin with though, I’ll just download and reupload th ose to imgur for the purpose of embedding here . But if the source video does have sound, then I supply only a screenshot, to help encourage clicking through to get the full audiovisual experience.

Seems that’s as good as I can do, for now. I’m open to suggestions!

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Nom De Plume
01/19/2020 at 15:13

lol...ill take your word for that

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Urambo Tauro
01/19/2020 at 17:16

Kinja'd!!!

For the win.

shop-teacher > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
01/19/2020 at 18:38

Yeah, that one is actually kind of impressive.

shop-teacher > Urambo Tauro
01/19/2020 at 18:39

Its been freaking me out that all the rusted out death traps in these posts lately, are vehicles roughly the same age as my truck.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > shop-teacher
01/19/2020 at 18:40

I had a Dodge M-880 truck in the Army that had one side of the brake disk ground off so that the vent vanes were exposed, but this one far surpasses that in excellence.

Censored > Urambo Tauro
01/19/2020 at 18:48

Wonder if Wrangler girl had angry eyes when they told her she's screwed.

Urambo Tauro > shop-teacher
01/19/2020 at 20:08

Not to mention that t his Pacifica was from Iowa.. . Many of the worst rusty deathtra ps seem to hail from Canada, but this one hits a little too close to home.

shop-teacher > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
01/19/2020 at 22:05

Yeah, I would definitely hang this on my wall.

shop-teacher > Urambo Tauro
01/19/2020 at 22:09

Yipes!

I’m planning to have the rockers redone on my truck this summer. I should have my local indie mechanic throw it on the lift and give the frame and suspension a thorough inspection before I do that.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Urambo Tauro
01/20/2020 at 02:29

poor kitty, probably scared

Nom De Plume > Urambo Tauro
01/20/2020 at 10:43

Wow, I thought this was due to a change R made allowing you more, not less, ease compiling these. Which was surprising since imgur has gotten repeatedly worse (especially proprietary gif format) in an attempt to solve something or other, I imagine.

Thanks again for the increasing amount of work you put into these.

Nom De Plume > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
01/20/2020 at 12:09

Think back to the reaction when you posted a Budweiser Budvar. Not knowing Budvar was quite good. E veryone involuntarily groaned in disgust at the Budweiser part.

MM54 > Urambo Tauro
01/20/2020 at 21:23

I too have a blue tube of red thread locker and a red tube of blue thread locker. Makes it hard to ask for the right one when someone’s helping.