My favorite JRitS posts of the week, Vol. 163

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
05/31/2020 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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Wrong battery fitted DIY, too tall for the original hold down clamp. Customer just left the clamp in there anyway...

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Oh and half the cooling lines are kinked.

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Over 100 kms into a tree.. the car is absolutely fucked.

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Plot twist: previous owner is also a body shop owner. There are rumors that this car was completely done in less than 50 hours of labor. New floor pans included.

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It’s a 15 Minute job if you’ve done it before...

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Wait, those aren’t chopsticks...

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... There was nothing there to help open or close them and if you opened them too far normally it would have destroyed the front quarter panels. No stoppers or anything.

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The pcm relay had an internal fault.

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Lump sat alone, in a cylinder...

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Update: We padded the brake line labor a little and sold him the parts at cost. No reason to have this kind of trash on the road.

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Putting the “cuss” in “custom”

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...Drained it, pulled the plugs and cleared the cylinders then filled with 5 quarts. Once it started it smoked like I’ve never seen before

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Finish the job, James!

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...this truck has been owned by our company from new and our maintenance schedule is non existent... might not be original butt good chance they are

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Yeah, I definitely didn’t use it. It does smell like ATF, for whatever that’s worth

The seal was unbroken when I opened it. I immediately panicked and thought I’d accidentally picked up motor oil. Then I was certain I’d accidentally picked up CVT fluid.

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...It’s a trade in with multiple owners so who knows how that account is still active.

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Video: wdavisb

...351w in a first generation Lightning F-150

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Definitely fake. Bills look thin. Color off.

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This is not the mirror polish you’re looking for...

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...dudes car was a nugget and had a bottom end knock he had been ignoring, when we told him it would need more than just a sensor he just took it back home.

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You don’t have to replace it... but it’d be a lot cooler if you did

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Video: AliKat309

...this is the diff fluid that came out of my friends LS460. He took it to his local Lexus dealership previously and the tech told him “its nothing, just how the transmission shifts normally.”...

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