My favorite JRitS posts of the week, Vol. 150

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
03/01/2020 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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[Air in ps system]

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Photos: Cronin1011

I couldn’t believe how [hot] it got, the wheel checks were completely melted

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This guy was just lifting it to see if there was any rust. He got his answer pretty quick.

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Not the spare. The stock chrome applique wheel cover was hiding all of the corrosion until it delaminated and fell off.

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...it came straight down on the top of the tailgate...

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Clearing all the welded in bracing might be a bit if a hassle, but it’s straight forward, probably easier than stock.

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He... told us he tried with the vice since he didn’t have a pipe wrench big enough to wrestle the filter. But just as it happened didn’t mention that he left it in place when he made the decision to hit the highway and come to the shop.

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...it’s actually my dealer. Another one of his customers put that on Facebook two days ago and now it’s all over the place. When I seen it I recognized the flannel shirt.

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...the driver actually said the quote I titled it...

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Ford windstar with a 10 year old axle recall that was never done

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19 Silverado

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I N S P I R A T I O N

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If you could have smelled how bad the water was you’d be cursing to

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Wielders [sic] gloves are thick. But didn’t want to test the theory

...on the other side of the fence is an empty lot with an abandoned house. As I said no animals or humans were harmed in this video

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E93... probably been making noise for some time. They’re lucky it was the one at the transfer case and not the one at the front diff.

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Honestly I think they should of handed him a new car. 50 years of loyalty and he gets a snow globe. Little disappointing. Its kind of why I put his photo on here. If VWAG doesn’t recognize him, maybe the internet will. And man, did the internet ever deliver!

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Sprinter 2.7... Failed turbo, oil leaked into exhaust and intake

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Drier than a camel’s asshole in a sandstorm

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Sucked in drive belt via main seal

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I fully expected the oil filter to be seized on but it twisted off easily by hand. ...though the oil came out like molasses.

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...This is a TGV. A trains that is allowed to go 300km/h and even faster on certain sections. Up to 320km/h.

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You don’t say?

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Ohhhh ffffuuuudge

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DISCUSSION (14)

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Urambo Tauro
03/01/2020 at 13:20

Kinja'd!!!

heated mirrors right?

and this is why dirt cheap non powered mirrors are better

(and handcranked windows are a safety feature damnit...why does no one have them anymore?)

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Urambo Tauro
03/01/2020 at 13:22

Yesterday I heard of a stubborn oil flitter removal technique that id never thought of. Drill 2 holes in the flat side and use a pin wrench to turn it. It’s like using 2 screwdrivers instead of 1.

Kinja'd!!!

phenotyp > Urambo Tauro
03/01/2020 at 13:54

Every time I think the world has outdone itself. And every time it does it again

Wacko > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
03/01/2020 at 13:55

well the results are there, no ice on the mirror.

Nom De Plume > Urambo Tauro
03/01/2020 at 13:56

Fullerish story on 50 year mechanic would’ve been nice. Irregardless, a snowglobe is beyond comprehension. If that was me the photographer would have hit say che... massive grin as a wrench buries itself in that cheap prick for posterity.

De-motivational posters were a unexpectedly nice touch this week. Vol. 150, don’t look back.

Brickman > Urambo Tauro
03/01/2020 at 14:00

#9 That is a real open differential :P

jimz > Urambo Tauro
03/01/2020 at 14:31

Yeah, I can see how that axle in the 2nd one got torched. Most of us were familiar with the method of putting rotors on a RWD car. Pack bearings, put bearings in rotor, place rotor on spindle, tighten spindle nut while spinning rotor, back nut off and retighten finger-tight, install retainer and lock pin.”

then I got an old F-250 with a Dana 60 full-floating rear. Had to replace the rear wheel cylinders, and on that generation of truck that meant pulling out the axle shafts and drum/hub/bearing assembly. my dumb ass thought the process for pre-loading the bearings was the same. Thankfully the head mechanic was hanging around while I was working on it and said “hold the phone there, that’s not how you do it.” The process for the Dana 60 was to torque the hub nut to a certain value, back it off, then re torque it while checking end play with a dial indicator. When you reached the target end play it was set, and you tapped the keeper wedge into the groove in the axle tube to retain the nut. He probably saved me from a trashed axle.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Wacko
03/01/2020 at 15:05

cant argue with that i guess

shop-teacher > Urambo Tauro
03/01/2020 at 16:11

Drrrrr ... I have those exact same wheels on my truck ... Now I have something else to worry about!

shop-teacher > Brickman
03/01/2020 at 16:22

Lol!

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Urambo Tauro
03/01/2020 at 17:55

First thing I thought of when I saw that vice was The Doobie Brothers...and then I wondered if it occurred in Florida or, better still, Miami.

I must say...curating this week was clearly a challenge. So much material...

Urambo Tauro > jimz
03/01/2020 at 20:50

That reminds me, speaking of the integrated rotorhub bearings...

At the parts store a few months ago, I heard one of the customers complaining about the quality of his recently installed (and recently failed) wheel bearings. The previ ous set had lasted for many years, but when he went to replace them, he fou nd the hub nut to be “only” nearly finger-tight. So he took it upon himself to “correct ” that “error” when he installed the new bearings. I don’t know how much he had ree fed on them, but it was probably in the triple-digits if he was trying to tighten them like you do on modern hub assemblies...

jimz > Urambo Tauro
03/01/2020 at 21:38

yeah, it’s weird for me too. I did my Ranger’s other front wheel hub/bearing assembly a couple of weeks ago, and the torque spec for the hub nut is 184 lb-ft. I figure if the spec is that oddly specific, there’s a reason.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Urambo Tauro
03/02/2020 at 03:51

Gus deserves praise and a car.

well done to him to stick it out 50 years.