My favorite JRitS posts of the week, Vol. 167

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
06/28/2020 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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Video: UnimpressedWife

Everyone was fine. Owner was pissed.

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...It was apparently a problem with our car wash drain. According to the plumber, it all shares the same main pipe and the shop happenes to be the lowest point in the system. It all started coming up from the trench and the water kept rising until it reached the height of the overhead doors and flowed outside.

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Chip it! Chip it good!

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I don’t think reclocking is gonna make this one fit...

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...It’s that Toyota plasticky foam steering wheel material, and what you’re seeing is a good 15 years worth of human oil and skin building up

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...in the shop for [BCM reprogram]

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Salvage title Boss 302...

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Aye, there’s the rub!

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...the customer drove it without ever replacing it...

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The oil filter wasnt tightened and it made its way off

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Video: Bobalobatobamos

It really is a diesel, not a misbadged gasser. And yes the salesman filled it full of gas and drove it back to the store.

It has a def tank filler. I could feel the neck and threads for it behind the black cover but you can’t get to it without removing that entire plastic trim around the fillers...

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...I left the hood open and came back after an hour and he was gone.

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A Body Control Module on a 17 chevy duramax. Was parked next to a Ford, and the lightning jumped from the Ford to the chevy and fried it. 2 days in 7 modules later, still finding more crispy bits. Oh, the Ford didnt survive either.

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Took a few days longer than expected but she’s done! Stripped interior, removed concrete, Replaced the carpet, cleaned and reassembled the rest of the interior. Most difficult part was getting the blue and red paint off the interior trim. about 5 hours for that. Overall about 50 labor hours.

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It’s over $9000...

What’s actually broken: Upper oil pan, fuel tank, rear prop shaft, exhaust crossunder pipe, rear exhaust/muffler assembly, left front lower control arm..

What’s just cosmetically damaged, but needs to be replaced anyway because it’s a lease: front subframe, some heat shields and plastic undercarriage shields.

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