My favorite JRitS posts of the week, Vol. 172

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
08/02/2020 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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Car came in like that. Customer wanted the ac checked, that’s all .

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It got stuck obviously and she admitted to trying to yank it and the wheel to get it out which just made it worse

...a $1,000 mistake for her!

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...We had to replace the whole rear end. New tub sheets , subframe, etc.

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...We actually just had this hoist serviced and I guess the last guy installed the cable wrong. His co-worker was not impressed.

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Probably never changed the fluid. This is a Ford 6f50 but see it all the time in 6f35s. Fluid gets cooked and broken down then the fluid pressure just isn’t there.

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...‘14 [K2XX Silverado]

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This guy said he bought the car brand new...

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...This one was visibly ragged out... silverado (07-13)

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Somehow it’s louder

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I went to pull it up on the lift and when I turned one way the wheel stayed off in that direction by a quarter turn... it was impeccable smooth. Also when you jabbed the gas and or brake it would shift so it felt like a roller coaster!!!

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I could rotate the crankshaft about 10 degrees without it moving the cambelt pulley. That’s outside the factory spec.

3S-GE

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Musta hit some turbulence

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It was real... We half ass counted it. 6 grand about.

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This PSA brought to you by Bosch DeceptIcon wiper blades

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Funny thing is, it is actually a locking one, the nut broke before the key.

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New wallpaper time? New wallpaper time.

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...stock hose and clamp on a 98 civic with 200k miles!

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2020 Expedition, purchased yesterday. CS they hear and feel clunk noise from passenger front area of vehicle when accelerating/braking/turning

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...The frame is junk now. We just had to clean it up a little so we can salvage the parts that are good. Air tank, wheels and tires, air lines, electrical. Stuff like that.

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Kia Soul.

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Obligatory brake post

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Obligatory tire post

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DISCUSSION (22)

BrianGriffin thinks “reliable” is just a state of mind > Urambo Tauro
08/02/2020 at 13:20

To be fair, that hose is probably so corroded on there that it doesn’t need the clamp. Removing it will cause chaos

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Urambo Tauro
08/02/2020 at 13:22

trying to figure out how you’d tie a hairband around a steering collumn...

none of the ones ive got lying about round here would stretch enough to get past the steering wheel

Just Jeepin' > Urambo Tauro
08/02/2020 at 13:34

Seeing that Jeep precariously perched makes me appreciate all the more the shops that will let me go see mine to talk about what’s wrong with it.

sony1492 > Urambo Tauro
08/02/2020 at 13:38

The concerning part of the wad of cash isn’t that its $ 6k, more that its all $20's

facw > Urambo Tauro
08/02/2020 at 13:46

I had missed the horn. That’s an amusing one!

BrianGriffin thinks “reliable” is just a state of mind > sony1492
08/02/2020 at 13:55

ATM, probably. I have a credit union that doesn’t exist in brick-and-mortar locations. Last time I needed to get cash to buy a car, I had to do 5 ATM runs at the $500 daily max.

shop-teacher > BrianGriffin thinks “reliable” is just a state of mind
08/02/2020 at 14:29

I think I would very gingerly put a new worm type hose clamp on there ... But even that might be a terrible mistake!

shop-teacher > Urambo Tauro
08/02/2020 at 14:30

Free tool! My favorite screw driver (Snap-On #1 Phillips), I found in a cheap trailer I was flipping.

lone_liberal > Urambo Tauro
08/02/2020 at 14:33

Sparkomatic! That’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time. If you’re going to add an underdash 8-track player you might as well go full 70s!

Tekamul > Urambo Tauro
08/02/2020 at 17:41

That rodent is such an asshole. I'm pretty sure he lives in my shed.

MiniGTI - now with XJ6 > sony1492
08/02/2020 at 17:51

I was going to say, I once transported $13k in C-notes as payment for something I delivered for a friend. It was an impressive stack, but nothing like that.

Dead_Elvis, Inc. > lone_liberal
08/02/2020 at 18:23

I bet there are more than a few Oppo s (most?) who have never heard of Sparkomatic before.

Surprising that there have been functioning cartridges anytime in the last 20+ years. I picked up an old-at-the-time turntable/tuner/8-track player in college (1989ish) for shits ‘n’ giggles, and the vast majority of 8-tracks we tried shit the bed on the first play. That’s not a medium that aged gracefully.

lone_liberal > Dead_Elvis, Inc.
08/02/2020 at 18:26

I knew a guy back in the mid 90s that had an 8 track in his Volare. I'd say one in five cartridges he got from the thrift stores worked.

Dead_Elvis, Inc. > lone_liberal
08/02/2020 at 18:35

A working Volare in the ‘90s is only marginally less surprising than a 20% success rate for those tapes.

I bought a load of 8-tracks at a record store in Kenmore Square after I bought the old stereo unit. They had a few of the cartridges in the locked display cabinet by the register, without a price. I asked how much they were going for & the clerk said $5. I laughed, but then he said “for ALL of them”. I figured $5 for 20 or so, worth it for the cheese factor, I’ll take them. His response? Great, let me get the rest, went into the store room & brought out 3 milk crates full.

I’ve still got the milk crates. Worth it!

lone_liberal > Dead_Elvis, Inc.
08/02/2020 at 18:46

“Working" might be pushing it when describing that Volare. More like "occasionally able to move under its own power".

Dead_Elvis, Inc. > lone_liberal
08/02/2020 at 18:56

This checks out.

A buddy of mine had an Aspen sedan in high school. He spent much of his free time keeping it running - and did so rather capably , as the only time it let him down was when he rolled it after hitting some black ice one morning.

He was more pissed about *being late to school that day* than the fact that he’d totaled the Aspen. It ruined what had been a perfect attendance record, up to that point. (The weird thing was that he was neither an especially good student nor enthusiastic about anything school-related, h e just had a goal of never being late or missing a day.)

He yanked the motor the following weekend, and put it into a very rusty Volare that his older brother had left behind when he went off to college.

Nom De Plume > Urambo Tauro
08/02/2020 at 20:49

Aventador photo was interesting.

Thanks as always for putting these together.

shop-teacher > Dead_Elvis, Inc.
08/02/2020 at 21:11

According to my parents, even when they were new, 8-track tapes broke pretty regularly.

facw > Just Jeepin'
08/02/2020 at 23:32

I understand that many don’t like having people in there for liability reasons, but I would think that trust is such a huge issue, at the very least you’d want to have several smart TVs in the lobby so that the mechanic can grab some pictures and then cast them to the TV to explain what’s wrong to curious or untrusting customers.

Dead_Elvis, Inc. > shop-teacher
08/02/2020 at 23:33

That sounds about right. I can remember my dad swearing up a storm when the one in his first Wagoneer ate a few tapes shortly after he’d bought them.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Urambo Tauro
08/03/2020 at 04:17

i’ll have that $6k thanks

Just Jeepin' > facw
08/03/2020 at 08:12

Not a bad idea. A poor substitute for being able to be under your vehicle yourself, but much better than what they have today.