My favorite JRitS posts of the week, Vol. 46

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
03/04/2018 at 13:00 • Filed to: justrolledintotheshop, just rolled into the shop, 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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Get your elbows off the table, Chevrolet...

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Dodge Slam

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Nothing a bottle of Nair tire-shine won’t fix.

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Hanging by a thread

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Hey kids guess what time it is? SPRING BREAK

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What’s more expensive than worn bearings? REALLY worn bearings.

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Touareg... 137,000... customer had never been here, had no service sticker in the window, and tons of other stuff wrong with the car. Apparently, regular maintenance was not their thing.

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98 Buick century, biggest pile of rust I’ve ever seen. I thought the body was going to cave in when hoisting it.

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This is the built motor out of my Evo X. Closed deck, sleeved, overbored, 2.4L stroker. Ported and built head. 4000 miles on it

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2.4 out of a terrain

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Third time’s a (c)harm

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Dead or alive you’re coming with me!

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She may look like much, but she doesn’t got it where it counts, kid. I made a lot of special modifications myself.

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Going the extra mile, I see.

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Call in the archaeologists, gotta carbon-date the bottom layer.

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Orange is such a hard color to see...

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Obligatory tire post

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Obligatory brake post

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DISCUSSION (6)

MM54 > Urambo Tauro
03/04/2018 at 13:33

I am genuinely impressed with those modular exhaust studs that all came out.

Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo > Urambo Tauro
03/04/2018 at 13:49

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I need to stop reading this shit...

Brickman > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
03/04/2018 at 13:58

It raises my blood pressure

Urambo Tauro > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
03/04/2018 at 15:22

Haha, yeah I know what you mean. It gets better, though. Most of them are fails , but there are some wins too. I love seeing successfully extracted fasteners, and creative workarounds for specialty tools.

Every once in a while, I’ll see a pic that totally stumps me, and I’ll go into the comments only to find that someone has already asked “what am I looking at here?” and received an answer. Always something new to learn.

shop-teacher > Urambo Tauro
03/04/2018 at 17:24

Wow, the rust monster was working overtime this week! I need to pour one out for my GMT-800 homie.

Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief > Urambo Tauro
03/04/2018 at 18:01

I posted a story there once about my father having his tire pressure monitor telling him his right rear was low. He’s a farmer so he’s got a compressor so he puts a few lbs in. Computer says it’s still low. He puts more air in. Says it’s still low. He puts a few more lbs in. Says it’s still low. He wishes he had a tire pressure gauge as the tire is rock hard and he knows the computer is wrong.

A few days later he remembers he’d rotated the tires six months ago. Sure enough the driver’s front is half flat.

In under five minutes someone asked how my dad liked his new Chevy.

I never mentioned the brand of truck.