My favorite JRitS posts of the week, Vol. 48

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
03/18/2018 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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You get your money’s worth out of those bearings yet?

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Welp, time to start feeding it ZDDP from now on...

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Pac-Man, is that you?

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This is an EG33. It’s hard to find an EG33 pulley for cheap but luckily an EJ25 pulley fits just fine. It had actually already been replaced once and so the failed one you see here is the pulley from an EJ.

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A man’s got to know his limitations...

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Chevy 5.3... barely at 150,000, and get bought it new in 2006

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Classic “when you see it”.

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Lexus rx350

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Lift cable, thankfully we had it sitting on the safety stops

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Be afrayed. Be very afrayed.

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Don’t forget to lubricate your ring gear!

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Anybody hear a *cheap cheap* sound coming from the glovebox area...?

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(This embed seems to be acting up on my browser. You might have to click through for video. It’s worth it!)

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DIY booster seat

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Never thought of using oil as a removal surfactant.

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Oil can... oil can...

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...You gotta know when to fold, know when to scoot away...

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No, YOU touch it.

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Fuel line was dry and cracked but not obviously deteriorated. This gunk is your standard green Ethanol funk algae and brass corrosion.

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It’s a stupid exhaust for a 3.0 accord that has duel mufflers for some reason. It is supposed to be a y pipe but they sent this piece of crap that doesn’t even fit. We eventually got a good one from a different vender.

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