My favorite JRitS posts of the week, Vol. 38

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
01/07/2018 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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Screenshot: yaboykoop

SO FULL OF BUTTS

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Photo: cnewk

Secure from everything... but rust.

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Photo: bob84900

Get it? 710 ? ... Is this thing on?

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Photo: Willraypugh

Totaled. Holes in the convertible top, holes and minor blood on the interior. Holes all down the side of the car. I’ve had to patch a few holes here and there. Damage like this and the insurance will kill it.

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Photo: cheeri0

Hey, cut that out!

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DST strikes again?

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54 fault codes stored in the car, 54 fault codes stored
It’s a piece of crap, gut it for scrap
No more fault codes stored in the car!

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Photo: lovemyusername

You want clogs? Because that’s how you get clogs.

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Photo: Krupa33

This one is a 20b with well over 800whp on ethanol. He launched it in 2nd gear with anti-lag.

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Photo: redisthenewgreen

How many things can you find wrong in this picture?

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Photo: sigurd07

What new year’s resolution?

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2001 HSV Clubsport R8 from Australia.

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Photo: HowManyMonkeys

Whoa, shaft racks!

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Photo: rtscott08

Muffle this!

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Photos: the_lurking_dead, avenger2242

Droppin’ like flies...

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Photo: GravyDavey

Snow kidding!

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Photo: wrk75

Fully strapped in. Top anchor strap is over the seat and attached to where you would normally anchor. Shoe marks on the hatch.

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Photo: LyletildeB

It’s a 1978 Mercedes 240D I have no idea how this happened. It was 500$ tho

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Photo: vince1357

Who let the dogs in? Chew, chew, chew, chew...

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Photo: copeeatsdick

It’s was a brand new 16 citadel with only a few thousand miles on it that came into the shop with heavy front end collision damage. The motor and tranny were pulled for body repairs. As they started to lower the SUV back down it began to teeter on the back arms of the lift til it hit the point of no return and the ass end won...

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Photo: deanogee93

A poor connection like this could leave you, er... strand ed.

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Photo: rogersj3

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Photo: slim_grim

When you see it...

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Photo: wheres_the_rum_ham

Dat hourglass figure, tho

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Obligatory tire post

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DISCUSSION (15)

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Urambo Tauro
01/07/2018 at 13:29

That one with tha stop leak in the heater core, yeah I’m pretty sure that’s why the heat in my car doesn’t work too well.

My bird IS the word > Urambo Tauro
01/07/2018 at 13:47

That dude with the rx3 D: dude is lucky he has all his toes. this is why you can’t cheap out and also why flywheels need upgraded. damn.

That brake rotor... how does that even happen?

Urambo Tauro > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles
01/07/2018 at 13:50

I feel like a hypocrite, poking fun at that one. Because I too have some stop-leak in my truck right now...

My heat works great, though. I flushed the cooling system really well and when I couldn’t locate the very slow leak, I added one -JUST ONE- treatment of K-Seal (the little 8oz jug, not the head gasket stuff).

Urambo Tauro > My bird IS the word
01/07/2018 at 14:00

Weird, huh? You’d think that it’d be worn down a lot more before the vanes ever had a chance to rust out... Maybe the caliper wasn’t pinching it hard enough. Scary thought, especially with this being a front wheel!

My bird IS the word > Urambo Tauro
01/07/2018 at 14:03

Ive seen the rotor surface rust and scale off too, which I would have expected.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Urambo Tauro
01/07/2018 at 14:29

This is almost exactly how my outback looked a couple of weeks ago. Used a small brush to kick the snow out, no more vibration issues.

Kinja'd!!!

winterlegacy, here 'till the end > Urambo Tauro
01/07/2018 at 18:18

“I can’t find the leak, screw it, add some stopleak because I don’t want to spend the next 12 hours looking over every hose, inlet, outlet, and everything inbetween”

MM54 > Urambo Tauro
01/07/2018 at 18:32

These are always very good, but this week was exceptional!

Urambo Tauro > winterlegacy, here 'till the end
01/07/2018 at 18:39

Yeah, something like that.

shop-teacher > Urambo Tauro
01/07/2018 at 19:28

The F-350 on the lift like that made my sphincter clench!

Urambo Tauro > shop-teacher
01/07/2018 at 20:06

Seriously!

jimz > shop-teacher
01/07/2018 at 21:16

mine squeaked.

I used to hate lifting certain brands of pickups because some didn’t have a real clearly defined spot to put the rear lift arms. I think it was the ‘80-97 Ford pickups; you were supposed to set the rear arms onto the leaf springs just behind the front mounting eye. they’d always shift a little bit as the axle lowered, causing a fairly good pucker moment.

jimz > Urambo Tauro
01/07/2018 at 21:23

that first one... I can vaguely remember having cars come in with overflowing ashtrays, but none like that. the worst was this guy who was one of the sons of a local well-to-do family; he was the fuck-up of the bunch. we hated working on his car because he never cleaned it out, and it was always full of shit like fast food wrappers with bits of decaying (fast) food on them. in the summer, the smell was (put charitably) off-putting. I mean, my truck is dirty as shit right now, but it’s all salt and grit on the floor because it’s winter here, and I’ll clean the hell out of the thing after the last snow of the season.

the weirdest was when I was working for Alpine; I was one of the guys who built demo vehicles when we were bidding on business at e.g. Chrysler and Honda. I did a “government job” for one of the managers, putting some of their newest aftermarket A/V stuff in it (company car, was used for customer stuff too.) I peeled back the carpet after pulling out the seats and found a huge pile of dead ladybugs. Only they weren’t true ladybugs, they were those pain-in-the-ass Asian Lady Beetles we had overrunning southern Michigan back then.

shop-teacher > jimz
01/07/2018 at 21:48

Yipes!!!

pip bip - choose Corrour > Urambo Tauro
01/08/2018 at 04:56

that clutch job!

that is funny!