My favorite JRitS posts of the week, Vol. 95

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
02/10/2019 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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Oh snap (ring)!

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Video: Blobert_E_Lee

Accelerator got caught on a supercharged V6... Bullbar was bent in slightly on the left. Drivers door hinges are ROOTED

The hoist is a write off, post was ripped out of the ground and is sitting at 45°

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I got 3 words for ya: DRILL BABY DRILL

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...it wouldn’t spin over. Not even with a wrench on it

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More like triple-lame

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Synthetic is great oil, but you still have to change it at least once a century

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Hubba rubba

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No complaints about brakes. It was a tow in because the computer had put the vehicle in limp mode and the battery was dead.

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Recall and airbag lights involve passenger seat wire repair and airbag module replacement. Customer has to come up here and clean out backseat of car before we can do recall. We aren’t doing the A/C due to she doesn’t want to pay for anything.

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This was driving. The threads were stripped. Tech backed off the jam nut to do an alignment and this happened.

Apparently this is the second time this has happened to this car. It was loaded up in a roll back and sent down the street to Toyota.
I’m trying to remember milage I think maybe 60k

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Thanks, Captain Control Harm

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...this car was stolen and had the ignition cut out. This was the “fix.” Now its here for a no start concern.

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We called animal control and they came and picked them up.

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I don’t hate this as much as I used to, but it’s till pretty annoying. Be sure to check the post comments on this one for some thoughtful defense of this design.

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Jeep Wrangler unlimited Rubicon... Customer said it just randomly happened in driveway but had [dirt] and stick jammed up under it

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Your looking at where all of the brake lines run into and out of the electronic brake control module (ABS)

2005 Chevrolet Suburban, 166k. Bought new and driven in Cincinnati OH. since.

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Looks like Geordi reversed the polarity again.

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V2003. Used in a bobcat t190... Exhaust into the coolant as well. His head gasket was toast too. On top of this.

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Pretty sure that’s... not OEM.

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...it’s an international eagle triaxle with a 16’ bed and a c12 Cat. the spring that broke was the front driver side. They drove the truck across town to my shop with it about to fall over in its head it was leaning so hard

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DISCUSSION (10)

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Urambo Tauro
02/10/2019 at 13:11

Kinja'd!!!

yikes

lucky it didnt roll when that snapped

jimz > Urambo Tauro
02/10/2019 at 13:37

didn’t Porsche do the “starter in the vee” thing too on their V8?

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > jimz
02/10/2019 at 13:55

Toyota did, but theirs work.

Urambo Tauro > jimz
02/10/2019 at 14:35

yup

Urambo Tauro > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
02/10/2019 at 14:36

Broke m ore leaves than you can shake a stick at!

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Urambo Tauro
02/10/2019 at 16:54

Battery mism anagement made me giggle... mostly because it took some zooming to figure out the issue.

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > Urambo Tauro
02/10/2019 at 17:48

I’m pretty paranoid about that hoist situation. Our four-post at work is a pretty steep uphill to get onto , and because winter you’ve got to hit it at a decent clip in anything rear-drive or you just spin out. The thing that got me most about watching that clip was how the ramps on that hoist just folded out of the way.

Urambo Tauro > gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee
02/10/2019 at 18:19

D idn’t even notice until you pointed it. Huh. I w onder what that’s all about? Sure, t he vehicle ’s not centered in relation to the rack, but I wouldn’t expect the ramps to just roll over like that. Could it be s ome sort of hide-away feature to tuck the ramps away when the rack goes up, that just wasn’t locked securely ?

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > Urambo Tauro
02/11/2019 at 03:13

I dunno. I wouldn’t think so though. Our ramps are hinged, and go up with the hoist, flipping up a plate that would stop a vehicle from rolling back off the hoist as they swing down.

Urambo Tauro > gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee
02/11/2019 at 10:18

Yeah, that’s the style I’m used to seeing. Just trying to make sense of the way these pivoted . A lmost looks like they’ re supposed to completely flip over 180° and disappear into the floor when the rack goes up, but just happened to not be locked against doing so.