My favorite JRitS posts of the week, Vol. 164

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
06/07/2020 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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...I don’t know what’s worse the copper wire wrapping or the cord or how little that nut is holding on

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Nice looking flare ya got there... be a shame if you had to redo it.

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...oil filter housing, valve cover, and oil pan all leaking due to plugged crankcase vent in valve cover resulting in no oil in an n20. Add heat, no lube, and lack of caring results in having to buy a new motor.

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Dirty Deeds...

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HEEERE’S JOHNNY!

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...the car came in with that stuck on the cat.

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Still has 3.2 volts.

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The customer has had the truck parked for the past few months due to the lockdown. Brought it in for service today. We were trying to track down where the bird was in the shop, I opened the hood and found these fellas just chilling...

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...[it leaked] all over inner handbrake shoes and oil soaked pads, swelled up the caliper seals and the list goes on

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Let the poor filters retire already! They’ve earned it

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Sump plug finally came off!

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Video: lpkottke

...ford ranger

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Video: Mattw44_90

...when I pulled off the rubber hosing alot of it was all melty inside

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It’s a bunch of lights and a horn but they also have an aftermarket alarm

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Video: Hvvinylworks

“Dump the clutch!”

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Old Faithful!

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Driving thru water and not checking after for leaks

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I should buy stock in gravity pellets...

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Video: karomel7

03 Honda Civic. Customer hit and island and got stuck and proceeded to burn the clutch out

The clutch over heated and I guess it caused the starter gear to break free from the flywheel.

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Obligatory tire post

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Obligatory brake post

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DISCUSSION (15)

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Urambo Tauro
06/07/2020 at 13:10

Can't wait to look through some of these. This is the best collection yet!

PowderHound > Urambo Tauro
06/07/2020 at 13:18

On that last one; how do you even get your caliper that screwed up where everything still works but is lined up so wrong. Smaller than required rotors?

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Urambo Tauro
06/07/2020 at 13:42

found borsuq!

Kinja'd!!!

i’d be scared to drive that to the shop....

Urambo Tauro > PowderHound
06/07/2020 at 13:50

Exactly. M ost DIYers will try to round up t he pa rts before disassembly, not expecting multiple rotor choices at the parts counter...

I can only imagine how that went down t he last time this Malibu needed brakes. Maybe they just crossed their fingers and went with whatever’s cheaper. O r maybe they ordered the parts online and didn’t want to deal with t he hassle of shipping them back and waiting for the new ones. Or maybe they ju st didn’t notice.

Snuze: Needs another Swede > PowderHound
06/07/2020 at 14:15

When I was in the Navy I helped my LPO out by doing brakes on her car. It was a Dodge Magnum wagon she bought used, and was similar to the last post in that Dodge offered 3 rotor/caliper combinations based on if it had the 2.7 V6, 3.5 V6, or 5.7 V8. The previous owner had mis-matched the calipers and rotors at some point and it ended up like the last post.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Urambo Tauro
06/07/2020 at 14:24

I am traumatized by seeing these. So much wrong this week.

PowderHound > Snuze: Needs another Swede
06/07/2020 at 14:27

Oof. Is it not noticeable while driving? Subaru switched the shape of the brake pad and I have got the wrong ones before but it’s a very obvious, these don’t line up at all.

phenotyp > Urambo Tauro
06/07/2020 at 15:47

Lost it at “Differential Mayonnaise is my new band name.”

Snuze: Needs another Swede > PowderHound
06/07/2020 at 18:30

Well in this case, I went to Autozone to get pads and gave them the VIN and they gave me the brakes that were supposed to fit (it was a 3.5 V6), but they didn’t. So I went back to Autozone and dicked around with them, because they just wanted to do the VIN lookup, but I finally made then pull pads for the 2.7 and 5.7 cars. 3 different pad sets, and the 2.7 matched the old pads off the car. They fit around the rotors, but the caliper was offset enough that they work a groove like the last photo in the OP.

PowderHound > Snuze: Needs another Swede
06/07/2020 at 19:15

That’s a pain. I tend not to go to those sort of auto stores for most parts because they have to put in the vin and still pull something wrong. I will continue to stick with rockauto for those sort of parts.

Urambo Tauro > Snuze: Needs another Swede
06/07/2020 at 20:00

As I understand it, dealership parts cou nt ers can narrow down brake parts by VIN, but aftermarket auto parts stores can only use it to confirm basic info like the model year and engine.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Urambo Tauro
06/07/2020 at 20:35

that suspension held in place by wood is scary

Snuze: Needs another Swede > PowderHound
06/07/2020 at 22:32

Agreed, but this was also like 11 or 12 years ago. Was Rockauto even around then? Also, she had already bought what she thought were the right parts, and they should have been if the previous owner hadn't fudged up the brakes so bad.

Snuze: Needs another Swede > Urambo Tauro
06/07/2020 at 22:36

Maybe, I don't remember exactly how it went down, this was like 11 years ago. But I do remember some back and forth with the guy at the parts counter and the ultimate outcome was we figured out the car had the wrong calipers.

i86hotdogs > Snuze: Needs another Swede
06/08/2020 at 00:15

Simply posting to comment that the 2.7 is one of the worst engines I have ever driven. So small for 6 cylinders! I cannot believe they even considered it for the rather heavy L platform.