Reddit’s Just Rolled into the Shop is a veritable cornucopia of the many wonders and oddities of shop lyfe. You never know what’s gonna roll in. Here’s what caught my eye this week.
Have already met the mouse in the Evaporator core... This smell was actually worse.
Squeaky, uh, squeak, squeaker, squeakin’
Confirmed self install, said they will leave it to the pros next time.
EDIT: he was in for a vibration at high speeds, wonder if these off center caps had anything to do with it..
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Citroen van
Actualy it came in running the owner didnt want to change the oil after 200k km... and 7 years but the oil light cam on the dash
...after i put in the new oil pump and tried to clean the engine as good as i could it started knoking
It drove into the shop...
We’re all fork lift specialist at our shop due to shit like this
I think they just had absolutely no clue what they were doing. They put the wrong exhaust cam in the head and there were so many bolts that were wrong/missing/crossthreaded. Came in as a no start.
VW 2.0T CCTA
Service history right where you need it!
...fleet utility truck towing a heavy ass trailer
What time is it when Mickey’s big tooth points to the wiring..?
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Step on a crack, break your Ranger’s back...
Yeah [the valve met the pistons] it’s a interference engine.
Rear differential of a 7.5 ton truck.
The general manager said get it done quickly and get him out of here. The guy was so baked he was about to fall asleep in the showroom
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CR-V, 2019 I believe.
Tech found a piece of plastic blocking an oil passage that feeds 3-4. Been happening with the 1.5s, apparently there’s now a bulletin reminding techs not to open oil filters by sticking a finger in...
Zero heat. We squared off the flats with an air hammer chisel, then drove a smaller socket on and let the impact eat. Came right off and cleaned the threads
If you don’t see it immediatly, they helicoiled the balancer bolt threads. Which isn’t too bad of a thing in and of itself, helicoils will make the threads stronger than they were... if you install them right. But the genius building this motor fucked up the helicoil and skipped a thread.
Now sure you could just yank out the helicoil, and oversize the new one, but nobody here wants to so that and my boss made the call to just have them replace it. Unfortunately the new one doesn’t have an oil pan so we’re going to have to order a new one and have Jasper reimburse us.
Oh and for background it’s a 351 Windsor for a 1982 Ford F-150 getting a motor swap.
For this service we are doing oil change, brake fluid, serpentine belt, and pollen filter. Warranty time for that is 3.65 hours. Our annual service (oil change and brake fluid) are 4 hours, customer pay.
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Obligatory brake post
Obligatory tire post