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22. September 2005 @ 15:03 |
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i do safety inspections at my job, and people get mad when i reject their cars due to them being unsafe and resulting in a failure. its pathetic that some people can't spend the extra 100 bucks or so to do a correct brake job, but they'd spend over $1000 bucks on wheels and tires or thousands on car stereo equipment. i can't force them to do their brakes, but if they decline, i have to reject their inspection. at that point, i offer just to do a pad slap, no warranty of course, and they still decline the repair.
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22. September 2005 @ 16:28 |
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but they'd spend over $1000 bucks on wheels and tires or thousands on car stereo equipment.
Oh Lord, that's the truth. I've seen them spend $2500 on wheels then slap the cheapest crap Chinese tires they can get on them. Guess they don't think far enough ahead when one of those cheap tires separates and they're left rolling on that $750 wheel.
When you work in a shop you see so much ridiculous crap people do with their vehicles.......
I've seen several guys come in to put $230 apiece Goodyear MTR's on their lifted/Rancho'd Jeep Wranglers that they never take off the road. They're lucky to get 15,000 miles out of those mud tires on a daily driver. Then they never think to rotate them more often and come in wondering why the tires are scalloped all to hell and riding like crap after three months.
Then you have the guys with 4X4 SUVs and trucks pimped out with 22" gaudy ass ugly wheels and low profile directionals. Morons!
You also have the full size truck guys that are complete acessory whores. You get in their truck and every last little button, knob and doohickey is replaced with some funky replacement they ordered out of a "custom" magazine. It gets even better when you pop the hood and they have all the ridiculous chrome dipstick ends, filler caps, battery covers, washer resevoir covers and pretty much everything else that has a cap,cover or end. Their was one "acessory whore" truck that was a drive in and I burned the shit out of my fingers cause he had a billet aluminum end to the oil dipstick so I did something to his truck that I'm not telling (it was unintentional but I didn't feel bad about it afterwards).
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22. September 2005 @ 16:50 |
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aren't you ashamed of your self, nope!!!!
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gear79
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22. September 2005 @ 18:04 |
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did you leave the dipstick out of it? bet you did? or left the oil filter loose? or filled the washer bottle with piss !!! my personal fav. ..... opps, did i say that out loud ??
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22. September 2005 @ 20:03 |
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nope!!!
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24. September 2005 @ 18:54 |
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the best vehicle i have even enjoyed working on is my 94 jeep cheroke with the off road package everything has a nice and easly accessable drain plug oil( of course ) transmission and transfer case and i have enough room to put boths hands around my oil filter only thing i dont like is the rear leafs break down way to quick im waiting to to a skyjacker set on it
im nothing certified mechanic but ive worked on lots of stuff
my fav storie:
me and my best bud took double bit axes to a 88 cutlas and cut the body clean off behind the body supports between the front and rear doors( 4 door )then we welded a s10 bed to it and welded some chains to the wheels and we had ourselves a we dont give a damn off road warrior ended up wraping it around a tree in like an hour so much work for so little play
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24. September 2005 @ 19:43 |
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did you leave the dipstick out of it? bet you did? or left the oil filter loose? or filled the washer bottle with piss !!! my personal fav. ..... opps, did i say that out loud ??
Much worse and my lips are still sealed ;)
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we had ourselves a we dont give a damn off road warrior ended up wraping it around a tree in like an hour
That's the spirit!!! :P
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25. September 2005 @ 06:25 |
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Much worse and my lips are still sealed ;)
c'mon................ where is the team spirit? you can tell me !
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27. September 2005 @ 15:36 |
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I used to be the shop foreman for a Cummins engine distributor. How about changing the rear head or head gasket on an 855 cid cummins in a stub nose IH class 8 truck or even running the overhead for that matter. You spend half your time under the hood and the other half under the dash (head bolts torque to 310 ft lbs). Thats after you've removed the passenger seat and dog house of course. We won't even bring up trying to change the oil cooler on a KT-1150 in a class 8 truck. About 1 in between the oil cooler and frame rail. Almost have to pull the engine.
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27. September 2005 @ 15:41 |
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bust out the torque multiplier mort !! 310 ft lbs, thats torque. friggin head bolt the size of a tuna can !!
good thing i got out of big trucks early.
ever done an engine in a motor home? i have done a few when i was at the dealership. i hated every minute of it. engines sit 15 feet from the nose, you have to pull the out from the front door, remove windshield, or drop the assembly (which we never had tools for that, much less set up to do it)
now, i love the joy of working on small cars and trucks, everyday...
yeah right !! in this heat, we are almost as hot as where neph is at!! been 103-109 degrees for the past 5 days now...
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27. September 2005 @ 16:23 |
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Talk about torque ... How about the rear 36mm nuts that hold the brake drums on the old beetles ...
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27. September 2005 @ 16:36 |
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good thing my 1/2 impact gun will deliver 1000 ft lbs of torque
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27. September 2005 @ 17:03 |
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good thing my 1/2 impact gun will deliver 1000 ft lbs of torque
What gun do you use? I've an Ingersoll-Rand 2135 and love it to bits :) Where are you located gear79? It's been hovering just above 100 here for the last three days.
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How about the rear 36mm nuts that hold the brake drums on the old beetles ...
Good Lord I did mine so many times it wasn't funny. I had a '74 with the baja kit 235/75R15 BFG All Terrain TA's in the back, skinnies up front and a lovely straight stinger pipe. That little 1600 was horrendously loud with that straight pipe (no baffle). I loved it and the neighbors hated me for it :P God I miss that car. I finally beat it beyond recognition out in the desert then sold it (stupid teenager that I was).
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27. September 2005 @ 17:52 |
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@ neph
its a Matco impact, (still an ingersoll though) i cant remember the exact model number, but its the one with a 2 year warranty, red handle, but exclusive to matco. i'll have to check at work tomorrow. i buy so many friggin tools each week, i dont remember all the stuff. today, i bought a master noid light set and an inner tie rod tool set.
also, i am in san antonio, tx.
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I've got the MAC tools ingersol 1/2" impact. Not sure of model either.
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27. September 2005 @ 18:26 |
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its this one, but minus the Q, i have the noisey one.
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27. September 2005 @ 18:38 |
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neph, so tell me what you did on that truck with the hot dip stick !!
(also playing with my sig !)
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Your gun's a dead ringer for mine except for the color. Does yours have the titanium housing like mine? It's the lightest gun I tried as well as being a little powerhouse - it blows off lugs that the shop guns can't even touch :D
Now for the horror story. Guy comes in with 2000 something Chevy Tahoe and he's the worst accessory whore I've seen yet. Inside the truck every little knob, button and gauge were switched out for some catalog junk but even that wasn't enough for him so he added a cluster to the pillar so he could keep track of all the neat stuff his fancy schmancy aftermarket supercharger was doing. He had a stupid lift kit, chromed out suspension and huge 35/12.50 mudders on the thing (probably needed the supercharger just to turn all that crap). And then he had all that chromey shit under the hood like I mentioned before. Well............
I popped the hood, grabbed the dipstick and burned the crap out of my fingers so I'm already cussing the guy. I proceed to lift the retardmobile, drain the oil then let it back down. Then we had some sort of emergency job that had to be done so I do it then come back to the Tardhoe and the friggin thing wouldn't start plus some other guys had shoved it way forward in the bay to get a Isuzu NPR out of the shop. Apparently I'd left the ignition in the 'on' postition and in fifteen minutes all those backlit gauges and accessories had drained his crappy battery down. Being flustered from the emergency job I run over and grab the jump box and start it so I can move the stupid thing. After about 30 seconds of idling I think to myself "F*CK! No oil!"
So there's my story. I shaved a few thousand miles off the guy's truck.
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28. September 2005 @ 19:22 |
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@ neph, the gun i posted the pic of is the exact gun i have, but the noisey one. thats a strong mofo, let me tell you. can bust a crank bolt off hondas in no time flat (taking off crank bolt for timing belt replacement)
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now there's something you don't hear everyday.
i also call em Taco
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"F*CK! No oil!"
being that i don't change oil much, i can't say i have ever done that, but i have forgotten to fill up a manual tranny back up with ATF and customer took it, put like 80 miles on it, but no harm done, being that they are hypoid gears.
Neph, you guys have an open shop (where customers can go outside and watch) or is it a no customer allowed area? how many bays? techs?
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28. September 2005 @ 19:41 |
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So Neph .. You'd love my Viper. (It's a good thing I only drive it about 500 miles a year, and it's a Mobil 1 car as well as every car I own) It has an aftermarket dealer installed supercharger .. The way it gets it's oil is from the oil pressure sending unit port and the oil return is a solid line that goes to the center of a special oil drain plug. This line is a SOLID line that takes about 20 minutes to remove and 20-30 minutes to reinstall. It HAS to be completely removed to dtain the oil. It is also next to impossible to change the oil filter over a pit .. The car needs to be jacked up with a floor jack, have the front wheels turned just right, and have someone with an abnormally long arm with two elbows do the oil filter (and it dumps oil all over the floor). A lift is ok as long as it isn't a center lift, it's too friggin' low to clear ... BTW, Chrysler says that with the chip I have and the supercharger, I have about 1100HP .. It'll give you a headache
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28. September 2005 @ 19:48 |
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so just how much does that LOF cost you then catfreak?
just a plain mobil 1 synthetic at my shop starts at 69.99 and goes up from there.
here is an FYI, did you know a front brake job on a Ferrari F1 (i think) runs about $10k ???
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I really don't know what a LOF wpuld cost .. I've done the last 3 changes on it and before that the dealer did it as part of the supercharger upgrade package .. It only gets changed once a year 'cuz I don't drive it .. It's stored at my son's house 2500 miles away
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Lucky son ;)
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i have a 90 acura legend in here, has 298,000 miles on it, and the muffler is blown out. it has been this way for some time now according to the customer, well, it has melted the rear bumper completely, tail lights, the license plate is hanging by speaker wire, all the wires under the rear of the car are melted, and the customer says its too expensive to put a new muffler on. his repair is less then 200 bucks from the cat back.... go figure.
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Some people outta just take the bus ...
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