Get a call about a vehicle broken down and needing a tow in. Ready for the description...?
Makes clanking noise from engine, been doing it for a while, changes with RPM, was going up a hill, BOOM, smoke, shake, dead.
What's wrong?
Looks like a grenade went off in oil pan. Found a connecting rod cap sitting on the skid plate up front along with other chunks of metal. At least 4 holes in the oil pan, can't tell if one is in the engine block yet.
Answer: "Here's your problem right here. You're berkeleyed up."
I am sure the customer expects it will be covered by warranty or recall or something.
JohnRW1621 wrote: I am sure the customer expects it will be covered by warranty or recall or something.
Usually you'd be right, but at 160k on the clock, he knows it's not. I have the estimate, it's not pretty. We shall see... I hope he does fix it because I want to pull the schrapnel out of the oil pan.
it done blowed up good...
time for a junkyard engine- and pics posted here of the autopsy..
Customer concern: Radio not loud enough.
yes, fail pics are required
Connecting rod cap found laying on skidplate.
It said, "NO!"
N Sperlo wrote: It said, "NO!"
So did the customer. LOL Looks like we wont' be able to see any more carnage from this one...
Make and model?
Sumbitch broke.
Conquest351 wrote:
Doood! That's one of those perpindicular-bolt connecting rod caps. Sweet.
reddit.com/r/justrolledintotheshop -all kinds of mechanical blowuppage and some of the most berkeleyed-up tires you'll ever see.
As Ken Schrader said once after getting out of a blowed-up car and was asked what happened - "one of the really important parts broke"
Harley dragracer was asked why his bike was on the trailer.
"Carburetor problem."
"Man, can't you fix it?"
"Rod came out and knocked the carburetor off."
JohnRW1621 wrote: Make and model?
Don't wanna say...
Japanese built mid-size SUV. Not a Toyota.
Conquest351 wrote:JohnRW1621 wrote: Make and model?Don't wanna say... Japanese built mid-size SUV. Not a Toyota.
At one point was the manufacturer known by a different name and used a numerical nonclementure to describe a beautiful 70's coupe?
I'm going with "Outlander" for $400, Alex.
mndsm wrote:Conquest351 wrote:At one point was the manufacturer known by a different name and used a numerical nonclementure to describe a beautiful 70's coupe?JohnRW1621 wrote: Make and model?Don't wanna say... Japanese built mid-size SUV. Not a Toyota.
Perhaps...
Swank Force One wrote: I'm going with "Outlander" for $400, Alex.
No.
Leighton Reese blew up an engine at the end of the long straight at Lime Rock Park in '99 (TransAm). I talked to him in passing at the next race.
It was an... impressive ...smoke show when the crankcase became suddenly ventilated.
He said he didn't figure out he had lost the engine until he was backing off the end of the straight at turn one, quite by accident.
I said, "Ah, so you didn't see all the smoke in the mirror then, huh? It was pretty spectactular."
He replied, "At ninety bucks a cubic foot, I sure hope it was."
A guy blew up his Nissan SE-R at the last rallycross. The smoke show was impressive.
chuckles wrote: Harley dragracer was asked why his bike was on the trailer. "Carburetor problem." "Man, can't you fix it?" "Rod came out and knocked the carburetor off."
Fireball Roberts was leading the 1961 Daytona 500 until his car broke. He supposedly told the press that the problem was the starter fell off, but didn't tell them it was actually knocked off by a rod that came through the block after the crank broke.
"Oh no. We've thrown a rod."
"Is that bad?"
"Yep."
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