Never say you’ve seen it all
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swd
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I worked in parts and service for many years. The stories are always great. 2 I always remember. A guy brings a Fiat Spyder in with a clunk in the rear. The tech test drives it. Yep BIG clunk. He opens the trunk and there's a bowling ball that had come out of its case. Duh.
The next one was a bit more involved. Back in the late 80's the Italians were having a big labor strike. So another Fiat Spyder with a clunk in the rear. The tech hears it but can't locate it. He rules everything out but it's still there. Finally the tech says screw it and cuts a hole in the fender well from inside the trunk and sticks his hand in there and pulls out an Italian wine bottle. It was put there when the fender was welded on by a disgruntled worked assembly worker.
The next one was a bit more involved. Back in the late 80's the Italians were having a big labor strike. So another Fiat Spyder with a clunk in the rear. The tech hears it but can't locate it. He rules everything out but it's still there. Finally the tech says screw it and cuts a hole in the fender well from inside the trunk and sticks his hand in there and pulls out an Italian wine bottle. It was put there when the fender was welded on by a disgruntled worked assembly worker.
TheOtherZilla
Pull my finger
When I worked at the surface coal mine the tire guy was always pulling stuff outa tires. Weld rod, bolts, nuts. The big haul truck tires musta had magnets in em. They had a guy pullin a big magnet around a few times a week with a pickup truck
20+ years ago we had s "slow leaker". It was a LIVE, UNFIRED 30-06 shell impailed into the face of the tire with the primer exposed on the face of the tire and the primer beat to hell. Said it had been leaking for a couple of weeks, but he didn't have time to get it fixed. How it didn't go off is beyond me!! Wish we would have taken pictures...but, it waas before the camera phone.
Tod
Tod
I noticed the last time that they had "friends and neighbors day" at the local AFB that pretty much every vehicle that ran around on the tarmac/runway had big magnets hanging from chains off of the front bumpers. They hung about 2 -3 inches off of the ground.
Lol, I just saw a center line the other day that wobbles and takes off to the right. Makes you wonder what the heck happened... Looks like the paint crew lost a game of chicken with a bigger truck! Lol
Went out with a friend to shoot on a ranch.
He just got permission to hunt/ shoot.
WAY off the highway but had a concrete bench and steel at 500y .
I asked if he had a good spare and Jack.
Anyhow, after a while I stepped around to the other side of his truck and found this.
Oh And no lug wrench long day.
He just got permission to hunt/ shoot.
WAY off the highway but had a concrete bench and steel at 500y .
I asked if he had a good spare and Jack.
Anyhow, after a while I stepped around to the other side of his truck and found this.
Oh And no lug wrench long day.
GSPV
A failure to plan is a plan for failure.
Two guys a little ahead of me in high school drove to the same youth deer hunt my dad took me to at Land Between The Lakes.
They didn’t know the place and just went road hunting...with a loaded 30-06 M700 ADL muzzle down in the passenger’s floor board.
Saw a car, thought it was a game warden, and started racking the rounds out of it.
You guessed it, they somehow had an unintended discharge.
There was a loud clang. They got out and found the starter motor laying in the road.
What could they do? Just headed back home deer-less but with a hole in the floorboard and sheepish looks on their faces.
Absolutely true story.
They didn’t know the place and just went road hunting...with a loaded 30-06 M700 ADL muzzle down in the passenger’s floor board.
Saw a car, thought it was a game warden, and started racking the rounds out of it.
You guessed it, they somehow had an unintended discharge.
There was a loud clang. They got out and found the starter motor laying in the road.
What could they do? Just headed back home deer-less but with a hole in the floorboard and sheepish looks on their faces.
Absolutely true story.
Years ago (before they shrunk them) I had a Jeep Cherokee, the model with the factory steel fender flairs and Goodyear Tracker A/T tires. The left rear was slowly losing air over a 4-5 day period. Looked around the tread carefully and found the head of a small sheet metal screw in one of the lugs and started unscrewing it. After a lot of turning (it was over an inch long) the hissing started and I knew I had found the problem, 5 minutes before leaving on a 225 mile trip. Screwed it back in, topped it off with an extra pound of air, crossed my fingers and departed. Sometimes you get lucky; made the trip fine and got it repaired the next day at my destination.
Once long a go I worked at a Peugeot dealership. We had a new wagon that on slow deacceleration would go E-ee-ee-eeee-e. Occasionally on acceleration you might hear it too . After considerable test driving and examination and disassembly and reassembly the cause was still not evident and these high pitched noises are so hard to pinpoint the source of. Finally the tech(mechanic) working on it cut an inner panel in the SW body and found a piece of uncoated welding rod tacked at both ends with a wiper blade strung on it. This was accompanied by a note in French that said to the effect "I see you finally found it you stupid bastards". Wonder why the French mobiles are missing from our highways?
I've put screws in a leak a few times in the field from the interior of the cab just to get out of the woods. Gotta move fast or you could be changing a flat tire in mud which isn't easy to do. It pays to keep a few tools in the truck!!!
Down side is my interior is usually falling apart after I own it for awhile. Lol
ClassCat
Unlimited
Had to have been a "good" friend that did that.
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