Impressive breaks/failures

[Steve300xcw]

As I say to our techs, if it wasn't for dumb drivers we wouldn't have a job.

I use the line "Grease is expensive"

 

[Clb]

Aught to be like driving a mixer truck, 1 rollover and it's syanara

 

[jawzjeep]

I pulled out a pinion bearing like that once. I bet it ran just fine, just a little bit growly

That's funny. They said the sound was crunchy.

 

[Tractor Monger]

I wonder if one of the boom rams piston seals are bypassing.

 

[ThePanzerFuhrer]

Scabbed back together to get it home

Lift cylinders get bent when it broke?

 

[Steve300xcw]

Lift cylinders get bent when it broke?

Nope

For some odd reason it ended up at the next richie bros auction though

 

[vetteboy79]

Is that blue stuff grease or paint? There was some grease of a similar color on some dies I crawled around at a steel hot mill, that shit was the stickiest stuff I've ever been around. If you looked at it funny you'd be finding it on your pants for weeks after. There's probably traces of it in my house still and that was 8+ years ago.

Yes sir, me too.

Operator ran the final drive low on gear oil and welded the center of the brake pack together. When that side stopped moving and the rig got stuck the operator filled it up with oil and acted like he didn't know why it wasn't moving......

A lot of our gearbox failures came back full - like overfilled - with nice fresh oil. Millwrights can be a special breed, especially when they don't understand the gearbox has a spec'd fill level, don't just 'top it off'...but when it starts making noise, a fresh oil bath will quiet it enough to be someone else's problem...

 

[Tractor Monger]

John Deere 350 thumb cylinder ripped the threads out of the piston.

John Deere 200 swing gear box sheared all the bolts and dowel pins. Gear box case was destroyed. Swung free and smashed a rock truck.

 

[Thatg9659]

In sandles and a mu mu of some sort I bet.

I can’t say I’ve seen any with missing toes,

 

[jawzjeep]

I can’t say I’ve seen any with missing toes,

I thought about that for a while I believe you're right

 

[Thatg9659]

I thought about that for a while I believe you're right

Reminds me of the four-year-old I met who never had training wheels, he could ride a bike like no American four-year-old I met, wheelies skids and so on, he came from the Dominican Republic.

 

[reptillikus]

First race in my TREC B / 4500 jeep. Came down the first hill, clipped a rock with the front ford dana 60 and cracked it. Had a bad vibration for a bit followed up by front wheels going tits up.

Casting broke in two, had to load onto trailer with a front end loader. Hiding behind the smile was a sleep deprived and disappointed guy.

I did the same back in '06. Casting broke

'79 Ford D60. Casting broke, long side inner bent, as did the trunion for the carrier bearing. Had to replace half the ARB.

94toytruck was there, he helped put it back together without axle shafts so we could drive it out, with a strap hitched to his truck for the drive out just in case

 

[roundhouse]

Nah bro...
It's gotta rubber hub in da prop
That and no way for the outdrive to lift over said rock

All
The old boats we had , always had a brass shear pin in the prop .

 

[ThePanzerFuhrer]

Is that blue stuff grease or paint? There was some grease of a similar color on some dies I crawled around at a steel hot mill, that shit was the stickiest stuff I've ever been around. If you looked at it funny you'd be finding it on your pants for weeks after. There's probably traces of it in my house still and that was 8+ years ago.

That’s paint. No grease in that cone. That guy has an oil pump and a pressurized oil system.

 

[sdmuleman]

Dual power in my TW-15 ford from last summer. Hydraulically shifted hi/low range box. As best I can tell, the retaining ring for one of the clutch packs came loose, jammed up the gear train and pretty thoroughly trashed the entire assembly. Not cheap. And of course to make it even more fun, this happens at the furthest corner of the field furthest away from home.




Don't seem to have any pictures, but the tractor was #2 of 3 last summer. First one was a 4 basket tedder I had just finished refurbishing all the bearings on and first time I we used it I did a stupid and tried to ted a big pile of hay which caused on of the arms to flip up, lick the u-joint, shear the main shaft and destroy a bevel gear that is not available.

And then my big baler ate a drive chain..... not too impressive to see, but it was a nice classic 'machine goes BANG!!! and stop working' moment.

 

[The Snowman]

First pic is a 241 case a buddy of mine busted wheeling at my house. Long, high speed climb. Caught air and came down spinning at full throttle. The case was not mounted correctly when he bought that buggy and it was the first trip out.
The TJ was a the same day and he was at the top of a long hill coming up out of a ravine.
When he couldn’t make it he hit the brakes and the line busted. He rolled down backwards at 20mph and slammed the opposite side of the ravine.

 

[[486]]

First pic is a 241 case a buddy of mine busted wheeling at my house. Long, high speed climb. Caught air and came down spinning at full throttle. The case was not mounted correctly when he bought that buggy and it was the first trip out.

heh
"I'll use the tcase as an engine torque mount"
always results in broken castings, whether tcase or tailshaft

 

[Jmmorriso]

I can’t say I’ve seen any with missing toes,

They probably die of infection; “put some dirt on it” only works when the dirt isnt full of pcb and beryllium and all kinda stuff.

 

[Thatg9659]

They probably die of infection; “put some dirt on it” only works when the dirt isnt full of pcb and beryllium and all kinda stuff.

That's not too hard to believe.

 

[Jmmorriso]

Ive watched a lot of those videos, amazed at how industrious the people that setup the factories are. They're not the guys doin the work though. Think there are any factories in US with dirt floors and workers in rags? I mean there are those hyundai vendor plants that hired kids but i think they got a fair shake on wages and hours.

 

[[486]]

Think there are any factories in US with dirt floors and workers in rags?

That's more an artifact of how manipulated our labor markets are, and moreso the unnaturally high standard of living that we've assembled.

Now that we don't do much production work, our standard of living is elevated on the backs of those filthy foreigners. It used to be on the backs of US factory workers, but market manipulations have priced US labor out of reach for such work.
Shit's strange.

 

[Jmmorriso]

Just don't like the hypocrisy of having to do everything perfect here and then sometimes only having the option of buying stuff from two countries where life is cheap and toxic waste is everywhere. Or somtimes the price difference is negligible for domestic product but its kept out of the market by big retailers keeping prices low. And i do pay extra for the little american flag on my boots and pants and everything else when i have the choice.

 

[Tractor Monger]

Is that blue stuff grease or paint? There was some grease of a similar color on some dies I crawled around at a steel hot mill, that shit was the stickiest stuff I've ever been around. If you looked at it funny you'd be finding it on your pants for weeks after. There's probably traces of it in my house still and that was 8+ years ago.



A lot of our gearbox failures came back full - like overfilled - with nice fresh oil. Millwrights can be a special breed, especially when they don't understand the gearbox has a spec'd fill level, don't just 'top it off'...but when it starts making noise, a fresh oil bath will quiet it enough to be someone else's problem...

I see that all the time as well, and bearings with the balls/rollers missing but freshly greased….thankfully the more they f it up the more I make.

 

[D_JEEPER]

When he couldn’t make it he hit the brakes and the line busted. He rolled down backwards at 20mph and slammed the opposite side of the ravine.

Well, that changed that from a "It will buff out" to "That is going to take quite a bit more work to fix".
Looks like his jeep already had the TJ frame rust issue too

 

[billy-buck]

I have lots of wheeler carnage, none as impressive as this stuff so here is what I did to my RS 2 years ago. Uphill redline thru corner and pop.

 

[JR4X]

I have lots of wheeler carnage, none as impressive as this stuff so here is what I did to my RS 2 years ago. Uphill redline thru corner and pop.

2.3?

 

[billy-buck]

2.3?

Yessir, 40k miles, not abnormal for these little engines they're pretty high strung.

 

[Wades_76_cj7]

just out of warranty?

 

[billy-buck]

just out of warranty?

I suppose it was but it also had some warranty nullifying bits and bytes, would have never been covered.

 

[billy-buck]

and because ...wheeling thread