Stupid stuff you see at work...

[Slander]

Towing or pushing at 30 mph is not so bright a lot of damage can happen a slow speeds zero sense adding more speed to the situation.

It's actually designed for those kinds of moves, unlike that shit y'all were using.

 

[pcorssmit]

I was on crutches after knee surgery, and managed to get in & out of my truck ok. Going any real distance sucked though.

 

[CarterKraft]

does it work?

At one point

 

[BDK]

I have a neighbor who has a McLaren with handicapped plates. My favorite so far was a 350Z with a mountain bike on the roof, and handicapped plates.

 

[Stingray]

I don't know why they ask for my opinion, and then toss it out the window. I was asked about replacing a pinion seal on a AAM 9.25 front in an 05 Dodge. I told them "do not replace the seal without replacing the crush sleeve and resetting pinion bearing preload or you'll be sorry"

I'm just the grumpy old guy in the corner, I dont know what I'm talking about.

So now they're paying me to give the customer a free rebuild.

Dealer did that on my excursion, said they did me a favor and replaced a leaky pinion seal. I asked the same questions and was told we know better it will be fine, don't worry. 4 months later you couldn't hear the radio over the howling rear end, had to take them to court over it to get it resolved.

 

[TrikeKid]

Sounds like a lack of talent, I've done a fuck ton of pinion seals without touching anything else with zero issues.

 

[KrustyTJ]

It's actually designed for those kinds of moves, unlike that shit y'all were using.

Tows bars are not difficult to use your blaming equipment for someone’s stupidity. Not sure what airline you have worked for but most ramp ops manuals and airport equipment state mph limits and 30 mph is not one I’ve ever seen.

 

[Clb]

Sounds like a lack of talent, I've done a fuck ton of pinion seals without touching anything else with zero issues.

good ole i.b.b.

 

[Louis Winthorpe III]

No picture because we arent allowed, but there is a newer lifted chevy 2500 diesel with handicap plates parked in our lot. How is it that you cant walk across a parking lot, but can jump into a lifted truck?

I would judge the same until a friend in his teens/low 20's had cancer and and had a huge lifted truck that he wanted as he knew his time was limited and he looked normal as he was dying. I still get mad at the morbidly obese that scooter and park and drink diet coke with their #5 #2 and whatever else they eat drink...

 

[Johnny Longrifle]

Sounds like a lack of talent, I've done a fuck ton of pinion seals without touching anything else with zero issues.

Also correct. You have to know how many ugga duggas to give the pinion nut without crushing the sleeve any further. I've done countless seals that way.

Except the AAM 9.25. That one gets a new crush sleeve every time, period. Idk what it is. The crush sleeve seems soft to start with, and the the pinion is so high above centerline that if it isn't just perfect, the diff eats itself.

 

[Stingray]

Sounds like a lack of talent, I've done a fuck ton of pinion seals without touching anything else with zero issues.

I don't have the talent, but I have enough smarts not to tackle it on my primary tow vehicle.

 

[arse_sidewards]

I don't have the talent, but I have enough smarts not to tackle it on my primary tow vehicle.

It doesn't take talent. You order a solid spacer kit. Measure the crush sleeve and stack spacer and shims until you get the same thing and then toss those in instead of the crush sleeve.

 

[roundhouse]

Molten splash hit a hydraulic hose

Yikes

Not a good outcome for the forklift driver I’d guess ?

 

[Dejeeper]

Also correct. You have to know how many ugga duggas to give the pinion nut without crushing the sleeve any further. I've done countless seals that way.

Except the AAM 9.25. That one gets a new crush sleeve every time, period. Idk what it is. The crush sleeve seems soft to start with, and the the pinion is so high above centerline that if it isn't just perfect, the diff eats itself.

I 100% with this, at 400k miles on my truck its on the third crush sleeve in the front. The bearings just go bye-bye as soon as u touch the pinion nut.

 

[87manche]

That made me to wonder. 87manche did something similar happened to that plane which flew with the tow bar still attached?

Yeah I think I posted the atc conversation in the fail thread.
I'm kinda impressed that the gear went up and down with a tow bar attached honestly.

 

[Stingray]

It doesn't take talent. You order a solid spacer kit. Measure the crush sleeve and stack spacer and shims until you get the same thing and then toss those in instead of the crush sleeve.

Ya, not me thanks.

 

[aczlan]

Coworker does hydraulic cylinder seals on the side.
He redid all the seals on this backhoe and the next day the owner went to push trees over using the loader without curling the bucket on the hoe, the front end rode up, the bucket on the hoe dug in and now the owner gets to buy a new cylinder (or at least a rod and the hard-line for the rod end):

Aaron Z

 

[SomeGuyFromOlympia]

 

[M92PV4U]

 

[Penetrode Offroad]

Vise is on the correct side.

 

[M92PV4U]

 

[Wades_76_cj7]

i bet it rides all the way to the next stop. it's pretty heavy, lots of surface area to hold on with and a 20k service truck isn't gonna be lightning off the start from stops.

 

[Wades_76_cj7]

That reminds me. Who said they saw a service truck with a pipe wrench laying on the rear bumper like that? they flagged the driver down and he said he welded it there so people wouldn't tailgate him.

 

[lt1yj]

I left a crescent wrench on my bumper on the way to Moab in 1998. It was still there at the first stop 250 miles down I-80.

 

[Stuck]

No picture because we arent allowed, but there is a newer lifted chevy 2500 diesel with handicap plates parked in our lot. How is it that you cant walk across a parking lot, but can jump into a lifted truck?

Maybe a DAV with a prosthetic arm or leg. Whats the problem?

 

[Levigarrett76]

I left a crescent wrench on my bumper on the way to Moab in 1998. It was still there at the first stop 250 miles down I-80.

copenhagen cans and fast food sodas will ride a long damn way on rear bumper of a pickup

 

[Thumping]

copenhagen cans and fast food sodas will ride a long damn way on rear bumper of a pickup

I had a spit cup ride from Knoxville Tn to Murphy Nc. I noticed it when I was unloading and then remembered sitting it there.

 

[jeeptj19992001]

I left a crescent wrench on my bumper on the way to Moab in 1998. It was still there at the first stop 250 miles down I-80.

I had a bud can ride on the back of my f100 for 10ish miles, back in 82.
The police office thought it was funny.
Didn't give me a ticket, but said be more careful. 17 at the time.

 

[SomeGuyFromOlympia]

about a year ago someone dropped a bag or cement on the road just outside of Lowes
I was at the stop sign and it plopped right in front of me as they drove by
I was going to get out and get it out of the road because it was raining, very next car hit it (poof)
still today there is a reverse pot hole in that spot

 

[M92PV4U]