Message from @Francis V
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Cool mechanic story:
Belt snapped at 2AM in route to Disney. Guy drove over an hour with zipties running his water pump.
“This is on my 04 Grand Cherokee I6. Idler pulley locked up and shredded my belt over an hour away from our hotel. Being stubborn and too cheap to pay for a towtruck. I bought every pack of zip ties the nearby gas station had and made it work.”
<http://reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/8naype/belt_snapped_at_2am_in_route_to_disney_i_drove/>
ha! awesome
@Tanner - SC I’ve done that with belts and shoe strings to make it back to camp while out fourwheeling. I can tell all kinds of haggered things we have rigged while in the woods.
@Deleted User any developments with the truck?
Wow
@JesseJames new carb arrived today. Will put it on in the next week or so
Damn. Hope that fixes it man.
browsing <https://www.reddit.com/r/JustRolledIntoTheShop> and came across one I haven't seen before, but I'm not surprised:
This is one of the most wild things I’ve ever seen:
Definitely check these out if you’re looking for a career in the mechanic field
I’m doing the diesel mechanic course which is only 7 months 50$ a month for the test prep
I hate lug nuts
It’s stuck, maybe for good this time
Tried heating it, using a punch, tried putting it on a stud and shaking, and the other guy did all this and more, moral of the story is that lug nuts become ”swollen” and also fuck Ford
What model Ford?
Have you tried putting a breaker bar on, rest the bar against the ground, and drive forward with the vehicle to force the breaker bar into the ground?
It was f-150 maybe
I just gave him a new lug
I don't have a breaker bar, closest I have is a tourque wrench
Not willing to hurt my baby
TBH using a chissel is the woke method for removing lugs
I use the removable handle of my floor jack as my breaker bar.
Do you grease, locktite, or neither?
Or antiseize??
I don’t use any grease or any type of penetrating oil on lugs
It can cause the torque to reduce as you drive the car. The lugs can slip off slightly despite being properly torqued.
Which probably won’t cause problems, however I’m a stickler for regulations tbh.
Oh I got the lug out with a sledge, vice and punch today.
Understood.
I had to have my thinwall for some chrome rims
Why not just wipe the grease off after you've removed the lugs?
Also, the lugs come off regularly for tire rotations. Anti-seize is for things that don’t get touched for a long time, like spark plugs.
Usually lugs only get screwed up when people use far too much torque or far too little.
^ This
Jiffy lube is a heathen organization and is responsible for every error I have to fix. Almost daily