ktmlew Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 Here's one for ya...had this sent to me today. Quote: When my husband and I arrived at an automobile dealership to pick up our car, we were told the keys had been locked in it. We went to the service department and found a mechanic working feverishly to unlock the drivers side door. As I watched from the passenger side, I instinctively tried the door handle and discovered that it was unlocked. "Hey," I announced to the technician, "its open!" His reply, "I know - I already got that side." This was at the CHEVY dealership in Canton ,Mississippi ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ablokzyl Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 I was working on an 03 F-250 6.0 that for some reason or other I had the turbo off. After the repair I procedded to put the turbo back on. I started the truck and let it idle for probably 10 mins or so. Jumped in the truck and took it down the road. About 2 miles down the road the truck started to loose power then it stalled out completly. I coasted to the side of the road and tried to start it. The oil pressure gauge wouldnt register any oil pressure during cranking. I jumped out of the truck and opened the hood. There was oil everywhere. I looked behind the truck to see an oil trail as far as i could see! I forgot to put the bolt in the turbo feed tube. Called the hook for a tow and found the bolt on my bench when I got back to my bay. Put the bolt in and added 11 quarts of oil. Took it to the clean up shop and hosed the engine down. The truck ran fine. SM told me to send it down the road if it ran ok Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamageINC Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 This one was expensive.... About 4 years ago, one of our techs (who is seriously one of the sharpest people you'll ever meet) had a VERY low mileage Explorer Sport with a high speed vibration. Removes the front driveshaft, still there, swaps out the rear driveshaft with another truck from the lot - still there... more driving gives us the impression that it's coming from the front. So, de decides to remove the left fromt halfshaft and drive it around like that, just to see if it goes away. The truck came back on the hook with the entire left front wheel missing. Brake hose was torn off and just dangling. No rotor, no hub, the front bumper was destroyed and half the left front fender was ground completely off. In his defense, there were a lot of people who were giving input to the truck and not one (including myself) ever considered that driving around without a halfshaft would be a problem. It never really occured to anyone that you NEED that halfshaft in the vehicle, because the hub uses the halfshaft nut to maintain it's position within the bearing. Without the shaft, there was no nut, so at about 50mph on a local highway, the hub walked itself out of the bearing, with the rotor, caliper, and wheel attached. The wheel bounced across the oncoming lane and ended up next to a golf course. Naturally, the guy driving it went right for the brake pedal, which accomplished nothing because the caliper was torn completely off. It just skidded to a stop, using the left from portion of the truck as a brake pad. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ablokzyl Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Did you ever find the high speed vibration? Haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Browning Posted October 10, 2007 Author Share Posted October 10, 2007 They STILL break my chops about this! When I was younger, ten years or so ago, I was doing a head gasket job on a 3.8L Windstar and had finished installing the heads and cleaned everything off with the better part of a can of Brakleen including the cam valley. I blew it off and proceeded with my repairs never giving a thought to the crankcase full of liquid and vaporized Brakleen. Ever break the bracket off of the dipstick tube? The van had to go, we didn't have a new dipstick tube so I knew I could fix it. I had successfully brazed a few in my career. So I have the tube in the block, bracket bolted to the manifold to hold it in place. I have a nice hot flame on the bracket and tube and it all nice and cherry red. The very moment I introduced the brazing rod... FAHHH----WHOOOOOOF! BANG!!! Singed my hair and blew my welding glasses off my head and into the bay behind me. A little dazed I thought I was injured. Asked it I had anything sticking out of my body asking "am I okay?" Imagine the stupid responses I got. Man that stuff is flammable! /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/blush.gif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DwayneGorniak Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 Hee heee....That reminds me of a good one. About welve yeas back working at another dealership, twoo techs helping eachother out on a 96' escort that had a fuel sender issue. You can pull the back seat bottom out and get at the sender through the floor. One guys is in the back seat driverside looking at the guage and flipping the ign from on to off and on. The other guy is is in the back seat passenger side with sending unit in his hands sweeping the potentiometer......... : /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/icon_crazy.gif. We had a California style shop where every bay had it's own bay door up and down the North and South sides of the shop. Every vehicle pulled in and faced the other vehicle across the shop. A huge walkway doen the centre of the shop and the Service manage had a huge picture window in his office on the second floor that overlooked all the way down the centre of the shop. Okay back to the sending unit.... FAHHH----WHOOOOOOF! BANG!!! /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/flamethrower.gif The little tech (like a scared cat) had literally jumped over the other tech facing him in the back seat and came out in a flaming fury. The other tech rolled out of the back seat. Both heads on fire and both techs smacking their heads silly to put out the flames. The Service Manager is pasted to his picture window with look of fear on his face /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cover.gif as the flames bellow out the back of the car and every other tech is rolling on the ground laughing, watching the flames get higher and higher. Niether one of us techs had the strength from laughing so hard to get a fire extinguisher. Finally a service advisor came running out to the shop, grabbed an extinguisher and put out the flames. A few minutes later......both techs get paged to the service managers office and we all see the service manger and the two other techs through the picture window in tears from the extreme laughter. Our Service Manager had a great sense of humor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mchan68 Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 Since this thread is up and running again, I might as well add to it. My first stint at a Ford store was at a Ford light/heavy truck dealer. In every shop, you'll come across one or two loudmouths with a strong propensity for violence. One such tech at this shop, after doing something that obviously didn't work out favourably to him, threw a HUGE tantrum by kicking this box that happened to be the first thing he saw in his path. In this box, was a heavy truck diff. core. In this same dealer, I was working on the floor, under a motorhome in the middle of transplanting a complete axle assembly, when this moron of a tow truck driver backing up a disabled L8000 into the bay next where I was working, knocked over two bulk oil drums, spilling it over into my bay and drenching me almost completely before I had the time to "evacuate" from the danger. As I got up screaming at the guy, asking what the hell he was doing, he had nerve to say to me, "Well what the hell was I supposed to do?!!! I couldn't see!!!" The driver of this vehicle could not have looked any older than 18. Scary!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BustedKnucklez Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 When I was just starting out, I got a 6 liter that was hydrolocked. So my trainer and I pushed this monster into my bay. I pull all the glow plugs on the left side of the engine. So I say, "whats next?" He says "watch this side of the engine and tell me what cylinder all the diesel comes out of as I crank it." Needless to say I got hosed down with diesel and enough pressure to knock my baseball cap off my head. So after a blind walk to the eye wash station, he say's "so did you see what cylinder it was?" My reaction- /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/frown.gif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony302600 Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 You guys are in the wrong post....... go to the other one... Busted...thats not cool, cant coolant cause blindness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieseldoc Posted October 13, 2007 Share Posted October 13, 2007 another tech in our shop was putting a set of injector sleeves in a 3406E cat and washed everything down with brake clean like we always do. during assembly he bumped the jake brake head against the starter solenoid and booom! the fumes ignited and took both eyebrows off and part of his beard. luckily he was ok but do you have any idea how long that burnt hair smell hangs around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Amacker Posted October 13, 2007 Share Posted October 13, 2007 washed everything down with brake clean like we always do, the fumes ignited That's why I have always bought non-flammable brake clean. It's a tough decision: either burn to death, or die from cancer.... /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/scratchhead.gif I don't think they even sell it in California. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BustedKnucklez Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 It wasnt coolant, it was diesel fuel. I stinged a little. Just glad I had my mouth closed /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/hitthefan.gif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveS Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 That's why I have always bought non-flammable brake clean. Occasionally our supplier runs out just when we need more and sends the flammable type. I asked our Parts Manager to please only use it for an emergancy supply, we have a tech or 2 that use it instead of the pressure washer. A couple cans worth of engine cleaning, all the fumes sitting on the floor and somebody starts welding.... Or an engine runs away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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