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Tactical Bonnet posted:What else are they supposed to do? The assembly line they work on is at a dead stop! Sweep the floor until the line is running again. Never worked in a shop setting with a sadistic manager?
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14 INCH DICK TURBO posted:So a Dodge Dakota came in to work earlier with a complaint of a horrible noise coming from the car. Apparently the guy took it to Les Schwab twice and they couldnt find a single thing wrong with his car. Pulling it in sounded amazing.
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# ? May 2, 2011 16:20 |
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Marux posted:Not sure where in the thread they are at this point, but I saved these: That reminds me of the "I WANT TO BELIEVE" posters.
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# ? May 2, 2011 16:24 |
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14 INCH DICK TURBO posted:So a Dodge Dakota came in to work earlier with a complaint of a horrible noise coming from the car. Apparently the guy took it to Les Schwab twice and they couldnt find a single thing wrong with his car. Pulling it in sounded amazing. Stuff like this really irritates me. I don't expect anyone to bat 1.000 but how do you not find this with the wheel screaming like a cat in a blender? I may not know a lot about auto repair but I figure I have enough self interest to net let something like that slide.
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# ? May 2, 2011 16:31 |
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Jeep 4.0 throws a rod, has no oil pressure, still runs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg0QvcaHdZk&NR=1&feature=fvwp
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# ? May 2, 2011 16:44 |
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Geoj posted:Sweep the floor until the line is running again. Never worked in a shop setting with a sadistic manager?
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# ? May 2, 2011 17:54 |
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Kylie Sven Opossum posted:Jeep 4.0 throws a rod, has no oil pressure, still runs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg0QvcaHdZk&NR=1&feature=fvwp Wrong thread. That's an Awesome mechanical failure. Left Ventricle posted:This, basically. I'm sure the boss could find something for everyone to do. How about a "Safety meeting", with donuts and coffee. Looks good for the company, and the workers get to relax.
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# ? May 2, 2011 18:01 |
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Sponge! posted:How about a "Safety meeting", with donuts and coffee. Looks good for the company, and the workers get to relax.
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# ? May 2, 2011 18:06 |
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14 INCH DICK TURBO posted:So a Dodge Dakota came in to work earlier with a complaint of a horrible noise coming from the car. Apparently the guy took it to Les Schwab twice and they couldnt find a single thing wrong with his car. Pulling it in sounded amazing. What year? Judging from the wheel, 91 to 93? My 92 has no parking brake. It used to but something happened to it, because the lever is stuck and will not move no more. I know mine's going to want new rear brakes soon.
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# ? May 2, 2011 18:24 |
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Sponge! posted:How about a "Safety meeting", with donuts and coffee. Looks good for the company, and the workers get to relax. You don't pay employees to sit around. If you must have the meeting, schedule it before or after the shift and before or after everyone clocks in or out.
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Geoj posted:You don't pay employees to sit around. If you must have the meeting, schedule it before or after the shift and before or after everyone clocks in or out. Have you ever had a job that has meetings? I've gotten paid for every second I've ever been in a meeting.
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# ? May 2, 2011 18:53 |
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Billy Tully posted:Have you ever had a job that has meetings? I've gotten paid for every second I've ever been in a meeting. I work nights in a lovely bar and even I get paid for every meeting we've ever had there.
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# ? May 2, 2011 19:01 |
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Billy Tully posted:Have you ever had a job that has meetings? I've gotten paid for every second I've ever been in a meeting. Hell I'd get mileage to go to the meetings too!
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# ? May 2, 2011 19:01 |
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Where do you think this is coming from? There's a significant difference between blue-collar and white-collar jobs. I worked in a lumber mill for 2.5 years after graduating highschool. If you weren't working on the shop floor you weren't being paid. Meetings that were mandatory were scheduled before or after your shift and were unpaid. If you didn't like it the managers (there were three of them) would wave a stack of job applications in your face and tell you you're replaceable.
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# ? May 2, 2011 19:10 |
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Ive worked plenty of blue collar jobs and still got paid. You're getting screwed, man. Even UPS paid for our meeting at the start of every shift and they are super anal about getting every second of work from everyone that works there.
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# ? May 2, 2011 19:12 |
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Right now I make as much as I did coming out of high school 12 years ago. I get paid to go to meetings. You're getting assfucked.
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# ? May 2, 2011 19:25 |
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Geoj posted:Where do you think this is coming from? Yeah, you got hosed. Don't blame blue-collar vs white, blame rear end in a top hat managers breaking the law. In the mills, we get paid for every hour we're on site (millsite, not jobsite, since we frequently live on the company's property). You got hosed, don't try to say everyone else should too. Note: this pic was taken in India, and even then, the workers clocked in before morning meetings.
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# ? May 2, 2011 19:38 |
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Geoj posted:Where do you think this is coming from? Yeah, you may not be able to do anything now without getting fired (even though the law supposedly protects you -- though you may want to talk to a lawyer anyhow, some states basically make you unfireable after such a suit, seriously talk to an employment lawyer). This is why we used to have unions in this country.
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# ? May 2, 2011 19:51 |
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If it wasn't clear I'm no longer working there ("...worked [there] for 2.5 years after graduating...") The place folded about a year after I left because the owners (three brothers who inherited it from their father) wouldn't be able to run a curbside lemonade stand, much less a medium sized business.
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Chiming in that I'm on flat rate and I get paid for meetings. Dakota was an 03, got it all torn apart today in tome for the owner to call back that he changed his mind
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# ? May 2, 2011 20:13 |
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Geoj posted:Not questioning that this caused the problem. I'm more saying its an extemely improbable failure that you focus on as some sort of justification to run something that may not provide the cushioning factors required by the OE transmission. There is a reason that nearly every OE clutch package has them. I have yet to see a single hub spring failure that made a clutch not work (seen pictures of a few but the springs are almost always captured on the engines as well as the sides between the riveted plates), saw one break all its hub springs and they stayed where they were captured but hey 11K RPM on a Honda OE clutch might do those things. They aren't a HIDDEN DANGER OMG, so unless you're some sort of powertrain/mechanical engineer and 70 years of clutch design on a quarter of a billion vehicles have been ticking time bombs, you're being silly. There's far far more chance of friction material rivets failing due to abuse than just about anything else on a clutch. Then the friction material itself. Then the input shaft. Then probably the pressure plate fingers.
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# ? May 2, 2011 20:22 |
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DJ Commie posted:There is a reason that nearly every OE clutch package has them. My guess is preventing everyone who buys a manual transmission equipped vehicle from bringing the car back in the day after buying it and saying "its chattering, fix it" is higher on the priority list.
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# ? May 2, 2011 20:26 |
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DJ Commie posted:I'm more saying its an extemely improbable failure that you focus on as some sort of justification to run something that may not provide the cushioning factors required by the OE transmission. There is a reason that nearly every OE clutch package has them. Exactly. And think of your valvesprings. They see a hell of a lot more abuse than a clutch disc spring. Granted they live in a nice shower of oil, but hey they do see tons more stress... Nth-ing the whole "Well, if you slot the stick into 1st when you wanted to downshift to third at 55mph, things will fall to bits no matter what, clutch in or out, the disc is spinning at eleventy thousand rpm." concept. Hell in my jeep if I'm in 4L and for some dumb reason descending a hill with the clutch in, if I'm doing more than about 5mph the stick is drat well in neutral. If left in gear the clutch disc will disassociate, because its doing like 12,000 rpm and the redline on the straight 6 is like 3500 I think. (Bitch has some seriously tall gears in her when you add up the diffs, the transfer case, and the transmission...) I will say though that I'd belive its along the lines of "They're there so the average woman can potentially drive one." They're there to keep the seat-warmer's lack of finesse from killing poo poo.
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14 INCH DICK TURBO posted:Dakota was an 03, got it all torn apart today in time for the owner to call back that he changed his mind
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Left Ventricle posted:So what does this mean? You put his horribly broken brakes back together and let him drive it away? Hopefully that involves him singing a legally binding waiver that holds you and your shop harmless if he damages property or people, including himself, due to his negligence. Aren't there certain cases where the law compels you to say "no, you can't drive this car in this condition"?
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# ? May 2, 2011 22:40 |
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Geoj posted:You don't pay employees to sit around. If you must have the meeting, schedule it before or after the shift and before or after everyone clocks in or out. Must be nice working in
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# ? May 2, 2011 22:43 |
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MikeyTsi posted:Aren't there certain cases where the law compels you to say "no, you can't drive this car in this condition"? I don't know of any law that says that. Maybe in a state with safety inspections, you could contact the DMV and let them know about it, since it's certainly a safety violation to drive around with one of your rear brakes mangled in such a fashion.
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Left Ventricle posted:So what does this mean? You put his horribly broken brakes back together and let him drive it away? Hopefully that involves him singing a legally binding waiver that holds you and your shop harmless if he damages property or people, including himself, due to his negligence. You can advise the customer that it's unsafe to drive and make them sign something stating they were told and understand that, but you can't hold the dude's vehicle hostage even if it's for his own good.
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# ? May 2, 2011 22:47 |
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14 INCH DICK TURBO posted:Chiming in that I'm on flat rate and I get paid for meetings. Dakota was an 03, got it all torn apart today in tome for the owner to call back that he changed his mind I'd pay for your flat rate too. Whatcha think about Swedes? Some of the most qualified people I've run into are doing a poo poo job at a local station - hell, or local Saab/Volvo guru was working at a 76 40 years ago.
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# ? May 2, 2011 22:59 |
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n/m
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# ? May 2, 2011 23:10 |
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pienipple posted:but you can't hold the dude's vehicle hostage even if it's for his own good. Local Ford Dealer did this to people all the time while I worked there.
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# ? May 2, 2011 23:22 |
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Rhyno posted:Local Ford Dealer did this to people all the time while I worked there. It's an old tactic. Doesn't make it legal.
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# ? May 2, 2011 23:28 |
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I did test drive it after reassembly, it only wiped out his parking brake in the end. Rotor was gouged internally but the caliper and stopping surface were fine. Drove ok after, heS just not going to be able to use the parking brake.
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# ? May 2, 2011 23:38 |
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EightBit posted:Must be nice working in I could write a small book on the horrors I experienced at that place. Like management turning a blind eye on a career alcoholic who would routinely show up 4 hours late in his bar-hopping clothes from the night before and be sent home a half-hour later because he was still poo poo-faced. Or the time they narrowly avoided being caught by the fire department spraying in an open shop. By the time I left they had it in for me to the point where they told my co-worker on a rip saw to work me so hard that I would quit. Had I known at the time (it came out when we were fired at the same time) I would have sued them for hostile work environment.
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# ? May 3, 2011 00:55 |
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14 INCH DICK TURBO posted:So a Dodge Dakota came in to work earlier with a complaint of a horrible noise coming from the car. Apparently the guy took it to Les Schwab twice and they couldnt find a single thing wrong with his car. Pulling it in sounded amazing. At least Les Schwab should have been able to find this. A customer went into the shop I used to work at with a serp belt noise. It needed an idler pulley and a water pump. "But I just spent $1300 on that stuff at another shop." "What shop?" "Goodyear Tire Center." "...."
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# ? May 3, 2011 03:57 |
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14 INCH DICK TURBO posted:And content:
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# ? May 3, 2011 04:40 |
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Devyl posted:Also that piston looks very similiar to my Suzuki DRZ's piston posted a few pages back: I think yours wins though.
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# ? May 3, 2011 05:17 |
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God drat. 250F or 450F? EDIT: 5 valve - Yamaha.
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# ? May 3, 2011 05:40 |
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Geoj posted:I could write a small book on the horrors I experienced at that place.
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Rhyno posted:Local Ford Dealer did this to people all the time while I worked there. They may have done it but it's quite illegal.
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