Just got this new to me Arca box and it came with a free magnetic wrap. What do yall think of my choice, personally i love it

I’m talking about that one job that fought you every step of the way. The one where nothing went right, nothing worked and you wanted to burn it to the ground and not deal with it.

Mine is the rear flywheel housing on an MP8. All of the bolts were loose on the transmission, and it cracked the flywheel housing down the middle of the rear main seal seat. I had no repair manual, no idea on how to do anything, I was just told to do it. Turns out, you had to take damn near everything off the sides of the motor to get to the bolts, and then when you want to replace the gasket plate, you have to un-time the gear train. But wait, there’s a special tool I didn’t know about that kept the plate in place because it sets the gear lash! I had put the gears back in place and thought they didn’t feel right, so that night I did some digging and found I needed that special dowel kit, and that I had to now re-adjust everything to get the backlash set correctly. Then I figured out I had a bad fuel pump idler gear, and by the time I figured out torque specs, backlash, and everything in between, I was almost 80 hours deep on a 40 hour job. Thankfully I’m paid hourly, but I’ll be damned if that job didn’t take me forever and fought me time and time again. But it’s been running for a year now, no leaks and no issues.

So what about you? What’s that one job?

another 1.2 puretech goes cold because customer knows too much shit

2013 Camaro w/ an L99 came in today for a crank no start. I quickly deduced there was no compression. Leak down had air coming from both the intake & exhaust, only tested 1 cylinder on each bank. Pulled driver's side valve cover to check the pushrods & this was what I found. I suspect it jumped timing causing the intake valves to contact the pistons & bend the pushrods. The exhaust pushrods were unaffected but the valves likely contacted as well resulting in the leak down from the exhaust. I recommended pulling the heads for a valve job and pulling the timing cover to verify camshaft timing. Customer had his dad rebuild the engine a couple years ago but he's since passed and the guy balked at our quote so it's leaving on a tow truck tomorrow.

I bet you did!

2019 Ram 1500 5.7. (Video in comments. Cylinder 5 intake side lifter is collapsed)

Customer didn’t want to pay for a diagnostic fee so told me to just put 16 plugs in it. I decided to do a little poking around, called them back and said I don’t think spark plugs are going to fix it. They then proceeded to ask me “Why can’t you just follow simple instructions and do as your told?”

Aye aye capn. Putting 16 plugs in it now, hopefully a coil afterwards too!

Not even in for a coolant leak, just replace front+rear brakes and tires.

Roughly 200 MW of generator rotor going back home.

Pads were entirely disintegrated and gone. Piston was completely pushed out of the caliper and brake fluid leaking out. Master cylinder was dry. Neighbor had been driving like this. I honestly don't know how he was able to even get the car to stop.