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honestly I don’t know, there is no sign of impact on suspension or wheel, I was talking to customer and she said brake were just completed a few weeks prior, pads were wore out 2/32 parts did look new, I am thinking cheap china parts, customer declined work and is bringing a replacement rotor from the shop that preformed brake job
From: Sherwood Park, Alberta, in the Great White North
Interesting thread, I haven't laughed this hard in a while.
The scary thing is when cars with major structural issues like some of those depicted here are sold as solid transportation to people who can least afford to fix them.
A friend of mine once had his car at the tire shop, and the tech told him he had a "Maypop". My friend gave him a confused look, asked what the hell a "Maypop" is, and the tech grinned and showed him. It was a bubble on the sidewall of the tire. The tire "may pop."
Spent a good half hour going through these. Good fun though I'm not sure what I'm looking at in a few of the pictures.
The funniest story I heard was told to me by a coworker when I first started working 30 years ago. Another coworker was doing something where he needed the accelerator pressed down a bit so he wedged a block of wood between the brake pedal and the accelerator. He left the wood there and his wife got in the car, started it and shifted into reverse. Pushing down the brake just resulted in going faster in reverse. She went down their driveway, and then up the neighbor's drive across the street, into their garage and busted through the back wall into the neighbor's back yard. There, she proceeded to do donuts in reverse. She continued doing donuts in their backyard. When asked why she didn't just turn off the ignition, she said the only thing she could think at the time was 'I just filled up yesterday!'
A friend of mine once had his car at the tire shop, and the tech told him he had a "Maypop". My friend gave him a confused look, asked what the hell a "Maypop" is, and the tech grinned and showed him. It was a bubble on the sidewall of the tire. The tire "may pop."
Well this is what happens when you think that the bellhousing bolts are tightened enough...
My car came here in Finland at 2012 from US and someone at that end did not know how to tighten bolts
Originally Posted by edzolz
Looks more like it took a heavy bounce and broke the bell housing. I don't see how loose bolts would break that area from the trans. A heavy shock load is more believable to me.
Dropped when loaded/unloaded into the freighter that carried it from USA to Finland. "Shipping damage".
Originally Posted by MDchanic
And, yes, both pistons of the master cylinder, which are different sizes, are feeding the same single brake line.
As for the copper, there is copper brake line that is legal. It comes in bulk rolls and is not cheap, but if you are redoing a number of cars, it is much easier to work with than steel, and it is immune to salt.
Different size master cylinder pistons? That's all-new to me. The only master cylinders I know of that have different sized pistons are the Quick Take-Up jobs for low-drag front calipers, and the larger bore supplies volume but minimal pressure. The actual braking is done with regular primary and secondary pistons of the same size.
There is no "copper" brake tubing. There's Copper-Nickel alloy that's used for brake and fuel tubing. I've never worked with it.
I've got a Pinto rotor where the fins are showing, and the braking surface broke away from the hub...but there's been plenty of others just like it posted here. As usual, the car drove into the shop. "The brakes have been grinding for awhile..."
My own story: Driving a 1980 Honda Civic 1300. The 1500cc version has iron block and a catalytic converter. The 1300 (mine) has all-aluminum engine, and no need for a catalyst.
58,xxx miles, driving in fifth gear at ~70 mph down the interstate at midnight in February. Engine stalls, oil light comes on, I instantly kick the clutch and coast to the side of the road.
Discover upon teardown that four main bearings look like new. Three rod bearings look like new. One rod bearing is burnt black, worn so sharp you could shave with it, and the connecting rod is in four main pieces, BUT NEITHER ROD BOLT BROKE. (If you could undo the rod bolts, it'd be six pieces plus the bolts and nuts) It's the only broken connecting rod I've ever seen that DIDN'T fail the bolts. (I've seen photos of others, but never saw 'em in real life.) At the time--1985--I took Polaroid photos of the rod, and the original photo got singed. All I have now is the damaged photo, which I then took a digital photo of. So here's a picture-of-a-picture complete with singe-marks.
Naturally, the rod pieces blew a hole in the block directly in-line with the edge of the oil filter. I kept the piece of block, plus the rod fragments for years. Lost them some time ago.
I don't know if this is more of an advisement or a wall of shame item.
Kept smelling fuel on the Cutlass and couldn't figure it out. All the lines were new so after a long trip I popped the hood and saw the intake nipple on the fuel pump was wet. I'm guessing in the past it evaporated before I could find it. Anyway thought the rubber fuel line was loose because I was able to roll it back clock wise and counter clock wise. wouldn't tighten anymore. When I tried to pull it off the nipple came out of the fuel pump. Luckily the car didn't go on fire. No Idea what make as it was on the Frankin Cutlass when I bought it. One Two Holy S!@#
I don't know if this is more of an advisement or a wall of shame item.
Kept smelling fuel on the Cutlass and couldn't figure it out. All the lines were new so after a long trip I popped the hood and saw the intake nipple on the fuel pump was wet. I'm guessing in the past it evaporated before I could find it. Anyway thought the rubber fuel line was loose because I was able to roll it back clock wise and counter clock wise. wouldn't tighten anymore. When I tried to pull it off the nipple came out of the fuel pump. Luckily the car didn't go on fire. No Idea what make as it was on the Frankin Cutlass when I bought it. One Two Holy S!@#
My 330 did that same thing not sure if it was original pump but they seem just pressed in from factor
