How about some broken rubberOriginally Posted by NooNoo
How about some broken rubber
The brake pictures remind me of accidents in the paper where a car goes through the front of a McDonalds. The paper will describe it as "mechanical failure" but will not go any further. The rest of the story is, the it's not a manufacturer's defect, it's some idiot still driving a car 10,000 miles after the brakes should have been replaced.
Pepto in the tranny? you sure that's not just a rinse? I mean, pepto?!?
not so blue
Thats water in the transmission fluid. Once that happens your transmission fluid is useless in protecting the metal and cooling the transmission.
yeah. i get that.
in looking at the picture, it looks like the guy is just rinsing the pan. It's a confusing picture
not so blue
Seen it. Buddy told me he had a brake that locked up whenever he tried to stop. Pulled the wheel off and it was on the backside so did not see it at first. <facepalm>
That first brake picture looks like what my brother's '81 Malibu looked like when he finally realized there was probably something wrong with the brakes.
Sad to say, it isn't just civilian drivers that do this stuff. When I was a route supervisor for a Fortune 500 linen service, I spent a lot of time on the road. Once I had to fill in for a driver on a hospital route, and it turned out that one of our mechanics had installed the auto adjusters for the brakes backward. So, every time I backed up, the brakes got looser. That made stopping an unpredictable and exciting event.
On another occasion, I had to take a route for a driver who reported for duty totally drunk. His parting words to me as he left the plant were, "Hey, the clutch slips a little." Understatement of the decade. It was an old International Cargo Star with a multiplate clutch, and the clutch was so burnt it wouldn't disengage. I ran a 330 mile route shifting without a clutch, and shutting down the engine every time I had to stop. Getting moving again meant hitting the switch, and letting the starter drag the truck forward a bit until the engine caught. No stress there.
I got the route done, got back to the plant in Austin, and when the Fleet Supervisor dropped the tranny, the pressure plate came out in two pieces.
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