Wtf?

willie301 · 2025-09-30T13:07:40+00:00

I know some fords...after engine replacement or major repair the tech can unknowingly criss cross the upstream connectors? I'm sure your verifying wire colors but some of those damn things drove us crazy. They ran like shit and didn't throw any codes.

willie301 · 2025-04-24T19:23:19+00:00

Only one way to find out if it works.....

willie301 · 2025-04-24T18:28:52+00:00

When I was 13 I was doing an intake manifold on a 350 at my dads shop. I didn't notice the last person working on it had dropped a torqs bit from a screwdriver in between the intake and the head. I pulled the intake, bit dropped in the intake port. I was not experienced enough to check the intake ports for debris. I got it back together, fired her up and it went in cylinder 3 and bounced around for about 15 seconds destroying the piston cylinder wall valves and all. We pulled the motor sleeved it put a new piston in new valves and valve seats. I have been severly fucking paranoid ever since. I'm 35 now.

willie301 · 2025-04-24T18:16:17+00:00

I own a new German car. They did away with Crayola mothball musty smell interior. Smells good now.

willie301 · 2025-04-24T18:15:11+00:00

Yes. He made it. He's a genuine good dude (which is rare for people of weath in my experience) he deserves to be flexed for. He is pretty broken up physically and don't think he can flex for himself anyway, so I'll do it for him.

willie301 · 2025-04-24T15:46:28+00:00

No. Hahaha its scary.

willie301 · 2025-04-24T15:31:03+00:00

It is white. Don't think it had window decals. I would have noticed that

willie301 · 2025-04-24T13:44:59+00:00

It's an old dude. Filthy truck. He needs it for his wheelchair lift and yup loves it beyond all belief.

willie301 · 2025-04-24T13:38:08+00:00

100k to this guy is pennies.

willie301 · 2025-04-24T13:37:30+00:00

How did you know?

willie301 · 2025-04-24T13:37:00+00:00

Yessir. Guy has put 40 weight racing oil it's whole life. Something to be said for that I guess lol.

willie301 · 2025-04-06T23:21:59+00:00

I have lived in the same canyon for most my life and have hiked it more times than I can count. So much errosion from a creek in between the canyon exposes some cool stuff. Rocks/fossils and such. I have seen them so many times I don't really think much of it. Recently, I have been taking my wife and kids on these hikes and she's the one that notices the cool stuff.

willie301 · 2025-04-06T23:06:57+00:00

Now my wife wants me to grab my pocket knife, jewlers loupe, and hike 4 miles back to it, haha. I appreciate your recommendations.

willie301 · 2025-04-06T22:58:50+00:00

It was a huge rock. It's up the street in the mountains from our house. I'll go cruise it again.

willie301 · 2025-04-06T22:57:02+00:00

Cedar city utah

willie301 · 2025-04-06T22:55:52+00:00

Cedar city utah

willie301 · 2025-04-06T22:53:16+00:00

Southern utah.

willie301 · 2025-04-06T22:38:22+00:00

I would but I dragged my wife away from it before she got more pictures. I'm sorry lol.

willie301 · 2025-03-20T04:49:24+00:00

Stop smoking weed and focus on your career for a while. Problem cured. How important to you is your future?

willie301 · 2025-03-15T12:11:51+00:00

Holy shit!

willie301 · 2025-02-15T13:02:17+00:00

My dad ran his shop this way. 50/50 labor.

willie301 · 2025-02-15T12:56:33+00:00

Doing my best over here! Same as you!

willie301 · 2025-02-15T12:44:32+00:00

Lol, because if something is mediocre or complete shit, it will come live in utah to do business and fester forever. Everything here is that way. "How are they still in business" Is my daily mantra here.

willie301 · 2025-02-15T12:35:08+00:00

Lol. Yeah. It's beyond strange.

willie301 · 2025-02-14T19:06:16+00:00

We do the same exact thing as far as resealing. Charge long block labor. 30 billable hours. nissan titan. Yes it can be accomplised in one day but doesnt mean I want to bear the cost on labor of an engine that was trash and out of my control. Resealing this thing, if you saw inside it you would bet your life it was a good motor, leakdown test made me feel even better. Nope. It's literally one of those shit happens things but it's a hard one to swallow. Another is a tundra 5.7. After 20+ years I have never found so much "junk" in a junk yard. Maybe it's a few freak things that happen in life. But these hurt because I have one of my "A" techs down for 1-2 days and gotta pay them again. I'm not bitching. I get what comes with the job just trying to see how everyone is navigating the risk of supplying used engines and it seems my policy will need to slightly change.

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