There are just some days I wish I didn't turn wrenches

[OR VietVet]

Well, I did not think the day would come but I cannot even get the caliper mounting bracket bolts loose. I had a 3+ foot breaker bar on a 21mm 6 point shallow impact socket and all it did was flex about 8" to 10". I am not set up to apply heat and here in Oregon, this is the first time I have ran in to frozen bolts like this. I told the customer no charge for the work yesterday and today and I am calling a trusted shop I know that will allow customer parts and they will take on the job.

This really pisses me off that I could not break the bolts/pins loose. If I had heat, I figure, no problem.

Plus, my 3 ton hydraulic floor jack lifted at the rear diff to set on 3 ton stands on the axle, on each side of the big diff. Then when I went to take them down, the floor jack gave up the ghost and was bypassing and could not lift the rear off the stands. Thankfully is a 4x4 truck. I put it in 4x4 and idled in gear forward and very slowly rolled forward and laid the stands down on their sides. No damage at all, except to the floor jack.

 

[OR VietVet]

I went ahead and ordered a 3 ton ARCAN floor jack at Amazon and is supposed to be delivered tomorrow but I have been wanting a second floor jack anyway. I decided to remove the ram out of the 1.5 year old Pittsburgh 3 ton Racing Rapid pump aluminum floor jack and as soon as I started to tear it down, I found the problem immediately. One of the pistons is collapsed. Likely have an o-ring let go inside the ram housing and now will not let the piston return. The return spring, inside the collar, is completely collapsed. I tried to pry it up but would not budge and did not want to damage the outer collar. Taking to a hydraulic repair shop tomorrow. The bungee cord is to help keep the scissor lift collapsed and balance the body on the blocks. It wants to tip at times, with no bungy cord.

 

[Tahoe14]

That would be great if you can get it repaired instead of just having to throw it away. You are lucky you have a hydraulic repair shop. I’m sure a lot of cities don’t have one. You will have to keep us updated on the repair and the cost.

 

[OR VietVet]

Turns out that I decided to fight with it and I got the stuck "pump piston" pryed up and out and cleaned the cylinder of both of them and cleaned the pistons and inspected the o-rings. They looked good and I cleaned all of it. Read up on how to fill and bleed the fluid. The left over fluid looked real good. Lost a lot of it during disassembly. Shined light down bores and look great. I am gonna reassemble and fill/bleed it and see what happens.

 

[OR VietVet]

Sorry about no update on the floor jack. It went great and bled out as designed and now works like new. I had bought another ARCAN 3 ton floor jack and now have 2 floor jacks.

 

[OR VietVet]

MSN

With all the crap Stellantis vehicles I work on and all of them having electrical gremlins galore, I see that they are in financial problems as expected.

 

[TollKeeper]

The reports I am reading from the back side is that its planned financial trouble from Stellantis, as they bought Dodge/Chrysler as part of a greater plan.

 

[OR VietVet]

The reports I am reading from the back side is that its planned financial trouble from Stellantis, as they bought Dodge/Chrysler as part of a greater plan.

All I know is, the ones I worked on all had gremlins and that is the "norm" that I hear about from my shop owner friend and other techs I know and talk to.

 

[homesick]

The reports I am reading from the back side is that its planned financial trouble from Stellantis, as they bought Dodge/Chrysler as part of a greater plan.

Doesn't that usually mean "bleed the pension fund dry"?

joe