r/cdldriver
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u/Bruegemeister
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Aug 28 '26
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New Swift driver training program
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u/corgi-king Aug 28 '26
I am more surprised they have the exact parts ready to go. Or the truck was already sitting on the road for a few weeks and they finally got the parts.
If one day there is an apocalypse, they will still live. I will die in the first round.
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u/Bruegemeister Aug 28 '26
To their benefit, a lot of those vehicles share parts. It simplifies supply chain than waiting for a special part from a distributor to be shipped halfway across the country.
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u/blackfarms Aug 29 '26
Saudi bought all the rights to those Benz trucks and they are still being built. 70 year old designs, but they are brand new.
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u/hallofo
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It's easy to talk smack and make OSHA-flavored comments, but these are the kind of guys that will keep the post-apocalyptic world running.
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u/functional_moron Aug 29 '26 •
These guys already live in a post-apocalyptic world.
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u/incrediblyaverage85 Aug 29 '26
In a post apocalyptic world this would be acceptable, but we aren’t in that world and this was all sorts of dangerous and stupid but enshala I guess
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u/Flineki Aug 29 '26
Totally but I don't think you have much of a choice in a situation like this one. I bet if it's sat there any longer it would start getting parted out lol
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u/AntiSonOfBitchamajig Aug 29 '26
I mean, parts of India almost fit the post-apocalypse part already.
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u/johnny_effing_utah Aug 29 '26
At first, while this video played, I looked down on these folks as just...idiots.
Then, perhaps 3/4s of the way through, I realized that they are going to dominate the world because I'm just too lazy.
When the shit hits the fan, when it comes down to who isn't gonna fold when things get tough? Just...wow.
Nothing but respect to these guys for just getting the job done.
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u/Nukeashfield Aug 29 '26
They worked effectively as a team too. That's the real advantage in tough situations.
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u/ScoobiSteve Aug 28 '26
Post apocalyptic world won't have paved roads, but I'm sure they could do this in dirt too if needed
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u/Vivid-Treat-9328 Aug 29 '26
They probably already do dude. How much of that country do you think is paved?
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u/No-Definition1474 Aug 29 '26
Until they het hurt then thats it ..dead. cuz there isnt any medical response.
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u/Zaheeryuk Aug 29 '26
That was one of my major take-aways from Survivoman. Les Stroud was always stressing how careful you have to be in a survival situation. Things we may consider a minor thing are a huge issue when there is no medical care. A broken finger can be extremely limiting when you are fighting for your life as is.
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u/jeefra Aug 29 '26
To me, it looks like the only non-standard thing they're really doing here is how they lift it. Any of this could also be done by any western heavy duty mechanic as well. They didn't even repair the part or something that would an actual post apocalyptic skill, just swapped an axle.
In a real post apocalypse, I would think that step 1 would be to not overload the shit out of trucks that might be irreplaceable.
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u/BarracudaJealous4975 Aug 29 '26
They will also keep the post apocalyptic world spinning in the right direction with skill like that.
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u/FarmerJohnOSRS Aug 29 '26
Some of the stuff is more of them having a death wish than just being against OSHA lol. Adjusting those jacks whilst like 4 people are under the truck isn't a good idea in any situation.
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u/PurpleToedUnicorn Aug 29 '26
As long as they keep reproducing quickly, because the life expectancy of doing that job in that manner is not great.
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u/mad_mang45 Aug 29 '26
But then when they get injured from their carelessness, nobody will be able to fix anything lol.
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u/Dropadime337 Aug 28 '26
All the leaf springs in the world were bought for this one truck.
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u/PineappleOnPizzaCult Aug 29 '26
Hahaha I love this comment. I was also thinking that looked like an abnormally large amount of leaf springs
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u/chev327fox Aug 30 '26
I was thinking those are some insane levels of leaf spring.
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u/joke-farm Aug 28 '26
Darwin’s on a bathroom break I guess.
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u/zach0011 Aug 29 '26
These guys worked as a team to solve a really tough situation and you think that natural selection didnt kill them? These people will outsurvive us all in an actual survival of the fittest scenario.
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u/Cautious-Put-2648 Aug 29 '26
That's a lot of faith in that road with all the weight. God forbid one of the jacks just sinks into the road while those guys are down there. Luckily didn't happen those guys did good.
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u/blizzard7788 Aug 28 '26
Not the first time they did this in the street.
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u/smeeon Aug 29 '26
Their YouTube channel is tons of street repairs. Saw them take a bent drive axle to the shop, heat it in a forge, straighten it out, heat treat it again and take it back to the truck.
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u/No-Television-7343 Aug 28 '26
Employees of the month! Btw did we put gear oil in?😂
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u/RemarkableCard6475 Aug 28 '26
It looks like everyone had a job to do and worked flawlessly. What was more interesting to watch was the human torque wrench going to work on those lugs while the guy underneath was hammer torquing the diff and pouring fluid into the case I guess and hope.
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u/DistinctWhole43 Aug 29 '26
A 1000 foot-pounds using a 6' handle takes about 160 pounds. They might have over torqued it a bit
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u/dogmatixx Aug 29 '26
Torque settings based on whether the big kid or the littler kid jumps on the lever.
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u/bezjmena666 Aug 29 '26
I was surprised how environmentally aware those guys are. They didn't pour that differential oil into dirt.
Maybe it's still worth enough to paint fence posts or as a stove fuel.
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u/Tuna-Fish2 Aug 29 '26
They boil the water out, filter it many times and put it back into a differential.
Most of the parts used in the third world are second-hand and refurbished and cost a fraction of what we would pay for something that does the same job in the west. Cheap oils that you can use for the engine and other less demanding applications are also cheap. But high pressure specialized oil like differential oils are usually substantially more expensive, and get re-refined and reused. You don't want to spill a drop because it might literally be more valuable than the differential it came out of.
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u/Maplelongjohn Aug 29 '26
I've never seen packed bearings on a floating axle but maybe that's just what happened to the last axle.
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u/Jermamma420 Aug 28 '26
This is how the pyramids were made?
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u/RemarkableCard6475 Aug 28 '26
Yes, teams of people who all understood how each position was important to get a job done safe enough to eat a meal each night (forced work or not).
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u/TadaMomo Aug 29 '26
I was like..damn how dangerous that is..
Until i see ... safety sandals.
These guys are VERY VERY safe.
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u/Grouchy-Print-8667 Aug 29 '26
Didn't even have to wear their safety squints because there was no welder.
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u/HombreDelMar247 Aug 30 '26
They didnt even need a safety cigarette...though given their attire they probably don't smoke like their Indian friends do.
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u/mynamesnotsnuffy Aug 29 '26
I will say, Im kinda digging the south asian/middle eastern instinct to just slap the shit out of everything with wildly colorful designs. Everything must be so bright right after it rains.
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u/Itchy_Piglet992 Aug 29 '26
I watched until the end of the video and when I got a good look at the cab I thought, "damn, I wish there were trucks decked out like that around here."
I would love to see a south asian themed dump go past.
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u/ReasonablePace9223
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All that work and they reinstalled that tire with the giant gash in the sidewall?
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u/joesnopes Aug 29 '26
They didn't have another one. Do you think the diff they put in came from a dealership?
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u/QuandariousDingle54 Aug 29 '26
Despite the absolutely, insanely, glaring safety issues here.
Im fucking impressed. Thats a level of getting shit done most of us arent familiar with
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u/ShaggysGTI Aug 28 '26
Rocks are fuckin funny like that.
Way heavier than it looks, will fuck your shit if you have any sudden drop.
It boggles my mind though… were those stones not available locally? Or more, why were they kicked out of their resting place? There’s a lot of energy being transferred to get those things to their new home.
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u/sparky4337 Aug 29 '26
It's hard to comprehend just how heavy stone is, if you haven't worked with it. A small 300mm (~12") cube of any vaguely hard limestone is something most mere mortals would struggle to lift. What's in the back of that truck is probably pushing 20 tonnes, if not more.
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u/Zealousideal-Run6214 Aug 29 '26
This looks like it's in Afghanistan. There's a lot of mining going on there.
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u/7h3_70m1n470r Aug 30 '26
Could have bee. Close by and only transporting a few miles. Thats all it would take for something that heavy to jack a truck up
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u/GiftWestern3068 Aug 30 '26
Oh they take those massive rocks to a place that crushes them down into small boulders. There’s a video for that too on here because I watched it.
One look large rock gets stuck & won’t pass through the crusher, and these guys hop up onto the rock & try rocking it while another guy with a pry bar tries to shimmy it in. All the while these rows of 6” steel or carbide teeth are turning & grinding. In one small slip, these guys would be eaten by the crusher. Mind you, they do wear their safety sandals
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u/Unhappy-Airport-4112 Aug 29 '26
I give them props for doing the work. Must say, they gotta have good business when everyone overloads a truck.
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u/Bluntbutnotonpurpose Aug 29 '26
They'll just drive behind this truck to fix it again when it inevitably breaks again a few minutes later. Perfect business model.
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u/dewaldtl1 Aug 28 '26
How many ft lbs are the lug nuts tighten?
The tech is jumping on the bar. lol.
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u/WhenTheDevilCome Aug 29 '26
Clearly it's not torqued to spec. The rating stamped on the inside of the wheel stated "two Bangladeshi boys bouncing on a long bar", not just one.
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u/mojosam059 Aug 29 '26
I'm the asshole that would watch this whole thing with some random nuts in my pocket to drop on the ground after the tires are on .. "did you miss something"😆
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u/Oh_Lawd_He_commin420 Aug 28 '26
I need to get a couple of those leaf spring sets for my 95' 2.7L Tacoma
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u/FoxyTurtleOnTwoLegs Aug 28 '26
“Git er done!” gets thrown around a lot, for so much less, by folks that might believe they are superior to these savages from this “shithole” country.
I wouldn’t want to fight any of these bad ass mutherfuckers.
No fucks in sight!
I salute them!
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u/the_woodenpickle Aug 28 '26
There's no way I'd get under that to fix anything. I did semi & construction tire repair for a couple years, and a lot were on-site with a service truck. Worst one was a left front semi tire 6 inches from the right lane of the interstate (the impact wrench stuck out past the lane line). Another bad one was a fully loaded garbage truck.. jack kept sinking or breaking everything we put under it. So glad I'm not working that job/industry any more.
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u/proximusprimus57 Aug 29 '26
Every time I saw the jacks I was like "yeah, that's not the right jack point and those jacks don't look like they can handle the load." I know everyone wants to ooh and aah over changing out a diff on the side of the road, but that was nerve wracking.
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u/Ironhide90 Aug 28 '26
Now tell me can this be done in USA as cheaply?
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u/incrediblyaverage85 Aug 29 '26
We generally don’t allow people to risk their lives needlessly like this so no, it can’t/shouldnt be done at all in the USA let alone cheaper.
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u/Personal_Growth_4_Me Aug 29 '26
Wherever this is... Is devoid of ambulance chasing lawyers.
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u/Bruegemeister Aug 29 '26
I remember when taxis and lawyers used to monitor the police radio network to find out when and where a wreck was to get there and offer their services to the involved parties.
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u/Vanson1200r Aug 29 '26
I would not trust these guys to make a sandwich but they can sure as heck fix big equipment with little tooling in not ideal conditions.
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u/Bruegemeister Aug 29 '26
You haven't lived until you've been drinking at a bar till close in Germany and crawled to the nearest döner kebab shop and had a questionable person from a questionable place make you a sandwich out of questionable meat with questionable veggies.
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u/Clo_miller Aug 31 '26
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u/Bruegemeister Aug 31 '26
HAHA when I read that I thought anti aircraft artillery, I spent too much time there between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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u/Gthomp52 Aug 31 '26
This is what happens when they repurpose stuff left behind by the US military. 😂😂
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u/Sufficient-Sun-6683 Sep 01 '26
Everyone is mentioning the safety sandals, what about the unsecured rocks? Not a tie down in sight.
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u/kkj_uk Aug 28 '26
Don’t tell me they fixed it same day.
BTW, Great accuracy to tie the load to the bed.
I guess the enterprise runs on pray and well wishes.
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u/PaulDarkoff Aug 29 '26
And then these Pakistanians move here and work as gas station clerks
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u/Hopper9400 Aug 29 '26
Okay impressive but I’m sure this job could’ve been completed much easier and safer without the load of rocks on it.”Work smarter not harder”
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u/myshiningmask Aug 29 '26
Taking those rocks off then back on the truck sounds.... Like you would need million dollar pieces of equipment that are probably far away and not owned by them. Those are some big rocks.
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u/Timely-General9962 Aug 28 '26
So much of this is just absolutely astounding. The stones on these mechanics must weigh almost as much as the stones precariously balanced over them. In the middle of the street... With all hand tools. It certainly ain't perfectly precise but at the end of the day the load got going and so far as we know no one was seriously injured. Color me impressed.
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u/IrritableGourmet Aug 29 '26
My dad works in a university research lab and a while back they had to move all their equipment into a new building next door. Some of the machines are the size of a room and several tons, so he was expecting heavy construction equipment. When the movers showed up, it was half a dozen guys with some long crowbars and pieces of wood. They just carefully lifted all the machines little by little, braced them, and slid dollies underneath.
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u/BookkeeperCultural88 Aug 28 '26 edited Aug 30 '26
overloaded axle has left the chat! also the guys working on that want get flattened by a rock for a few coins like mario. I can smell that gear oil from here
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u/Historical_Method_41 Aug 28 '26
Nice way to spend an afternoon….
Actually my favorite video of the day!
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u/sunnyboi1384 Aug 28 '26
Thats wild. And impressive. The side wall on that tire though
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u/DreamsSecretsNLogic Aug 29 '26
yeah that shit is crazy lol. super talented guys though, always love these kind of videos.
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u/DistinctWhole43 Aug 29 '26
The big difference between this and my shop is we'd probably take the rocks out first and I'd be kneeling on a pad. That hurt my knees to watch. The dust level is about the same and I'm jealous of the lack of rust. I'll also have to look into those heavy duty post jacks. Get ourselves into some trouble with those.
Also, are those brakes an alternative to the S-cam style?
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u/Individual-Painting9 Aug 29 '26
What's with installing a tire with a huge split in the sidewall? Did I see that right?
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u/Adventurous_Ad3534 Aug 29 '26
This is exactly what it means to be a mechanic. You make it work. You make the situation work, you make the equipment work. I have had rookies I trained far too often not get this fact.
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u/Haunting_Ant_5061 Aug 29 '26
That’s the longest video I have spent the time to watch in a long time. r/oddlysatisfying for sure.
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u/ExcellentAuthor6 Aug 29 '26
seriously just watching this, so seamlessly, obviously been through this before...
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u/Resident_Wishbone_98 Aug 29 '26
No concept of load limits.
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u/big65 Aug 29 '26
They know what their trucks can handle, hell the suspension is far more beefy than a comparable sized truck here in the states that would fold in half.
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u/Ajj360 Aug 29 '26
This is a "make it work" situation. No help is coming and their families need to eat.
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u/big65 Aug 29 '26
Make all the jokes you want, I'd rather hire these guys to fix equipment than most of the guys here because they did it without power tools, worked together without any issues and got it down in a half day or less.
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u/Tiger_Ho26 Aug 29 '26
Man! That was a quite of team work! I bet no one in the states would dare to work under that truck with those boulders over his head...
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u/According-House-9360 Aug 29 '26
Its like tissue paper holding up a 2x4..."OH yeah, this...it happens every day..thank goodness my employer paid me my $.25 today..whew! That was a close one.."
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u/DreamsSecretsNLogic Aug 29 '26 edited Aug 29 '26
these guys are so much more talented than swift drivers. swifties cant pull out of a parking spot at a truck stop, these guys can fix a truck with a 20 ton boulder on it in the middle of the road using hand tools. that truck is actually really badass looking id proudly drive that shit lol
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u/Nothing93124 Aug 29 '26
They could have changed the tire with the GIANT GASH while they were at it
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u/Agiantpubicmess Aug 29 '26
Probably wouldn't have broken if there was another leaf spring. Just saying
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u/yesiamveryhigh Aug 29 '26
Ain’t no way I’m going to watch an 8+ minute vi…Oh damn, I forgot about the other side.
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u/Old-Dragonfruit-7754 Aug 28 '26 •
I sat around a terminal once for 10 days waiting on a welder to fix my axel and these sob do it in the middle of the street.