Muffler bearings, left handed screwdriver, zyphoid balancer, What kind of fakeouts...

[idrivemopar]

Muffler bearings, left handed screwdriver, zyphoid balancer,

What kind of fake outs have you done to convince someone about a part or tool that does not exist??????

Back in the 80's working fast food, there was a very gullible girl that worked on our crew, and one day the fryer was broken, and she asked what was wrong with it, so we told her the fallopian tubes were shot...and sent her to the hardware store to get a new set...needless to say she came back even more confused then when she left and said they did not have any and should check with the auto parts store! LOL

Also back in the 80's, very naïve dude that hung out with us decided to blow his entire $350 pay check on a 77 Grand Prix, well needless to say, he bought the car and while driving it home, the thing just started blowing tons of white smoke from under the hood. Well, we all new it was a blown head gasket and or cylinder, so he asked us to look at it, and we did, of course we were having a little bit of a Friday get together, so in our fun loving state of mind, we told him it was a blown zyphoid balancer. Well by the end of the weekend he finally figured out there was not such thing, after calling numerous shops and auto parts stores trying to find one, but we didn't want to ruin his weekend by telling him he had purchased a total POS that now has a blown motor.

Got stories, post em' up!!! as long as it was all in good fun!

 

[kiwigtx]

As a very junior apprentice I was sent down to the local Hardware store to pick up some items. On the list was a quantity of 'sky hooks'. The guy in the Hardware store must have never been asked for those before, so he started hunting in the bins and boxes. Eventually I returned to our shop with 100 each or bright chrome and plastic coated cup hooks - all 2 inch long. Joke fell flat on the boss that day. :grin:

 

[Chargerjase]

Had those jokes played on me in the first year of my apprenticeship.Had to go and get a 'long weight' from the store one day. The best one was getting told to pick up a 'box of short circuits'. The guy at the wholesaler cut some wire into small pieces and put them in a box for me to take away. Needless to say, the beers were on me that Friday afternoon.

 

[69Bee]

Spent 20 min on a snipe hunt, until I called BS, and went back to camp. The other guy was out there for a few hrs... LOL

 

[MoparMitch]

I don't know too much about sending someone on a wild goose chase. But....... I was in the Auto Parts Supply business as an owner for 30 years. At one of the stores in the hood, we constantly had people coming in looking for Caddilac Convertors, Fuse Pumps, Stermistats, Algenators, Tail Pies and Muffins, Erecktronic Ignition Parts, Wheel Silly's, and a host of other stuff , I have forgotten about. We also had a Truck Fleet mechanic that always had a Ford Ecoline he was working on. I tell you... It was hard to keep a straight face.

 

[kiwigtx]

Funny I was talking with my boss yesterday about a similar subject. I recalled a few instances of the same from our local Saturday paper which was the main source of Car Adverts before the Innerweb took over. One advert for a Chevy went on about the various features, including a 12 Volt diff.
Another for a Ferrari claimed to be cared for by one "Fast Idiot Owner" - meant to be fastidious. Ahhh, the days of phoning up to place an advert. :rolling:

 

[idrivemopar]

30 weight ball bearings.. LOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjsfs49SRbc

 

[Dibbons]

Went to a Mexican hardware store (ACE) looking for gopher traps. The staff looked at me real funny when I asked for traps for "trusas" when I should of been asking for "tusa" traps. Substituted the word for men's underwear (briefs) for the word for gopher. Also told my 5 year-old niece the white powder we saw alongside the highway was sugar, and she believed me, it was actually the first snow of the season.

 

[jprather]

i remember the days of sending the newbie for a left handed hammer, a metric adjustable wrench, or a board stretcher.. i think the best one was a young girl that worked with us bought her boyfriend a pair of snake skin boots for christmas, we convinced her they would shed unless the were rubbed down with snake oil on a regular basis.. 3 months later boy was she mad after going to numerous shoe stores trying to buy snake oil for those boots !!

 

[Car Nut]

Ever shop at this auto parts store.

http://kalecoauto.com/

 

[Xp29h]

We had a guy wandering around the shop for hours looking for the "glass magnet" after he broke a coke bottle on the floor. We finally let him off the hook.

 

[Daves69]

Aluminum magnet, blinker fluid, and the ever popular Kuhneutson Valve.

http://kalecoauto.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=47

make sure you read the review

 

[Hemi Rebel]

Hey, muffler bearings exist.......they're called turbos!

 

[Car Nut]

Wiper Blade Sharpener, get yours today!


http://kalecoauto.com/index.php?mai...54&reviews_id=20&zenid=B069zuLrQhi8MWpASqnpt3

 

[idrivemopar]

That is a pretty funny site! I got a kick out of it.

 

[ram250098]

I love getting the new apprentices with this one..I turn the power to the spot welder off and tell them it ran out of spots and need to be refilled...
AL

 

[Brandy]

That was funny. I scared the crap out of my wife when I busted out laughing.

I love getting the new apprentices with this one..I turn the power to the spot welder off and tell them it ran out of spots and need to be refilled...
AL

In the Army back in the 70s we would send new mechanics to find a muffler stretcher. We actually made one that stretched the accordion like pipe the went to the stack. New ones were always a pain to install because the old parts had expanded. They would be gone for an hour or so and come back mad because we had sent them on a wild goose chase. After letting them blow off steam for minute one of us would say," Oh, I forgot that we brought it along, it,s in the cab." Somebody would get it out and clamp it on the pipe and it allowed us to stretch it about an 1/8th of and inch which usually made the difference. Sometimes we could get them to go looking two times after showing them a picture of the thing after the first attempt. Had a lot of laughs with that kind of stuff.

 

[mmissile]

 

[mrsnicks]

i remember the days of sending the newbie for a left handed hammer, a metric adjustable wrench, or a board stretcher.

http://www.amazon.com/Tools-10806-A...6349&sr=8-1&keywords=metric+adjustable+wrench

 

[67440chrg]

Being a plumber we always had apprentices get pipe stretchers. I even described them with chains and comealongs on each end.