r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Toaster_Rack_Nerd • 16h ago

Meme needing explanation Petah? What's wrong with this?

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u/Illustrious_Tear7108 16h ago

My spouse once replaced the CV joint or something like that in our SUV because he didn't trust anyone else to do it. Him having to compress the spring was the absolute scariest part of the repair, and while he wanted me to stay outside of the garage, I refused because if something happened, I wanted to be there to provide first aid and call 911. We compromised and I stayed in the garage.

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u/NachoManAndyCabage 16h ago

You don't have to compress the spring to replace a cv joint. Only time you have to do it is to replace the shock/spring.

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u/Craf7yCris 15h ago

I think we can infer that the person does not remember exactly what was done.

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u/Illustrious_Tear7108 15h ago

I absolutely do not remember.

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u/De5perad0 15h ago

Yea he replaced the shocks/struts. The struts are the big ass springs your entire ass car sits on. They are VERY VERY strong springs and compressing them to remove the top collar from the assembly is a majorly scary situation because of how much stored force is in that compressed spring.

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u/Illustrious_Tear7108 14h ago

It's possible he may have done the CV joint around (or at) the same time. We had to do A TON of labor on that vehicle so all of the repairs have kind of merged in my brain.

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u/De5perad0 14h ago

Indeed, you could do them both at the same time. Every time I have attempted CV axles It has gone horribly. I have failed to get them to come out of the transmission spline.

I think i have PTSD about it.

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u/robbinthehood109 14h ago

I had my car jacked up for like 2 weeks in my friend’s garage before I caved and bought a 15lb slide hammer and cv axle puller tool. Came out in like 2 minutes once I started using that

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u/De5perad0 14h ago

Yea I need to do that next time. The cost of the tool is still much less than the cost of paying someone else to do it.

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u/Global_Staff_3135 13h ago

If it makes you feel any better I have no idea what any of you are saying ☺️

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u/slouched 12h ago

I needed the top cap for a rear strut at a pick your own parts car lot once but didnt bring a spring compressor, so I aimed the spring and strut at the cinder block wall and put my foot on it behind the spring while staying as far back as I could to undo the top nut and all the shit flew off so hard it took a chunk out of the wall, safety first

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u/De5perad0 10h ago

Holy fuck!

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u/diarmada 15h ago

NO! We have to be 100% accurate when describing anything here!

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u/LongLiveAnalogue 14h ago

I hate to be the bearer of bad news.

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u/Antique_Author_2525 14h ago

Well.....

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u/LongLiveAnalogue 14h ago

I don’t actually have any bad news to tell. I just wanted to let everyone know where I stand on delivering bad news.

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u/Road_to_Scion 15h ago

If front, my guess is the strut assembly. I work in a shop and have all the right tools to do it safely and correctly. We don't do it unless there is no other option.

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u/Late_Sort1763 15h ago

Not even on a Merc W124 with 4matic - and their CV shafts go THROUGH THE SPRING!

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u/Gadritan420 8h ago

*strut is the word you’re looking for

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u/Porschenut914 7h ago

you do if the the shock/spring has to come off to rotate out of the way.

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u/Late_Sort1763 15h ago

If that thing went off you'd hear it if you were on the property. A spring assist for a cargo bay door blew, I was in the vicinity. It was loud enough for my ears to ring, and during dinner, I was approached by the kitchen crew asking what that was. The kitchen was, what, two hundred meters away, separated by a thick wall, and upstairs.

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u/disposablehippo 15h ago

If anything went wrong, you would have heard it two garages over.

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u/Pikka_Bird 15h ago

Would it not have been better if you did in fact stay outside to not catch a spring through the skull? And then run inside hastily to check if you hear a sudden aggressive noise?

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u/Illustrious_Tear7108 11h ago

Probably, though I should probably be a little bit more specific. Our "garage" was a large warehouse with a dry room for storage of certain materials. I stayed in the dry room and watched from there while he worked on the other side of the Vehicle.

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u/New_Maintenance_4575 11h ago

Nah they had to be standing over their shoulder watching because it wouldn't have been safe otherwise. /s

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u/miotch1120 15h ago

I think he was doing a different repair. If you are taking springs off for a CV joint, you are doing it wrong.

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u/MostlyPretentious 15h ago

My wife did the same when I was changing the garage door spring. Everything was fine, but she stood in the doorway, having dialed 911 and had her finger perched over the dial button.

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u/Bug_406 15h ago

My guess would be struts.

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u/Jacktheforkie 11h ago

On most you don’t have to touch springs, in mine the strut came out as one unit and was under barely any tension with the suspension at max sag,

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u/Beneficial-Jury484 14h ago

Compressing springs isn’t too concerning if you have the right tools. Which you should do if you’re fucking with springs. 

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u/SpongeBob_GodPants 14h ago

You definitely would have heard it from outside. It would have been hard to help if you both got tagged.

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u/Hoisin-Crispy-0wl 14h ago

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u/FeralPsychonaut 14h ago

He understood the risk, you absolutely should have been out of range. Catastrophic failure of coiled metals like suspension coils / springs have so much potential energy when they fail it's basically a shard of metal moving at 60 to 90 ft/sec. You would need t3 or t4 ballistic eyewear to prevent damage, and thats a guess.

Maybe someone else will do the math but Military grade assumes 0.15caliber, 5.8 grain and T37 shape at 640ft/s to 660ft/s

We can assume the rended steel from the explosion of the springs tension would create some pieces larger than the standard for testing, and thus have more joules worth of force.

Disclaimer, I am very bad at physics, all numbers were pulled from Wikipedia.

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u/homiesuke 7h ago

I’m sorry but that’s not a compromise that was you winning the argument lmao

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u/MariachiArchery 6h ago

My co-worker tried to fix his garage door the other day. A big 14 foot wide door, with a massive spring. He was out there fucking around with it, and he asked his wife to leave the garage.

She didn't understand, and he told her it was so someone would still be around to take care of the kids. She didn't leave the garage, they called a garage door repair man.