r/whatisit • u/Same_Tomato_5317 • 2h ago

New, what is it? What’s attached to this car?

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Why do they have this attached to the car? Seen in Chicago.

Guys, I know it’s an axle but why would you attach this to your car like that? Are they pulling it around the parking lot? I mean, you can’t drive very far like that.

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u/DesignerFlat7108 2h ago

Looks like a rear dif on casters.

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u/friendlyfire883 2h ago

That's exactly what it is. I bet they chained it up so no one steals it.

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u/green_warbler 2h ago

Yeah, you can see the big lock too. Bet they are in a scetchy area and someone would swoop in and grab that shit for scrap if they didn't lock it up somehow 

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u/toomuchweld 2h ago

It's on a rolling cart. Guy might not have had a trailer and that's how he is dragging it home. I've seen dumber shit done.

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u/Same_Tomato_5317 2h ago

I can’t remember, but I feel like it’s been there for a while

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u/Same_Tomato_5317 2h ago

OK, this is what I figured. It’s not that sketchy but it’s in the city.

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u/Mother-Attention2600 2h ago

Jimmy likes to swap em when he off roads.

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u/thevogonity 2h ago

Rear differential, or just rear axle? I’m having trouble seeing the gearbox.

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u/Responsible_Name1217 1h ago

Naa- what you see there is just plain stupidity.

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u/losingweightvenom 2h ago

seems safe 😵‍💫

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u/A_Nonny_Muse 2h ago

Yep.

Bout as safe as a 13 year old Alabama boy babysitting his 11 year old sister for 3 days.

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u/FarLaugh9911 2h ago

It's an axle on a furniture dolly. The vehicle has nothing to do with it other than being a place to chain it to until the repair can be done.

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u/MinorComprehension 2h ago

Man, here I was thinking I'm responsible by making sure my spare is properly inflated and carrying a spare seperentine belt. Couple spare bulbs and a screwdriver and ratchet in the glovebox.

This guy though, he carries a whole spare axle 😂

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u/jort93 2h ago

a rear axle on a dolly.

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u/Select-Belt-ou812 2h ago

for some reason I want it to be a lawn mower

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u/02meepmeep 2h ago

It’s probably Chevy Chase. An upset cop is going to pull him over and explain how that little Miata he was towing probably tried to keep up with him for miles.

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u/fendrhead- 2h ago

Axel.

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u/Select-Belt-ou812 2h ago

foley?

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u/bigmattyc 2h ago

Duh duh dun dun dun duh duh

Dun dun dun da do da do do dooo

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u/Rjgom 2h ago

100% not a ice skating axel jump. but it is a axle on moving dolly’s.

someone’s attempted moving it from one place to another. Looks like it didn’t go well.

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u/snow-bird- 2h ago

It's the new "Zombie Shredder 2000" 👻 🤣

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u/headeasy69 2h ago

That's a front diff for 4 wheel drive look at the offset

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u/Wolf_Ape 2h ago

I think maybe it’s just hard to tell where the diff is actually positioned from the angle here.

I don’t see any indication that those hubs can rotate.

Front wheels need to turn.

Also there aren’t a lot of solid front axle vehicles with 5 or 6 lug hubs these days.

I don’t think that’s the front axle to a late model wrangler or grenadier, and it’s too wide for the other relatively recent possibilities.

Odds are it’s a gm/Chevy rear axle.

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u/4r4r4real 2h ago

Yo is this the BP on 75th by the expressway?

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u/Same_Tomato_5317 2h ago

Northside off I 90

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u/4r4r4real 1h ago

Ashland and Fullerton?

Edit: lmfao this SUV is in the google street view there, so yes

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u/Kylearean 2h ago

ITT: no-one can spell axle correctly.

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u/Southern-Worker7762 2h ago

Do you think the correct spelling is “no-one”?

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u/Any_Mode6525 2h ago

no-one for no one is way better than axel for axle.

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u/Kylearean 2h ago

No-one: The hyphenated version is sometimes used or accepted in British English and UK style guides, but it is much less common and generally considered incorrect in American English.

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u/Fun-Telephone-9605 2h ago

The singer of Guns n Roses?

What does he have to do with axels?

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u/A_Nonny_Muse 2h ago

And my axe l

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u/mightymidwestshred 2h ago

Looks like an axle.

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u/kramamavitch 2h ago

excel

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u/A_Nonny_Muse 2h ago

\spreadsheets intensifies**

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u/Mother-Attention2600 2h ago

Its whatever is left of the car he was towing 

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u/Kevaros 2h ago

That must be Gary Indiana, you got to chain down the trash there..! Looks like he was towing a truck and that's all that's left..!

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u/OhWhateverIs 2h ago

The most hillbilly DIY trailer I’ve ever done seen.

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u/Party_Knowledge_7884 1h ago

It help dissipate static electricity.

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u/AdMuch7162 1h ago

its clearly the carcass of the last vehicle this SUV ate.

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u/penguinfans 1h ago edited 1h ago

it's the solution one person rigs up to get the rear axle assy. to it's destination -- it's not going inside that vehicle

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u/FearlessWord2653 2h ago

I mean it looks like some kind of redneck dolly to move that spare axle? Some harbour freight furniture dollys and a chain.

Edit: this should be in idiots towing things

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u/A_Nonny_Muse 2h ago

Why not r/IdiotsToeingThings ?

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u/FearlessWord2653 1h ago

Because you havent made that subreddit yet

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u/warm_blanket7 2h ago

So it can drive on the railroad tracks!

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u/Trivi_13 2h ago edited 2h ago

It is a railroad truck

ETA: https://railtrucks.com/

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u/philpalmer2 2h ago

No, it’s not

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u/JoleneBacon_Biscuit 2h ago

I don't think it is.

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u/A_Nonny_Muse 2h ago

"I don't think..."

One should never admit to that.

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u/JoleneBacon_Biscuit 2h ago

True.

From what I see in the photo, it is not a railway vehicle.

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u/A_Nonny_Muse 2h ago

And I totally agree.

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u/A110_Renault 2h ago

That looks like the rear axle - I assume they're going to replace the broken one in the car with that one.

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u/4Harley 2h ago

I guess he bought differential and it wouldn’t inside his vehicle.

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u/Glum_Tumbleweed5115 2h ago

Seems like you may be right but you some words.

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u/4Harley 2h ago

I guess he bought a differential and it wouldn't fit inside his vehicle. Thank you.

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u/Dalingham 2h ago

You could always go ask him :)

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u/KirkWahmmett 2h ago

Looks like an adapter for railroad tracks

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u/JoleneBacon_Biscuit 2h ago

It doesn't. But for some reason you aren't the only one that thinks that!

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u/AppropriateCap8891 2h ago

No, because you can clearly see the lugs sticking out from the hubs.

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u/scramblebambles 2h ago

You’re correct. Hi rail wheels don’t have lugs.

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u/NXTnerd 2h ago

Looks like a rear axel for that car. Chained in place so it doesnt wander off before they can install it.

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u/PerceptionIll8483 2h ago

Its got wheels. An engine mirrors windows.

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u/papapapap-mmmK 2h ago

That is a device that allows the vehicle to be ridden on railroad tracks.

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u/Ok-Reference9022 2h ago

Is it a dolly to tow another vehicle?