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Colostomy Bag posted:Pffft. A company that that tosses on the wrong badges and will slap different trim colors on the opposite side of the vehicle. Of course there is nothing to worry about. We're talking about Tesla now?
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Midjack posted:We're talking about Tesla now? Chrysler makes Tesla look good. On the plus side, my ex/bff runs a Mopar dealer service shop, so he gets billable hours fixing all of Detroit's fuckups! Also: "customer of the day: feuding with his neighbor; had half a tank of diesel last night; today he has a full tank and the fuel is foamy and after he started it the motor died. we are conducting experiments to see if we can figure out what exactly has been put in his tank" Any ideas? Chillbro Baggins fucked around with this message at 20:38 on Oct 6, 2018 |
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Oct 6, 2018 20:33
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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I'll go with something somebody might have on hand. Carwash concentrate.. maybe windshield washer fluid or laundry detergent.
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I'm also throwing my hat in for windshield fluid or car wash. I doubt bleach would get gas to foam much.
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Oct 6, 2018 23:11
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Y'all ever wonder what gas pulled out of a car that's been sitting for 7 years looks like? We considered putting it on craigslist as "12 gallons of gasoline, $.50/gallon, not for automotive use"
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Chillbro Baggins posted:Chrysler makes Tesla look good. On the plus side, my ex/bff runs a Mopar dealer service shop, so he gets billable hours fixing all of Detroit's fuckups! Horrible mechanical failures: Chrysler makes Tesla look good
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Oct 7, 2018 00:47
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A picture of the ancient analog lowjack type device that was being a parasitic drain on the battery. It was hidden in the trunk behind the liner and tapped directly into the battery lead. The lead acid battery on the unit was thoroughly dead and for some reason connected directly to the main car battery. I am not sure what the point was as I don't think it would keep this unit alive for long since it would be powering the rest of the car. I looked up what details I could find and it is an analog unit. Analog service has not been operation for 10 years at this point so this was doing nothing. The display was still showing "Searching" when I found it and opened the case.
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Dannywilson posted:Y'all ever wonder what gas pulled out of a car that's been sitting for 7 years looks like? Lawn mowers will happily run this swill. I've done it. Hell, I've run two year old 2-stroke premix in mowers with no issues.
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ZincBoy posted:A picture of the ancient analog lowjack type device that was being a parasitic drain on the battery. It was hidden in the trunk behind the liner and tapped directly into the battery lead. The lead acid battery on the unit was thoroughly dead and for some reason connected directly to the main car battery. I am not sure what the point was as I don't think it would keep this unit alive for long since it would be powering the rest of the car. Cool, scavenge it for parts and put the PCB on the wall. Is it the kind of car a jealous dude would buy for his trophy wife?
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builds character posted:Sorry, that was tongue in cheek. Is this a thing that you think they’ll fix easily for future ones and that they’ll be able to just weld up on existing models? Aaaaaaahahahahahahahahahahaha It’ll take 60,000 new wranglers and three attempts several months apart before anything meaningful happens. This is the same company that used known-questionable clock springs for the entire decade of the JK, extending the warranty every year instead of just revising the part to not fry the airbag and steering wheel electronics. I’m actually curious if they’re still using it. Probably.
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Chillbro Baggins posted:Chrysler makes Tesla look good. On the plus side, my ex/bff runs a Mopar dealer service shop, so he gets billable hours fixing all of Detroit's fuckups! Fill a glass jar and leave it on the desk for a few hours to see if it separates out.
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Chillbro Baggins posted:Also: "customer of the day: feuding with his neighbor; had half a tank of diesel last night; today he has a full tank and the fuel is foamy and after he started it the motor died. we are conducting experiments to see if we can figure out what exactly has been put in his tank" They had a diabetic chug a keg, then he/she pissed in the fuel tank.
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Re: the Wrangler welds, if the guy who had his towed back to the dealership said "money back please", how difficult would they make it on him? Because that's what I would do, gently caress just being given another one of those deathtraps.
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afen posted:YouTubeChat: I really like Abom79, he's good at explaining what he does and why he does it. He also seems like he really enjoys making videos. Abom79 for the heavy machining and Stefan Gotteswinter for ze German touch ja. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LCKpSaTPbI Also my 91 E34 525i is having some nasty misfiring and I'm afraid of buying 6 new ingition coils. Luckily no mechanical disaster yet.
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This is what my cat looked like after I ran a car with a misfire for a week.  Fix your coils
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So... free high flow upgrade?
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Rolled up to a stop at a light a couple days ago and It was kind of a trip to see what, at first glance, looked like the shattered remnants of an alloy wheel. It's actually a plastic hubcap, of course, not even pot metal fails like that.
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Riscas posted:This is what my cat looked like after I ran a car with a misfire for a week. I don't have cats in that car anymore. But yeah it's also not a daily driver so I can take my time diagnosing and fixing it.
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Bajaha posted:So... free high flow upgrade? Gotta delete the 02 sensor
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shortspecialbus posted:My first car was a 1988 Ford Escort GL. About 2 weeks after I bought it, the linkage snapped and I lost 2nd and 4th and mostly Reverse although I could sometimes fiddle it. I spent a month just working around those two gears. It took me a while to get back in the habit of using them after I finally had money to fix it. '88 GT, the screw fell out. Getting home in third gear was fun. Did you know that screw and plate piece that holds that together also has the metal piece for the backup light switch? Not having backup lights for a few months until I could source another part was entertaining. One year was the year we had a nasty snowstorm. Got stuck leaving a GF's house where I was looking in on their cat, had to have my dad come by and get me out. The freeways had turned in to ice-crusted washboard due to all the semis with chains running down it, if I got above like 20mph it would trip the collision sensor on the fuel pump; had to jump out of the car on the side of the freeway 3 times to hit the reset. Then the clutch finally bought it when I was about a mile from my exit.
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My dad vaporized a divot out of a pair of needle nose pliers working in the breaker box of the 2nd or 3rd house he was general contractor on. I will, one day, inherit those pliers.
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xzzy posted:Pretty sure everyone has a screwdriver with a chunk of metal missing from the shaft. Sagebrush posted:in my case it's a pair of flush cutters with a pair of semicircles burned out of the blades from where I tried to cut through a pair of wires without disconnecting them from the power supply We had a site power outage a couple years ago for work on the massive distribution panels that feed the supercomputers. Electricians do their stuff, we do ours and we don't touch the power side of things as a rule. Outage is wrapping up and they go to switch power back on, there's a healthy pop and little bit of flash from inside one of the panels. Someone forgot their wrench, their couple foot long 2.5 inch open end wrench. There were a couple burn marks on the bus bars and a few specs of metal, rest of it was vaporized.
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NitroSpazzz posted:I still have the screwdriver that lived under the hood of my $100 pickup through college. Was used to bridge the starter solenoid for most of the time I owned that truck. My Dad has a similar one from his Lancia Beta which he still swears was the biggest piece of poo poo he's ever owned. Jaysus Christ! I don't have anything even close to post but y'all should also check out Jafromobile, though I expect his channel hasn't been listed here because of the slow updates or maybe he's just old hat required viewing. Did a rebuild on a 4G63 at up to 256-speed and it took like half an hour, think of it as the antithesis of Abom79 with a heavy focus on DSMs, the 4G63 specifically, and cars pretty much exclusively. I love me some Abom79 but Jafromobile is more like my preferred speed of info delivery.
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NitroSpazzz posted:I still have the screwdriver that lived under the hood of my $100 pickup through college. Was used to bridge the starter solenoid for most of the time I owned that truck. My Dad has a similar one from his Lancia Beta which he still swears was the biggest piece of poo poo he's ever owned. One of my old roommates decided troubleshooting why his starter wouldn't work with the key on his Integra was too difficult, and just carried a screwdriver to bridge the contacts. I had to borrow it when my Civic broke down. Poked my head under the dash... the rubber stopper for the clutch switch was gone. 2 cut wires and a wire nut later (I was 23, cut me a little slack, plus it wasn't supposed to be a permanent repair), it actually started with the key again. He'd been driving it like that for nearly a year. A couple of months later the gearbox decided it didn't like a diff pin and shredded the gearbox. I'm sure his habit of sidestepping the clutch when doing sikk burnouts had nothing to do with that (B series gearboxes, at least the older cable-clutch type, are pretty well known for this failure)
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Dannywilson posted:Y'all ever wonder what gas pulled out of a car that's been sitting for 7 years looks like? please don't doxx my hangover piss
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Time for the Johnstown Flood Motor Necromancy Method: Drain floodwater+oil from your car (and engine) Replace the oil filter with a cheapie from Giant Eagle Fill crankcase with kerosene to recommended oil level Run 2-minutes & drain. Repeat. Fill with 1/2 cheap 30-wt + 1/2 kerosene Run ten minutes & drain. Repeat if you're rich/work at Bethlehem Steel Refill with straight 30wt Run 10-minutes & drain. Put in 'spensive oil & new filter & you're good to go!
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On the bottle it says safe to use mixed with basically anything.
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literally posted 3 posts above, and quoted in the post directly above. 
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That's what came out when I blew the 283 in Bernice. Piston shattered the cylinder wall. I even found a piece of valve stem at the exit of the y-pipe. It was a good explosion.
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shy boy from chess club posted:That's what came out when I blew the 283 in Bernice. Piston shattered the cylinder wall. I even found a piece of valve stem at the exit of the y-pipe. It was a good explosion. Are engines awesome for containing explosions or awesomer when they explode?
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wesleywillis posted:Are engines awesome for containing explosions or awesomer when they explode? Yes.
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Geoj posted:Horrible electrical failures: while removing the battery from my brother's MS3 I had a long 1/4" extension (the back third of the battery sits back under the windshield cowl) fall out of the ratchet and land squarely on and immediately spot weld itself to the terminals. I had the same thing happen, but with a box wrench. Luckily I had a hammer in reach.
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For sure. Another one we exploded on purpose blew part of the rod out through the windage tray and oil pan. That ruled.
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PainterofCrap posted:Time for the Johnstown Flood Motor Necromancy Method: I don't see anything about going to Coney Island afterwards, it's fake news.
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tetrapyloctomy posted:I don't see anything about going to Knoebel's Grove afterwards, it's fake news.
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Never been there -- it's nowhere near Johnstown. Idlewild, on the other hand ...
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Why do the logbooks show the engine was reinstalled after overhaul and then sent out for overhaul a week later? Maybe it was because someone managed to connect a fuel line directly into the crankcase when they reinstalled the engine. E: stevewm posted:I once vaporized a screwdriver... I have a similar story. For a year or so former boss, his son, and I, would go out and work on former boss' dead dad's DIY maintenance home from the early 1900s. The dead guy was criminally management material and we managed to barely avoid serious house related injuries every time we went out. I don't think I can really make this one exciting so I'll cut to the chase and advise you that just because there is a breaker labeled 'basement' doesn't mean that the outlet box in the basement that you're sticking a screwdriver into isn't wired into the attic breaker. EvenWorseOpinions fucked around with this message at 05:25 on Oct 13, 2018 |
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