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In the spirit of the thread, somewhat. This is an example of a horrible mechanical SUCCESS. I walked away. Oil Pan Carnage
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# ? Dec 20, 2010 19:32 |
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Beach Bum posted:In the spirit of the thread, somewhat. This is an example of a horrible mechanical SUCCESS. I walked away. drat, did someone run a stop sign/red light?
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# ? Dec 20, 2010 20:22 |
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Beach Bum posted:Crash picks from bad driving. How many threads are you going crosspost this to?
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# ? Dec 20, 2010 20:32 |
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I'm bored, cranky, and stuck at home. I left out the story. What's it to you? Is this not the mechanical carnage thread? Also, bad driving? Beach Bum fucked around with this message at 21:43 on Dec 20, 2010 |
# ? Dec 20, 2010 21:22 |
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Beach Bum posted:I'm bored, cranky, and stuck at home. I left out the story. What's it to you? Is this not the mechanical carnage thread? Seems like more of a human failure than a mechanical failure.
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# ? Dec 20, 2010 21:53 |
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Beach Bum posted:I'm bored, cranky, and stuck at home. I left out the story. What's it to you? Is this not the mechanical carnage thread? No, it's not the mechanical carnage thread, it's the mechanical failures thread. Nothing failed in your story, except for your ability to see cars about to hit you... and that's not mechanical.
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# ? Dec 20, 2010 21:54 |
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a car did that? shape of dent made me think something smaller like a tree
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# ? Dec 20, 2010 23:29 |
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some texas redneck posted:Pretty tame, but I don't think I've ever had a motor mount do this before. They look like this RIGHT before your picture. There was maybe an eighth of an inch of rubber left before the entire thing collapsed.
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# ? Dec 21, 2010 00:35 |
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Maker Of Shoes posted:They look like this RIGHT before your picture. Reminds me of the awful old Astron II Magna motor mounts. Because the magna community are somewhat ...um I can't think of a word to describe them, rebuilding those mounts with a tube of marine urethane when they collapse is gaining ground.
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# ? Dec 21, 2010 00:49 |
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That happened to the rear mount on my DA Integra. And that was with the raging torque-monster that the B16a was. Car actually still drove fine but eventually failed a safety inspection on it.
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# ? Dec 21, 2010 00:52 |
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oops content: Speaking of Magnas, I found these pics I took when the Magna's oil pump stopped pumping. #2 and #4 conrod bearings.
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# ? Dec 21, 2010 00:54 |
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dissss posted:That happened to the rear mount on my DA Integra. And that was with the raging torque-monster that the B16a was. That seems to be a B-series thing. My B18 powered Integra's motor mount bushings were completely done in just a few years. Poly inserts help a lot. The vibration is sometimes annoying but it beats feeling your drivetrain thrashing around violently and wondering if this is the time your axles will snap.
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# ? Dec 21, 2010 01:56 |
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General_Failure posted:Reminds me of the awful old Astron II Magna motor mounts. Because the magna community are somewhat ...um I can't think of a word to describe them, rebuilding those mounts with a tube of marine urethane when they collapse is gaining ground. Dodge decided it would be a wonderful idea to use the same motor mounts found on the anemic 2.0L SOHC Neon in the 2.4L SRT-4. Soft is an understatement and Detroit Q. Spider put it quite well. Before aftermarket parts companies started making better mounts for these things people were doing the old school method and just filling the poo poo out of them with 3M Window Weld. Works pretty good actually. It's ghetto as all hell though.
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# ? Dec 21, 2010 02:04 |
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In the spirit of horrible mechanical failures caused by horrible human failures, this was from a few months ago in Newcastle, Australia. The first of these new locos (not in this train) was less than twelve months old when this incident occurred. This is why some people can't have nice things.
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# ? Dec 23, 2010 12:00 |
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Maker Of Shoes posted:Dodge decided it would be a wonderful idea to use the same motor mounts found on the anemic 2.0L SOHC Neon in the 2.4L SRT-4. Soft is an understatement and Detroit Q. Spider put it quite well. Before aftermarket parts companies started making better mounts for these things people were doing the old school method and just filling the poo poo out of them with 3M Window Weld. Works pretty good actually. It's ghetto as all hell though. Coworker of mine has a N/A Neon that trashed its mounts. I'm sure the SRTs must murder them.
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# ? Dec 23, 2010 15:20 |
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IOwnCalculus posted:Coworker of mine has a N/A Neon that trashed its mounts. I'm sure the SRTs must murder them. The amount of motor flex on the stock mounts is insane. I rarely tracked my car and it managed to trash two of them in 40k miles. I snagged a set of these for pretty cheap and never looked back. Sure it turned into a 3000 pound vibrator but at least it doesn't wheel hop pulling through drive-thru's anymore.
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# ? Dec 24, 2010 16:27 |
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joehein posted:
I blew the caps clean off of the Ford 9" in my old 1984 JYD camaro right at the starting line. Even so, if you applied the power ever so gently, the car would move noisily under it own power. This allowed me to get it back to the pits and onto a borrowed trailer.
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# ? Dec 25, 2010 21:17 |
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Click here for the full 1200x900 image. This came out of a '94 4T60-E, I guess it could not handle the power of a 3800, supercharged.
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# ? Dec 28, 2010 03:39 |
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joehein posted:
from the days when men were men. I can picture your bronco saying "it's just a flesh wound" as it hops up onto the trailer.
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# ? Dec 28, 2010 16:49 |
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New York's sanitation dept destroying a car due to their stupidity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt_r-jO3lKE
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# ? Dec 29, 2010 02:49 |
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^ Could have been a LOT worse than it was. "Destroying" is a bit strong for the situation, you could probably do more damage with a baseball bat.
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# ? Dec 29, 2010 10:00 |
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You would be hard pressed to do this with a baseball bat.
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# ? Dec 29, 2010 12:08 |
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Looks like two lawsuits they're up for... there's a damaged rear view mirror on the front car, as well as (I assume, since the front one is snowed in) the rear window, and the light makes it look like some damage to the doors and front wheel arch.
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# ? Dec 29, 2010 12:12 |
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That front wheel arch isn't a weird shadow, that's a crunched fender.
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# ? Dec 29, 2010 13:55 |
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BlackShadow posted:Looks like two lawsuits they're up for... there's a damaged rear view mirror on the front car, as well as (I assume, since the front one is snowed in) the rear window, and the light makes it look like some damage to the doors and front wheel arch. How about the 4000lb SUV parked in the rear end of the Corolla? If you watch the video, they actually pushed the Corolla forward with the Explorer.
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# ? Dec 29, 2010 15:44 |
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BlackShadow posted:Looks like two lawsuits they're up for... there's a damaged rear view mirror on the front car, as well as (I assume, since the front one is snowed in) the rear window, and the light makes it look like some damage to the doors and front wheel arch. My understanding is that the white SUV was a city-owned vehicle driven by someone on the scene and the Toyota was the personal car of one of the guy in the front-loader.
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# ? Dec 29, 2010 16:39 |
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InstantInfidel posted:My understanding is that the white SUV was a city-owned vehicle driven by someone on the scene and the Toyota was the personal car of one of the guy in the front-loader. Where did you here that? I only ask because it's pretty clear from the video that both cars had been in those spots for awhile.
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# ? Dec 29, 2010 18:46 |
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I quite fancy hitting everyone involved around the back of the head with my copy of the REME Recovery Manual. Jesus Christ, that was an appalling level of stupidity.
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# ? Dec 29, 2010 19:05 |
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renraku posted:Where did you here that? http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local...ideo_shows.html quote:"It could had been completely avoided," said the wife of Eugene McArdle, 53, whose city-owned SUV was crushed. "It was a poor decision." quote:the front-end loader also clipped the McArdles' personal Toyota sedan. Emphasis mine; I had heard that from my dad and apparently he misread it. I think what actually happened is the incident took place outside of a city employee's home and the cars were his, not the idiots who were driving. Also, 'clipped'? More like demolished the passenger side but whatever.
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# ? Dec 29, 2010 19:11 |
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InstantInfidel posted:
Saying clipped is like telling a police officer you only slapped your wife, when in reality you punched her in the face repeatedly and finished it off by kicking in the mouth after she fell to the ground. Clipping, maybe a bruised bumper or something. Not rear of car smashed 10 times.
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# ? Dec 29, 2010 21:53 |
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InstantInfidel posted:http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local...ideo_shows.html I'm glad I'm not the taxpayer who's going to have to pay to fix those cars.
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# ? Dec 30, 2010 16:10 |
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Tactical Bonnet posted:That front wheel arch isn't a weird shadow, that's a crunched fender. The roof looks like it's caved in up front. I have no idea why. Godholio fucked around with this message at 16:49 on Dec 30, 2010 |
# ? Dec 30, 2010 16:44 |
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Teenager. Litrebike. 157mph. Concrete. By some miracle, no death. http://jalopnik.com/5721263/this-is-what-happens-when-you-crash-a-motorcycle-at-157-mph
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# ? Dec 31, 2010 23:55 |
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InitialDave posted:
Sweet jesus. The only things that let me know that used to be a bike are the battery and chain.
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# ? Dec 31, 2010 23:57 |
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that was most certainly not a mechanical failure, though
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# ? Jan 1, 2011 01:55 |
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InitialDave posted:By some miracle, no death. Chillbro Baggins fucked around with this message at 06:17 on Jan 1, 2011 |
# ? Jan 1, 2011 05:55 |
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Driving like a loving idiot, while dumb, is not mechanical failure.
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# ? Jan 1, 2011 06:38 |
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mutt2jeff posted:Driving like a loving idiot, while dumb, is not mechanical failure. They're more like neurological failures
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# ? Jan 1, 2011 07:07 |
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Maker Of Shoes posted:Sweet jesus. The only things that let me know that used to be a bike are the battery and chain. I see the chain. I see a couple of wires. I can't find the battery in that mess.
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# ? Jan 1, 2011 12:09 |
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some texas redneck posted:I see the chain. I see a couple of wires. I can't find the battery in that mess. Lower right. Red top, black case
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# ? Jan 1, 2011 12:18 |