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grover posted:That had a lot of potential to be far worse.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Cat note This reminds me of the time my girlfriend stayed over at my place in another city and had to park on the street overnight. She goes to start her car in the morning and notices a note under her wiper. Apparantly the woman living on the other side of the street didn't notice the large white Firebird parked across from her driveway and completely cold cocked the front driver's quarter and door. With her Toyota Echo. One of the smallest cars on the road. Anyways the note explained that she was willing to pay and to get in touch. After dealing with getting my girlfriend's tears under control, we took it to a body shop and got the $1500 estimate. Everything worked out well, but it was obvious why it went so smoothly when we flipped the note over. The note had been written on a slip of paper from the school that the neighbour worked at. It outlined in great detail the restrictions of employment at the school, including the possibility of termination of employment for things like divorce, any association with pornography(  ), and a whole lot of other Christian niceties. That was the one thing that made light of the whole situation. It was hilarious, and I really wish we kept the note for the sake of the sheer close mindedness of this particular school.
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horrible metallurgical failure All the floors in this XJ were like this. In fact when I cut everything else out around it, the rocker panel from up by the front wheel well to all the way back by the rear leaf spring hangar just fell the gently caress off, including the B pillar. The only thing holding it in was carpet and both ends. It drove into my yard, I'm not sure how it made it the 10 miles from the owner's yard without breaking in half. He brought it to my place to part out and I just finished cutting the unibody up. I'm glad to have taken this one off the road, it was a safety hazard to be sure - looked ok if a little rough from the top but holy hell was it ever rotted out.
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Motronic posted:But I'm having a hard time seeing how you can spill enough ATF in the right places to make that happen unless the rest of the undercarriage/motor was already covered in years of caked on oil. In fact, I'd love to see how enough got somewhere hot enough to ignite into a free burn to cause an ignition of the rest. If the flex pipe got drenched in the stuff, wouldn't it be able to hold enough to go up? At least, I know last time I let Walmart change my oil (  ) they drenched the flex pipe so bad that it smoked every time I drove it for about a week. I don't even pretend to know how they're constructed though.
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They're basically just a corrugated thin-wall steel tube with a stainless steel braid crimped over the outside to keep the tube from flexing enough to metal fatigue it.
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kastein posted:I know what I'm doing to a friend of mine next April Fools Day. Please put a rubber snake up in there. The "please call" note just screams 'crazy cat lady/dude'. If my cat was in your engine bay I'd probably leave a note that says "blow your horn before you start your car, or your poo poo is gonna smell like charbroiled dead cat for weeks."
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Please put a rubber snake up in there. Just bounce on the bumper and set off the alarm. Easy peasy. If no alarm, just a quick B&E and TCB.
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My dad went out to start his Oldsmobile Ciera one morning, and it wouldn't turn over after a crank or two. Then, he heard a strange noise. Turns out our new barn cat, an abandoned kitten we found two weeks earlier, was sleeping under the hood. Kitty lost an ear, most of a lip, a toe, and broke his hip, and needed more than 60 stitches. The car's belt was so frayed, it needed immediate replacement. Seven years later, the little bastard still lives on as a housecat, the Oldsmobile is no more.
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Dielectric posted:Just bounce on the bumper and set off the alarm. Easy peasy. If no alarm, just a quick B&E and TCB. Why break and enter? I've yet to find a car whose hood can't be unlatched with a screwdriver or a metal ruler.
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thelightguy posted:Why break and enter? I've yet to find a car whose hood can't be unlatched with a screwdriver or a metal ruler. Really? You haven't tried that on very many cars made in the last 15 years. All of that is pretty trivially defeated with the right sheet metal around the latch, and that's something I've seen popping up, even as mid-model retrofits, on most modren cars.
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I stumbled back across this gem from when the rear suspension tube on my 89GL rusted out...  It started handling funny, so I pulled over to take a look... That kinda ruined my day.
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Motronic posted:Really? You haven't tried that on very many cars made in the last 15 years. Considering the newest car I regularly work on is a base-trim Suzuki Forenza from 2004, you're probably right.  It's saved my rear end several times when the hood release has decided to break or, in the case of my GMC Jimmy, when the cable slips out of its guides and goes loose. corgski fucked around with this message at 04:15 on Apr 4, 2012 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWhilacxpvg expected_results.mp4
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Motronic posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWhilacxpvg I watched it 6 times. I still can't tell why they thought this was a good idea.
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Motronic posted:Really? You haven't tried that on very many cars made in the last 15 years. The PO of my Volvo fixed this issue by rear ending someone. The hood bent down and left zrop gap to get anything in there. I think it also hosed up the latch. I've rigged up a very complicated pulley system to allow me to pull the hood release while going at the hood with a hammer and crowbar every time I need to open it. chrisgt posted:I stumbled back across this gem from when the rear suspension tube on my 89GL rusted out... Please rip all that out and make the GL into a pre-runner. Thanks!
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Motronic posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWhilacxpvg I hope I wasn't the only one picturing the front end of the car coming up and smashing into that "overpass."
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That video is hilarious. I really like how he gases it once he's in the grass and out of control.
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I was thinking that the second angle was going to be from a second attempt and that he was going to end up in that tree...
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No it uses tie rods and poo poo, but they usually only get a couple degrees of steering angle because they want to be able to make smaller adjustments going at high speeds easily instead of doing turns. It looks like either something in the steering busted, or it wouldn't have been able to make that turn at any speed. He's got the wheel full left and still pretty much going straight.
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I think he just lifted the front wheels with the torque and couldn't recover.
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  DOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRIIFTOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooohshite
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2ndclasscitizen posted:Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads.
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Geological failure, I suppose, but leads to mechanical carnage. Driver of tow truck jumps out 2 seconds before it goes. He said if he had been wearing a belt he would not have made it out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi6-zLQbGa0 Truck driver sadly didn't get out, was ejected and suffered fractures. He's recovering in hospital.
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Ola posted:Geological failure, I suppose, but leads to mechanical carnage. Driver of tow truck jumps out 2 seconds before it goes. He said if he had been wearing a belt he would not have made it out. Saw that on MTV Live last night. The jumping out figures in with the "like a boss" series, such as these: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bln5wHevq24 (in) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M35EylUuZw4 (and out) thecobra fucked around with this message at 07:49 on Apr 5, 2012 |
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Apr 5, 2012 07:46
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thecobra posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M35EylUuZw4 (and out) The best part about this is how casually he picks up his hat afterward.
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Apr 5, 2012 07:55
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 Now I get to fix it! It's been sitting for years and years apparently.
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What? Are those from wasps? Or do I know nothing about outboard motors?
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Ola posted:Geological failure, I suppose, but leads to mechanical carnage. Driver of tow truck jumps out 2 seconds before it goes. He said if he had been wearing a belt he would not have made it out. The Norwegian Dip.
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thecobra posted:What? Are those from wasps? Or do I know nothing about outboard motors? Mud wasps. And the nests are like concrete.
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I had an outboard like that... terrible thing... It was constantly having electrical issues. Running on one cylinder, losing timing, carb jamming up. It pissed me off so bad. Hopefully there aren't any wasps left in there!
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Poor ugly little thing
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hmmm steering got real difficult... oh, my volt gauge is reading 12. I wonder what just went wrong? Serpentine belt probably came off. Sure enough it did... why?  oh. Well then. Been nice knowing you too, AC compressor... Drove it home without the belt (I was 3 blocks away, and the engine was cold when I started, so no waterpump, no fan, no alternator, and no power steering sucked but wasn't going to break anything) Turns out that of the four bolts holding the compressor down, only half of one was actually intact, and it was one close to the belt, so it really only needed to be a locating peg anyways. The others were just half inch long stubs held into the compressor body with rust and years of grime. I have no idea how they stayed in there for so long. rear left: http://i44.tinypic.com/zwgwom.jpg rear right: http://i43.tinypic.com/3497wbr.jpg front right: http://i41.tinypic.com/2rejqt4.jpg front left: (holy poo poo this one was only half broken!) http://i43.tinypic.com/t0kvt3.jpg galvanic corrosion can suck it, and I really want to know what brilliant engineer thought it was a good idea to put a 6" long 8mm steel bolt through a cast aluminum compressor housing and into a cast aluminum bracket. These four bolts always break when you try to take them out.
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maybe it's not such a good idea to use cheap knock-off suspension and steering parts:
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jamal posted:maybe it's not such a good idea to use cheap knock-off suspension and steering parts: edit: Looks like it's streaming on MotoIQ right now, so I guess it's on now.
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Looks fine from here. Alfa Romeo Giulia 2-litre - pretty trick motor with programmable distributor, etc. But all the programming in the world can't help...  ... low-octane fuel that causes the piston to break and lunch itself. 
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kastein posted:galvanic corrosion can suck it, and I really want to know what brilliant engineer thought it was a good idea to put a 6" long 8mm steel bolt through a cast aluminum compressor housing and into a cast aluminum bracket. These four bolts always break when you try to take them out. I am not an expert but there shouldnt be galvanic corrosion between a steel bolt and an a probably high silicon cast aluminum alternator housing. Especially since most automotive bolts are coated but even if theyre not.
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Motronic posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWhilacxpvg I like how at the end he gets back into the throttle for a second. I wonder if he is thinking "maybe I can power through it" or "welp, this is the last time I will ever be able to do this *mashes pedal*"?
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kastein posted:hmmm steering got real difficult... oh, my volt gauge is reading 12. I wonder what just went wrong? Serpentine belt probably came off. I have to know, is this a jeep? It looks just like my XJ. EDIT: Yup. It's an XJ. Didn't put this post and the one from earlier together. My bad. JukeboxHerostratus fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Apr 7, 2012 |
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