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Godholio posted:I dropped a SBC piston/conrod on my bare foot because I'm a loving moron. Actually I just dropped it and tried to break its fall with my foot. Only a minor crush wound in the top of my foot that closed up about 36 hrs later, and the scar looks exactly the same as the wound did before the blood started to pour (the scar is a weird dark purple). It's okay. I was wearing flip-flops when I threw myself under a CB750 motor as it toppled of a toolcart. The motor was fine but it took a while to pick all the asphalt out of my back and I'm pretty sure I broke a few ribs. The pisser was that once I finally got it off my chest I dropped it on my foot. I am not a clever man.
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BoostCreep posted:I assume you tried screwing bolts into those two smaller holes and that didn't work? The smaller holes are not threaded. They are used to hold the rotor to the hub in the factory. What am I missing here?
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Brigdh posted:The smaller holes are not threaded. They are used to hold the rotor to the hub in the factory. What am I missing here? On many rotors which have two holes like that there are threads in them and two bolts can be used to pry a stuck rotor from the hub.
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opengl128 posted:I've posted this before. It's my go to for stuck rotors, has never failed me Korwen posted:Thanks for posting this, it's goddamn genius. Hopefully I don't have to do this too often, but it beats the gently caress out of hammering on those bitches. Absolutely genius, and simple too (that's the best part!). I hope I never need to know that, but if I do, I hope I remember this video.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:It's okay. I was wearing flip-flops when I threw myself under a CB750 motor as it toppled of a toolcart. Any project worth doing is a project worth bleeding for.
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opengl128 posted:I've posted this before. It's my go to for stuck rotors, has never failed me I wish I had known about that trick 15 loving years ago when I could have used it most days of the week. Genius.
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Oct 3, 2012 08:07
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opengl128 posted:I've posted this before. It's my go to for stuck rotors, has never failed me I used a variant of this trick last week to remove a seized wheel hub / bearing assembly, only with 1/2" threaded rod instead of bolts. All my hammer was doing was deforming the metal. Worked beautifully, although the sealed assembly was starting to split apart from the force.
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Memento1979 posted:I wish I had known about that trick 15 loving years ago when I could have used it most days of the week. Genius. You're not kidding. This is some poo poo everybody should know.
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Oct 3, 2012 13:25
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opengl128 posted:I've posted this before. It's my go to for stuck rotors, has never failed me My standard method was to jam the space saver jack between the rotor and the frame/whatever else is solid then keep turning it while hoping it dosen't slip off or explode into shrapnel, this seems 100% safer thanks 
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CornHolio posted:it's so much fun using a torch though A combination of the two methods works really well when you've got something totally rusted on there. I was putting so much force on several rotors this way that I was afraid I was going to break something. I just heated them up with the torch a bit while they were under pressure and they popped right off.
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Bang Me Please posted:On many rotors which have two holes like that there are threads in them and two bolts can be used to pry a stuck rotor from the hub. Yeah, I did that with some random bolt I had kicking around and it just sheared clean off flush with the rotor.  I suppose that video mentions using decent grade bolts for a reason.
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Bang Me Please posted:On many rotors which have two holes like that there are threads in them and two bolts can be used to pry a stuck rotor from the hub. No, most times the HUB is threaded and the rotor is not. That's why the factory counter-sunk screws have to be ground flat on the hub after you drill out the heads. They seize in the hub threads.
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Sockington posted:No, most times the HUB is threaded and the rotor is not. That's why the factory counter-sunk screws have to be ground flat on the hub after you drill out the heads. They seize in the hub threads. I know what you're thinking of but thats not what I was thinking of. There are many rotors with threaded holes for removal purposes, lots of drums have them too.
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Bang Me Please posted:I know what you're thinking of but thats not what I was thinking of. There are many rotors with threaded holes for removal purposes, lots of drums have them too. Yeah, that's how I remove the rotors on my Subaru. There are two threaded holes in the rotor and you thread two bolts into them and steadily put pressure on the rotor until it pops off.
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opengl128 posted:I've posted this before. It's my go to for stuck rotors, has never failed me That is good to know!
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opengl128 posted:I've posted this before. It's my go to for stuck rotors, has never failed me I remember Edd China on Wheeler Dealers using a similar method for removing and installing bushes from suspension arms
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Bang Me Please posted:I know what you're thinking of but thats not what I was thinking of. There are many rotors with threaded holes for removal purposes, lots of drums have them too. They're apparently not as common as they probably should be. I've done the brakes on all my cars and first encountered these literally yesterday when working on a Kia Spectra for my boss. It's an awesome feature though, too bad the rotors that were on the car didn't have them.
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bull3964 posted:Yeah, that's how I remove the rotors on my Subaru. There are two threaded holes in the rotor and you thread two bolts into them and steadily put pressure on the rotor until it pops off. I have used that trick on Subarus too.
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kastein posted:Huh. Another one (stolen from a friend on another forum) I had one fail in a similarly catastrophic manner in a 91 Chevy 4x4 when I was a kid. The bearing started getting wonky around the pinion so that the torque was sucking it in until the carrier began to nail it every time it rotated. Sounded like a rail car with a bad wheel when it finally let go.
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Saw this this morning on the way to CT...  Well. That explains how bad it smelled, I guess.
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Oct 6, 2012 03:27
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You found Bruiser!
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kastein posted:Saw this this morning on the way to CT...
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I get that it's a brake rotor, but what is it off? Semi-truck? Pick-up truck? Does the rotor slide in over the splines?
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bolind posted:I get that it's a brake rotor, but what is it off? Semi-truck? Pick-up truck? Does the rotor slide in over the splines? Yeah sorry, Semi truck rear axle, Yes the disc does slide over the splines.
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EightBit posted:You found Bruiser! First time I ever heard of SA was when I found the PDF of all his stories. Was a beautiful collection.
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opengl128 posted:I've posted this before. It's my go to for stuck rotors, has never failed me Equal amounts of "god drat, that's genius" and "gently caress, why didn't I have this x years ago when doing y brake job"
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kastein posted:Saw this this morning on the way to CT... Firefighters refer to car fires as "rolling dumpster fires", because once the fire breaks out, the whole thing is just garbage - nothing worth saving. Someone got a little too literal.
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kastein posted:Saw this this morning on the way to CT... Several years ago on our street, a garbage truck ran its compacting cycle and ended up depositing its contents in the street. The bottom of the truck had reached its corrosion threshold and the compact cycle pushed the contents out the bottom. The smell was foul, and it was fun watching the city workers shovel the garbage into another truck.
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kastein posted:Saw this this morning on the way to CT... You got a better idea on how to get rid of trash???
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Moxie Omen posted:You got a better idea on how to get rid of trash??? Uhhhhh... set it on fire in NYC instead of Hartford area 
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Taken from another forum, apparently some woman went to this guy's garage complaining about "crap brakes". This was on a 5 year old SKODA which had never been to an MOT station! And yes, that used to be a brake disc.. 
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Polymerized Cum posted:Firefighters refer to car fires as "rolling dumpster fires", because once the fire breaks out, the whole thing is just garbage - nothing worth saving. An old coworker's paycheck and CD collection both survived a car fire. Nothing else except the back bumper and taillights survived, though the check was in the CD book.. which was under the seat. Nothing was left of the seat except the frame.  Bank still wouldn't cash it because it was scorched on one edge. 
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Speaking of car fires, evidently Chevrolet's Camaro is prone to becoming, how should I say it, crispy. http://youtu.be/b70jXed3DWo?t=1m16s Skipped the boring parts for you.
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"Lamborghini doors" and hot wheels sticker
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I work at Haas Automation, we have robots that automate the loading and unloading of raw castings into our lathes and mills. This robots programming had some flaws, sometimes if the exit feed was full and the robot rejects a part (due to casting problems) it would whirl around at full speed and try to put the part back into the in-feed where it came from. Unfortunately one of the horizontal mills is directly in the path to the in-feed, and this happened:
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Some of my friends were at a track day today and this happened: well, that's not so bad... don't have anything higher res.
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jamal posted:Some of my friends were at a track day today and this happened: Well, at least it died in use instead of in a garage.
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At least it's still in production unlike a lot of other supercars on track. I'm sure McLaren's bodyshop will be overjoyed to see one that actually died in battle.
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