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kastein posted:Honestly, I'm not all that surprised. I've pulled a few dozen of those bolts and never broken one, probably a dozen of those studs and only broken one... and it was while putting it back together. On the back. On a 6 cylinder, in an XJ. While putting it back together to get its inspection sticker. AKA there was absolutely no loving space or time to work, and it broke off flush with the head. It's a 4.0, you could probably hold it on with a ratchet strap and it'd be good to go.
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Tusen Takk posted:I successfully lost my brake fluid cap today This is why I don't have you on my ignore list. You never fail to deliver 
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Tusen Takk posted:I successfully lost my brake fluid cap today You had a promise to yourself to never lose your brake fluid cap? I mean, I wouldn't want to lose one, but it's not like I looked at it one day and said to myself "ALRIGHT, I swear I will never lose that."
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Some fuckwit put a scratch running ALL THE WAY DOWN the passenger side of the 840 a couple days ago. Like, starting just behind the front marker, all the way through the door, and terminating about 12" from the taillight. You could see it from 15 feet away. Holy poo poo, if I could have caught him doing it.  Anyway, I pulled out the rubbing compound to see what I could do with it, and (to my surprise) got it completely out.  Also took the opportunity to go around the car and rub off any other marks I could find. Holy poo poo there were a ton of them.Tomorrow's plan is to do a full tune-up / oil change on the Escalade in preparation for a camping trip next week. New MSD wires, plugs, oil, Auto-RX, and filter all ready to go. Now I just need to make sure to not be a lazy rear end and actually do it.
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Hypnolobster posted:You had a promise to yourself to never lose your brake fluid cap? Desperate times call for desperate measures  .
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Gave my driver's seat a good wipedown of Connolly's Hide Food and then replaced the wiper blades. On the C6, you have to put up the hood before you can swing the wiper arms outward. For aero, I suppose.
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How does one even get in a position to lose their brake fluid cap?
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Apr 14, 2013 13:33
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Rhyno posted:Cleaned up the carnage Aw hell, that sucks dude. Did they take anything?
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Fucknag posted:Aw hell, that sucks dude. Did they take anything? Nope, it was vandalized for the sake of it. Gym bag in the back seat was untouched.
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For the longest time I've wanted the special parts off a 1984 Anniversary edition 300ZX to put on my own car, finally did it.   Wheel spacers after this, but she'll be on the road this week.
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Lightbulb Out posted:How does one even get in a position to lose their brake fluid cap? This is Tussy Talk we're talking about here... 
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Goober Peas posted:This is Tussy Talk we're talking about here... And from what I recall I don't think this is the first time he's lost it.
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Larrymer posted:And from what I recall I don't think this is the first time he's lost it. It's questionable that he had it in the first place. 
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Tusen Takk posted:I successfully lost my brake fluid cap today You are the reason mass transit exists.
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Front wheel bearing. Something about working in lovely weather makes things go quick for me, less than 80 minutes to haul out all my tools, do the bearing and haul them back in.     Now my car has one non-rusty part.
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Tried to replace the passenger seat belt on my 96 T100. The dog chewed right through it over a year ago, but haven't been able to find a donor part locally (and Toyota wants $300 for it, shipped from Japan). I finally found a 93 T100 being parted out, but after removing the trim and removing the old cartridge, it's painfully obvious it won't work without major tweaking. I'm not sure if modifying how a seat belt is bolted into the vehicle is the safest thing to do, so might just buck up and pay the dealership. Fortunately, the sun finally crept it's way out, so managed to give the truck it's first proper cleaning since buying it. I'm actually quite surprised how well the paint has held up over 17 years, considering all I've done for the past 5 years is wash it with some OTC wash + wax soap. Dawn, clay, ultimate compound and 1 coat of NXT. Hope to lay down a second coat next week.  Bonus shot of other stuff my dog has ruined. Who needs overdrive or windshield wiper fluid anyways... 
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Larrymer posted:And from what I recall I don't think this is the first time he's lost it. I lost the one that came with the car, and I lost the one I bought from the dealer to replace it. Now that my hydraulic system isn't leaking, once I replace the cap I shouldn't have to open it until the next time I need to flush the fluid. edit: I work next to FAG's company headquarters, I didn't know they made hubs though..
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One-piece hub units are pretty common, and far far nicer to change because you don't need to pack & pre-load the bearings.
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Yeah, it was a breeze to do. The inner race didn't even stay on the spindle so it made it super quick. The downside is they aren't cheap. 150 for the FAG unit and I didn't really want to cheap out with one of rockauto's budget brands. Also, from a poster at work: 
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Crustashio posted:Yeah, it was a breeze to do. The inner race didn't even stay on the spindle so it made it super quick. The downside is they aren't cheap. 150 for the FAG unit and I didn't really want to cheap out with one of rockauto's budget brands. I have the very same thing at work. Childish yes, but I still laughed at it.
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DJ Commie posted:I don't expect that to work well without a single bit of ground plane. Its an un-grounded antenna meant for wood/fiberglass boats and claimed on the package that it doesn't need a ground plane so I'm not too worried about it.
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I had to clay bar several spots of bird dung. Apparently it can set in enough that you can't just wipe it off. It looked especially bad on my white paint.
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Puddin posted:I have the very same thing at work. Childish yes, but I still laughed at it. I am glad I am not the only one that was chuckling at this. FAG bearings!
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Changed oil and rear diff fluid on the 4Runner... Shiny bits in your engine oil are good right???
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Black88GTA posted:Tomorrow's plan is to do a full tune-up / oil change on the Escalade in preparation for a camping trip next week. New MSD wires, plugs, oil, Auto-RX, and filter all ready to go. Now I just need to make sure to not be a lazy rear end and actually do it. Got this all done today  I suck at taking pics during jobs, although I did get a few. No pics of the oil change, because that's boring and it went kind of lovely anyway. Despite my best efforts to not make a mess, the wind made the oil piss everywhere except the drain pan.  Couldn't find my strap wrench OR the filter adapter, so I had to put a screwdriver through the filter, which made even more mess. Maybe next time I should get my tools in order beforehand. Or, you know, actually rent a house with a loving garage. I am so jealous of all you guys with garages / shops. Working in your insect-covered, steeply sloped driveway blows.Old wires / plugs. I couldn't tell if the wires were original or not, although they certainly looked like they could have been. The truck has 181k miles on it.  Old plugs close up. I think these had been done at least once, but they were ready to come out.  All back together. I cleaned up the engine covers a little, although the whole bay needs a good scrubbing. That's a job for some other day.  The truck definitely felt a lot better during the quick test drive I did. Huge improvement. A++, would waste Sunday replacing old poo poo again
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-A n i m 8- posted:Installed new bumper and side skirts. Looks really nice; great choices  Rhyno posted:Cleaned up the carnage Dang man, that sucks  Seems like it was about a month ago that you were saying the same to me :/
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Paul Boz_ posted:Looks really nice; great choices We're part of a sucky rear end club.
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kastein posted:Yeah, the YJ is the same, I can't imagine being that clumsy either. Ah, the 2.5 has a slightly different mounting. Guess they improved that when they designed it, though it's based off the 4.0. The oil filter is in the same place, but closer to the block, so it clears the frame rail easily, and the oil pressure sender is between the distributor and the front of the block, with a 90-degree adapter because of the engine mount, there. Speaking of which, I fixed my oil pressure gauge. After testing the gauge and wiring by grounding it (it swings to zero when grounded with 0 Ohms,) and verifying that the OP sender was actually at ground with the engine off, it turned out that the terminal inside the Weatherpak connector had managed to scoot up inside the housing, so it wasn't making contact. Fixed that, and I have an oil pressure reading. Also replaced the temp sender, since it was mostly shorting to ground. Thank you O'reilly's warranty. I had to fix the odometer on my new gauge cluster. I managed to bugger the spur gear between the tenths and ones when resetting it to match my old cluster's mileage. It would get stuck every third time around, so I swapped it with the gear between the 10K and 100K, set so the problem spur had just passed so I don't have to worry about it for over 200K miles more.  Let's see... Put in new steel battery terminals to replace the crapped up lead ones that were in there, and installed a battery hold-down to keep the battery from wandering around the engine compartment. Also added a can of 134a to the AC, and was amazed when it started cooling down to 45 degrees (80 degrees out, fairly high humidity.) Then I think I added too much, because the compressor started cycling too much, and staying mostly off. May need to take it to a shop just so they can recover the 134a and start from vacuum with the proper amount. Had a look at the clutch hydraulics to see about bleeding it, and was astounded that both the master and the slave are plastic! And no sign of a bleeder. Will need to consult the manual. I'm getting a clunk under certain conditions from the front end, feels like it's right under my feet. I'm assuming that's the 200K-mile control arm bushings signalling for replacement, so that's on the to-do list now. General Failure: Awesome! Glad you finally got that thing home. I think I would totally buy one f they had ever imported them here to the US in any numbers, so I could be assured of parts. Not much point in a cheap sledgehammer-simple car if all the parts have to come from overseas.
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Darchangel posted:
That's true. There are importers for parts here, plus there's online ordering. I'm kind of used to doing it with cars anyway. Anyhow today I took the Fairlane for a 300km round trip. Went well. A little too well. It was getting better than 7.5L/100km.
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Maybe you flogged it into submission towing that trailer and car home? I discovered a trashed CV boot today on the cruiser. Hoping it will make the 2000km trip home to where all my tools are, cos i DONT want to try and replace it up here in Lismore! Pain in the arse thing is its an outer boot, so It moves around waaay to much to clean it up and wrap the poo poo out of it with duct tape.
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Ferremit posted:Maybe you flogged it into submission towing that trailer and car home? I think I may have. That CV leak is a huge pain. I was going to say you could duct tape it but if you can't then how are you going to fix it? The drive back would be murder on it. What I did today on the Niva: Adjusted the timing chain. Adjusted the points. Adjusted the timing. All three needed the crank. Started washing and waxing panels at random. Flooded the drivers footwell in the process. Attacked more stuff with fake armor-all. Ran out. Boo Later I'm going to try to dry the carpet with a hair dryer and maybe pick up more knockoff armor-all from IGA depending on how much of a ripoff it is. The wash and wax definitely makes the totally messed up paint look less horrible.
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Any chance you can sew it back together with a heavy needle and say 20# monofilament? Ghetto, but at least it should keep most of the dust out of the CV for the trip home.
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Tanz-Kommandant posted:did the oil on my NC MX-5 and got that poo poo absolutely everywhere before, during and after having to use the screwdriver method to remove the old filter. I work at a Mazda dealership and I loathe the placement of mx5 filters. Whichever engineer decided that putting it there was a good idea needs to be beaten. We use a dealer plate placeholder as a slide for the oil. Rx8 are no fun either sine they are upside down but a screwdriver solves all that. 
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Im doing highways all the way home so dust shouldnt be an issue. I'll have a brand new CV shaft sitting there waiting for me when I get there so im just running the drat thing as it is and if its clicky and crunchy I dont really care. Worst case scenerio, I stop in at Dubbo, buy a brass drift, a 12mm spanner and 2x 14mm spanners, pull the drive flanges, replace em with the ends of 2L PET water bottles and then drop the front drive shaft and throw it in the back. Then lock the centre diff and drive the drat thing home in RWD
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I found that clean Mercedes W124 coupe I've been looking for, just not in the right place...  This is the rare, more desirable 1994-95 'facelift' version, with only a few dents and scratches in the finish. A failed headgasket was the only issue I could see, maybe the engine was blown.   Lucas, cad plating & stainless clamps, partsbin electrical connectors from 1970, bullet fuses, weird vacuum pods and miles of neon hose: the sign of a real engine bay.  $1000.00 CASH OBO! ~
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Amoan posted:I work at a Mazda dealership and I loathe the placement of mx5 filters. Whichever engineer decided that putting it there was a good idea needs to be beaten. We use a dealer plate placeholder as a slide for the oil. Rx8 are no fun either sine they are upside down but a screwdriver solves all that. I think the Miata thing is probably due to the MZR family being designed primarily for FWD applications, so that spot would be relatively easy to get to. Do those motors use a cartridge filter like the 2.3 does?
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