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Beach Bum posted:Source: Local car forum Those look like aftermarket control arms in which case the bushings shouldn't be that old 
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I don't know about the street/track circles but there was a massive batch of lovely bushings from a variety of offroad aftermarket parts suppliers recently. Random brands have been plagued by bushing issues as a result, probably one big batch of rubber that was all poo poo and got used to make parts that then weren't sold for different amounts of time by each brand. Basically it's really annoying and you call up and they send you new ones free, but you still have to put them in yourself. The leaf bushings in my Rusty's rear lift springs fell apart in under 5000 miles and around 6 months, most of it highway. By fell apart I mean they were metal on metal, flopping around, with a C shaped piece of shredded rubber sliding around on the other side of the sleeve.
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some texas redneck posted:Going along these same lines, how would you describe my car? (not trying to argue, I'm honestly not sure exactly what it falls into outside of marketing speak) I'd call it a 4-door hardtop? But you might qualify for being called a coupe with a small enough interior volume. Can you have a 4-door coupe if it's small enough? E: But the windows aren't frameless. Hmm. Not sure if a hardtop can have framed windows?
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Raluek posted:I'd call it a 4-door hardtop? But you might qualify for being called a coupe with a small enough interior volume. Can you have a 4-door coupe if it's small enough?  It also only has a single suicide door on the drivers' side.
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West SAAB Story posted:
Hmm. I thought when he said "rear doors" that it meant two of them. I dunno then 
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Raluek posted:Hmm. I thought when he said "rear doors" that it meant two of them. I dunno then He was being linguistically evasive, because the sedan version DOES have four doors. 
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Sep 3, 2013 00:25
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Used Sunlight sales posted:I've blown up enough two strokes to know that I'm looking at a CR125. No clue to be honest. It showed up in a box with an RO saying: Cust said engine made strange noise, estimate damage. obso posted:I don't see any heat discoloration on the crank so I'm guessing the latter. (And I think it's from a YZ125) ~2001 CR125
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Sep 3, 2013 00:48
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West SAAB Story posted:
   You're thinking of the 01-02 SC2
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West SAAB Story posted:
call it a sedhalf
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some texas redneck posted:You're thinking of the 01-02 SC2 I didn't know yours came with perforated tabs for the other side. v  v
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Sep 3, 2013 06:35
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Call it a Tridor. Or a Coupe +
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Sep 3, 2013 07:43
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Haha, poo poo. Those front seats are like straight out of an Opel from Nidhg00670000 fucked around with this message at 12:07 on Sep 3, 2013 |
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Nidhg00670000 posted:Haha, poo poo. Those front seats are like straight out of an Opel from A different kind of car company; a different kind of car.
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This one is a quiet and insideous mechanical failure. Although it can't be seen in the photo, near that shadow of the flap of the diaphragm, where exactly I don't know, maybe from one of the little vent holes or maybe around the diaphragm this little bugger was excitedly pumping spurts of fuel all over the side of the engine. The priming lever is also pretty stiff now. The pushrod which runs in a plasitic carrier shaped like a dildo (not shown) is worn, yet the dildo isn't. The dildo also has what looks like passages for oil flow on it to and from the pump. Yet the pump is so bone dry I have to wonder if it's seen any oil in a couple of decades. Question is what would have happened if the pump had seized? Why was there no oil getting to it? Why is it hard to hand pump it? What the hell happened to it?
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General_Failure posted:This one is a quiet and insideous mechanical failure. Although it can't be seen in the photo, near that shadow of the flap of the diaphragm, where exactly I don't know, maybe from one of the little vent holes or maybe around the diaphragm this little bugger was excitedly pumping spurts of fuel all over the side of the engine. The priming lever is also pretty stiff now. The pushrod which runs in a plasitic carrier shaped like a dildo (not shown) is worn, yet the dildo isn't. The dildo also has what looks like passages for oil flow on it to and from the pump. Yet the pump is so bone dry I have to wonder if it's seen any oil in a couple of decades. Question is what would have happened if the pump had seized? Why was there no oil getting to it? Why is it hard to hand pump it? What the hell happened to it? It's almost somewhere inside, hence being hard to hand pump. It most probably would've ground the cam lump off or bent the actuating arm, depending on how it's operated
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I think the oil passages in the dildo are only for oiling the pushrod. I always packed the base of my fuel pump with grease. Those brass fittings pressed into you pump and carb are another quiet, insideous mechanical failure waiting to happen.
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My old Golf gearbox. Sheared a diff rivet, which fell down by the ring gear which spat it out the casing. No oil, it sounded like a screaming supercharger. Still drove ok, aside from jumping out of 3rd occasionally. Camshaft from a 2.5 TDI. Turns out they don't bend valves when the cambelt snaps, the pistons slam the valves with smash the tappets and shatter the cam!  
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I would suggest the thread should be renamed to "Post pictures of horrible VAG failures" but people might get the wrong idea
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Das Volk posted:I would suggest the thread should be renamed to "Post pictures of horrible VAG failures" but people might get the wrong idea Fleshlights are mechanical!
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The Twinkie Czar posted:I think the oil passages in the dildo are only for oiling the pushrod. I always packed the base of my fuel pump with grease. Those brass fittings pressed into you pump and carb are another quiet, insideous mechanical failure waiting to happen. I'm not sure. There seemed to be an upper and lower passage going to the pump that flanked the center hole that the tiny little pushrod was in. I'll have a look in the service manual when I have some time to see what it says. Yes. I've had a fitting come loose on the pressurized side of the pump, and on the carburettor before. Both ACVWs. Different ones. No fires thankfully. I'm kind of paranoid about fuel systems. I plan on replacing the carb so it's staying as is for now.
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Mooseykins posted:My old Golf gearbox. Sheared a diff rivet, which fell down by the ring gear which spat it out the casing. No oil, it sounded like a screaming supercharger. Still drove ok, aside from jumping out of 3rd occasionally. Is that the end result of the dreaded "self-machining rivets" you're talking about?
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MrChips posted:Is that the end result of the dreaded "self-machining rivets" you're talking about? Yessir. In the case of that gearbox (02E) the rivets shear one head off under load which then decides to make its escape via the diff housing. This generally results in a ruined day, and in the the case of that particular one, me getting a free Golf.
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General_Failure posted:Call it a Tridor. Or a Coupe + I like 2+1. Because no one is sitting behind the driver, honestly.
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Sep 4, 2013 04:41
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The back seat is mostly for show; kids fit back there fine, but adults don't.Nidhg00670000 posted:Haha, poo poo. Those front seats are like straight out of an Opel from At least they're fairly comfortable with the front seats all the way forward
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No pic, but I drove behind a guy in a van pulling a small trailer this morning, and the electrical connection in the trailer jack was so messed up that when the van indicated left, the trailer indicated right. It also either turned on either both indicators or one brake light (half-assedly) every time he braked, depending on the angle of the trailer relative to the van.
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bolind posted:No pic, but I drove behind a guy in a van pulling a small trailer this morning, and the electrical connection in the trailer jack was so messed up that when the van indicated left, the trailer indicated right. That's very common, unfortunately. It's usually caused by a bad ground in the connector, and because people are too lazy to check their lights 
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bolind posted:No pic, but I drove behind a guy in a van pulling a small trailer this morning, and the electrical connection in the trailer jack was so messed up that when the van indicated left, the trailer indicated right. Sounds like my trailer when I got it. The wiring was totally messed up. Rewired it to standard after a couple of failed attempts where things didn't quite do what they should have.
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I need to get my neighbor to let me record his beater/commuter Wrangler. When I moved in a year and a half ago it sounded pretty bad, now I can hear it entering the neighborhood. Not sure if it's rod knock, piston slap or something else but the drat thing just sounds terrible. Last I saw it had a little under 500k on original engine and transmission. He has a spare engine and transmission sitting in the garage we'll toss in when this one finally goes. Jeep 4.0L 
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NitroSpazzz posted:I need to get my neighbor to let me record his beater/commuter Wrangler. When I moved in a year and a half ago it sounded pretty bad, now I can hear it entering the neighborhood. Not sure if it's rod knock, piston slap or something else but the drat thing just sounds terrible. Last I saw it had a little under 500k on original engine and transmission. I have the exact same problem and I can guarantee it's the lifters making noise. If he's waiting for it to finally die, he's going to have one hell of a wait, even at a half-million miles.
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Its likely to be an exhaust leak. Mine kept making that noise after getting new lifters and making sure the camshaft wasn't severely worn along with replacing a cracked 0331 head.
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Speaking of heads and lifters, my buddy just posted this on Facebook the other day. "Well I found the missfire and oil consumption in the SVO lmao wtf" 
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KozmoNaut posted:That's very common, unfortunately. It's usually caused by a bad ground in the connector, and because people are too lazy to check their lights I had that in my (VAG!) Jetta, only without a trailer. Left turn signal flashed the right turn signal/brake light in the back. Right did the opposite. Hitting the brakes at all caused the turn signals to stop and lit up the turn signal indicators in my gauge cluster. Fixing the bad ground in the trunk fixed it right up. Oh yeah, and using the turn signal turned off cruise control, since I guess the brake detect was just wired to the brake lights.
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some texas redneck posted:The back seat is mostly for show; kids fit back there fine, but adults don't. As someone that owned an SC2 from age 16-20 I disagree about the back-seat. 2 normal sized people will fit back their in various configurations... Whoever designed that car with the plastic tray should be shot. Nothing worse than getting hot and heavy and not being able to lay down fully.
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Ponies ate my Bagel posted:As someone that owned an SC2 from age 16-20 I disagree about the back-seat. 2 normal sized people will fit back their in various configurations... Whoever designed that car with the plastic tray should be shot. Nothing worse than getting hot and heavy and not being able to lay down fully. Like anyone who drives a Saturn ever has that problem...
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D C posted:Like anyone who drives a Saturn ever has that problem... When you are jerking really hard, and the seatbelt has been in the sun - that poo poo can burn!
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The King of Swag posted:I have the exact same problem and I can guarantee it's the lifters making noise. If he's waiting for it to finally die, he's going to have one hell of a wait, even at a half-million miles.  I once topped it off using five extra quarts of oil, at least two lifters were collapsed, and a couple bores were ovalled nearly 0.050" diametrically. It made single-digit oil pressure cold and sounded like a skeletons loving in a metal file cabinet. It never would have been pulled if the internal slave cylinder hadn't blown and eaten the AX15's synchros. So yeah, he might be sitting on that extra 4.0 for a while.
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Sep 5, 2013 03:40
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Pulled the clutch off my donor engine tonight. That explains the poor clutch feel.
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"That's not so bad, I wonder why this is in mechanical disasters..."  "... Oh."
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