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The main reason I (and I assume many other people) do my own work on my car is because I want to be able to it right the first time. Mechanics at dealerships have to compete with hours on the book and will take shortcuts or half rear end their way through a job to get it done in the time allocated. My S2000 has been at a shop twice, and both times I uncovered poo poo the mechanic did that I would have never tolerated. Things like broken clips, installing the window bumper stop upside down, duct taping the moisture barrier to the door. These cars don't show up in shops frequently so mechanics won't take the time to study the proper steps to get a job done.
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Nodoze posted:What did you do to break that Bad Ground?
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I work on cars because I want to learn useful poo poo. The first step towards learning ANYTHING is loving up. A LOT.
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Adiabatic posted:Stop being a holier-than-thou armchair mechanic and making GBS threads up my thread. I update this for my enjoyment and for added content for AI, not so I can have 4 more father figures. You must be a glutton for punishment if you get enjoyment out of this poo poo 
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OP, press on regardless.
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After my first clutch job on my first project car (Mitsubishi Colt GLXI) I had some kind of whining at speed that drove me crazy. I was sure I hosed up something while doing the clutch and removed the engine maybe 3 times trying to fix the noise. After a while I got fed up and while checking the clutch for the fourth time while drunk I had the idea to tow the car at speed without engine and trans. Turns out it was a wheel bearing or something (replaced all the front end wear parts so I can't be sure but at least the whining stopped).
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Moxie Omen posted:I work on cars because I want to learn useful poo poo. Everything i Know i learned from loving up How did the central locking break? Like it just isn't working anymore?
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Motronic posted:From 4 months and a motor ago: Please continue to poo poo the thread up and tell the OP how forgetting a goddamn ground cable means he's a horrible mechanic. Maybe jump up my rear end and tell me I am an ignorant lube monkey and don't know how to spell cavitation, nevermind know what it means, again, as well  Adiabatic - have you checked to make sure you didn't accidentally bend a heatshield or lose a wiring harness clip or something, so there's some sort of thing dragging on the driveshaft, maybe? I've had that happen before. Clearly it was because I had no idea how to work on my jeep and shouldn't have dived into a drivetrain replacement, I should have brought it to a shop because a broken wiring harness clip that let an O2 sensor plug hang on the rear driveshaft unexpectedly means I don't know how to replace a clutch.
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kastein you ignorant lube monkey! 
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Jared592 posted:kastein you ignorant lube monkey! Well at least now i know what my next tattoo should be.
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AcidRonin posted:Well at least now i know what my next tattoo should be. Goon tattooist Toast Face Killah would make a world-class example of this.
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Is it still too early to make a backtiger joke? 
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kastein posted:Maybe jump up my rear end and tell me I am an ignorant lube monkey and don't know how to spell cavitation, nevermind know what it means, again, as well Internet burns cut deep. 
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West SAAB Story posted:Is it still too early to make a backtiger joke? Backpanther?
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Paul Boz_ posted:Backpanther?  yes, thats the one
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Paul Boz_ posted:Goon tattooist Toast Face Killah would make a world-class example of this. I would love to see his drawing of an "ignorant lube monkey"
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leica posted:You must be a glutton for punishment if you get enjoyment out of this poo poo I have always identified as an automotive masochist. At least the door unlocks were an easy fix. Just had to relearn the fob 
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Adiabatic posted:I have always identified as an automotive masochist. I always try to tell myself "I'm having fun, this is great", until the cocksuckers and motherfuckers start rolling out and the neighbors take their kids inside and close the windows 
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leica posted:until the cocksuckers and motherfuckers start rolling out and the neighbors take their kids inside and close the windows So what's the problem? The cocksuckers', and motherfuckers' fucktrophies are inside, then? 
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Apparently they don't like angry outbursts that sounds like someone with tourette syndrome on crack.
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This took a turn for the weird. Headed on vacation I'll be back for more transportational abuse on the 17th.
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Hey Adiabatic, you're not going to take AI's worst mechanic title away from me, but nice try. 
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Phone posted:Hey Adiabatic, you're not going to take AI's worst mechanic title away from me, but nice try. So NOBODY read my insane diatribes? t 
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Phone posted:Hey Adiabatic, you're not going to take AI's worst mechanic title away from me, but nice try. Which of us has the big red custom title? 
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Also before I leave I've gotta do a count. This thread's gone through: 3 engines 2 transmissions 3 clutches 2 probations Good work goons
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leica posted:Apparently they don't like angry outbursts that sounds like someone with tourette syndrome on crack. Fun fact: I actually have Tourette's. Not in the "gently caress YOU AND gently caress YOUR MOTHER AND gently caress gently caress gently caress poo poo gently caress THIS poo poo YOU gently caress" way (you know, the same mindset cats go into when they see a shelf full of expensive stuff and start knocking everything over), more in the weird twitch way. 
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Adiabatic posted:Also before I leave I've gotta do a count. This thread's gone through: You forgot AI Shitposter of the Year 2013 and AI's Worst Mechanic of the Year 2013.
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Tussy Takk posted in this thread?
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No, he would be labeled under AI Village Idiot of the Decade.
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Phone posted:You forgot AI Shitposter of the Year 2013 and AI's Worst Mechanic of the Year 2013. There's still a lot of 2013 left 
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Haha, we should have an AI Awards Thread at the end of the year, winners get an appropriate custom title or some sort of lovely prize.
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Phone posted:You forgot AI Shitposter of the Year 2013 and AI's Worst Mechanic of the Year 2013. Unrecognized. Again.
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Look what I found in Wahiawa:
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BUY IT
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wait how closely related to the froot truck is that
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Looks pretty frooty.
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Adiabatic posted:Wahiawa
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9T8UVY6TDI
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Noise/vibration is an incredibly coincidental front right wheel bearing... In other news looking for a good exorcist in the Richmond, VA area. \/\/\/ Yeah it was just strange that it went out during the clutch replacement. Adiabatic fucked around with this message at 20:57 on Sep 17, 2013 |
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Wheel bearings aren't an uncommon thing to break on an S2000 though
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