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rcman50166 posted:Poke it. Do it. Meh, just a swaybar. Shows neglect, but in no way a safety hazard if you've been driving more than a month or so. Unless you mean that control arm. Maybe you drat yankees will feel different, but I'm used to Florida
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haha poo poo, I didn't even notice the sway bar until now. I was more concerned with the rust holes in a structural member of the suspension.
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May 30, 2014 18:58
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Horrible Failure or Amazing Success? http://newhaven.craigslist.org/cto/4493372708.html quote:alright for sale is something that you will never see again    
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May 30, 2014 21:05
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 That's been making the rounds in my circle of friends, apparently some of them have seen it in the wild. The backstory is that the kid picked the car up for $200 and is (very effectively, I might add) trolling truck ricer bros with it. So I say it's awesome, especially if he finds an idiot to give him that much for it. e: he needs a RANCH-HAND front bumper made entirely from polished diamond plate with a rack for sled pulling weights on it next.
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May 30, 2014 21:09
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It's a shame it's a '98. Dually Accords are rare as hen's teeth, but they switched from a D44 to a D35 rear axle in '96.
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May 30, 2014 21:09
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We should never have connected Australia to the Internet.
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It'd be even more magical if it was lifted, with a pair of NUTZ hanging from the rear bumper.
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May 30, 2014 21:25
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Is this weekly safety bulletin material? Any info on what *actually* happened? Something doesn't add up here. Why was he thrusting inside the hangar?
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May 30, 2014 23:34
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Oscillation overthruster malfunction.
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May 30, 2014 23:44
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When are we leaving? Real soon!
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Fucknag posted:Meh, just a swaybar. Shows neglect, but in no way a safety hazard if you've been driving more than a month or so. If I cant poke a new hole through with my finger, its good. We really need a Wisconsin emoticon.
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Crying Bucky obviously.
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Safety Dance posted:It's a shame it's a '98. Dually Accords are rare as hen's teeth, but they switched from a D44 to a D35 rear axle in '96. I would of totally put the dually axle on the front .
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How about horrible quality/specs failure. Had new brake pads that were so thick the bracket for the calipers didn't clear them. Yes the pistons were all the way back.
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tater_salad posted:How about horrible quality/specs failure. Skim your rotors until they fit, duh!
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I got oversized shoes for my VW once, I guess they assumed that in 1998 it was impossible for anyone to have drums that hadn't been resurfaced a million times on a car built in the 60's. I was a kid with a poo poo job living on his own for the first time so I did the only thing that made sense to me.. got some high grit sand paper and worked those things over until it fit.
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May 31, 2014 17:59
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tater_salad posted:How about horrible quality/specs failure. I'd be worried that I'd done something wrong, and use the opportunity to buy a pair of calipers and find out exactly what is out of spec and by how much. Who doesn't want to buy a new tool?
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SuperDucky posted:Is this weekly safety bulletin material? Any info on what *actually* happened? What bothers me is that the interior and exterior wall damage doesn't synch up.
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xzzy posted:I got oversized shoes for my VW once, I guess they assumed that in 1998 it was impossible for anyone to have drums that hadn't been resurfaced a million times on a car built in the 60's. Nothing wrong with sanding to make them fit (aside from breathing whatever the friction material was made of). Seems like all VW parts are in need of at least some hand fitting.
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Speaking of brake rotors Team Petty Cash's first lemons XJ failure of the season. (Break rotor, harhar)
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From the WRL race yesterday, they smelled something strange every time the car drove by so they called it in. The smell was burning shock oil. They swapped it quickly but still dropped from 1st to 3rd place.
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More of a horrible mechanic failure: "Fuel pressure at the bowl tests great, even under hard load!" Still felt wrong driving it and one dropped tank in my own garage later:    Now I need to find a new mechanic.
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Shifty Pony posted:More of a horrible mechanic failure: "Fuel pressure at the bowl tests great, even under hard load!" What did your mechanic do? Or not do?
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RandomPauI posted:What did your mechanic do? Or not do? To me, it sounds like the mechanic missed that a fuel filter screen was badly clogged with debris from the gas tank and instead thought nothing was wrong. The clog decreases the flow of fuel and so the engine runs poorly. I could be wrong, but a fuel pressure test wouldn't reveal this issue if the clogged filter is downstream of the pressure gauge. Since the filter in Shifty Pony's photos looks like the type integrated into the carburetor body, this is probably what happened and why the mechanic missed the problem. You can test for a bad fuel pump and some carburetor float problems with a pressure gauge, which the mechanic might have incorrectly initially suspected it to be.
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meatpotato posted:To me, it sounds like the mechanic missed that a fuel filter screen was badly clogged with debris from the gas tank and instead thought nothing was wrong. The clog decreases the flow of fuel and so the engine runs poorly. The first part is right, but I should have given more detail. The fuel screens are in the tank, integrated into a small mixing bowl which mixes returned warm fuelwith tank fuel to prevent gelling. Because the truck has an outside-the-tank lift pump it would be absolutely impossible to measure fuel pressure upstream from them. Not only that but I told him that I thought they were getting clogged and asked him to specifically check for fuel restriction/pressure drop under high flow conditions in addition to the static pressure put out by the pump. He said all was fine. The only explanation I can come up with is he didn't want to bother driving it with the fuel pressure gauge mounted and then lied to me about the results. Shifty Pony fucked around with this message at 13:48 on Jun 2, 2014 |
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SuperDucky posted:Is this weekly safety bulletin material? Any info on what *actually* happened? IIRC it was in a hush house (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hush_house) and the tail hook hadn't been properly put together/attached
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stump posted:
That honestly could have gone alot worse.
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Chinatown posted:That honestly could have gone alot worse. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LFLV47VAbI (Actually, it's a horrible mechanical failure that even got the aircraft to that point. It was going to be sacrificed in weapons-effects testing at Aberdeen because previously, on a ferry flight out of Corpus Christi Army Depot, it suffered an uncommanded flight control input and *did a complete roll*. The crew managed to avoid crashing it but the airframe was overstressed and was not going to fly again.)
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stump posted:
Ground resonance is a helluva drug.
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I just can't stop laughing at the helicopter having a  face the whole time it's happening. Engine intakes and artifacted blur in front of the windscreen, for those trying to see it.
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Oh well gently caress me. A lady came in with a misfiring cavalier that also had 'rocker cover leaks' and my boss, innocent soul that he is, quoted her a pittance and said we'd get right on it. Six hours later I'm reassembling the cam carrier things, only to discover that someone has been in there before and half the threads are just pulling out of the holes because GM used the cheapest alloy they could find for the head  I'd have taken pictures but I'm just too disgusted.
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Oh god gently caress that motor forever, the 2.2L OHV right? I strongly recommend NEVER EVER TOUCHING THE SPARK PLUGS if you end up putting a junkyard head on it. They play Ford and don't come out. That engine is nightmare fuel for me... for this and other reasons. E: wait a sec you said cam carrier, not the OHV engine, still saying gently caress that thing forever
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Phanatic posted:For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LFLV47VAbI A complete roll in a Chinook? Oh dear loving christ no
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kastein posted:Oh god gently caress that motor forever, the 2.2L OHV right? From what I've seen the 2.4 DOHC is significantly worse. Each cam has it's own cover. The bearing caps are built into the cam cover and the same long bolts go all the way through the cam carrier and into the head. Additionally, the cam covers don't come off conventionally because they also have horizontal bolts holding them to the timing chain cover...from the inside of the timing chain cover. So to do a leaky cam cover gasket you have to disassemble the entire front of the engine and remove the timing chain and cam sprockets.
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You found a Quad 4 that still runs?  That was a miserable engine from day one, aside from the high output version (which cranked out a healthy 180 hp from a 2.3L, not bad for a late 80s 4 pot).
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Phanatic posted:it suffered an uncommanded flight control input I love this terminology every time I see it. It sounds so clinical and innocuous. Phanatic posted:*did a complete roll* 
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some texas redneck posted:You found a Quad 4 that still runs? I dunno, the LD2 Quad 4 died in the Cavalier in MY96. It's probably an LD9 which is a lot better (especially after EGR gets deleted in '00) but would still make me want to eat my own wrists rather than pull the head on.
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Motronic posted:I love this terminology every time I see it. Controlled Flight into Terrain gets me every time.
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I discovered my favorite mechanical disaster euphemisms in the spaceflight thread: Hardware-rich combustion Engine-rich exhaust Lithobraking Rapid Unplanned Disassembly there were a couple others but I can't remember off the top of my head
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