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Protip: If you're loving around with a brake booster off a 4th-gen F-body and manage to dislodge the washer and rubber pad that go between the external and internal pushrods, you can fish them out of the booster with a wire hanger and some sticky-tack. Note: be sure to pull out the vacuum fitting grommet so you can see what the gently caress you're doing.
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Protip: If you're loving around with a brake booster off a 4th-gen F-body and manage to dislodge the washer and rubber pad that go between the external and internal pushrods, you can fish them out of the booster with a wire hanger and some sticky-tack. Note: be sure to pull out the vacuum fitting grommet so you can see what the gently caress you're doing. Hope your typing this with a beer in your hand. Sounds like you have had yourself quite a completely peaceful, cuss-free Saturday afternoon.
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Has anyone been to the Marconi or Petersen [car] museums? I have time to see one and am trying to decide which.
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Preoptopus posted:Hope your typing this with a beer in your hand. Sounds like you have had yourself quite a completely peaceful, cuss-free Saturday afternoon. Friday evening, but yeah. There was a serious "did that really just loving happen?" moment.
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I just spent my night drinking and playing cribbage with most of my friends. It could have kept going late, but everybody had to get home to the wife and kids. So I got to go to the bar alone and make even more poor decisions! I am the odd man out, but it feels fuckin good being single with no kids. I have a real niece and nephew which is awesome. Plus I get to be an even more terrible influence on my friends kids.
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Jun 15, 2014 06:57
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Das Volk posted:is anyone watching the 24 hours of le mans? Of course. I have been unsuccessful in finding a bar/pub to watch it in though which is disappointing. I did talk the hotel manager into running it on the projector for a few hours, something to be said for little mom-n-pop hotels.
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blk posted:Has anyone been to the Marconi or Petersen [car] museums? I have time to see one and am trying to decide which. Petersen. Call ahead and get a spot on the Vault tour. The Vault is really the attraction, is by tour only, and the tours fill up fast, so you need to call ahead.
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Mat_Drinks posted:I'm looking forward to your thoughts on the car as I'll admit I like the I think you've had enough.
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Got another recall notice for the Ion.  This time for the power steering though... which was recalled years ago on every other Delta platform car.And....  I can do laundry again.  Took about 20 minutes start to finish, including pulling it away from the wall (and pushing it back). This is why I prefer the big appliances to be free of electronics; the mfg date is 1997 on this thing, and this is the first repair it's needed.The $150 for a new timer stings a bit, though they got it here in 1 day with the cheapest shipping option. I'm impressed.
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goatse guy posted:Yep. Only 50k miles on my car. No warranty for that?
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Friday evening, but yeah. There was a serious "did that really just loving happen?" moment. Our shop has all in ground lifts. Lice ridden by gaps that lead into the abyss containing paleolithic quantities of the unspeakable. Pro tip: Dont drop anything or you will, as i have, enjoyed a plenty of such moments. Im best friends with the guys at Fastenal now.
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I loving hate loosing small items down large engine bays. My method is extraction is a Hoover with a stocking stuck on the end. Obviously no good for heavy things but washers and poo poo works great.
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One of our rival companies got in serious trouble over using not-to-spec packaging for parts. At point of use, a cardboard box split, and a couple of hundred small bolts got dropped into a turbine.
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Goddamit, I tried drinking myself to sleep so i could be awake for Father's day tomorrow. It didn't work and now I'm wide awake and restless.
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I tried a bit of Appleton's to steady my hands so I could solder the Deans connectors onto the motor controller of my Traxxas and ended up Karaoke-ing Paradise by the Dashboard Lights. By myself. In a biker bar. With proper falsetto on the female parts. I'm pretty sure I won't be drinking rum for a while.
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InitialDave posted:One of our rival companies got in serious trouble over using not-to-spec packaging for parts. At point of use, a cardboard box split, and a couple of hundred small bolts got dropped into a turbine. Tommychu posted:I tried a bit of Appleton's to steady my hands so I could solder the Deans connectors onto the motor controller of my Traxxas and ended up Karaoke-ing Paradise by the Dashboard Lights. By myself. In a biker bar. With proper falsetto on the female parts. drat German mass transit is pretty awesome, I'm going to have to start using it to explore the country a bit. Hopped on the S-Bahn, arrived at the airport 20 minutes later and picked up my rental car...Opel Corsa 1.4. It is slow, handles like poo poo, isn't very comfortable and will likely be terrifying at 100+ mph but it's my POS for the next few weeks. I think the last week while Dad is here I'm going to swap it for at least a VW Scirocco but thinking maybe a BMW M5/3. Time to find lunch then settle in for the last hour or so of the LeMans race. Happy Motherfucker day! NitroSpazzz fucked around with this message at 15:52 on Jun 15, 2014 |
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By all accounts, I've been up long enough that I should be wavering, but this race is too exciting to stop watching!
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Protip: If you're loving around with a brake booster off a 4th-gen F-body and manage to dislodge the washer and rubber pad that go between the external and internal pushrods, you can fish them out of the booster with a wire hanger and some sticky-tack. Note: be sure to pull out the vacuum fitting grommet so you can see what the gently caress you're doing. It fell directly down a lifter opening in a head, then directly into an oil drain hole between lifters. 16 inches down inside the motor. With about 1.5" sticking out of the oil drain hole still. I don't think I could have hit that if I tried. All I am saying is that flexy magnetic pickup tools own bones. Got it back out in one try. Thelonious posted:I just spent my night drinking and playing cribbage with most of my friends. It could have kept going late, but everybody had to get home to the wife and kids. So I got to go to the bar alone and make even more poor decisions! I am dreaming up war crimes to commit when my brother has kids... he drove me insane as a kid, though we are on great terms now. First: noise making toys. With batteries hidden inside them and the case superglued shut, so they still work when you take the battery out  Second: recorders. This might be just a little too mean... maybe a drum set instead.  Of course this means I am hosed if I ever have any myself, but that is looking pretty unlikely right now.
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Guys anyone have info on how the Fiat 500 compared to the Mini? Not talking the new heavy ones, I'm talking the old tiny ones. See my post in the awesome AI thread but saw and talked to a guy with a semi race prep Fiat 500 and now I want one...badly.
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NitroSpazzz posted:Sounds like a good night to me. Oh gently caress yeah. It was a blast. It's just that the BAC that was involved in getting my goony rear end that far out of my comfort zone was pretty high, and I thought I'd be feeling a lot worse right now than I do- especially since I was mixing with Dr. Pepper. Yeah I know it's probably all in my head and liquor as a social crutch is more of a placebo effect thing than anything, but whatever it's a step in the right direction that happened to coincide with a binge drinking session.
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kastein posted:I dropped a foot long piece of threaded rod while measuring to make a valve spring compressor last week. I downloaded one of those sleep apps that measure how much you trash about, and when, and the draw you a nice little graph of how you've slept. For the smartphone to do this, the phone needs to be on the bed next to you. At four AM I gave it a push in my sleep, and it fell behind my bed, and got stuck between the bed frame and the wall. When I pulled out the bed a bit to make it drop all the way to the floor, it slid down parallel to the wall and into the perfectly iPhone 5 sized hole where that particular floorboard didn't quite meet the wall. (I had removed the panel in order to get the bed flush with the wall.) So there I was, at four AM, naked, sleepy, with my phone UNDER my hardwood floor. I ended up having to cut out a piece of the floorboard and used my three pronged magnetic gripper to get it back out.
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CharlesM posted:No warranty for that? The dealership offers a lifetime power train warranty with all new cars so I think I'll be okay. 
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goatse guy posted:The dealership offers a lifetime power train warranty with all new cars so I think I'll be okay. Lifetime? I assume that's an employee perk? That's awesome.
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The free internet streams of Le Mans are great. Despite the woefully predictable ending it was a great race and cool to see the Porsches participate, although they were slightly off the pace.
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Das Volk posted:The free internet streams of Le Mans are great. Despite the woefully predictable ending it was a great race and cool to see the Porsches participate, although they were slightly off the pace. Yea I found the Audi in car and it was awesome. It was cool that the Yota held the lead for so long along with the Porsche up near the lead. I missed the drat end by 15 minutes this morning, so mad about that.
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Back from International Falls. Came in about 2 am this morning. Pulled the cartop off and washed off roughly 10,000 friends we picked up along the way. Now it's time for the TDI's first oil change.
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:Lifetime? I assume that's an employee perk? That's awesome. Not an employee perk -- it's offered with all new cars that Morrie's dealerships sell in Minnesota. They've got a lot of really good perks for buying new from them.
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goatse guy posted:Not an employee perk -- it's offered with all new cars that Morrie's dealerships sell in Minnesota. They've got a lot of really good perks for buying new from them. That is pretty awesome.
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blk posted:Has anyone been to the Marconi or Petersen [car] museums? I have time to see one and am trying to decide which. nm posted:Petersen. Call ahead and get a spot on the Vault tour. The Vault is really the attraction, is by tour only, and the tours fill up fast, so you need to call ahead. I've been to Petersen, but still haven't been on the Vault tour, which as I understand it really expands on the regular Petersen in very good ways. Don't forget that you also live very close to the LeMay in Tacoma which is worth checking out. My advice is to not spend too much time on the top level though and consider hitting the ramps faster as that's where they have a lot of what I'd argue are the coolest pieces in the collection (early electric cars, pininfarina cars, coachbuilt stuff, etc). Rhyno posted:I think you've had enough. AI acts like the Juke is the inbred offspring of the Aztec and the PT Cruiser, but I'd argue it's got the face of newer Mazdas (especially the 2), but on some really good coke. My only criticism is that you can't get AWD and a manual transmission together, but still, for what is essentially a mom mobile it's way more interesting looking than 90% of the boring small and midsize SUVs out there. 
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I don't really care about the juke (eh, looks like a small version of the murano, surely nothing to hate there!) but the Kia Soul is still awful and I don't care who says otherwise. It looks like a cross between a stormtrooper helmet and the rear end end view of one of those caterpillars with the eyespots to scare off predators.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF8jd3MrMmY Been using this at work all last week and probably this week too. But with 18" long 3/4", 1", 1 1/4", 2" and 4" dry-core bits to cut holes in the filled cinder-block walls. Thank god for face-masks and earplugs.
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Mat_Drinks posted:I've been to Petersen, but still haven't been on the Vault tour, which as I understand it really expands on the regular Petersen in very good ways. The vault makes the main Petersen seem boring and content free. It is amazing.
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I shouldn't be surprised that some people unironically like the Juke, but on the other hand I like my Saturn so shine on, you crazy diamonds
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I just heard that there is going to be a Grim Fandango remake. That is awesome! I love that game, especially the music. I don't have a PlayStation though 
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Mat_Drinks posted:AI acts like the Juke is the inbred offspring of the Aztec and the PT Cruiser, but I'd argue it's got the face of newer Mazdas (especially the 2), but on some really good coke. My only criticism is that you can't get AWD and a manual transmission together, but still, for what is essentially a mom mobile it's way more interesting looking than 90% of the boring small and midsize SUVs out there.
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kastein posted:I don't really care about the juke (eh, looks like a small version of the murano, surely nothing to hate there!) but the Kia Soul is still awful and I don't care who says otherwise. The juke is stupid and half-assed and pointless because a supermini SUV makes no sense whatsoever. The soul on the other hand is an extremely practical and useful car. It has huge internal volume while being relatively compact and boxy on the outside, a gigantic potential cargo area and mechanical underpinnings that are based on a completely ordinary hatchback instead of some bastard-child softroader AWD bullshit vehicle.
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