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Somebody looked at this and apparently said "why yes, I would like to give you money for this here quality automobile" Both wheels were bad but the left one was more so I don't think it was a lovely stance job. It was much worse in motion.
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     Stock D16A6 motor died in our CRX during a 12hr endurance race. RIP.
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I did something similar to a D16Y8, except it windowed the block. That day I learned not to drive with a cold air intake in pouring rain.. especially with a missing fender liner.  So all that poo poo in the oil pump pickup is a result of rapid unintended disassembly, and not the cause, right?
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Miata 1.8. Owner completed a head rebuild, then assembled and cranked it over. No start:  The combustion chamber on the missing piston is pretty scored up but the valve seats look fine. No obvious cause, but one of the intake valves on the missing cylinder was obliterated (seat, guide and spring all looked fine).
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Jun 26, 2014 02:11
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What a dirty gasket surface from just having had the head off. It looks like they did not even take time to fully clean it.
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Jun 26, 2014 03:31
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Pretty impressive since that is a non-interference motor. (unless he made a frankenmotor from various year parts)
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Jun 26, 2014 04:31
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What about the keepers? Heh.
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some texas redneck posted:I did something similar to a D16Y8, except it windowed the block. That day I learned not to drive with a cold air intake in pouring rain.. especially with a missing fender liner. Yea, not the cause. We're pretty sure it was oil starvation :x It somehow didn't window the block.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7MfHsLT9hY Action starts at about 2:00. The video is from 2011, anyone know any more about this story?
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Jun 29, 2014 00:39
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Oh my god, the sound of the crane operator's voice, just such raw, pure emotion.
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The brake light on my Blazer came on yesterday. Today I found this. How does this even happen? (I didn't drive with the parking brake on or anything idiotic like that, and they were fine when I replaced the brake line in April.)   Luckily I have shoes and a wheel cylinder in my garage left over from one of my previous blazers, and I should be able to scavenge a drum off of one.
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Shoe disbonded, likely from the contamination caused by the leaking WC. Bits of lining combined with the metal-on-metal condition wrecked your drum. I've had shoe disbonding issues on those things without any contamination either, it's always been on whitebox shoes though.
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Jun 29, 2014 18:18
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Yeah the brake fluid leak hosed you kind of hard there.
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Jun 29, 2014 19:56
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Seems like a good opportunity to replace them with disc brakes. 
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Collateral Damage posted:Seems like a good opportunity to replace them with disc brakes. I looked that up actually. If this wasn't my daily driver, I would have parked it and ordered the kit.
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Is yours a K5 or S10 Blazer? If the latter, the Oldsmobile Bravada came with 4-wheel discs after 1997. Should be a direct swap, might be cheaper than a kit, and I believe comes with a locker, so that's a plus if you don't already have one.
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Crotch Fruit posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7MfHsLT9hY Its a wierd fail mode for a crane- usually they fall over on the narrow axis, not the really long one!
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Surprised they don't put a load cell in each outrigger.
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jamal posted:Surprised they don't put a load cell in each outrigger. I'm not sure how that would help. A failure like that was almost certainly the ground under one or more of the pads collapsing if not an outright mechanical failure of an outrigger. Also, there are very clear guidelines about how much weight you can lift at what angle off the ground/what extension/angle from the truck. It's a simple to understand table riveted to the front of the controls on every crane I've been around. If you can't handle that you shouldn't be operating a piece of equipment with that kind of damage potential.
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Looks like he overreached. The truck is standing on the rear outriggers, so they haven't collapsed; the driveway appears to be holding. I'm guessing he pushed the boom out a few feet & ran outside the radius for the load. All things considered, the damage is not too bad. It's the garage roof, probably truss construction. Once an engineer clears the wall framing, peel it & replace some trusses, re-sheathe & re-roof.
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thelightguy posted:Blazer Found your problem, right here. Seriously the blazer is one of the least reliable vehicles I've EVER had the displeasure of owning and driving.
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yeah man cause that brake design was only ever used in the blazer and not every single GM RWD car and light truck that didn't have rear discs from 1977 until the early-'00s. Totally the fault of the name on the hatch here. And really it's a pretty decent brake, this is just a case of a wheel cylinder reaching the end of its service life and causing a minor cascading failure on its way out. Turbo Fondant fucked around with this message at 06:30 on Jun 30, 2014 |
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Yeah...you can't really point the blame at GM (I am not a fan) for a failed wheel cylinder; drum brakes are terrible on every car, wheel cylinders are made in chinese sweatshops for five cents a piece on every car, they gently caress out and douse the liners with brake fluid all the time...on every car. It is literally one of the most common universal failures vehicles experience.
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We're getting some crossover here with the OSHA thread in GBS no I don't read GBS http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3633652 Both are great threads.
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Apparently the nose gear on harriers fails often enough that they actually built what's effectively a jack stand to land it on?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9tvdjDAr1U
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I'm pretty sure it's for maintenance/repairs. If it was meant to be used that way it would probably be much more cushioned or there'd be springs or something.
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xzzy posted:Apparently the nose gear on harriers fails often enough that they actually built what's effectively a jack stand to land it on? Sure as heck beats the alternative: 
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I can see how that went in their heads. "Ok we just need a huge stack of mattresses to plop it down on and everything will be fine" And then once the landing process started it dawned on them the sheer size and weight of the jet.
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Actually the problem with the mattress solution is they got sucked into the intake. There's a closeup of the aftermath floating around out there somewhere.
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xzzy posted:Actually the problem with the mattress solution is they got sucked into the intake. lmao (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Best part is the Harrier is designed to be put down on its belly with minimal damage in the event of landing gear failure. Would have been cheaper to not use anything at all.
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xzzy posted:Actually the problem with the mattress solution is they got sucked into the intake.  that is amazing.
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xzzy posted:And the photo evidence: A mattress murder/suicide. They were quoted as saying "Nothing else mattress," before jumping into the intake
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jThMA3Qy-TQ Harriers don't function too well after sucking up seawater either
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stuxracer posted:The report for it (linked in video) says this was like 100% pilot error and had nothing to do with sea water. Still doubt it works full of seawater  Could have sworn that was the reason and that it happened over Blackpool but that never seemed to have happened I must have had a cognitive failure too
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stuxracer posted:The report for it (linked in video) says this was like 100% pilot error and had nothing to do with sea water. Well the report says the pilot "suffered cognitive failure" which is now my new term for "had a massive brain fart"
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