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spog posted:1960 for a Mini van 
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EightBit posted:Extra machine time, cutting splines on a shaft that long can't be quick or cheap; you don't frequently have a single lobe fail without the rest of the camshaft failing too, so there's no maintenance angle there either. I know toyota did it with their big diesels- My 1HD-FTE engine has a cam thats a straight shaft with splines cut into it and the lobes pressed on afterwards and thats for a nearly meter long 6 pot diesel. Probably explains why a long block is $15K from factory...
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Sep 18, 2014 10:24
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I knew drat well that I was going to get beaten, but I tip my hat to you  Length 3300mm Load Capacity: 46 cu ft = 1,300 litres  Volvo V60 Length: 4635mm Load Capacity (seats lowered) 1,200 litres drat, Issigonis was clever.
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Sep 18, 2014 10:39
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spog posted:I knew drat well that I was going to get beaten, but I tip my hat to you
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Sep 18, 2014 11:18
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ShittyPostmakerPro posted:Everything looks so tidy and clean and undamaged. That strut doesn't look at all like it just broke loose and burst through a fender. It's going to be the next level in the hellaflush trend.
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Sep 18, 2014 13:21
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You Am I posted:Issigonis didn't have to deal with modern car safety/emissions standards either That, and the v60 is more style than storage space. My 740 wagon? 2,124 liters. 
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Sep 18, 2014 14:08
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Powershift posted:
They have plastic fenders? Also I'm guessing that made a hell of a noise.
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Sep 18, 2014 23:16
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The fun bit is that the Mini was originally sold as the Austin Se7en.
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Sep 18, 2014 23:29
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Powershift posted:
I have to see what it looks like under the hood. So many questions!
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Sep 19, 2014 00:58
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Saw one of them at a car show once. In person they look awesome.
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Sep 19, 2014 01:21
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Powershift posted:
You guys are all missing something kind of obvious. That's just the spring top hat. The actual mount is still in the fender well. You shouldn't be able to see the strut bearing.
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Sep 19, 2014 03:15
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Had a look at a customer's 8k telehandler today. My manager informed me that the motor mount was "cracked or hosed up or something." Well let's have a look. One side looks okay. Let's see the other...  Ah. Yeah. That's not good. One bolt is MIA, and the other two are sheared off in the block. Fantastic. Unfortunately both sides are part of one large bracket that runs under the engine and bolts to the frame in the centre. Have to lift the engine up to get it out and extract the bolts.  Probably OSHA.jpg.  Obligatory. Both bolts caught on the drill bit and backed out with no issue.
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Sep 19, 2014 05:21
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Guy Random posted:You guys are all missing something kind of obvious. That's just the spring top hat. The actual mount is still in the fender well. You shouldn't be able to see the strut bearing. Yup. That bearing is part of part 1 here. 
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Sep 19, 2014 06:18
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Sep 19, 2014 06:38
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gotta clear dem rims, bruh. 
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Sep 19, 2014 06:42
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How would you even align that!? Facncy German poo poo requires a dedicated scan tool but even that would go "What the honest gently caress?!"
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Sep 19, 2014 07:48
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Sep 19, 2014 14:09
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Horrible Operator Failures.
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Sep 19, 2014 16:09
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Horrible Operator Failures. Soon to be horrible mechanical failure. Does anyone have pics of the aftermath of that, I've seen that ATV strapped down like that a bunch of times but never what happened to it after they started driving. I want to believe it's real, but I've got a feeling it was strapped down that way just for the photo 
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Sep 19, 2014 16:14
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The narrative in my head goes: the Driver and Some Idiot were out riding ATVs. Some Idiot has a brainfart and straps the ATV down like that while the Driver does other stuff. The Driver got back and barely managed to take that picture between fits of laughter.
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Sep 19, 2014 17:14
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I at least like to think I'd be aware enough to notice my load shifting as soon as I started to roll and stop before crushing the bed like an aluminum can.
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Sep 19, 2014 17:27
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Seat Safety Switch posted:The lock box on the rear is optional & comes off easily. Powershift posted:
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Sep 19, 2014 18:25
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veedubfreak posted:They have plastic fenders? Also I'm guessing that made a hell of a noise. All the E92s do, makes them easy to replace / hard to ding.
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Sep 19, 2014 19:54
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Powershift posted:
It took me the dozen or so quotes and looking at the thread title to realize this wasn't some new anti-flush style. I kept looking for how it had been welded in.
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Sep 20, 2014 08:35
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Found out why the blower only worked on high on the GTI-R-P lovely part is the pins rusted into and broke off on the pigtail so now that needs to be changed as well.
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Sep 20, 2014 23:32
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FuzzKill posted:Found out why the blower only worked on high on the GTI-R-P That worked? 
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Sep 20, 2014 23:59
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This power steering pump did not. Lady drove with the pully flying around in the engine bay for 5 highway miles to our shop and boiled nearly all her coolant. The worst part is we just put it in 2 months ago. But its ok because"Its warranty, not a guarantee!"  Cheap parts!  Edit: Fixed, its been a long week. Time to drink. Preoptopus fucked around with this message at 00:14 on Sep 21, 2014 |
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Sep 21, 2014 00:08
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You mean power steering pump? Coolant boiling from lack of belt is my guess.
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Sep 21, 2014 00:12
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drat, and I thought my junk power steering pump from February was the most hosed one I'd ever see. That's just plain impressive.atomicthumbs posted:That worked? Normally the high setting on a blower motor skips the resistor together, the resistor just taps into the wire as it goes by. The lower speeds go to various taps on the blower resistor via a multi-position rotary/slide switch. That switch is another common failure point, since manufacturers are cheapasses and love to shove 20 to 40 amps through a lovely slide switch down underrated wiring to the blower resistor and motor, though some did it right with a relay bank near the resistor and it's now becoming a moot point since many makers are switching to (much superior) PWM driven blower motors as they computerize their HVAC controls. For example here's the circuit diagram for a 1999 jeep cherokee: http://www.revbase.com/BBBMotor/Wd/DownloadPdf?id=16386 (note that switch position 1, HIGH, connects to the resistor block, but doesn't go through it.)
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Sep 21, 2014 01:06
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kastein posted:drat, and I thought my junk power steering pump from February was the most hosed one I'd ever see. That's just plain impressive. Ah the days when copper was cheap and micros were expensive 
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Sep 21, 2014 07:57
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Blower speed adjustment by shoving the power through a resistor pack is kinda hilarious when you think about it. The pack is placed in the airstream to keep it cool, but there more it needs cooling, the less airflow there is. That's not even to mention that oftentimes you want cold air, yet it's passed over something hot just before it gets to where it's going. PWM adjusted blower motors is the way to go.
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Sep 21, 2014 09:24
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bolind posted:Blower speed adjustment by shoving the power through a resistor pack is kinda hilarious when you think about it. The pack is placed in the airstream to keep it cool, but there more it needs cooling, the less airflow there is. That's not even to mention that oftentimes you want cold air, yet it's passed over something hot just before it gets to where it's going. *: also cooled by the air stream in the vent piping.
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Sep 21, 2014 11:20
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bolind posted:Blower speed adjustment by shoving the power through a resistor pack is kinda hilarious when you think about it. The pack is placed in the airstream to keep it cool, but there more it needs cooling, the less airflow there is. That's not even to mention that oftentimes you want cold air, yet it's passed over something hot just before it gets to where it's going. When the resistor pack in my brother's '97 Mirage went, he replaced it with a microcontroller running his own PWM firmware (128 speeds, start at max speed and ramp down to overcome fan inertia). When the engine block went, he moved it to my '97 Mirage 
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Slavvy posted:*: also cooled by the air stream in the vent piping. PWM controllers operate the MOSFET or BJT entirely in saturation or all the way off, so there really isn't much heat involved. Some, but nowhere near like the old nichrome winding blower speed resistors. E: this is also why old computers of the 60s and 70s had a ~100W power supply that weighed like 80lbs and consisted mostly of iron core transformer and blast furnace level heat output, while modern computers can have a 1000W supply that weighs around 5lbs and produces very little heat (by comparison.) Switch-mode power supplies far outperform linears in almost every way. The failure modes are pretty hilarious though, the MOSFETs overheat, then go into thermal runaway (an overloaded hot MOSFET conducts better than it did cold!) And scatter themselves all over the inside of the power supply. E2: in keeping with this thread, here are some MOSFETs that have shuffled off their mortal coil; entered the great conduction zone above; etc.  
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Sep 21, 2014 12:24
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I learned the hard way that if you ever pop the fuse in a PSU, and are too lazy to go get another fuse so you bridge the fuse holder with a handy bit of wire, the very next thing to go pop are the MOSFETs, and they'll happily take a random selection of other plugged-in stuff with them. Nowadays, if the fuse in the PSU ever goes pop, I bless it for it's fine work in saving the rest of the computer from fiery death, and scrap the PSU.
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Sep 21, 2014 12:50
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Yeah the last time I lost a PSU it fragged the new CPU, motherboard, one stick of RAM, a network card, and one of my hard drives too. Power supplies aren't something to cheap out on, good brands only.
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Sep 21, 2014 12:57
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I'm just going to leave this here. http://www.carthrottle.com/watch-a-huge-earth-mover-tyre-blow-up-in-this-dramatic-inflation-cage-test/
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Sep 21, 2014 18:58
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Fuelslt1 posted:I'm just going to leave this here. Not featured in the video, the similar reaction in the technicians pants.
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Sep 21, 2014 19:21
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Crunch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuK7qr_TY3g
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And the ship's captain still claims it was the mule who ran into him 
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