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This XJ's previous owner is gonna drive me nuts. I suspect it was the guy before the guy I bought it from, as 99% of the mechanical problems with the thing are corrected, but the little poo poo is still solidly bullshit. Today's example starts with a question. "I wonder why my fog lights look so cloudy? Maybe I can just polish the lenses..."  Oh.  Oh god.  Oh god, why.   gently caress that. gently caress everything about that.   Much better.  I wonder what else is hosed about these. Wait, what's this switch?  A wire that goes through the firewall?  Well, at least the I6 is pretty.   Something seems to be missing here...  Oh, you filthy rat bastard.  Fucker's behind the battery tray, too, so it's gonna loving stay there until I get the new battery cables and battery that are my next project.
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lovely aftermarket lamps probably self destructed, they do that. lovely fog lamp wiring, but nowhere near as bad as I've seen. At least he used a relay instead of running unfused power via tattered romex or speaker wire through the firewall to a big switch and back to the fog lights. Yes, I've seen both of those. They used wire nuts and copious quantities of duct tape. Those fuses and relays were supposed to be missing unless he intentionally deleted some options and went as far as removing the terminals from inside the PDC housing, which isn't that easy unless you know the trick, which he clearly didn't since he wires things like that. So no worries there.
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Nah, that third spot up should be the fog lamp relay, though.  I'm probably going to wire the stock ones back up for now.
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thelightguy posted:I mean, you say that, but then I'm buying a Fiat 500 Abarth next month which manages four and five star rankings without being the size of a WWII tank. My point was that the evolution of safety standards have driven vehicle sizes and weights (and beltlines) up up up. Your Fiat has a wheelbase of 90" and a curb weight of 2500 lbs. That's 16" and 1400 lbs more than the old ones. Overall length is up 23". Godholio fucked around with this message at 04:03 on Oct 12, 2014 |
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No ABS/traction control/airbag? No problem.  I like to say that the only piece of safety equipment in my van is me, but flogging my old rear end Vandura at twice over the speed limit in the middle of loving Nowhere, Missouri is a pretty strong argument otherwise. I did the same (tires chirping) too in that van; I can still do it since it's still running. Even needing a tuneup and a bunch of other work on it, a V8 mated to a 700R4 and 3.73 gears can still lay down a fair bit of torque, at least for first gear.
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Riscas posted:This is a top fuel drag boat that blew its engine yesterday at lake Havasu.  What even is that piece sticking out the side? A wrist pin?
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Looks like it. My first thought was 'how did that get there?!'
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That's probably the most impressive blown engine I've ever seen. Usually it's maybe a hole in the block and a bunch of tiny shrapnel scattered on everything. But that...loving everything is wrecked spectacularly.
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Oct 12, 2014 17:48
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That is a crazy valve size to piston size ratio :O
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Yeah. These things make about 8000 horsepower so when things go poo poo gets real.
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Liquid Communism posted:
kastein posted:lovely aftermarket lamps probably self destructed, they do that. Mine were OEM (have a switch on the dashboard for them) and as far as I can tell the stock location for the relay was screwed into the side of the engine bay just above the battery. So, if the screw popped out or the stupid little plastic casing broke, it would fall down behind the battery like that (mine had). I just replaced the lights on my 88, because either they ate the sockets inside or some desperate thief really needed two lovely little bulb sockets. The housings looked kinda aftermarket, but all the wiring seemed stock so I dunno. I replaced them with $60 Hella 500 lamps, because I didn't want to spend a bunch of cash on something nice but was tired of the old ones not working. I cut off the old plug pigtails, butt-crimped them onto the Hellas (the blue wire = ground, wtf) and slapped them in. They work fine running off the OEM wiring harness - the Hella kit came with a new switch and harness, so maybe whoever installed your kit got something similar and didn't bother to splice it into the existing stock setup? Who knows. Before/after  
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From my office window today - a horrible mechanical failure caused by a horrible driver failure.  Note bonus  - could this be a goontruck?
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The 'fix minor bumps' does it for me. It's about as good as the 'you shop, we drop' Tesco trailer that fell from its tractor.
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ShittyPostmakerPro posted:The 'fix minor bumps' does it for me. It's about as good as the 'you shop, we drop' Tesco trailer that fell from its tractor. Shouldn't someone with an HGV licence always know the height of their load? Especially before driving under a very obvious brick railway bridge with the height printed on it in big numbers. Goon truckers please weigh in (no pun intended).
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Saga posted:Shouldn't someone with an HGV licence always know the height of their load? Especially before driving under a very obvious brick railway bridge with the height printed on it in big numbers. Going by the discussion last time I saw it come up: At least in the US, the route is typically set up by a route planner at the central office, and deviating from it leads to unpleasant accusations of wasting time/fuel. The planner will/should take things like low bridges into account, but sometimes they don't. Add in the typical poo poo pay and borderline illegal working hours, and you get drivers uncritically and uncaringly driving the route they got.
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Liquid Communism posted:This was the very first car I ever got in a wreck in. gently caress yes. I had the exact same car, same fake wood and everything. Mine had the 307 Olds engine.
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PhotoKirk posted:gently caress yes. I always wanted to get one of those and put a diesel in it.
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M42 posted:NoVA. It's probably alright though, I managed to thread a plug on there for a turn or so (just to test). I'd imagine if the plug blew out while still in the threads, the top ones would be missing at least. Plus it looks like you can see the bottom of the threads in this pic: sweet picture. You're right, it's probably fine. I'm in Richmond but am frequently up your way. If you ever need something, hit me up.
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My first ride ( Early 1990's) '79 Wagoneer that I ever got into a wreck with Fucker would get past anything but a gas station. AWD with an AMC 360 2 speed Powerglide Auto. Almost hit a corolla head on overtaking in bad visibility, went into a ditch at 60+ MPH, came out the other side unharmed. The Corolla flipped. I was 16 and 2 months. Didn't drive again for a year. Luckily no one was killed. Farking Bastage fucked around with this message at 20:35 on Oct 13, 2014 |
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:sweet picture. Yeah, I spoke too soon, something was hosed in there. Pulled up a thread with the new plug and no matter how hard I try, it won't seat at all anymore.  Gonna try to figure out how to pull the head and take it to a mechanic shop.
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Charlie is a bike repair shop.
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Farking Bastage posted:My first ride ( Early 1990's) '79 Wagoneer Wrong thread.
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Farking Bastage posted:My first ride ( Early 1990's) '79 Wagoneer To be pedantic, your '79 Wagoneer had a TH400 Three speed
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Ozmiander posted:To be pedantic, your '79 Wagoneer had a TH400 Three speed That would explain it then. I think first was gone and I just assumed it was a 2 speed.
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A short vid and some pics of the aircooled motor I took out of my old '74 van. It overheated while on a long motorway trip (in 2002) - the linkage that holds the air 'flaps' in the fan housing was apparently loose and was rubbing on the fanshroud, where it eventually rubbed through, dropping the flaps into a closed position, which I only noticed when it lost all power, I managed to exit at the next junction, pull over and switch the engine off. I though it was on fire, as smoke was pouring off it, but this was just the oil burning off the block as it had got so hot. Got towed home, buy which time it had cooled enough to just about run, so I took it to my mechanic who explained it was mostly toast, but as the case was new a few months previously, suggested fitting new pistons and barrels (they had ovaled) to keep me going until I could get a new engine - money was in short supply back then and this was my only transport to work. As you'll see from the pics, the bearings had got a little hot and developed a bit of play. To say it was loud would be an understatement, I had to drive it for about three weeks like this, and it sounded, literally, like a metal tin full of spanners. Luckily I found another van going cheap, which I bought with the plan to swap the engine out, but it turns out the whole van was in better condition that my original one, so I didn't bother, and ended up just using the new van instead (it's the one in my avatar) I eventually scrapped the first van about six years ago when I lost storage, wish I'd kept it now, ... TL,DR - VW aircooled engine massivly overheated, developing some play in the bearings ... Vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMLVSocvNZ0&feature=youtu.be Pics: crank, -very- scored, you can easily feel these with a fingernail  bearing shell, equally scored, no shine at all:  con rod itself, seems ok, the bearings didn't spin:  Basically, I'm stripping this engine down to see what bits I can keep in my spares box, and which bits are going in the metal bin edit: the sawdust looking stuff is actually sawdust - the engine lived under my sawbench for years.
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spiny posted:A short vid and some pics of the aircooled motor I took out of my old '74 van. It overheated while on a long motorway trip (in 2002) - the linkage that holds the air 'flaps' in the fan housing was apparently loose and was rubbing on the fanshroud, where it eventually rubbed through, dropping the flaps into a closed position, which I only noticed when it lost all power, I managed to exit at the next junction, pull over and switch the engine off. I though it was on fire, as smoke was pouring off it, but this was just the oil burning off the block as it had got so hot. You could probably save that crank.
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Really ? I'm not sure I have the knowledge though.
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spiny posted:Really ? I'm not sure I have the knowledge though. Drop it by a machine shop and see what they say, they can usually shave it down enough to clean it up and use oversize bearings to make up the difference. Most of the VW motors have three different bearing sized specifically for this purpose.
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Looks good to me. You could probably dump iron filings into the carb and get 50k out of one of those engines.
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CommieGIR posted:Drop it by a machine shop and see what they say, they can usually shave it down enough to clean it up and use oversize bearings to make up the difference. Plus if it's an OG crank, it's waaaaaaaay better than any of the Chinese junk being made these days.
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spiny posted:yup, I'm pretty sure it's a gen VW crank - the con rod shells have the little VW stamp and a VW part number, so it might be either original or factory rebuilt I guess. I'll give it all a good clean once it's apart and see what I've got Well, at least don't trash it. Save it for a rainy day, it's probably well worth a couple buck to just have a machine shop touch it up, resurface the crank and throw it in a box.
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CommieGIR posted:Well, at least don't trash it. Save it for a rainy day, it's probably well worth a couple buck to just have a machine shop touch it up, resurface the crank and throw it in a box. yeah, i'll put it all in my 'to do' pile - I've got a 1200 that is 95% complete that I'd like to get running too, not that I have anything that it'll fit in plus a few 1300s and 1500s in various states of dismantlement.
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What? Looks like legit parking.
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tater_salad posted:What? Looks like legit parking. Ugh, this parking hard is getting out of hand.
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The starter motor on the LLV probably just finally rebelled and spun backwards while she was delivering mail. I mean, have you seen mail carriers drive those things? Start it up, drive to one house, turn it off, deliver mail, start it up, drive to the next house down, turn it off, deliver mail...
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Geirskogul posted:The starter motor on the LLV probably just finally rebelled and spun backwards while she was delivering mail. I mean, have you seen mail carriers drive those things? Start it up, drive to one house, turn it off, deliver mail, start it up, drive to the next house down, turn it off, deliver mail... Would a hybrid or vehicle with a start / stop system be a good choice for their replacements?
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