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MrYenko posted:Runaway diesels are the best when they're running on their own lube oil. My dad in law's 1956 JD 70 diesel will run backwards if you hit the fuel lever on the wrong stroke when starting it. They addressed that in later years by adding an appendage of some sort in the valvetrain.
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IOwnCalculus posted:Unless I'm way off here, that shouldn't change the fact that no matter how hard you try, you can't generate more than 1 atmosphere of pressure difference by just pulling a vacuum. I can't square this in my head with footage of stuff/people being sucked into jet engines. 
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Splizwarf posted:I can't square this in my head with footage of stuff/people being sucked into jet engines. ....bigger intake and more suction?
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"Car may need wheel bearing, sold as seen" I was doing 80 on this. 
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Splizwarf posted:I can't square this in my head with footage of stuff/people being sucked into jet engines. GE90 fan diameter: 123" Approximate area of fan: 11,800 square inches 14.7 psi x 11,800 = 173,460 pounds of force if it were creating a perfect vacuum InitialDave posted:"Car may need wheel bearing, sold as seen" Jesus, why where you driving that?
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Jan 29, 2015 20:50
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IOwnCalculus posted:Jesus, why where you driving that?
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Break pads are overrated.
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Jan 29, 2015 20:55
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InitialDave posted:Because I didn't realise it was that bad, and I needed to get it the 100 miles home. What did you buy this time and which part of it did you buy it for?
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Jan 29, 2015 21:05
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Cakefool posted:What did you buy this time and which part of it did you buy it for?
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Jan 29, 2015 21:12
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InitialDave posted:VW Polo, for the (TDi) engine and related ancillary kit. Stripping & selling the other parts. I love those rims, I really wish I could afford OZ rims.
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InitialDave posted:VW Polo, for the (TDi) engine and related ancillary kit. Stripping & selling the other parts. Hah, my Polo ate wheel bearings like they were candy because there was seemingly no torque spec for the retaining nut and I never managed to get the preload right. What are you doing with the engine, is this for that mate with the Audi or do you have something else planned?
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CommieGIR posted:I love those rims, I really wish I could afford OZ rims. Same, even if they are kind of heavy (the Superturismos are, at any rate).
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Jan 29, 2015 22:31
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CommieGIR posted:I love those rims, I really wish I could afford OZ rims. 15" Superturismos, 4x100, I think they're maybe 37mm offset and 6.5" width? jammyozzy posted:What are you doing with the engine, is this for that mate with the Audi or do you have something else planned? Terrible Robot posted:Same, even if they are kind of heavy (the Superturismos are, at any rate).
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Jan 29, 2015 22:44
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InitialDave posted:If there's a way to get them shipped to you without it costing a fortune, PM me, I'd be happy with a hundred quid or so for them. Hell, where are you located?
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Jan 29, 2015 22:47
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CommieGIR posted:Hell, where are you located? 
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InitialDave posted:I refer to currency in units of "quid", mate... Could mean Canada for all I know. 
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InitialDave posted:"Car may need wheel bearing, sold as seen" Were they particularly noisy on the freeway?
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Swiber posted:Break pads are overrated. This took a minute to realize what is going on. That's insane they drove it that long.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:related vid: @1:35 what happens there? 
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Hey, I finally have something to contribute! Too bad it's my wife's car. Transmission decided to poo poo the bed without any warning. I was on the phone with her last night as she was coming home, "Hey, the car's making a kind of funny noise?" "Well, bring it home and we'll look at it and see what's up." "....I'm in an intersection and it won't go." It wouldn't go into gear at all. Cut it off, cut it back on, and she managed to get it into gear and barely get it into a parking lot. Ended up getting it towed. Shifter cable and all that checked out. Fluid looked fine, as in it had fluid and as far as we could tell in the dark it was alright. My awesome brothers-in-law popped the pan off while I was at work. They sent me this:  1/4" chunks of metal in the bottom of the pan. $2000 to fix - 800 for the transmission, 1200 in labor. Way more than the car, a 2001 Merc Sable (with a salvage title, no less), is worth. Looks like we'll be trying to find us a new car soon... and of course these things always happen at the most convenient of times. I can't say that I'm sad to see it go, though. I loving hated that car ever since my stepdad first got it; once we got it after my brother got into a minor wreck which somehow caused enough body damage to total it out it became nothing but a PITA to work on. DOHC engine in the world's tiniest engine bay. Took two people an entire afternoon to replace a belt tensioner. A/C went out and that's a whole bitch and a half to replace, so we hadn't done it yet and instead swapped a bypass pulley on it. Truly a majestic POS that, while it's pretty much the worst time for it to die, I can't really say I'm sad to see it go. Other than how difficult it's going to be to get a car.
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If you didn't like it, why did you put a ring on it?
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Seat Safety Switch posted:If you didn't like it, why did you put a ring on it? 
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Farking Bastage posted:My dad in law's 1956 JD 70 diesel will run backwards if you hit the fuel lever on the wrong stroke when starting it. They addressed that in later years by adding an appendage of some sort in the valvetrain. Man, that is awesome. I mean, how do you even tell when the right time to hit the fuel lever is? I suppose you'd get used to the sound of the stroke, but that's gotta be a weird trial and error learning curve. [I'm sure everyone has seen this before but I can't resist reposting it] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG1MnXkHhlM It's perfect the way that you can see where the flywheel reverses and off it goes. If I was involved in this, I would be the guy in the suspiciously clean high-vis gear who scampers around at a safe distance, and then gets a back pat in once everything has been sorted out. [with added music] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrAeUf7v49g
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Seat Safety Switch posted:If you didn't like it, why did you put a ring on it? 
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Safety Dance posted:I'm entering a crappy robot competition later this week. I'd say the potential for mechanical failure is quite high. Quoting this to say that I won. Casualties include: - chunks of the Milwaukee guy's gearbox, - a decent dent in the railroad spike portion of a railroad-spike-attached-to-an-RC-car-robot (that was subsequently thrown across the arena) - a handful of LEGOs torn off of the LEGO Mindstorms robot (that was subsequently thrown across the arena) - the driver of the railroad spike robot, who happened to be in the path of the flying legos. Surprisingly, the chain didn't break, but the weld holding the chain to the motor spindle started to crack. I wouldn't trust the 'bot unless I rewelded that. There will be a video, eventually. Safety Dance fucked around with this message at 05:52 on Jan 30, 2015 |
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Longinus00 posted:Were they particularly noisy on the freeway?
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Midjack posted:@1:35 what happens there? My guess is a nitrous backfire. Either went so lean that it backfired, or they hit the NAWZ at too low of an RPM. Either way, you get a big boom. Big enough that usually the hood decides open is better than closed, and you're guaranteed to at least need most of the intake ducting (and MAF+MAP) replaced, if you're really lucky. Nitrous backfires are violent enough that they can easily split intake manifolds in half (not just plastic manifolds), and that's putting it mildly. Another way to backfire on nitrous, at least on gas engines, is with a wet kit that's jetted wrong - you can get fuel puddling in the runners. My diesel knowledge is fairly limited compared to gas (and I have no personal experience with nitrous, aside from laughing at the aftermath of a backfire), but I think most diesel nitrous kits are dry, aren't they? randomidiot fucked around with this message at 10:22 on Jan 30, 2015 |
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Safety Dance posted:Quoting this to say that I won. Quoting this to say congrats!
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Safety Dance posted:Quoting this to say that I won. Casualties include: This is great!
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Safety Dance posted:- the driver of the railroad spike robot, who happened to be in the path of the flying legos. Anyone watching robot combat who isn't behind a thick perspex screen is a loving idiot who's going to lose a limb sooner or later. Imagine if that weld had cracked a little bit more...
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Safety Dance posted:Quoting this to say that I won. Casualties include: Someone took a Lego bot to bot wars? A soft plastic ABS toy up against railroad spikes and the chain of death? drat. . . Lego is cool and all but putting it in bot wars is just stupid.
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Crotch Fruit posted:Someone took a Lego bot to bot wars? A soft plastic ABS toy up against railroad spikes and the chain of death? drat. . . Lego is cool and all but putting it in bot wars is just stupid. No, it's awesome if carnage is the mission.
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Crotch Fruit posted:Someone took a Lego bot to bot wars? A soft plastic ABS toy up against railroad spikes and the chain of death? drat. . . Lego is cool and all but putting it in bot wars is just stupid. LEGO is just reactive armor if you do it right. Absorb the impact by throwing off chunks of non-essential stuff. Of course when you do it wrong or some mad man brings a chain whip you throw essential parts.
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Crotch Fruit posted:Someone took a Lego bot to bot wars? A soft plastic ABS toy up against railroad spikes and the chain of death? drat. . . Lego is cool and all but putting it in bot wars is just stupid. She placed second. I think you're overestimating how good these robots were. Wolfsbane posted:Anyone watching robot combat who isn't behind a thick perspex screen is a loving idiot who's going to lose a limb sooner or later. Imagine if that weld had cracked a little bit more... Most of the competitions were along the lines of "spinning pizza bagel robot vs weird machine that partially inflates a balloon". We're already discussing a real-deal mini-battle-bots with lexan and other protection.
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Safety Dance posted:Most of the competitions were along the lines of "spinning pizza bagel robot vs weird machine that partially inflates a balloon". We're already discussing a real-deal mini-battle-bots with lexan and other protection. So like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46ivFpsmEVQ
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put a new suspension on my winter beater FJ60. a month or so after this happened. hit a bump, heard a crack, then some dragging.    previous owner replaced a crossbeam with a lot of booger welding right on the replacement pluming pipes seam.
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Yes, exactly.
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A little carnage from my wife's dad. Deere 447 Three point backhoe attachment Bent the main ram pretty bad. The Deere 4310 running it was unharmed Broke the bucket shortly after putting the new ram on 
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QuarkMartial posted:Hey, I finally have something to contribute! Do you know if this was an AX4S or an AX4N? A Sable is basically a Ford Taurus in a pretty frock. Taurus transmissions are terrible: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_AXOD_transmission#Reliability_issues
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Vanagoon posted:Do you know if this was an AX4S or an AX4N? A Sable is basically a Ford Taurus in a pretty frock. Taurus transmissions are terrible: I think AXN. Will Ford give me a chunk of change for it?
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