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It definitely lubricates it, so you don't want to run it dry. Does it cool it? Sure, can't avoid it. Does it need to cool it? Dunno but I haven't had issues with any of my jeeps and they all have 150k+ on the clock and have been run dry at least a half dozen times each, probably more like a dozen, since the fuel gauges are nonfunctional and I am bad at remembering to gas up.
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Geirskogul posted:Doesn't gasoline cool the fuel pump? I never let it get below 1/4. Probably, or at least I've heard something about running it dry being hard on the pump before. I usually fill up when it's convenient, which usually happens around the 1/2 - 1/4 mark.
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some texas redneck posted:His car is paid off.. he took out a title loan on it. Now I can't be all down on a guy for taking a title loan. I've been there, SURPRISE 2,000 MILE ROAD TRIP to move my mother, I know it's a bad idea but I've got nowhere else to get the cash on short notice. But you can be damned sure every cent I could spare went to paying it back ASAP. I was caught up in a mass firing two weeks ago, and my landlord has asked me to move out so he can sell my house to his granddaughter, so I'm also unemployed and scrounging. But I was homeless a little over a year ago, so I pretty much fell back into the old routine of minimal spending. Quit smoking cold-turkey (  ), stretching my food budget 'till it breaks, all resources directly allocated towards job hunting. $150 left in my bank account and I'm going to make it last. But I'm biased now. I've starved in the streets, so anyone close to the same situation and not in full-out zero entertainment minimal cash expenditure panic mode just comes off as a contemptible fool. Even as I remember being all "Hey I got a hundred bucks to spare, gently caress my overdue bills let's go have some fun!" before my homeless stint. (you're a good man STR.)
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Feb 11, 2015 09:30
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rndmnmbr posted:But I'm biased now. I've starved in the streets, so anyone close to the same situation and not in full-out zero entertainment minimal cash expenditure panic mode just comes off as a contemptible fool. Even as I remember being all "Hey I got a hundred bucks to spare, gently caress my overdue bills let's go have some fun!" before my homeless stint. I never quite got to starving, but I've done the payday loan poo poo before... and I did live in my car for a few months. .. until it got stolen.  You know what's weird? I still occasionally get a twinge to go sleep in my car. I often nap in it during my break at work - the passenger side seat folts flat, and it's mild enough that open windows + open back doors + toss a movie on Netflix on the laptop or phone = this in a hurry 
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Feb 11, 2015 09:49
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I was only out on the streets for about two weeks, before my brother and my part-time boss organized a goddamned manhunt to trawl Lubbock, Texas for my sorry rear end. Two very eye-opening weeks. I cared for my grandmother through her slow decline into dementia for ten years. I took her death... badly.
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Feb 11, 2015 11:33
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Got some imagery done. Surgery was a success and the prognosis is not an open wound anymore. I am also enjoying the gently caress out of taking and editing pictures again
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Feb 11, 2015 14:29
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I couch surfed from 2006 to 2011 and I still wind up falling asleep on the couch more often than I remember to actually go to bed in my actual bed
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Feb 11, 2015 14:46
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fjelltorsk posted:Got some imagery done. Surgery was a success and the prognosis is not an open wound anymore. I am also enjoying the gently caress out of taking and editing pictures again  Glad to hear it man.
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Feb 11, 2015 14:51
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Quite A Tool posted:Did someone say craigslist shenanigans? Holy hell. Wanna free all-inclusive ten-year-stay courtesy of the Federal government?
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Feb 11, 2015 15:49
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Quite A Tool posted:Did someone say craigslist shenanigans? Guns and drugs? responsiblegunowners.jpg
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Feb 11, 2015 15:49
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fjelltorsk posted:Got some imagery done. Surgery was a success and the prognosis is not an open wound anymore. I am also enjoying the gently caress out of taking and editing pictures again Good to hear! Assuming you're no longer in hospital?
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Feb 11, 2015 15:57
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BraveUlysses posted:Guns and drugs? responsiblegunowners.jpg Hey, he's trying to get rid of both! I'd call that super-responsible.
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Feb 11, 2015 15:58
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fjelltorsk posted:Got some imagery done. Surgery was a success and the prognosis is not an open wound anymore. I am also enjoying the gently caress out of taking and editing pictures again Hooray! Make sure they give you the parts they took out back.
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Feb 11, 2015 15:59
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Speaking of sleep in cars... A friend of mine documented his story of crowd funding a car purchase for a homeless vet coworker. http://www.gearboxmagazine.com/a-car-to-sleep-in-part-1/ http://www.gearboxmagazine.com/a-car-to-sleep-in-part-2/ http://www.gearboxmagazine.com/a-car-to-sleep-in-part-3/ It's a bit of a read but guaranteed to hit you right in the feels.
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Feb 11, 2015 16:02
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Hey, he's trying to get rid of both! I'd call that super-responsible. I like that when I told him I needed cash his response was remove cash insert drugs into the deal instead.
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Feb 11, 2015 19:14
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Absolutely nothing could go wrong in a $400 BMW right?
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Feb 11, 2015 19:38
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Buy them both
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Feb 11, 2015 19:39
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Hooray! Make sure they give you the parts they took out back. Yeah, treat them like a mechanic: "I want to make sure you actually did the work, and aren't just charging me for nothing!"
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Feb 11, 2015 19:54
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rscott posted:Buy them both Maybe if they'd answer their loving phone. Every car on the lot says "total price." On it.
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Feb 11, 2015 20:00
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fjelltorsk posted:Got some imagery done. Surgery was a success and the prognosis is not an open wound anymore. I am also enjoying the gently caress out of taking and editing pictures again Glad to hear it dude! Kick some rear end.
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Feb 11, 2015 20:21
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Rhyno posted:Absolutely nothing could go wrong in a $400 BMW right? rscott posted:Buy them both
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Feb 11, 2015 20:25
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Rhyno posted:Absolutely nothing could go wrong in a $400 BMW right? Is that a spoiler on the sedan or is the trunk open?
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rscott posted:Buy them both 2: ? 3: Profit fjelltorsk posted:Got some imagery done. Surgery was a success and the prognosis is not an open wound anymore. I am also enjoying the gently caress out of taking and editing pictures again. Awesome to see you back. Those couple days of silence were a little worrying.
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Feb 11, 2015 20:43
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Rhyno posted:Absolutely nothing could go wrong in a $400 BMW right? BUY THEM BOTH
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Feb 11, 2015 20:43
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Anybody here have experience with CANbus sniffing and decoding?
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Feb 11, 2015 20:55
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Sniffing and decoding not so much, but I've read through most of the ISO and SAE standards on automotive CAN for work and implemented a non-OBD-port-visible automotive chassis management CAN network. What make/model/year/engine/transmission vehicle are you looking at and what do you want to get out of it?
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Feb 11, 2015 21:13
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Rhyno posted:Maybe if they'd answer their loving phone. Why have you not replied saying you bought both of these yet? HURRY UP MAN.
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Feb 11, 2015 22:44
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Going to San Diego for a few days, anything one particular I shold for while there?
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Feb 11, 2015 22:57
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THEY DON'T ANSWER THEIR GODDAMNED PHONE. I'm off in minutes, I will scoot back over there and get more info.
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Feb 11, 2015 22:58
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http://kotaku.com/big-layoffs-at-everquest-studio-today-1685243961 Welp, the Bobs had it out for me. At least I get plenty of time in the garage to work on cars though! I gotta get the Miata ready to be sold, should have plenty of time to do that now. once again, fuck2015.gif
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Korwen posted:http://kotaku.com/big-layoffs-at-everquest-studio-today-1685243961 Everquest still exists 
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Every like two years I look at my old magelo profile and then fire up my account on Shards of Dalaya for a nostalgia nerd kick. Then I wonder how the gently caress I managed to play for as long as I did.
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Korwen posted:http://kotaku.com/big-layoffs-at-everquest-studio-today-1685243961 Super weak man 
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Korwen posted:http://kotaku.com/big-layoffs-at-everquest-studio-today-1685243961 I'll pretend any bad change in h1z1 now is because you got canned.
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kastein posted:Sniffing and decoding not so much, but I've read through most of the ISO and SAE standards on automotive CAN for work and implemented a non-OBD-port-visible automotive chassis management CAN network. What make/model/year/engine/transmission vehicle are you looking at and what do you want to get out of it? I'm looking at an ls swap into a G35 and seeing how much of a pain in the rear end it would be to keep a stock cluster and other controls. I've seen some ls swapped BMW guys use arduino shields to convert from analog to CAN, and other way around, but it looks a bit daunting to sift through data dumps to find out what does what.
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Rectal Placenta posted:I'm looking at an ls swap into a G35 and seeing how much of a pain in the rear end it would be to keep a stock cluster and other controls. I've seen some ls swapped BMW guys use arduino shields to convert from analog to CAN, and other way around, but it looks a bit daunting to sift through data dumps to find out what does what. The only g35 I have seen with a LS swap used a digital dash like one of the AIM ones.
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some texas redneck posted:I never quite got to starving, but I've done the payday loan poo poo before... and I did live in my car for a few months. When I ran pizzas I took my passenger seat out. I found it made carrying multiple bags full at once easier and yea.. limo seating in the back.
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My first car (that ran, we're not counting the '74 Chevy C10 eternal project/Ship of Theseus) was an '85 Buick Somerset beater. When I broke the driver seat, I tossed the drivers seat and swapped the passenger seat over. Drove it that way through most of high school, down every kind of dirt road Oklahoma had to offer. My best friend and I eventually tossed some couch cushions down in the seat well so one of us could lay down while the other drove. I'd like to say one of us would be loving our girlfriend while the other one drove... but somehow that only seemed to be him loving his girlfriend while I drove, until I got pissed and forbade sex in my car. But mostly it was one of us laying down getting blazed like gently caress on Oklahoma ditch weed while the other one enjoyed the contact high and drove. Died of a cracked head, and apparently replacement heads were made of angel tears and all of them had the same casting flaw. I miss that car.
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rndmnmbr posted:Died of a cracked head, and apparently replacement heads were made of angel tears and all of them had the same casting flaw. Sucks about your friend, but what happened to the car?
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Dropped out of high school, got married and divorced three times in five years, last I heard it was a long-haul trucker paying almost every cent earned on child support, and that was ten years ago. Who knew a Buick could be so versatile?
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