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Arrath posted:The worst sound is the metallic ting ding....and then no sound of it hitting the ground. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wKPTWXD2Z0
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Arrath posted:The worst sound is the metallic ting ding....and then no sound of it hitting the ground. I lost two intake manifold bolts changing the manifold on my car yesterday. I think they went into the subframe, so I just grabbed spares off a junk manifold in the pile of broken subaru parts.  This could explain that funny noise in the rear end...  
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May 13, 2015 22:10
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ARP recommended torquing these in a three stage sequence. I read that part after I torqued it right to 80lbs from 0, and snapped one off in the block, ruining the head gasket in the process. Extraction was however successful. 
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May 14, 2015 01:25
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May 14, 2015 02:29
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I knew what this was without clicking on it.
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May 14, 2015 02:41
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drat I wanna make a rainmaker out of a turbine and some bearings now.
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May 14, 2015 03:00
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I love this, that sound is just beautiful.
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May 14, 2015 03:16
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 dana35.jpg Also how to start a forest fire.
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May 14, 2015 04:30
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It's a jeep thing, you wouldn't understand.
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May 14, 2015 05:51
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Sorry dude, as a caretaker of a B14 200SX I can both confirm its American (TN) manufacture and general shittiness. The 2nd gen USDM Altima was assembled in TN, but using an engine (and possibly transmission) built in Mexico. I believe the 1st gen was built in glorious Nippon? The engine was the only part that never gave me any issues, aside from broken timing chain guides (which required yanking the engine to fix, so I got rid of it instead of spending days fixing a daily driver worth $1500). Everything else on the car gave me constant issues. My Saturd was also built in TN, but I've had only a couple of minor issues with it. So far it's been the most trouble free car I've owned (aside from loving rattles, but nowhere near as bad as either of my Civics), and I've owned nothing but Honda and Nissan (aside from a 1980 Ford F-150) before this. 
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May 14, 2015 06:03
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Cakefool posted:Yes I'm a terrible mechanic with terrible habits. The top of that engine is thoroughly flat though. I can speak from (non-automotive, but still heavy usage) experience, that cart is stout as hell.
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May 14, 2015 06:18
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From the Schadenfreude thread.
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May 14, 2015 07:58
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My A&P school had a couple J52s that the Navy donated when they retired the A-6. One had a big chunk of Vise-Grip hanging from a piece of safety wire, attached to the inlet cowling attachment holes. Apparently, the thing got rebuilt at NAS Jax, test run, pickled and containerized, and sent to the fleet. At some point post-test run, someone had laid a pair of Vise-Grips on the inlet lip, and forgotten about them, probably while they were sticking it in its can. Jostling during shipment and storage cause them to slide deeper into the engine, and they weren't discovered until the engine got yanked out of storage to be put on a jet... ...Where it promptly munched itself, and shot Vise-Grip/compressor blade chunks through the side of the compressor casing in three different places. Some enterprising soul secured the Vise-Grip chunks, and a laminated copy of the last page of the engine logs to the engine as a warning to the future. 
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May 14, 2015 14:23
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Arrath posted:
My old Kia Sedona (shut up) had about a half-dozen 10mm sockets nesting somewhere in the front bumper. The easier way to replace the driver's side headlight bulb was to pull the assembly and every time, EVERY loving TIME, I would fumble finger a socket and send it off the the Land of Lost Sockets. There was a gap between the bumper cover and the bumper beam that was just big enough for them to disappear. gently caress that vehicle, right in the ear.
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May 14, 2015 14:53
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Arrath posted:The worst sound is the metallic ting ding....and then no sound of it hitting the ground. I found it in a small valley of the subframe, glued in with road slime and grease, a few months later. Maybe lost isn't the right word, maybe "temporarily stowed in an underengine location" is more accurate.
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May 14, 2015 14:55
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I lost the ignition fuse to my old rover that way. It wouldn't run so I started checking fuses and dropped it into the engine bay. The fuse for the motorized seats was the same rating so I just used that one and never had movable seats for the rest of the time I owned it. Also there wasn't even anything wrong with it, the reason it wasn't starting was that I left it in neutral when I parked it the day before. 
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May 14, 2015 15:53
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I blew up a thing...   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMBGTbFyqB0
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May 14, 2015 20:49
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I left a two foot long 3/8" extension and a filter socket under the hood of a customer's car at the quicklube once. It came back a long time later, still nestled in the wiring and hoses alongside one inner fender.
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May 14, 2015 22:35
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kastein posted:I left a two foot long 3/8" extension and a filter socket under the hood of a customer's car at the quicklube once. Ex-N602GC, wherever she is, still has my 5/16ths 12pt deep well socket, somewhere in the bottom of the #1 PACK bay...  ...That bitch.
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May 15, 2015 00:12
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Not a car, but had two chiefs bumblefuck around trying to peel a gasket off a flange. Both of them blame the other one, but somehow it fell in the pipe. It would've taken four or five hours to pull that section of pipe, so they said to leave it. It was also on the suction side of our Eddy pumps, so it was dangerous to leave it there. Two years later a valve failed, pulled the valve and it had "failed" because that screwdriver had finally wormed its way inside it. Piping was 6" (I think, may have been 8") poo poo piping, and the screwdriver was 18" long.
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May 15, 2015 01:31
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MrYenko posted:Ex-N602GC, wherever she is, still has my 5/16ths 12pt deep well socket, somewhere in the bottom of the #1 PACK bay... She's stored at Mariana right now, you should go get it I mean, it's not like she's gonna leave there in one piece after all.
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May 15, 2015 02:22
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MrChips posted:She's stored at Mariana right now, you should go get it gently caress that whore. I don't think she ever flew for me with three fully functional pneumatic systems. N607GC can get hosed right alongside. I hope I drink beer out of them, one day.
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May 15, 2015 03:24
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Slavvy posted:Your next car should always be a honda, toyota, mazda or nissan. All other brands are garbage, and nissan is pushing the boundaries and might get booted out of the club if they aren't careful. Toyota lost me forever with their sudden acceleration ECU bullshit. http://www.edn.com/design/automotive/4423428/Toyota-s-killer-firmware--Bad-design-and-its-consequences
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May 15, 2015 04:35
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azazello posted:Toyota lost me forever with their sudden acceleration ECU bullshit. http://www.edn.com/design/automotive/4423428/Toyota-s-killer-firmware--Bad-design-and-its-consequences
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May 15, 2015 16:43
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Alereon posted:I can pretty much guarantee you that serious software bugs affecting safety are in no way unique to Toyota, this was just the first case that caught the mainstream media's attention. The FAA directive for airlines to reboot their 787s is another pretty good (and recent) example.
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May 15, 2015 16:58
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Which would only be a problem if the plane was not turned off for 6+ months.
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May 15, 2015 17:08
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From the funny pictures thread.
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Alereon posted:I can pretty much guarantee you that serious software bugs affecting safety are in no way unique to Toyota, this was just the first case that caught the mainstream media's attention. There's also the fact that the group behind that report was hired by the plaintiff in a suit against Toyota and only needed to create enough doubt for the purposes of a civil suit (the standard is much lower than criminal cases), where the joint effort from NASA and NHTSA did not find any way to cause more than basically a fast idle without tripping the failsafes. As far as I know none of the cases where a cause has been definitively found were anything other than the floor mat thing or driver error. It's funny how every single car with a mechanical throttle is vulnerable to the cable sticking, but even the potential of an electronic throttle having issues causes people to freak out. It'll be the same thing with automated cars, even if they have a fraction of the crash rate of human-operated vehicles every single time it happens is going to be a Big Deal to the media.
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wolrah posted:There's also the fact that the group behind that report was hired by the plaintiff in a suit against Toyota and only needed to create enough doubt for the purposes of a civil suit (the standard is much lower than criminal cases), where the joint effort from NASA and NHTSA did not find any way to cause more than basically a fast idle without tripping the failsafes. And as usual, people use cars as appliances and have no idea how to handle anything out of their normal everyday experience. They could have put the drat thing in neutral and rolled to the side of the road with the engine racing. Here's a throwout bearing from an EJxx series equipped Subaru, the parts guy at the dealer I buy my stuff at had it sitting on his desk:   It apparently drove into the shop making A Horrible Noise. All the ball bearings are still in there, just... slightly the worse for wear. They ended up selling him a lot of things, including a clutch fork, pressure plate, and I believe an input bearing retainer/TOB quill.
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May 15, 2015 18:31
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wolrah posted:It's funny how every single car with a mechanical throttle is vulnerable to the cable sticking, but even the potential of an electronic throttle having issues causes people to freak out. It'll be the same thing with automated cars, even if they have a fraction of the crash rate of human-operated vehicles every single time it happens is going to be a Big Deal to the media. But what about hackers? Does my throttle pedal have a virus now? This i just like the slightly-more-mechanically-inclined go-to boogeyman for electrical/sensor diagnosis: the "brain" is fried. People are afraid and suspicious about things they don't understand, especially new ones.
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Started the car, there was a loud pop and then what sounded like an exhaust leak. But exhaust leaks don't smell like gas... Oh.  It was still in its bore, but not attached, it was just what was left of the hold-down on the coil keeping it in. Hopefully the head's not hosed -- I screwed it back in by hand and it seemed to stick, so a new plug will probably be okay without having to helicoil the head or whatever, right? Edit: and the electrode is hammered down all the way, I don't know how that happened -- it was running fine until it shat the plug out, even the intermittent miss on cylinders 7 and 8 had stopped for like a week! That's #3, btw, so unrelated, aside from being one of the ones I haven't touched recently. Chillbro Baggins fucked around with this message at 19:31 on May 15, 2015 |
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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Delivery McGee posted:It was still in its bore, but not attached, it was just what was left of the hold-down on the coil keeping it in. Hopefully the head's not hosed -- I screwed it back in by hand and it seemed to stick, so a new plug will probably be okay without having to helicoil the head or whatever, right? Found your problem:  ....and you'll have to be exceptionally lucky for this to have "just happened" and not need helicoiling.
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May 15, 2015 19:40
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Shoulda circled it in blue. That is the standard.
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May 15, 2015 19:51
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http://www.fordproblems.com/trends/triton-engine/spark-plug-ejection.shtml Late-nineties 4.6 Fords loving hate their own spark plugs. It's a common issue.
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May 15, 2015 20:15
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I had to helicoil my 99 Cobra when it blew a spark plug like that. I still have the kit.
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kastein posted:And as usual, people use cars as appliances and have no idea how to handle anything out of their normal everyday experience. They could have put the drat thing in neutral and rolled to the side of the road with the engine racing. Looks like it was ready to be... THROWN OUT. YEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! *sorry*
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I fail to see how that's funny, but I do now except someone to post actual pics of an actual cat(alytic convertor) stuck in someone's suspension.
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May 15, 2015 20:46
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Welcome to helicoil town, friend.
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The Orange Mage posted:I fail to see how that's funny, but I do now except someone to post actual pics of an actual cat(alytic convertor) stuck in someone's suspension.
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