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You Am I posted:What are we supposed to notice in that blurry small photo? Trying to get that Beetle to pass emissions.
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Welp, when it rains it pours. Blew a cam seal out of my 175k mile, infinitely reliable V70 wagon last week, left oil trails all over my neighborhood. Usually that means the PCV system is clogged. So I did the glove test, lots of suction. So I re-install the seal and drive to the car wash to clean the oil off of... the car. I get a wild hair and build a crank pressure gauge out of an old oil cap. Under boost, my engine block pressure builds to about 2 psi. Nobody online really knows if that's normal, it's all "glove test". So I put the gauge on my C70, and it does almost the exact same thing. So now I either have clogged PCV systems on both my cars, or they're both fine and I have no idea why the seal popped out, or if it's going to do it again. Either way I'm still unemployed and can't afford any of this poo poo. And even though I immediately power washed it all, I'm terrified that my timing belt's life is shortened after being oil soaked, which I can't afford either.
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So I go to order a rear swaybar for the Nova earlier and it's loving out of stock and unavailable everywhere. Jeg's says it won't ship until December 24. What the gently caress is that? Bogus.
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Nov 16, 2015 23:35
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Mechanic injuries: What's your most memorable? Mines a draw between breaking off a Olfa knife blade in my thumb or the 1" gash in my right palm from a heat shield. I love days off due to car injuries. drat it. My right palm hurts like hell.
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Nov 16, 2015 23:56
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Just a whole bunch of rust in the eyes. My dad had a jack fail on him about 20 years ago and it messed his hand up pretty bad.
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Nov 16, 2015 23:59
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kastein posted:Rats and mice loving suck Motronic posted:This is by far the best one I've found so far. I'd legit listen to this: There's no video, but the Wugazi album is loving amazing. Equal parts Fugazi and Wu Tang. If you haven't heard it, it's worth a listen: https://soundcloud.com/wugazi. I legitimately listen to the whole album on a regular basis. sharkytm fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Nov 17, 2015 |
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the spyder posted:Mechanic injuries: What's your most memorable? Pan full of carb cleaner, scrubbing an aluminum twin carb manifold. Dropped it, hit the edge of the pan, splashed dirty carb cleaner directly into my eyes. I was never more glad that my dad installed a kitchen sink with the remote spray wand in our basement. I ran in there, flipped that thing on, and sprayed directly in my eyes until the burning stopped. No permanent injury, but definitely 20 minutes of hell. Hey it's 4:00, now where's my whiskey? I'm gonna get tore up. LloydDobler fucked around with this message at 00:05 on Nov 17, 2015 |
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the spyder posted:Mechanic injuries: What's your most memorable? Gearbox to the balls.
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I was trimming a bumper cover to clear a front mount intercooler and sliced into my index finger near the knuckle. Think it took 8 stitches, and was just before I took a trip to visit friends. So that whole next week I had a bunch of poo poo on my hand which was a pain in the rear end. The doctor actually suggested I cancel my trip. For a cut on the finger. I laughed. Then a maybe few burns. Edge of brake rotor shaped burns on each forearm, and also forearm burns from changing an E46 M3 exhaust while it was on the dyno to do a back to back test. Also pretty much every time I touch an EVO X I manage to get a few cuts.
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the spyder posted:Mechanic injuries: What's your most memorable? I'm honestly not sure. There was the time I was using an angle grinder improperly and ended up with a tiny fragment of steel 1/3 of the way through my right cornea. Several horrible days later I finally saw it (angle of the light in the mirror was just right) and went to the ER to have it removed. A week of specialist checkups, antibiotics, and steroid cream applied to my eye (gently caress that sucks to do) later and I was fine, though if I get dehydrated that eye still gets dry first, like an old person's ability to predict the weather with their knees. Then the time I was changing the oil filter on an old Windstar at work (a quicklube) and got a third degree burn on my right wrist because they stuck it in the grundle of the drivetrain, about six inches up between the catcon and the frame rail. That was in 2003 or 2004... it's 2015 and the scar is still plainly visible. Or maybe the time I almost cut my left index finger off with an angle grinder. That was in 2011 and yeah, the scar from that is still visible too.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Gearbox to the balls. I dropped a VW O2O box on my chest, and didn't have clearance to move out with it on me... cue 30 minutes of trying to wedge it back into the car, or onto something so I could get out from under it. Not a lot of fun. Diesel, brake-cleen (luckily the non-chlorinated/acetone stuff), rust, and other poo poo in my eyes, even with loving glasses. Punched a hole into my pinky finger with a bolt-on pedal cover when adjusting the clutch cable:  http://sharkytm.com/images/finger2.jpg , which pulled out the fat pad... 3 stitches to close that up.
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Oh yeah, there's the garage door opener track shaped lumpy scar on the top of my head from standing up in a cramped garage, directly into the end of the track, which is loving sharp, BTW. I felt it scrape my skull and blood came flooding out from under my hair a few seconds later. And the time we were at the junkyard and all my rear end in a top hat NEAI friends were laughing at me and joking around after I cut my right index finger to the bone right behind the nail root, probably because they didn't realize how bad it hurt or how deep it actually went. A few laters that scar has almost faded, but I remember it like it was yesterday. IIRC there is video of that one happening.
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gently caress my life Failed again, and again. And now I'm out of money until Friday so I'm going to take these three boys and build the best carburetor I can from the rubble.
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A VW not able to pass emissions? Hmmmmm...
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Phone posted:A VW not able to pass emissions? Hmmmmm... Completely unrelated to modern VWs. I mean, if modern VWs are evolved from ACVWs, then why are there still ACVWs?
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[quote="BloodBag" post=""I want a 970, but gently caress $300 for a graphics card is hard to justify right now. I love having Codsworth say [i"]Mister Patrick?[/i] It's just fantastic.  [/quote] Could be worse, a 970 is a $5-600 card in Australia... I've got it on a 2600k i7 system (@4.2) with 16gb of ram and a 770 and it runs very happily in high quality.
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iwentdoodie posted:Dude at work had a wicked cough last week, swore he wasn't sick (he has three kids in school, also California) and we forced him to go to medical...where they just gave him cough drops. Have fun with your regularly scheduled undocumented mutated virus that your immune system hasn't built up a tolerance to yet. That reminds me a few years ago a friend from Japan came over to CA for a couple weeks and stayed with us the whole time. He got off the plane coughing, my wife and I ended up getting bronchitis.. Ain't nobody got time fadat!
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the spyder posted:Mechanic injuries: What's your most memorable? I posted it in chat in like August when it happened but I had a pretty mechanically disinclined buddy helping me put the driveline back in the e30 and we were bolting the trans cross up. He slips off the bolt and a 1/2" with a 17mm deep impact hits my skull and cracks it open. Lost a pint before I realized I was bleeding and hair won't grow there still.
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the spyder posted:Mechanic injuries: What's your most memorable? Thought you guys might appreciate this 
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NitroSpazzz posted:Thought you guys might appreciate this Holy poo poo. Too bad that's not the real account.  https://twitter.com/GlasgowCCouncil https://twitter.com/GlasgowCC
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Nov 17, 2015 01:54
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Holy gently caress that TWEET.
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NitroSpazzz posted:Dislocated jaw from breaking loose the rear subframe bolts and taking the breaker bar and cheater pipe to the face. This was less than 10 seconds after Mom told me that didn't look like a good idea, she laughed. Anytime I'm working on any E30 I expect to bleed.
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CharlesM posted:Holy poo poo. Too bad that's not the real account. Should have knownSuperDucky posted:How the hell did you manage this? You're referring to the 2 large subframe mount bolts, yes?
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the spyder posted:Mechanic injuries: What's your most memorable? List of most memorable poo poo in my eyes as of last Tuesday red hot metal sliver brake clean PB Blaster brake fluid coolant used oil used diesel oil windshield washer fluid ATF (synthetic) purple power/brake clean/soap mixture in a spray bottle road salt sludge and an actual rock of road salt that corrosion poo poo that forms around battery terminals (i think its copper sulfate) busted many a finger once requiring an urgent care visit. working as a chef for 7 years before getting into wrenching kinda prepped me for burns Preoptopus fucked around with this message at 02:21 on Nov 17, 2015 |
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Nov 17, 2015 02:17
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sharkytm posted:There's no video, but the Wugazi album is loving amazing. Equal parts Fugazi and Wu Tang. If you haven't heard it, it's worth a listen: https://soundcloud.com/wugazi. I legitimately listen to the whole album on a regular basis. God  Thank you.
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Nov 17, 2015 02:25
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I currently have a busted fingernail because I tried to shoot a Starburst across the office with a really big rubber band. Working in an office can be dangerous too. 
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Deeters posted:I currently have a busted fingernail because I tried to shoot a Starburst across the office with a really big rubber band. Working in an office can be dangerous too. We have stackable hard plastic chairs. Dude sat down and crushed his finger between them. Same guy crushed his pinky finger in a locker, and today sliced his palm open on some 1/8 stainless plate because he was too dumb to put gloves on.
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Country fire service just made me absolutely poo poo myself. I'm slashing out in our national parks at the moment and the biggest risk I've got (other than falling off the edge of a track) is hitting a rock with a slasher and starting a bushfire. The CFS was up where I'd slashed 45 mins ago and lit a small fire for a fire cause investigation course. Looked back, saw a plume of smoke, shat myself.
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Nov 17, 2015 03:54
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I got PB Blaster in my eyes some weeks ago. I managed to get to the bathroom and flush them very quickly but since then I've had issues wearing my contacts but I can't recall if they started before or after the PBB incident.
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Nov 17, 2015 04:13
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Maybe the floor sex kicked up some dust.
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NitroSpazzz posted:Dislocated jaw from breaking loose the rear subframe bolts and taking the breaker bar and cheater pipe to the face. This was less than 10 seconds after Mom told me that didn't look like a good idea, she laughed. Anytime I'm working on any E30 I expect to bleed. Just look at the UK child abuse thread in D&D to see the absolute truth in that tweet.
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Nov 17, 2015 04:29
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Just look at the UK child abuse thread in D&D to see the absolute truth in that tweet. I thought Brits hosed pigs?
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Rhyno posted:I thought Brits hosed pigs? Have you seen David Cameron's wife? She's a real squealer
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Late to the party but for me the best mashup is still The Grey Album. For those of you who've lived under a rock for the last 11 years or are too young to know, Danger Mouse took Jay-Z's Black Album and mixed it with The Beatles' White Album, making something...absolutely magical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeJQh6xjjTc
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Nov 17, 2015 05:28
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Hey you. Yes you, idiot that hasn't signed up for Secret Santa yet. Go do it.
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There must be more B13 Sentras in Mexico than anywhere else. Miami looks like Cancun with a little bit more baseline money. Lots of VWs too.
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LloydDobler posted:Welp, when it rains it pours. Blew a cam seal out of my 175k mile, infinitely reliable V70 wagon last week, left oil trails all over my neighborhood. Usually that means the PCV system is clogged. So I did the glove test, lots of suction. So I re-install the seal and drive to the car wash to clean the oil off of... the car. I get a wild hair and build a crank pressure gauge out of an old oil cap. Under boost, my engine block pressure builds to about 2 psi. Nobody online really knows if that's normal, it's all "glove test". There was reports of "el ring" seals slipping off the cam and crank on TB a while back. Like they were manufactured wrong or something. Wrar posted:There must be more B13 Sentras in Mexico than anywhere else. Miami looks like Cancun with a little bit more baseline money. When the beetle was outlawed as a taxi, they switched to Hyundai Atos, and when those didn't hold up to taxi duty, in came the b13, which was made in Mexico until 04 or 05 I think. My aunt bought one new in one of the last years produced. They got updated headlights and interior, I really liked them! It was quite a trip driving in one considering I owned a 93 SE-R.
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Mexican cars have been legal for import to Canada for a little while now (although nobody seems to have actually done it and written up how), and the first thing I thought of was getting a Tsuru coupe and making the B13 SE-R I never had a chance to own. But then I thought about the immense amount of bullshit I would need to go through.
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