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Dr. Klas posted:And the poking with stick part of the video? IDK about you but my first reaction to pretty much any mechanical weirdness is to poke it with a stick, you know, for science. E: 25000th reply, did i win anything?
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There beating the built up soot and oil out of it and apparently the total newbs get to do this.
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Captain Postal posted:
Fury Road deleted scene?
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You think that's impressive? Check out my stopper. 
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MrYenko posted:Fury Road deleted scene? The next mad max needs one of those in it. It would be amazing.
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G-Mach posted:The next mad max needs one of those in it. It would be amazing. COMBAT BAGGER
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MrYenko posted:Fury Road deleted scene? More like the thanksgivings traffic on the trip to the in laws
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14 INCH DEVITO posted:You think that's impressive? Check out my stopper. I just took the stopper motor out of my car. Took several trips to the parts store to get one that started instead.
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-Zydeco- posted:What the hell is going on here? Only in Russia would they design a diesel with an afterburner.
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Captain Postal posted:
Megaweapon noooo
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:Megaweapon noooo drat, beat me to it.
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Someone should forward that to Rockstar because when those catch on fire in GTAV it's nowhere near that impressive. You get a few licks of flame from the undercarriage and not much else until it explodes.
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Not really a horrible mechanical failure, but just something that made me laugh: Guy posted how he reinforced his Harbor Freight ramps by adding some extra stringers to the base. I suspect that if you reached the point where the ramp was going to fold in half, those pop-rivets(?) would have long since sheared apart. I also suspect it could lead to some OSHA.jpg content when he overloads the ramps because "I made em stronger" He does seem to be backing them up with jack stands though so there's that. Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 04:43 on Dec 1, 2015 |
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McMaster says that a 3/16" aluminum blind pop rivet has a shear strength of 310lbs and a tensile strength of 500lbs. Reduce by 30%ish for manufacturing defects, and you get 200lbs extra per bar. At the angle he has those loaded in, I'd put mechanical disadvantage (not direct shear, but though the backside of an inefficient lever) and I'd feel safe putting that back up to 250lbs/side. So, 500 extra pounds of safety per ramp. Of course, reduced by whatever he did by drilling holes into the plastic, so 
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At this point he's better off re-building the ramps with the rest of his erector set
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Geirskogul posted:McMaster says that a 3/16" aluminum blind pop rivet has a shear strength of 310lbs and a tensile strength of 500lbs. You assume that those are any actual grade of aluminum and not whatever random alloy came out of the scrap smelter that day i have seen some cheeeeeeeeeeap fasteners
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Either way, open ramps are terrible mechanical failures.
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Geirskogul posted:Either way, open ramps are terrible mechanical failures. I almost killed my dad when I was a lil kid and he has his Nova up on a pair of them. I've been told I pulled the parking break off while he was underneath it and the bumper gave his forehead a bit of a shave as it came rolling by. Not having a wheel chock is technically the terrible mechanic failure, but it's what I think about every time I see a pair of them.
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Those are pressed steel (alright, pressed chinesium) ramps not plastic, btw. Not a bad idea, but if he used, say, 5/16 or 3/8 grade 8 bolts (cheap as gently caress at TSC in the bolts by the pound section) with washers and torqued them properly, it'd be way stronger than the e-galv grade 3/5 fasteners he appears to have used. No way those are pop rivets, either, look how far the one at the middle sticks out behind the angle iron. That's probably #10 ungraded (2/3/5 depending on what they got cheap that day, likely) machine screw assortment kit from the hardware store.
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The vertical bar would help a lot too. Presuming he put one on both sides, of course. Or at least they would until they puncture that paper thin steel and go right into his tires, because I bet he cut those straight and didn't bevel or back them up with a load spreading plate.
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This looks fine... Wait, what?  Oh goddamnit  I hope that control arm mount can just be re-kajiggerd  Some rear end in a top hat in an suv ran a stop sign. My wife, when faced with the choice of a t-bone on the driver's side and swerving/hitting a curb, she chose the curb. rear end in a top hat didn't even stop. I pulled the bent rim and put the rear wheel on the front, then put the donut on the rear, so I wouldn't cook the diff. I'm gonna roll this over to an indy BMW shop and hopefully the strut isn't hosed. The control arm is stamped steel and the tie rod looked okay, just the FCA mount got pushed over. I probably need to get new tires that hit the curb too, lest I get bubbles in the sidewalls, right? e: looks like the rim is $226 on realoem http://www.realoem.com/bmw/enUS/showparts?id=SU33-USA-08-2013-R56N-Mini-Cooper&diagId=36_1004 BloodBag fucked around with this message at 21:14 on Dec 1, 2015 |
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You're in for a fun time. The control arm bolt you can see isn't the only one. There is another one which bolts into the subframe through the sway bar mount, you can see them on the right in the second picture. If the whole cast assembly that holds the bush has moved, the subframe is bent.
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Slavvy posted:You're in for a fun time. The control arm bolt you can see isn't the only one. There is another one which bolts into the subframe through the sway bar mount, you can see them on the right in the second picture. If the whole cast assembly that holds the bush has moved, the subframe is bent. My wife's Mini has never been the same after a similar hit. We replaced everything except the subframe and just deal with the camber wear. Ugh.
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Mechanic says the balljoint broke. I'm inclined to believe him. The steering wheel felt only mildly connected to the wheels at any speed over 40. That felt like a death ride on the fury road. I told my wife that if this thing starts having all kinds of stupid semi related issues down the road, it's getting sold, she's getting my subie, and I'm getting another shitbox subie. I'm not dealing with another episode of Bring Money With you
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Lifehack: this also works on your family!
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I wondered if anybody was dumb enough to fall for those stupid facebook memes. Now I know! Probably the same people that roll into my work every day with their tires inflated to the sidewall max pressure.
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Obviously the service writer is having fun with the tech.. right right? No one's that dumb are they? Right? Guys....
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tater_salad posted:Obviously the service writer is having fun with the tech.. right right? No one's that dumb are they? Right? Guys.... Copied from from my post in the schadenfreude thread: My mechanic cousin jokingly posts these on Facebook all the time, I never thought someone would be stupid enough to take it seriously.      
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Safety Dance posted:People who use "whilst" are the worst. #define whilst while 
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Safety Dance posted:People who use "whilst" are the worst. Erstwhile, he attempted to define whilst during the exam.
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xergm posted:Copied from from my post in the schadenfreude thread: Oh I saw the post.. and I guess poeple are just that dumb. But I did re-fill my tires with winter air just in case.
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tater_salad posted:Oh I saw the post.. and I guess poeple are just that dumb. But I did re-fill my tires with winter air just in case. Should use pure nitrogen, instead of that crappy 78% nitrogen the gas station gives you.
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xzzy posted:Should use pure nitrogen, instead of that crappy 78% nitrogen the gas station gives you. I use pure helium.. makes the tires lighter.. ever hear of unsprung weight? well with the extra lift of the helium I have less.
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Das Volk posted:
Holy poo poo the amount of issues they had with that car. How hard is it for GM to even do the most basic things like properly cleaning down an engine block after it has been machined? Or seals that don't leak?
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Das Volk posted:
"Jared Gall: I absolutely love this car, but I would never recommend anyone buy one. The only safe course of action is to convince GM to loan you one until it breaks." That's a round about way to suggest resuming the 24 hour test drive program.
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