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MrYenko posted:Until you have experience with tri-wing screws, you can all quit your bitching. Nothing like a titanium #5 tri-wing with a stripped head. Show us on the doll where the big bad DC-10 touched you...
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Enourmo posted:Obviously, a miniaturized clutch that must be depressed with a keyed peg in the center of the socket to engage the shaft. One step further from Fuji nuts I guess?  I guess there's that other kind that have springs too, what are they called?
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Iron Maiden's plane was damaged today, in Chile. quote:Ed Force One was this morning tethered to a tow truck to be taken for refuelling prior to flying over the Andes to Cordoba for the next show. On moving the steering pin that is part of the mechanism that connects the ground tug to the aircraft seemingly fell out. On making a turn the aircraft had no steering and collided with the ground tug badly damaging the undercarriage, two of the aircrafts engines and injuring two ground tug operators, both of whom have been taken to hospital. We hope of course that they make a full and speedy recovery and we will be closely monitoring their progress. The flight engineers are on site and evaluating the damage, but their initial report is that the engines have suffered large damage and will require an extended period of maintenance and possibly two new engines.
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14 INCH DEVITO posted:loving lol I legit think this is that place i worked at for like a month, any more info? tl;dr reddit I would have to find it.
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watgun.gif Do you have state inspections.
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 One of these things is not like the other...
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MrChips posted:Show us on the doll where the big bad DC-10 touched you... IT TOUCHED MY SOUL
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CommieGIR posted:
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Slavvy posted:VW? 04 TDI motor.
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They do rocker shaft kits doncherknow. I don't understand how they fail to do simple basic things that other brands mastered decades ago. Rocker shafts are not a revolutionary new cutting edge technology.
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Slavvy posted:They do rocker shaft kits doncherknow. It was their first Common Rail. And they did work out the bugs.
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veedubfreak posted:In olden times you could get this neat little guy that replaced the hubcap on your spare tire. That biggest wrench would be 36mm, the size of the rear axle, flywheel, and cooling fan nuts. But you really need a socket for the latter two and good luck budging the first, especially with the ornamental Chinesium those are made with now. Aircooled VW carbs have a brass inlet pressed into the aluminum body. This can lead to the most fiery of failures.
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What's the fix? Tap it for a proper fitting or something?
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Safety wire around the hose clamp to the carb throat or something, usually.
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Eh, good enough. The accelerator cable on my 540 likes to pop out of the ferrule and stick about 40% open, i've got it wired down
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Shortly out of high school I was cruising around at night in my very first ACVW, didn't know poo poo about them other than they were cool and I felt cool. Going up a hill and suddenly the engine cut out, well poo poo that sucks. Dig my weak rear end flashlight out of the glovebox and open up the engine lid to see what I can see, and notice that fuel line is just kind of dangling there next to the carb. Cool, I can fix that! I thought to myself, and plugged it back in. Never even thought to check how much fuel had been spewed all over the engine, just climbed back into the driver's seat, turned it over until it fired it up, and drove off. Didn't really appreciate until some years later how close I'd been to turning that car into a pyre.
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xzzy posted:Shortly out of high school I was cruising around at night in my very first ACVW, didn't know poo poo about them other than they were cool and I felt cool.
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The Twinkie Czar posted:That biggest wrench would be 36mm, the size of the rear axle, flywheel, and cooling fan nuts. But you really need a socket for the latter two and good luck budging the first, especially with the ornamental Chinesium those are made with now. I thought he was using that extinguisher as a loving jackstand. NO GOOD NO GOOD JESUS oh.
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I've installed a Blazecut system in both of my ACVWs. They're my daily drivers, and I can't afford to have one burn down. As it is, they function as mechanical backups for each other, and to lose one would be to lose my "get to work on time" buffer. Each also has two separate extinguishers. The bus has one in the back by the bed, and in the front accessible from the driver's seat. The beetle has one in the frunk, and one also accessible from the driver's seat. I guess this is the wrong thread, then? Because extinguishers/fire suppression is decidedly not a mechanical failure. Well, maybe the mechanical failure is that you have an engine family that warrants such caution.
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That Blazecut video is pretty incredible. To be fair to that engine family I think that carb issue usually comes only after a couple decades of use. Fuel filter placement is a big can of worms, including the claim that a filter just before the carb adds weight that leads to that failure. A threaded fitting or safety wire is the fix. I would worry about wire rubbing into the carb body.
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 What happened to the 'These are the people you share a road with' thread?
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It's currently one slot below this one in the forum list :P
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Sagebrush posted:It's currently one slot below this one in the forum list :P Ahhhh, I must have unsubscribed from it- it's been in my bookmarks forever and now it's not. Damnit well enjoy the picture of a dumbass.
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ShittyPostmakerPro posted:
Holy poo poo. I'm dying more than that driver's pride.
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Godholio posted:Holy poo poo. I'm dying more than that driver's pride. You know drat well they didn't even see the painted tunnel, because they were staring at their phone.
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Johnny Aztec posted:Iron Maiden's plane was damaged today, in Chile. I wonder if they have insurance for something like that. Engines are almost as expensive as the plane (when it's new)
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Planes that size are primarily owned by holding companies and leased to the operators. The engines are sometimes owned by a different company and also leased to the company holding the airframe. There's insurance every step of the way.
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Some people will just toss the bodies of dead pets out on the side of the road. Here in texas, we do that with engines (and transmissions apparently)  (to be serious, the mechanical failure was whatever this engine was strapped to in the back of someone's pickup)
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I hope you brought that poor thing home to care for it until you could find it a loving home. 
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Elmnt80 posted:I hope you brought that poor thing home to care for it until you could find it a loving home. It's some kind of lovely v6 though.
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The stick-on Cadillac badge is killing me.
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CroatianAlzheimers posted:The stick-on Cadillac badge is killing me. You mean the"FIAT" logo?
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The photo quality is so bad it actually does look more like a Caddy badge.
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At work they occasionally sell off the managers ex lease cars or site vehicles. A month ago there were two Toyota hilux invincible sold. One had 200k on it with the note "had oil leak, last serviced at 180k". Obviously it was cheap and beat up but there were still about 15 people put their names down to buy it. I know the guy who got it and my wager that it's been leaking and ran dry 20k ago was apparently correct. It's not been off site for 2 years so the first time he took it in third gear it windowed the block, about 200 yards off site. Apparently the chunks dripping from the sump had the consistency of road tar.
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Cocoa Crispies posted:You mean the"FIAT" logo? Is it? Godholio posted:The photo quality is so bad it actually does look more like a Caddy badge. Yeah, that's why I mistook it. My bad.
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Went to the junkyard a while ago to try to grab some LS400 parts. That feel when you arrive and your donor car has been blown up by an IED: it had a good run, on the other hand 
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Odd, I don't recall pulling any parts from an LS400 recently.  MrChips posted:Show us on the doll where the big bad DC-10 touched you... his previous incarnation was in the back row of one for a france to UK flight sometime in the 70s. kastein fucked around with this message at 20:15 on Mar 15, 2016 |
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