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Wifey's dad is super stoked about the tire machine. Probably head down some time mid next month with slow because he needs another engine for his subaru, too. So we'll drag my trailer down with the mershitties and haul everything home.
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Ken does more engine swaps before 9am than actual mechanics do all day.
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I still haven't touched it I don't want to touch it Ugh ugh ugh gently caress this boring lovely car and my poor lack of maintenance decisions
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Apr 30, 2016 22:12
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kastein posted:I still haven't touched it Just do what TerribleRobot does and remorselessly drive it with a knock for another 20k miles
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Apr 30, 2016 22:22
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literally a fish posted:Just do what TerribleRobot does and remorselessly drive it with a knock for another 20k miles Without changing the oil or filter for that long as well (it doesn't even burn oil fast enough to call it a rotating oil change. poo poo's blacker than pitch). Coming up on 27k miles of knocking, still gets me to work at 80+ mph every day.
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May 1, 2016 15:47
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Yea whoever had my Foz before me must have driven it a fuckload of a long time with it knocking. It was the loudest knock Ive ever heard from a running engine and when me and kastein took it apart the bearings had become one with the crankshaft, haha.
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May 1, 2016 17:28
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Mine still did whatever speed I wanted it to, I just didn't trust it to do 140 to 180 miles a day for work. Also, TR, you've been dethroned, I murdered my engine just after 9am and had a new one chosen by 1pm, pulled by 330, and in the back of my truck by 4  She's chooched alright: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1ev0B_uhnQ Pics later or check my facebook. So far this mistake has cost me a day of vacation, a weekend of annoyance, and 380 dollars. New engine has felpro permatorque mls head gaskets installed already by the last guy. And what appears to be a new spectra premium oil pan. Who knows if it knocks, I have a few bolt holes to helicoil, a flywheel/clutch to put back on, and in she goes. Turns out my intermitten squeak/screech at idle with clutch not depressed was a lovely dry TOB. 60k miles and it is dead already, and I'm fairly nice to them. The pilot bearing also has 60k miles and is notchy as gently caress. Replacing both, otherwise it would have gone in last night.
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May 1, 2016 19:32
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The forester runs and drives again as of 9PM. Has some rod knock or piston slap but the engine is quieter than my EJ22E/EJ251 hybrid was even before I hurt it. I got the one month warranty on the engine so time to romp the gently caress out of it for a few weeks to make sure it either pops or stays the same.
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May 2, 2016 04:13
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Careful with the jobber tobs and pilots. They are almost exclusively garbage. I only use Exedy or Gripforce kits in my own cars.
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May 2, 2016 06:08
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I looked in my records and it was an Exedy kit. Not impressed... the TOB and pilot both have no markings on them. New ones are National brand.
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Just passed the point on my commute where I wrote off the old engine.  so far so good, definitely has a lot more power and torque than the old 8.5 CR hybrid 2.2L did. kinda hoping it lasts a year or two now, at that point the rest of the car will be ready for the scrapyard and I'll just part the fucker out. Even with all the poo poo I've had to fix, my total cost of ownership right now is well under 5cpm. And it's hauled my rear end to work every day for 1.5 years, with only about 2 hours of failure that actually affected my job and wasn't 100% my fault (when the starter and some other random things failed unexpectedly.) Pretty alright with that service record. I hate it for being a boring pile of poo poo that breaks occasionally but it gets me from A to B and passes inspection so it lives on. Could use new struts though, it's like riding a loving bounce house right now even compared to my 150k mile, 28 year old Comanche e: oh yeah, it still needs a driver side balljoint and a passenger side steering rack boot and swaybar bushing, and a rear diff. kastein fucked around with this message at 14:35 on May 2, 2016 |
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May 2, 2016 14:31
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WEEKEND ADVENTURES, now in colour! The donor. Looks like it didn't get the joke.  Apparently another jeep owner showed up at the junkyard while I was pulling the motor.  Halfway through, the guy with the loader came by and threw the car on a rack for me so I could do the rest in comfort. It looks like it's still mostly in there, but the only things left were the throttle cables, exhaust manifold studs, and engine mounts:  Finished up, got the engine loaded:  Hit 150k on the MJ on the way home!  These head gaskets look fine, I don't care  Looks like they are Fel-Pro PermaTorque MLS  Saturday afternoon. IT BEGINS  Sandbagger dropped by on his way home from ACEofsnett's birthday party and gave me a stack of recovery points he had lying around in exchange for an MJ truck bed toolbox. Now I need to build bumpers.  CRAPCAN FLEET,  Old motor's out:  Sunday afternoon. Too many loving EJs  I like to tap my bellhousing bolt holes for helicoils at high altitude, don't judge me. (this one stripped badly when pulling the old corroded stud out)  New TOB installed:  New motor going in now:  goddamn you, you loving piece of poo poo, just loving align and GO IN YOU loving ASSBAG TWUNT OF AN INPUT SHAFT I SWEAR ON ME MUM:  Videos... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjkRZXGBIYk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osQ8f_Y6Yes Guess I'll be throwing out the bearings that come with clutch kits in the future unless they have brand names on them that I respect.
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May 2, 2016 21:13
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It's fun to think about the reactions your yard would get in an HOA controlled neighborhood
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May 3, 2016 00:48
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Rectal Placenta posted:It's fun to think about the reactions your yard would get in an HOA controlled neighborhood It'd sound like a loving shooting range with all the exploding heads.
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Rectal Placenta posted:It's fun to think about the reactions your yard would get in an HOA controlled neighborhood And I haven't even set up the ham radio antenna towers yet! Probably will this year, or at least get the FAA paperwork started... The GF wants to raise some chickens and goats, but sadly the lot is too small for the health inspector to approve us for that 
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May 3, 2016 03:48
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FAA paperwork... How tall did you plan to go?! 
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I'm 3/4 of a mile from a small municipal airport and directly underneath the southerly approach. That means the FAA cares a whole hell of a lot more about tower/structure height than they normally do. Since there's a solid chance we'll be flying into that airport regularly if we get our pilots licenses, I tend to agree. I'd rather not run a plane into my own radio tower. e: https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external/portal.jsp quote:14 CFR Part 77.9 states that any person/organization who intends to sponsor any of the following construction or alterations must notify the Administrator of the FAA: Emphasis mine. I'm unsure what height would put me over a 50:1 surface from the southern end of the runway, but it's less than you would think. Actually, time to take a look at the sectional charts and terrain map. kastein fucked around with this message at 15:41 on May 3, 2016 |
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May 3, 2016 15:35
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That is such a cool problem to have, and I would not have any issue with doing the paperwork just for the story.
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My property is at about 560' above seal level and the airport is 689'. The closest point on my property to the airport is about 4300 feet from the closest point on the runway. So I have about (4300/50) + (689 - 560) = 215' maximum structure height (give or take a bit, my distance was measured on a map with a ruler and scaled appropriately and the altitude of my property is an extremely handwavey number) before I have to talk to the FAA. Well that makes things easy, since I'd have to talk to them at 200' AGL anyways and have no intention of going over 100'.
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Minnesota DNR has some pretty powerful in browser GIS tools publicly available*. Maybe Mass. has something similar? Could be very useful for your radio tower plans. *Including lidar scans of the entire state  . Its awesome.
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They definitely do, I just forgot to use OLIVER. Time to recheck that. e: 570' ASL at the highest+closest corner of my property to the airport, 689 ASL at the runway. 4208' distance. Maximum structure height is therefore 203 feet. I think I'm just fine. kastein fucked around with this message at 16:20 on May 3, 2016 |
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May 3, 2016 16:04
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SCA Enthusiast posted:Minnesota DNR has some pretty powerful in browser GIS tools publicly available*. Maybe Mass. has something similar? Could be very useful for your radio tower plans. GIS data is so loving awesome. Goddamnit I wish I'd been able to get into that sector after uni, instead of back into IT.
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kastein posted:They definitely do, I just forgot to use OLIVER. Time to recheck that. Glad it was helpful. Do you want to get close to the maximum or will you stay significantly shorter? GIS is awesome. Unfortunately for me I graduated from my geography program right before they revamped it to be more GIS heavy. Combine that with now being 3 years out of date on my GIS knowledge and I am not competitive at all in that market.
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I'll be staying significantly shorter than that. I'm pretty sure I only have about 100-120 feet of tower materials on hand and I'm not even certain I want to go that high.
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With a tower like that and an antenna tuned for the ham bands you could probably pick up railroad transmissions across half the state, or at least from most of the CSX Boston line,with NECR and some P&W thrown in. The railroad bands are right next to some of the ham bands. Portable ham radios work better than most wide band scanners if all you care about is the RR bands, since their tuners have a narrower range and are therefore more sensitive within that range. I use a ham radio as a scanner now, so if I press the wrong button on it I'm breaking the law. 
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May 3, 2016 19:26
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Ken was it you who almost crushed my poor old jeep last weekend?  
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The Royal Nonesuch posted:Ken was it you who almost crushed my poor old jeep last weekend? can't be Ken's. It runs.
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It runs and has paint. Neither of those is true of mine. Also that's an 800 or 900 series with CTIS and a far better engine, either a Cummins NHC250 or a Cummins 6CTA8.3
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Saw this while cruising local Craigslist for CJs. Fancy a fly-and-drive? It's for a good cause!
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scuz posted:Saw this while cruising local Craigslist for CJs. Fancy a fly-and-drive? It's for a good cause! god drat that thing is nice. In other news, I'm buying another Jeep tomorrow and I blame this thread
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Holy hell that thing is beautiful. Price is too high for me though, $1000 is the most I spend on a car these days and I try to keep it in the 3 digits.
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scuz posted:Saw this while cruising local Craigslist for CJs. Fancy a fly-and-drive? It's for a good cause! How in the gently caress is there a 30+ year old Jeep in Minnesota that looks that good? Holy poo poo. Talk about your Old Man Special.
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Ken would you happen to know how much room in an engine bay you'd need to comfortably (or uncomfortably) fit a 242 engine, like WxLxD? I've had an awful, awful idea and need to know that it would never work.
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:How in the gently caress is there a 30+ year old Jeep in Minnesota that looks that good? Holy poo poo. Talk about your Old Man Special.
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scuz posted:Ken would you happen to know how much room in an engine bay you'd need to comfortably (or uncomfortably) fit a 242 engine, like WxLxD? I've had an awful, awful idea and need to know that it would never work. I don't but I have a longblock hanging upside down on an engine stand in my yard and a 98 XJ with one installed that I can measure when I get home. My rough guess is that the engine is about 34" long, 30" tall, and 20" wide with a significant extra protrusion on the driver side near the top for the intake manifold, but this is all +/- six to ten inches.
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kastein posted:I don't but I have a longblock hanging upside down on an engine stand in my yard and a 98 XJ with one installed that I can measure when I get home. My rough guess is that the engine is about 34" long, 30" tall, and 20" wide with a significant extra protrusion on the driver side near the top for the intake manifold, but this is all +/- six to ten inches.
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Ken, when you register the 5 ton you need to see if this is still available. 
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loving hell the forums ate my post, more details later Forester status: new engine dangling over a gaping hole in the engine compartment, was waiting on parts which I got today Comanche status: was about to go to the yard in it today when it overheated to 280+ degrees while idling in the driveway. Shut it off, then I popped the cap to prevent hose explosions. It gave me its best Old Faithful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp07HqHx9wA Kept going for another 30 seconds after that, too. So now that I've drained the cooling system I guess I can install the new radiator without getting drenched in coolant
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How do you pop the cap without being yourself drenched in superheated ethylene glycol?
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Ken is a Jeep wizard so I assume he just asked it nicely to not scald the poo poo out of him.
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