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kastein posted:I usually buy from https://www.aspwholesale.com. they have a make/model/year lookup tool that is *mostly* accurate. I read that as "asswipe wholesale" and had to doubletake...
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scuz posted:So we looked at my buddy's 2002 VW 1.8T Jetta wagon's timing belt: Probably not the original as VW had a ration of poo poo when they first brought the 1.8t motor to the states because somebody decided that 100k km and 100k mi were the same thing and people were having belts fail at 80-85k miles and lunching the whole head. Still. You guys caught that thing with not much time to spare.
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Goddamn that VW belt. I hope by drove it 10 miles you meant he just idled it 10 miles in gear without touching the accelerator.
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nitrogen posted:I read that as "asswipe wholesale" and had to doubletake... "asswipe hole sale" 
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Slavvy posted:How about a traditional taper bearing that, instead of being pre-loaded by the locknut, is instead pre-loaded by a shim of specific thickness which sits between the two bearings? Cause that's what a kia rio has! loving hell, I'll never get the propensity to re-invent the wheel (lol) like this. Wheel bearings have been a solved problem for like a century, your special snowflake setup is not improving the situation at all.
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Slavvy posted:How about a traditional taper bearing that, instead of being pre-loaded by the locknut, is instead pre-loaded by a shim of specific thickness which sits between the two bearings? Cause that's what a kia rio has! I've actually heard of that as a bandaid fix for lovely spindles in roadracing on little British cars - idea being that if you set the preload with shims you can torque the nut to the point where the spindle is in tension. Kia, employing racing fi... I can't even finish that sentence.
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mekilljoydammit posted:I've actually heard of that as a bandaid fix for lovely spindles in roadracing on little British cars - idea being that if you set the preload with shims you can torque the nut to the point where the spindle is in tension. Kia, employing racing fi... I can't even finish that sentence. Don't forget that the Rio is the same car where they thought would be a good idea to use 4 aluminum lug studs per wheel.
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^ WHAT  Crustashio posted:Yes, it's the saddle that holds the the tubing in place while it gets bent around the shoe. Blue Footed Booby posted:I'm the legion of comments saying "This is just a bearing failure shaft had nothing to do with it. I took out the shaft from my [completely different vehicle] and drove it for thousands of miles with no problems."
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http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/owners/SearchResults?refurl=email&searchType=ID&targetCategory=R&searchCriteria.nhtsa_ids=16V415nhtsa posted:SUMMARY: http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/owners/SearchResults?refurl=email&searchType=ID&targetCategory=R&searchCriteria.nhtsa_ids=16V487 Also apparently 482k prius' and their Lexus equivalent are getting recalled for a curtain airbag inflator which can be ejected into the cabin. This time not made by takata! http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/owners/SearchResults?refurl=email&searchType=ID&targetCategory=R&searchCriteria.nhtsa_ids=16V401 nhtsa posted:Manufacturer: Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. I'm not sure if it should be here or the schadenfreude thread.
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kastein posted:
The stupidity of that engine is always fun to introduce to people.
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A suspicious person might come to the conclusion that vehicles in the 80's were safer than vehicles made since airbags were introduced. At least cars from back then didn't actively attempt to murder you in a collision.. it was more of an involuntary manslaughter.
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xzzy posted:it was more of a negligent manslaughter. They didn't care that you died.
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xzzy posted:A suspicious person might come to the conclusion that vehicles in the 80's were safer than vehicles made since airbags were introduced. At least cars from back then didn't actively attempt to murder you in a collision.. it was more of an involuntary manslaughter. To be fair if you have a sebring with a beige interior maybe it's a mercy killing.
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Kind of amusing that it only affected the beige interiors? Could you even get them in any other color?
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H110Hawk posted:To be fair if you have a sebring with a beige interior maybe it's a mercy killing. 
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Jokes?! On my humor forum?!
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Speaking of Volkswagen timing belts, for several years there has been an epidemic of prematurely failed belts around few cities in northern Finland. The belt gears get coated with a brown powder that wear the gear teeth sharp and they end up breaking the belt. At one point it was suspected that the cause was tailings from a local steel mill that was used for road construction, but that was ruled out. Current theory is, that iron deposited from tire studs is the cause, and the epidemic is concentrated on large northern cities because studded tires are used longer in the north.
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That is an oddly specific failure mode, and I love it. Does anybody know of other seemingly-unrelated mechanical failure mysteries like that?
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Saukkis posted:Speaking of Volkswagen timing belts, for several years there has been an epidemic of prematurely failed belts around few cities in northern Finland. The belt gears get coated with a brown powder that wear the gear teeth sharp and they end up breaking the belt. At one point it was suspected that the cause was tailings from a local steel mill that was used for road construction, but that was ruled out. Current theory is, that iron deposited from tire studs is the cause, and the epidemic is concentrated on large northern cities because studded tires are used longer in the north. I would assume that rail dust would be just as bad for iron as carbide dust from the studs, mostly because it's way more common. Plus most of my cars have studs and are ninety percent rust by volume so I'd probably have seen this by now. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 20:18 on Jul 11, 2016 |
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Seat Safety Switch posted:I would assume that rail dust would be just as bad for iron as carbide dust from the studs, mostly because it's way more common. Are most of your cars volkswagens though?
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http://m.imgur.com/gallery/ztFMJmc I reckon a tree and one or two rollovers caused this failure.
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Just one tree: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awYOjsWLFXM&t=78s And from the comments, someone posted the video of them getting it back up and running in 30 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKBnPnYh8iw
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Im the guy wailing on the torque wrench at 15:10
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H110Hawk posted:http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/owners/SearchResults?refurl=email&searchType=ID&targetCategory=R&searchCriteria.nhtsa_ids=16V401 I would be surprised if there are any of those still on the road. Weren't those pretty much a rolling pile of electrical issues?
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Why would any kind of environmental dust gather only on the cam gears and nowhere else? Cam gears aren't even really exposed to the environment, they have covers. And why would it only gather in side the timing mechanism of VWs? I mean it would seem to me the simplest explanation would be that VW has hosed something up in their process of designing and building cars, but that's pretty implausible isn't it?
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Wolfsbane posted:Just one tree: Why the gently caress do they have video stabilization on?! It makes me and everyone I've talked to seasick. Look especially at around 16:50, or any other time there's a plane with text on it in view. The stabilization tries to focus on the text and distorts everything. It's like looking through a squishy lens. Queen_Combat fucked around with this message at 01:46 on Jul 12, 2016 |
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PhotoKirk posted:I would be surprised if there are any of those still on the road. Weren't those pretty much a rolling pile of electrical issues? And mechanical!
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Throatwarbler posted:Why would any kind of environmental dust gather only on the cam gears and nowhere else? Cam gears aren't even really exposed to the environment, they have covers. And why would it only gather in side the timing mechanism of VWs? That is a sane and reasonable assumption. However the problem with that theory is that the symptoms only exhibit in certain Oulu regions and nowhere else. The powder collected from affected cars was found containing iron, aluminum, magnesium, and silicon. The mill tailings were ruled out because the tailings contain chrome, which was absent from the dust. VW decided to combat this by making the belt covers more air tight.
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warcake posted:Im the guy wailing on the torque wrench at 15:10 Factory racing budgets are a hell of a thing!
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Terrible Robot posted:Jokes?! On my humor forum?! I meant that emoticon in the most appreciative way possible.
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Saukkis posted:Speaking of Volkswagen timing belts, for several years there has been an epidemic of prematurely failed belts around few cities in northern Finland. The belt gears get coated with a brown powder that wear the gear teeth sharp and they end up breaking the belt. At one point it was suspected that the cause was tailings from a local steel mill that was used for road construction, but that was ruled out. Current theory is, that iron deposited from tire studs is the cause, and the epidemic is concentrated on large northern cities because studded tires are used longer in the north. I don't know how quickly this causes wear, but wouldn't a heavy duty magnet mounted in that area collect up ferrous particulates like that fairly well?
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kastein posted:That's an EMT bender, meant for extremely mild steel tubing like 30 thou thick (for 1" EMT, larger sizes are slightly thicker) including the galvanization... bender's made out of cast aluminum it looks like. it is going to keep breaking if you keep trying to bend DOM of almost any wall thickness with it. If you actually bent DOM with an EMT bender I'm gonna be real surprised. At least 6 cages have been made with that bender/shoe setup (and a few tested), some 1.5x0.095 and one or two 1.75. I don't doubt the piddly electric powered ram in the video wouldn't do it. The one they have is an old super heavy duty manual pump ram adapted to those shoes. I can barely lift the fucker.  The issue was we were trying to build templates to figure out the out of plane bends needed for the bars from the main hoop to the dash. Basically building a bunch of bends to certain angles and tacking stuff together to figure out how to get it tight to the roof/pillars and intersect with the rear downtubes. Didn't want to waste the DOM so we grabbed the crashbars we cut out of the door. After it broke I realized exactly why it broke. Definitely felt dumb after that, but it has no issue doing DOM. Crustashio fucked around with this message at 02:21 on Jul 13, 2016 |
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Jesus. That really surprises me. Oh well, guess I'm wrong  I wonder what would happen if you tried to bend 0.120 wall instead of 0.095 though...
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Hey guys, my car kept wailing at me that the particulate filter ist getting clogged up and that i should really do something about that. So i put in a new one. When i managed to pry out the old one (what a loving pain in the rear end) i found an old friend: Yep, that the turbine off my turbocharger. Luckily its not from the one installed right now but from the one that died 2012. So this thing has been banging around in there for 4 years now. "But Shai," you say "if i now anything its exhaust systems off 2008 Peugeot diesel engines, and im pretty sure the catalytic converter is between the turbo and the filter!" It sure is:  Thats gonna be fun when the next emissions test comes around...
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Holy poo poo. That thing had to be really moving when it let go to cut through the cat like that.  When was the last emissions check? I kinda wonder how dirty/clean it's running with that hole.
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Last August. Which was when the guy who did it for me called and told me that its not gonna pass but he'll see if can find out why and fix it. A couple days later i got the car back with a clean slate. Pretty sure some of the money i paid for the work he did to it went into some TÜV inspectors pocket...
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Wolfsbane posted:And from the comments, someone posted the video of them getting it back up and running in 30 minutes: I'n gonna leave this playing over lunch tomorrow in case I'm lacking motivation that day. I think the best bit is the 5 minutes at the end they spend trying to precision sledge-hammer the boot opening back into shape before deciding gently caress it and putting the ratchet strap around it.
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My buddy's early 00's A4 keeps eating cats; it plugged two and the most recent one had holes in it. He just keeps replacing the drat things and refuses to look at his turbos or his exhaust system any higher up than the catalytic converter. I guess it's technically saving money in the short term, but one of these days I'm waiting to hear complaints about his car sounding like a dentist drill
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jammyozzy posted:I'n gonna leave this playing over lunch tomorrow in case I'm lacking motivation that day. I really enjoyed the military drill brake bleeding.
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