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TwystNeko posted:new sprocket, pulley, and timing belt. Also, thanks for the update. Friends of mine have a similar car, it's always useful to hear about problems & solutions.
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Dodged a bullet there I think. I dunno what a replacement engine costs but I bet it's more than $900 after labour.
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Sep 28, 2016 14:41
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ExecuDork posted:Requisite "could be worse" here. Especially since most modern cars are interference and a timing belt issue usually means some sort of rebuild. $900 ain't too shabby for a timing belt job either, my friend got quoted twice that to do his Civic.
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Sep 28, 2016 14:46
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1500quidporsche posted:Especially since most modern cars are interference and a timing belt issue usually means some sort of rebuild. $900 ain't too shabby for a timing belt job either, my friend got quoted twice that to do his Civic.
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Sep 28, 2016 14:58
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Yeah to be honest I really had zero interest in mechanics until I finally pissed my dad off enough and I realised how much these jobs cost when somebody else is doing them. The Honda timing belt job really is annoying though and I wish I didn't volunteer to do it for him.
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Sep 28, 2016 15:04
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It's usually a good idea to do the water pump though. It's under the same covers and such, so if it does fail you have to do the equivalent of a timing belt job again, since alllll that garbage had to come out again anyway. Generally speaking, of course. Many cars (with four cylinder engines at least) drive the water pump off the timing belt. The pump itself should be pretty cheap, set of gaskets almost nothing, etc. Need to replace the coolant though, which is generally a good idea to do regularly as well.
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Sep 28, 2016 16:50
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Yeah it's good practice to do unless you just don't care or plan on dumping the car. It would probably add something like $200+ to the job but would save that $1k+ if it fails later.
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Sep 28, 2016 17:24
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welp. Have to replace it anyways - it's leaking. (sigh) final cost: $1228. It's rough because I have a gig on Saturday that'd pay for all of this. Instead I'm scrambling to find money before then. ;_; The joys of being self-employed.
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Sep 28, 2016 18:03
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I can see why you guys went with the beer bottles for the premix oil for SCH now. I must've looked very dignified prying open the gas tank flap with a turkey baster while I poured oil on.
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Sep 28, 2016 23:32
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Holy poo poo is our fleet leasing company a bunch of cheap fucks. Just got my 2015 Tacoma out of the shop for hail damage and they refused to fix the roof. Brand new truck and they are already taking the hit on most of it. I am going to loving hammer them on it if I buy it out when I mile it out.
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If anyone else is planning to come to the pig roast, let me know by Tuesday night. I need to pre order the tickets pretty quick here. E: So far I have ssswitch and wife, McT and wife, 1500 quid, and MrChips. Am I missing anyone? Slung Blade fucked around with this message at 16:59 on Oct 3, 2016 |
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Oct 3, 2016 15:58
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Someone here should buy this: I will help get it running. http://www.kijiji.ca/v-view-details...m_source=alerts
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Oct 4, 2016 16:54
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Someone should throw a couple <$10K lowballs to these guys. Drake, I am looking at you. http://www.kijiji.ca/v-cars-trucks/edmonton/2001-porsche-boxster-convertible/1193881004?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true http://www.kijiji.ca/v-cars-trucks/calgary/2002-porsche-boxster-s-convertible/1197181171?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true
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Oct 5, 2016 03:43
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Slung Blade posted:So far I have ssswitch and wife, McT and wife, 1500 quid, and MrChips. Oh poo poo I forgot to hit submit this morning  It'll be a similar visit to my tm2tw sendoff what with the fixin' trucks all weekend (pretty much no chance of leaving early since I booked the 14-17th off for some dental bullshit) but I'm in unless I'm too late.
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slidebite posted:Someone should throw a couple <$10K lowballs to these guys. If I had $10k to shove at a Porsche, I still don't think I could ever do a Boxster. I'd do something dumb like this: http://www.kijiji.ca/v-classic-cars...urce=ios_social
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DrakeriderCa posted:If I had $10k to shove at a Porsche, I still don't think I could ever do a Boxster. I would get two 924s, flip one upside down on top of the other, and weld them together roof to roof with the engines connected through a massive v-belt. Then go to Euro Cars and Coffee when it returns and rev at a BMW M6 until it plows through a crowd of innocent pedestrians like it did this year.
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Oct 5, 2016 14:20
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Shrugs Not Drugs posted:Oh poo poo I forgot to hit submit this morning Yeah no problem. You can grab your high lift, extinguisher and tow strap when you're in town too.
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DrakeriderCa posted:If I had $10k to shove at a Porsche, I still don't think I could ever do a Boxster.  I wouldn't turn my nose up at a nice 968 or 928 though. Speaking of Boxsters, watched this the other day https://youtu.be/oS_yKQRcln0 Some guy sold his boxster to an annoying fucktard on a TV show for next to nothing because of serious transmission problems. The "problem" was it needed a fluid change. Also, woke up to flurries in Medicine Hat.
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I don't have a lot of experience with Porsches in general but I think you get a lot for the money when you look at that era of Boxster. There were years affected by the IMS issue, so keep that in mind. I think we got around 4" of snow last night in SK and its still snowing. Then ~+10C next week.
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Oct 5, 2016 16:44
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slidebite posted:
That's like the worst thing imaginable this time of year. Being in medicine hat.
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Oct 5, 2016 16:47
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slidebite posted:Boxsters are a fun little car and underappreciated. I'm sure they're fun, but I could only drive one at Spec Boxster race. Not because of "lol chick car" or whatever - I just think their lines are really lame and they lose a lot of the Porsche appeal. And I don't like convertibles. So basically they take away almost everything I like about Porsche's. At least they're still great driving cars, but for a fun toy I'd want something hardtop, that I like he looks of.
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You guys have seen this already, right? http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/electronic-sign-shows-vulgar-message-of-relief-about-anthony-henday-1.3788310 I laughed. Also because highway construction (and associated delays) are never actually finished, they just oscillate in intensity. It reminds me of some semi-subversive article, probably a blog post, I saw years and years ago about those traffic signs. This article asserted that most such trailer-mounted lite-brite arrays are pretty easy to access and change the message on. The control panel has a lock, but is often left unlocked or the keys are sometimes left on or near the trailer somewhere. There's a password-protection system, but most users (presumably, site supervisors) don't bother to change the password from the factory default, which is something easy like 0000 or 1234. I'm guessing this particular incident has already led to a flurry of memos and some tedious tailgate / toolbox meetings.
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Lol, it's like NFS:U drift mode today. And a holiday weekend, so I had the roads mostly to myself. Best drive to work ever.
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Oct 9, 2016 14:56
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Anybody need a new winter beater? (*cough* slidebite *cough*) http://www.kijiji.ca/v-heavy-trucks/lethbridge/unimog-416-w-bale-deck-dump-box-for-sale-43-900-00/1195724897
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I'd proudly cruise around in a unimog all year long, but that's overpriced even for here. I've seen the odd really nice one from time to time for ~$30K. I saw one of those LWB monsters in Kalispell a couple years ago. It had what looked like a hotel on the back of it made of about 12 small cubicles like you've heard about from Japanese micro-hotels.
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That's LoL overpriced. Also it's the most basic of u1100's. Disc brakes didn't happen on the u900/u1100 until after '76. Also 200,000+km ? You could import a u1300L from a broker for a lot cheaper and have a turbo model.
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There have been a bunch of freightliner branded mogs coming up through govplanet too. that price is just nutty.
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Everything in the province price wise has jumped the shark. It's insane. In other news, 1500: I'm grabbing that wiperless hatch from storage for you this weekend and will be taking it down with me to the Oct 22 shenanigans.
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Awesome, thanks man. Weather permitting I should be able to drag the Mazda to Slungblade's place. Hopefully I'm done breaking it in by then.
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On my cell but just heard on the news that Jim Prentice was killed in a plane crash last night in BC.
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slidebite posted:On my cell but just heard on the news that Jim Prentice was killed in a plane crash last night in BC. Is MrChips ok?
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Looks like it was a Cessna Citation (biz jet) the lawn-darted shortly after take off from Kelowa. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/jim-prentice-plane-crash-killed-1.3804941 Isn't MrChips with a mainstream carrier?
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I am here, don't worry...there was some discussion of this as I was leaving work last night that there was an aircraft missing between Kelowna and here, but nothing more than that at the time, since it was maybe half an hour after it happened.
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Your avatar just got funnier, in a very dark-humour kind of way.
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Slung Blade posted:
That thing is huge. I guess it never fully clicked in my mind just how large a pig roster would have to be if the goal is to roast the entire animal all at once. That thing looks solid as hell. 
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McTinkerson posted:That thing is huge. I guess it never fully clicked in my mind just how large a pig roster would have to be if the goal is to roast the entire animal all at once. I sure hope so, it's been quite the ordeal building it so far. Still have a long way to go before it's ready  You guys headed home after the bbq or are you staying the night?
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That roasting cage looks awesome man. Any of you guys know someone that repairs curb rash on wheels preferably the south part of the province? I've got a couple spots on my 911 Twist rims that I am thinking of getting fixed this winter.
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Slung Blade posted:You guys headed home after the bbq or are you staying the night? We're unfortunately going to have to head home afterwards. The wife's working Sunday.
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McTinkerson posted:We're unfortunately going to have to head home afterwards. The wife's working Sunday. No problem man, just wanted to make sure I didn't have to get the guest bed ready.
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