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Enourmo posted:welp i'm 29 now, one more year and i can officially call myself Almost Old. Remember this is the last year where anything you do can be a "youthful indiscretion." Once you're in you're thirties, you're hosed when you screw up? But 20s? Everyone excuses that poo poo.
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nm posted:Remember this is the last year where anything you do can be a "youthful indiscretion." Once you're in you're thirties, you're hosed when you screw up? But 20s? Everyone excuses that poo poo. Wah? I'm 48 and I still blame youthful indiscretion. Kaptain Ballistik is at the Asia Pacific Rally Championship this weekend and coming 10th. However three driveshafts eaten so far....... going to a local workshop to buy spares as we have run out.
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May 27, 2017 09:15
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Wah? I'm 48 and I still blame youthful indiscretion. Jeez. Is a driveshaft usually considered a wear item or are you having a string of bad luck?
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May 27, 2017 10:13
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Rhyno posted:Lame. I just need to be able to get the car into the air quickly and onto jack stands without having to do it a corner at a time. Dad won't be ready to put a lift in his garage for a while yet. I don't know what you're lifting, but I put my wife's mini cooper on stands by using a 2x4 that's cut to fit between the jack pads and a trolley jack right in the middle. Jack one side up, slide in stands, repeat on other side. Car on 3.75 stands in 10 minutes. This works because minis are so stiff that you can get away with it. slidebite posted:I have one of these That's the same idea except it does both sides at the same time, but you see it's supporting the car on the pinch welds just like my 2x4 thingy does. The Door Frame posted:She is a cutie, but poor girlfriend got the smartest loving puppy. It's 9 weeks old, but that thing is fearless and learns things faster than any dog I've seen. I want all of my dogs to be stupid As someone who grew up with Irish Setters, no you don't.
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May 27, 2017 10:27
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slothrop posted:Jeez. Is a driveshaft usually considered a wear item or are you having a string of bad luck? I think the car has stepped up in pace and we have found out we cant run second hand driveshafts anymore :/ The bigger brakes have allowed KB to drive faster and hence working the suspension a lot harder.. and hence more movement. Thence more stress on driveshafts
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May 27, 2017 10:33
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May 27, 2017 10:46
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If you had a narrow light car like a 70's British sports car you could lift it with a high reach pallet truck 
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May 27, 2017 11:12
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InitialDave posted:You snapping them, or just trashing joints? If you follow the KB Facebook page you will see the pieces. Lots of pieces.
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May 27, 2017 11:27
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Rhyno posted:Does anyone make an auto lift that doesn't require you to bolt it into the floor? Enourmo posted:welp i'm 29 now, one more year and i can officially call myself Almost Old. Darchangel posted:https://www.harborfreight.com/6000-lb-capacity-scissor-lift-91315.html Powershift posted:There are portable lifts that you wheel around like a pallet jack, but they're hella expensive.
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May 27, 2017 11:36
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:If you follow the KB Facebook page you will see the pieces. Lots of pieces.
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May 27, 2017 11:52
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bolind posted:One step up from one-corner-at-the-time is a long reach/high lift jack and a center lift point. BMWs can do this (there's a pad on the front cross member and you can lift on the rear diff.) yeah just do this poo poo i thought rhyno didnt want to spend his time working on cars all the time anyway? how often do you have to jack a car up to spend a few grand to make it go faster?
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May 27, 2017 14:55
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Rhyno posted:Lame. I just need to be able to get the car into the air quickly and onto jack stands without having to do it a corner at a time. Dad won't be ready to put a lift in his garage for a while yet. Just get a good lightweight aluminum floorjack and it's not as bad. Also if you're doing one corner at a time you're doing it wrong, you should be able to find a spot to go from front to back or vice versa, I could even do it on a heavy rear end Crown Vic.
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May 27, 2017 14:55
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Well I find out yesterday that I'm moving to a service truck permanently:on Tuesday, so I won't need a commuter vehicle anymore. Well, for at least two years anyway - possibly longer. Guess I'm selling the XRS. =/
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May 27, 2017 15:11
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Its a 3 day weekend here so I ordered paint and parts for my Saab. The paint hasn't arrived despite supposedly being sent with a 24 hour courier on Thursday afternoon and I was at work when they tried to deliver the parts (and they ignored my "leave next door" instructions) and for some reason they left them at a postoffice. Not my local one that Is 1/4 of a mile away and open till 9pm every day but the one further away that closed at 5pm on friday and now isn't open until Tuesday 
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May 27, 2017 16:19
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Too much drat sport on today, just got done watching Arsenal v Chelsea while the 24h of Nurburgring was on the other TV, once it gets dark there I'm switching over to see the Monaco GP quali that I somehow avoided seeing the results of (so far). Also Fallout 4 is free on Steam this weekend.
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May 27, 2017 19:43
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Ether Frenzy posted:Too much drat sport on today, just got done watching Arsenal v Chelsea while the 24h of Nurburgring was on the other TV, once it gets dark there I'm switching over to see the Monaco GP quali that I somehow avoided seeing the results of (so far). Also Fallout 4 is free on Steam this weekend. Holy poo poo thanks Edit: oh I guess it's free to play this weekend? 
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May 27, 2017 20:07
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If any of you need something to watch tonight/tomorrow morning the Nurburgring 24h is being streamed live on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qJDbQSp6mA Highlights include a team driving a spare wheel out to a stricken car that had pulled off partway around the lap, because that was safer than trying to drive the rest of the way with 3 wheels and quicker than having it flat-bedded back to the pits.
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May 27, 2017 20:11
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angryrobots posted:Well I find out yesterday that I'm moving to a service truck permanently:on Tuesday, so I won't need a commuter vehicle anymore. Well, for at least two years anyway - possibly longer. Details? Does anyone know where the AC thread went? I need it. Not sure if I should bother changing what I think is a stuck txv or not. System still cools great but pressures are not ideal. High pressure line is a bit high and low a bit low. Might be an airflow issue too.
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May 27, 2017 20:18
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funny Star Wars parody posted:Edit: oh I guess it's free to play this weekend? Yeah, free to play, sorry for the vagueness.
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May 27, 2017 20:21
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rdb posted:Details? It's back on like page 6 or 7
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May 27, 2017 20:38
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rdb posted:Details? I'd like to get $4k, but if that's fuckin stupid I'll deal. http://i.imgur.com/kuOr0qc.jpg (The only picture I have on my phone atm)
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May 27, 2017 21:14
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Thanks. I figured I would ask because your tundra was a smoking deal. I personally can't justify it right now.
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May 27, 2017 22:37
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wow horrible idea thinking it would be fun to take a 2 year old to a sounders FC game today, 
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May 27, 2017 22:48
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cakesmith handyman posted:It's back on like page 6 or 7 Archived, but here it is. Someone should remake it or pin it in the Stupid Questions OP or something. Lotta good info organized clearly, would be a shame to lose it.
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May 27, 2017 23:07
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BraveUlysses posted:wow horrible idea thinking it would be fun to take a 2 year old to a sounders FC game today, Haha. My son is 9 and has just started to be able to sit through and actually watch a baseball game, but most of that is because he plays in little league and is a giant MLB nerd. But yeah at 2,3,4 lol forget it.
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May 28, 2017 00:56
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Enourmo posted:Archived, but here it is. Yeah, I will just post my poo poo in the stupid questions thread but I think it's probably a little more than a stupid question.
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rdb posted:Yeah, I will just post my poo poo in the stupid questions thread but I think it's probably a little more than a stupid question. Are you having any actual symptoms?
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May 28, 2017 01:54
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I was kinda hoping Motronic would start a new one for this summer coming up, I have a bunch of questions too, debating on buying the poo poo and doing it myself or just paying someone else.
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May 28, 2017 02:08
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Enourmo posted:Are you having any actual symptoms? I posted there. In short, I know it's leaking, but something else is broken as well.
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May 28, 2017 02:23
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Today I spent ten hours and four trips to lowes getting the correct fittings to hook up my new tankless water heater and get rid of all the piping from the old one My father in law helped and I learned a shitload about the American measurement system (its bad and so are fractions)
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I'm spending the weekend doing demolition work on the west side of my house. A tree came down and (partially) damaged the roof. I'm pulling down the ceiling in my bedroom, bathroom, and living room due to water damage. It wouldn't be so bad, except I've got blown-in insulation and it's a loving nightmare. I'm 1/3 done. Tomorrow is the hard day. Contractors estimate is a shade under 10 grand worth of damage. On the bright side, i get a new roof and gutters out of the deal which was on my wishlist, so there's that. And my insurance company will cut me a check for my labor. Materials alone covered my deductible. Hopefully I can relax on Monday. Shame is I just found a vw beetle for sale that looks like it'd be a fun project as my first reatoration for my wife and me. Got the normal rotten floor pans, etc. If it's still available once my house is fixed, I might reward myself with more work.
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funny Star Wars parody posted:Today I spent ten hours and four trips to lowes getting the correct fittings to hook up my new tankless water heater and get rid of all the piping from the old one Now take npt, combine it with sae thread, throw in an and JIC fittings and metric thread and you have why I curl into a ball and weep when people bring in random fittings and ask to go from one thing to another. Oh and they need it today. The best was when a shop sent us a red anodized fitting a customer of theirs had brought in as part of a job on their car and asked wtf was up with it. It was loving british pipe thread. Its been over 2 years and pipe thread will still make me grab an old timer for help.
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We've been a metric nation since 1988 here in Australia and you still get hosed over by hardware shops stocking American Fuckery bolts and nuts. At least we only have BSP threads on our plumbing fittings.
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But BSP makes you use proper thread sealing materials and techniques, we want our pipes to gall seal! The avoirdupois isn't a concurrently created competitor of the Metric system, rather its hacked together ancient poo poo one level above hogshead per fortnight.
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Then theres the perpetual slapfight between ISO metric and JIS metric. Same thread diameter, same thread pitch, different loving head size. A JIS M8 is a 8mm thread diameter with a 12mm head. An ISO is an 8mm thread diameter with a loving 13mm head on it! Just to make you have to crawl back out from under the car to get a second socket halfway through removing a bashplate.
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May 28, 2017 06:13
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I'm glad that even thread size needs to be an international slapfight
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May 28, 2017 06:15
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:JIS cross head screws can suck a dick Robertson drive for lyfe!
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Just watched Rogue One and geez what a mediocre movie. If the prequels were 1s and the originals 10s, the new movies don't seem better than 5s in my book.
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blk posted:Just watched Rogue One and geez what a mediocre movie. If the prequels were 1s and the originals 10s, the new movies don't seem better than 5s in my book. I literally fell asleep in the cinema.
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