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Twerk from Home posted:I only fill my radiator with concentrated urine from when I'm severely dehydrated. Probably better for your coolant system than Dex-Cool, anyway
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Twerk from Home posted:I only fill my radiator with concentrated urine from when I'm severely dehydrated. After a roadside repair of a rad hose, I refilled my system with Perrier with a Hint of Lemon. I swear it made the engine smell nicer.
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Uthor posted:My VW uses pink coolant. What does one need to drink so their urine can be used in a VW? Ton of beet juice.
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Uthor posted:My VW uses pink coolant. What does one need to drink so their urine can be used in a VW? A punch in your kidneys.
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Uthor posted:My VW uses pink coolant. What does one need to drink so their urine can be used in a VW? Pham Nuwen posted:Dex-Cool
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builds character posted:Ton of beet juice. Good thing I'm Polish, then!
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Jul 11, 2018 17:43
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Uthor posted:My VW uses pink coolant. What does one need to drink so their urine can be used in a VW? Beet juice
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Jul 11, 2018 17:57
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Distilled water is so cheap that I just have a bunch of it around for various things, like making tea. Why not use it as needed in the cooling system of my fine automobile?
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Jul 11, 2018 18:59
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Cheap but not necessarily available when a radiator boils over on a road trip or whatever.
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Uthor posted:My VW uses pink coolant. What does one need to drink so their urine can be used in a VW? Strawberry Fanta
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Deteriorata posted:No, it's fine as advice. There's no physical way tap water can make any meaningful difference whatsoever. The benefits of distilled water are all in your mind. Take it you've never had South Florida water? I swear it's 5% lime rock by volume.
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Something is rolling around in the ducting behind the dash of my 2014 Expedition. I'd like to get at the ducting and get whatever it is out but I'm very hesitant I'm pulling the dash and I've never done that before. How hard a task is it? Any advice? It just seems silly to pay someone to do that just for an annoying noise.
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Jul 11, 2018 22:15
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PainterofCrap posted:I've been using tap water for forty years; since 2000 in my Bonneville (Iron block). Yet to see a problem. Iron head too? I've seen alloy heads corrode enough to leak water past the head gasket if tap water was used for years (even if coolant was added to the tap water)
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Jul 11, 2018 22:36
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Fo3 posted:Iron head too? I used tap water to make some tea, and it ate right through the kettle and burned the house down. Then it killed my dog.
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I'd like to find a plain, black leather shift knob for my '12 Focus. It's M12x1.25. Any suggestions for what cars I can search at the junkyards? Most of the online places seem to be gaudy boy racer stuff.
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Jul 11, 2018 23:58
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If you don't mind universal knobs I've bought a generic leather one at o'reilly's in the past. Knob quality was good but the mounting bits were fiddly and kinda cheap. e: This is the one. https://www.oreillyauto.com/detail/...agen/golf?pos=0 Autoexec.bat fucked around with this message at 00:08 on Jul 12, 2018 |
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Fo3 posted:Iron head too? Yeah...I sent the engine out to be rebuilt in 2010. The heads were fine...from a water-jacket perspective. Hot-tanked, milled, new valves, good for another 44-years. What I have found kills engines is straight tap water (not including block freezes...a whole different level of fail). A basic level of antifreeze makes all the difference. Look: I'm an old gently caress. If you're rolling an engine with a mix of steel/aluminum/brass/cadmium plate/etc, maybe the water composition has some bi-metal corrosive effect. I've had almost 40-cars since 1977 and never had an issue except engines that sat unstarted for years, and/or were run on straight water. However, I'm all for maximum protection; if running de-ionized water or unicorn piss stops aging your engine, do it. Hell, I built myself a garage with its own furnace that maintains a minimum 55-degrees - my car has essentially stopped aging - so I may not be the best person to argue against extremes in preventative maintenance.
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My problem is that this thing is constantly piddling coolant. My mechanic says it's the timing cover gasket, which is a big rear end thing to get to and change, and it's not leaking *enough* that it's an actual threat to the vehicle, I just have to add about a pint a week to keep it full. It's summer so I'm not worrying TOO much about maintaining the ideal antifreeze to water ratio as long as it's still green, and premixed stuff is stupidly expensive for being half water. I just need to be un-lazy and buy a jug of undiluted + a jug of distilled and make myself a bunch of premix bottles, I guess.
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vulturesrow posted:Something is rolling around in the ducting behind the dash of my 2014 Expedition. I'd like to get at the ducting and get whatever it is out but I'm very hesitant I'm pulling the dash and I've never done that before. How hard a task is it? Any advice? It just seems silly to pay someone to do that just for an annoying noise. It's probably not difficult, but find a video on youtube or a walkthrough so you know which trim pieces to take off first. That'll save you some curse words for later, as you try to remember which fastener goes where, because Ford probably used 9 sizes of screws/bolts just to be assholes. I'm pretty sure they've stopped mixing SAE and metric, at least.
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I ordered new seatbelts for the Jeep, and of course I hosed up and forgot to check everything before placing the order: New belt in red, old in black. The angle's wrong for mounting to the floor, so it seems I need something like https://www.quadratec.com/products/24247_901.htm I'd prefer not to wait for shipment again (but will if I have to), but I haven't been able to find it on any local parts store website. Is this something an auto shop would have sitting around, or do I need to order the bastard?
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Godholio posted:It's probably not difficult, but find a video on youtube or a walkthrough so you know which trim pieces to take off first. That'll save you some curse words for later, as you try to remember which fastener goes where, because Ford probably used 9 sizes of screws/bolts just to be assholes. I'm pretty sure they've stopped mixing SAE and metric, at least. Havent found anything that great. I'm actually wondering if I even need to pull the whole dash. I should be able to pop the vents out and take a look, no?
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Heated Gaming Moment posted:Thanks. My friend and I checked that again yesterday and couldn’t find any issues with it. I did change it myself. How tight does it have to be? I’ve changed it two times previously without any issues, so I assume what I’m doing is fine. Not that tight, just snugged down until it's flat against the oil filter housing. Is it leaking from there? If so, a new cap is pretty cheap online. Napa also carries them (but for a lot more).
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Pham Nuwen posted:I ordered new seatbelts for the Jeep, and of course I hosed up and forgot to check everything before placing the order: What about going to a local junkyard and pulling the parts ?
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Anybody know any hot-poo poo tips to get a Grand Prix LCA balljoint to separate from the knuckle it's dangling from? The only thing now connecting that lovely Dorman LCA to my car is apparently some sort of voodoo magic. I have hammers that I'll try in the morning but none of the special prying tools I've read about, how hosed am I without them?
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Got a Harbor Freight anywhere nearby?
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spankmeister posted:What about going to a local junkyard and pulling the parts ? That's a good idea, thanks
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spankmeister posted:What about going to a local junkyard and pulling the parts ? Those are GM parts-bin belts, should be easy enough to source.
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/\/\/\ GM =!= Jeep. Pham is looking for Chrysler Corporation parts-bins. But the point is the same - shouldn't be too hard to find in a JY. I pulled seatbelts out of a wrecked Prelude years ago, and almost came out even on the deal - more than $7 in change under the seats, for $10 cost in a pair of belts. **** My fiancee has my truck, about 3 hours away, for fieldwork. This morning she texted me and said it was misfiring and there was some smoke and bad smells - and it took her some special techniques to open the hood, she'll tell me about it when she gets home - and then sent me a picture of an ugly solder with holes in it. https://imgur.com/1Cn1huu I *believe* this picture was taken looking straight down on the driver's side, and that blue wire going into the orange connector is one of the spark-plug wires. I don't know what that pipe carries, or if that branch is input our output, but if she takes it to a mechanic and says "please fix this booger solder" is that likely to help with the misfiring, smoke, and smell? EDIT: Dug up the post describing what led to that booger solder ExecuDork posted:The new EGR is shiny brass, and there's a blob of shiny brass that looks like solder or welding where a thin hose attaches to a pipe emerging from the exhaust manifold; that thin hose goes to the new EGR so I think he also fixed that connection point. Possibly there was a leak there. And there could have been other vacuum leaks around. It runs really nicely now, in any case. So it's about 2 months old, and maybe wore through a hole from vibration and temperature cycling? \/\/\/ I learned something today! Cool! ExecuDork fucked around with this message at 15:12 on Jul 12, 2018 |
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ExecuDork posted:/\/\/\ GM =!= Jeep. Pham is looking for Chrysler Corporation parts-bins. It's an AMC-era CJ, they're GM belts. E: ExecuDork, it looks like you need one of these. Dagen H fucked around with this message at 15:32 on Jul 12, 2018 |
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Dagen H posted:It's an AMC-era CJ, they're GM belts. Cool, thank you very much! The mechanic my fiancee took it to is slammed busy, but I managed to book my truck in with a so-far-pretty-good mechanic here for first thing tomorrow morning. When I told the receptionist I wanted 6 new spark plugs and spark plug wires (because that's what the busy mech said to my fiancee), she asked why I said that, and then told me she wrote "misfire" on the form and they'll diagnose it when they have it. I'm curious if they'll replace the EGR Line, or just fix that booger, while they're in there solving the misfire. I kinda think the spark plug wires are fine, they were new when I bought the truck, 3 years and 70 000 km ago, but the spark plugs have been a problem because there's at least one tiny oil leak into one of the cylinders (it was #4 last year, probably the same this year but I'm not placing any bets) and that eventually fouls the plug. I think tracking down and solving that leak would be more trouble and expense than it's worth, when the usual solution is a $5 spark plug. Stupid question: would a repeatedly-fouled, repeatedly-replaced spark plug cause its spark plug wire to fail? Could that send problems even further back up the chain to the coils or something?
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Autoexec.bat posted:If you don't mind universal knobs I've bought a generic leather one at o'reilly's in the past. Knob quality was good but the mounting bits were fiddly and kinda cheap. I've never had a universal shift knob stay tight worth a drat.
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I was told that I should get a Transmission Flush today for $250 CAD. Good idea or waste of money?
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I'd really like to look at what my 89 CRX Si might look like with different paint jobs, decals, body kits, wheels etc. Are there any cool games/programs/apps that have a comprehensive list of cars that you can look at and customize that might even include cars like the 2nd gen CRX?
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Forza would do ok, maybe Grand Turismo as well?
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vulturesrow posted:Havent found anything that great. I'm actually wondering if I even need to pull the whole dash. I should be able to pop the vents out and take a look, no? Maybe. It's a complete crap shoot. Maybe look for videos/write ups about a task that requires dash removal, like heater core replacement, something like that. You're not the first person to do the job, and it'd be crazy if nobody else has documented it yet. Don't be afraid to look at surrounding years, too.
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Professor Shark posted:I was told that I should get a Transmission Flush today for $250 CAD. Good idea or waste of money? Told by who, exactly? Have you checked the dipstick of fill hole yourself? Be leery of any maintenance item called a flush that doesn't line up with your car's maintenance schedule. Depending on your car, your automatic transmission fluid even might be a "lifetime fluid" that's only supposed to be checked every 30k miles and, unless there's a problem seen int the checks, only changed every 100k. Also, changing ATF doesn't always mean flushing ATF, so be sure of what you're actually paying for and what your maintenance schedule calls for I suppose it's worth noting that if you have a manual transmission and you're offered a transmission flush, it's almost certainly a scam. Manual transmissions don't have the very complicated valve bodies to flush out that automatics do, and MTF doesn't degrade in the same way that ATF does As an aside, I don't know if this piece of shadetree wrenching holds true for more modern automatics and the better transmission fluids in them, but I was taught that changing ATF is a binary "regularly and properly" or "never at all" maintenance item. Burnt ATF can hide a lot of bad problems in the transmission in musch the same way that non-synthetic oil can hide gasket leaks that synthetic oils will go straight through
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Last time a shop told me I needed a flush, my normal mechanic just changed the fluid and the issue I was having went entirely away.
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The Door Frame posted:As an aside, I don't know if this piece of shadetree wrenching holds true for more modern automatics and the better transmission fluids in them, but I was taught that changing ATF is a binary "regularly and properly" or "never at all" maintenance item. Burnt ATF can hide a lot of bad problems in the transmission in musch the same way that non-synthetic oil can hide gasket leaks that synthetic oils will go straight through It's not so much "hiding problems" as a specific failure mode that can cause new problems. Synthetic oil and ATF both have tons of detergents to where suddenly introducing fresh stuff can break up and dislodge old deposits that are built up. With oil, the worst this usually causes is external leaks; any crud that falls off inside will just sink down into the pan, and even if it makes it through the pickup screen the oil pump will grind it up fairly harmlessly. Slushboxes have a lot more narrow orifices that control critical functions, and it's pumped by the torque converter which is basically a centrifugal pump, so it can't really chew things up. All this means that a previously perfectly functional, if somewhat dirty, transmission that has fresh fluid dumped in suddenly has lots of chances for big chunks of carbon deposit to get washed through the system and plug up, say, a hydraulic passage that actuates a clutchpack; enjoy your new (N-1)-speed transmission. E: The point of all this is that you can salvage a transmission that's been neglected for a while. The secret is to do it gradually, changing out like half a quart at a time and driving a few hundred miles to let it circulate. That helps break things up more slowly, so you end up breaking those chunks apart by soaking, rather than dissolving the "glue" holding it to whatever piece of metal it's hanging onto. Fender Anarchist fucked around with this message at 07:20 on Jul 13, 2018 |
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The Door Frame posted:Told by who, exactly? Have you checked the dipstick of fill hole yourself? Dealership Service Dept, the guy said that they recommended it around the mileage my car is at. It's an automatic, not sure about the maintenance schedule. Edit: I should have mentioned mileage: 88,820 km Professor Shark fucked around with this message at 14:09 on Jul 13, 2018 |
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Professor Shark posted:Dealership Service Dept, the guy said that they recommended it around the mileage my car is at. It's an automatic, not sure about the maintenance schedule. Yeah, dealership is out to make a buck. Check what your manual says, and unless you've been doing some really hard driving and your transmission fluid looks dark and smells burnt on the dipstick you almost definitely aren't even due for an ATF replacement.
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