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BlackMK4 posted:Thanks to jamal. This poo poo is porn. 
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MrOnBicycle posted:Jesus Christ I hope I don't have to deal with handbrake cables like that...but then again I own a car that pretty much requires me to to take off the front bumper to change lights so..... The entire headlamp/turn signal assembly is held in with 2 pins on mine. Need to change a bulb? Yank the pins and the whole housing drops out. So..... The cable on the other side looks fine (but original). The worst split was near a pinch weld, my best guess is some numbnut put a lift under it and crushed the cable. The worst part wasn't the carpet either.. it was putting the rear brakes back together. There's a thick U-shaped bar that holds everything in place (and doubles as a spring), and it's a pain in the dick to deal with.
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Bought a bunch of things to prepare for national level autocross/ruin the new civic si. 245/40/17 Bridgestone RE-71rs mounted on 17x8 RFP1s and a karcepts NASCAR type adjustable rear sway bar. Tires go on once it’s not freezing anymore, but I got matte black so it should look good hopefully. I think this is the first car I’ve owned where it’s not a coilovers, but divorced spring. BlackMK4 posted:Thanks to jamal. This poo poo is porn. I had ap racing calipers on the FRS. Being able to swap pads in 10min is 
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2006 Xterra There is a plastic piece between the heater core return and the rest of the cooling system. I originally broke it as I was doing a heater core bypass which has since been re-connected. However the plastic piece broke again in a new place and left me semi-stranded last week. By random chance, I had a very little amount of JBKwikWeld with me. but even if I had the 4-6 hours for that to harden, there's no way I could trust it to hold this thing together. What I ended up doing is using that epoxy to create the "waterproof" seal, then phoned in someone to deliver a stick of JBWeldSteelStik, which I'm now developing an unhealthy relationship with. This plastic piece which is essentially a T-connection is starting to look more like a fist.  I visited the junkyard Saturday, a 2nd Generation Xterra showed up on in my inbox alerts a few days ago and I'm praying it hasn't been picked clean already because I've been waiting for one to show up for months. I had an hour or so before they closed and the vehicle was in a totally different row than specified. Luckily I did find it and someone had done most of the hard work for me; the grill I was also after had been perfectly disconnected and lay on the ground. While fighting the clock to get some other pieces, I suddenly remembered I desperately wanted that heater hose, and was able to get it off quickly after dealing with the broken one several times in the past. Chunjee fucked around with this message at 14:48 on Mar 25, 2019 |
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Mar 25, 2019 14:46
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Mazdaspeed3 I let a rear end clunk go for... loving a year and a half because I'm a lazy rear end. A few weeks back I finally swapped in new rear swaybar links, and that didn't fix it. Yesterday I replaced the swaybar bushings as well and hey presto, the clunk is gone. Also did the rear brake pads, and kind of pissed off because the Hawk HPSes I ordered off amazon back in September had the right number on the box, but inside were front pads for a fuckin' Jeep. So I made two separate trips to Crappy Tire; one for pads, then another one an hour later once I realized I wasn't gonna be able to compress one of the calipers with a pair of needlenose pliers and I actually needed to rent a caliper tool. It took five fuckin' minutes after getting the tool.
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Muffinpox posted:Bought a bunch of things to prepare for national level autocross/ruin the new civic si. 245/40/17 Bridgestone RE-71rs mounted on 17x8 RFP1s and a karcepts NASCAR type adjustable rear sway bar. Tires go on once it’s not freezing anymore, but I got matte black so it should look good hopefully. also: karcepts stuff is so nice 👌🏻 BlackMK4 fucked around with this message at 17:34 on Mar 25, 2019 |
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Mar 25, 2019 17:14
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Phy posted:Mazdaspeed3 Caliper tools are one of the very few job specific tools I won't go without at this point. It's so much nicer and faster than squeezing the Jesus out of the pistons by hand/pliers.
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I get using a tool where you need to say wind in the caliper for the parking brake, but why don't you just use a big c-clamp and one of the pads you're replacing to compress the caliper?
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Mar 25, 2019 17:39
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TrueChaos posted:I get using a tool where you need to say wind in the caliper for the parking brake, but why don't you just use a big c-clamp and one of the pads you're replacing to compress the caliper?
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Rear caliper on the Mazda3, including the Speed, only has the one piston that does double duty, both as the parking brake and the regular hydraulically operated brake. So you have to turn and push in at the same time, and when I read up on it yesterday, sometimes the force to push it in is a little more than is reasonable to do manually. I did the brakes on my old regular Mazda3 years ago with just the pliers, but for whatever reason this one piston wanted to fight me. The caliper tool made short work of it though. It's possible I'll need to rebuild it at some point, cause the other side went in way easier, to the point where the tool kept jumping off the piston and I went back to pliers.
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When you're compressing caliper pistons you should open the bleeder. This way you aren't pushing old fluid back into the lines and it will be easier. A lot of cars use a drum parking brake in the rotor hat, those obviously just compress normally. It's only on setups with a cable actuating the hydraulic caliper where you need the tool thing to rotate.
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 gently caress you, I changed you last year
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Mar 25, 2019 19:32
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MrOnBicycle posted:How on earth ....
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Mar 25, 2019 20:34
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I see a lot of rust behind there too, I'd guess "rust belt" and "hard winter" how the gently caress did it get that deep into the loving threads though?
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Something apparently used to live in the intake. I don't want to stick a camera down the hole. I know what I will find. E: no cooling issues at all, thankfully. The bunch of leaves and mouse poo poo it breathed might have hurt things though... 1200 obo 94 teggy manual mechanic special ran when parked I know what I got SeaGoatSupreme fucked around with this message at 22:55 on Mar 25, 2019 |
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Mar 25, 2019 22:44
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I replaced a lower ball joint on the GS earlier intending to bang it out and get on with my day. The job took about 90 minutes all in as I had all the tools ready to go and the split pins were playing nicely and both joints popped easy enough. So I go to lower the car back down and notice the undertray looks wet. It hasn't rained here in a few days so wtf? It's here I notice the power steering cooling loop hard line is leaking. Cue a very fiddly job hacking the hard line off inside the bumper I can't remove because the fixings are chemically welded tight. Managed to get a hacksaw in and cut the hard line out and I had some appropriate hose and a load of jubilee clips. It took ages but gently caress it, it's done. Wash your car after driving through road salt, it helps your poo poo from rotting out from under you...
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Changed all the brake pads (and rear rotors) on my 4runner last night. Discovered the passenger side rear caliper is sticking due to one of the caliper slide pins being kind of tight. I tried swapping pins but didn't notice a difference.
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Verman posted:Changed all the brake pads (and rear rotors) on my 4runner last night. Discovered the passenger side rear caliper is sticking due to one of the caliper slide pins being kind of tight. I tried swapping pins but didn't notice a difference. did you clean out the Caliper bracket? the hole the slide pins go into on my pickup had grease that had basically vulcanized, i'm assuming the previous owner(a railway, go figure) used regular grease that baked itself onto the inside of where the slidepins go. it took a pretty stiff wire brush to clean it all out.
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still trying to save a datsun     
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BlackMK4 posted:Are you on the sandbox yet? I read it once in a while but no account. The Karwan bar is reallll nice, but does get noisy if anything loosens up. I need to retorque all the hardware tomorrow.
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My front bar is quiet, but the rear bar sounds like loose wheel spokes on a bicycle popping and tinging at slow speed in uneven parking lots. I could see that getting annoying in a nice car like yours though  cupcakes and skittles is the answer, but you probably already knew that. I just mentioned it since there seem to be a handful of pretty talented dudes posting in the Civic Si thread BlackMK4 fucked around with this message at 03:09 on Mar 26, 2019 |
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EVERY loving TIME I set aside time to actually do poo poo, something comes up. This time it was insomnia. I finally knocked myself out with both diphenhydramine (benadryl) and doxylamine (the original unisom), but a bit too well. Slept until 5ish.  Then a friend asked for a ride; his GF's Juke popped the turbo last week, and his WRX had a caliper lock up yesterday, so they're down to 0 working cars for now. Finally got home at like 9, since we wound up going out to dinner.Rotated my tires in the garage (Discount won't touch them because two tires are 4/32), got yelled at by a neighbor for quietly working in my garage (.... now I see why my next door neighbor always closes his overhead door when he's working on his car, heat be damned), still haven't gotten around to the (I'm 3k into an oil change and I've already added 2 quarts... before this leak started, I didn't have to add anything between 7-9k oil changes).
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Is that going to be one of the "once it is out hopefully you can start/thread new one super fast" moves?
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C-Bangin' it 
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This might be child's play to a lot of you here but I changed the transmission fluid and filter on my 98 camry today, first time I have ever done any kind of fluid replacement on a vehicle before. A few things I learned: Get a proper drain pan - I used a disposable aluminum foil roasting pan and the stream of warm transmission fluid bounced out of the pan and perfectly dodged the cardboard I had laid on the garage floor specifically to catch rogue drips. Great Get a torque wrench - I snapped a bolt when putting the pan back on when I tightened one too hard. Looks like it's still sealed and not leaking but I will have to get the broken one out and replaced sooner than later It wasn't all bad - I used gasket adhesive when trying to get the new gasket aligned with the holes on the transmission pan and I can bet it would have been a nightmare without it. polyester concept fucked around with this message at 23:36 on Mar 26, 2019 |
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polyester concept posted:Get a proper drain pan - I used a disposable aluminum foil roasting pan and the stream of warm transmission fluid bounced out of the pan and perfectly dodged the cardboard I had laid on the garage floor specifically to catch rogue drips. Great Smells wonderful don't it? The first time I changed ATF I thought a baby had wandered nearby with a very full diaper. Good luck with that broken bolt it sounds like a real headache. Hopefully you won't need to take the whole thing off again.
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My parents are trading in their C5 Corvette in on a C6. They had a nice Corsa exhaust, and they offered it to me for mine if I paid to have them swapped. A friend has an exhaust shop, and man, wrestling the factory mufflers off and on is a real pain in the rear end. We had to take the rear swaybars off just to get them to fit, and we barely had room on a 4 post lift.
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Chunjee posted:Smells wonderful don't it? The first time I changed ATF I thought a baby had wandered nearby with a very full diaper. Diff oil is even better.
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Weirdly enough diff oil, even with the limited slip additives doesn't really smell to me. ATF though makes me gag every time I open a jug of it. I installed one axle on my VW and finally got the starter installed today. Would have gotten the other one in too if my torque wrench didn't stop working and cause me to snap a bolt off in the axle flange. (This VW uses 6 8mm triple squares to hold the axle to the trans.)
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Colostomy Bag posted:Is that going to be one of the "once it is out hopefully you can start/thread new one super fast" moves? Nah, it's several inches above the oil pan. Shouldn't be anything behind it once the engine's been sitting for a few minutes.
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Autoexec.bat posted:Weirdly enough diff oil, even with the limited slip additives doesn't really smell to me. ATF though makes me gag every time I open a jug of it. Gear oil isn't awful until it's 30+ years old or has been overheated. Failed or ancient gear oil is loving putrid.
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It's pretty loving nasty when it's only 10 years old too.
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Fair enough, I guess the stuff that was in my VW was changed at one point then, otherwise it would have been 30 years old when I pulled the transaxle.
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NumbersMatching320 posted:Gear oil isn't awful until it's 30+ years old or has been overheated. Failed or ancient gear oil is loving putrid. The worst smelling fluid I can recall is when somebody rebuilt the trans in a DSM and put in the wrong final drive back in that didn't match the rear diff. The rear diff fluid was truly awful after only about 70 miles. Black, burnt, nasty. 
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BlackMK4 posted:My front bar is quiet, but the rear bar sounds like loose wheel spokes on a bicycle popping and tinging at slow speed in uneven parking lots. I could see that getting annoying in a nice car like yours though Hahaha, that Si I drove at autox was a sandbox member who placed 3rd in HS at nats. He’s not doing much racing this year but I’m trying to get him as a codriver once in a while so I have a barometer about how hard I’m goin to get my poo poo kicked in at nationals.
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NumbersMatching320 posted:Gear oil isn't awful until it's 30+ years old or has been overheated. Failed or ancient gear oil is loving putrid. yeah if it gets toasted it is really bad also if ATF gets toasted it is extremely unpleasant too
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:yeah if it gets toasted it is really bad Yeah on the wallet.
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Went to clay and detail the car over the weekend and noticed the recently repainted rear bumper was totally rough and not wet sanded/buffed. Decided to err on the side of caution and not attack it with compound and took it back to the body shop who (whoops) neglected to tell me they wanted to wait for the paint to cure before doing so. Rolled my eyes a bit but at least they're going to handle it. Downside is that I have to go back and re-do the ceramic coat on the rear bumper once I get it back.
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polyester concept posted:This might be child's play to a lot of you here but I changed the transmission fluid and filter on my 98 camry today, first time I have ever done any kind of fluid replacement on a vehicle before. A few things I learned: I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but a real drain pan won't save you either. Finagle loves automatic transmissions. The answer is *more* cardboard. [/quote] It wasn't all bad - I used gasket adhesive when trying to get the new gasket aligned with the holes on the transmission pan and I can bet it would have been a nightmare without it. [/quote] I've found that most pan gaskets intentionally undersize the holes for the bolts, so you can hold it in position with a few of the bolts threaded into the gasket. May not work with gaskets that have inserts to prevent over-tightening.
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