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To be fair, at least it doesn't gently caress up all the poo poo around it when it buckles.
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OC crosspost: Some oc from walking my dog; this monstrosity of a trailer:  And the front:  Features include: Asymmetry and structural ratchet straps and siding!
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Particle board, particle board All over the highway particle board.
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What are they trying to keep contained?!?!
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Darchangel posted:What are they trying to keep contained?!?! Scrap. At least it has full tires and lights. Anything I see like that around here is being pulled be a tiny car with none of that. To be fair, one of my customer's trailers looked like that after twelve years. You could see the hitch ball through the hitch receiver, due to rust. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0NlXKPaqZg
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davebo posted:Particle board, particle board plywood board, plywood board plywood board hates particle board
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madeintaipei posted:Scrap. At least it has full tires and lights. Anything I see like that around here is being pulled be a tiny car with none of that. Scrappers usually collect and sell. But this one has a problem with that idea: There doesn't seem to be a way to open the trailer to add or remove items. Every single piece of wood and siding appears to be screwed/nailed together.
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That Works posted:plywood board, plywood board they have a fight; nobody wins particle board
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Powershift posted:or one 3 mile long, 364 door Aztek This Speed Racer reboot is getting weird.
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Maybe that trailer is a clever way of transporting an old shed? I know I did something sort of similar when taking apart an old gazebo and trying to fit it in a ranger. I tarped and strapped the whole loving thing down after.
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Colostomy Bag posted:I wonder what the tow rig is. One of those cars that is two front ends welded together.
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That Works posted:plywood board, plywood board Previa_fun posted:they have a fight; nobody wins Well, thanks. Now *that's* in my head. Ghost Leviathan posted:This Speed Racer reboot is getting weird.  The Race Against The Mammoth Car edit: awww, you can't spoiler a video. Fixed.
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I'd hate having to comb my car after every drive.
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Did someone buy a few Jenga blocks?
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Uthor posted:I'd hate having to comb my car after every drive. At least it looks long-haired and won't shed in your garage.
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I don't know which is worse: drum brake, or the fact that it uses wheel bolts. Also, someone stole the wheels, I think.
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Yeah, noticed the drums. And I hate lug bolts. Got done screwing with one and have another three to go.
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KozmoNaut posted:There's absolutely nothing wrong with rear drums Or lug bolts, for that matter.
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I've never had hubcentric alignment. I imagine lug bolts would be a pain in the rear end. Also drums are a pita to work on. It's like a clock behind there. Then again the only time I worked on a set the auto tightening mechanism was hosed and the drum was stuck to the hub. um excuse me fucked around with this message at 23:16 on Aug 2, 2019 |
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KozmoNaut posted:There's absolutely nothing wrong with rear drums
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KozmoNaut posted:There's absolutely nothing wrong with rear drums Grandpa, is that you?
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Drums are poo poo to work on, and mediocre at stopping more than once a blue moon. Lug bolts are just annoying as gently caress. It's telling that pretty much the only majors to use them are the Germans, because they won't give up on an idea until they thoroughly run it into the ground, and possibly not even then (see rear-engine Porsche.) I *hated* the lug bolts on my RX-7. Thank God the GSL-SE hubs I upgraded to have honest-to-God studs, as well as larger (DISK!) brakes. edit: also, drum brakes are ugly (and their mother dresses them funny. They speak with a lisp, too.)
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What exactly is the problem people have with lug bolts? Cleaning up a wheel hub with lug bolts takes 30 seconds, cleaning up around studs to the same degree of cleanliness takes several minutes, that's the only difference I ever noticed. Of all the things wrong with keeping an EDM machine good and running the lug bolts are probably the last thing I would complain about.
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Darchangel posted:Drums are poo poo to work on, and mediocre at stopping more than once a blue moon. Germans, French, Italians most European cars use lug bolts
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Getting the two sets of holes to line up was a pain in the rear end, i always hated working on vws at my shop job. With studs you can hang the wheels then come back and thread the nuts on; bolts you pretty much have to put the first one in the wheel and hold it there with one hand, hold the rim with the other, and guide it all together as you stare through the bolt holes to make sure they're lined up right. Most cars, at least one axle would spin freely, so you can't twist the wheel on the hub to rotate the holes into alignment.
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Like if it's really difficult for you to manage just cut the head off a spare wheel bolt and use that as a dowel to hang the wheel on while you thread the other bolts in
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fridge corn posted:Like if it's really difficult for you to manage just cut the head off a spare wheel bolt and use that as a dowel to hang the wheel on while you thread the other bolts in I did that! Got some long bolts from McMaster and hacksawed the heads off.
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If you lightly push on the lower quarter of the wheel it will stabilize on the hub without coming off and if the hub and wheel are clean you can position them easily. At least that's my experience but I usually don't work on rust buckets. In my opinion the best brake setup for rear axles is main disk brakes and drum e-brakes because whenever someone tries to utilize the main calipers for the e-brake it usually ends up as a pain to work on. Combat Theory fucked around with this message at 00:21 on Aug 3, 2019 |
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Combat Theory posted:If you lightly push on the lower quarter of the wheel it will stabilize on the hub without coming off and if the hub and wheel are clean you can position them easily. At least that's my experience but I usually don't work on rust buckets. Rest the tire on your toes and brace it against the drum with the knee. Awkward as gently caress if you got a gut but it's easy to get the bolts in finger tight! 
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Krakkles posted:As long as you don't work on your own car, maybe. Get a BMW - then you can have the best of both worlds! Disk brakes for the service brakes and then a small drum setup inside the rear rotor for the handbrake!! 
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Lug bolts suck. Period. Taking wheels on and off is one of if not the most common thing to happen to a car. Arguing that it isn't bad because you can just make your own studs that you install temporarily instead of having them be a permanent part of the car is the most German car thing I've ever heard. If you're still not convinced: https://www.google.com/search?q=lug...mobile&ie=UTF-8 All I had to type into Google was "lug bo" and it auto filled the rest.
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It's not a German car thing to make temporary studs, in fact I never heard about it outside this thread. I just don't think it's that big of an issue to line up 2 holes if you know how to grab a tire and I don't think I ever heard someone complain about it either which is why I was so interested in hearing why it poses such an inconvenience on the other side of the Atlantic apparently. I can see the convenience of placing your wheel on studs to align but to me the incovnecine of cleaning around the studs if you wanna do a good job is outweighting the few seconds it takes to align the holes. That's just me though and I grew up with both as half my cars are made in Japan. Maybe it's a different thing if every wheel hub you ever looked on has studs. As I said of all the things wrong with the modern EDM service nightmare, having wheel lugs seems like a very miniscule thing to complain about.
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I had a volvo with wheel bolts. It had an alignment pin on the hub face to help you line things up. 
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MRC48B posted:I had a volvo with wheel bolts. It had an alignment pin on the hub face to help you line things up. I was just about to say that the X1/9 had a similar set up with 2 pins. Maybe it's a Bertone thing 
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The first thing I did with all of my BMWs was convert to studs. Bolts are a blight. (Along with doing the complete cooling system because you know that's bad, no matter how New or old it is or when the last owner swore they did it) bird cooch fucked around with this message at 03:51 on Aug 3, 2019 |
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I drop one bolt into the wheel I’m installing, set an impact on top (small 3/8 one) and then use the bolt/impact to help line up the wheel with the hole in the hub. Easy as pie.
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