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"I'll buy tires next week. Do you sell used tires?"
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Nov 12, 2019 02:59
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Nov 12, 2019 03:06
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There's a killer on the road His tread is squirmin' like a toad Take a long holiday Let your children play If you give this tire a ride Sweet family will die Killer on the road
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Nov 12, 2019 03:08
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Shake Wheels With Danger
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Nov 12, 2019 06:51
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Deteriorata posted:There's a killer on the road 
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Nov 12, 2019 14:08
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Deteriorata posted:There's a killer on the road With the belt plies thumpin' in the back, so how 'bout that?
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Nov 12, 2019 17:25
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Deteriorata posted:There's a killer on the road Trouser Chili's avatar poem comes to mind.
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Nov 13, 2019 03:20
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I won the local NASA TT4 class and set the TT4 track record on this today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVvuh1a2bKo It was as sketchy as you'd expect, bad enough to fault ABS BlackMK4 fucked around with this message at 00:41 on Nov 18, 2019 |
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Nov 18, 2019 00:36
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Congrats, maybe you are onto something there. 
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C-Bangin' it 
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Almost became a horrible mechanic failure. Heard a clunking every time I was turning right and hit a bump. I had a scraping whenever I was driving coming from that wheel too (I knew why; the back plate for the knuckle got bent when I pressed out the extremely stuck axle, and was scraping the rotor). Pulled the wheel off to bend the backing plate away from the rotor, and saw the ball joint pinch bolt backed out.  (not the one with the cotter pin; this one has a pinch bolt that holds the ball joint to the spindle). I pooped a little when I saw that.I didn't even need to touch that drat bolt anyway, I was just in a hurry to get the knuckle off. I think I got it finger tight and forgot about it in my rush to get the car off the lift; the wheel speed sensor cable bracket bolt was also loose.  Took it for a drive after bending the backing plate away from the rotor and tightening up the pinch bolt, and no more clunking, no more scraping.
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Nov 18, 2019 16:56
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It's funny to me that the ball joint pinch bolt on a Subaru can come loose. That thing is usually rust-welded to the inside of the knuckle.
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So I've heard. It broke free super easy, same with the tie rod and ball joint nuts (the ones that do have the cotter pins). Every bolt I touched on it broke loose with hand tools, except for the axle nut (which took about 30 seconds with an impact before it zipped off). Getting that loving axle out of the hub though... I know the knuckle has been replaced ("RF" is written on the knuckle, rotor, and LCA in grease pen), but holy gently caress that was a massive PITA job. Roll pin came right out (and promptly fell into a heat shield), but getting it out at the wheel end took over an hour. And a lot of fire. It spent 8 years in Canada according to Carfax. Zero rust aside from that loving axle to hub.
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Nov 18, 2019 19:56
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Seat Safety Switch posted:It's funny to me that the ball joint pinch bolt on a Subaru can come loose. That thing is usually rust-welded to the inside of the knuckle.
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Nov 18, 2019 21:58
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I bought what is essentially 2 half trashed sets of wheels to make a whole good set, and one of them was bent, cracked and fixed with RTV    what kind of loving lunatic.... Powershift fucked around with this message at 01:05 on Nov 19, 2019 |
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Nov 19, 2019 01:02
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Well then 
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Nov 19, 2019 01:12
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Powershift posted:I bought what is essentially 2 half trashed sets of wheels to make a whole good set, and one of them was bent, cracked Chuck that poo poo on a Roadforce balancer. I want to see how far it's out.
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Nov 19, 2019 01:15
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*checks map*
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Nov 19, 2019 01:17
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I also spotted this fella today.  That's a brrrrrrrrrrrr*cachunk*BRRRRRRRRRRRRRR right there.
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Nov 19, 2019 01:19
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Powershift posted:I also spotted this fella today. What am I looking at, here? An exhaust heat shield?
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Nov 19, 2019 19:36
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Darchangel posted:What am I looking at, here? An exhaust heat shield? I believe it's part of the end plate on a 5 ton DPF/Muffler.
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Nov 19, 2019 20:37
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Hahaha no, it's a cat shield that fell off and got flattened. Made the car quieter, no doubt.
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Nov 19, 2019 22:39
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It's me, I'm the mechanical failure. I let my rear pads get completely worn out to the point of grooving the rotors, requiring both to be replaced.
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Nov 19, 2019 22:58
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Son, I am disappoint.n0tqu1tesane posted:I let my rear pads get completely worn out to the point of grooving the rotors, requiring both to be
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Nov 19, 2019 23:04
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Just wedge a block with some sandpaper in the calliper for a hundred miles or so. Dagen H posted:Hahaha no, it's a cat shield that fell off and got flattened. Made the car quieter, no doubt. It just looked perfectly round. Shows what I get for never having cats
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Nov 19, 2019 23:14
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I'm paying someone to fix it because I don't have the time to be bothered with it right now. Otherwise I'd probably do something like that.
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Nov 19, 2019 23:14
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Every drive axle is a brake lathe.
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Nov 19, 2019 23:33
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Powershift posted:Just wedge a block with some sandpaper in the calliper for a hundred miles or so. That's too much work. The new pads will bed in to the new shape of the rotor just fine. Don't ask me how I know this.
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Nov 19, 2019 23:34
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n0tqu1tesane posted:I'm paying someone to fix it because I don't have the time to be bothered with it right now. Otherwise I'd probably do something like that.
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Darchangel posted:That's too much work. The new pads will bed in to the new shape of the rotor just fine. Ff=uFn It's just science. Your brakes will work just as good.
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Nov 20, 2019 01:21
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Wouldn’t they work better with grooves in the rotors? More surface area! Lol The secret big brake doesn’t want you to know!
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Nov 20, 2019 02:16
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namlosh posted:Wouldn’t they work better with grooves in the rotors? More surface area! Lol
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Nov 20, 2019 02:34
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n0tqu1tesane posted:I let my rear pads get completely worn out to the point of grooving the rotors, requiring both to be replaced. I grooved the backside of a rotor by bending the backing plate.  (see a few posts above... had to put the knuckle in a press, then use fire, to pop the axle out)The rotors are turbofucked to begin with, so nothing of value was really lost.
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Nov 20, 2019 07:58
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Anyone have pro tips on removing wheel bearings where the entire center section disintegrated and all that is left is the shell inside the knuckle?    
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Nov 20, 2019 23:14
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There is tools for pulling those, but I usually take a small metal cutoff wheel and cut a notch and then split it with an air chisel. Or use one of those splitters CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Nov 20, 2019 |
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Nov 20, 2019 23:38
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I'm replacing the hub since there is no way it isn't damaged, I mean that I can't get what is left of the bearing out of the knuckle  e: i managed to get everything fanagled to be able to press on the old inner race with an old set of bearings and it came out. 
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Nov 20, 2019 23:49
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Just press it out from the other side? Would need a picture of the opp side of the knuckle. The Honda's I'm used to you just pop out the snap ring, press out the bearing and hub together, then fight the ring stuck on the hub. Efb lol
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yeah, problem was the plastic bearing cage was completely hosed and the balls had been worn enough that it all fell apart when i pushed the hub out (by hand.) I pulled a bearing cage out of a spare old wheel bearing i had and reused the inner race, was able to balance it all enough to get it lined up on the press. The silver in the original pics isn't lube, it is bearing 
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Weld a bead on it?
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I'm probably facing something similar soon; we had to use judicious amounts of fire to get an axle out of the hub on my car. I'm 99.99999991% sure the inner race will become one with the knuckle when I yank the hub and bearing. There's no way the bearing survived the hub being red hot unscathed. I'm just gonna get another knuckle when I can find a junkyard one.
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