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Colostomy Bag posted:There is so much wrong with this. Meh, many of those arent even under tension and they will elongate a fair amount before popping. Its much safer than some of the spring compressors that are dubiously holding on or worse are already slipping.
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I've seen far too many springs compressed using sub-standard means recently. It's like one dude posted one on toktok and then everyone else decided to post the times they had seen something similar. The worst one I saw was the one that had woodworking clamps holding it in, like the ones you use when you're glueing two pieces together.
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Wasn't there one with 1,000 zip-ties?
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PainterofCrap posted:Wasn't there one with 1,000 zip-ties? I remember that from like 20 ish years ago. That was how the dude lowered the car IIRC.
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Watch Wes Work encounters a Horrible Electrial Failure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA3NvgM0jAQ
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Farmers are known for modifying their equipment, you'd think JCB would put a sticker there or something that says "HEY, ALL THE WIRES FOR THIS poo poo ARE UNDER HERE"
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I love that every wire is yellow with a green stripe. Stripes cost extra! The stripe is painted on in a separate manufacturing step! Why did you spend extra on striped wire, but not different colors? AI tip: buy striped automotive wire here. Pretty sure it's just one guy with a garage full of wire. Seems to be a competently run operation.
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STR posted:You'll just lift the entire car. When black death hits, those fuckers are in there reaaaaaaaaal loving good. Some people wind up removing the head and chiseling out the injector, then drilling out what's left.  I don't know about lifting a whole van, but they get really stuck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW7obNKxc4U The engine is only(?) 500 lbs dry according to shipping weights. And black death is gross. It was one of the things I checked for and fortunately so far the van is clean. Replacing injectors and seals is on the radar for a long term (50-100k miles) project. Lots wood to chop before that though. Here's what it looks like (not mine) when it's not terrible. It can definitely be worse, but those should all be just clean. 
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PainterofCrap posted:Wasn't there one with 1,000 zip-ties? wesleywillis posted:I remember that from like 20 ish years ago. This one?    
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ili posted:This one? Based on most RX-8 owners I've met, this is 100% on point.
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McTinkerson posted:Based on most RX-8 owners I've met, this is 100% on point. I was going to say, that's very On Brand™
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ili posted:This one? That's the one. Wanted to be around the first time he hit a good bump.
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since I saw it on a Mazda board, yeah probably that one.
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Thumposaurus posted:TLDW synopsis: guy has a beefy truck for towing heavy poo poo. Has a transmission built, repowers with an even beefier motor and twisted the input shaft so badly that the torque converter has to be taken apart with a death wheel to inspect the rest of the guts. In the followup video, pretty much all of rest of the transmission, saving the exploded input shaft and pump stator that got chewed up removing the torque converter, was still solid and reusable. Rich really knows his poo poo with transmissions.
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ryanrs posted:I love that every wire is yellow with a green stripe. Saving this for later. I may end up wiring the Opel more or less from scratch.
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ryanrs posted:I love that every wire is yellow with a green stripe. I thought the same thing but it turns out they printed the wire number every few inches on the insulation so it's not the end of the world. I'm going to have to bookmark that, I've been buying assortments on eBay when I need a bunch for a project.
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kastein posted:I thought the same thing but it turns out they printed the wire number every few inches on the insulation so it's not the end of the world. Reminds me of some military aircraft and ship wiring. All white Teflon. All labeled individually, with heat shrink labels at each end and regularly along each wire. And then bundled with kapton overwrap. https://imgur.com/SdxGrNZ Like that, but with orange tape over everything.
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And people ask where the military spends its money.
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BigPaddy posted:And people ask where the military spends its money. I don't ask. And that's not even close to the most wasteful poo poo that happens. Awww, sleepy truck.
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Feels like these two are related.
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kastein posted:Jesus he couldn't have chosen a worse place to drill. The hydraulic oil tank has taken you up on that challenge.
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I knew taco trucks were becoming more popular but this is ridiculous
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There's a lot of bad places to drill, but i think the battery wins It's scared or threatened. Best thing to do is to leave it alone
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kastein posted:I thought the same thing but it turns out they printed the wire number every few inches on the insulation so it's not the end of the world. Yup buses do this too. Its a whole lot easier for troubleshooting than a rainbow of colors and stripes*. *for the colorblind.
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builds character posted:
 I have never had this happen on a VW/Audi Common Rail. How the hell does this happen. Is that just seal failures?
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CommieGIR posted:
I believe it's failures of the injector sealing o-rings. They allow combustion gasses/goo to leak out into the open. This slowly-leaking combustion goo is the best glue known to man and makes it drat near impossible to remove the injectors.
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Deteriorata posted:Watch Wes Work encounters a Horrible Electrial Failure: You know, after all that, I kinda hate the stud he welded in. How is that not going to be twice as annoying as the loose rubber trim? Just glue it with contact cement, god drat.
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CommieGIR posted:
Yup. There are copper seals that can leak. Everyone on the internet always says "faulty copper seals" but I honestly don't know what that means. Faulty like the design is bad or faulty like the manufacturing process is bad or faulty like they're actually a wear part and MB didn't call them that? It's really just copper washers so my guess is there's something else going on because they should be fairly straightforward to design and have predictable use characteristics. One possibility is that the prior procedure for tightening down injectors wasn't good enough because MB changed the tightening procedure for tightening them down in the new 2007+ vans (with a different engine) from one 90 degree turn after torque to two 90 degree turns. So maybe there are some that are just a little bit too lose and that's the cause. Here's a video of the kind of puffing sound they make when they go bad and you can hear (and apparently smell) the diesel escaping so the other half of the mystery is why folks don't hear their engine change or smell the difference and think "hey, I wonder what's going on?". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKaOtRmFjB8 chrisgt posted:I believe it's failures of the injector sealing o-rings. They allow combustion gasses/goo to leak out into the open. This slowly-leaking combustion goo is the best glue known to man and makes it drat near impossible to remove the injectors. Apparently oven cleaner is the thing that gets rid of it but oven cleaner is also a terrible penetrant so it only clears it up on the outside.
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ryanrs posted:You know, after all that, I kinda hate the stud he welded in. How is that not going to be twice as annoying as the loose rubber trim? just a strip of duct tape across the entire seam would have been good enough! replace it once a year or so
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ryanrs posted:Doesn't oven cleaner eat aluminum? Well you don't want to leave it there, yes, but once you rinse it off it'll stop reacting. Ideally use something else if you can avoid anything with Lye in it. builds character posted:Yup. There are copper seals that can leak. Everyone on the internet always says "faulty copper seals" but I honestly don't know what that means. Faulty like the design is bad or faulty like the manufacturing process is bad or faulty like they're actually a wear part and MB didn't call them that? It's really just copper washers so my guess is there's something else going on because they should be fairly straightforward to design and have predictable use characteristics. One possibility is that the prior procedure for tightening down injectors wasn't good enough because MB changed the tightening procedure for tightening them down in the new 2007+ vans (with a different engine) from one 90 degree turn after torque to two 90 degree turns. So maybe there are some that are just a little bit too lose and that's the cause. Yeah I personally haven't experienced this failure yet in any of our CRDs or TDIs even after injector re-seals. Odd that Mercedes is dealing with this usually they have the better processes for this stuff. CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 18:43 on Nov 17, 2021 |
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builds character posted:Apparently oven cleaner is the thing that gets rid of it but oven cleaner is also a terrible penetrant so it only clears it up on the outside. If you gotta get rid of organic compounds, there's always piranha solution 
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ryanrs posted:Doesn't oven cleaner eat aluminum? It'll also eat your skin, whoops
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CommieGIR posted:Well you don't want to leave it there, yes, but once you rinse it off it'll stop reacting. Ideally use something else if you can avoid anything with Lye in it. Easy Off - Fume Free - lemon scent - is my choice for cleaning aluminum when normal APC or Purple Power won't touch the road grime. Still not amazing for you - but less likely to cause issues with aluminum. 2-(2-butoxyethoxy)ethanol potassium carbonate 2-aminoethanol isobutane d-Limonene
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Yeah, I am imagining caustic oven cleaner eating little pits in whatever aluminum that copper washer is supposed to seal against. (I don't know anything about these cars and injectors, but this set off a material incompatibility warning in my brain.)
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ryanrs posted:I love that every wire is yellow with a green stripe. Oh my god thank you.
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CommieGIR posted:Well you don't want to leave it there, yes, but once you rinse it off it'll stop reacting. Ideally use something else if you can avoid anything with Lye in it. Yeah, this makes sense to me but I haven't had the problem so it's all just based on reading I've done before buying and folks seem to say "oven cleaner" although carb cleaner is also suggested. The other advice is "just drive it until the injector pops." As someone new to diesels this seems like the dumbest most terrifying idea ever but it's also very popular advice. It's interesting because apparently it isn't nearly the same kind of problem in europe where they had the exact same engine. And it's not a problem with the next two gens of sprinters either which have the same kind of injector seals and hold downs. ryanrs posted:Yeah, I am imagining caustic oven cleaner eating little pits in whatever aluminum that copper washer is supposed to seal against. You do need to lap the seats with 600 grit sandpaper (again, according to the internet so...) so maybe that's why folks think it's OK? I really don't know other than that it's an interesting mechanical problem MB created for themselves. I'm planning on replacing things prior to it being an issue so hopefully I won't show up here posting "hey this is black death in a sprinter..."
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