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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I'm seriously considering going to the sign shop and having them print me some decals from surrounding jurisdictions so I can park wherever the gently caress I want without worrying about it. It's too bad you didn't go with stop sign red so you could just get Milwaukee M400 Fuel decals made and put them on it.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:
This is 110% the correct choice.
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cursedshitbox posted:A ford truck without the worst part. Yeah but it's full of Ford electrics.
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Feb 17, 2024 05:44
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bennyfactor posted:That Article In ‘The Cut’ About The Financial Columnist Who Fell For A Shockingly Obvious Scam Is A Reminder That The Only Safe Place For Your Money Is In Non-Running Cars I am very glad my wife found that humorous because I would be in trouble if she didn’t.
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Feb 17, 2024 06:05
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kastein posted:It's too bad you didn't go with stop sign red so you could just get Milwaukee M400 Fuel decals made and put them on it. I literally could not find one that was not some sort of white or grey. There was ONE blue one that was beautiful but it was like 90k and wasn't even a Platinum. No thanks.
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bennyfactor posted:That Article In ‘The Cut’ About The Financial Columnist Who Fell For A Shockingly Obvious Scam Is A Reminder That The Only Safe Place For Your Money Is In Non-Running Cars If the FBI or CIA call me my first step is hanging up immediately. They don't need to call me to hear what I say on/near my phone. I would never pick up from Amazon. This idiot who fell for the scam either made it up or is just a trust-fund rich kid who has no idea how anything works (which is why she's got a job writing opinion articles in major publications).
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Feb 17, 2024 06:30
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I literally could not find one that was not some sort of white or grey. There was ONE blue one that was beautiful but it was like 90k and wasn't even a Platinum. No thanks. Come post pictures and give your thoughts in the EV thread! kastein posted:It's too bad you didn't go with stop sign red so you could just get Milwaukee M400 Fuel decals made and put them on it. That would be kickin' rad. Especially if you paired it with a camper shell shaped like a Milwaukee battery with "M400" on it.
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Feb 17, 2024 08:47
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Ether Frenzy posted:If the FBI or CIA call me my first step is hanging up immediately. Very first thought was if the FBI wants a chat, they're knocking on the door. If the CIA wants a chat, they're slapping a bag on your head and bundling you into a florist van.
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Feb 17, 2024 13:37
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Also, don't talk to the police, be they local, state, or federal cops. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law, so unless your lawyer says it's OK, never say a thing that isn't "am I free to leave officer?"
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I'm seriously considering going to the sign shop and having them print me some decals from surrounding jurisdictions so I can park wherever the gently caress I want without worrying about it. yes
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Feb 17, 2024 18:18
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Yeah but it's full of Ford electrics. That's fixable. Their engines however, less so. kastein posted:It's too bad you didn't go with stop sign red so you could just get Milwaukee M400 Fuel decals made and put them on it. Funny you bring that up. Their smaller m48 pack works pretty good. 
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Bathurst 12 hour is starting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_CTjle7xC0
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I traded my red truck for a white one.  good truck, am starting to see more of them aroundGnarlyCharlie4u posted:I am also seriously considering
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I'm falling down the Assetto Corsa VR and modding hole, send help
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MiniFoo posted:I'm falling down the Assetto Corsa VR and modding hole, send help I'm still enjoying Skyim Vr and Fallout 4 VR, so relaxing.
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In doing some route research for my upcoming vacation I learned that Caltrans has started a $148 million project to fix the intersection James Dean died at. Edit: crap, spelled Dean wrong. Not the porn star, the actor who died in 1955. Advent Horizon fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Feb 21, 2024 |
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Feb 21, 2024 19:49
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Advent Horizon posted:In doing some route research for my upcoming vacation I learned that Caltrans has started a $148 million project to fix the intersection James Deen died at. the porn star?
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Advent Horizon posted:In doing some route research for my upcoming vacation I learned that Caltrans has started a $148 million project to fix the intersection James Deen died at. A timely response to a place called Blood Alley that killed a massive public figure well before the Missus' grandparents were born
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXh-noWPZ1o Starting to think this dude has a forums account.
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So my very young adult niece (brother's daughter) just totaled her car a few weeks after my brother put $500 worth of brakes on it and she only had two payments left on it. She rear ended someone (she's ok not injured) on the interstate and is denying being on her phone which my brother suspects she was doing as apparently he's talked to her about doing it before. She then proceeded to pay a tow truck driver out of pocket instead of using AAA (my brother had her get it for poo poo like this) and had it towed to her house. And he just found out her license was suspended for not paying a previous ticket, my brother is livid to say the least. Yay kids! After I found out she was ok I joked that it probably would have helped if she used the new brakes he got for her 
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Me, an idiot: Alright, done working for the day. I'll just go ahead and throw these new speakers into the vehicle I need to drive to work tomorrow that's parked in the unilluminated driveway. Me, tomorrow: Guess I'll just drive to work in silence with that door panel halfway on.
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Feb 22, 2024 04:05
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Get you a headlamp, anything you look at including the person you're talking to will be very well illuminated.
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WTFBEES posted:Me, an idiot: Alright, done working for the day. I'll just go ahead and throw these new speakers into the vehicle I need to drive to work tomorrow that's parked in the unilluminated driveway. And tomorrow begins the battery alternator starter suicide pact ensuring you're not able to get back to the first project for at least three weeks. That's how things around here work anyway.
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Personally I’m a fan of the “just needs brakes” to ball joint to CV pipeline myself
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My signature move is "I'll just patch it in a hackey way for now and fix it right when i get the chance" turning into a permanent fix. The poor person who bought my old truck probably hates me. Sorry about all the JB weld but some of it held up for 100k before it even got to you.
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I coat every single removable fastener in anti-seize, knowing that I have never and will never sell a car, and I’ll probably never remove that part again. I am the omega owner. The terminal user.
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Powershift posted:The poor person who bought my old truck probably hates me. I am become PO, destroyer of future repairs. My E36 was never fixed and working. It was just an in between state of broken. I’m glad my newer M3 hasn’t done me like that. (Ominous background narration begins)
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Dr. Lunchables posted:Personally I’m a fan of the “just needs brakes” to ball joint to CV pipeline myself Don’t forget struts, springs, control arms and ABS sensors, the latter of which inexplicably are connected behind a fender panel that must also be removed. 
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kastein posted:Get you a headlamp, anything you look at including the person you're talking to will be very well illuminated. I have one somewhere! Which means I'll soon have two since I'll surely find it right after ordering a new one.
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Get one of the nice USB rechargeable ones they make now with the battery pack on the top or front of your head, they're much nicer to use on a crawler than the battery pack on the back ones. I have two and a custom spare battery pack I made so I can have one or two charging while I'm using one on long projects because I found that just one will run out too fast at just 4 to 6 hours.Powershift posted:My signature move is "I'll just patch it in a hackey way for now and fix it right when i get the chance" turning into a permanent fix. I definitely don't have 5000+ miles on the schedule 40 steel pipe extended Dodge 1500 front driveshaft I'm using as the rear driveshaft on the Honcho, 3000 miles of them towing. It will be fine.
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kastein posted:Get one of the nice USB rechargeable ones they make now with the battery pack on the top or front of your head, they're much nicer to use on a crawler than the battery pack on the back ones. I have two and a custom spare battery pack I made so I can have one or two charging while I'm using one on long projects because I found that just one will run out too fast at just 4 to 6 hours. We splurged for Petzl headlamps a few years ago and they will take AAAs if the USB-chargeable battery dies. The removable battery is also handy for traveling with them since it doesn’t add much to my carry-on.
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Spotted another 900 last night at the auto supply store. And then a few hours later I saw another 900 at the supermarket. Two 900s in one day in a village of a few hundred.
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Advent Horizon posted:We splurged for Petzl headlamps a few years ago and they will take AAAs if the USB-chargeable battery dies. The removable battery is also handy for traveling with them since it doesn’t add much to my carry-on. I used to have a Petzl, wonder where it went. Given the price it wasn't high quality enough though. Thing broke early on and I had to tape it together. I am looking for something I could mount on a welding helmet.
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Advent Horizon posted:In doing some route research for my upcoming vacation I learned that Caltrans has started a $148 million project to fix the intersection James Dean died at. The last photo of James Dean was taken at a former gas station a couple blocks from my house. There's now a Whole Foods there. 
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kastein posted:Get you a headlamp, anything you look at including the person you're talking to will be very well illuminated. God yes. I have several different varieties. The one I liek the most is the one that has a band of COB LEDs across the front, and a single-LED spotlight on the side. It's the lightest and most unobtrusive one. This is the particular one I bought, but there are like a thousand listings for identical ones: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BFFHH4N4 ...huh. They've changed the listing since I bought it. Now it's a 2-pack, and they swapped the side-mounted spotlight for a rear light. Odd. The one I got is like this one: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09QPR5ZH9?th=1  Both of those have an option to just wave your hand across the sensor to turn on/off. Advent Horizon posted:We splurged for Petzl headlamps a few years ago and they will take AAAs if the USB-chargeable battery dies. The removable battery is also handy for traveling with them since it doesn’t add much to my carry-on. My two bigger headlamps use 18650 batteries in a pack on the back, so a) last forever and b) I can just swap the cells if I don't have time to recharge. They're a bit bulky, though. His Divine Shadow posted:I used to have a Petzl, wonder where it went. Given the price it wasn't high quality enough though. Thing broke early on and I had to tape it together. I am looking for something I could mount on a welding helmet. I printed up a clip to hold common 18650 flashlights (and found a printable extender to convert some of the 3xAAA flashlights to 18650): Darchangel posted:On another front, I printed this: Dr. Lunchables posted:I coat every single removable fastener in anti-seize, knowing that I have never and will never sell a car, and I’ll probably never remove that part again. But if you don't do it, you *will* have to remove that fastener again, and it *will* seize. Cheap insurance. Super easy, now, too, since you can get the anti-seize in the lipstick tubes.
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Powershift posted:My signature move is "I'll just patch it in a hackey way for now and fix it right when i get the chance" turning into a permanent fix. I was at an old employer's shop shooting the poo poo with the old boss a couple months back and I confirmed that my career's most desperate hail Mary hack fix has now done over 900000 km and is still working fine. It has thus far outlasted the original unmolested component by 300000km.
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Darchangel posted:God yes. I have several different varieties. The one I liek the most is the one that has a band of COB LEDs across the front, and a single-LED spotlight on the side. It's the lightest and most unobtrusive one. I just bought a 5 pack of these from some gibberish seller on Amazon, can confirm they're pretty decent. My one gripe was the wave sensor is almost too sensitive, because it kept triggering while I was laying upside down under the dashboard. But otherwise it works great if you're standing up, you can just swipe your hand to turn it on/off as needed. And I bought 5 because I figured then I should always be able to find at least one 🤣
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I set a personal best today: both sides front brake pads swapped and everything cleaned/put away in 45 minutes.
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Darchangel posted:you can get the anti-seize in the lipstick tubes. WHAT. 
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