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wallaka posted:WHAT. https://a.co/d/2Zb6viD And also Locktite!
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Darchangel posted:https://a.co/d/2Zb6viD HOLY poo poo this is amazing
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Feb 23, 2024 04:39
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Just don’t mix up the red anti-seize and red Locktite when getting ready for a date.
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Feb 23, 2024 04:49
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The only thing stopping me from buying that is that I'm still using up the tubes of liquid locktite I bought in 2007
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Feb 23, 2024 05:06
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I have never finished a tube a loctite. Anti-seize I buy semi-regularly, though the bottles always managed to get covered in grease and anti-seize, so they look decades old the minute I open them.
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Feb 23, 2024 05:09
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Is there a reason to use runny loctite blue instead of the gel type? Gel actually stays in place and seems a lot more convenient. My C5 is teaching me that 20 year old connectors can't be trusted, but also some of the wire harnesses are discontinued so I may have to get creative to get a reliable connection to my wheel speed sensors. This doesn't really bode well for newer, more computerized cars once those are 20 years old.
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Feb 23, 2024 06:18
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Time to go to the local junkyard and/or hit the C5 forums
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Dr. Lunchables posted:Anti-seize I buy semi-regularly, though the bottles always managed to get covered in grease and anti-seize, so they look decades old the minute I open them. There's no clean way to use the stuff, you just have to accept that you and all of your surroundings are going to look like you gave the tin man a handjob for a while.
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Feb 23, 2024 06:56
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heffray posted:My C5 is teaching me that 20 year old connectors can't be trusted, but also some of the wire harnesses are discontinued so I may have to get creative to get a reliable connection to my wheel speed sensors. This doesn't really bode well for newer, more computerized cars once those are 20 years old. Yeah, the amount of stuff that's simply NLA for my TJ is kinda shocking. At least it (and your C5) is a vehicle with a strong enough enthusiast following so third party and open-sourced solutions keep coming. I don't have high hopes for the majority of cars out there getting that kind of support.
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Feb 23, 2024 07:15
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Cries in 1993 Mazda B2600i
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Feb 23, 2024 07:32
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Advent Horizon posted:Cries in 1993 Mazda B2600i That's just a Ford Ranger, isn't it?
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Feb 23, 2024 07:49
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I don't think mazda trucks outside of the US or North America ever went ford.
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Feb 23, 2024 09:07
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Safety Dance posted:That's just a Ford Ranger, isn't it? I believe that one was its own truck. Not that it mattered much when they platform-shared anyway because parts weren’t necessarily interchangeable. We found this out in like tyool 2000 when my wife’s Probe needed a new o2 sensor; the ford part was $200. I bought the equivalent MX6 part for like $50 and it was 4-wire instead of 3-wire.
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Feb 23, 2024 10:22
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Turbo Fondant posted: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. Aw man you can't mention that without telling the whole story.
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Feb 23, 2024 10:24
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Imperador do Brasil posted:I believe that one was its own truck. That's an impressive level of fuckery even for Ford engineers, who I swear make midyear, trim level, and assembly plant based parts specificity a goal rather than something to avoid. It's like they specifically set out to gently caress mechanics. Why share a platform if you aren't gonna actually use the same goddamn parts?
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Feb 23, 2024 13:33
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heffray posted:Is there a reason to use runny loctite blue instead of the gel type? Gel actually stays in place and seems a lot more convenient. If you have enough wire, can't you just buy some wire connectors from napa, or some electronics store, cut the old ones off and wire up the new ones? E: I don't know how good these particular ones are, but this is definitely available to us commoners. https://www.amazon.ca/TING-Waterpro...f9e6ba75b58d22d Then you just get wire of the appropriate gauge and colour bing bang boom. Start selling this poo poo to your fellow old people. E2: This one is more expensive but it looks to be GM connectors: https://www.summitracing.com/parts/pco-0004-og4 wesleywillis fucked around with this message at 15:37 on Feb 23, 2024 |
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Feb 23, 2024 15:12
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wesleywillis posted:If you have enough wire, can't you just buy some wire connectors from napa, or some electronics store, cut the old ones off and wire up the new ones? CommieGIR has been designing & 3d printing connectors for their ancient Audis lately; until factory harnesses start going with twisted pairs, I feel like we're coming up on a golden age of DIY for this stuff.
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Feb 23, 2024 16:16
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Turbo Fondant posted:There's no clean way to use the stuff, you just have to accept that you and all of your surroundings are going to look like you gave the tin man a handjob for a while. Am I the only one that basically stopped using the tin-man-handjob anti seize? I mostly use the copper stuff, which keeps a better consistency and doesn't seem to have the same tendency to get all over everything. I've also got a bottle of nickel-based anti seize, but at this point it's pretty ancient because I seldom use it. I do need to remember to get those loctite sticks though, at least a blue.
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Feb 23, 2024 16:24
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wesleywillis posted:If you have enough wire, can't you just buy some wire connectors from napa, or some electronics store, cut the old ones off and wire up the new ones? If this sensor drops out at any point during a drive, it disables ABS, TC, and stability control until the power is cycled: those systems were good by 2002 standards and are somewhat nice to have. Also the scan tool can't trigger a full ABS bleed for my upcoming swap to Castrol SRF fluid with active fault codes.
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Feb 23, 2024 16:27
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heffray posted:: relative resistance factors into this system's behavior, and adding an extra crimp and a random plug might change that enough to matter. Got ya. This is something I've actually wondered recently. What types of systems might rely on resistance (among other things) to function properly where adding an extra length of wire for *some reason that might be somewhat valid at the time* might cause a malfunction due to too much resistance in the circuit. Or possibly not enough resistance.
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Feb 23, 2024 17:08
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Safety Dance posted:That's just a Ford Ranger, isn't it? *twitch* 1993 was when they started selling a rebadged Ranger (which was actually an older and far less refined chassis). I have been known to enter 1992 into parts searches to be sure I find actual Mazda parts, but I need to be careful because 1989-91 they used a different DOHC 2.6 made by Mitsubishi that Mazda then basically copied for the B series and MPV. This is the truck in question: 
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Feb 23, 2024 17:20
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It being a GM, about 90% of all the connectors are going to be some Delphi variation, and probably 100% of the low content ones will be Metripack. A terminal and seal kit and a decent set of crimpers will go a long way. I wouldn't worry about resistance much. I've seen so many repairs with wiring for sensors spliced, crimped, replaced, extended, whatever and I've never seen the repair cause a problem. The tolerances for the sensors are going to be greater than any competent repair.
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Feb 23, 2024 17:41
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wesleywillis posted:Got ya. Mayyyybe a thermocouple, where two wires of dissimilar metals joined at a hot end will create a voltage between them at the cold end. I forget if length is a concern. Also with network cable (which wiring harnesses more and more are turning out to be) twisted pairs help reduce crosstalk, so maybe a couple of straight strands cut-in between might foul some things up.
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Feb 23, 2024 18:00
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CAN networks are really resilient. If you stay inside the physical layer design parameters, you will be OK. Even outside those parameters too. I've seen a bunch of bad stuff there too. Too many nodes, too long nodes, too long backbones, too many/few terminating resistors, and stuff still works. I've even seen whole networks without twisted pair. The downside is that once you push it too far, everything falls apart. But a few repair splices will not affect anything.
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Feb 23, 2024 21:48
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Mashallah the auto transmission on my dad’s Cabrio is fixed up and now it drives butter smooth again. Turns out it was the fluid pan gasket perishing and cracking and losing all of the transmission fluid plus some of the radiator hoses. With the level and speed of fluid loss I was convinced it was a crack in the housing or something along those lines and was mentally preparing to explain the costs associated with finding a replacement automatic transmission for a mk3 golf/jetta/cabrio (impossible) or doing a manual swap ($1200 in parts kit plus like another grand in labor), so $475 all in and done in a day is a welcome surprise
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Talking about loctite/thread lockers/anti seize, I just wanted to say that if anyone here ever has the opportunity to get into a Henkel (loctite parent company) technical seminar, it is amazingly informative. The number of products they have, including different types of thread lockers/retaining compound/anti-seize, and tons of other stuff, is just amazing. I'm actually arranging a couple next week for 2 of our industrial clients and I can't wait until we do it. The ones I've done previously have been universally well received and the attendees could have easily went another few hours... which if you've ever dealt with a bunch of tradespeople and technical people at the same time, they usually can't leave fast enough. With the mention of anti-seize here, I will say that the vast majority of applications would probably be better served with a medium strength thread locker as opposed to a lubricant (which is what anti-seize is). heffray posted:Is there a reason to use runny loctite blue instead of the gel type? Gel actually stays in place and seems a lot more convenient.
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Feb 23, 2024 22:34
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His Divine Shadow posted:I don't think mazda trucks outside of the US or North America ever went ford. It was the other way around here, the Ford Ranger we got in Europe (at least for the first two gens) was a rebadged B series and BT-50, respectively.
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OBAMNA PHONE posted:The only thing stopping me from buying that is that I'm still using up the tubes of liquid locktite I bought in 2007 I didn’t let that stop me, though in my case it was the anti-seize. I still have a bottle of the brush-on anti-seize mostly full. This is a drat site less messy. heffray posted:My C5 is teaching me that 20 year old connectors can't be trusted, but also some of the wire harnesses are discontinued so I may have to get creative to get a reliable connection to my wheel speed sensors. This doesn't really bode well for newer, more computerized cars once those are 20 years old. It does not, no.
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Feb 24, 2024 00:29
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heffray posted:Is there a reason to use runny loctite blue instead of the gel type? Gel actually stays in place and seems a lot more convenient. I can help you 3D model replacements and print them in ABS or Nylon, that's what I've been doing with my old Audi/Bosch connectors that are NLA.
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Welp. I just got fired. Well not technically fired, I'm on administrative leave until Wednesday. But I'm pretty sure on Wednesday I'll be fired.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Welp. I just got fired. Well that sucks.
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PitViper posted:Am I the only one that basically stopped using the tin-man-handjob anti seize? I mostly use the copper stuff, which keeps a better consistency and doesn't seem to have the same tendency to get all over everything. I've also got a bottle of nickel-based anti seize, but at this point it's pretty ancient because I seldom use it. I’ve used both with no noticeable difference I’m effect. Except that the copper stuff makes the brush bristles stay at a 90 degree angle and that doesn’t happen with the tin man jizz. Both keep my nuts as loose as I want em.
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Feb 24, 2024 01:15
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Welp. I just got fired. I'm so sorry dude 
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slidebite posted:Talking about loctite/thread lockers/anti seize, I'm going to take a wild guess that retaining compound is some sort of glue like poo poo that keeps a bolt from rattling off while still leaving it able to be turned with only a minimal effort? As opposed to thread locker that might require a torch? Right? Wrong?
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Feb 24, 2024 01:28
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Welp. I just got fired. drat that sucks man
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wesleywillis posted:I'm going to take a wild guess that retaining compound is some sort of glue like poo poo that keeps a bolt from rattling off while still leaving it able to be turned with only a minimal effort? As opposed to thread locker that might require a torch? To my knowledge it's the opposite. Retaining compound is for poo poo that is not supposed to come apart. Period. I've got some green stuff from Loctite - don't recall the number - and it kind of scares me. I haven't used it yet and don't know of anything specific that would require it, but I got some should the need arise.
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:To my knowledge it's the opposite. Retaining compound is for poo poo that is not supposed to come apart. Period. I've got some green stuff from Loctite - don't recall the number - and it kind of scares me. I haven't used it yet and don't know of anything specific that would require it, but I got some should the need arise. Looked it up, it appears to be glue for poo poo thats not threaded.
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Feb 24, 2024 03:07
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wesleywillis posted:Looked it up, it appears to be glue for poo poo thats not threaded. Yeah, it's all variations on superglue.
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:To my knowledge it's the opposite. Retaining compound is for poo poo that is not supposed to come apart. Period. I've got some green stuff from Loctite - don't recall the number - and it kind of scares me. I haven't used it yet and don't know of anything specific that would require it, but I got some should the need arise. In my experience, it's specifically for the hardest to reach valve cover bolt.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Welp. I just got fired. poo poo. Sorry to hear.
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