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Just making fun of one poster in particular on these forums
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freeedr posted:Wait. How does this work? No take! Only bring.
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Oct 24, 2023 01:12
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Found in the wild https://www.guniwheel.com/shop-now/guniwheel-45s
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devicenull posted:Found in the wild Lmao so those are just for like if you are a towing company or a body shop and need to push a car around a garage right?
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devicenull posted:Found in the wild quote:Speed rating: 5 MPH Oof. lol
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Armacham posted:Lmao so those are just for like if you are a towing company or a body shop and need to push a car around a garage right? Correct. Note the stops in the tread to keep it from just rolling off. There were a few in-progress cars/chassis at the Good Guys Show that had them. Pretty neat. Various sizes and offsets.
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Oct 24, 2023 05:57
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UCS Hellmaker posted:Bp at some stations has the pumps switched, everywhere else it's green for diesel, seen a few bps where gasoline was green and black was diesel, all on the same pump. Almost hosed my wife's car up because of it before but caught it because the nozzle is bigger. Is the nozzle size standard universal? Or is there e.g. an EU standard, a DOT standard etc?
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Groda posted:Is the nozzle size standard universal? Or is there e.g. an EU standard, a DOT standard etc? https://standards.globalspec.com/std/14468615/EN%2013012 This is for eurozone.
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Oct 24, 2023 10:13
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Kind of a tangent, but aviation has (mostly) standardized nozzles for jet fuel and gasoline after a fuel mix-up nearly killed Bob Hoover. If you Google "hoover nozzle" you'll find vacuum attachments, but if you search "hoover nozzle jet fuel" you'll find it
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Oct 24, 2023 20:32
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I'm not googling "hoover nozzle jet fuel inflation rule 34" again
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Oct 25, 2023 01:30
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I guess it does something. And probably was readily at hand.
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Oct 25, 2023 01:49
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Saukkis posted:I guess it does something. And probably was readily at hand. Great mechanical successes, more like. As an aside, I have never had a wiper motor fail in twenty years of driving. Passenger cars, pickups, vans, delivery trucks, bigger delivery trucks, in every general condition, it's the one thing that always just seems to work. Like, every vehicle I've driven outside of 5-ton straight trucks shake slightly while the wipers are running. It's a simple machine, but still. Are all wiper assemblies just stupidly overbuilt for their job? I've heard horror stories about the fragility of manual wiper blades, and some more about vacuum operated wipers' effectiveness, but the electric wiper never gets any shade thrown upon it.
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Oct 25, 2023 05:20
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I've had two fail on my van, one in the notoriously dry Scottish Highlands , the other during a storm in northern France. You have not known fear like your wipers stopping in pouring rain on the highway at 80mph with nowhere to pull over for multiple miles.
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Oct 25, 2023 10:37
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madeintaipei posted:I've heard horror stories about the fragility of manual wiper blades, and some more about vacuum operated wipers' effectiveness, but the electric wiper never gets any shade thrown upon it. That brought back memories of my childhood on the farm and our Zetor tractor. The rear window had a manually operated wiper. Attached to a huge rusty nail that poked through the cabin and was bent down to form a handle. The pointy end inside of course, how else could it get through the cabin wall. I know where it resides nowadays, should go check if it still has the same handle.
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Oct 25, 2023 10:50
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Seen Chevy ones fail, mainly it being that the drat gears strip because they cheap out and make them plastic. Then again snow belt areas and people do gently caress with them hard and try to let the small motors move 100 pounds of snow.
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Oct 25, 2023 13:54
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I had my wiper motors die in a blizzard once, I just put on my snowboard goggles and stuck my head out the window. It was a 240DL of all things, loved that brick.
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That's the mama cradling her baby haul truck.
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Oct 25, 2023 19:47
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That took talent.
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Oct 25, 2023 21:33
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Truck is properly fuckled.
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Oct 26, 2023 01:31
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Can't park there mate.
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madeintaipei posted:As an aside, I have never had a wiper motor fail in twenty years of driving. Passenger cars, pickups, vans, delivery trucks, bigger delivery trucks, in every general condition, it's the one thing that always just seems to work. Like, every vehicle I've driven outside of 5-ton straight trucks shake slightly while the wipers are running. It's a simple machine, but still. Are all wiper assemblies just stupidly overbuilt for their job? Ford integrates all the electronics into the wiper motor, starting in the .....late 90s? It's very common for the cowl drain to get plugged up and wind up with spastic wipers on Crown Victorias, which means new motor. I guess technically that's not the motor itself failing; it's the control board getting submerged. But you can't replace one without the other, it's all in one.  In almost 30 years of driving, that's the only wiper motor I've had to replace.CaptainTofu posted:I've had two fail on my van, one in the notoriously dry Scottish Highlands , the other during a storm in northern France. You have not known fear like your wipers stopping in pouring rain on the highway at 80mph with nowhere to pull over for multiple miles. I've had a blade perform a rapid unscheduled disassembly during a nasty storm, leaving just the arm. Driver's side of course. I had laundry in the back seat at the time, wound up tying a sock on it to keep the arm from scratching up the windshield.
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Oct 26, 2023 20:19
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quote:One of the many interesting design "features" from Reliant is that the water will not flow through the back of the motor without the heater being on. So if you turn the heater off then cylinder number 4 will overheat, and the motor will break. lmao that owns comment on this video, sequel to this one
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Oct 29, 2023 11:13
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madeintaipei posted:As an aside, I have never had a wiper motor fail in twenty years of driving. Passenger cars, pickups, vans, delivery trucks, bigger delivery trucks, in every general condition, it's the one thing that always just seems to work. Like, every vehicle I've driven outside of 5-ton straight trucks shake slightly while the wipers are running. It's a simple machine, but still. Are all wiper assemblies just stupidly overbuilt for their job? My coworker has had to replace his rear wiper motor twice on his 2017 SEAT Leon station wagon.
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Nidhg00670000 posted:rear wiper 
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Oct 29, 2023 17:25
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For some reason the scale on this fucks with my eyes. To me it could easily be a model truck, despiter the evidence that it clearly isnt.
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Oct 29, 2023 17:51
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madeintaipei posted:Great mechanical successes, more like. Well I can attest vacuum wipers do suck and are a loving danger to all, as they explicitly work worst at the precise moments you need them, like doing 65 down a highway in a storm. 
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Oct 30, 2023 03:37
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Weirdly that's perfect in the snow when you get nothing on your windshield when you're moving but as soon as you stop you need all the wipers
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Oct 30, 2023 05:33
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lol if your windshield is raked steeply and clean enough that water just rolls off it at highway speeds This was universally untrue of cars that used vacuum wipers, of course.
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Oct 30, 2023 05:36
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Vile_Nihlist666 posted:Well I can attest vacuum wipers do suck and are a loving danger to all, as they explicitly work worst at the precise moments you need them, like doing 65 down a highway in a storm. my 51 cambridge doesn't have reverse lights, but it does have the optional electric wipers; such luxury.
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Oct 30, 2023 19:14
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Well, drat. Maybe I've just been lucky with wipers. We could make a whole game of, "Never Have I Ever.", out of this thread. Never have I ever jammed a large screwdriver in and duct taped it in place of a lower ball joint just to get home/to the road. madeintaipei fucked around with this message at 20:26 on Oct 30, 2023 |
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Oct 30, 2023 20:23
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madeintaipei posted:Well, drat. Maybe I've just been lucky with wipers. Never have I ever run with 3 working brakes after plugging one of the rear lines with a bolt at the distribution block.
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Oct 30, 2023 20:33
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Never have I ever used a plastic bag from 7-11 and twist ties to patch an upper radiator hose long enough to limp home.
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Oct 30, 2023 22:47
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Never have I ever accidentally applied rust protection to the underside of my truck by being too lazy to pull the driveshaft out of the transfer case to replace a leaking seal, instead just keeping it topped up.
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Oct 30, 2023 23:24
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Never have I ever just kept putting air in a tire once every 3 weeks because I was to lazy to fix whatever the rim leak was Or had to replace the wheel bearing yearly likely due to said rim leak
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Oct 30, 2023 23:58
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Or sold said car for basically a case of beer knowing that it needed a clutch and timing belt while also literally being 90% rust
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Oct 30, 2023 23:59
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Never have I ever limped home on back roads while going through 3 bottles of brake fluid after a caliper was sheared off
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Never have I gotten a safety inspection sticker by pop-riveting sheetmetal over the gaping rust holes in the wheel wells and covering the "repair" up with spray tar.
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Never have I ever made it 50 miles on an overheating rover v8 by cycling the ignition when the mechanical torque converter clutch was engaged. Never have I ever made it home when the mechanical carb fuel pump broke off the block, leaving me to use an efi in tank pump powered by the rear window defroster circuit. Never have I ever had a fuel pump fail in the middle of death valley, where I deleted it and used gravity feed to make it to Pahrump, NV. I could do this all drat day. But one more. Never have I ever polished a turd for several years only to put boost to and finish killing an "unkillable" engine then break the frame seven times.
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I'm starting to think you all actually did those things!
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