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Finally! I can post. Got my SS tinted today, 35% or so all around. Great spot, younger guy that owns his own company. 
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Fixed three wiring issues on my Monster 696. One of them was my fault. Argh. Ducati wiring looms appear to be made of nightmares and shattered glass.
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May 22, 2017 02:47
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HandlingByJebus posted:Fixed three wiring issues on my Monster 696. One of them was my fault. Argh. Ducati wiring looms appear to be made of nightmares and shattered glass. my friend, have you heard the stories about my ducati 749? Jesus christ, that bike was loving terrible in every single way other than trackdays, when it wasn't catching on fire.
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May 22, 2017 03:02
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BlackMK4 posted:my friend, have you heard the stories about my ducati 749? I don't believe that I've heard those stories, no. 
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May 22, 2017 03:18
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Punched a hole in the rear strut towers of my daily-driver Impreza.  Worst part is I wanted an 04-05 wagon for the next one, and they also have the same rust-prone strut tower design.
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May 22, 2017 04:57
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Punched a hole in the rear strut towers of my daily-driver Impreza. It has roughly the same wheelbase as this http://www.kijiji.ca/v-cars-trucks/edmonton/2000-4x4-chevy-blazer/1265892480?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true A frame would return some structure You know a guy with 2 lifts Just sayin.
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May 22, 2017 05:11
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Cars been off the road for three months now after the gearbox blew... Putting in the rebuilt box today discovered that two out of three tail shaft uni's have more slop in them than pig trough... rebuild? $1500... Second hand from eBay? $140 delivered. and now we wait.
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May 24, 2017 07:09
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Holy gently caress what kind of special unicorn uni joints are they for $1500 for 2??? The big monster ones on the landcruiser are only $50 each and take about an hr to swap all 4 out!
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May 24, 2017 14:57
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My W124 coupe's PO must have enjoyed flinging open the (very long) doors with careless abandon, as the edges were chipped to hell and really ugly:    So I picked up some paint and touched them up, looks a fair bit better now:  
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May 24, 2017 19:52
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Grakkus posted:My W124 coupe's PO must have enjoyed flinging open the (very long) doors with careless abandon, as the edges were chipped to hell and really ugly: How did you prep the edges? I have a similar deal on my Miata and was thinking of using a fibreglass scratch brush to help with adhesion, as I could see that the PO tried using touchup paint and didn't succeed in doing anything other than make globs that fell off later.
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May 24, 2017 20:16
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I just picked up two of the smallest size tins of the OEM colours from a paint shop, sanded, cleaned and then primered the chips, then painted the colour on with a small modeling brush. The light grey cladding is plastic, so I just cleaned and then painted it directly. It didn't take too long, about an hour or so total, despite it being my first time messing with actual paintwork on a car. In my experience touchup paint tends to look lovely as it rarely matches the rest of the paint properly, which is why I went with this method. It also ended up being significantly cheaper than repair kits like DrColorChip, which was nice.
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May 24, 2017 20:37
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Today I fixed my compressor and fitted new rotors and pads ($250) on my $350 beater. Steel on steel makes the car shake when i brake.   It's so great finally having a lift again! 
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May 24, 2017 22:19
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Ferremit posted:Holy gently caress what kind of special unicorn uni joints are they for $1500 for 2??? I'm not sure on the specifics except that they are a pinout styled one which requires at least two hours labour for each uni joint and we were looking at replacing the third at the same time. This is through Hardy Spicer as they were the only locals who would touch it. I think it was the usual thing of its a JDM car and we don't do it every day so its time for you to pay! Here's a photo of the second hand one I bought from the bay of E: http://imgur.com/a/Fazh9 tobu fucked around with this message at 00:05 on May 25, 2017 |
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May 25, 2017 00:02
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afen posted:It's so great finally having a lift again! Dang, how tall is that ceiling?
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 gently caress you Cummins, you're going to be someone else's problem whether you like it or not. Trying to get out of being sold by eating the throwout bearing? Nice try you stupid piece of poo poo. Yerok fucked around with this message at 07:56 on May 25, 2017 |
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May 25, 2017 07:53
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Do.. do you have a 17mm ratcheting wrench tattoo? That's amazing Hypnolobster fucked around with this message at 16:03 on May 25, 2017 |
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Hypnolobster posted:Do.. do you have a 17mm ratcheting wrench tattoo? Is it accurate?
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It is 1:1 e: I put the cummins transmission back in e2: has anyone ever put the shifter stub back in an 80's truck getrag? holy poo poo what the gently caress man, I'm pretty sure the spring that pushes the stub into the bushing is stronger than a motorcycle valve spring. Yerok fucked around with this message at 07:16 on May 26, 2017 |
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May 25, 2017 17:32
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Having a ducktail fitted to my '82 911. You can see the old whale-tail in the background, which I've liked, but man the ducktail look is just so freaking good on the narrow-body 911s. Then on Tuesday it goes back to the engine shop to have the engine taken out and partially rebuilt (again). One of the head studs failed so the whole thing was rebuilt and resealed and...they didn't quite seal the #2 cylinder head to cam-tower. Ouch. Doesn't leak that much but I just had it rebuilt it shouldn't leak at all!
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May 26, 2017 16:18
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I want your 911 super bad. Last night I pulled the last of the interior off the drivers' side to take a look at the strut tower in my 2003 Impreza wagon.  I think it's toast.
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May 26, 2017 16:27
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Not sure where to ask, but have a somewhat new to me 1995 Caprice wagon. Thing is, it is missing the battery hold down. Tried looking on gmpartsdirect, shows some odd bracket. Is it a plastic wedge with a bolt or something different?
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Colostomy Bag posted:Not sure where to ask, but have a somewhat new to me 1995 Caprice wagon. Thing is, it is missing the battery hold down. Tried looking on gmpartsdirect, shows some odd bracket. Is it a plastic wedge with a bolt or something different? A plastic wedge with a bolt sounds like what GM was using at the time. The wedge goes over the lip at the bottom of the battery and gets cinched by the bolt.
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May 26, 2017 16:54
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Seminal Flu posted:A plastic wedge with a bolt sounds like what GM was using at the time. The wedge goes over the lip at the bottom of the battery and gets cinched by the bolt. Yeah, sort of was hoping for that. That's what my 96 lesabre has but the parts diagram shows something totally different.
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The only thing I really don't like on my Scion xB was the steering wheel, made of a rough textured plastic that felt horrible. Looking around scion has new ones for $$$ but then I found out the Rav4 wheels are a bolt in and found one in excellent condition on ebay for $90. Original wheel, you can see the rough texture in the pic.  Side by side with the leather Rav4 wheel on the left.  Buttons swapped over as the Rav4 buttons don't work with the Scion airbag. Gonna snag a Rav4 airbag down the road so I can use the phone control buttons as well. They are expensive tho, maybe I can find one cheap eventually.  New leather hotness.  Not a bad upgrade for $90 huh?
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May 26, 2017 19:49
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Seat Safety Switch posted:I want your 911 super bad. Ugh :\
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May 26, 2017 20:15
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Cleaned it.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:I want your 911 super bad. Looks more like swiss cheese to me 
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Seat Safety Switch posted:I want your 911 super bad. If Binky has anything to teach anyone it's that "anything can be fabricated" 
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May 26, 2017 21:44
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Exactly, that's nothing. Wire wheel both sides. Hit both sides with a liberal coating of Corroseal and whatever top coat you want. On the underside / wheel well side, make a template using a cereal box that covers the whole affected area +20%. Cut out of slightly thicker sheet metal than the Subaru stuff. Glue that fucker on with 3M metal adhesive (they glue Loti together don't they?). Coat with etch primer and rocker guard. I've done the same thing to beater RX-7 wheel wells, cargo bins and rockers twice now.
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Colostomy Bag posted:Not sure where to ask, but have a somewhat new to me 1995 Caprice wagon. Thing is, it is missing the battery hold down. Tried looking on gmpartsdirect, shows some odd bracket. Is it a plastic wedge with a bolt or something different? Bungie cord?
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May 27, 2017 05:21
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A solid rubber bungee cord
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May 27, 2017 06:26
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If it's got a hole for the bolt/wedge style, get a piece of flat aluminum or steel and drill a hole through it and use a random bolt from the bolt bucket. If it wants an up and over bracket, get a lovely cheap ratchet tie-down maybe?
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May 27, 2017 06:55
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Spent ages filling and rubbing down and then started spraying it Now for lots more filling and rubbing down
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May 29, 2017 23:13
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Replaced the rear shocks on the 245, also replaced the pads and rotor on one side, but discovered the other side's caliper was trash so I ordered 2 new ones and will complete the job once they arrive.
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Tomarse posted:Spent ages filling and rubbing down and then started spraying it looking good! What kind of primer are you shooting and through what?
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May 30, 2017 01:41
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Decided that I really needed to tackle the leaking shaft pivot seal in the MS6. The hardest part was finding 70W90 GL-4 gear oil on a shelf in town. Took about 20 minutes to tear it all the way down The stupid transfer pump I bought from HF wouldn't work with the bottles of oil I bought so I had to gravity feed the oil into the fill hole. Then I forgot to plug the MAF back in and had a small panic at the multiple CELs Torque spit out at me. THEN I tore the Miata apart to get at the AC clutch. Got the clutch out but was foiled by the snap ring being inaccessible without yanking out more bits. Whatever, I'll get back to it later.
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always be closing posted:looking good! What kind of primer are you shooting and through what? It looks good in a potato shot from 6 foot! I'm using 1k cellulose as I don't have an air fed mask for 2k. That's 2 coats of high build primer which I shot through the cheapest generic spray gun you can buy here. It has showed up that I have lots of surface work to do on the arches (which are all new metal so this isn't too surprising). I've got a nicer gravity fed gun which i'm going to use for the top coat. I'm looking forward to using that over the lovely gun.
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Tomarse posted:It looks good in a potato shot from 6 foot! Ok cool. I really want to try shooting some of that polyeser primer surfacer, which needs at least a 1.8 tip. I can drill out the fluid cap on an HF gun and get 1.98 I read somewhere. This weekend I shot 2k epoxy primer, 1k base and 2k Clear all from rattle cans I got at the auto body supplier. The 2k products were activated it was pretty cool, I'll post a pic tomorrow. For PPE I am using a 3m halfmask with p95 cartridges, coveralls, glasses and a head sock. hopefully not getting cancer.
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always be closing posted:Ok cool. I really want to try shooting some of that polyeser primer surfacer, which needs at least a 1.8 tip. I can drill out the fluid cap on an HF gun and get 1.98 I read somewhere. Buy yourself a gun and give it a try! I wasn't aware that any PPE short of a full face air fed mask was enough to prevent 2k paint getting you? (Though If it is pre activated from a rattle can is it really 2k?) I'm not sure how the P95 mask rating compares to the ones I can get here? Does it have a gas rating too? I'm using a filter mask with A2P3 filters in. I need to get some properly sealed goggles though.
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Applied coilovers to escape 4x4 stance Might need to drop the front a wee bit more, handles lovely though and doesn't attempt to tip over on corners like it used to.
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