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Hell yeah! One of my friends had a 90 sc in highschool. I always told him if he crashed it, I wanted the engine, trans and rear axle. My goal would have been to swap it in to a 4cylinder fox body.
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I'll bet its real fun. Iirc, the 3.8 was an option in the early days of the fox body, so that might not have been too difficult of a swap, but they never came with IRS, so putting the rear axle in there would have been challenging to say the least. Especially for dumbass highschool me.
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Mar 26, 2023 23:33
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unzin posted:Can't get the dealer to lube up my front sway bar bushings because it doesn't have zerk fittings. What the gently caress, just undo 6 bolts and slop some grease on them. What's the reason for doing this, do they squeak? Depending on what the bushings are made of, petroleum based grease might be bad for them.
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Apr 10, 2023 22:29
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Coolwhoami posted:
gently caress. Yes.  a thread.
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May 7, 2023 12:52
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Cardboard is good for sliding around on if you don't have a creeper, or the ground is uneven enough for a creeper to be no good
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Jun 13, 2023 22:41
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His Divine Shadow posted:Not me but my dad had a problem with his 1998 Mazda 626 (450,000km on the odometer), the washer fluid tank level sensor (floating device) had fallen out the bottom. So he bought a rubber plug meant for a row boat bottom and put it in the tank. Works but now he no longer has a washer fluid indicator. If it's anything like the one in my 97 protege, it's huge anyway. I had to really try to empty mine.
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MrOnBicycle posted:I've seen the argument being made that prefilling is pointless outside rebuilds, and increases the risk of introducing contaminants since the oil being poured in is unfiltered. It's was a while since I saw a video on it, but I think some industrial applications (maybe CAT) specifically forbids the practice when changing oils in engines. The not very often times when I fill a filter before putting it on, I usually pour the oil in to the big hole in the middle, which IIRC, is the inlet for the filter, so that oil would still have to go through the element before going out to the engine. Compared to how many times, I or anyone else has probably dumped oil through a valve cover, or other oil fill and probably had poo poo fall in there because we didn't get 100% of the crud off the area around the cap, which then goes down to the pan, and in to the pump.
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Jul 24, 2023 15:28
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If the rear brakes seems to be getting hot and doing most of the work, and an inspection deems everything back there to be in good working order, then maybe the problem is at the front. Are the front calipers seized? Are the slide pins moving freely?
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Uhhhh, I think thats upside down.
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Oct 6, 2023 00:48
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Thats weird, every 1/2"-13 nut and bolt I've ever seen has been 3/4" on the flats. But maybe thats an "old stuff" thing.
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I I think I posted a pic of it in here years ago but I had a rattling heat shield on my Corolla. Got underneath it and took the nut off a stud it was hosed up somehow and I can't remember exactly what was wrong with it. I think I tried to weld a washer to it because of reasons lost to time. Well that didn't work and there were no more m6 nuts in the shop and I scoured the fuckin poo poo out of it. Eventually remembered I had some 5/8" round aluminum bar so I cut a section of that, drilled as close through the middle as I could, tapped it to m6 1.0 and even ground a couple flats on it. It's been several years and that bitch ain't started rattling again
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Oct 21, 2023 01:11
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Far be it for me to tell a more experienced wrencher how to live their life, but do people really bother trying to save swaybar end links? I tried once, failed and just decided that from now on they're disposable.
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I'm not going to post it in my thread because I did a lovely job of it, and stopped taking pictures about 15 minutes in to it, but I finally got around to installing the 4wp bed stiffeners on my Tacoma. My bed is probably stiff enough, but believe it or not I do use it from time to time for hauling poo poo and having a couple extra tie downs points is fuckin useful . The 4wp brand ones are hidden too, except for some small pieces that act as the tie down points, and also as beer openers. Highlights of the install include a lesson in reading a fuckin tape measure properly. You are familiar with the saying "measure twice cut once"? Or is it "measure once cut twice"? Well whatever it is, my lesson was MEASURE TEN FUCKIN TIMES DRILL THREE TIMES. Instead of two times. gently caress me. also all four of the stainless screws that hold the tie down pieces had the heads strip out on me without even using an impact. And one of the captive nuts that goes underneath stripped too. Also from not being impacted ... I can change the screws out and there's enough threads sticking out of the captive nuts to put another one on there and torque it down. Still a fuckin pain though. I bought this kit months ago now and 4wp no longer has a presence in Canada so I can't even go to the store I bought it from and bitch to them about it. gently caress it though, its done wesleywillis fucked around with this message at 23:01 on Nov 26, 2023 |
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Speaking of brake fluid, does it really strip paint like everyone says it does? I've been hearing that for years, but Brake fluid is pretty much hydraulic fluid no? I've been working on hydraulics for years, have gotten that poo poo on everything and never seen paint strip because of it.
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Dec 9, 2023 14:55
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Fair enough. Whats the difference between the two then? Like I said I've gotten Hydraulic fluid on tons of stuff over the years, and not always bothered to rinse it off and paint hasn't fallen off any of that poo poo.
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If she can only lock the drivers door with the key, that's good prevention from locking the key in the car.
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The pussy wagon guy from Kill Bill was probably a JC Whitney stock holder.
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bird with big dick posted:My dick isn’t big, only 12” Yeah thats pretty small actually.
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I don't care for white letters out.
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Darchangel posted:Doing God's work. Those look like period correct white walls to me
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Powershift posted:Removed some gasoline. and then the tank If you can find some big rear end sheets of cardboard, that poo poo is good for getting underneath poo poo and sliding around. Small bit of insulation too.
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His Divine Shadow posted:Last night I finally welded up the rust hole in the mazda 6. I notice where it rusted out there is a hole on the bottom/side that will let water and crap into the beam structure, but I can see no drain hole. When I cut away the rust I had so much debris logged in there, no wonder it rusted out. But why! Why have those holes there? Try posting the question in the metal working thread in HCH.
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If I'm able to see the filter, which I can on some of my company's equipment, I write it (date and hrs) on the filter. If the filter is buried somewhere in the bowels of the machine, I'll still write it on the filter, but also we've got a label maker so I'll type out "next oil change due @ XXXhrs" and paste that label next to the hour meter. It was great when I got a new machine and the one that I was using the label maker on was given to a guy who is always saying stuff like "yeah I can't remember poo poo most of the time" and then seeing the last label I put on there was from like 700 hours ago. At one point he decided that "the hour meter is wrong, its reading slow, I got 180 hours last month but the hour meter only went up by 60 hours" I have to be all "  the hour meter doesn't run if the key is off, so when you're sitting in traffic for 2 hours on the way to and from the site, the drill ain't getting any hours on it".
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You and your sister know how big each other's balls are? drat!!
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Usually jiggling tits makes me fully hard. Not the other way around.
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His Divine Shadow posted:I was changing to summer tires on the Mazda 6 when I remembered I also wanted to swap the brake pads. And the rear left disc looked like poo poo and the inspections guy told me last time it was on it's last legs so I swapped that too. Cue hours of bullshit: Penetrating oil, hitting with hammers, extensions for extra leverage on the wrench, trying weird extensions to get the impact driver into place, and finally the propane torch. I did the rear brakes on my Corolla yesterday too. It also has the piston that gets screwed back in to the caliper. I got one of those disc brake cubes hooked it up to a 3/8" drive extension of appropriate length, then a drill to socket adaptor And used my drill to turn them bitches back in. It worked pretty good, though unlike past times it took a bit of fuckery to get the pistons moving. Possibly because my stuff was so worn, the pistons may have been at the end of their travel and so needed a bit of goosing to get them moving. Once they started moving, it was ok though.
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PhotoKirk posted:
You and I are one of the 7 people who have ever used an easy out successfully. I think four more ofvthise people are also ai posters. The bolt I needed one for was fairly loose gotta admit.
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Fifty Three posted:I also have a success story! Bolt from my motorcycle like 8 years ago. Yeah, I think I have about 12 -15 failures and one success story with them. That one success was the stub was already loose, I just COULD NOT grip that fucker or otherwise turn it with anything. I tried every single fuckin thing I could think of so after sending it to the bottom of the hole with a drill bit before actually drilling the hole in it, I shoved that poo poo in there turned it backwards and felt like allah himself when it came out.
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Verman posted:Ugh. The ac is out on both of my vehicles. 08 4Runner with 212k and my 06 Prius with 102k. We're expecting a kid in August and my wife is insistent on having working ac, with good reason. To quote a whole bunch of mechanics, and also hvac people "it's almost never the compressor"
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Putting new struts/springs etc in my Corolla. Quick struts this time. From the time I jacked the back up, to having everything back on the ground, torqued and all my poo poo back in the trunk was just over an hour for the rears. Lunch time now but started to loosen up stuff on the front. MIRACULOUSLY I was able to undo the swaybar end links. But gently caress it, they're still getting changed, I bought them new ones for a reason.
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Suburban Dad posted:Quick struts rule (unless the only brand available is Monroe. Wish I could get kyb for mine). I ended up going with Gabriel because that was what Rock auto had that wasn't Monroe or FCS (fuckin cheap-rear end poo poo?) Last time I did that to this car, I wanted KYB but there was only quick struts for the front, rock auto didn't sell them (too expensive everywhere else) and they were never available for the rears. So I had to buy four struts, and assemble all the poo poo myself. Then I saw I had a broken spring a few weeks ago and suddenly I had to do this now instead of "in the fall" which could mean anytime between the fall and 3 years from now.
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If it hasn't been suggested to you yet, spraying the poo poo out of it with penetrating oil every day for a week or two can be of help.
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Post more pics of the black kitty.
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He knew it would bother you more than average.
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