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Kill-9 posted:Also, in the States that would be called the LR2 like the Disco3 is an LR3/LR4. Yes, lame names. Lilbeefer posted:And you miss out on the 3.0 TDV6 in both LR and Jag.
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jamal posted:Basically the extra load put on the upright from our ball joint extenders caused the upright to crack and the ball joint to come out, in the middle of a 120mph corner. I had to Google the ball joint extenders and, yep, they are what I thought they were. Makes me cringe a bit. Doesn't anyone sell a custom front upright assembly to correct the geometry instead?
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jamal posted:yeah for the 2k the msi parts cost I'd rather design and have them made myself. I can incorporate the right mounting for our stoptechs among some other things. I'd also do a set of custom control arms to go along with them.
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Sockington posted:Guessing a bike of some sort judging by the '750' on the valve cover  Yeah, it's going to be a bike engine, but over here it's not that long since you really could buy a proper, five (small) seat hatchback with a 750cc engine. Both my aunt and one of the guys I was in sixth form with had a Fiat Panda 750, and that wasn't the least powerful one they built. Hell, the 126, in a mighty, upgraded, 700cc form, only stopped rolling out the Polish factory in 2000.
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Sockington posted:Oh, and 
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CommieGIR posted:Oh god, that is horrid I would NEVER go into a component of the engine without someone nearby who knows I was doing maintenance
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Once he gets the other three wheels done, though, it's going to look so stanced, dude.
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I quite fancy hitting everyone involved around the back of the head with my copy of the REME Recovery Manual. Jesus Christ, that was an appalling level of stupidity.
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 Teenager. Litrebike. 157mph. Concrete. By some miracle, no death. http://jalopnik.com/5721263/this-is-what-happens-when-you-crash-a-motorcycle-at-157-mph
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Dec 31, 2010 23:55
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mutt2jeff posted:Driving like a loving idiot, while dumb, is not mechanical failure.
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wallaka posted:That would probably work if your diff and transmission ratio was 1:1. Otherwise...not so much. *For the US, you might even get away with 4.44s. And possibly leaving it in third.
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NoWake posted:Replaced a squealing CV joint and gained a nifty desk toy! 
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ApathyGifted posted:"We don't run the tunnel more than about 6 seconds at a time because otherwise you start sucking the air out of the building." (Same wind tunnel.)
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I'm just waiting to see who the first person to finally break down and start doing hoop stress calculations is.
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Lilbeefer posted:Didn't know where to paste it so I thought I'd put it here, because even though it is just an "easy" way to access the entire engine, most of you probably class the Disco 3/4 as a horrible mechanical failure.  . Apparently he never really thought about the idea of someone taking the body/chassis unit apart after it was assembled.I should probably ask him for a specific name to which your techs can address their "You, sir, are a right bleeding bastard" letters. Though 4 hours for a body/chassis split really doesn't sound bad to me, quite quick, in fact, given that it's a "carefully separate to do work" job rather than a "rip it off and throw it away" one.
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I share your pain. I've got a car that was in a collapsed barn. The barn collapsed because it seemed like the best option at the time, given it was on fire. Yeah, that paint's going to need more than a bit of compound  .
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The Third Man posted:But what could kick something up hard enough to punch through, what, a 1/4" of steel? Besides, if you've got a ton-and-a-half of car moving at reasonable speed and a lump of kerbstone etc sticking out that can almost be considered immovable, you're going to royally gently caress up anything that doesn't have a seriously heavy-duty bashplate under there.
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Courtesy of one of my engineering friends: "The wheel failure happened many years ago, at sandy, on an intercity train from kings cross. The axle failure happened near melton Mowbray at speed, and made a mess of a couple of miles of track. Strangely the media managed to not pick up on this story, they just listed it as a broken down train."     
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IOwnCalculus posted:So what do you do in that situation? Wait for a service crew to fix it? Rig the train horn to play Dixie, then yell yee-hah and floor it.
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Sponge! posted:Asphalt is a superfluid of sorts... Maybe non-newtonian is a better term, basically its just a really stiff liquid/colloid.  Thixotropic!
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Whatever you do to get them clean again, it looks like you're a good candidate for a coating of plasti-dip or some form of vinyl wrap. If you do actually end up getting them stripped down completely, see if anyone does a hard, slick coating to refinish them in - the only problem being that such things are often a bit drat pricey.
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Splizwarf posted:Side question: I never understood why it works to dump stuff like sand or boron from a helicopter but not to just throw it into a fire from a ground vehicle. We certainly have road-drivable stuff that can toss particulate solids pretty far, and the helicopter dumping solution is usually touted as really dangerous.
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Cushy posted:Also, every part should have a bar code, and/or an RFID tag.
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Apr 8, 2011 23:13
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Phangor posted:What starts with F and ends in UCK?
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Apr 8, 2011 23:33
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"I'm sure we can port it out a bit more, pass that die grinder over here"
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Cakefool posted:got a shaft made locally in 18 hours. Not so much a horrible mechanical failure as a decision process one, I've seen someone insist that they only need three $5 components, regardless of things like minimum order values, batch setup charges and fast-tracking premiums. So that'll be $2,400 to you, squire, sign on the dotted...
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Wiglaf posted:But really a turbo could cause the same issues just from typical bearing leakage.
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Ola posted:Yeah I'm curious about this myself. Unless "remote filter" means spraying the oil out, filtering it through national park soil and the fur of squirrels and then sucking it back up again.
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Ola posted:Probably posted before somewhere, but a very nice vide of a serious engineer talking about a very serious subject. Also a tip of the hat to Ducati. Not so much what Brit sports coverage was like back in the day, but not far off Top Gear of the same era...
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Revolvyerom posted:The highlight of hazmat training was being told that in the case of invisible deadly gases that can be blown around by winds (chlorine tank rupture), try to stay away from the areas that birds are falling out of the sky.
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monkeytennis posted:Yep, if there's time to lean, there's time to clean.
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meatpimp posted:I think it's disingenuous to post something that you've seen broadcast on a mainstream site without giving some reference or credit. It's not like "hey, look at this wheel that rolled into my shop" when it's a grab-and-post from reddit. Just like stealing stories straight from Autoblog.
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dissss posted:Quote from my friends mother after running their Renault 21 out of coolant - "But its a European car and they don't have radiators, only Japanese cars do"
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If it's running some kind of air or hydraulic suspension, could a line have been ripped out by grounding?
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13537084
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Yeah, I've had aluminium caps seize onto the valves so badly I had to cut them off. They probably tried using a spanner to undo it, and that's what's made it that shape. A Dremel cut along the side and some levering with a flat screwdriver might have gor it off without trashing the assembly, but there's no way to tell now.
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Detroit Q. Spider posted:Why were your folks so hardcore about fenders? Saying that, idiot kids when I was at school took the piss if you wore a helmet. Usual response was "I've pulled 45mph on an MTB before, and if you hit something without a helmet, you're hosed".
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EightBit posted:The car was already toast, the oil rings were probably gone, hence the immediate smoking. Don't get your panties in a wad.
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GWBBQ posted:If it was a pothole, especially a newly formed one, check and see if local law holds the town/city accountable for damage caused.
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