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I know that's the letter of law from the county/state side, but since the entire county would be a federal site under the Department of Energy, wouldn't the DOE Police, or FBI pick it up if there was a murder or other crime? E: poo poo new page, have a picture of "Sierra Sam", the first crash test dummy: 
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Slavvy posted:I find it interesting how many things they did 'wrong' on WWII era aircraft engines. Roller bearings on the crank on an engine that big seems...suboptimal. IIRC the Germans suffered from a shortage of ball bearings because the US/UK bombed the poo poo out of the factories every chance they got.
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Impressive. I have seen worse. The filter in question was just a mushy pile of media between the two plastic ends.  It had to be scooped out by hand, then the lower plastic plate removed with pliers. Mileage between oil changes was unknown, vehicle was bought used. Vehicle make/model escapes me at the moment. Some model of Land Rover. Not my photo, but it looked like this: 
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Jan 9, 2014 02:10
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 It's ok. I didn't want that tire rotation to take less than 10mins anyway. 
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Mar 9, 2014 03:11
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totalnewbie posted:Most people have no loving clue about cars and just go with things like "Honda is reliable!" or, better yet, "Japanese is reliable!" Or they'll say, "I'm buying American" = Big 3, no other thought put into it. It goes in cycles. Manufacturers will work hard on designs, use good materials, work on maintaining QA on a line of vehicles in order to make them successful. Then when the line is a good seller, they get fat and lazy and start cheapening out everywhere. Repeat when their sales get so bad they start caring again.
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Mar 25, 2014 03:13
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fjelltorsk posted:the engine oil is original...."  (Original) Content:  That poor Pontiac. 
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Apr 2, 2014 00:34
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Is there a museum or comprehensive archive of automotive racing cheats? It seems to me all the cool engineering feats are just to circumvent technical rules.
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Jun 15, 2014 03:02
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I found this Popular Mechanics article. But it basically only covers what's been mentioned in this thread.
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Jun 15, 2014 03:41
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wilfredmerriweathr posted:Horrible owner failure here: So, has it sat on a dealer lot for the last 11 years? Or was there some shenanigans with the odometer?
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Oct 11, 2014 18:23
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Slavvy posted:I wouldn't trust any modern japanese car to do the same. Reliability overall I think has reduced significantly in the past ten years as manufacturers are able to build cars to fit the warranty period more and more closely. They got fat and lazy. Same thing happens to almost every large company that is successful. First it was American domestics, then the Japanese. I'm expecting the koreans to start having the same problems soon.
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Nov 12, 2014 02:28
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Maybe if the South Koreans re-engineer the NK copy of the Chinese copy of the Russian copy of the German design.
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Nov 28, 2014 19:55
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I'm going with ATF, given the dispenser on the ground. Enough suspense already. Cough up a story, even if it is "I spilled trans fluid and took a cool pic"
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Dec 22, 2014 18:32
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Block heaters are basically a requirement at that latitude. He had one plugged in, but mentions it might have conked out. The heater will get you to where you don't need to worry too much about the engine oil, but it doesn't do anything for the trans. Or any differentials.
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Jan 17, 2015 05:27
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They stopped making them in 2010, so it will be a long time before they disappear.
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Feb 2, 2015 05:08
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Is the red stuff on the twisted wires is the spray on wax poo poo used to protect battery terminals?
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Mar 12, 2015 02:02
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 Managed to get this oil pan bolt shaved and spat out by the flywheel. It's me. I am the PO.
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Mar 17, 2015 23:04
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Anything with a vertically mounted filter. GM trucks, a lot of ford vehicles. Mostly US domestics and a few european designs. Also Subarus.
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Mar 25, 2015 17:06
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More cars are. Newer gm and Toyota motors use them. Can't speak for vehicle manufacturing costs, but the filters themselves are cheaper and easier to recycle.
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The drop in filters on Toyotas/Lexi are actually pretty good in my opinion. At least the vertically mounted ones are. The horizontal mount on some of the Prius models is stupid. Anyway: -Cast aluminum cap hard to break or cross thread if you are not a complete idiot. Doesn't become brittle with age. - Multiple ways of putting torque to it to unscrew. Octagonal on the end, ears with a proper cup, band wrench with a shop rag or strap wrench works too. -seals with an oring, not threads putting compression on a gasket. Hand tight until it seats and you are set. -if you are not in a hurry (lol) the plastic bit in the filter kit can be used to drain the housing for less mess.
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Mar 26, 2015 18:28
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Enourmo posted:are you a wizard Major Parts stores will rent you the extractor kit, and sell you the bag of consumeables (special Glue and pins) that you need with it.
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tater_salad posted:Friend: But I GOTTA BUY AMURIKAN the money stays here, REAGANOMICS< THE ECONOMY!!11 I have a shitload of fun with people like that by pointing out that toyotas and subarus are made in Indiana, VWs are made in tennessee and the Hyundai my mother drives rolled off the line in Montgomery, Alabama. EDIT: Pic for the pic gods: 
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We have no idea.  Took that picture a week ago, IIRC the car was just a minivan with a really bad alignment. No ricing or "stance" poo poo involved.
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Jun 13, 2015 01:54
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IIRC that's a wonderfull of combination of water and oil, that then gets fed back into the air filter via the PCV system?
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Aug 26, 2015 03:26
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 For the record, it's fiberglass tape. Duct tape would probably have worked.
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Oct 24, 2015 01:30
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That's actually impressive. How were the threads on the pan?
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Oct 29, 2015 02:17
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They are if you use them properly. Few people do.
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Sep 23, 2016 03:27
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totalnewbie posted:FYI google image search basically makes it trivial to find details about these incidents based on the picture. giant temporary construction projects constructed by roadies, half of whom are hungover* Rigging is serious loving business. I am glad I don't have that much responsibility. *the other half are still drunk
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nene posted:
Same reason Certain People use an impact adapter for oil filters. 
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Sep 30, 2016 04:51
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I would be willing to bet the person involved was wearing a fixed shade welding helmet, and "Missed".
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Oct 27, 2016 05:00
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Ferremit posted:Government is so loving bad at this poo poo. We've got stuff thats basically run into the ground and then WE get poo poo on by the supervisor for "Why is this truck totally unroadworthy!!!! You useless fuckers arent doing the weekly checks raaaargh!" lol, just lol if you think the private side is any better.
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Some mechanical engineer tell me why you cannot just put an insulating spacer around the outer race of the bearing, or between the inner race and motor shaft.
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Jul 6, 2019 20:32
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All of the motors i work with are below 100 horses, or vfd rated or both, so that explains why i dont really run into this problem much. Neat to see that failure mode in the wild though.
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Jul 8, 2019 05:06
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I vote that a Horrible Mechanical Success.
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Jan 3, 2020 03:21
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steering, obv. you cut the one from the direction you want to turn.
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Mar 8, 2020 15:25
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Paying for a hydraulic system (and not maintaining it and having it torch an entire truck) is still cheaper than paying for pensions and medical bills for the hosed up backs of the guys who would have to ride on the back and toss the bins. By a significant margin.
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Apr 3, 2020 18:08
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Literally the first thing they taught me as a dumb tire monkey at a chain shop was "scrape/pry all the old onese off first" do... people not know this? 
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Aug 4, 2020 03:08
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I'm skeptical you could get a 130A through that pull tab
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Aug 19, 2020 00:03
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the problem with the aluminum post style is the base has less area, so they are more likely to tip. nice to see that they fail safer vertically.
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Sep 26, 2020 15:38
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where I worked, our shop had an air powered diaphragm pump, that you hooked up to the bottom, which sucked all the old oil out into the disposal tank. no pressurization nonsense needed. which is good, because I'm not sure some of the people I worked with could have handled a complex procedure like "close this valve before you pressurize".
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4WD Yoghurt maker.
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