CommieGIR posted:

No pictures, but Sunday I was driving down I-75 south back to Atlanta, and ricer after ricer was heading up I-75 north towards Chattanooga.

It was literally a parade of failed/damaged suspensions, Honda's burning oil, cars leaning at odd angles on a flat straight, and terrible rusted hoods and horrible paint jobs and neon plastidipped wheels.

What is wrong with people?

Mercury Ballistic posted:

I have virtually no welding experience, but I was told that welding on galvanized metal was a great way to ruin your health. Are exhausts galvanized?

Throatwarbler posted:

These are the people who drive Nissan GTRs. This is terrible because I know there are good posters on this forum who drive them but it's kind of hard to take anyone who drives a GTR seriously after reading that poo poo.

In a related vein.



These are the people who drive MINIs. How do they actually have the gall to write this kind of flippant poo poo after delivering a car without remembering to install the shift paddles? I guess I am just not the target market for these things because if I had hosed up something like that at my job then well, I wouldn't be laughing.

TotalLossBrain posted:

And that's why vehicle fires, brake failures, and broke down vehicles everywhere are the norm.

IOwnCalculus posted:

I feel like I'm missing something when having a couple gallons of windshield washer fluid helped you avoid a tow for what sure looks like an oil filter to me.

EightBit posted:

What? How could you need one of these? What is contaminating your coolant?

Krakkles posted:

Pretty much:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k_9Ty664tg

CBD posted:

Not really failure related; but none of our Detroit Diesels sound like that, maybe a series 60 thing? That being said you can't hear valve noise on a 71 or 53 series with no mufflers.
If I'm not mistaken aren't DPF's the exhaust filter that like to burn out that everyone hates? A lot of people I talk to seem to prefer DEF to DPF, and people that don't do a lot of diesel stuff frequently confuse the two?

Content:



This 4-53 came from a municipal backup pump. Low hours, no rebuilds. we were promised it would fire right up. When you service a Detroit Diesel the first thing you do is pull the valve cover and check the injectors and fuel rack. We found out that the municipality had likely given the engine to a high school to teach kids that big engines have big parts. The carriage bolts and head bolts were lose and the fuel rack was detached. We have removed the injectors to free them up because the engine sat for a few years.



Here is a picture to better understand the fuel rack people often talk about with Detroit Diesels.

14 INCH DETECTIVE posted:

Slavvy posted:

IV8 can you please explain to me exactly what truck ramps are meant to do? How does crashing the truck into a big mound of whatever help anything?

IOwnCalculus posted:

That had to make a noise.

The ~200 mile old water pump from my Ranger:


Close up:


Closer up:


Bearing end:

Ferremit posted:

but looking at it- its square to the ground and looks wound all the way down. Either the jackscrew nut failed, or they've deliberately lowered it down like that.

Or theres another jack under there somewhere!

flacoman954 posted:

What was that? Looks like a wet-sleeve diesel dropped a valve.

Seat Safety Switch posted:

Brianne Corn can do it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-i2_g33wXQ

Measly Twerp posted:

I can't believe a car that large was ever called a "coupe".

Root Bear posted:

Powershift posted:

kastein posted:

It's probably not lovely design, probably lovely maintenance. Bumpstops/jounce pads are great till you don't inspect or repair them ever and the rubber block comes off the metal backing, then they get noticeably shorter.

Ulfhednar posted:

A few years back, I was going through the Rants / Raves section of my town's Craigslist and someone had posted a picture of their 18-Wheeler after an encounter with a deer on the interstate. I've had the picture saved in my random car pictures folder ever since. They really do explode when something that huge hits them:

http://i.imgur.com/qiI243R.jpg linked in case you don't like blood. Not sure what's going up the hood and windshield though.

wilfredmerriweathr posted:

What kind of smarmy loving rear end in a top hat owns a expensive car but doesn't get the oil changed?

(Actually come to think of it, probably a lot of expensive car owners do this.)

jammyozzy posted:

"Why make it simple when complicated will do?"

Root Bear posted:

Customer drops off her Durango for a wheel alignment, and makes no mention of any unusual noises or handling issues other than a crooked steering wheel.






"You mean you can't fix my wheel alignment? But that's why I came here!"

Saga posted:

Shouldn't someone with an HGV licence always know the height of their load? Especially before driving under a very obvious brick railway bridge with the height printed on it in big numbers.

Goon truckers please weigh in (no pun intended).

Powershift posted:

There are 3000 cities with a population over 10,000 but under 100,000 population in between those urban areas for which it doesn't make sense to have a dedicated sorting and distribution center. There are only 306 cities in the EU with a population under 100,000.

For a city of 10,000 people, which likely supports a rural area of similar size, it doesn't make sense to have a dedicated sorting and distribution center.

I was an owner/operator with DHL, and my route was 500-550km per day and there was a truck with another shipping company that nearly mirrored my route. More than half of the routes were over 250km per day. In a city of 100,000 with an area likely triple or quadruple that of an equivalent european city, all of the inner city stuff was handled by 5 or 6 trucks, out of a fleet of about 30.


You're the most ignorant poster i've seen with regards to north america. You seem like the type of person who would want to take a day out of your trip to toronto to see montreal and vancouver.