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Ferremit posted:Whats the point of jacking up a truck by 4 feet if you loose 1.5 of them to god drat exhaust tip clearance? Pure penile compensation. There is no reason to jack a truck up 4 feet, unless it is getting a full custom frame, much wider axles, and turning into a monster truck, and even that is out because that isn't really how they build a good monster truck now. The exhaust tip only hammers the point home that this kind of truck is not about performance, just being bigger/more extreme than the other mouthbreather. They are terrible and that's coming from someone who likes lifted trucks 
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Godholio posted:
that's what happens when you have a pack of idiots at a show truck shop put your truck together. If I recall correctly, they put those dual coilovers on with a single bolt, in single shear - i.e. one mounting tab on the axle housing, with a shock on either side of it and a big ol' bolt slapped through the whole mess. Then the predictable happened. Here's another example of big dumb show/mud truck fabrication failure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHlS7OPkTkU&t=225s
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You can usually tell depending on whether they've trimmed the sheetmetal for clearance, or just jacked it to the sky. If it's a low lift and the wheels/tires appear to fit up into the bodywork, there's a chance it gets used, if the sheetmetal isn't touched and it's got a few feet of lift to avoid the tires hitting everything but the lottery, it's a useless posermobile. Poser:  40" tires, 20" of blingy chrome, multiple feet of useless poser lift, no traction aids (why bother, no one can see them!) Got in a dick comparing / pissing match about his dumb truck on an offroad parts trading group on facebook, then ignored multiple offers to race a twisty road + easy dirt track course for pinks. Not poser:  5" of lift... 42" tires. Low and super wide, like 92" wide. I've seen it drive up things that are difficult to walk, and drive sideways across ledges that almost anything would roll on. It had 38" tires before (thus the rear fender clearance issues, which he's fixed now.) There's something wrong when a fullsize truck "needs" something like four times as much lift to "fit" tires roughly the same size as those on a small SUV. Something wrong in the owner's head.
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Well, at least the center of gravity has got to be pretty drat low.
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They appear to be some sort of portal axle, since the bottom of the axle housing is slightly above the center of the wheel. Not sure who makes 6 lug portals... Unimog? Either way, it's too goddamn tall/narrow to be useful offroad in any real conditions.
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In Mass they're run by the state, hopelessly understaffed, and run entirely by stereotypical bureaucrats who hate their customers and live to push paper. I went in to register a vehicle that the seller had accidentally checked the odometer rollover box on the title (6 digit odo, reading 138k) and the idiot I dealt with insisted that an odometer reading 138k that rolled over meant an actual mileage of 238k. Yup. I ended up giving up in frustration and letting them make my $3k valued crapcan a $2500 valued crapcan by adding 100k to the odometer, because it was less hassle than the pair of forms they gleefully pushed at me requiring the previous owner's signature (100 miles away) and I needed it registered by the next day.
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Oct 31, 2012 00:56
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Russian cut and shuts  I could stare at these nightmare inducing repairs all day. e: that one is actually some pretty quality work, though that vehicle never should have been repaired... and they should have used a proper spot welder, not mig spot welding. And it's going to get eaten alive by rust at all of those seams within five or ten years, and come right back apart, since they didn't dip it in anything and all those seams have bare metal inside them now. kastein fucked around with this message at 07:28 on Nov 6, 2012 |
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What else got your attention, your thumb or your index finger? I can't quite tell. edit: I am an unobservant idiot kastein fucked around with this message at 04:48 on Nov 9, 2012 |
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Nov 9, 2012 04:30
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some texas redneck posted:
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Look next to the passenger taillight.
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It also results in a lot of return customers, at least for the parts department.
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I'm not sure if this is awesome or horrible or what. Pretty sure it's horrible. http://springfield.craigslist.org/cto/3377685959.html  
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I'm pretty sure his sister-auntie previewed the video and said it was great and he should show it to the world. e: found this on another forum 
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I've never really had a problem with that when I work on VWs/Audis, I just use an extension bar and a socket to hold the lug bolt, gives a little more leverage to line it up and carefully get the threads started. Another thing you can do is take the appropriate threaded bolt about 50-60mm long, cut the head off, grind a pair of flats into it, and thread it into one hole. Then hang your brake rotor, spacer, wheel etc on it. Put the other lug bolts in, remove headless bolt (either by hand or with vise grips on the flats if necessary) and torque everything down. I use this method on Saginaw style steering boxes on SUVs/trucks every time now because it's so much easier to get the other 2-3 bolts started when there's an alignment peg in the first hole.
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Passenger car tires/rims are light as hell... just hold it up and put the bolts in? No reason to try and balance it.
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veedubfreak posted:I think we found the original. If we kill it, will all of the other lovely audi/vw rat rods die too? we can only hope.
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rear end in a top hat Bicycle posted:I got so frustrated once, I though about having a welder fill the holes, then having a machine shop drill 5 new holes. Then I realized they were a $100 set of wheels and ... sold them to some other poor sucker for $200 and got another set of better $100 wheels?
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A lot of them have different steering column/input shaft spline setups and bolt patterns. I can only imagine what he came up with for that... I think the worst I've ever seen was pics of an S10 someone had solid axle swapped with a dana 30 frontend out of a cherokee. The pitman arm on an S10 swings the opposite direction from the one on a cherokee. The guy who did the swap didn't think about that till it was too late... and so turning the steering wheel left made the truck turn right   He was daily driving it that way.
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Yep, that's pretty horrible alright. Also, I now have an urge to wipe the vaseline off my computer screen.
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Nov 28, 2012 21:07
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General_Failure posted:Nope. Me too. My entire fashion repertoire consists of cheap T shirts, khaki / drab / camo cargo shorts / trousers and steel cap boots. I know nothing of this "fashion" they speak of. Now I think of it, I don't actually even own any shoes. same, except add a comically "distressed" bikers jacket I need to pawn off on a hipster ASAP and jeans that are trying to turn themselves into jorts.
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http://jonesboro.craigslist.org/cto/3410477619.html It's like inbred redneck bingo. Highlights: ford taurus "4x4 conversion" 350 350 "3/4 ton runnin gear" I really want to see how they made the steering shaft. It probably involves half the chevy truck steering shaft, half the taurus steering shaft, a big chunk of rebar, and a stick welder 
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VikingSkull posted:I work at an auction, the worst thing ever is a blizzard on sale day. We've never missed a sale in the 14 years I've worked there. Cleaning 3 feet of snow off of 5,000 cars really sucks. Dumb question, isn't this situation what a shovel was designed to help with?
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I don't even know what to say about this. I am picturing this man's family tree and it involves a lot of  and looks kinda like the pile of cables behind my computer.http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/toyota-truck-4runner/1106067-fuel-injected-turbo-20-r.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-RE41Io8CA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egpisoJB6Tg That poor truck did nothing wrong to deserve this 
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Root Bear posted:I'm sure these guys are from somewhere on that same "tree" I... uh... um... yeah. You're right, I think. Wow. 
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I love how every owner of ridiculous rims like that is all like "FIRST ONE'S ON A CALIBER!!!" or "FIRST 30"S IN FROGBUTT, ALABAMA!!!" like it matters. The brand name just makes it funnier... those are Status Grinders.
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Godholio posted:Yeah those are actually really effective off the pavement. They're more stable than you'd think, and probably safer than the alternative. It's also available 12" taller. High lifts scare the poo poo out of me (for good reason) but they have their uses. For instance, at the junkyard, say you need the transmission out of a truck:  Not the first time, either.  It's so nice to be able to walk into the junkyard and pull the transmission out of a truck in two hours without really breaking a sweat or crawling under anything dangerous.
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Faerunner posted:He's image leeching from Facebook, can you not see images from Facebook either? according to the rules in PYF facebook's ok for image hosting, for some reason I thought that went for all of SA. Should I change it? Bang Me Please, it's just more redneck junkyard hooliganery.
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enojy posted:Four spaces: pretty sure he did that to avoid being blocked in by some idiot. There's nothing quite as annoying as pulling through a pair of spaces (due to the trailer) and going into the store for 5 minutes only to find a person in each space on each side of you, leaving you unable to make the 90 degree turn out of the space and down the row without sideswiping one or both of them. I've taken up a handful of spaces while towing for the exact same reason but I've always done it at the back of the lot to avoid pissing people off. The best plan is always to pull through in a sort of sweeping turn so you're taking 3-5 spaces and have your nose sorta diagonal and pointing out into the row, but not quite into the next space, so you can just pull out and swing a little wide even if someone takes that spot. Or park along the edge of the lot, but that's not always possible.
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holy hell there is a lot of  about dumb stickers and marathons and the ring in here.
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Can't decide if this is an awesome car thing (because one dumbshit diesel pickup bro gets dragged everywhere) or a terrible car thing (because the other one now feels like king poo poo) but I think the whole concept belongs here. Also, it's a facebook video so good luck getting it to embed anywhere that doesn't allow HTML. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=536181529725823
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It's now making the rounds on facebook and I'm finding out how many of my friends are god drat idiots. A good number of them have made positive comments on either the chevy or the dodge side 
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ahahahahahahahahaha I have a feeling the suspension design of BOTH those vehicles belongs in this thread, or possibly the horrible mechanical failures thread. Goddamn jacked-up POS mudbogger trucks 
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I paid $200 for my washer and dryer. Dryer was basically brand new when I got it, washer is a POS but it's done the job for a year and a half now so who am I to complain. That being said I think my wheels (rollin' on 16s, baby!) cost me $250, so your comparison holds.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Carfax could probably make some money opening a "modified by an idiot" registry that permanently marks a VIN like that. * Rust * Modified by an idiot * off the books cut-and-shut to hide at-fault collision damage Those are the ONLY things I care about when buying a vehicle, and also some of the only things that really never show up on a carfax report. Those who know me and have seen my collection of vehicles are probably thinking "what, it has to fit all those categories? "They would be right 
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A few terrible pickups spotted at the local you-pull-it over the last month or so. The exhaust was dangling underneath and had been cut almost all the way through right behind the muffler. I'm not sure the stack was actually doing anything.  Truly rusted datsun. Apparently it was a diesel... wait, what's that fence post doing there?  Oh god that's a stack 
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I think this definitely belongs in the terrible thread. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=127617464065600
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Groda posted:So, in principle, what should break first in a pull off? The clutch? Preferably, ground traction or the engine should stall, but if I had to choose a hard part to break I'd likely go with an axleshaft or driveshaft. It looks to me like he may have twisted the yoke off the pinion gear in his front differential, not broke the driveshaft. Not entirely sure. If that's the case you are looking at a few thousand in damage if dealer repaired or probably around a thousand if brought to a 4x4 shop. e: "cummings"
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Oh no, it is a slightly ugly and completely legal car parked in a legal place.
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All I'm saying is that I'm pretty sure it's a good thing for both of us we aren't neighbors then 
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Electronics and any spotwelded portions of the unibody, especially ones that were already starting to rust inside the spotweld seams. Seeing as this is coastal NY CT and NJ we're talking about, that means anything that's more than 3-4 years old. Flooded cars are one thing, flooded cars that have been through a dozen foot storm surge on the oceanfront are completely another. Verizon and the other telcos are still ripping out literally hundreds of MILLIONS of dollars of underground wiring and equipment in NYC because, well, all of it turned green and crumbled the second it touched seawater while electrified. Which was "every cable below the first floor of lower Manhattan." I wouldn't touch any of those cars with a 10 foot pole, even for parts I'd be carefully inspecting everything before use.
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