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atomicthumbs
Dec 26, 2010


We're in the business of extending man's senses.
I thought my car had a nasty case of piston slap, but I used a broomstick to find the real culprit; it went away when I cut the belt off the A/C compressor.

Is it more likely that the clutch or the compressor itself is failing in this instance? The sound didn't change when I turned the A/C on and off, though that could be because both of them were failing.

The sound could best be described as "a gnome inside the engine with a pair of hammers". The A/C seemed to work fine other than the noise.

Fucknag posted:

Oh no, a highly pressurized, flammable liquid? In the engine compartment, near hot metal? Say it ain't so!

At least when gasoline burns it turns into exhaust and/or smoke, instead of hydrofluoric acid.

atomicthumbs fucked around with this message at 08:00 on Mar 30, 2014

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