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Ferremit posted:So considering that Australia looks set to turn into USA lite with the destruction of Universal health Care, massive cuts to the public sector and the whole place going to poo poo at a rapid rate of knots, where should I move too in the Real USA so I can get cheap fun cars? That depends on what you like. If you are a fan of Queenslanders, move anywhere south of the mason/dixon. Or the midwest. If you like no rust and don't mind never seeing snow, try the southwest. Have fun with the CARB laws if you move to CA. If you like high desert and/or big forests and/or it being rainy all the time and never snowing, try somewhere in the pacific northwest. If you like winter and woods and roads that were designed by livestock (but also hills and mountains and twisty back roads) try the northeast. Sorry about the rust, it sucks. But we have $300 complete LSx drivetrains everywhere to make up for it. Stay out of cities since you like cars and don't buy anything in a HOA. kastein fucked around with this message at 15:09 on May 1, 2014 |
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But you still have to deal with all the awful old people from everywhere else who retire there, plus the horrible hicks/mud truck drivers, and hurricanes. No such thing as a free lunch unfortunately.
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May 1, 2014 15:21
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The palmetto bugs are just a plot to fatten you up for the alligators.
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May 1, 2014 23:03
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I learned to drive standard by driving 550 miles from home, buying a 20,000lb military truck with a standard transmission, and then having to drive it home. Mechanical clutch and no synchro on first gear, and if there's one on second gear, it didn't work when I got it. Was actually pretty fun.
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May 2, 2014 20:18
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That's loving bullshit, if the product you are purchasing was made in NAFTA, the NAFTA rate should apply. Ask her if she should pay non-NAFTA taxes when she goes to a Chinese restaurant in Calgary, wait for her head to explode and then just walk by with your poo poo.
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May 2, 2014 20:37
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Rhyno posted:Some dude in the store today was telling me that his college degree was revoked because of his massive school debts. That's not actually a thing is it? Dunno about revocation but if you default they may refuse to send your transcript to employers/other schools, etc.
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May 3, 2014 03:41
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Yo, gently caress your couch.
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May 3, 2014 15:14
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Snowdens Secret posted:What are OCD charts like, anyway All the bars are slightly skewed to one side or the other. With no pattern. Some of them are a few points offset from the bottom of the chart. (This coming from someone who will align two tables at a restaurant perfectly... unless a more OCD friend is along. Then I misalign them slightly to gently caress with them.  )
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May 3, 2014 21:00
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jesus christ when did this become D&D I am going to go back outside and do dumb poo poo to my dumb trucks, have fun arguing about politics! 
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May 3, 2014 21:58
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I am probably going to have the financial nerds up my rear end about this but gently caress credit cards. I saved up and bought my lovely house with cash. Same with my cars. Same with... anything else that most people want a good credit score for. So why do I even need a credit card to build my credit score? I don't need it. The only exception is below-inflation rate cards, 0% intro APR, airline miles, etc. I know I am not responsible enough for that poo poo so I don't sign up. IMO, you are going to have to pay it at some point anyways and who knows what money you will have then to do so. So why bother? If I can't afford toys now, I don't loving buy them. (Yes I am still debating not paying the electric bill till next month so I can dream about buying another dumb engine for another of my dumb trucks. yes I know this is hypocritical. No I don't care  )
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May 3, 2014 22:52
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Motronic posted:Bad Ken. BAD, No! Bucephalus posted:He's got hand tools and the metabolism of a hummingbird, and it's consistently above freezing now. He'll be fine. I slept in a hammock hung between a parts jeep and my daily driver jeep for the first month after I moved out of my apartment because it was nice out and the house was still full of mold and moisture even though I'd just finished the roof. It was awesome. (it's very convenient, I'd get home, hook the hammock to the roof rack, and back up until it was at just the right tension. Then work on the house for a while, have a campfire with some of the wood debris removed that day, fire up the grill, cook dinner, drink some beer and pass out. Rinse lather repeat.) Fucknag posted:What the actual gently caress is happening in AI today? Well I accidentally ended up elbow deep in a man tranny for someone I didn't know and reportedly Slung Blade is working his magic on a rear end.
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May 4, 2014 02:58
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Liquid Communism posted:Really, what weekend could be complete without you being elbow deep in a greasy tranny? Don't lie, when you pick up a new man tranny you sit on it and make motor noises while playing with the stick too.
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May 4, 2014 03:21
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Bucephalus posted:*whoosh* I was getting drunk and disorderly with him last night. He knows exactly what I meant.
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May 4, 2014 03:48
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leica posted:Yep I'd be scrapin' that poo poo. I'd be asking $600 and letting people think they stole it for $300. 
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May 4, 2014 04:21
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Crag, use a bonding strap and don't use the bracket as the ground. Problem solved.
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May 4, 2014 22:43
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My sleep schedule isn't even synched with itself (asleep at 10pm some nights, 3am others, no real pattern) and for the last few months half the time I wake up curled up in a ball in my office chair at 5AM anyways. At that point I'm never certain whether to leave for work early or move to my bed and risk sleeping past my alarm and being late.
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May 6, 2014 15:18
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gently caress you all, I am going to buy a million acres in central NH, build myself a garage/house/shop/fortress into the side of a hill, and fade from the public eye. You may all go to hell and I will go to NH, etc etc.
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May 6, 2014 15:37
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I have a fatal attraction to basket cases. I have known this for some time.
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May 6, 2014 15:40
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Or just file for a mechanics lien if it comes down to it.
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May 6, 2014 22:59
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Knowing Audi my bet is that he unplugged it properly, but everything is controlled via CAN bus and for some reason, they put the logic to handle sending the message to turn the lights on into that particular module. This is 25% logic/experience, 50% laughing at Audi, and 25% assumptions, so it'll be funny if I'm right.
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May 7, 2014 20:37
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Well as long as no one else ever looks at it (or you don't care what other people think, that works too) just build it how you guys are happy with it and call it a day. If I end up doing my interior design and layout on my house (which is almost guaranteed), it's going to be pretty drat industrial/institutional. I'm OK with that, to hell with what anyone else thinks, stainless steel and plate glass everywhere!
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May 7, 2014 20:52
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I'm split between stainless steel, concrete, soapstone, and granite. Probably doing cheap lovely melamine/laminate for now but building the cabinetry to handle the load of a stone top just in case I get a bug up my rear end about it once I have the money to upgrade. Knowing my luck, I'll be about a minute from buying crappy laminate countertops and a random friend I haven't heard from in 3 years will call me up and ask if I want 200 linear feet of stainless countertop being torn out of a restaurant he's working on or something, just gotta pick it up tonight.
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May 7, 2014 20:56
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I'm lucky in that respect. I can memorize a date like you wouldn't believe*. gently caress, I still remember my last three exes birthdays (and anniversaries) and I don't even mean to. Being "king sperg of autist mountain" (not my words) has its advantages sometimes  * but only if I actually get that info in the first place. So yeah, still poo poo outta luck if I was in Terrible Robot's position. Sucks, man, sometimes poo poo just doesn't work out 
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May 7, 2014 23:56
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Slavvy posted:I've seen modern COP cars with the plugs worn down to stubs that were even with the tip of the insulator and they still ran fairly decent, so I think you have a lot of wiggle room. But there's no point dicking around with gaps cause you just buy pre-gapped plugs anyway so.... On waste spark setups they wear twice as fast for the obvious reason. I check even pregapped plugs, I've seen them off by a significant amount.
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After much consultation with my good friend Jim Beam and noted Subaru and Jeep specialists I've conceived of the ideal automotive fastener. M9x1.125 thread 190mm long unthreaded shank, followed by 17mm of threaded length Head design shall be a combo 19 fine-spline internal and 12 coarse-spline external such that the socket will only fit on in one single orientation and the torque spec shall be such that using only an internal or external spline tool or not fully seating the socket will guarantee roundoff. The bottom of the spline flutes shall be necked down to prevent overtorquing (read: head drive surface shall shear before bolt shank does.) The bottom of the internal spline socket shall be inverse coned to prevent unauthorized users from drilling them out easily. The head shall be reduced diameter and countersunk. Fastener hardness ISO PC 14.999 Regular zinc plate These fasteners shall be used to attach the tailhousing mounting flange (cast aluminum) of a $5k transmission to the cast aluminum housing of a $2.5k transfer case, each only used for a single model year of production. The reduced heads are specified because there is no clearance between the tailhousing side and bolt hole for a fullsize socket/ratchet. Have fun with that one in 10 years!  They actually manufacture 5 lobe torx plus security fasteners. Whoever came up with that atrocity should be tried for crimes against humanity, and is the inspiration for this post.
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May 8, 2014 22:11
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meatpimp posted:I use an account at https://www.capitalone360.com as an intermediary between my real accounts and paypal. interceptorV8 turned me on to it when it was still ING Direct Orange. No fees, seems perfectly legit. I've given them no money, keep no money in it, but I've funneled a large amount between paypal any my real accounts. Might be worth a look. I had like 70k in my account with them at one point before I bought my house. They are legit, they didn't steal it. Back in the day (like 08 or so) they were paying some pretty nice rates, too. I think I was getting 4.5% when I first signed up.
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meatpimp posted:So one guy has an oil leak that doesn't get fixed, then bitches on the internet that he doesn't get free product and that's a damnation of the product? From what I understood the oil leak didn't exist until this snake oil melted his seals, and then the customer support sent him abusive, inbred-worded screeds which blatantly ignored what he said and banned him from the forums for posting it afterwards, then used a sockpuppet account to bump a thread elsewhere on the internet years later to post another half-literate blather-fest calling the guy a liar. I know who I'm inclined to believe here and it isn't the guy hocking snake oil... whether it worked for you or not. I hate replacing seals.
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The veins in my elbows are literally 1/2" wide and pop out if I clench my fist (seriously, they look like they belong on a bodybuilder not a beanpole nerd) and blood doesn't scare me at all so donating blood or having it pulled for medical poo poo is a walk in the park. The last time I had blood drawn the nurse was like "jesus, if I miss that, I should just resign"
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man, that sucks I hope he pulls through but that really doesn't sound good. I didn't give a rats rear end about cars or driving in high school. Still didn't for the first few years of college. Around 2006 I was pushed to get my license and still didn't really give a poo poo, at least till I borrowed one of the family beaters to go back to school. That was pretty awesome, still didn't care about cars as long as they ran and drove... My requirements for my first car when I decided to buy it in 2008, right after getting my first job: 1. must be boxy and 80s styled 2. must be 4x4 because Reasons 3. must be automatic because I have no interest in learning to drive stick 4. must run and drive With that in mind I was looking for a K5 Blazer, second or third gen Bronco, or Jeep Wrangler. Then I ended up with a horrible rotted hosed worn out Cherokee because Wranglers were out of my price range. The rest is history. (my parents thought I should use the $3k I'd saved up to put a down payment on a nice Honda. Glad I didn't do that.)
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Yeah that is a well known feature of those vehicles. I fixed all the oil leaks on mine when I had the engine out for the 5-speed swap a few months ago and it retaliated by springing a leak in the power steering hose. I've now owned two Cherokees and two Comanches. I technically own three of those right now but I haven't picked the latest Comanche up yet. ... plus plenty of parts vehicles. They don't really count though.
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ExplodingSims posted:I keep trying to think of new cars I want, but nothing really makes me that excited about them. Old cars however, I've got my wishlist made up: I still want a Jeep J20 or J3000 Gladiator, an M715, an M816, and maybe an M123A1C. I might get an e30 or something if I go nuts, but I can hold 0.95G turns in the XJ, and go fast enough to get myself in a lot of trouble, so I'm not sure what purpose it would fulfill. One of those dinky old subarus would cut down on gas a lot... but I can't find one with the right options (4wd, manual) in my pricerange. So basically all really big ugly old trucks. Need something really big towed or hauled though? How slow do you want to go and how much fuel are we talking?
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I dunno, I hear some real good things about the latest Ford diesels. Skip the 6.0 and whatever shitpile came after it, but the modern one's supposed to be pretty nice. ... and that's coming from someone who mostly plays with MOPAR legos. Honestly, however, your best bang/buck is going to be an old 7.3 powerstroke or 90s Dodge Cummins. If you get the dodge, stay the gently caress away from anything with an auto in it unless you enjoy paying to have them rebuilt.
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Powershift posted:dodge is the only one still offering a manual, and it's rated at 660ft/lbs, when a truck with the aisin 6 speed auto is rated at 850. It's downrated for good reason as well, as the G56 is aluminum, and twists when you try transmitting torque through it, the standard chrysler autos are still poo poo as well. Wait, they switched to an aisin unit? No further objections... I have been impressed by the durability of every aisin transmission I have ever used. E: upon opening my windows I was greeted by a most unpleasant sound... if my brother ever has kids, I am buying them a recorder for sure.  (And no recorders shall ever be permitted in my house. For any reason.) kastein fucked around with this message at 14:42 on May 11, 2014 |
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Devyl posted:When I moved, I decided to be a nice person and help out my girlfriends' friend who was in a bad spot. Real nice, down to earth kinda person. Gave her a roof over her head and food because she was homeless & just lost her job. Decided to let her stay with us on the condition of getting a job and helping pay bills/small amount of rent until she could save up enough to move out on her own. She turned down 7 job offers because "I don't want to do this/that/whatever". Finally got her a job and she quit on her second day because "I can't sleep if I don't work nights". Then, the other night, she decided to raid my This is the kind of person who ends up either homeless or living on the dole. Christ.
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and smoke every bit of it. While I was busy working on a friends' car.
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Verizon hate, eh? I'll bring the noose, tar, feathers, AND an effigy to burn first, just to get the party started. gently caress those assheads and gently caress the horse they rode in on.
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I eat 12-16oz of chocolate a day sometimes. Haven't gained any weight yet  Also, some of my friends are loving wack jobs. I'm going to mail that dude a whole roll of tinfoil hats.
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InitialDave posted:If you're going to choose a car to work on like that, a Beetle's one of the best. There's something to be said for not having to deal with a cooling system or engine hoist.
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I still feel like I got hit by a train from working on my big truck Sunday. I guess that's what pulling 150lbs of manifolds and turbo off, then pulling 300lbs of cylinder heads and carrying them off the truck, then prepping everything and carrying it back up onto the truck will do to you. Oh, and what amounted to 112 reps of curling 100+lbs, there are 28 head studs and the torque spec is everything to 110, everything to 130, everything to 157, then everything to 157 again. Best part was definitely falling off the truck with a 150lb cylinder head in my hands and having to choose between it and me, though, for sure. I caught my foot on something and ended up twisting around in midair like a cat and flinging the cylinder head into the stack of tires next to me so it wouldn't go straight through my ribcage, then landed sideways in the underbrush. That's the one good thing about working in the woods instead of a shop, that would have hurt a hell of a lot more on cement. So yeah, this is why I don't have a gym membership.
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meatpimp posted:See... you should have had a camera going, then you could have made I strongly considered putting a camera on but mostly it was 7 hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror. So you guys would end up either staring at my rear end for 7 hours, or I would end up doing that while editing the video, and that's not something I intend to subject anyone to.
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on youtube.