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Feels weird to be blowing $900-1000 on transmissions. One for me, one for the company. I'm used to being on the other side of this equation. Oh well, it's what we needed (and not an easy one to find) and it looks to be in great shape. And I never, ever would have found one in the you-pull.
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Jun 2, 2014 15:34
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Rhyno posted:loving bastard Postman didn't bring me my package even though I left the "redeliver" slip in the box on Friday. I'm getting fed up with his fatass. Call the post office and tell them. Seriously.
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Jun 2, 2014 19:16
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some texas redneck posted:I've played the Rockauto shipping game plenty - I've had two items in my cart, both from one warehouse; when I add a third item, suddenly each item is coming from a different warehouse. Remove that third item and it's back to 1 warehouse. Exactly. I love rockauto but something is rotten in the state of Denmark. I've had 4-5 items coming from one warehouse, then I add one more item and there are suddenly 3-4 warehouses involved. On the other hand, summit racing will give me free shipping if the order is over $100, so I've been known to eliminate warehouses from my rockauto order by moving enough stuff to my summit order that I hit $100. Summit charges more for the parts, usually, but I come out ahead... and I use the comment box on rockauto to let them know that. No response yet. I've jokingly said before that I dare to order a fifth item from RockAuto and suddenly my five items are shipping from 6 warehouses, but I wouldn't be surprised if it happened. tl;dr: NINE WAREHOUSES ON MY ORDER?  e: Rhyno, try archive.org. kastein fucked around with this message at 23:39 on Jun 2, 2014 |
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Jun 2, 2014 23:35
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SlimManFat posted:My AC compressor learned how to make a very deceiving knocking noise today. It's loud as gently caress and sounds like my rods want to come out and play.
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Jun 3, 2014 03:35
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Tommychu posted:Forgot how tedious it is to paint an engine. And the engine is about the only part of this truck I give a drat about aside from safety-related stuff so I'm not letting myself half-rear end it (for comparison I painted my wrong-coloured junkyard door in 15 minutes, using a gloved hand in front of the rattlecan nozzle to mask the glass). Thought I'd have it nearly done but I only got the intake, TB and a bunch of brackets done.  (Only really works if the door isn't hung yet)
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Jun 3, 2014 05:53
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Well that was cool, heard a noise and walked out into the hall to find a bat circling the living room/future master bedroom area. Poor bastard came in through the window and couldn't figure out how to get back out so I gradually herded him out the front door in between ducking to avoid a collision. Having my own indoor flying mouse air force is cool and all but I didn't want him to die and he was fading fast without bugs to eat. They really are the cutest little buggers. E: if you hate bats they eat tons of mosquitoes. The enemy of my enemy is my friend... they are basically mice with wings that don't shred everything in your pantry. and they are rarely rabid, usually just lost. kastein fucked around with this message at 06:35 on Jun 3, 2014 |
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Jun 3, 2014 06:32
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Super Aggro Crag posted:Just spent 90 minutes looking for a bundle of cables in the wrong ceiling because someone was off by an entire hallway when they marked the print.  civil engineers, etc etc.I think my favorite story like that is a company that was doing all the cementwork for the entire floor of a new super walmart... they laid everything out, poured the cement, finished it, all looked awesome. Inspector shows up, takes one look at the plans and the new floor, goes "well that's some really nice work and it looks great, but..." and turns the plans around "... it's supposed to be like this." They built the entire pad turned 180 degrees from how it was supposed to be. With all the foot locations, plumbing, conduit, rebar stands, etc cast into stone, literally. Company had to eat the costs of redoing the entire thing, IIRC.
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Jun 3, 2014 14:51
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Brigdh posted:Sorry mate, but every time I see one of these stories, it makes me appreciate that my work will accept personal packages, and I can swing by the loading dock to get them at any time. There is usually 5 or 6 sets of tires there all the time from all the car guys. This is what we do at my work too. Owns. I can't wait to have six of these blingin' 20"s sent here 
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Jun 3, 2014 19:52
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Holdbrooks posted:I am about to go look at this maita for the exocet, what should I offer? drat, I wish I was closer because I'd gladly buy the rust free chassis off you and put suspension/drivetrain crap out of a rotmonster from up here back on it. Maybe when I win the lottery.
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Jun 4, 2014 01:18
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I'm at like 250 or so in the white MJ and IIRC 265 in the red crapcan right now. It'll hit 300 around this time next year.
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Jun 4, 2014 16:01
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I loving love it when fraud protection shuts my rear end off when I try to buy gas at a full service station and leavings me looking like a dick! Love it! Who would ever dare to buy gas at a few stations in a few days?! the nerve. Must be fraud.  If I have to leave my license at this middle of nowhere gas station and drive an extra 120 miles to get it back tomorrow my next action is switching banks. gently caress this.
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Jun 4, 2014 22:01
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InitialDave posted:Don't knock it. Sometimes when life goes to poo poo, being the guy who can do random stuff like this will get you back into employment over someone else. May not matter when talking about "career" level stuff, but "laid off and need something in order to eat and pay the mortgage"? It gives you options. There's a reason I list auto repair, welding, roofing, plumbing, home electrical, and masonry on my resume as well as being an embedded systems engineer
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Jun 4, 2014 23:34
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If AT&T made your cars, you'd be in jail with weev right now, you evil loving hackers 'merica
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Jun 5, 2014 19:18
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Seat Safety Switch posted:weev is a guy who kastein sprayed diesel up the butthole of. Later weev went to prison. not quite. I accidentally poured it down his back because the drat funnel leaked. Gravity assisted and the rest is history. e: this guy http://www.cnet.com/news/at-t-hacker-weev-sends-bitcoin-invoice-to-feds-for-time-in-prison/
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Jun 5, 2014 21:19
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Yeah I don't really give a drat. I just turned 28 and discovered I can pick up and carry engine blocks. I know I couldn't do that a couple years ago. The last birthday that mattered was 21 and the next that I care about at all is like, 40 or something.
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Jun 9, 2014 15:52
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dubzee posted:You are only as old as you act I'm pretty sure I'm not legal to drink yet then. I saw a moth fly into my oscillating floor fan last night and I think I laughed for a minute straight.
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Jun 9, 2014 17:44
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Friar Zucchini posted:That Suburban of mine is out sick. I think the oil pump was dying - got an idiot light and the oil pressure was bouncing between not much, zero and normal. I figured that this meant I had a leak and the pickup was having trouble getting enough oil... nope. Dumped five quarts into it and then I checked the dipstick, which told Dipshit Zucchini that I had exactly twice as much oil as I was supposed to have. Drove it around a little more and still kept getting that poo poo with the oil gauge. Figured I'd deal with it for the weekend and bring it into the shop on Monda*clicketyclicketyclickety*
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Jun 10, 2014 08:51
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trouser chili posted:Pulling my hair out here. I can't find a pitman arm for a 1976 Chevy Nova, base six cylinder. The closest I got was RareParts part number RP20872. According to O'Reilly auto, this part fits a shitload of different year Pontiac Firebirds and Chevy Camaros as well as the 1976 Chevy Nova. They also want $220 for it. gently caress that. According to Amazon, it's actually for manual steering only. My Nova is power steering. Are pitman arms kinda universal or what? Perhaps I'm overthinking this. Since they also said idler arm, I bet either the box and idler bearings are all shot, or the TREs are junk by now, or both. Get a friend to waggle the wheel and see what's flopping around. E: there are three kinds of wagoneer. hosed up haggard parts-only ones for 500 bucks, decent drivers being sold for the price of the axles to some dick who will scrap the rest (when they should be putting 8 lug fullsize axles under it   ) and fully restored ones for $45k on wagonmasters, intended for incredibly rich people to fill a hole in their souls with by reliving their childhood.Whoever runs wagonmasters is making out like a bandit. kastein fucked around with this message at 02:10 on Jun 11, 2014 |
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I keep coming into work early and then forgetting to leave early to work on my poo poo at home because work is too much fun. These are job related problems I like having.
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Jun 11, 2014 22:16
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rscott posted:Are you salaried? I guess it doesn't matter if you genuinely like your job Yes, and yes. Things are flexible enough that I'll probably jump out a bit early a few days this week/next week... assuming I remember to.
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Jun 11, 2014 22:53
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At this point I think I'm gonna just keep collecting toys, killing debt, and finish my house and a few projects. Then I might try again.
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Jun 12, 2014 20:31
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I have been in that meeting many times. Fortunately not at this company. Even the management team here mostly has engineering degrees as well as business/management experience.
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Jun 13, 2014 18:37
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Crustashio posted:I can't loving win. I paid some computer store 80 bucks to solder a jack and now I discover why my laptop smelled faintly of electrical burning. The circuit is probably opening, not shorting. Biiiig difference. And that is some fuckawful soldering. I would be ashamed to put my name to that.
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Jun 14, 2014 15:53
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I wouldn't, every time you pull a multipin through hole component off a board with plated through holes you risk PTH damage and breaking a midlayer connection off the PTH, doing it again won't do you any good and may make things worse. Use braid to drain each hole, then reflow with a powerful enough iron (that was probably caused by a hack butcher with a weak iron trying to make do) and clean the flux up if it isn't regular rosin or lightly activated rosin. Cleanup is semi optional with those fluxes. Whoever did that was trying to use a weak iron. Problem is, heavy power jacks and stuff like that have a lot of midlayer connections (since typically the power pins are fed to the regulators through a mid layer to save outer layers for signaling)which means many heavy thermal reliefs from the pad to the midlayer copper pours. So you need much more heat to solder them properly. Not "gorilla with a tinsmiths soldering gun" heat, just more than a typical pencil iron can provide.
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Crustashio posted:I disassembled it all myself actually. All they did was remove the old jack and install the new one. Wow, you got hosed hard then. If you weren't on the other side of the world somewhere I would say bring it over with a sixpack and it will be done in 30min. Speaking of melting metal. I love my second newest welder (I have a problem ok, I only own three welders, I can stop anytime I want) so much. Just accidentally burned through a piece of quarter inch plate while welding it to a 1 inch plate.  Waiting for the welder to cool down (hit the 60% duty cycle and it started splattering) then it is back to melting poo poo together. And today is the best day for welding outside, too, it's like 60 degrees and partially cloudy.
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Sandbagger and I just put the new valve spring on the 5 ton, all it needs now is stuff I can do myself. Having a second person around to turn the engine from underneath while I checked if the piston was at top dead center was really helpful. The old one was broken into FOUR PIECES.  E: my $15 home depot plumbing and hardware aisle valve spring compressor performed admirably.
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Protip: If you're loving around with a brake booster off a 4th-gen F-body and manage to dislodge the washer and rubber pad that go between the external and internal pushrods, you can fish them out of the booster with a wire hanger and some sticky-tack. Note: be sure to pull out the vacuum fitting grommet so you can see what the gently caress you're doing. It fell directly down a lifter opening in a head, then directly into an oil drain hole between lifters. 16 inches down inside the motor. With about 1.5" sticking out of the oil drain hole still. I don't think I could have hit that if I tried. All I am saying is that flexy magnetic pickup tools own bones. Got it back out in one try. Thelonious posted:I just spent my night drinking and playing cribbage with most of my friends. It could have kept going late, but everybody had to get home to the wife and kids. So I got to go to the bar alone and make even more poor decisions! I am dreaming up war crimes to commit when my brother has kids... he drove me insane as a kid, though we are on great terms now. First: noise making toys. With batteries hidden inside them and the case superglued shut, so they still work when you take the battery out Second: recorders. This might be just a little too mean... maybe a drum set instead.  Of course this means I am hosed if I ever have any myself, but that is looking pretty unlikely right now.
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I don't really care about the juke (eh, looks like a small version of the murano, surely nothing to hate there!) but the Kia Soul is still awful and I don't care who says otherwise. It looks like a cross between a stormtrooper helmet and the rear end end view of one of those caterpillars with the eyespots to scare off predators.
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Jun 16, 2014 00:47
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Holy poo poo that drill doesn't gently caress around.
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Slavvy posted:The juke is stupid and half-assed and pointless because a supermini SUV makes no sense whatsoever. The soul on the other hand is an extremely practical and useful car. It has huge internal volume while being relatively compact and boxy on the outside, a gigantic potential cargo area and mechanical underpinnings that are based on a completely ordinary hatchback instead of some bastard-child softroader AWD bullshit vehicle. Oh I completely agree, I just hate everything about the styling. EVERYTHING. Get off my lawn!
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Jun 16, 2014 15:00
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My rectangular box with another rectangular box on top doesn't look like a stormtrooper helmet making GBS threads a caterpillar rear end, thank you very much.
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Yeah, water evaporates quite readily when a hard vacuum is drawn before charging the system. Did any rain get into the pipes? If not, you are fine. Cap em with tape or something if they are just cut off (otherwise, rubber glove fingertips and tape work well) and ignore it till the swap is done and ready for the ac system work.
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I think they were talking about a different kind of rock, dude. Just finished derusting the windshield bonding flange on my aunt's 97 rav4. Somehow it was rusted as bad as my MJ's (all the way across, so it rained inside whenever it rained outside) but on like 30% of the bond perimeter instead of only about ten inches in one spot. Even where it wasn't rusted, the urethane pulled right off in a lot of places. Some total loving hack put a windshield in this thing in the past, gouged the poo poo out of the metal, did a shite job of urethane priming it, and a shite job of applying the urethane, too, is what I am getting at here. I did a better job on my very first windshield install. Hacks shouldn't be allowed to do windshield installs. 
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Jun 19, 2014 04:18
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Intel just announced it is doing some stuff in reconfigurable computing that is really close to one of the five or six ideas a friend and I had for a research project in, oh, 05 or 06 or so. We probably should have patented those ideas back then  too late now.
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I'm pretty sure she should crush herself and go be with him and his car. gently caress you, lady. Last night I was witness to a miracle. The muffler fell off my aunt's very rusty 97 Rav4. And it had a massive exhaust manifold gasket leak. So we decided she'd just order a whole exhaust system (minus the manifold) and I'd install it, then she could return anything I didn't use. Now, mind you, this thing looks like it spent 10 years on the bottom of the sea, and all the exhaust hardware is fine thread metric mild steel, no stainless, no brass. All 6 manifold studs/nuts came off the studs or out of the head with no sweat. All 3 precat to downpipe nuts came off the studs with no sweat. Well, one worried me for a little, I had to loosen/tighten a few times to knock the rust out. That one was so rusted that I had to use a 14mm socket instead of a 16mm, though. I sawzalled the rest of the pipes out because they were all junk. Oh the freakiest part? I used NO pb-blaster or wd40. None. They all unscrewed dry. The only curveball it threw me was the threads on the rearmost manifold stud pulling out of the alloy head... the manifold gasket was badly blown on that cylinder and the stud was barely past hand tight when I took it out so I'm pretty sure that was the cause of the problem not something I broke. Helicoil kit on order, problem solved. I wish all exhaust projects on rotboxes went that smoothly.
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:What the gently caress, are you a wizard? I prefer the term "rustmancer", really.
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Using a 4 pound engineers sledge to literally break a manual transmission housing in half was probably the most satisfying automotive destruction I've ever done. Or maybe splitting a seized EJ25 in half with a splitting maul. Case bolt removal optional. e: Nope. Only two bolts had any oil on them, the two that hold the upstream catalytic converter mounting bracket to the block. PS gently caress YOU Toyota for making that drat bracket wrap around the oil dipstick and mount to the cat with studs. Good job making my life hard.
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The only things not replaced on this were the manifold and upstream cat. Mostly because the upstream cat was fine and had more studs holding it to the manifold, and was a $180 part. I had her order one but made the executive decision to not install it since risking 6 8mm rusty studs threaded and rusted into a $170 exhaust manifold to replace a perfectly fine $180 part sounded like a whole lot of NOPE to me at 11PM. I was honestly shocked when it all came apart that easily.
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