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Cat Terrist posted:What kind of porn are you into!?!?!?! you KNOW this answer. Viggen posted:NV loves to gently caress Euro car owners even more than the Europeans do. Yup. The 5700 dollar msrp on my 15 year old "street legal dirt bike" ran me $90 or something like that.
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UK goons: this Sunday is the car show in Doncaster organised by the local car club. Usually a good turnout (400 cars last year, and moving from the school playing fields to the racecourse will give them even more space this time), and the only entry rule is "anything interesting", so you get a good mixture of all kinds of things. Definitely worth going if you're able to get there.
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You know how people sometimes say GMs fall apart around the engine? Well, this happened around 55 mph.  Watched it take flight and nail another car. Either they didn't even notice it, or didn't know where it came from. At least that annoying rattle in the passenger door is gone now.  Gonna hit up Pick n Pull this weekend and snag a few of them. The drivers side one is loose too, may as well pick up both.. and figure out a better way to mount them. e: the more I think about it, the more pissed I am about it. That could have easily caused a bad accident; as it is it spiderwebbed the windshield of the guy that was sitting 3 feet off my bumper. Guess it's time to file a complaint with the NHTSA. Body panels flying off are pretty lovely, even for GM. Cat Terrist posted:What kind of porn are you into!?!?!?! Give him your email, or mobile # if you have MMS (and if he wants to pay to MMS internationally). You'll find out in a hurry. 
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Jul 3, 2014 10:07
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You still got that tape I sent you in your secret Santa package? Try that, it's strong stuff. Edit: Oh God, I mean double-sided tape for the plastic panel, not a video tape for the other thing. 
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Jul 3, 2014 11:22
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 Yes, I do have the double sided tape.. somewhere. Crazy strong stuff, it's been holding a big rear end power strip to my bedside table for months. Unfortunately, the panel flew off at highway speeds, so I gotta find another panel first. fake edit: I'll hit the remaining panel on the drivers side with it as soon as I figure out where the tape went. You'll be glad to know the flag has been hanging in my room since receipt though!
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Jul 3, 2014 11:44
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Inferior American adhesives.
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Jul 3, 2014 12:11
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mariooncrack posted:I did a thing. You'll learn to e-brake or heel/toe as you get more used to the friction point in the clutch. After driving my 6 for 4 years I don't remember the last time I bogged it on a hill.
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Jul 3, 2014 12:13
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meatpimp posted:Inferior American There's also a small piece of it still attached at the top, somehow. The trim on the other door is broken at the top, and just hanging on by the clips. Pick n Pull time; there's over 40 Ions in the DFW Pick n Pulls, though only a handful of them are coupes.
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CharlesM posted:Car stuck girls, Land Rover section Still bizarre even after all the years I've known about it. cursedshitbox posted:you KNOW this answer. No, I KNOW about your adventures into dark and dangerous cabins with unsuspecting others, you havent said anything about porn :p
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CharlesM posted:I thought the Subarus have the hill holder thing again. It does but you have to turn it on every time you start the car and I forgot.  angryhampster posted:You'll learn to e-brake or heel/toe as you get more used to the friction point in the clutch. After driving my 6 for 4 years I don't remember the last time I bogged it on a hill. That's really reassuring. I think tomorrow my dad is going to take me to his work. They have a hill that's barely used that I'm going to practice on. Are the new outbacks considered station wagons still?
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CharlesM posted:Car stuck girls [...] Stock up on astroglide, that's gonna be a long fuckin' episode. "Unf now she's taking out the DME relay and replacing it with one of the four spares she always carries in the glovebox." "Oh god, now she's removing the distributor cap and checking for foreign object damage" "Fap fap fap here comes the multimeter checking the ECU wires for continuity"
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I don't know what I just read, but it left me with a very, very confused boner.
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http://carbuying.jalopnik.com/five-reasons-you-need-to-buy-a-nissan-240-sx-right-now-1597682032 Awww yeah, who's got two thumbs and one of the last stock 240sx's around in good shape? THIS GUY.
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I have had a couple of cars sold out from under me (sellers just stop communicating) in the past month, a clean 94 miata for $2500, a really straight 2001 325i for $3000 (this one hurt the most). God dammit craigslist, I just want a second car to gently caress with while the weather is good. Stop crushing my dreams.
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Coredump posted:http://carbuying.jalopnik.com/five-reasons-you-need-to-buy-a-nissan-240-sx-right-now-1597682032 Some day 
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Coredump posted:http://carbuying.jalopnik.com/five-reasons-you-need-to-buy-a-nissan-240-sx-right-now-1597682032 That is a really lovely article, even though I love the old Nissans... quote:4. It has the right wheels powering the car. Oh gently caress off.
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CommieGIR posted:That is a really lovely article, even though I love the old Nissans... That sounds far more complicated than just sending the power to the front wheels, or the rear wheels. I mean, if you're going to go through all the trouble of sending it to both right wheels, why not just send some to the left too and make it awd.
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Powershift posted:That sounds far more complicated than just sending the power to the front wheels, or the rear wheels. I mean, if you're going to go through all the trouble of sending it to both right wheels, why not just send some to the left too and make it awd. Because then they can't 'Hoon' it (Yes, I got your joke)
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Today's rust repair is brought to you by Coors banquet!
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CommieGIR posted:That is a really lovely article, even though I love the old Nissans... They also start the article with "it's so hard to find a stock clean one" and end it with "IT'S SO AWESOME TO MODIFY".
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I've been working at this place for 2 months now and someone already hates me. Me and a couple guys were wiring up a school building and it was my job to firestop all the sleeves we installed in the walls. Well eventually I was up to my elbows in red fire caulking and I would wipe off my hands on some HVAC ducts so I wouldn't get any on the ceilings tiles or grids. And out of bordem I wiped it off into the shape of smiley faces. The foreman on the job saw them and threw a bitch fit even though you can't see them from the ground and no one else gave a poo poo. Dude was so mad he called our project manager to complain about it and me, saying he wants nothing to do with me. Jokes on him though, I've been working with the PM since then doing easy rear end fiber terminations and fusion splices.
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Devyl posted:Sounds like you forgot the Permatex Block and head were both decked. The leak itself is much less of a mystery than the leak magically stopping.
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Tommychu posted:Has anyone ever had a head gasket leak coolant to the outside on installation, and then stop during breakin? Yes, before I knew enough that when I was doing a poo poo job where I wasn't going to deck heads that needed it and didn't use copper spray to make up the difference. With the right HG compound they seem to self seal a bit if you're lucky. One of them was on a 351W that was still going fine at least 5 years after the HG swap. I don't know how the other one (Ford 390) fared, but I never had him come back to bitch.
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Jul 3, 2014 18:30
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 Friend just scored that for 1k. Runs and drives. Turbo.
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Just got notice that our home loan is approved! closing in 2 weeks and I'm so drat pumped to finally have a house to call our own 
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some texas redneck posted:I don't know what I just read, but it left me with a very, very confused boner. IOwnCalculus posted:They also start the article with "it's so hard to find a stock clean one" and end it with "IT'S SO AWESOME TO MODIFY". Motronic posted:Yes, before I knew enough that when I was doing a poo poo job where I wasn't going to deck heads that needed it and didn't use copper spray to make up the difference. Slow is Fast posted:
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Holy cow the number of Rover Discos (or just Rovers period) with blown head gaskets is terrifying. No idea why I'm looking at them anyway since that road leads to a drained wallet and cirrhosis
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Tide posted:Holy cow the number of Rover Discos (or just Rovers period) with blown head gaskets is terrifying. No idea why I'm looking at them anyway since that road leads to a drained wallet and cirrhosis That's a very good thing if you turn your own wrenches.
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I've got no problem doing the work myself to a certain point. but some quick googling tells me it's not a problem of the gaskets themselves, but from the cylinder liners of the aluminum v8.
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It's largely the change Rover made to the engine design when they took it over, they eliminated one of the four rows of head bolts, making it artificially difficult to get even clamping across the surface. Add borderline cooling systems and get arsey Brummies to nail them together. Then they sold them to trophy wives who think maintenance is what you get paid after your divorce. Later engines are better. Cross-bolted mains, too. Besides, all-aluminium engines are generally more "fragile" under abuse/neglect than cast iron anchors.
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Tide posted:I've got no problem doing the work myself to a certain point. but some quick googling tells me it's not a problem of the gaskets themselves, but from the cylinder liners of the aluminum v8. That depends on what motor you are talking about. There absolutely are bad years - mostly the later you go - where the tolerances were hit and miss and some truck have loose liners. Others have block porosity problems and cracks where the head bolts end up. But you can find decent blocks, even in the newer ones. And if you're looking at things of the 2001 and under era you'll hardly find any issues other than on things that have been severely abused. In general: don't buy a D2. The D1s are better for what they were meant to do in every measurable way. I have one of each, but my wife drives the D2. While it's still capable, they were severely softened up and turned into road vehicles. The cooling system is an under-capacity joke. They also have much more complicated electronics. So unless you spend all your time on the street, get a D1.
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So my girlfriend is leaving me and taking the dog and my pickup is leaking oil like a BP oil well. My life is a drat country song right now. Im currently doing shots with my bartender. Its time to let the liquor do the thinking, Randy.
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Thaaat sucks. Sorry dude. I'm mostly looking at one (Disco) as a project / decently capable off roader. The smart move is a Jeep Cherokee, I know. But for some reason a Disco has my attention right now. Tomorrow I'll be looking at fox body Mustangs again.
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Man, that sucks dude Let me know if you want to get drunk and disorderly and/or burn poo poo and blow things up.
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Got a computer with a windows key, saw this and giggled. 
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Tide posted:I'm mostly looking at one (Disco) as a project / decently capable off roader. The smart move is a Jeep Cherokee, I know. But for some reason a Disco has my attention right now. A 97-99 D1 is the smart move here. I like Cherokees, and they too are plenty capable. But I still like the seating position and greenhouse in a Disco far more. Obviously those things don't come without their problems. But the long stories of thousands of dollars spent and always broken down Discos are told by the vocal few, the vast majority of whom couldn't wrench their way out of a wet paper bag and half rear end everything they touch. My $500 D1 has now cost me about $1800. New cooling system, head gaskets, springs, shocks, starter, dual batteries and lots of other (non repair) poo poo. It has failed me exactly once and that was a few weeks ago because of a bad connection in the fuel pump harness that was tracked down inside of 20 minutes and repaired. I've been driving it for 3 years now, about 3-4k miles a year, including 3+ hour trips and off roading. Motronic fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Jul 3, 2014 |
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InitialDave posted:Besides, all-aluminium engines are generally more "fragile" under abuse/neglect than cast iron anchors. This is pretty much the truth. Unless its GM, for some reason their motors can take unholy stories of abuse, and still work just fine. Also, gently caress Previous Owners. Again and again and again. I found more and more filler today to the point where an entire body panel was 70% filler, 30% metal. Fart Pipe posted:So my girlfriend is leaving me and taking the dog and my pickup is leaking oil like a BP oil well. My life is a drat country song right now. Im currently doing shots with my bartender. Man, this sucks At least on the bright side, you still have cornchips right? Burying the face in a cat belly always makes life better. Motronic posted:My $500 D1 has now cost me about $1800. Its the other associated bullshit that explodes. BrokenKnucklez fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Jul 3, 2014 |
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She told me like a week ago so Ive had time to think about it. Its not too bad, kinda knew it was coming but I was kinda blindsided at the time. We are on good terms but the moving truck gets here on Monday and maybe the reality of it will be worse when shes driving away. Also friends on facebook this on the dl, not a lot of people know yet.
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I'm really sorry, buddy. It's going to be rough for awhile.
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I suddenly need an Xbox One and Forza 5 http://www.autoblog.com/2014/07/01/forza-motorsport-5-car-pack-video/ 
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