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McTinkerson posted:YYC goons, looks like I'm down in your neck of the woods for more training November 27 through 30. Will you buy us appetizers again?
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jonathan posted:LoL at trican we used to just run the trucks 24/7 at high idle whenever it was below -15. And then do a filter and oil swap every 300 hours. Every two weeks the new guy in the shop gets to see how fast he can change oil on a running engine! 
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Slung Blade posted:I bet he'll spend all evening muttering to himself and rocking back and forth, clutching his legs to his chest. The shear... the shear...
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There are at least two long-lasting sewing machine repair places on Centre Street in Calgary. That property tax can't be cheap.
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Also, it's impractical to ship a sewing machine away to be fixed in China. One of those blue-collar jobs that will never disappear, I guess. And probably recession-proof, since more people will do alterations when the economy is bad. gently caress, I wasted all that money on school.
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Powershift posted:I guess somebody went around Red Deer last night driving into stores and snatching up all the ATMs You would think with all this gumption and get-it-done attitude, Red Deer would be less of a slovenly shithole filled to the brim with meth-fuelled whining. It must be the carbon tax's fault.
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slidebite posted:Got a text an hour or so ago from a friend out in the foothills west of Longview. Went from -16 to +4 in less than an hour. That explains the unprecedented front-to-back sinus headache I've had all day.
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My neighbour has some guy in an oilfield services sleeper cab in front of their place. Every time I drive past it's been idling. I was actually wondering if that would count against the regen limit. Do you at least get a warm cab while it's trying to regen?
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I am out for Tuesday (business meeting) but Wednesday could work out.
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I'll need the fifty to buy a big enough bottle of Aspirin to get me through the elections! Thanks again for the disks.
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Powershift posted:Man, if we get an early spring, i might actually get poo poo done this summer Same.
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Mar 14, 2019 15:35
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It's just nature's way of telling us to stop living in three quarters of the province.
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slidebite posted:Red Deer seems to be the safest place, even with the meth heads. Let's all move in to Powershifts' place. What about the tornadoes?
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I am totally up for putting a shitload of miles on a soon-to-be-certified-pre-owned C-class. Hell, if we're going to Mexico, there's probably a class in NORRA it would do okay in.Frank Dillinger posted:On the upside, you’re putting miles on a car that isn’t yours for a while, right? Weird that the ETA for the pump is so far off, should be like 3-4 weeks max unless there aren’t any available world wide for some reason. My dad nuked a brake master cylinder on a week-old hybrid Pathfinder (during the brief window where Nissan sold that car); they had to not only order one from Japan but apparently commission one specially from the tiny-rear end factory that made them. Took almost two months.
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I mean, old two-cylinder Hondas put the chain sprocket between the cylinders and they were fine.
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NumbersMatching320 posted:Yeah that, but less glass and more wizard mural. I would also like to put in my vote for 1980s Peterbilt-style chrome exhaust stacks behind the front doors.
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If you do vinyl you can cover the windows up like on a bus ad too.
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That's a good question. I assume the owner is not allowed to sell the vehicle without discharging the lien, but this is a third party doing it. Maybe the auction house knows? Be cool to pick up an SST Ralliart for cheap and run it into the ground.
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ExecuDork posted:And a regular Class 5 driver's license is all that's needed to drive that thing all day every day. Man, where did I make that post? It doesn't sound familiar to me.
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That frame needs repair of some kind? I guess the paint is a little scratched.
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ExecuDork posted:Even your RWD Sierra will do just fine when it's wearing good winter tires on all four corners. Pick up some steelies from the junkyard, order a set of whatever has the best reviews + performance evaluation at TireRack. Or, yeah, buy another car that you like (sounds like maybe get away from GM? if being in a car's presence makes you sad) and get steelies & winters for it. My only choice of vehicle was the race Miata, which sat in my alley and which a pair of neighbourhood cats would frequently gently caress underneath. Let me tell you about this loving Miata, okay? I had a completely stripped 91 Miata with a 4" straight-pipe exhaust on PSS9 coilovers. It was intended for use with track days and autocross. There were holes in the trunk and the trunk floor where the giant 3-foot-tall functional aero once stood, and there were holes in the cabin floor from where the solid Kirkey race seat sat before I replaced it with a stock Miata seat so I could survive driving from place to place without dying. The hardtop was red, the car was white, and all of the paint on the body was flaking off in giant patches. You could see where every sponsor sticker used to be, because it was now primer. At idle, the wing mirrors would slowly tilt upwards until they were looking at the sky. The radio would cut out under hard left cornering. Occasionally, using the right turn signal would just stick it on - dim - and then refuse to actually signal even though the relay was clicking away inside the car. It had one benefit: studded KW22s. Unfortunately, one of them was mounted backwards on the rear axle, so if I was too aggressive with either the throttle or engine braking, the car would yaw like a freshly shot crane in the snow. If I lifted on ice, it would pull a Tonya Harding, including the part where it would shatter my leg and end my career. Also, the heat didn't work. This is the first time I tried to use it since purchase. We found out later this was because some idiot installed a high temperature racing thermostat but failed to peel off the adhesive paper of the thermostat gasket in lieu of Using More RTV, so the remnants of the paper cover were clogging the jiggle pin. Did I mention it was -31? Good thing the exhaust was hot.. when the engine was above 3000 rpm, which didn't happen when I was stuck in traffic. The PSS9s were set to full low, and 4/5ths of full stiff. This thing was like riding a Crazy Carpet on the highway. Also, open diff, and it was one of those "I'm going to blow up now" early Miata diffs, to boot, so not too much wheelspin or I'd be walking home. I had the replacement in my basement. My strategy was to use momentum. As long as I had a good enough run, it was light enough that it would just skip along the 12 inches of snow outside my house and climb Struggle Street (did I mention my house is on a 6% grade and claimed two cars from blown engines alone last winter?) So I'm sitting there, slowly working my way up this steep-rear end hill in stop and go traffic, occasionally giving it some pedal or steering wheel when I'm getting a little too close to the edge of the road, and sometimes some handbrake when I want to give my left foot a rest. I think I probably used up like 1200 calories just getting this thing to go up a road in a straight line. My hands don't work. My toes don't work. I can no longer feel my nose. The foam earplugs I had been using have frozen solid, lost their squishiness, and fallen out of my ear. Eventually I reach the top, and at the top - this T-intersection - is a brand new Nissan Pathfinder, stuck about two car lengths off the road in the snow. It looked like it slid off the side of the road trying to make a light turn, and then got completely stuck in about half an inch of snow. The driver is standing next to it, visibly irate. He gets even angrier when he sees my tiny hairdresser's car burble past his Manly Four By Four Offroader at 110dB, without a care in the world. I smile and wave. It was the best car I ever drove in the snow. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 04:03 on Sep 27, 2019 |
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You could just buy a $1000 shitbox Chev half-ton and sell the truck when you're done with the season; pay a local detailer to do the interior and mark it up. If there's one thing your part of the world has, it's farmer trucks.
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slidebite posted:totally forgot about this but I'm a man of my word. Done! I did write it on the calendar but I got too busy to chase you. 
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Albino Squirrel posted:How urgent of a problem is this? Like is a little bit of tranny fluid leaking normal in some cars when it's balls-out cold? It is not normal. Could be salt or dirt burning off the exhaust though? When it gets really cold, exhaust doesn't dissipate as quickly as it usually does, so you're backing over your own exhaust clouds.
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I thought those things had like some sort of turbo-smart electric parking brake specifically designed to keep us fleshlings from breaking it.
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We could probably bang a piece of rebar into shape for $700. There's a few Rams at pick n pull but I don't know what the compatibility is like between generations.
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Powershift posted:That post aged well I bought a '95 Odyssey EX from Copart in Edmonton on Thursday. I was the only bidder on it. "No keys," so I'm sure the #3 hole's favourite cereal is Count Knockula.
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I've got a very bad condition turbo D16Z6 with eBay forgies sitting in Slung's garage mahal. I don't know what the interchange is like. Much prefer to get the F22 running again inside it (old school Honda = you can drop the crank and all the mains come out on a big frame; no engine pull necessary apparently) and then take it on a roadtrip whenever the nightmare subsides. Maybe finally use that nitrous bottle and controller for something, if Mopac turns out to be an essential service. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 17:29 on Apr 4, 2020 |
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Good lord. It's the beaterpocalypse that I have been telling everyone about for years. Next we'll see rusty Novas sold for under $11,000...
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This is a great cat.
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slidebite posted:Haha no poo poo. Shandro is the one who had that weird story about getting harassed by some anti-masker chuds and having to throw his kids over a fence to get them away from the hee-haw murder squad. You'd think out of all the people in the government, he'd want to stick it back to 'em.
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Yeah I would like very much to do that cross province burger baron TM2TW.
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Kijiji is dying compared to Facebook marketplace, but they also frequently have search failures or listing problems now. Try changing the order of words in your query (yes, really) and see if the results change.
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Turbo Fondant posted:I feel like the used.ca sites might pick up in popularity soon, as they have out west. They're much easier to scrape, so fingers crossed.
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Powershift posted:There's KBB.ca but they're numbers can be pretty fucky on less common stuff. It was funny visiting Edmonton recently and noticing that the gas prices are exactly 13 cents cheaper there than here.
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Powershift posted:The Besta was Korean built based on the Mazda Bongo and only sold in Canada in Vancouver and Calgary. Buy the Besta
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Bilirubin posted:Again, appreciated. I am not a car guy so one can assume I don't know the obvious. Kijiji or Facebook Marketplace works. The latter usually gets more low-info buyers and sellers. The former will probably get you a faster sale but with a lowball.
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Powershift posted:it still feels like they should be 70s fords and square body chevies. Worth too much now. Ford probably sold more 2010s slab-side F150s to accountants in Alberta than they ever sold any 70s F-truck to Albertans period. I've been saying for awhile now that a modern build-your-own-locost kit should start with sourcing parts from a domestic pickup truck, because we have more of those than anything.
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Turbo Fondant posted:Yeah good point, the giant chunks of missing frame wouldn't have made for a very good sports car. We can make our own frame. There's a railroad nearby and Slung loves to weld. Even British people made a sportscar, how hard can it be?
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