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Bootchat: This is what 18 months does to a pair of Carolinas. The newer looking ones are a couple weeks old, same exact thing, just bought em again.     Still the most durable boots I've had yet. Not sure why the soles shredded like that...
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Motronic posted:Just add kevlar laces and they are perfect for quite a while. I need more information immediately  I went through like 6 pair of laces on that last pair of boots, mostly because I end up grinding dirt into them and dragging them over gravel while working on junkyard cars. Ever see this happen? Welp.  The laces naturally get sawed through in exactly the same spots (half the eyelets are like that) and it annoys the poo poo out of me. Actually, kevlar probably isn't the right tool for the job, I suspect it will get cut by dirt/dust just as easily. In fact... the new ones already have a bit of worn away metal there.
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How many miles on it? Want to bet whether anyone has changed the plugs on the back, even if they've been changed on the front?
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Jan 2, 2015 16:38
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I was kinda annoyed when I discovered I couldn't do 4x4 donuts in snowy parking lots anymore, only RWD donuts. drat studded winterforces ruined all my fun.
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Jan 2, 2015 19:57
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T1g4h posted:Trivia time! You are on a 4 lane highway. There is a semi with a trailer in the left lane, an open right lane, and the road ahead is straight. The semi has remained in the left lane for the past couple of miles, and is showing no signs of merging into the right lane. You have a clear shot to pass him, however, like the good driver you are, you know how unwise it is to pass on the right, especially in the case of a tractor trailer. What do you do? Bonus points for most creative and well written answer. Depends on state law, because in MA, VT, CT, NH, and I believe ME, undertaking is legal under most circumstances. Didn't check any other states but I bet it is legal elsewhere as well. Safety wise? Either hang out far back and flick your high beams till they move over, or pass like the wind, gently caress it.
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Jan 3, 2015 05:28
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Tusen Takk posted:iPhone superiority Nice fully functional bluetooth stack you got there sonny, pity if anything were to happen to it...
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Jan 3, 2015 23:36
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BrokenKnucklez posted:OK. It counts. Nice work. My roommates right after I graduated barely blinked when they came home to me working on an AW4 on the coffee table while watching a movie, beer in hand. Good roommates. Too bad one moved to california and the replacement we found was an only child and an utterly spoiled, self centered douchebag who nearly got us evicted within a month of moving in. Funny thing is, she (the one that moved to california, not the douchebag who replaced her) is marrying an AIer.
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Jan 4, 2015 13:20
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Sir Pukesalot posted:Please don't let cancer take another* (scandinavian?) AI poster. Good to know that you can count on your boys! Good luck with beating cancer! My condolences dude  I didn't realize you were his son, either.For what it's worth, I think of him every time I permethrin some more ants in my house or split firewood. He noted at one point he has the same splitting maul as I do. Seemed like a real good guy, and I wish he was still with us fjelltorsk - hope you pull through.. and have fewer merc buses to deal with. Maybe get that driver to off a couple more of them for you?
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Jan 6, 2015 00:40
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Raluek posted:I'm as rabid an LS fanboy as anyone on here, so don't take this as a "nay" vote, but: Joys of living in the rustbelt, and knowing the local yard employees pretty well because I average a couple hundred a month spent there: I can get the entire engine package with all wiring, whatever exhaust is still attached to it, all accessories, intake, every fastener I removed, ECU, you name it, for $300 before taxes.
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Jan 6, 2015 01:36
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Jan 6, 2015 02:45
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File a claim and state what you just stated, minus making fun of the illiterate. Ebay sides with the buyer basically all the time.
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Jan 6, 2015 03:11
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:This is for whatever is attached when they pull it. Alternator, PS pump, manifolds, etc. No ecu as far as I know. I'd be selling some of the parts (intake and exhaust manifolds, heads) to replace them later, so that would help a bit for fund recovery. I've run it by the CFO, but we have some other expenses coming up so I don't know if this will pan out. Last time, I even got to borrow one of the batteries off the for sale rack out front and start the thing up, in the yard, to hear it run before I pulled it from the donor  Sorry, I should stop rubbing this in. Now if only I could figure out where my floor and rocker panels seem to have wandered off to...
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Somehow my house had all its copper still present when I bought it. I tore it all out though since after days of inspecting and repairing hamfucked sections, I turned the water on and water still found 4 holes to come out of in a hurry (seconds after I turned the valve) and then just did it all from scratch. Cost me around 500 in materials for all new, and that's a generous estimate... sold the old piping to the scrapyard for 244 a few years later when I was scraping the bottom financially. They did in fact take a copy of my ID. Most of the houses I looked at before I bought mine had no copper left... loving thieves.
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Jan 7, 2015 00:57
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My power steering, clutch pedal, shifter, and battery were all really mad at me this morning. Goddamn. Thermostat works perfectly though, temp gauge got to midrange, then plummeted right back to the bottom again when it opened
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Jan 8, 2015 14:54
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Cold weather survival tips for those in the cushy normally-warm south: Leave taps trickling just a little bit if you are afraid their supply lines will freeze, the constant flow of ~55 degree water from underground piping keeps them open. Park all your shitcans on hills, a cold battery will run EFI systems fine but probably not the starter, so just bumpstart... problem solved! Don't do anything silly like put full defrost heat on a windshield right off, it can shatter a marginal windshield from thermal stress. Oh and your tires are probably hockey pucks, get used to it. It was 4 here too but goddamn, the windchill was obscene. -20 or -40 or something depending on who you ask. All I saw was BLOODY drat COLD and that was enough info for me.
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Jan 8, 2015 15:36
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The idiot who wrote the codebase I am presently working on really needs to take a flying gently caress at a mile of burning dicks. And then drown. In a toilet. A toilet that's on fire. It's put together all backwards and wrong and upside down and I just triggered 100 compile errors and a couple dozen multiply defined symbol linker errors by changing the order two header files are included in. Rube Goldsbergian isn't even half the story here.
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God, I don't miss that a bit. The best part for me was having a car drive into my bay, getting into the pit and having a ball of slush the size of my head land on me. Then pulling the filter and it splashes boiling hot oil everywhere. Burned from one side, frozen from the other... sometimes at the same time. Motronic posted:gently caress you and your Florida weather. It isn't THAT bad... at least I have all the code. List of sins, non inclusive, I'm sure I'll find more: none of the include files are #ifndef shielded at all. One of them has an (out of date, naturally) instructive list of header files and .c files and says exactly which order they must be included in to prevent catastrophe, except none of the files I've looked at have the same order, or even the same order as each other. .c files are #included in several places. a .h file has a lot of variables defined in it. Except the guy knew that would cause everything that includes it to end up with the same symbol and the linker would get mad, so he made up his own preprocessor symbol that is an empty macro if you don't have another preprocessor symbol defined, but otherwise is macro'd to "extern". Then only defines the conditional preproc symbol in main.c, and used his custom preprocessor symbol (DECLARE) as a variable type for every variable he created in that .h. magic numbers everywhere. dead, completely out of date code everywhere. none of the comments reflect anything presently in the code, it's all several revisions out of date. random poo poo added to random system header files and parts of the (not supposed to be modified, you're supposed to put your customizations in another file) stock RTOS kernel files. functions created in random .c files and not prototyped in their .h files, but through some combination of compile/link order and deep preprocessor magic, it compiled when I started and took several hours of hacking away at it to make it compile again when I removed a completely unrelated include. Switching two #include lines abruptly resulted in several hundred errors about missing or multiply defined symbols. he uses enums a lot where he could use a list of macros much more clearly and efficiently. he hardcodes RTOS process ID numbers by doing a #define PID <number> at the top of each file and an #undef at the bottom. i.e. there is no central place for them to all be defined and no guarantee there aren't duplicates, and the same macro means 20 different things in 20 different files. I need a goddamn drink. Glad I'm going through this pain all at once to rip everything I actually care about out of this codebase and redo it from scratch at this point, because it's awful and I now understand why it was maddeningly unstable and impossible to debug when I was trying to treat it like a maintenance programmer a year ago. I never looked at all this backend poo poo then, just the code for the individual RTOS tasks.
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Cakefool posted:So a workmate is building a kit cobra, slowly, with jag running gear. I asked him about the engine and he told me he's got "a proper American V8, a big one" Aren't 302s known for breaking in half down the lifter valley at like 350 horse? Tell him to get a GM gen3 V8 and move on with his life.
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Jan 10, 2015 19:05
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if you overclock those video cards and they burn some valves because you didn't tune it, don't come crying here. Just throw another alternator belt in the case and use it to packet the fbi while filesharing
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Rhyno posted:Local dude tracked me down via FB car group and wants to trade my 6 for his Forester THAT IS ALSO A loving SALVAGE TITLE. It's just hail damage, dude. Also you don't want a forester.
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cursedshitbox posted:Yours has 3 counts of hail damage! Carfax on my MJ and the schizo jeep are both clean as a whistle though, so it's all good. Just look how great condition they are in.
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IOwnCalculus posted:I'm reasonably happy with the rx-safety prescription goggles I got, and I managed to lose my prescription sunglasses during some last-minute Christmas shopping. I need to sit down and take some measurements off of my regular glasses and try ordering those as well. I literally just put my rx-safety prescription safety glasses on. They fit pretty OK, I probably look like Bubbles since they're monsters, but I pulled the side guards off because gently caress that poo poo. I might put them back on if I need them. Real reason I bought them was because they were quite literally cheaper than regular glasses and as usual I've managed to completely destroy the frames on mine in a year. Two birds, one stone, etc.
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Adiabatic posted:Machine shop will probably do them for $20 per hub. That or find a legit mechanic friend to do them at work for you. Pressing bearings is up there on the "gently caress it" scale Yeah, but your shop needs a horrible freight 12 ton press and some sort of gear and bearing puller. Seriously. Meant I was able to do my bearings in the shop at work after hours, on my own time, rather than loving around bringing them to a shop and hoping they don't hamfuck it. Which you would think would be out of the question but the shop I brought a set of rav4.1 rear wheel bearings and backing plates to managed to booger up one of the seal tension springs and I had to unfuck it with my fingernails while it was on the vehicle because I installed it already and they were closed and it had to be driveable by tomorrow. Oh, and we paid 100 bucks to have two bearings pressed, to add insult to injury.
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Yeah, that's how I did the input shaft bearing on my XJ's AX15. Slid right on after putting the shaft with the ice cream and the bearing in the oven at 160-170 degrees That being said, my HF press has done pretty well. I don't know if it actually puts down 12 tons but it's done what I needed it to.
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You guys suck, socket 4 and 8 were the bees knees. 
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CommieGIR posted:Pentium Pro Bug The funny thing is, that's like $200 right there. In gold. Sell those chips to some cyanide-covered goldbug on ebay and buy something with ten times the processing power.
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pshhhhhh. All your silly little clean, light, new TIG welders. Here's the same one I have, but much cleaner and less beat  Pretty sure mine was made sometime in the 60s or 70s. Upwards of 300lbs easily.
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gently caress if it is for a 3.0 vulcan tell me where I am sending the starter that I got with the new engine for my dad's 2000 ranger. I bet it fits in a 15 dollar flatrate, how's 35 bucks shipped sound? I paid like 20 for it including core and taxes. Just doublecheck that rockauto says the same one fits his taurus and a 2000 3.0/auto ranger first.
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On aluminum? Not likely, aluminum welding is about the most challenging thing out there unless you start working with superalloys as far as I know. Steel, sure, I could teach you to mig weld steel better than that in 30 minutes. Beardchat. I break out like crazy if I go cleanshaven and I refuse to go full eleventh degree beardsperg so I weedwack it with a trimmer every week or so when it gets itchy. Either that or if the girl at the time prefers beards I just go with a full beard and trim the patchy spots, but that happens fairly rarely so I mostly just brush-hog it every week
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I'm hoping to be debt free by the end of the year and my bank balance hit 5 figures (barely) for the first time since 2012. I'm going to have to live lean to pull that off but I'll be damned if I don't kick the poo poo out of this. ... I had $1.57 left in my account, an empty tank, and literally everything was overdue by 2-8 months the day I got my first paycheck in 2013.
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I hope the part about microfortnights is no longer present at least.
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Darchangel posted:Funny. You'd think they'd realize how vital a plumber is when you don't have water or sewage for a while. We can live without lawyers, brokers, and bankers, but a guy who knows how to get your water and sanitation working? Nope. But no, it's a dirty-hands job, so obviously any monkey can do it. Entitled fuckers. My dad's a mechanical engineer, but he actual worked in a machine shop while in college (unlike a lot of so-called MEs he's worked with), and was born and raised on a small farm. I learned from him to fear no labor. We've pulled and overhauled engines, suspensions, etc., built sheds and additions, fixed plumbing and electrical, plowed, planted and harvested fields, pretty much whatever needs to be done, and I'm proud of that! I'd love to be wealthy, but not if I couldn't work with my hands and poo poo any more. Agreed. Hell, I'll be damned if I don't eventually learn how to fix or build everything, whether it makes people think I'm some dirty mechanic or not.
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hahahaha, yeah, banks don't like that. Also it will not take a year, remember that by the time you see visible water damage, there is some really nasty structural rot taking place normally. I estimated I'd be done with my place and it'd be conventionally habitable by Christmas 2010. Or was it 2011? I can't remember. Look into FHA loans.
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rscott posted:
The real issue here is that our economy, our population, hell, our EVERYTHING is predicated on maintaining exponential growth. Which is a no-win game. Until the last few centuries, that was just how you kept humanity alive. Now? It will be our downfall, if we don't do something about it rather quickly. Note: there is no acceptable, good "something" to do. Eugenics is incredibly morally repulsive, you can see exactly how well "one child" worked out in China, etc.
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I haven't, but I would bet that you can show up with a gallon can of acetone and a bale of paper towels and shop rags and have that spraypaint off of the car before you even drive it home. If it is proper two stage paint, it shouldn't even hurt it really unless you take your time, so work fast. E: I have done this to get all manner of garbage sticker residue and spraypaint off jeep two stage paint and parts of my subaru, and recommended it to a friend who used it to take an entire poorly done black rattle can job off a gold XJ. no significant damage, it will strip any wax on the car in a loving hurry so expect to be stripping the rest of the wax and redoing it, and it will eat the hell out of a single stage paintjob or lacquer so no old cars unless you want bare metal. No one I know has had anything more than slight clearcoat whitening/opaqueness result from using acetone judiciously though, so it is my first step in killing rattle can vandalism and bumper sticker residue these days. kastein fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Jan 16, 2015 |
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Wrar posted:Does anyone know of a good place to get a 98 Lincoln Continental FSM, or at least all the electrical stuff? I'd rather not have to probe the whole engine harness. http://bbbind.com/free_tsb.html Click the wiring button, make/model/year, choose subsystems. Usually the interesting stuff is under "instrument panel" and "engine - fuel controls" This is what I use to plan basically every engine swap harness I do.
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iwentdoodie posted:Like I said, watch Restrepo. And it may have a great story, but it's not being taken as that by anyone but critics and rational people. What exactly did you expect?
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Cakefool posted:Just to sway you, snapchat is the only post-android-2.1 app that managed to both dump me to desktop without an error message, then later just hard reset my phone without any warning. Snapchat is nearly twice as bad as the imgur official app, which is saying a whole lot.
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4 what, midgets?
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I'm 6'5", so basically anyone under like 6 feet seems like a midget as far as I'm concerned
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