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GoodbyeTurtles posted:drat dude, that sucks. Here it is in Parker, CO:  (yeah, it's something like a foot to 15" shorter than an ACVW.)  Closer in size to my lawn tractor than one of my other 4x4s. I had plans to put the spare engine in after cleaning it up and moving all the external parts to it, but was hoping it wouldn't be so soon. april fools suckaaaaaaa (it does have a hell of a rattle coming from the timing chain however, so the engine needs to be worked on regardless.)
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Liquid Communism posted:JFC, why is it so hard to find an aftermarket replacement seat bracket for an XJ? They're a known point of lovely Chrysler manufacture. AFAIK it's the actual seat frame not the bracket. A couple friends of mine who are north of 400lbs break an XJ seat frame every few years.
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Rhyno posted:I have a very hard head so I'm ready for it. Aside from "quick" I know exactly what you need. Actually, put a turbo the size of a cat food can on it and it's quick too. 
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Apr 2, 2015 02:33
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You can buy all the tools to do a good job of refilling the system for like 250-300, too. Read motronic's thread, it is nowhere near as hard as you would think. Also, you can probably get all the tools to do the head gasket job and do it five times over before you have as much money into it* as you would pay the mechanic. I didn't know what a pinion seal was or how to change one in 2008. And had to read an online writeup to figure out how to change the radiator in a jeep. You can totally learn how to do anything you want on a car (except for maybe rotating assembly, transmission rebuild, steering box, and ring/pinion setup, those are super fiddly and require extreme attention to detail and patience some simply don't posess) and do it cheaper than a mechanic, if you want to. Hell, if it weren't for the fact that I want a warranty on it since glass is a pain in the rear end to ship and costs a lot, I would be doing the windshield in the Justy later today. Instead I called a glass company that a friend works for and he is doing it the $100 difference between materials and shop price is worth the warranty and not having to take the old one out myself.* yes I am ignoring time spent. I consider learning that stuff a life skill, it is incredibly empowering to realize you can do repairs that would cost most people thousands for $150 in parts and an afternoon, and opens the door to buying ever cheaper and more broken project cars. Gotta do something with the money you save, right?
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1.4 INCH DICK posted:This isn''t a late april fools post, I found out today one of my exes from California is about a half hour drive away from me on a trip This is me but with cars and houses. The siren call of irredeemable basket cases. Likely with rotten sills and lots of issues caused and/or covered up by previous victims. ... actually, no, you're right, women too... but I've learned to flee and cut my losses now instead of playing double or nothing.
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I havent talked to her in two years, she's the girl I proposed to when driving Lowered Expectations who wound up banging a half dozen of my friends. Looked her up on facebook and discovered in the past couple years she either discovered One Wierd Trick that Dieticians Hate, or has been hitting the glass dick for god knows how long. She looked absolutely wrecked. And yet, somehow, way, way hotter than she's ever been. So I've been spending the day contemplating why my dick has decided that skinny batshit crazy tweakers with dead hollow eyes are totally its thing. Like there is a direct proportional relationship between how broken somebody is and the level of desire I feel for that person. The closest I can describe the feeling is that brain is trying to talk to his coworker dick, saying 'Hey man, this doesnt look so hot so why don't we sit this one out okay?' And what brain doesnt realise is that dick stopped taking his pills like two weeks ago and has just entered the Messiah phase of full blown mania and is entirely too busy planning out to the exact second when he's going to need to tuck and roll out of the burning helicopter that happens to be on a collision course with the local nuclear power plant.
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User Error posted:Meh, just use a non-fouler to pull the post-cat O2 sensor up out of the exhaust stream and clear the codes. Been driving my M3 like that for 2 years and the code hasn't come back I am pretty sure no one actually uses those as plug non foulers anymore, but as long as they keep calling them that, the EPA won't stop them from being sold
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Well in my parents case, they have a devout disbelief in anything involving facts or reason relating to medicine, so alt anything goes. But yeah, chiropractors are largely somewhere between scam artists and quacks and I'd recommend someone with actual medical creds. You only have one back.
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User Error posted:Yeah, I figure it's set up to shift slower. I'll probably J-mod it at some point but today I just wanted to get it running. The larger torque converter has a slightly lower stall. Automatics are still largely black boxes to me but I'm learning a bit as I go along. I really hope you flushed the trans cooler and lines, else the trans debris from the old one is likely going to murder the new one. If you didn't, change the fluid then run it like 20 miles gently and change it again, plus the filter if there is one.
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Apr 4, 2015 11:42
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The touchscreen on my ancient (4 years since release) droid 3 keeps wigging the gently caress out and making me want to smash it, but fortunately I have a keyboard I can type on even when it acts up  I am too rough on my phones to pay real money for them, I break one of these about every 8-10 months or so and buy another on ebay for 50 dollars. I broke a lot more years ago but I haven't had a phone fall off the roof since I finished reshingling it so the rate of destruction has gone down.
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Apr 6, 2015 03:45
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Rhyno posted:Ugh, I just wanna play video games but we packed the controllers and took them over to the new place already. Play tetris with moving boxes.
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Apr 6, 2015 17:46
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That poo poo comes right off if you hose it down before it dries in the sun. So anytime in the next decade if you're in the Seattle area, but Geirskogul's pretty much hosed even if it happened at midnight and he found it at 2AM...
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Darchangel posted:I'd also like to punch the genius engineer at ford who decided that the EGR valve, the solenoid that controls vacuum to it, and the senor that provides feedback to the ECU about EGR flow should be a complete unit on my P71, rather than 3 separate, replaceable parts like on the earlier models. Because the sensor (DPFE, for those of you who speak Ford P0401) sensor is daft, I have to buy an entire $175 EGR assembly, rather than JUST the sensor. Jerks. Wow they found a way to make it worse than the one I had to do a couple months ago. Fuckin' Ford. We ended up replacing everything except the sensor anyways, because the tube was rotted in half, the tube flare nut was seized to the bung, the bung was partially seized to the manifold, and the valve was clogged. I guess the sensor's still original, but it might not be for long because it still throws a code occasionally. If your EGR bung is seized to the EGR pipe or module and you end up needing to replace it, I've got the right tap to chase the threads (two of them, because the one I ordered first was on the slow boat from China and I needed it RFN) and will gladly mail it to you.
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He distributes water and water accessories, that's what
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the spyder posted:I'll just leave this here. http://seattle.craigslist.org/skc/cto/4969635823.html No joke I will donate towards this becoming 14's white whale.
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Super Aggro Crag posted:Shoutout to the pipe-fitters for wet-coring right above our gangbox filled with expensive tools and blueprints. That sucks. Your gangbox isn't the swanky kind that's rainproof? I got one literally for free a couple years ago that has been sitting on my back porch in the rain since then, full of tools and parts, without a single drop getting inside.
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Powershift posted:Some hilariously bad ideas going through michener allen in edmonton this weekend. your URL got hosed somehow. Fixed
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Boats make me glad I like offroad jeeps and airplanes.
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Apr 10, 2015 18:41
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Denny's can grand slam me any day.
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Apr 11, 2015 23:22
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There is some sort of cerium oxide powder you can use to polish the glass but any remaining coatings will get removed and it may be a little ripply. My great grandfather recommended that my grandfather polish his windshield with a 4lb hammer when asked what the proper tools/materials for such a job were I mean, it does work... just like throwing a 20 dollar bill in the toilet after dropping 25 cents in makes it easier to reach in there for the quarter. E: as for weight, I am a lucky bastard and somehow my metabolism is still in nuclear mode. I don't like anorexics or fat people, anything in the normal range or athletic is fine by me. Basically if I can't pick you up comfortably this isn't going to work. (Not that that rules much out I guess, since the motor I picked up and put in Slow is Fast's truck last weekend apparently weighs 400lbs. I thought it seemed more like 300.) kastein fucked around with this message at 01:35 on Apr 12, 2015 |
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meatpimp posted:I wish I could text that to those people you splashed.  I have to say dude, that was really a dick move and I know you'd be on here ripshit about it if someone did it to you, so yeah, don't splash people with puddles.
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congratulations on being adopted by a baller cat, 14.
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T1g4h posted:Every time you guys mention DSM I keep thinking Officer 13" Dickpocalypse's taste in girls involves them owning an Eclipse / Talon. AI, you've ruined me. Here's something you'll never hear again: I don't think crankwalk is in the DSM
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Re: girls (and people in general, I guess) I have met girls from every race, height, body shape, nationality, eye color, hair color, whatever that I would gladly date. Doesn't matter. Not anorexic, not a land whale, have some interesting hobbies (awesome if we have some common ground hobby wise, but don't have to) and a job, be happy with your life and emotionally stable with some semblance of a sense of humor and I'm sold. I'm strongly of the opinion that there are unhappy people and happy people. Why? I know some pretty unhappy people. Some of them have moved 3-5 times, always blaming their unhappiness on where they are, what they do for work, etc. Somehow they're still unhappy where they live next, too. Why? Because happiness is a state of mind, not a place*. Other people are happy no matter what, or mostly happy. I don't like boring, emotionally unstable, or unhappy/negative people in my life. At this point I've realized that most people never change, and they certainly can't be made to change, they have to WANT to change, so if someone doesn't fit that bill and isn't family... sorry, bye. I don't need them negative waves in my life, Moriarty. Self awareness goes a long way too. If you can't make fun of your own faults, you take yourself too seriously. * I know this sounds pretty hypocritical seeing as I bag on Indiana and Florida a lot, I just happen to know or hear of a lot of wackjobs from those states I guess
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Scrambles posted:no no no no no no no no no agreed. I brought my shitcan XJ to them with my tires already mounted, just needed to be balanced, and it took them like 2.5-3 hours of the slack-assest, most retarded mechanic dicking around before they were "done." Except they weren't balanced worth a poo poo. It took half an hour for my car to even end up in the bay. Another half hour before it was off the ground. And a long rear end time to balance the tires. In like a six bay shop with several mechanics and maybe one or two other cars in the same time period. Pretty sure they were stretching time out and trying to avoid being sent home. I was not happy in the least, because I had poo poo to get done on my half-day vacation other than wait for some shitforbrains to balance my tires and got none of it done, and still had to have my tires rebalanced again. It was a lifetime balance but gently caress that, they can keep the goddamn money, I would rather pay again somewhere else than go through that shitshow again. ... it took me maybe 45 minutes to balance all 4 myself at ACEofsnett's dad's place, and that's jacking each corner up manually and using a 4-way not an impact to take them off, then having to be taught how to use the balancing machine. They balanced great. What a pack of retards, gently caress walmart.
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NitroSpazzz posted:Hey possibly stupid question. Are all O2 sensors the same thread pitch and size? I'll eventually be running one on the 320i and need a bung welded onto my headers. Almost all of them are M18x1.5 thread but there are some exceptions I think. I'd order the sensor and measure before having it welded.
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NitroSpazzz posted:Probably a good idea. Need to figure out one I'm going to be running with Megasquirt then go from there. Most aftermarket AFR/wbO2 systems seem to use an LSU 4.2 Bosch sensor. I'm annoyed by the prospect of paying several hundred dollars for a silly looking box with barrier strips instead of real connectors however so I'm working on designing my own LSU 4.9 interface since I found some LSU 4.9 wideband sensors on rockauto for $21 on clearance a while ago.  Unless you just want a regular old style narrowband, in which case search on rockauto for: Part Group: Emission Part Type: Oxygen Sensor Then look through the results till you find a 4 wire that's got a connector you recognize. They're automatically sorted by price. I don't believe narrowband sensors really vary that much in calibration between makes/models, but I could be wrong, if so, make sure to verify the one you choose is megasquirt compatible or expect to have to come up with your own calibration curve for it.
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That driveway looks large enough for a vast fleet of derelicts, too.
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Terminus Est posted:Hockey is soccer for idiots who live too far from the sun. team sports are for people who don't have enough broken cars in their lives
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I buy Milwaukee or Makita for anything I'm going to beat up. My sawzall is actually about due for replacement... I bought it in like 2010 and have torn apart half of a house and probably five cars with it, not too surprised. I am really not nice to it, I usually stay 100% on the throttle and give it a quick jerk to unstick it if the blade jams, while it's trying to be a jackhammer. Still works great, but occasionally something slips inside and the motor spins even though the blade is jammed. ... actually I should look on ereplacementparts tonight and see if they carry whatever part is broken. I'm assuming it's some kind of torque limiting clutch or knurled metal shaft pressed into a plastic gear that I've absolutely rooted.
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They likely are... I would find that REALLY concerning. As in, start tearing down plaster to find out why your frame is falling apart behind it. Mine didn't even do that, and the sill beams came out with a gardening trowel...
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Jesus christ this star wars discussion... the autism is coming from inside the thread 
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CommieGIR posted:Man for all the bitching that one thread did about how much AI beats up on Chrysler Sorry dude, even chrysler doesn't make wiring so lovely that coolant ends up in the taillight housings (I have owned more chrysler products that I have anything else...) Oh that reminds me. I have bitched extensively about how AMC used factory duct tape on their wiring harnesses, as insulation, not just for bundling. They would crimp a brass open ferrule splice onto some wires to join them inside a loom then fold a piece of duct tape over it. Chrysler decided to one up those fuckers when they took over. This was a splice inside a 95 XJ harness.  Yeah they just resistance welded it all together... that was after I stripped the nasty loving cloth and natural rubber friction tape off of it and blasted it with brakleen. If they had just used sealant lined heatshrink over that like they did starting in 96 or 97, I would be fine with it. Friction tape so lovely I wouldn't use it to attach cable to a fish tape though? Really?
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The 200 is most certainly garbage. I think my favorite wiring fire issue has to be the F150 one that burns the truck to the ground, however.
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bandman posted:Getting serious about lifting weights and getting into better shape, so I'm starting to track the weights I'm lifting in a spreadsheet so I can see how much stronger I'm getting. Get a really lovely project car, picking up engines and transmissions at the junkyard is great weight training As for twisted pair, yes, you want to maximize bend radius on the pairs and minimize the amount you untwist between the punchdown and the cable.
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bolind posted:I have declared my home printer-free zone since... 2007? It's worked great. I print what little I need at work, and the three times in eight years I've had an urgent need I've just driven to work and printed there. Beats buying, keeping and maintaining a printer. Just get a laserjet 4 for free, throw 50 bucks worth of rollers and stuff at it, clean the toner out and put a new cartridge in. Pretty sure you will be able to use it well into the next century after that.
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Elmnt80 posted:Half the people I work with are vaping right now and you can't walk through the back of the store without walking into a big cloud of that stuff. But it's just propylene glycol, man *flicks robot penis full of nicotine @ u*
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KozmoNaut posted:http://www.autoblog.com/2015/04/20/automakers-gearheads-car-repairs/ from my cold dead hands I mean, car driving does cause tens of thousands of deaths per year, we should probably put more restrictions on it, maybe keep people from buying supercars especially if they have black interiors and manual transmissions. Modification should be strictly illegal without justification and a notary stamp.
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Motronic posted:The only time I've seen A+ being useful/required is if you work at a shop doing warranty work. Some manufacturers consider A+ alone to be good enough to get warranty authorized on their product lines, some require A+ and a short test. Pretty sure they are still asking that.
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Raluek posted:also car-part.com car-part.com is awesome if you don't want to pull the parts yourself, I have to say. Prices are alright on occasion as well, I only paid 45 bucks for the complete headlight assembly I got for my car.
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