AI Thread of the Century

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sharkytm: Oct 9, 2003; Ba

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kastein posted:

My GF (who loves all wagons, but especially woodside ones and especially buick woodside ones) highly approves of your insanity. She has a 1993 Buick Roadmaster wagon (L05 under the hood, not an LT1, sadly) that I am slowly catching up on maintenance.

We've seen a number of Century wagons around the area, including a maroon woodside one that looked like a miniature version of hers. Didn't have any paper to write a "please call us if you ever want to sell" note, sadly, and it was gone when we got out of the store.

I carry a pad of Sticky Notes in my glovebox for this purpose, along with "Your rear left tire is nearly flat".

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sharkytm: Oct 9, 2003; Ba

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Spoiler!
I knew the function... wish my Fit's spoiler did it, the rear wiper doesn't have intermittent and that is kind of annoying.

# ¿ Feb 12, 2017 04:12

sharkytm: Oct 9, 2003; Ba

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Suburban Dad posted:

Could try calling up some mobile welders, can't imagine they'd charge a whole lot to fix that.

Its cast AL, which is a bitch to weld. Chances are the weld would fail whenever pressure was put on the joint.. Plus, it's part of a part that's got oil on it, so it'll make welding it doubly-hard.

# ¿ Apr 30, 2019 19:54

sharkytm: Oct 9, 2003; Ba

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where'd you score that?

# ¿ Nov 3, 2020 15:09

sharkytm: Oct 9, 2003; Ba

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Left Ventricle posted:

Repair worked a treat. Right up until it nearly burned the car down with me in it.

I took it out this morning to go to the yard in Henderson and noticed a pretty heavy fuel smell. Pulled off the highway, and I was greeted with a gushing of fuel from the engine bay. It was coming from the fuel pressure regulator, which I had not fully seated in the fuel rail. It popped in neatly and stopped leaking. I could have killed myself. I lost over six gallons of fuel.

It's me. I am both the Worst Mechanic and the Customer That States.

DRIVE FASTER!
:grovertruk:

It's happened to lots of us. I know I had a line come off of a CIS pump, which runs at like 90psi. Nice, fine, atomized cloud of fuel and open headers.

# ¿ Apr 2, 2021 15:51

sharkytm: Oct 9, 2003; Ba

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STR posted:

One of the front tires had a shifted belt, more than likely.

This would be my bet.

# ¿ Nov 3, 2021 12:53

sharkytm: Oct 9, 2003; Ba

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What happened? Blowout? Or is that a glove?

# ¿ Jan 28, 2022 13:33

sharkytm: Oct 9, 2003; Ba

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Youch. Glad it wasn't catastrophic!

# ¿ Jan 30, 2022 18:53

sharkytm: Oct 9, 2003; Ba

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That sucks. Keep fighting the good fight, the new ride looks good.

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Behold!

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