I Bought A Truck: Bad Decisions ITT

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cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Elephanthead posted:

It was designed to not have power steering, hence the giant steering wheel to give your puny arms a chance.

I would say wheel cylinders leaking like no tomorrow is your biggest death probability. Second would be carbon monoxide, third gas explosion, fourth truck rolls over you while you are trying to fix 1 2 or 3.

Fix brakes, they'll be handy because your solution to 2 is to go as far as you can with the windows open. 3 results from 4 when you don't do 1. Simple.

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cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Siochain posted:

ITT I learn that he'll fill the box on his dumptruck with AI Goons wanting to help.

This would be the best.

A bed full of tool chests and blackthumbs hanging off the sides fixing things as they break. I'm loving this thread.

How does one refurbish a diff on a moving truck?

# ¿ May 3, 2016 19:10

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

I would campervan that poo poo so hard, and probably try to make it look like a hillbilly cabin as well.

# ¿ May 9, 2016 08:33

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

So 4 pedals and 6 sticks for the driver, full organ keyboard for the passenger driving the nitromethane-powered organ in the bed?

# ¿ May 17, 2016 18:56

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Fermented Tinal posted:

All things automatic should be burned at the stake for automotive heresy.

Do you advance and retard your own ignition timing?

# ¿ Jun 5, 2016 15:42

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Winch it into the bed when the swap is done, temporary campervan/workshop until you get home, then drop it off at the scrappers nearest your home.

# ¿ Jul 5, 2016 10:12

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

I bought a truck: directed by George Miller.

# ¿ Jul 6, 2016 08:54

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

I'm still confused, why are you carb-swapping a relatively simple working engine? Since the swap doesn't need to be tidy, just attached, why spend time and money on this engine?

# ¿ Sep 13, 2016 17:32

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Man this episode of Warboy pimps your ride is the best yet.

# ¿ Nov 3, 2016 19:01

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

14 BAR RIFF posted:

Gear oils still good

Some Photoshop/gif wizard get on this going through a kaleidoscope of psychedelic colours please

# ¿ Nov 9, 2016 18:11

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

rndmnmbr posted:

loving thank you to hell and back, that's bloody perfect.

# ¿ Nov 9, 2016 19:24

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

14 BAR RIFF posted:

It ran off in that weasel/badger sort of loping hunchback, solid color but thought the face was striped which was why I asked badger. Couldn't tell on the face markings for sure, but it wasn't canine or feline and made a loving wierd rear end noise as it loped off

It's the physical embodiment of your curse. Drown it in gear oil or it'll chew it's way up your arse into your brain again.

# ¿ Nov 11, 2016 08:44

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

14 BAR RIFF posted:

Hunt and pecker

That you type by slapping the keyboard joyously with your wang makes more sense of some previous posts.

# ¿ Nov 12, 2016 21:40

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

I don't think you should set anything on fire on purpose. Or at least, not much.

# ¿ Nov 14, 2016 22:14

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

You're going to start a better fire, melt down what's left of the aluminum in the charokee and sand/dirt cast a custom cross member?

Our just literally don't worry about it and start driving, blessed be those who are unencumbered by worry.

# ¿ Nov 16, 2016 19:25

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Fermented Tinal posted:

There's a mid-50s Windsor in a driveway a couple doors down from me. Has a spitfire v8.

Clarification needed.

# ¿ Nov 19, 2016 19:56

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

I'm sure the new owner will one day try to tell us, but the field he returns to will have no 14", no gigatrukk and djdanno will pretend to know nothing about it...

# ¿ Nov 23, 2016 18:57

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Pham Nuwen posted:

All I need is the transmission, if the rest of the car dissolved around it that just makes it easier.

Transmission removal step 1: increase local entropy until transmission is visible...

# ¿ Nov 24, 2016 07:11

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

14 BAR RIFF posted:

I can assure you that has not been an issue

If booze counts as salad :aaaaa:

# ¿ Nov 26, 2016 21:13

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Probably a silly question ExplodingSims, but have you budgeted for fuel to Florida?

# ¿ Dec 2, 2016 19:16

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

I can only imagine the meta-Orgasmic feeling 14" will get when this fires up.

# ¿ Dec 2, 2016 23:47

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Blacknose posted:

# ¿ Dec 3, 2016 00:14

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

HI BRADY

# ¿ Dec 3, 2016 00:40

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Raluek posted:

occasionally disagree on wire color.

The British Leyland version of this thread would be terrible.

# ¿ Dec 5, 2016 08:33

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

By your deeds you honor him

HI BRADY

# ¿ Dec 9, 2016 09:21

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Leperflesh posted:

Like go ahead and choke off 50% of the flow of those headers if you have to, this engine will get the truck moving on four cylinders if you need it to.

BANK 1 INTERNAL COMBUSTION
BANK 2 SUPERCHARGER FOR BANK 1

# ¿ Dec 10, 2016 20:26

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

n0tqu1tesane posted:

"For this problem, ignore friction" was a common statement in lower level physics courses. Surely that works in real life too?

Peugeot seemed to assume so when designing the brake bias valve under my last hatchback.

# ¿ Dec 11, 2016 10:14

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

I see why you want it.

# ¿ Dec 14, 2016 21:54

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Not going to lie i could go for a pickled egg right now.

# ¿ Dec 20, 2016 08:54

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

I hope wherever 14" stops along the way has valet parking...

# ¿ Dec 29, 2016 16:18

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Blacknose posted:

# ¿ Dec 29, 2016 18:13

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Trukk status: engine swapped, murder wheels swapped, wiring 50-90%. I'd call that a god dammed success.

Dave, you're an inspiration, go pet that cat and fix your civic.

# ¿ Dec 30, 2016 10:54

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Gotta be a better idea than Greyhound.

# ¿ Dec 31, 2016 23:19

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Personally I like the idea of 10' of flexypipe.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2017 08:50

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

14" tailpipe

# ¿ Jan 4, 2017 10:04

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Listening to that list of requirements a big gas I4/6 sounds best for not having to redesign the entire trukk around it. Lose the diesel premium for a low-mileage-per-year vehicle and the engines get a shitload simpler too.

I have no engine recommendations though, I'll leave that to people who've actually used them.

# ¿ Jan 11, 2017 20:01

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Fill the bed with Lead-acid batteries, install 2 giant DC motors where the diff is, throttle is just a blade switch.

# ¿ Jan 11, 2017 21:21

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

We're going the wrong way. Can't you get monster 500ci single or 2 cylinder tractor engines? Blow that.

# ¿ Jan 13, 2017 23:18

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Sounds like it's a no brainer if you include meals.

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cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

So you're bringing the cat? And the bike is in greyhound cargo? Am I keeping up?

# ¿ Sep 2, 2017 11:10

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