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IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





Ether Frenzy posted:

Yes, the MARCH TO SEE A drat BURNOUT, Bape

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IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





meltie posted:

gently caress Haynes.



That looks like an old one that at least tries.

New ones might as well be a pamphlet that says "refer to dealership".

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





cakesmith handyman posted:

Everything you eat is before you go to bed.

Only if you aren't trying hard enough.

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





I have no idea how the Scottsdale Pavilions show has been going on for literal decades and yet never seems to be subject to Mustang Syndrome.

:iiam:

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





Why yes, I wanted to spend my Sunday night replacing a loving garbage disposal!

At least going from ISE to ISE I get to skip loving around with plumber's putty. The drain output on the new 3/4hp is just a bit higher up than on the nearly-10-year-old 1/3hp one, but still apparently within the range of just flexing the loving pipes until they all fit.

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





bolind posted:

It's official. Kif. Inform the men. I have made it with a woman, and if all goes to plan Mrs. bolind will pop out a little rugrat in early October.


*pained sigh*

(Congratulations! Get ready to turn your life upside down, and then continue to do so over and over again.)

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





beep-beep car is go posted:

This is true. We had to dump our '12 Focus for just this reason. Unless you're short the the convertible seats facing backwards are a pain.

Hell, even if you are. The baby bucket and following rear facing seats we used were both so long and wide that they had to be behind the passenger side of our MS3. In the middle both seats had to be practically full forward, and as tall as I am, that wasn't going to work. With it fully behind the passenger seat, my wife (who is not tall) still spent much of the first year with her knees jammed against the dashboard.

The CR-V fits in the same footprint but the difference in interior space was nothing short of amazing.

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





angryrobots posted:

Same experience here, there is no way that the manufacturers test fit rear facing seats in anything because it's tight even in a full size vehicle.

That being said, we have my wife's cr-v as you know, and my little matrix actually has more rear seat room. I keep my daughter's front facing seat behind me, which my wife can't even do in her Honda comfortably. We'll be in a booster seat later this year and I can't loving wait. I'm getting something with 2 doors again, dammit.

I would love to downsize into something else... but I don't really want to give up either vehicle. I could maybe see going from the WJ to a TJ since I don't need as large a back seat, but I do use the WJ's towing ability on occasion. Going to a shorter wheelbase, down two cylinders, and worse aero seems like a big jump backwards there. The only way I could make that work would be if the CR-V was replaced with something big enough to haul cargo inside instead of a trailer. An Odyssey might have enough space but it might not have the weight capability, and I don't think either of us want to have a fullsize van or Suburban instead of the CR-V.

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





Metal Geir Skogul posted:

Pilots are huge. Like, Ridgeline huge.

It helps that the Pilot, Ridgeline, and Odyssey are all on the same platform.


DJ Commie posted:

My work HR-V swallows my kids and an extension ladder, as well as tons of tools. I don't know why you'd need anything bigger inside. Also the low 30s regardless of highway or backroad is great too. I just wish it wasn't white.

For me it'd entirely be for the times when I need to rent/borrow a 5x8 trailer to haul poo poo around. The fact that we don't need that much room every day is why I don't want to buy something bigger, but I also can't really shrink any smaller.

Clearly I just need a whole drat fleet :v:

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





Cop Porn Popper posted:

The best peaches come from georgia, and you don't find 'em on a tree. :v:

They come from a can. They were put there by a man.

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





Beverly Cleavage posted:

I'd relegate it to emergency only status. Doable but not recommended.

This is what I did with my Ranger, and I don't think I ever actually had to do it.

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





Ferremit posted:

Still off sick from work cos it feels like theres slugs having an orgy in my sinuses and the goo keeps running out of my nose non stop. This is bad cos im spending all my time watching youtube videos and now im on gumtree looking at WAY too big mills and lathes and trying to work out how to afford them and get them home into my shop...

Watching Youtube makes me want a full CNC machine shop, but gently caress if I know what I'd actually do with it.

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





GnarlyCharlie4u posted:

FUCKKKKKKKK I missed out on a sweet vise today :(

But where will you keep your dick?

fridge corn posted:

I for one cannot wait for cheap automated suburban transportation. I think reading a book or something during my commute is a much more efficient use of my time then piloting a vehicle myself

hello i am agreeing with fridge corn

Liquid Communism posted:

Note the huge swaths of the country with a population density less than 100 people per square mile, and less than 20 people per square mile in most of the West.

I can't speak for most of the west but at least for Arizona, that data is somewhat misleading. Maricopa County and Pinal County (Phoenix and Tucson respectively) are both loving huge, yes, but they also include large areas of land that are unpopulated. I'd say at least 50% of Maricopa county is straight up desert. The entire Phoenix Metro area is over 300 people per square mile, and both Phoenix and Tucson proper are over 2500 people per square mile.

We do have a mass transportation problem here, but I suspect that some form of automated ridesharing could at least make a dent in it. The problem is that there are too many possible viable routes and not enough riders on any one of them to justify running empty large busses.

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:

Dear Dallas County,

Please fix your broken outdoor warning sirens. Some of us would like to sleep tonight.

Alternatively, just tell me to bend over and kiss my rear end goodbye.

Ahaha gently caress my life that'd be awful. Bad enough when your own smoke detectors false alarm in the middle of the night.

Edit: I am literally a child. http://www.colorfinger.net/assholeMovies/

IOwnCalculus fucked around with this message at 06:55 on Apr 8, 2017

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





CornHolio posted:

See, as I understand it, the 5.4 V8 in the W210 is indestructible and easy to work on. Everything is overbuilt and it's a great car. But I've never owned one. Had an E39 540i which I guess is kind of comparable, loved that car but the engine was kind of needy maintenance-wise.

I'm probably not getting anything until next spring, just not sure which I'd get. I'll probably be pretty limited by what's actually out there. I want a N/A 944 with the phone dial wheels, 1985.5 or later for the better interior. I want a W210 E55 that's had transmission service, preferably black-on-black.

It's everything else in the W210 that becomes a problem, not the engine.

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





CornHolio posted:

Like what?

This is reaching back in memory a bit, but we had a '97 E320 starting around 2001, I think my dad sold it around 2004. I loved that car (and got into trouble too much in said car), especially the noise it made when it got up above ~4k RPM. It was a neverending string of chasing electrical issues. It didn't help that there was seemingly fuckall for DIY info at the time online.

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





InitialDave posted:

And I can swear to you, my boy, swear to you, that there's nothing wrong with my bodily fluids. Not a thing, Jackie.

I do not avoid women, Mandrake. But I do deny them my essence.

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





Sadi posted:

My room mate an I keep talking about what a wonderfully dumb thing a P71 with a mustang 5 speed or 6 speed, junk yard turbo, and cheapest limited slip rear end we could find would be.

All i really want in life is a dumb turbo v8 rwd car that skids all the places. Also has to sound like a jet plane.

WITNESS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDJxZVabe6s

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





glyph posted:

Apparently this is a thing. No need for sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJk97fzG4T0

Man, I haven't flown a control line plane in probably 20+ years.

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





glyph posted:

Control line flying is fine, it's the prancy pants dance going on in the middle that's cracking me up. Kudos to the camera man, not even bothering with the action in the air.

I've never done that part of it, only heard tales of it from my old man. Just made me realize how long it's been since I've fired one up.

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





everdave posted:

I wouldn't I would go with the drain and fill and drain and fill again after x miles approach.

Yep, this. Especially if there's a drain plug on the trans or trans pan. It's easy mode.

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





That Mustang will ride the highways of Valhalla eternal, shiny and chrome.

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





Applebees Appetizer posted:

My wife did derby for awhile until 3 girls broke an ankle in a period of two months. It spooked her so she gave it up, don't blame her because it ain't worth the risk unless you can afford to be laid up with broken bones.

This is the exact reason my wife stopped doing roller derby once the kiddo showed up.

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





Applebees Appetizer posted:

Lol yeah right. Apparently I'm less of a man because my wife makes more money than me and I don't work 80 hours a week? And oh yeah, I clean my house and make sandwiches for my son, I'm a total pussy :v:

Reiterating because why not, but gently caress it, if you can be a stay-at-home dad, be a stay at home dad. Or however close you can get to it. Presumably you didn't have a kid for the express purpose of shipping them off to boarding school to become a lacrosse phenomenon.

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





Applebees Appetizer posted:

my problem is my Scion's compressor won't kick on right away, only after I turn the a/c on and off a few times. Some car a/c guy I talked to said it's probably the compressor relay, but rockauto is only showing an a/c clutch switch, no relays related to the a/c and I can't find any in the car.

Anything else that could possibly keep compressor from turning on right away? I checked the refrigerant and it's good, blows cold when the compressor is eventually on.

I have never heard of or seen any modern car without a relay for the compressor. There's nothing labeled AC in the fusebox other than an actual fuse?

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003






I'm so sorry. These things are the loving devil.

Metal Geir Skogul posted:

My life is a living hell.

And my wife thought it was bad that one of the cats found and killed a mouse last night. No droppings or anything that we've found anywhere. I just came home to a cat making drat sure it's dead.

CornHolio posted:

On my way home, my Ranger's temp gauge started reading cold. Like, truck-off cold, unless I was holding the engine at about 3k RPMS. So it looks like I need a new thermostat.

I want to say that when my Ranger did this, it was the water pump. Which was a loving pain thanks to the PO doing it previously and gluing it together with RTV instead of using the Orings dry as intended.

CornHolio posted:

This new heat sink came with standoffs that need something to screw into. So I reapplied some thermal compound and reinstalled the old heat sink and it's running a little cooler. Gotta return that heat sink though.

Push pins are the standard way for any stock style heat sink. If the new one wants to screw in, it should come with a backing plate that installs behind the motherboard and protrudes through those same holes. Unless the case is relatively modern and decent, you'll have to pull the motherboard to install that.

CornHolio posted:


So I decide to move my four hard drives into a newer computer a buddy sold me. It was running beautifully. Added my four hard drives, now it runs like poo poo and I don't know why. My wife is pissed because she's been wanting a new computer that won't overheat when she plays her games, and we finally get one and a week later I break it. Trying to figure that one out right now. Hoping the Haus of Tech Support can help me because I really have no idea. Takes six minutes just to boot, and I can't run any programs. I'm hoping it's just indexing the terabyte of data I just added but I really don't know.

This makes no sense. Is it maybe booting off an old junked up install of Windows on one of the old drives instead of the one you were using?

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





CornHolio posted:

Wouldn't it run hot if the water pump failed?

I dug through my own thread to see if I had noted this anywhere, but doesn't seem like I did. I could've sworn I saw this behavior but I also apparently replaced the thermostat at the same time as the water pump. That water pump is a royal pain in the dick even though there's no good reason for it to be.

CornHolio posted:

Actually, the heat sink I bought is a Hyper 212... poo poo... I'm going to look at it when I get home. I might still return it, though. If my case opened on the other side, maybe I'd do it, but I don't know if it's worth it to pull it out.

The case itself probably opens from the backside, but the motherboard tray (if this case dates back to LGA775) probably doesn't have a cutout behind the CPU like this:


Liquid Communism posted:

It absolutely makes sense. One of those 4 drives is likely starting to die, and the read errors or delays are causing system lag. Remove them all, then boot with one connected at a time to determine the failure.

Didn't even think about that :downs: Of course aside from my desktop, the only boxes I have with more than one drive are running various *nix OSes which will puke errors all over the console if a drive is being slow. I have a 480GB SSD and a 750GB HDD in my desktop, and honestly I hardly ever touch the HDD.

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





NitroSpazzz posted:

Her Dad isn't thrilled about the idea but all the other parents, family and grandparents are. I'm actually really looking forward to it now instead of just trying to figure out how much money its going to cost.

Unless you're pocketing a giant check from him that was supposed to go towards paying for an overdone wedding, gently caress that. Your wedding, your call.

I have never, ever heard anyone say they wish they went bigger.

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





Rhyno posted:

"accidentally"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_OUGYul7bQ

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





Metal Geir Skogul posted:

Dammit, Indycar (midgets), stop catching fire and crashing

So you're somewhere at the far end of this photo, then :v:



A Good Day.

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





Metal Geir Skogul posted:

Can we move on to May yet?

:getin:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSzgwCql_mo

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Apr 2, 2003





ELON MUSK APPRECIATION STATION IN HERE

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