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I brought my Hijet to the Some dude in his home-built race-car backed into a McLaren SLR Mercedes and gouged into the door with his wing. And another guy clipped a Pontiac G8 with his GNX. C&G seems way the hell lower-rent than C&C in my town.
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Leperflesh posted:I think it depends somewhat on what you're selling, too. I would not sell used parts - for cars, or computers, or anything else. It's just too easy for the buyer to break it and then insist you sold a broken part, or to be too stupid to read the description that the part is used. Yeah, only thing I'll bother flipping on ebay anymore is OOP tabletop gaming stuff like warhams, because they make enough money and nobody bitches so long as you have pics and state the condition.
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Leperflesh posted:I'll still sell low-value items but for the most part, stuff I can't sell to Half Price Books just gets donated to Goodwill for a tax write-off. The best thing about Goodwill/Hopechest/other thrift stores is the sheets they hand out are not itemized al all, just a signature and date.
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DesperateDan posted:Decided to finally fix up a loose tap, dug out my plumbers wrench, idly thought about goggles as I maneuvered into place, get it nice and tight and WHAM rust/calcium chunks right in my eye. Eyebath sorted the eye but not my sense of stupid, hence the confession. Wear em. Always good to repeat, thanks for the confession. After spending 4k on my peepers, I promise I always have z87s on. Edit: I spent most of today finally going through 11 years worth of old computers, mostly deleting old junk and consolidating what I want to back up. Holy poo poo at the crappy low resolution videos I thought I needed to save in 2004. angryrobots fucked around with this message at 04:19 on Jul 31, 2017 |
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angryrobots posted:Always good to repeat, thanks for the confession. After spending 4k on my peepers, I promise I always have z87s on. Just look at this crap. A giant mess of jpgs, wavs, mp3s, apps I havent used for 15 years. Christ. 
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Jul 31, 2017 04:32
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I did find this though which is pretty rad
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I deleted about 20 gigs of early 2000s internet videos. Lots of poorly shot car videos set to terrible music. I fit the entirety of stuff I intend to keep, all my photos and important documents, on a 32 gig stick with room to spare. I pretty much junked anything that I didn't make myself. It's all online somewhere, and a hell of a lot of it wasn't my thing anymore anyway.
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I've made upwards of $5K in the last few years selling comics on Ebay. I had a few psychos but overall it was worth the effor.
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Y'all are dicks about some things, but you were right about the F-150 compared to the Taco. A Lightning Blue 501A Supercrew followed me home today.
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ilkhan posted:Y'all are dicks about some things, but you were right about the F-150 compared to the Taco. A Lightning Blue 501A Supercrew followed me home today. Yesssss, one of us. One of us. All hail the aluminum behemoth.
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Cage posted:I don't think I would ever be able to do this. Across 3 hard drives is about 15 years of random files that I store with zero organization. Every few years I take everything and plop them on a bigger hard drive and then branch out my folders even more making it very difficult to find anything if I wanted to. Since I got my own computer in 1992 I have never lost a hard drive, so I still have all my poo poo, and that includes poo poo I put onto that computer from my stash of 5 1/4s that went back to grade school in the mid 1980s. Cheap storage capacity has always kept up with my data, although my DSLR is starting to make me rethink my "never delete anything ever" policy (I shoot in RAW + JPG mode so every click of the shutter is about 24MB). Which still kind of blows me away sometimes. My very first hard drive was a Seagate ST-220 which was an MFM drive with 20 cavernous megabytes of capacity. I create more bits than would fit on that solid hunk of metal every time I push a button on my camera... and it takes a fraction of a second to store it, too. So why bother spending weeks combing through thousands of old files that all together probably amount to maybe a gig? Include every digital photo I took before I got my DSLR and you might add another 20... my dashcam has a 64GB card in it. 20GB is nothing. Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 07:17 on Jul 31, 2017 |
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I think I killed a 4l60e this weekend.  Towing my boat to the lake there was very steep grade from 4000' to 5500' that gave me some trouble. It was likely in limp home mode and I didn't pick up on it because my CEL is permalit so I probably fried the clutches, and then let out the magic smoke out while I was retrieving the boat. Got up the ramp finally which was good because it was a single, and died at the exit to the park. Trans temp shot up to 295 and all gears (including neutral) go mostly forward. Still it was a great camping/sailing trip (and in AAA free tow range) so I ain't even mad.
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Most likely. Heat will kill a 4l60 easy. Rebuild it, slap a dedicated tranny cooler in and you should be fine.
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I had a 4t60(e) that I burned up on my 88 delta 88. I replaced it with a junkyard 4t60 and put a bigass transmission cooler on it, and drove it for seven more years towing tons of poo poo around. Uhaul/penske trailers, friend's boats, and pulling stumps (we were rednecks in northern Idaho). It never skipped a beat with the cooler. GM trannies hate heat I guess 
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Pretty much. The little in radiator tranny cooler is not really big enough for a gm truck w/ a 4l60 doing any kind of towing. Also, I'd see if you can upgrade the internals to 4l70 internals while you are at it. In 05 they revamped the trans to make it more durable, along with the switch to dex 6 instead of dex 3 as atf. 
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I installed a Hayden 678 cooler this week. Don't know if that was a factor/insufficient/I hosed up the install or what yet. The later is definitely possible. I IR gunned the cooler at like 180 when the truck was idling with 245-degrees on the trans temp and not dropping so maybe the flow wasn't sufficient or it was blocked. Truck has 250k on it and I have no idea of the transmission's history. Had a harsh 1-2 before so it was already questionable. I've never rebuilt a transmission, and I'm neck deep in a head gasket job on my wife's car so I'm a little hesitant to dive in. I'll probably be looking at getting a low-mile or rebuilt transmission. Maybe even paying someone to do it unless there's one-weird-truck and a transmission is easy to r/r in a 2wd Silverado.
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They're supposed to be relatively easy to remove with exhaust crossing over from the drivers side near the extension housing being the only thing I can think of blocking a straight unbolt and drop, but I've never rebuilt/removed one personally before. And the harsh 1-2 shift sounds like it was on its last legs already. Probably hasn't had a tranny filter in quite a while, much less had any kind of drain and fill given gm didn't include a drain plug on the pan from the factory.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:GM trannies hate heat I guess That goes for all (automatic) trannies. The combo radiator/trans cooler is enough to get it out of warranty with the lightest of towing. I'd guess the 1 ton trucks probably have a beefier cooler (and usually a beefier trans - I think the Duramax trucks use an Allison, for example?), but any automatic I ever own in the future will get an external cooler. It's also so much fun when the combo rad/trans cooler decides to exchange fluids. That's really great when it's two people exchanging fluids (when consensual), not so great when it's coolant and ATF. monsterzero posted:Truck has 250k on it and I have no idea of the transmission's history I'd say you did good for an automatic that wasn't originally attached to a diesel. The harsh shift, if it wasn't flashed to firm up the shifts and/or didn't have a shift kit, was a good indicator that it wasn't doing so well anymore (if it did have those, it would have been a firm to harsh shift on all shifts, not just 1-2). I would think a trans swap on a 2WD Silverado would be dead easy. Plenty of room, RWD, probably just need to remove exhaust crossover and maybe some brackets. But the only trans I've dropped myself has been a manual in a FWD Civic, so.... 
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There was also the option of the 4l80 on the 3/4 tons behind the 6.0 lq4. Much more stout, but also a bigger case on the trans.
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Figured the 4L80 would be on the 3/4, but surprised it was only behind the 6.0.
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I can't remember all the options, but I know in gmt800s its relatively common behind the 6L.
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oh hello i just so happen to be about to try some fuckery on my high mileage 4l60e in a 98 k1500 and i will probably take some pictures and such
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Does it make sense to add a transmission cooler to a manual if you are going to tow things?
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monsterzero posted:I think I killed a 4l60e this weekend. RIP. I have a trans cooler for mine that I've yet to install. I should probably get on that (and the fluid swap) even though I don't tow.
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CommieGIR posted:Does it make sense to add a transmission cooler to a manual if you are going to tow things? Does a manual have a fluid pump that circulates the oil under pressure like an automatic? ilkhan posted:Y'all are dicks about some things, but you were right about the F-150 compared to the Taco. A Lightning Blue 501A Supercrew followed me home today. Congrats on the new truck.
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:Figured the 4L80 would be on the 3/4, but surprised it was only behind the 6.0. The Allison 1000 is behind the 8.1 and the duramax, a big selling point. That trans is huge and reliable as long as power remains stock. If you do smoke it rebuild parts are like $3600 plus labor.
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Well poo poo. I hate being an adult. I'd been working on getting my hands on another 929 but on the day of a hiccup has prevented the purchase. Probably for the best.
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At this point, you can find a junked truck with an Allison if you do burn one up, but yeah they're hard to kill without absolute abusive behaviour. I have an 8.1 3500 and fully expect the trans to outlive nuclear holocaust. We've had one Allison burn up in something like 40 trucks and God knows how many miles, and I was told that the dealership shipped it off to Allison cause they wanted to see what failed. I believe almost all, if not all trucks with the 6.0 had the 4l80E? Also, the 8.1L Suburban got a 4l85E, cause the Allison wouldn't fit.
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CommieGIR posted:Does it make sense to add a transmission cooler to a manual if you are going to tow things? Rover R380s do. 
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violentlycitrus posted:oh hello i just so happen to be about to try some fuckery on my high mileage 4l60e in a 98 k1500 and i will probably take some pictures and such Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your Larrymer posted:RIP. I have a trans cooler for mine that I've yet to install. I should probably get on that (and the fluid swap) even though I don't tow. Filter and flush was going to be my next project. I don't think it would have saved me so the silver lining is that I didn't waste a million qts of ATF.
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So I'm gonna regret missing out on this car right? Is this cool or not cool? I'm out of touch.
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Cressidas are cooler.
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And probably far more expensive than the 929.
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Rhyno posted:So I'm gonna regret missing out on this car right? I've always liked 929s, that generation and the previous. RWD! This weekend I did this:  ...and I mean ALL weekend. That's a friend's Nissan Rogue. We did a CarPlay headunit, steering wheel control and OBD2 integration, XM Radio, and sub/amp install, AND he decided to do all four door speakers and bypass the factory Bose amp for them. Getting the loving iDatalink Maestro RR interface box flashed and working was dumb. It's a brilliant box that has upgradeable firmware to allow it to be mostly universal as far as integrated car features with aftermarket heads, but god-drat their documentation and IE-only web based firmware flashing is poo poo. For that matter, I'm disappointed in Pioneer's documentation. It used to be that the install guide had a nice big wiring diagram with everything labeled, and similarly a diagram of the radio back with all the interfaces labeled, but you have to go on the web for that now. the owners manual has an install guide, but no master diagram, despite being 1/4" thick (because 4 languages in one damned manual.) Got it all in and working, even able to use the factory satellite antenna, and he's got OBD2 gauges on the radio, which is neat. dual 10" JBL sub box is so much better than the nearly useless Bose sub in the spare tire, though of course he lost half his cargo area to the box. Personally, I would have just used the factory Bose amp with the Infinity speakers we put in - the amp for that added a lot of work (2 extra RCA cables, interfacing with the factory wiring at the Bose amp.) We tested the system just like that before moving on the amps, and it sounded fine. ah, well. I got a couple meals and a 10' x 10' shade canopy out of it as payment. My hands are tore the gently caress up, but at least that insured that the stereo gods had their blood sacrifice so that everything would work. Also, my everything hurts. This is part of the reason I stopped doing this for a living...
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Darchangel posted:I've always liked 929s, that generation and the previous. RWD! They are cool. Kind of poo poo engines from what I have read but it's just coooooooooooool.
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Rhyno posted:And probably far more expensive than the 929. Cool ain't cheap, man 
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Cool ain't cheap, man If I'm gonna spend more than $1500 on a car I'm gonna go bonkers.
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Rhyno posted:If I'm gonna spend more than $1500 on a car I'm gonna go bonkers. Buy my truck then
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cursedshitbox posted:Buy my truck then The RV?
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