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Normally the Doncaster classic car show has a very low idiot quotient, but this year a guy in a supercharged Chevelle decided to monster it out the showground exit, and lived his live a quarter mile at a time straight into a brick wall.  When a Mustang owner calls you a stupid twat for doing that, you know it's a good 'un. And apparently it wasn't his car. That's going to be an interesting "look mate, I was just driving along..." phone call for him.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Do I flip the bitch while It still runs?
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cakesmith handyman posted:In the last couple of weeks three public defib machines have been stolen from local villages, seemingly by the same group of teenagers. cakesmith handyman posted:What the gently caress is wrong with people? cakesmith handyman posted:In more fun news I ordered a battery impact wrench finally, so when that gets here I'm going to probably do irreparable damage to the S40 taking it apart.  Dagen H posted:Chevelle, yeah. I bet that's it.
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cakesmith handyman posted:I had my wife drop the Panda off at the garage because the wheel bearing screech was getting too much and I've a million jobs on the go. They can't find anything, gave it a clean bill of health and said if anything went in the next couple of thousands miles they'd knock the hours investigation labour off the bill.
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Huh. To me, that's a Tercel, I didn't know they were badged as a Corolla variant in Japan. Bloody clean, though.
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slidebite posted:I actively want my parents/in laws to go through as much of their money as they can before they kick it. It's theirs, they earned it. Enjoy it. If dad wants a 60s muscle car and he can afford it, do it. Buy a big RV and explore? Knock yourself out.
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Jul 7, 2019 18:36
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IOwnCalculus posted:Are you going to make an Aussie version of Big Bill Hell's?
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:You do know Drop Bears are hung over all the time right? Their diet basically means they produce alcohols when digesting
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Jul 7, 2019 21:01
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Elmnt80 posted:Customer came in around 2:30pm to buy a window regulator for her 2014 grand caravan. She had 0 tools, little mechanical expertise, a youtube video and a bunch of motivation. At 3:30, she had the door card off. At 4:30 when I left, she had the inner door card halfway off and was fighting with electrical connecters. I came back up at 5:30 to see if she wanted a hand, and together we had it mostly back together by 7:30. It was a fucker of a job that involved alot of 2 person work to make it doable with the limited tools we had. But hey, there's my good deed for the month.
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Jul 8, 2019 11:57
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Olympic Mathlete posted:...if it flies, floats or fucks...
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Right, here's a challenge for you. Suspect Kastein might get this one. My dad's sorting out the steering system on his Wolseley (1935 Hornet Special). The nut that holds the wheel on seems to be 7/8" and 20 TPI, which smells an awful lot like UNEF to me - however, trying to source a cheapish replacement nut is proving awkward. I think the steering wheel nuts on some American trucks (as in tractor units) are this thread... but also, so are the pinion nuts on a number of Dana axles. I did try getting him a pinion nut for a Jeep, but what he got seems to be 14 TPI - suspect perhaps it's from a rear axle rather than a front axle or something like that? So, anyway: Where am I likely to find a 7/8" 20 TPI nut (or half nut/jam nut, which may work better for him), in such a way as to be readily available in the UK cheap? So a "serviceable" component on a car sold here? I think the Jeep part number 4720895AB is a good place for him to start.
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IOwnCalculus posted:Seems like you might be onto it with that, and that seems to be a pretty common part. Rockauto lists the USA Gear 33146 as compatible, and lists applications for it including the YJ, TJ, and JK Wranglers, the Liberty, and the XJ Cherokee. I'm fairly certain you guys got the Liberty and Cherokee in significant numbers. Will see how he gets on.
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IOwnCalculus posted:The D44 (at least on the WJ) is a 7/8-14, instead of a 7/8-20. If 7/8-14 works for you, the pitman arm nut from just about any 70s-on US-made vehicle with a steering box is probably a good fit. LloydDobler posted:Can you get this nut from Amazon over there?
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slidebite posted:If it's the same thread as a pinion nut maybe a driveline place?
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Watching Mighty Car Mods' latest episode, I love how stoked they are about something I just regard as generic cheap chav transport. Edit: lol at the German plod. InitialDave fucked around with this message at 17:55 on Jul 9, 2019 |
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fridge corn posted:Diesels in passenger vehicles are awful and they need to die 
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gently caress's sake...
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Ehh, you start poo poo with someone much bigger than you, it tends to go that way. "Oh, but that's illegal/morally wrong/not nice!" Doesn't matter, reality gives precisely no fucks. There's always someone bigger and nastier than you, and if you go around mouthing off at everyone and being aggressive almost to the point of parody, you absolutely, 100%, will get your poo poo pushed in at some point. It's very much one for the "what exactly did you expect to happen?" files. KakerMix posted:
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Jul 11, 2019 13:46
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That guy who had the incel rant in the bagel shop about how women view short men? They sent a nice girl to interview him: 
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The MGB has potential for good return. But I'd probably go for the Jaguar replica, on the basis that the genie has to present my offer to the seller...
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For anyone following the Apollo 11 50th anniversary stuff, it's about 10 minutes from the moment of landing.
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This is one of those things that's really rather simple, but infuriating. I use Gmail. When people send me emails with inline images that are loving huge (i.e. my dad), Gmail insists on displaying them full size, rather than scaling them to fit the message window, and as a result the emails are a pain in the arse to read with the side-scrolling involved etc. As far as I can see, there is no option at all in Gmail to change this, all you can do is choose whether images auto-load or not, which isn't at all helpful (and doesn't change how big the images are when they are displayed). I can get a plugin to do it in Chrome, but that doesn't help me on other browsers. What the gently caress? "Scale images to fit window" should be the default, and from what I can see, it's not even an option?
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Jul 28, 2019 23:00
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Motronic posted:Give your dad a 6-er for breaking tables.
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The #1 human hand still makes for a good way to find poorly insulated HT leads on a running engine. Oops.
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