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Elviscat posted:Bagged wine is the perfect beverage for floating down a river, since you can tie it to your tube and keep it cool. Whoah. Mind. Blown.
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That's pretty clever! I've never seen that before, but some luxury American cars back in the '70s had "cornering lights", which were white lights that illuminated to the side when the indicators were on, so you could see what you were turning into. Also a useful feature! Of course, Tucker just used a center headlight that swiveled with the steering, and some new cars can do that with lighting arrays, I think? edit: I'm also a huge fan of adding optional/higher trim features on my cars, which is especially viable with older cars. See my base model Jeep Cherokee that ended up with added power windows, power door locks, power mirrors, center console, overhead console, cruise control, full factory gauges, and digital clock, a lot of which had at least partial wiring already in the truck. Never got around to adding the heated rear glass, but that was on the docket. It helped that Jeeps were basically LEGO, and they made essentially the same truck for a decade, and it shared a lot of parts with other Jeeps (and later, Dodges.) Darchangel fucked around with this message at 16:16 on Jan 12, 2024 |
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Ask me about the amp pop I get on shutdown in the Crown Vic that I’ve decided to ignore. Also, I apparently managed to disconnect the antenna on the Outback last time I was in there rewiring the amps. I *hate* pulling the radio on the Outback…
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Gonna be lazy and just quote myself from the Awesome thread:Darchangel posted:Found some new Hot Wheels (and a LEGO).
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BuckyDoneGun posted:Nissan put cornering lights on a bunch of cars in the 80's and 90's. Ah, I remember now my high school friend’s ‘84 Maxima had cornering lights! CommieGIR posted:Nice, I've got a few Matchbox and cars as well because my spouse keeps buying them for me: Don’t make me post pictures of “The Collection”. Not Wolverine posted:How does the quality of Adventure Force compare to Hot wheels or matchbox cars? Similarly, do you collect matchbox cars too? I didn't see any in your haul. They look pretty good, with nice detail in the casting. Haven’t actually popped one out of the package yet. I don’t collect Matchbox per se, but I pick up ones that grab my fancy. HW and Matchbox are both Mattel now. Matchbox just mainly focuses on “everyday” and stock vehicles.
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Not Wolverine posted:Does installing Arch count? I used to build models - cars and sci-fi/robot. Still have all of them, and a bunch of unbuilt kits that I realistically may never get around to, if I'm honest. It's hard for me to stick to one hobby, and the internet has basically ruined me. Matchbox does specialize in realistic cars, but Hot Wheels does some, too. They tend to be performance cars, of course. Opening features can be had in Matchbox, but I noted that they've broken those out into a separate, more expensive line when I was at Target. CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:If you want a file server that isnt Windows then TrueNAS really is about the best roll your own. Samba has it's problems but TrueNAS has a neat interface that will overcome them. Neat, another option for NAS. I see that it can do apps (and VMs!) Do you know what apps it supports natively? Basically, I'm looking for Bittorrent and Plex, so I can retire the massive MacPro currently running one, and the MacBook Pro acting as a file server. I know FreeNAS can do both of those, so I'd expect TrueNAS can, or at least the "core" variant of it. NitroSpazzz posted:Well finally got new tires on the 4Runner after having to reschedule the appointment several time. Get there (Discount Tire) and find out they had been sent four tires in three sizes... So they upgraded from Falken Wildpeak A/T3W to BFG KO2 which seems good enough and they fit the "look tough" wife requirement. Turns out we got them just in time for a nice winter storm warning, 3-6 inches is a lot for this area and largely shuts down everything. We'll get to put them to the test Tuesday morning driving Wife into work. You DID mount them white letters out, correct? e: f, b: Boaz MacPhereson posted:But now the important question: white letters? NitroSpazzz posted:
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Kazinsal posted:Meanwhile at home I wish that we had a standard way of easily identifying which outlets go to which breakers. I've been in this apartment for three years now and still haven't figured out how to properly spread out my electrical load across the five different 15A unlabeled breakers on the panel. Not a standard way, per se, but plug a radio into an outlet, with it playing volume up, and turn off breakers until it stops playing, then label. I should do that at some point, myself.
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kastein posted:Toggle switch across hot and neutral in a box on a line cord Well, you find out whether or not your breakers work, I guess.
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Humphreys posted:In our country, we leave electrical work up to Electricians. You act like "Electricians" don't make these same drat mistakes, and then charge you for the privilege. Who the gently caress do you think wired the homes above with 75 outlets on one breaker?
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OBAMNA PHONE posted:literally everyone makes mistakes but hiring professionals is a good thing for a lot of tasks. professionals are experienced and trained workers who deserve the substantial wages they command. ...you've never used an electrician in America, have you? Literally the only time I would use an electrician is if code requires it, or it's just too much work, just so I don't have to deal with the bullshit of finding a competent "professional." Finally found a decent plumber - keeping them. Costs to much, but some of this poo poo I just can't do any more. Getting old sucks. Salami Surgeon posted:In America, insurance is a tax you pay to a corporation. If you ever try to go after it, you pay more tax until you make the corporation whole.
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OBAMNA PHONE posted:yes, i have and they did a great job! passed code inspection and reasonable priced work too huh. Well lucky you!
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CommieGIR posted:Our Neighborhood is a mix of old development (1960s-1975) and new development (1985-1995) and there's HOA in the new neighborhood but not the old portions, which is fun when someone from the HOA came to bother me about my project cars in the back yard, and I had to point out that I'm not in their HOA. "also, why the gently caress are you looking into my backyard, pervert?"
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His Divine Shadow posted:By the way is it just me who keeps finding tools in my cars? On the Saab I found a big socket stuck to a nut near the radiator last summer and now I've dug out a pair of tongs from under the drivers sides lights. There's a compartment there where you can drop your tools if you are unlucky. I dropped a wrench there but managed to fish it out. Nah, happens all the time. Sometimes my own tools ("there's where I put that!"), sometime previous owner, and sometimes some random guy who left it in the car in the wrecking yard. Turns out, I'm the guy who *finds* the 10mm sockets... Seriously - I have 3 1/4" drive 10mm short sockets now, not including the one in the "travel" tool bag. I had 4, but the Snap-On one I found turned out to have been thrown out because it was cracked open. Yes, I probably could have taken it to a Snap-On truck, but then I'd have to find and deal with a Snap-On truck.
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I'll probably try this in the Flannel Chat thread as well, but just in case, since I know a bunch of you are Subaru perverts: The power steering pump on our '03 Outback positively howls when it's cold - ambient temps below 40F or so - until it warms up substantially. It just started doing that this past year. Fluid is up to levels as far as I can tell, and it's driven almost every day. Steering assist feels normal, just noisy. Suggestions? Time to replace the PS pump? Flush and fill?
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Safety Dance posted:In the past few days, Amazon Logistics have left one of their big totes and a pretty nice hand truck in my front yard. Ethically how concerned do I have to be about returning the hand truck vs enjoying my windfall? Stealing from wage thieves is never wrong. That cart is about $100 at Costco (heh, Cosco at Costco.) They will literally not even notice. randomidiot posted:Oh. What the gently caress? Ether Frenzy posted:Is it a public defender? Good question. Scummy either way, but more so if government employee. meatpimp posted:You almost loving called it. The selling realtor said the back 3 acres were developable. But when we checked with the county and township, getting access to a separate property behind the first house would require at least 3 different variances from the township/county. Not gonna go down that rabbit hole, canceled the contract and still looking. I'll never understand bureaucratic bullshit like that. What am I supposed to do, use a helicopter?
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PitViper posted:This was yesterday, but I didn't see you ask in the Subaru thread. Yeah it's probably a worn oring on the suction line letting it get air in. The one on my '05 Legacy sounds awful when it gets to 15-20° out until it warms up a little. Try replacing the oring on the plastic inlet fitting, and/or the suction hose to the reservoir. So this fitting on the top that "suction hose (1)" goes to?  Interesting. I'll have to take a look at that. It definitely sounds awful. Thanks! quote:My pump also leaks out of the shaft seal a bit. You can get an overhaul gasket kit on eBay, or just replace the pump. But be warned, I went through 3 brand new pumps from Rockauto that wouldn't build pressure before they just refunded my money rather than exchange for another pump. I'm going to try hunting down a used OE pump and rebuilding that when I have time. I hate this. How in the gently caress does stuff like that get through QA? I especially love how the manual states that the PS pump for the 3.0 is not rebuildable (2.5L is.) WTF?
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SpeedFreek posted:Locktite 592. There's also a grey thread tape I use for SS fittings that prevents galling. Trouble is, as Elviscat notes, it's a piece of company equipment with approved parts and supplies, and the powers what is won't approve anything else to use on it.
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PitViper posted:Yeah, that's the one. The plastic fitting should have an oring that is replaceable where it mates with the pump. Thanks, I'll check that - easy enough, and I have a metric o-ring kit. There's directions for disassembly and assembly for the 2.5L PS pump in the service manual, but it specifically says that the 3.0 pump is not to be disassembled, for whatever reason. randomidiot posted:He's sucked $8k out of me so far (original estimate was 3k), but I've been told in absolutely no uncertain terms to not discuss anything regarding my personal life ever again on SA. All I know is I'm going to jail for anywhere from 3 days to 5 years with no access to insulin, all because I got loving run over by a loving car (early Mercedes ML with paper tags). Been homeless for drat near 6 months, just didn't mention it until the other day. I guess that's E/N and FORBIDDEN. Well, poo poo. I don't know what to say.
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WTFBEES posted:I had one of those days in the garage where I took a reciprocating saw to a screw. The first four much more reasonable approaches didn't work, but that sure did. I don’t have it handy, but inset the meme about escalating fastener removal ending with “ can’t be right if it’s liquid” here. I put Covercraft seat covers in the Outback to fix the deteriorating factory leather - I’ll post about that in my personal thread later. Pretty good covers - about as well as can be expected for slip on covers versus actual upholstery. I also checked out the power steering o-ring as suggested, and it was definitely not rubber any more, so here’s hoping. Safety Dance posted:I swear to god when I move this summer I'm going to find a place with a taller garage. This is on my list for the “next house” as well, mostly so I can install and use a lift or two. I’m very tired of crawling under cars. A separate shop would be ideal. Life goals.
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Advent Horizon posted:The outdoor slab is also useful when the garage is taken by a vehicle that came in for a two hour job two months ago. I'd love to have room inside the garage for that to happen, actually. And my driveway has room for 4 cars, but has just enough of a slope to make heavy things on wheels want to kill you. Also has two non-op vehicles parked on it already. His Divine Shadow posted:I hate that style of door myself, because they steal so much room on the inside that would've been prime real-estate for high cabinets or shelves. Agree on the door - I'd really like a roll up "next house". Disagree wildly on the "work outside in summer." You CLEARLY don't live in Texas. I'll take sweltering heat OUT of the sun versus in it, any day. 110F in the shade beats "feels like" 120 out in the sun. Elviscat posted:gently caress I wish I had an actual garage. You (re) built an entire house. A garage should be easy! kastein posted:My nailgun is ready, how many walls are we allowed to replace on your garage before it's not the same garage anymore? Can we "repair" it by building a new one outside it and then tearing the old one down inside the new one? There you go! Elviscat posted:E: I'm also working 5x12s + 1x8 for the foreseeable future, so I dunno how I'm going to keep the lawn mowed much less built anything. Oof. Yeah, that'll put a crimp in "getting poo poo done." Elviscat posted:Yeah, having issues with substance abuse will, in fact, destroy your entire life, and the worse it gets the more cognitive dissonance your brain applies to protect itself, and allow it to continue to receive what it needs. Which is why I'm not adding to the discussion, except here. Especially since I have him on Messenger. I'm also, incredibly allergic to drama, forums or otherwise.
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His Divine Shadow posted:Yeah it's never risen above 95F where I live and it might never even reach that on a given year, you can count the days above 85F on your fingers. People are starting to feel like they're at risk of dying here when it rises above 77F. LOL. I acknowledge, however, that your winter would probably kill me.
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kastein posted:I don't do rotaries. I'm happy for people who enjoy them but not for me. Aw, c'mon! There's something magical about being powered by wobbling Doritos.
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bolind posted:So I clicked on something, no idea what, and suddenly I was on the last page of AI and found the following thread from nearly a decade ago which provided some entertainment: Who drives the rarest car in AI?. My '70 Cutlass is one of about 1300 Sport (post) Coupes (as opposed to Holiday Coupes, which were the hardtop) made that year, for whatever that's worth. No idea how that translates to desirability though. Any musclecar brings decent prices nowadays, if I wanted to sell it.
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Finally ordered a jet kit for the Weber 32/36 DGEV on the AE86, since I was already ordering a phenolic spacer to hopefully help with the dieseling presumably cause by it being directly coupled to the exhaust manifold (non-crossflow engine, and the factory manifolds are literally joined, for quick warm up/atomization?) I have no idea what I'm doing, but it's so damned rich it gets worse gas mileage than my V8 living room on wheels (Crown Vic.) I guess I get to learn to read plugs, or buy a wideband O2?
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RIP Paul Walker posted:I've been reading your posts for years now, how goes the selling of that thing? You'll note that I still own it. I think that says everything that needs to be said. Advent Horizon posted:At least in the Land Cruiser world, which has a similar manifold setup, the Webers are known for running rich AF. The 32/36 is (was) fairly common even though it doesn’t quite flow enough wide open but it was still either rich or ran poorly. That's a thought. It's a 1.6L, so surely the carb for a I didn't put this accursed thing on there - the car came with it, and the original carb is partially disassembled, so I have no idea if it's even all there. edit again: looks like about $100 for the Chinese Aisins, which is great when I just paid $60 for a jet kit for the Weber. Also, as I understand it, the Redline Webers we get here (which this is - there's no part number where there should be one, for instance) are kind of crap, according to what I've read. I kind of get the feeling no one bothers to make good carbs any more. Powershift posted:When i had the BMW i had low profile tires and lost 3 tires and bent 1 rim all within like 6 months. The 245/45-18s on the Crown Vic are about as little sidewall as I want to run. The Outback, of course, has ALL the sidewall. Darchangel fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Feb 7, 2024 |
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Darchangel posted:That's a thought. It's a 1.6L, so surely the carb for a I have found knockoffs of the correct Aisin carb for the 4AC, also about $100, so if I can't get the DGEV jetted correctly, I may punt to that. Or ignore it.
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Advent Horizon posted:I’ve heard good things about those knock-off carburetors, with one caveat - you should immediately take it apart to make sure no metal shavings are left inside. Mechanical. It's pretty obvious driving the thing. That's how I know it's way to rich on the secondary, for example. Press the pedal past a certain point and it accelerates more slowly... DJ Commie posted:There's whole books on tuning since you have idle/main/emulsion/Venturi options and they are all interdependent. You'll definitely need a wideband O2 setup and not run any secondary air injection systems when tuning. Someone makes a $$$ drop-in TBI unit in the same dimensions as a DGEV in case you tire of it. That up there is why I hate carburetors. Option 1: take apart and mess up gaskets, replace various parts, test, repeat ad infinitum, smell like gasoline forever. Still doesn't run right if the weather changes. Option 2: twiddle a knob or adjust a parameter with a laptop, mostly adjusts itself. If I were keeping the car, option 2 would be worth the extra initial cost and effort. The '79 RX-7 is getting EFI, the '70 Cutlass will get EFI. I will happily spend $1200 for a Holley Sniper or whatever so it just works. The RX-7 will be initially factory Mazda GSL-SE EFI to get it operational (since I have it) and then I'll switch to a MegaSquirt controlling the factory hardware. Probably go Holley or MSD or something on the Cutlass, but maybe another MegaSquirt. That said, I think I already grabbed a PDF of a tuning manual. If not, I will. Summit has the AEM wideband gauge/controller kit for $180, and I live near the Texas distribution center. I've been meaning to pick up a wideband for years. In theory, I shouldn't need to be messing with the emulsion tubes or venturis, just the jets, per what I've read so far. It runs OK, it could just run better and a lot more efficiently. It's not wildly rich - I haven't noticed any black smoke - but is stinky and terrible on mileage, even accounting for the incorrect spedo/odo (4.10 rear gears, but speedo is geared for 3.90.) Also, today I learned a Holley 5200 is a licensed copy of the DGV, so there are Holley book on tuning the things. And also, this carb or one one of its variants was used stock or commonly aftermarket on just about every 4-cylinder in existence, so every vintage 4-banger (Datsun, Toyota, Opel...) forum has articles. Handy, I guess. Darchangel fucked around with this message at 18:27 on Feb 8, 2024 |
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