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InitialDave posted:If you really want to help, bring him jobs which are a complete bastard to do in the book time, only with all the cosmetic panels blocking access already cleared away and the fasteners all wire-brushed and hit with penetrating oil. I don't have any of those at the moment, the "pending" jobs I need to get done at some point are replacing the transmission (again), and I need to get a bunch of suspension parts swapped out with ones that don't have lovely bushings and balljoints.
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Remember. he LOVES heater cores and cooling system work.
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Jan 4, 2014 01:18
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Or just park it in the Sound for a few weeks and let nature take its course.
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MikeyTsi posted:I don't have any of those at the moment, the "pending" jobs I need to get done at some point are replacing the transmission (again), and I need to get a bunch of suspension parts swapped out with ones that don't have lovely bushings and balljoints. Find the Mitsu knuckle kits. $90/side with both lower arms and the knuckle. Buy two sets of the rear toe control arms. Install one set on the car. Pop the ball joints out of the other set and install in the upper control arms. ASA/CAPS says the P/N is the same between those ball joints. The rear arms are $22ish.
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Jan 4, 2014 02:03
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I think the nicest thing to do for any mechanic is for when they are doing a heater core, smoke like 500 cigars in the cabin first.
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Jan 4, 2014 04:21
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I do mechanics a favor and never bring them a heater core job. But if I did, they'd be happy because they don't have to drain my AC system, it's a patented jeep slow release self draining system 
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Jan 4, 2014 05:01
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Heater core jobs in Florida are easy, just bypass the loving thing 
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Jan 4, 2014 05:43
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meatpimp posted:This thread went to LP and came back entirely different. It seems to have stopped by E/N
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MikeyTsi posted:If it makes you guys feel any better, I bring my car to his shop to have him do cheap/easy poo poo so he hopefully gets to pad his time a bit. I didn't know if it'd be too goony to show up and say I'm from the internet or something idiotic like that. I don't want to be the next Buchephalus.  How are 4 wheel alignments?
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Jan 4, 2014 17:23
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Realistically I've got no problems with goons coming by the.shop for any reason. PM me if anyone wants to just stop in and say hi or let me check your dipstick 
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13 INCH DICK posted:Realistically I've got no problems with goons coming by the.shop for any reason. PM me if anyone wants to just stop in and say hi or let me check your dipstick I'll be there tomorrow!
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Jan 4, 2014 17:33
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Piece of cake  No but seriously, not that bad to do at all.
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Jan 5, 2014 02:29
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Nice new tensioner. Good job.
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13 INCH DICK posted:Piece of cake I've never understood what the fuss about subaru cambelts is, they're pretty simple. The hardest I've had to do was a late 00's legacy with single cam heads. For some reason the cambelt was so insanely tight that I had to assemble it with no tensioner at all and all the idler bearings almost completely loosened off. Even then it took blood sweat and tears to slip the belt on.
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Jan 5, 2014 02:57
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So the single cam engine you did was the same as the dual cam belt, got it.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:everything.nsioner. Good job. Whole kit with all new rollers and idlers and everything,
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Fart Pipe posted:So the single cam engine you did was the same as the dual cam belt, got it. I've done both, they are identical aside from the heads...? But every other one I've done slipped on just fine, for some reason that particular one felt like the belt was too short.
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Jan 5, 2014 03:24
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13 INCH DICK posted:Whole kit with all new rollers and idlers and everything, What made it need a whole kit? Just general old age or did something break and take everything with it?
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Jan 5, 2014 03:38
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We've had issues with doing just the belt/pump/tensioner and coming back with growling followers so now we just quote em for a top to bottom job. e: caught it with just the water pump leaking out the weep hole, belt and idlers looked good but there's really no reason not to do everything once you're in there.
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I really appreciate that someone who works in a chain repair shop actually does it right. The number of used Subarus I've seen with lovely idlers or old gummy hydraulic tensioners and a fresh nice timing belt is ridiculous. The water pump isn't as big of a deal (it's very rare for it to fail in my experience, anecdotally) but it is part of all the kits. I guess you got the exception! Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 04:33 on Jan 5, 2014 |
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Snowdens Secret posted:What made it need a whole kit? Just general old age or did something break and take everything with it? On every car I've owned, the timing belt, water pump, idlers(s), tensioner(s), cam seal(s), and crank seal were all done at the same time, regardless of if a shop or myself did them. The first time I had a timing belt done, the owner of the shop insisted on doing it that way when I questioned him about it and explained why he always did timing belts like that. Made sense to me, I sure as hell wouldn't want to go back in and replace a  part that otherwise take an hour+ to get to... when I could have changed it while everything was already apart.  Kind of like when you pull a transmission to replace a clutch and don't replace the throwout bearing...13 INCH DICK posted:water pump leaking out the weep hole, belt and idlers looked good Doesn't coolant soak into belts anyway? randomidiot fucked around with this message at 07:19 on Jan 5, 2014 |
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Jan 5, 2014 07:16
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Oil loves soaking into belts and ruining them (and any other natural rubber product), not so sure on coolant.
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Jan 5, 2014 07:43
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In my experience oil ruins belts and coolant just makes them more likely to slip a tooth or two if it's completely soaked. Depending on the amount of coolant pouring out it also makes a disgusting smell. Luckily on the Subaru the water pump is located low enough that a bit of water spurting out the weep hole is basically falling onto the exhaust header and not necessarily jumping onto the belt.
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Jan 5, 2014 07:51
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Brown trouser moment, for Seattle goons I was coming back from seatac picking a friend up whos flight was delayed till arriving at 2am and I was coming down Queen Anne hill and there was ice all down it and I just simply started sliding down it and managed to threshold brake enough to keep rotating my car by minute amounts to keep me poimted straight till I got to the bottom. Didn't see the ice until far too late to do anything about it because it lookdd exactly like the road, not ice ice but enough thick frost to do the job. It looked like the street was paved with diamonds. Jesus.
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Obligatory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5ft097tgr0
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13 INCH DICK posted:Brown trouser moment, for Seattle goons I was coming back from seatac picking a friend up whos flight was delayed till arriving at 2am and I was coming down Queen Anne hill and there was ice all down it and I just simply started sliding down it and managed to threshold brake enough to keep rotating my car by minute amounts to keep me poimted straight till I got to the bottom. Didn't see the ice until far too late to do anything about it because it lookdd exactly like the road, not ice ice but enough thick frost to do the job. It looked like the street was paved with diamonds. Yeah, 'black' ice will gently caress you over every chance it gets. I still don't have a good technique for dealing with it other than to either wear studs or treat it like a hydroplane event.
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IMO it's worse than hydroplaning, it doesn't slow you down anywhere near as fast, and studs only help so much. Black ice is just scary poo poo.
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Jan 6, 2014 21:33
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Broken odometer but 117 confirmed miles via google maps at 3.14 gallons 
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Jan 6, 2014 22:05
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Move the decimal a place or two and you have my vehicle. that has the original carb on it still, right?
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I want to see that Civic. If you can get it to Portland, you can take as many dabs of BHO as you can handle.
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th vwls hv scpd posted:Find the Mitsu knuckle kits. $90/side with both lower arms and the knuckle. Buy two sets of the rear toe control arms. Install one set on the car. Pop the ball joints out of the other set and install in the upper control arms. ASA/CAPS says the P/N is the same between those ball joints. The rear arms are $22ish. Actually, I'm looking to buy the metal parts from someone parting out a car, then I'll replace the balljoints and such with new and replace the bushings with polyurethane. Figured I could save some money that way while making it just a swap rather than having to deal with pulling parts off the car, running them through a loving press, and then reinstalling.
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Jan 9, 2014 01:30
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Pretty sure the lower ball joints aren't serviceable. I'd love to be proven wrong because it would be cheaper.
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I don't know who you are, and I don't know why you designed it this way. But what I do know is that I have a very particular set of skills. I will find you. And I will kill you.
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im pretty sure most people who design cars all live in a secluded bunker somewhere. I mean I have cursed many manufacturers out loud for the dumb things they do. Like the person who thought a Toyota water pump requires the engine to be removed.... and if you do find that person who designed that let me know...I have a rusty spoon and some rock salt....
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13 INCH DICK posted:I don't know who you are, and I don't know why you designed it this way. But what I do know is that I have a very particular set of skills. I will find you. And I will kill you.
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Jan 9, 2014 22:47
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I have made it my goal to avoid any of those design decisions being made on the vehicle I work on. Unfortunately you'll probably need an A&P cert to work on it in any significant way, and they're likely to be expensive/niche market enough that only me and James Woods will ever get to work on them 
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Jan 9, 2014 23:21
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Guess who put the front end back together only to find every single thing on the radiator was identical except the lower hose pipe was on the wrong side.
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Jan 9, 2014 23:42
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Just guess. Go ahead.
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James Woods.
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What's the longest universal flexi-hose you have on the shelf?
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