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CharlesM posted:Nice job! Those are hard to find. Especially with a stick. If I were you, I'd buy it. A U-Store-It type rental unit from now until October will run you what, $200 or $250 max? Would you buy that car for $350? If not, then tell me it's near Washington DC. 
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You guys are thinking too hard. Coating of bugs and poo poo / a ton of bent fins on the front of the condenser?
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| # ¿ Jun 27, 2010 10:23 |
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If you can break even on the Tracer, chalk the labor up to a learning experience; it doesn't sound like it was wasted time. I think everyone has to buy an "up North" car before they get it. Everything on the underside of the Volvo I got over Christmas is turning out to be a total rusted/corroded/stuck bastard and I just want to admit I was wrong and sell it to someone more optimistic before I have to deal with anything big. For example, the metal portion of the power steering lines at the rack looks like a pair of little rotten sausages. But it had a great body, engine and interior; the rust is all on lines and bolts around the undercarriage rather than anywhere structural, but when we tried to replace the O-rings on the AC lines the nuts were completely siezed and we sheared the lines instead (with a huge facefull of high pressure gently caress You too, there must have been a blockage because we thought we'd evacuated it). Hopefully the spell that let me ignore what I could clearly see will capture the next buyer too.  I've been enjoying this thread more than the rest of AI for the last several weeks, and not because I enjoy reading about other people's misery. Your industriousness is inspiring me to get out and work on my own poo poo.
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| # ¿ Jul 19, 2010 19:31 |
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PBCrunch posted:The rear diff cover gasket has developed a leak so I jacked up the back end of the Jeep and drained the gear oil out of the rear differential. Gear oil stinks. I hope to hell you sealed the oil container or you'll be saying that for the next couple years. If it gets on your clothes, throw them away. The shoulder of my sweatshirt still makes me gag when it gets rained on, 3 years later. I'm betting you're going to have to drill through to the other side of the frame rail and put a socket on that nut, if you can find it. Alternatively, how did they get the nuts in place at the factory? Do that.
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| # ¿ Jul 25, 2010 08:47 |
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InitialDave posted:If you can get it right, it might be possible to drill a small (say 1/8") hole right where the edge of the captive nut is, and do a plug weld into the hole. That's the only think I can think of that wouldn't need getting access from the other side. This is a great idea. 
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| # ¿ Jul 25, 2010 18:27 |
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InitialDave posted:Only after a week or so. Burnt ATF smells that bad immediately. Also, death eventually stops smelling bad and just smells like loam or grass or the trunk of your car or whatever. Even a morgue will freshen up after a couple years with the windows open. I could still go to the gravel in the backyard of the house where we pulled my first diff apart and show you where we did it, using my nose. And then you will want to leave because of the smell. We've had a couple hurricanes and three years of rain and I still got a complaint about it a couple months ago. I'm not allowed in that (gated) development anymore.
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| # ¿ Jul 28, 2010 19:01 |
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PBCrunch posted:the more common lighter green color? This, tell prospective buyers you've owned it since new and can't figure out why this drat door has faded differently from the rest of the paint. 
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| # ¿ Aug 1, 2010 20:43 |
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PBCrunch posted:cleaning and detailing Can you talk more about the how and why (especially the whys) of this or recommend some reading? I need to sell a car or two soon. And would also just like to stop being such a lovely AIer about maintaining a nice appearance on my keeper cars. 
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| # ¿ Aug 3, 2010 16:20 |
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At the pay and spray, do you do anything special to protect the electrical poo poo, or? Worrying about this is why my engine bays all look like a pollen fight in an oil factory.
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| # ¿ Aug 19, 2010 15:30 |
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I actually was more worried about fuseboxes, connection blocks, and sensors. These aren't issues?
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| # ¿ Aug 19, 2010 19:07 |
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meatpimp posted:PBC -- use my WD40 trick to really make that engine compartment pop. Is this a... secret trick?
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| # ¿ Aug 19, 2010 19:43 |
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Taco Box posted:You'd find 65* to be loving chilly after living in FL (or TX) for 5 years. No lie. That's a hard upgrade path.
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| # ¿ Aug 24, 2010 15:59 |
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leica posted:T shirt, shorts and flip flops is all I want to wear, gently caress layering clothing I hate that poo poo. That is what I wear at 50*. Well, sandals. Flip flops are terrible. I'm from a place where it snows once in a while.
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| # ¿ Aug 25, 2010 03:56 |
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I am a little surprised that you left your license plate unblurred on Craigslist. Looks pretty great, otherwise. You continue to be both an inspiration and an irritation: I partly read this thread to abrade myself into getting poo poo done. e: On the clay bar note from the top of the page, I got the Mother's kit with the two bars, and they should be around the same size as the Griot's, combined; they're 4oz apiece. The cinnamon scent in the QD spray was a weird surprise. 
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Leaking seals at the tie rods or at the steering knuckle. Loose inner tie rods if they can't be replaced without replacing the rack. Excessively loose steering, grindy steering, poo poo in the power steering fluid. Most likely: 1.loose inner tie rod 2.leaking end seal 3.poo poo in fluid e: in other news, replaced my rack last night. It's on my mind. 
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PBCrunch posted:Then my wife got home and we went to the Upstream Brewery to have thin crust and hand crafted BEER to celebrate profits. Woo. I love it when a plan comes together. 
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| # ¿ Sep 30, 2010 18:28 |
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PBCrunch posted:used some vise grips to unthread the little stub of the bolt that remained in the control arm. This is always so satisfying.
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| # ¿ Oct 3, 2010 18:17 |
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PBCrunch posted:We had pulled the remote start brain out of a pile of remote start systems removed from various cars for various reasons. "Abby Someone." "Abby... Someone. Abby who?" "Abby Normal." "Abby... Normal?" "I'm almost sure that was the name."
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| # ¿ Oct 19, 2010 06:05 |
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Sudden Infant Def Syndrome posted:I believe I got Tapcon ones, like this: Niagara Falls! Slowly, I turned... Those are awesome for putting a huge hole in a tire, ask me how I know!
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| # ¿ Oct 22, 2010 15:23 |
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It's late, I'm tired, and all I can see when I tried to read this was "Table Saw Reacharound", which doesn't sound good at all. It looks rad though, thanks for posting that; I know I'll dig it in the morning. I got a lovely plastic folding table for a workbench at the moment.  Can't be too hard to cover that workbench in sheetmetal.
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| # ¿ Oct 26, 2010 05:41 |
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PBCrunch posted:I got a good look at my neighbor's work benches. They turned out pretty nice. They are very sturdy and the construction was very simple, unlike the bench in the article. I might try to adapt the part about the bench extension onto my own workbench. Got any photos? 
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| # ¿ Oct 26, 2010 16:37 |
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PBCrunch posted:I'm going to put in a shelf and then strap the vacuum onto the shelf so it doesn't move. Maybe this is what you already meant, but put a long hose on it that'll go anywhere in the garage and you'd be set.  Do the hose in 3 or 6 foot sections so you don't have to rage out at HOW THIS IRRITATING MOTHERFUCKING HOSE IS GETTING IN THE GODDAMNED WAY
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| # ¿ Oct 28, 2010 06:12 |
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IIRC the downside to the torch thing is that it doesn't always last more than a couple days. On Volvos it's good for a week or so. On the other hand, if you're sell-prepping... (although I got the impression the Jeep was a keeper)
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| # ¿ Nov 8, 2010 17:23 |
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Blaster of Justice posted:You are correct. The torch trick is kind of stupid. What works is this amazing product from Holts: Yeah, I should have mentioned that I've had real good luck with the Meguiar's version of that.
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| # ¿ Nov 9, 2010 06:26 |
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Came in here today to request dog pics, thread already delivered. Awesome.
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| # ¿ Dec 7, 2010 20:05 |
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iwentdoodie posted:Also, more/better dog pictures. How did the mechanics of it work? Uhuhuh well, when one dog loves another dog very much  PBCrunch, this thread helped me get my poo poo together and sell one of my cars, so a big "Thank you for the advice" there. Sold to the first guy to look at it for more than I really expected to get. Now I gotta move the other one; I'm worried that it'll have been a lot easier to sell a car with an asking price of $1000 than one for $2500.
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| # ¿ Dec 14, 2010 14:02 |
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PBCrunch posted:It does seem to take longer to transfer $2K tin (alliteration!) than it does to move thousand dollar metal. Haha, the car I sold was a Ford Escort.  Also, HOLY poo poo THAT DOG D'AWWWW. I grew up with a Basset.
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| # ¿ Dec 14, 2010 21:10 |
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Frozen water ruining the pump is definately possible, no power or corroded terminals is more likely. Take the pump off and give it 12v on the bench and see if it'll run. It's a pretty cheap junkyard part, for what that's worth; maybe $20 at a pick-and-pull.
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| # ¿ Jan 5, 2011 17:04 |
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I will always be a little scared of automagics but a man trans isn't that hard to disassemble for a guy with your skills, and diagnosis for a problem like this will probably be a snap with the guts out. Since the stick moves and presumably feels like it's moving something, my money's on the fourth gear synchro being broken off the shift fork, probably by your brother's interesting driving techniques. From what you've said before he sounds like the type.
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| # ¿ Jan 15, 2011 05:36 |
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Any time I am really worried about the procedure for a driveway repair and I have the time I go to the junkyard and "practice" on a couple of the same car. Especially with interior trim, it's easier to figure out where the hidden tabs and poo poo are with a crowbar.
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| # ¿ Jan 17, 2011 17:00 |
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PBCrunch posted:I hate you you piece of poo poo (ye olde blowed up transmission). Take that son of a bitch apart. Whatever's hosed in it should be pretty obvious, and it'll be satisfying. I suspect everyone who reads this thread wants to see the guts; I sure do. Plus you don't have to get it back together so you can have a good time cracking it open.
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| # ¿ Jan 21, 2011 20:05 |
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They can't be specific about the condition of a core, it's a core; they'd still have to give you your $15 if it'd blown gears so bad they made speed holes in the case, or sheared the whole thing in half or something. Maybe you need a new transmission because you dropped a lit oxyacetylene torch under your car. It's not like you bought a transmission from them because the old one works great, after all.  I guess you should just pull the bolts out with a wrench instead of a hammer, though. Document it in photos either way.
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| # ¿ Jan 22, 2011 00:15 |
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PBCrunch posted:I take the shotgun approach to vehicle reliability. If you have enough cars there will always be at least one (or two) that can get you to work and back.  I feel like every household should own a minimum of one more car than there are drivers, and one of those should be 4WD or a good AWD if you'll ever see snow. This doesn't include the cars that are deliberately bought as projects/flips.
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| # ¿ Jan 26, 2011 16:28 |
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Cig smell is gonna be rough if he burned holes in the interior with 'em.
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| # ¿ Jan 27, 2011 17:32 |
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What's your current list of "I think that'll flip" and why?
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| # ¿ Feb 16, 2011 12:06 |
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That is pretty loving funny right there. What a son of a bitch.
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| # ¿ Feb 16, 2011 14:21 |
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So basically you're keeping an eye out for anything you know, and you don't need to worry about whether anyone's going to want it? Let me flip it around, is there anything you know is a stupid buy because it won't sell, no matter how easily you can handle the repairs? I posted this in the Stupid Questions thread but I think you'll have a good answer: how much is too much for a "Cash only" car listing? I'm comfortable with saying it for $1000, but it seems weird to say it for $2,500. What are the ways to get hosed by non-cash private payment methods (checks, money orders, etc.)?
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| # ¿ Feb 16, 2011 15:54 |
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What are the costs to each party on a cashier's check?
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| # ¿ Feb 16, 2011 16:20 |
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PBCrunch posted:It is like $5 to buy a cashier's check. I would NOT accept a cashier's check. They can be forged. This is what I meant; I was just wondering if the banks involved would want a percentage or something.
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PBCrunch posted:I wouldn't waste my time with a Taurus/Sable or a Tempo/Topaz. There is just no value in those cars. Welp. v v I didn't buy it intending to resell, though; I bought it because my wife's car died rather spectacularly and suddenly. Hers was our only car at the time, we both needed it for our jobs, and we were very hard up. A friend sold me this Sable on a "whatever you can handle per month until it's paid off" payment plan with no interest (his kids got a Wii out of the deal when they were still very hard to buy so everybody won! ), which was a great deal and who cares what the car was? But it's time to sell it because I have cars I like now.This is harsh. Evaluate me.  Gonna post it on craigslist tonight pending advice/revision. Price is $500 below what I paid 3 years ago, it's in better shape than when I bought it, and MY WIFE says the least we can take is $1500. Can't decide if I'm starting too high to get any bites. Splizwarf fucked around with this message at Feb 16, 2011 around 17:46 |
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