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fist4jesus posted:I'd so try and figure a way to salvage one in secret. I had the other thought. Cruise around in a boat with a big rear end gun on the front and sink them as a courtesy.
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Ola posted:At first it might seem weird that the diesel guy types the titles and descriptions in all caps, but not when you realize he speaks in all caps as well. This sums up this guy exactly, and now I'm going to be stuck watching his videos all afternoon because of his hilariously entertaining enunciation.
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Slow is Fast posted:This sums up this guy exactly, and now I'm going to be stuck watching his videos all afternoon because of his hilariously entertaining enunciation.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAqPCTRS2cE Suprise visit by Mrs Garrison in the last 3 seconds.
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:IT WAS FRIDAY AFTERNOON, BEER WAS CALLING " HEY I'M IN THE FRIDGE COME DRINK ME" Fixed that for ya
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:it was friday afternoon, beer was calling "hey i'm in the fridge come drink me" drat, we need some more pictures in this thread:  Click here for the full 1600x1200 image. 
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Cakefool posted:Even a 20" half full of water would weigh like 18 tonnes? you'd need a pretty big boat to contemplate it, unless you just wanted to tow it back to port & borrow a crane there. Then you open it & find 25 Chinese bodies, not the 1908 Jag you were hoping for. Tow it to shallow water, or tidal sandbar perhaps. Might get lucky and have a container full of something packed in that loving clamshell plastic for example, scubalooting!
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InitialDave posted:Other than airgunning wheelnuts on, I'm enjoying the videos he's got up on there. If I'd been there to see that I'd probably still be laughing. I can just see the driver pitching forward out of the back end of that as the motor parts ways with its wheels.
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fist4jesus posted:Tow it to shallow water, or tidal sandbar perhaps. It would be like an upside down pinata!
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InitialDave posted:Other than airgunning wheelnuts on, I'm enjoying the videos he's got up on there. Holy poo poo that poor tractor 
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Cakefool posted:Even a 20" half full of water would weigh like 18 tonnes? you'd need a pretty big boat to contemplate it, unless you just wanted to tow it back to port & borrow a crane there. Then you open it & find 25 Chinese bodies, not the 1908 Jag you were hoping for. It seems like there's some obvious solution that involves an air pump and the industrial equivalent of an inflatable raft but I can't put my finger on it. orange lime posted:Why is he trying to push it back out? loving DHS. 
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Splizwarf posted:It seems like there's some obvious solution that involves an air pump and the industrial equivalent of an inflatable raft but I can't put my finger on it. I think the solution is "tow to shallow water, slide ramp underneath, slowly winch out at an angle with water pouring out". Maybe add a "punch hole in lower end" to speed it up. If you're only ever lifting a few inches of water at a time, I'm sure you could do it with a Jeep or something.
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orange lime posted:I think the solution is "tow to shallow water, slide ramp underneath, slowly winch out at an angle with water pouring out". Maybe add a "punch hole in lower end" to speed it up. If you're only ever lifting a few inches of water at a time, I'm sure you could do it with a Jeep or something. Alternatively you could tow it to shallow water, drill one hole in a corner near the bottom, and one on the top. Attach air compressor, pump water out, tow to land with a jeep.
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Blocko posted:Alternatively you could tow it to shallow water, drill one hole in a corner near the bottom, and one on the top. Attach air compressor, pump water out, tow to land with a jeep. I thought about this, but I dunno if crates are airtight enough. I'd bet that all the air would rather just leak out cracks near the doors or something. You might be able to use something like this:  (sorry about the Chinese watermark) Zodiac pontoons. Take two of those bad boys (deflated), sink one under the container on each end, lash them to it, and blow them up. Presumably the water would drain out however it got in.
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orange lime posted:I thought about this, but I dunno if crates are airtight enough. I'd bet that all the air would rather just leak out cracks near the doors or something. This is what I was thinking of! And use a big version of the blow-up wedge that the pros use to crank open your door when you locked your keys in the car to force the doors to bend open and let the water out faster without just opening the whole side of the crate. Drilling is a lot of  Also, gently caress waiting to see what's in there until it's drained. Boroscope and a good light in through the wedged part before we even start putting real work into it.
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blugu64 posted:'Let me tell you something about that' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbddKFgMVew Awesome up until he tries to convince me that this lift kit is great. That lift would get torn up if it ever left the mall parking lot. Lots of very important bit hanging down way too low. I'm more of a coil guy but given the choice I'd take the old leaf spring set up over that fancy '$20,000' abomination.
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orange lime posted:I think the solution is "tow to shallow water, slide ramp underneath, slowly winch out at an angle with water pouring out". Maybe add a "punch hole in lower end" to speed it up. If you're only ever lifting a few inches of water at a time, I'm sure you could do it with a Jeep or something. The correct answer is ping pong balls. Lots of ping pong balls.
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Kill-9 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbddKFgMVew This man needs to be satirized. He comes off like a complete twit who is willing to talk smart about his customers because they don't know better. Last time I checked people went to mechanics because they didn't want to have to do or know about the things this guy is bloviating over. It leaves me wondering how much game he really talks up front to get people in the door and to open their checkbooks.
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Kill-9 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbddKFgMVew I was kinda feeling the same way but also felt maybe I didn't know enough to really talk about it. I like my leaf springs though. Truck doesn't ride smooth but that's just part of the charm. There isn't much dangly bits to get hung up on and/or tear up. I've been stuck on my front diff before though. Not much to do about that except bigger tires or spend a fuckton of money on portal boxes.
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trouser chili posted:The correct answer is ping pong balls. Lots of ping pong balls. Coolest episode EVER.
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I don't think that the airbagged truck has the best suspension system I've ever seen (I'm not too keen on the design of some of those brackets, and the whole thing looks a little on the weedy side), but on the other hand the Powerstrokehelp video on fitting a suspension lift pretty much just involves big lift blocks. Now, he does have the nous to fit much beefier U-bolts, and cautions people about getting the diff nose angle tweaked to compensate for the angle the prop will be at, but I just really hate these things: Horses for courses. That air suspension truck definitely looks more for show than for off-road use, but a hell of a lot of people who lift leaf-sprung trucks do it "incorrectly" as well. I've churned through a fair chunk of that guy's videos now, and I'm only seeing the odd thing here and there which I actively disagree with. Besides, he's in Georgia, so I'd feel short changed if there wasn't a good bit of  going on.Anyway, carnage for the carnage thread:   
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InitialDave posted:Where we're going...we won't need roads!
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InitialDave posted:I don't think that the airbagged truck has the best suspension system I've ever seen (I'm not too keen on the design of some of those brackets, and the whole thing looks a little on the weedy side), but on the other hand the Powerstrokehelp video on fitting a suspension lift pretty much just involves big lift blocks. Now, he does have the nous to fit much beefier U-bolts, and cautions people about getting the diff nose angle tweaked to compensate for the angle the prop will be at, but I just really hate these things: I like how on the air bag one, when he activated it, it didn't gain any ground clearance. There was so much bar work and poo poo sticking out from all kinds of angles that I'm pretty sure all that equipment LOWERED the ground clearance! Damnit, people, ride height != ground clearance.
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Ak Gara posted:Damnit, people, ride height != ground clearance. Mallcruiser thread ahoy.    
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Sockington posted:Even the diff fluid is screaming to get out of that thing.
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Sockington posted:Mallcruiser thread ahoy. I don't understand how that poo poo is legal. In Missouri (home of Bigfoot y'all!) bumper height cannot exceed 22 inches or some poo poo. The bumpers on that fucker are at my head. The upper one.
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Sockington posted:Mallcruiser thread ahoy.
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Yearly failure of the overhead drench system, yay for water on hundreds of thousands of tools, and aircraft parts gently caress how do I resize an uploaded image I suck at this.. and picked the wrong one.
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Sockington posted:Mallcruiser thread ahoy. I see dozens of these goddamn things all over Phoenix and they piss the hell out of me. Maybe 30% of them have more actual ground clearance than an unloaded Ranger, and I've never seen one that got its clearance by a method other than SUPER SWAMPERS or whatever. You need a ladder to climb into the cab, but you could hit a basketball with the differentials. What the gently caress.
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orange lime posted:I see dozens of these goddamn things all over Phoenix and they piss the hell out of me. Maybe 30% of them have more actual ground clearance than an unloaded Ranger, and I've never seen one that got its clearance by a method other than SUPER SWAMPERS or whatever. You need a ladder to climb into the cab, but you could hit a basketball with the differentials. What the gently caress. Well, the only way to get the diffs up is more tire and/or portal boxes/portal axles. The bigger problem is retarded drop crossmembers and ridiculous lifting blocks and scary steering, z-bars and other dumb poo poo whipped up in some retard's garage who think's he's a fabricator because he's got 220v in the shop and a Lincoln welder. trouser chili fucked around with this message at 00:02 on Feb 10, 2010 |
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I invariably get passed by those guys on the freeway, doing 80+, as well. They scare the poo poo out of me because my car is designed to absorb shock damage to the bumpers or doors, not to the loving roof. They're more dangerous to hit than a drat tractor-trailer truck. And those guys are speeding around as if they're in a loving sports car, like they have no clue (I guess they don't) that a super-lifted truck on gigantic chunky tires is not exactly a great performer on the freeway. Anyway I bet the shipping container salvage idea wouldn't work because 90% of them are full of cheap sneakers and pairs of cargo pants from Malaysia. I heard a used 40-foot can be had for about $8000, so over its life (10+ years? 20? of constant use) the cargo doesn't have to be all that profitable valuable to pay for the thing. For every container full of still-sealed valuable stuff, there'd be a thousand that were full of saltwater-ruined electronics, spoiled food, or styrofoam cups.
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trouser chili posted:I don't understand how that poo poo is legal. In Missouri (home of Bigfoot y'all!) bumper height cannot exceed 22 inches or some poo poo. The bumpers on that fucker are at my head. The upper one. ...and you just know that an inspections station is far more likely to bust your balls for having a lowered vehicle. 
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Both extremes of truck modification are equally stupid: And yet with Subarus, it doesn't offend me: 
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deviant. posted:...and you just know that an inspections station is far more likely to bust your balls for having a lowered vehicle. Or you got something like Arizona where if it's got 4 wheels and a seat its street legal. I just got back from the Parker 425 race and...  There were loving Rhinos driving around with license plates, oh and things like sand rails being street legal as well  On the other hand, I heard one province in Canada got sick of jacked up rigs and lowered cars which has the MOT thinking of just automatically rejecting anything not with OEM suspension as not street legal. I think it's New Burnswick. The truck modifications that piss me off is ones that are jacked up so high on lift that they have to lose 4 wheel drive because the front shaft is too steep of an angle to link to the front diff  I drove a borrowed lifted H1 on the way back from Arizona last weekend. It had 2" body and 2" coil spring spacer with 42" tires. It looked neat, but.. the steering is mushy, anything with big rear end tires and suspension lifts are going to go through steering parts like crazy. The guy who owned the monster H1 goes through a set of idler and pitman arms every year. I'll go through my Parker pictures and see if I can find any carnage, I was sitting in the pits and had a buggy and a few trucks scoot by with missing roofs, and no fiber glass left on the body. Hell our race truck cracked an a-arm.
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BigKOfJustice posted:On the other hand, I heard one province in Canada got sick of jacked up rigs and lowered cars which has the MOT thinking of just automatically rejecting anything not with OEM suspension as not street legal. I think it's New Burnswick. Let's ban lifts and lowering, still charge for an MVI, and on top of that, make the inspection criteria so vague that you can actually pass your inspection, get a fresh sticker, and pull out of the parking lot and be ticketed for an infraction like say, a blown tail light. Conservatives!Those guys are out though, New Democrats haven't really said anything about it since taking office.
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BigKOfJustice posted:Or you got something like Arizona where if it's got 4 wheels and a seat its street legal. Of course, if you live in Phoenix like 2/3 of the population does, you have to obey CARB emissions requirements. 4 wheels, a seat, and three catalytic converters and a vapor reclamation system  VVV They started out down here. orange lime fucked around with this message at 05:58 on Feb 10, 2010 |
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BigKOfJustice posted:Or you got something like Arizona where if it's got 4 wheels and a seat its street legal. I don't think I have seen a Uhaul that didn't have Arizona plates.
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Leperflesh posted:I heard a used 40-foot can be had for about $8000
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Fire Storm posted:Actually, they are cheaper than that new (I saw prices around $3200 new). You can get a used 20-foot on eBay for about $800, and 40s for $1200 (I bet you can get them even cheaper than this). They things are cheap as hell. Holy crap. They're cheaper than a storage shed. Now to convince my wife ...
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They're pretty cheap, and if you shop some you can usually find one that hasn't been terribly abused. It might even be somewhat square still. Delivery can be something of a nuisance though, so a shipping quote should be factored into the price. They do tend to collapse if buried, and they rust like nobody's business if they are allowed to stay damp. I thought I saw someone in AI that had built one into a pretty decent looking shop, but I can't remember who or when.
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