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MonkeyNutZ posted:Is it just me or do your valves have writing on them? The valves are marked either "INT" or "EXH", followed by "HERCULES" and the part number. 
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Bucephalus posted:The valves are marked either "INT" or "EXH", followed by "HERCULES" and the part number. I want an engine where each part is labelled like this. Every single part 
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Cakefool posted:I want an engine where each part is labelled like this. Build-by-number kits available soon!
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Cakefool posted:I want an engine where each part is labelled like this. Also, every part should have a bar code, and/or an RFID tag. contentz: My uncle likes to drop the clutch on things, I believe this is from his tractor.  (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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c355n4 posted:Is that an acorn?! I thought it was a tiny pumpkin
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Cushy posted:Also, every part should have a bar code, and/or an RFID tag.
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What starts with F and ends in UCK? Firetruck! quote:This South Euclid ladder truck was heading down Wrenford Road April 4 when it came to an unexpected, abrupt and uncontrolled stop. The U-bolts that hold the differential to the leaf springs snapped, causing the differential to roll out the back. Several tow trucks came to the scene. Those tow truck operators considered several options while trying to figure out how to hook up the truck and load the broken parts. It took about four hours to clear the road.
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Phangor posted:What starts with F and ends in UCK?
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Apr 8, 2011 23:33
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I'm sure whoever was driving it at the time shouted a word that also started with an F and ended with UCK.
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Apr 8, 2011 23:50
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Nothing to see here.
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Tactical Bonnet posted:There was a joke here about saying "what happened to my FIRETRUCK?" and why he would just yell only the word FIRETRUCK. "FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRRRREETRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!"
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See, my editing the stupid joke out is pointless if you're just going to put the stupid joke back in the thread. Your Khan joke is better than mine was anyway.
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Phangor posted:What starts with F and ends in UCK?  You just know that completely ruined everyone's day/week/maybe month at that particular fire station. I wonder how much damage that caused.
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Cakefool posted:I want an engine where each part is labelled like this. not if you know what hotspots are, unless you don't mind pulling out all of your ignition advance. 
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dietcokefiend posted:
Quite a bit of damage. It looks pretty bad, it will probably need a new driveshaft, u-bolts for the leaf springs, maybe leaf springs and possibly a transmission but probably not depending on what the driveshaft did when it slid out of the pumpkin. Also its going to need bodywork from where the rear of the truck was dragging on the ground. All of which is probably pretty expensive for a big truck like that. Atleast the pumpkin should still be good though, they just need to put it back on.
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Would a local fire department have insurance on its vehicles to cover damage like that, or would they be big enough to self-insure?
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Apr 9, 2011 19:31
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Insurance probably. These days with local budget issues most can barely afford additional staff.
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Wiglaf posted:not if you know what hotspots are, unless you don't mind pulling out all of your ignition advance. I know not of your spark ignition, It's compression ignition & direct injection all the way over here buddy.
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Cakefool posted:I know not of your spark ignition, It's compression ignition & direct injection all the way over here buddy. My mistake. Don't forget to dremel your name into the piston heads.
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I wonder how much of a Haynes manual I can engrave onto a crank?
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Cakefool posted:I know not of your spark ignition, It's compression ignition & direct injection all the way over here buddy. Spark plugs are for the easy crowd....
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Going back to the RR track discussion for a second, being a wussy, health-and-safety-minded European, I can't believe the kind of track US railroads think it's ok to put a hundred tons of locomotive onto: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g11qWro1LzQ (lunacy starts about a minute in) Aside from the risk of derailing, as these rails basically look like spaghetti, it seems the train here is at severe risk of just ploughing into the ballast and beaching itself.
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Man, try getting tax money out of Americans for road upkeep, let alone rail (Canadians are no better though)
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Doesn't rail upkeep just come from the RRs profits?
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^ Considering most rail in the US (everything outside of light commuter rail) is privately-owned, I'm absolutely shocked there's not a bottomless government subsidy for the rail industry for track maintenance and upkeep.
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Geoj posted:^ Freight rail is the poster child for deregulation and probably the only instance where it unambiguously worked well
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My work truck just decided it didn't need all those fiddly gears in the diff anymore... thumb is for scale  it left behind a pretty good bit of metal We'll have it apart soon, I imagine the pinion should be in interesting condition too.
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 pending horrible mechanical failure. x-post to "what on ur car"
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This was more of my doing. Surprised nothing failed harder.
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Transmission explosion this past Saturday at Lemons (Millville, NJ). It's my brother's car, these are his pictures and his synopsis below.    "Best I can figure... there was a slight crack somewhere that started leaking fluid, probably ran it dry, something seized (although it shifted perfectly and made no noise right up until the decisive moment) and jammed a reciprocating part which effectively transferred all of that rotational energy into splitting the crack wide open and ka-bam. Two laps before, I had a bit of smoke coming into the cockpit around the shifter boot, brought it in, initially we thought it was trans fluid leaking on the exhaust but then popped the hood and saw the dipstick popped up a few inches and a bunch of engine oil had leaked out at high rpm and figured it streamed back under the trans.. Topped the oil (was down maybe 3/4 qt. from that), wired the dipstick down just in case, took it back out with the expectation that the oil that had already leaked would smoke for a few laps. It did... and then after it exploded, I got it pulled off, made sure my leg was still attached, saw transmission parts under my clutch foot and the hole where the gearbox used to be, and made the astute deduction that it must in fact have been trans fluid after all. Not a drop on the track where it detonated, indicating that it had ALL leaked out. Surprised it still worked so well even up to the last 4-5 shift a couple of seconds before the end."
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Jesus loving Christ!  Your brother is lucky he didn't get injured.
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Holy poo poo when you said exploded you weren't joking! 
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Catastrophic flywheel and transmission failures are great ways to emulate the end result of WWII tail and ball-gunners who had the displeasure of directly experiencing flack shrapnel.
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The King of Swag posted:Catastrophic flywheel and transmission failures are great ways to emulate the end result of WWII tail and ball-gunners who had the displeasure of directly experiencing flack shrapnel. That looks too far back to be a clutch/flywheel and he definitely wouldn't have feet if it were. It looks like the actual gearset in the gearbox decided to go kaboom from the splinedshafts.
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It was the gearset, not the flywheel. He's OK barring some "grapefruit sized" knots on his right leg. Anyone have a line on a Fiat 131 transmission or an idea for an engine/tranny swap? It's a 1976 Fiat Mirafiori.
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Itchy_Grundle posted:It's a 1976 Fiat Mirafiori. The same one that's in the LeMons wiki article?
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If its the Fiat twin-cam engine, a Spider trans will work.
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Goddamn. Note to self, if I ever build a Lemons car, put in a scatter shield.
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Revolvyerom posted:I sat here for a little bit, trying to figure out what previous post had mentioned an unfortunate situation that had prompted you to parody one. Not a parody of anything.  [timg]http://i56.tinypic.com/1f7mu0.jpg[/img][/timg] That's a pin sticking out of my hand. It will be like that for five weeks longer. Also, I found out last Friday that they actually removed an entire bone from the base of my thumb because it was shattered so badly that it could not be repaired. B4Ctom1 posted:edit: I didn't realize you meant this as a prank to wreck driveways You should see what tossing a chicken carcass in a vat of that stuff will do 
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Paul Boz_ posted:Not a parody of anything. Didn't your MR2 try to crush you to death also? Your cars hate you.
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