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Sponge! posted:Well, its like a large chemical spill... You can't do jack poo poo but watch it and stay out of the immediate danger area.
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Brigdh posted:theres been worse posted in this thread I don't remember if it was posted in this thread, but I remember one in AI where the driver had let it wear nearly through the ribbing, so that only the face towards the center of the car was left.
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# ? Apr 30, 2011 05:15 |
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I replaced rotors on my dad's van, one had collapsed! All those ribs had rusted to structural failure.
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# ? Apr 30, 2011 06:21 |
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About a year ago I had a car fire from the fan assembly of my neon freezing up. While in a normal car the fuse would trip and the car would overheat a Dodge doesn't work that way so this occurred. The fan assembly actually fell out Burned the coolant tank pretty well Radiator needed to be replaced and was pretty crispy Wish I had more and better pictures but its been over a year now since it happened. Amazing thing was my dad picked the car up and in a weekend had the drat thing fixed and running again. It idles high now till the engine warms up but he uses it to get back and forth to work now and hasn't had a problem with it at all otherwise. Neons don't loving die
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# ? Apr 30, 2011 15:30 |
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Neons seem to love to catch fire. At rallycross a few falls ago we were just hanging out and random lovely craigslist neon is on fire a few cars over in the paddock. oops.
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# ? Apr 30, 2011 15:49 |
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Revolvyerom posted:That's called a *mimes binoculars* "Looks pretty impressive from here!" accident Rule of thumb for haz-mat incidents: If you cannot extend your thumb and cover the entire scene, you are too close.
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# ? Apr 30, 2011 16:07 |
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Epic Fail Guy posted:Rule of thumb for haz-mat incidents: If you cannot extend your thumb and cover the entire scene, you are too close. Cops use the donut holes. Can't see the entire incident through the hole of the donut? Too close!
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# ? Apr 30, 2011 16:35 |
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Epic Fail Guy posted:Rule of thumb for haz-mat incidents: If you cannot extend your thumb and cover the entire scene, you are too close.
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# ? Apr 30, 2011 21:01 |
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Revolvyerom posted:The highlight of hazmat training was being told that in the case of invisible deadly gases that can be blown around by winds (chlorine tank rupture), try to stay away from the areas that birds are falling out of the sky.
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# ? Apr 30, 2011 21:25 |
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I pulled these bad boys out of my '96 Saab 900 Along with those two beauties were two blown struts which couldn't even support their pistons...
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# ? Apr 30, 2011 21:42 |
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Revolvyerom posted:The highlight of hazmat training was being told that in the case of invisible deadly gases that can be blown around by winds (chlorine tank rupture), try to stay away from the areas that birds are falling out of the sky. We were told to stop at the first dead cop.
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# ? Apr 30, 2011 21:48 |
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Epic Fail Guy posted:We were told to stop at the first dead cop.
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# ? Apr 30, 2011 22:21 |
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Revolvyerom posted:It's pretty ridiculous the poo poo you hear/see from them sometimes. The guys training us had piles of stories of cops wandering across spills because they had boots on and figured they were fine, not realizing the rubber sole was starting to melt, or into a foam-covered oil fire because (obviously!) the fire was out. Turns out re-introducing oxygen into a still-extremely-hot combustible results in more fire. And so on, and so on. Once watched a cop pull up to a fire scene that we were already staging on, and park his car next to the carport of the very-much-engaged housefire. Maybe he thought he'd give moral support while his car burned. Or when they see one empty spot in front of the structure fire, and decide that we must be saving it for them, totally not the ladder coming up behind them. It's worth it to see a cop try to drive his Charger cop car across charged 5" LDH and get stuck though.
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# ? Apr 30, 2011 23:54 |
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ApathyGifted posted:I don't remember if it was posted in this thread, but I remember one in AI where the driver had let it wear nearly through the ribbing, so that only the face towards the center of the car was left. Not sure where in the thread they are at this point, but I saved these:
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# ? May 1, 2011 01:22 |
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My friend was unable to shift his '00 Focus into gear while it was running... I guess he loaned it to a guy he works with who lives about a mile away from the shop they work at so he could go home and check on his kids. When he got back he asked him "did you know you can shift your car without pushing the clutch in"? The issues with being unable to put it in gear while running started shortly thereafter. See also; why I refuse to run a sprung clutch disc.
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# ? May 1, 2011 02:11 |
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Geoj posted:See also; why I refuse to run a sprung clutch disc. A few failures out of tens (probably hundreds) of millions? You'd rather wear the transmission earlier because of an extraordinarily rare failure probably caused by abuse?
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# ? May 1, 2011 03:56 |
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From the Subaru thread. My car gets both typical subaru problems at once: Dammit subaru.
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# ? May 1, 2011 04:04 |
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DJ Commie posted:A few failures out of tens (probably hundreds) of millions? You'd rather wear the transmission earlier because of an extraordinarily rare failure probably caused by abuse? So a little extra vibration is going to cause my transmission to poo poo itself a few thousand miles earlier than it otherwise would?
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# ? May 1, 2011 04:35 |
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"A little <insert bad thing here> is nothing to worry about"
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# ? May 1, 2011 05:08 |
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^ I've had an unsprung clutch on my car for 70,000 miles and the transmission (with 130,000 total miles) is fine. When do you estimate my unsprung clutch is going to cause catastrophic failure?
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# ? May 1, 2011 05:26 |
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Probably on Thursday. And this is a very precise depiction of what it's going to look like:
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# ? May 1, 2011 06:00 |
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Geoj posted:^ and my 168,000 mile original clutch in my focus failed too? *boggles* Yes, my original clutch made it 168,000 miles.. and then I sold it. For all I know the buyer is still using that same clutch. it hadn't shown any sign of failure. The guy treated a syncro, FWD transmisison as a crashbox. yeah, that's gonna break poo poo. Nerobro fucked around with this message at 09:33 on May 1, 2011 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcZ9ixUyV9U
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# ? May 1, 2011 11:37 |
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Geoj posted:So a little extra vibration is going to cause my transmission to poo poo itself a few thousand miles earlier than it otherwise would? Its pretty obvious that the damping from those springs is going to reduce vibration induced stresses though. Im here with you Nerobro, just about to roll over 200k miles on my original clutch. Even taught my self and 3 others how to drive stick in it. 99 Accord DX for reference.
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# ? May 1, 2011 17:45 |
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199k miles and still going strong on my original clutch. 2000 camry v6 It's all about how you treat it. I have friends who routinely will still be slipping the clutch like 3-5 seconds after the car has started rolling, and during every upshift while getting on the accelerator HARD, too. Get your foot off that pedal, yo. Plus my dad went for a trip with me in my car recently, he'd downshift from 5th->4th->3rd from about 65mph without even attempting to revmatch, just jamming the stick down a gear and dropping the clutch. Come on Dad. wilfredmerriweathr fucked around with this message at 18:01 on May 1, 2011 |
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Das Volk posted:So.. why haven't you made a thread about your involvement in this? There always seems to be fawning over AWD Lardboxes and weekend projects, so I never figured it was worth mentioning. I'll start posting more from future SCCA events then. In the mean time, I drove the wheels off my kart yesterday. Literally. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGGKq7Ee-fA&feature=player_detailpage#t=414s Sorry for the lovely picture quality, some fuel spray gummed up the camera casing.
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# ? May 1, 2011 18:25 |
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FormulaXFD posted:Grid time Nice 2002
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# ? May 1, 2011 20:20 |
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In the spirit of the steel accident last page, here's one I And the process of fixing it: All of that metal was torch-cut and removed via overhead crane, took ~45min total. ETA: The steel was ~3/4" thick at this point, ~6' wide. When it piled up, it was moving at ~250ft/min, and the operator took a couple seconds to hit the big red button. KaiserBen fucked around with this message at 23:53 on May 1, 2011 |
# ? May 1, 2011 23:49 |
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I'm not gonna lie...initially I thought that first picture was a computer case with a fancy red IDE cable on a weird-colored motherboard like a DFI LanParty.
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# ? May 2, 2011 00:26 |
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This is how valves in a 4G63 should look: Now with a busted timing belt: The belt in question: Oh-oh, I think my head gasket died:
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# ? May 2, 2011 00:51 |
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Got to see the full carnage on my rear springs this weekend: For reference, both ends of each spring should look like the top right. I'm amazed they were still in there.
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# ? May 2, 2011 01:19 |
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^x2^ I see your busted head gasket and raise you: close up of cyl 3 and 5's valves The other side wasn't bad, but we're looking at a rebore and rebuild anyways... Can anyone think what the crap in cyl 5 would be? We took the piston out, and the ring is still intact. The cylinder wall isn't damaged nearly enough to create that much material. The headgasket didn't seem busted enough for the material to make it through that way. As a note, anyone pulling an engine from a junkyard, just because you can turn it some of the way without it seizing, that doesn't mean it will turn 360 degrees...
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# ? May 2, 2011 01:52 |
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That engine was sitting for a long, LONG time and that is just bad corrosion from being improperly stored. What year vehicle did it come out of? e: I can't read
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# ? May 2, 2011 02:01 |
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'95 z28 Camaro. The car had only been in the yard for about 3 days before we got it, but I'm guessing it sat in the owners driveway for a while. We got it in January though, and yes, before you ask, this is for Lemons. Part of the reason we're still going to fix it rather than junk it is it'll be a learning experience for everyone on the team. None of us have done bottom end engine work before .
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# ? May 2, 2011 02:14 |
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Nerobro posted:The guy treated a syncro, FWD transmisison as a crashbox. yeah, that's gonna break poo poo. Not questioning that this caused the problem. To me, I'd rather risk my transmission making GBS threads itself 5-10,000 miles earlier at the very end of its lifespan than run a clutch disc with springs in it. Its not like a sprung clutch disc throwing a spring and requiring a clutch replacement (or worse) on its own is something that's completely out of the question.
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# ? May 2, 2011 03:06 |
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KaiserBen posted:
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# ? May 2, 2011 04:52 |
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Don't even try to tell me you wouldn't watch.
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# ? May 2, 2011 05:43 |
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What else are they supposed to do? The assembly line they work on is at a dead stop!
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# ? May 2, 2011 06:38 |
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So a Dodge Dakota came in to work earlier with a complaint of a horrible noise coming from the car. Apparently the guy took it to Les Schwab twice and they couldnt find a single thing wrong with his car. Pulling it in sounded amazing. Hm, that backing plate looks a little odd. Here's the passenger rear for comparison. Got a nifty little pile of metal dust on the rim. Odd. Something horribly wrong happened to the parking brake inside the rotor. It was pretty much completely gone. Even cracked the caliper mount. Tomorrow I get to pull the axle and fix it!
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"Yeah, I had a Dodge once. Terrible gas mileage, no power, and it smelled funny anytime I drove it"
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