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Boat posted:Every now and then the internet just smacks you upside the face with how small it's made the world. So that was your car, then?
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RoboCriminal posted:giant sailboats No. That is not a "Giant Sailboat" Neither is this, but it is a "Horrible Mechanical Failure" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leq_nxsqWvE America's cup catamaran capsizing... note the man going THROUGH the wing sail, he's exceeding lucky that he didn't hit a spar or get tangled up in it and drown. Better, although more talky, less destructy video from Oracle. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOURLUtXdkw sharkytm fucked around with this message at 14:55 on Jun 24, 2011 |
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Jun 24, 2011 14:52
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jamal posted:ha, just saw this on a friend of a friend's facebook: Lucky friend of a friend. I actually got there just as the firemen were pulling up to it but I wasn't able to get into my apartment and retrieve my camera until after they had put out the fire.
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Jun 24, 2011 15:18
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sharkytm posted:No. If we're posting America's Cup mechanical failures you really can't go past this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA-REPv-ReY Takes less than a minute. Sorry for the crappy video but its the only one I could find
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Jun 24, 2011 15:21
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your car has a flat tire? sure, i'll look at it.   sorry, can't fix it.
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Jun 25, 2011 01:22
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Breast Pussy posted:your car has a flat tire? sure, i'll look at it. It's not in the sidewall, just patch it.
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Jun 25, 2011 01:59
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That is far too long to patch.
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Jun 25, 2011 11:06
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EightBit posted:That is far too long to patch. Pffft. Use mushroom plug-patches. 
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Jun 25, 2011 11:13
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EightBit posted:That is far too long to patch. Oh come on, the little black worm things in my patch kit are at least a good 4 inches long and there's like 4 of them.
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Jun 25, 2011 11:18
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EightBit posted:That is far too long to patch. 
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Jun 25, 2011 16:05
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iastudent posted:Lucky friend of a friend. I actually got there just as the firemen were pulling up to it but I wasn't able to get into my apartment and retrieve my camera until after they had put out the fire. A couple years ago my dad was at his Rotary meeting (civic organization in US) and they announced a car-fire in the parking lot. Word got around that it was a mini-van, so my dad relaxed and finished the meeting. Then he came outside to discover the mini-van was parked next to his car. Complete loss.
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Jun 25, 2011 17:25
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Jun 28, 2011 14:36
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Oh dear... Backstory?
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Jun 28, 2011 14:48
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I don't understand how something that hosed up can be so clean. Why isn't it coated in oil / coolant / gas / etc?
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Jun 28, 2011 15:43
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It's completely coated in oil, just really clean oil. Maybe someone didn't read how much oil was supposed to go in?
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Jun 28, 2011 15:57
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JD Brickmeister posted:Why isn't it coated in oil That could be the backstory.
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Jun 28, 2011 15:58
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Looks like the endcap let go. You can see what looks like the remains of it sitting on the counterweight.
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Jun 28, 2011 16:28
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JD Brickmeister posted:I don't understand how something that hosed up can be so clean. Why isn't it coated in oil / coolant / gas / etc? The oil is what is causing the shavings to clump like that. That is indeed some serious failure, there. 2nding the back story request.
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Jun 28, 2011 17:30
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A car forum posted:I was driving and minding my business when I hit a small pot hole, and it turned out to be a bigger pot hole after my car drove over it. It went from a 4 inch wide pothole to a 2 foot wide one.. The ground underneath the pothole gave away and f*ck me over. 
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Jun 28, 2011 17:54
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peepsalot posted:For some reason this made me think of those cookies you can pull apart and just eat the filling.
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Jun 28, 2011 17:56
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KozmoNaut posted:Oh dear... i don't know exactly how this happened. a friend sent it to me. I do have the backstory on this though:  my friend with the mustang posted:I should have bought bigger injectors a while ago. GnarlyCharlie4u fucked around with this message at 18:09 on Jun 28, 2011 |
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Jun 28, 2011 18:02
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nevermind.
Mr.Peabody fucked around with this message at 18:14 on Jun 28, 2011 |
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Jun 28, 2011 18:11
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peepsalot posted:now THAT'S a 2 piece wheel 
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Jun 28, 2011 18:11
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I'm sure BBS loves it when people put real center caps on replica wheels, then the crap wheels fail and BBS' reputation takes the collective hit.
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Jun 28, 2011 18:45
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I don't want to be all "let me see here". But there is very clean oil. I doubt this engine was run long. It appears to be the drivers side of a pre-1980 (or aftermarket) chevy small block. The rear of the block is to the left in this photo. The blackening of the bearing journal and the presence of may pulverized bearing shells makes me wonder if there was an oil pump drive failure of some sort. Maybe the distributor never engaged the oil pump. Maybe the pump drive shaft failed somehow. edit: I almost forgot, hopefully he didn't forget to put the "rear crossover gallery plug" here:  Yep that could do it 
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Jun 28, 2011 20:36
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^^^ Lack of oil pressure = that?!?! vvvGnarlyCharlie4u posted:
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Jun 28, 2011 21:53
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"If this plug is missing, the engine will chew off its own elbow and poo poo money all over the place.
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Jun 29, 2011 00:35
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You would think that a warning like "the engine will not have oil pressure" should be at least bolded or in a giant font or something
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Jun 29, 2011 01:21
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Yet another reason to run the oil pump with a drill with a pressure gauge attached.
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Jun 29, 2011 03:26
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I still want to see pictures of what happened when DJCommie converted the X1/9 to Megasquirt and EDIS and left out the distributor that he didn't need for ignition anymore. It was also supposed to drive the oil pump.
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Jun 29, 2011 04:53
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In high school, I took an engine rebuilding class. It was mostly to cheese a credit since I had already rebuilt engines and all that good stuff long before then so I was more or less a teacher's aide. Anyway, this kid was working on a 350 and it was almost ready to run. All we had to to was fill the oilpan, prime the system and stab the distributor. 5 quarts of oil goes in, I show him how to line up and get into the oil pump. He gets on the drill and starts priming. About that time, a Loony Toons-esque oil gusher erupts from the end of the block, near the distributor if I remember correctly. Turns out he forgot one of the galley plugs and it turned into a high pressure stream of oil that doused a nice area of the shop. I can only imagine how fun that would have been if we hadn't primed it first.
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Jun 29, 2011 05:28
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Lowclock posted:I still want to see pictures of what happened when DJCommie converted the X1/9 to Megasquirt and EDIS and left out the distributor that he didn't need for ignition anymore. It was also supposed to drive the oil pump.  Its too much of a pain to take the pan off, otherwise I would. It probably just needs rod bearings.
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Jun 29, 2011 06:30
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DJ Commie posted:
Yeah, no kidding. They would probably be so much nicer to work on without the second little trunk back there. Sorry for it being off topic, but you would probably know. Do all these cars have a condenser in them even if they didn't have air conditioning? Mine sure as heck doesn't have a compressor and I don't know if it has an evaporator, but I wonder if maybe the PO removed it or something.
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Jun 29, 2011 06:38
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FuzzKill posted:Another L67 bites the dust. SUPERCHARGED! I'm a tech at a dealer and I don't believe that the park avenues or lesabre's were included in either the V/C gasket or plug wire retainer recall's. That pic is exactly why I changed both of my VC gaskets and threw away the factory plug wire retainer on my 3800. I've seen some cars that would puff a cloud of smoke on every startup from the oil leaking on the exhaust manifolds.
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Jun 30, 2011 03:18
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Splizwarf posted:"If this plug is missing, the engine will chew off its own elbow and poo poo money all over the place. haha pretty much.
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Jun 30, 2011 03:43
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Raluek posted:Yet another reason to run the oil pump with a drill with a pressure gauge attached. Where would one want to put the oil pressure gauge? DELETED posted:I can only imagine how fun that would have been if we hadn't primed it first. Would using assembly lube eliminate the need to prime the pump, or do you do that for other reasons? ....learning....
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Jun 30, 2011 06:39
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The Scientist posted:Where would one want to put the oil pressure gauge? On most motors there will be a port in the front cover/oil pump area where you can thread a gauge in. It might be the factory sender location, so you pull that and put your shop gauge on for the test. Assembly lube + getting oil circulating is the best plan. In combination, not one or the other. The assembly lube is there to keep things from getting scratched up for the short period of time before you get oil everywhere its supposed to be, as well as to get the sacrificial coating of zinc (ZDDP) you need on high pressure parts like cam lobes and flat tappets. Some oil pumps are a bitch to get primed after a tear down. The one I'm working on now is notorious (Buick 215-derived Rover V8), and most people actually fill it full of vaseline while assembling to help get the prime started.
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 3 months old. I have no clue. [...backstory...] At work we have a 1990 C2500 diesel that used to get used in the 90's but has mostly sat since. We recently decided to give it a second life by getting rid of the useless winch assembly on the back and put on a flatbed. When I went to start taking it apart I noticed the electric lift pump wasn't doing so hot so I replaced it. The whole fuel system was coated with a thick, sticky varnish substance (probably due to previous biodiesel use) along with what appeared to be pulverized rust or something. So I systematically clean everything in the fuel system. The tank had to be emptied, steam cleaned, dried, repeat. After that, this new sending unit/dip tube went in. 3 months later, the truck is running like crap again. After checking everything else possible I finally decide to check the tank. That above is what I find, covered in rust/varnish/vaseline/?, plus a tank interior that looks just like someone had coated it vaseline and threw black sand at it. 3 MONTHS. How in the hell did this happen? Help me.
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The Scientist posted:Where would one want to put the oil pressure gauge? I've just used the sender location. On a SBC that's on the rear part of the block right behind the intake manifold.
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Joe Mama posted:
how did you clean the tank and did you coat it afterwards? red kote, por15, fuel, etc...
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