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some texas redneck posted:Did they leave it for a month or some poo poo?
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# ? Sep 14, 2011 03:11 |
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kastein posted:I've driven my Comanche around with 2 quarts in it also... run it out of oil on the highway dozens of times, it leaked like a sieve and I didn't have the time to fix it. Oil pressure remained fine with no bad noises. I've personally intentionally killed* one 302 with a lot of effort (similar symptoms to the one below, and once we got bored of it running fine with no oil or water we started pouring degreaser into the oil-fill hole). *we gave up when it seized and the "check engine" light came on (protip: most CELs tell you there is a major problem but you can limp home, a CEL in a V8 Ford** means you should immediately hit the brakes and find a place to pull over, because you're about to lose your power assist); judging from the later experiences below, it would've been fine if we'd topped off the fluids but it was a beat-up company truck and a boss who wouldn't replace it unless it was hosed, and apparently we killed it hard enough for him. I've driven another 302 ten minutes across town with a massive coolant leak (freeze plug or cracked block, it overheated to seizing a few times out in the boonies and I filled it up and drove home as soon as it cooled down enough to start), a blown head gasket, and the burnt-to-poo poo-oil/coolant emulsion barely showing on the dipstick (with two half-flat tires to boot) when I moved house, couldn't afford a tow, and had pretty much written off the engine already because of the milkshake coolant pouring out as fast as I could put it in. No problems in the last drive aside from a hellacious rod knock. Hell, it seemed to run better than the last time I'd driven it (and dumped a couple bottles of liquid glass in the radiator). One of these days I'm either going to rebuild that fucker or take it apart for paperweights, and then I'll post pics. **I've overheated a 4.6L, and the ECU drops every other cylinder's spark as an emergency cooling measure at the point normal cars would throw a CEL. The warning light comes on about half a minute later, 1.4 seconds before the radiator cap succumbs to the pressure and gives your engine a hot bath. Ironically, the best solution to rough running and/or high temp in a 4.6L is to floor the bitch, because 40mph is the speed at which the forced air from moving will keep the engine nice and cool with no fan. The radiator fan on my '03 Interceptor has been dead for over a year now, and I haven't had a problem after that first time, when I learned to park and go in for my "fast" food with a long line, and plan my commute to avoid traffic jams when it's over 100F outside.
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# ? Sep 14, 2011 03:31 |
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some texas redneck posted:Did they leave it for a month or some poo poo? It actually doesn't take all that long for engines to rust like that. When I took an engine rebuilding class, this point was stressed after a student didn't oil their block after putting in the washer. The next day every machined surface on the block had rusted over.
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# ? Sep 14, 2011 03:49 |
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Had this little gem dropped off last week, the owner said he "just needs the rear lower shock mount re-welded". Ummm...
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# ? Sep 14, 2011 04:54 |
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I looked at it and initially started going "well yeah, it needs to be re-welded," then mine eyes fell upon thee bolt, just hanging out welded to the rear shock mount. 'sup, bolt.
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# ? Sep 14, 2011 04:56 |
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Root Bear posted:Had this little gem dropped off last week, the owner said he "just needs the rear lower shock mount re-welded". Did... am I seeing... did they use the bolt to fill in the gap between welds? E\/gently caress, I completely glazed over that somehow.\/ Tell me you didn't actually work on this chucklefuck's car without replacing literally everything, root bear. Fender Anarchist fucked around with this message at 07:33 on Sep 14, 2011 |
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Fucknag posted:Did... am I seeing... did they use the bolt to fill in the gap between welds? At least the bolt isn't a loving tie-down strap
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# ? Sep 14, 2011 06:47 |
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Millstone posted:At least the bolt isn't a loving tie-down strap I've been in, and driven, cars that were temporarily held together with things like that. When you're poor, and in the land of rednecks, it happens quite frequently. As long as you do it right, I don't see a HUGE issue. (right = the least-un-safest way out of the collection of unsafe ways you're going to have to go about the problem). Key word is temporarily, though.
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# ? Sep 14, 2011 08:55 |
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Delivery McGee posted:Words about Fords I've posted about this before but It's worth noting again that the Ford 300 I6 was used in this loving thing. I mean look at it. It has a god drat solid steel Jason mask for a grille. They used these at FedEx when I worked there to push, pull, tow, drag, and do violence upon anything that needed it. I saw them run into poo poo so hard they stalled the engine, and they started her back up and kept going. I saw another guy ram into a concrete pillar, and stand on the accelerator while the knobby tires dug a hole in the asphalt. Tug = loving unbreakable. An excellent platform for building your Mad Max Murder Wagon upon. http://www.omegaaviation.com/baggage_tractor_aviation_ground_support_equipment/2004_TUG_baggage_tow_tractors_5000_lbs_draw_pull_bar.html
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# ? Sep 14, 2011 11:26 |
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Vanagoon posted:I've posted about this before but It's worth noting again that the Ford 300 I6 was used in this loving thing. I'm sorry, this is the mechanical failure thread, not the mechanical awesome thread.
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# ? Sep 14, 2011 18:16 |
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Vanagoon posted:I've posted about this before but It's worth noting again that the Ford 300 I6 was used in this loving thing. Those little bastards can do wheelies. Trust me, I've done more than a few (just don't do them when the station manager is looking).
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# ? Sep 14, 2011 21:48 |
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Millstone posted:At least the bolt isn't a loving tie-down strap To be fair, neither the bolt nor the tie-down strap were the point of failure.
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# ? Sep 14, 2011 22:56 |
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Fucknag posted:Did... am I seeing... did they use the bolt to fill in the gap between welds? I've actually done this before. I cut the ends off afterwards to make it pretty, though.
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# ? Sep 15, 2011 03:58 |
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peepsalot posted:Hydrolocked VQ37VHR block from a Nissan 370Z How fast would this engine have been revving to have caused this? Also, you guys gonna sleeve that one cylinder?
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# ? Sep 15, 2011 05:16 |
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The Scientist posted:How fast would this engine have been revving to have caused this? Also, you guys gonna sleeve that one cylinder?
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# ? Sep 15, 2011 06:49 |
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The Scientist posted:How fast would this engine have been revving to have caused this? Also, you guys gonna sleeve that one cylinder? Even at idle, there is an enormous amount of force being transferred through an engine. Doesn't take a lot for hydrolocking to wreck an engine.
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# ? Sep 15, 2011 07:11 |
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Just found this gem on reddit:
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# ? Sep 15, 2011 14:46 |
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That doesn't seem to be terribly rare, based on how many examples have shown up in this thread. That's insane.
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# ? Sep 15, 2011 14:50 |
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peepsalot posted:but I'm not really an expert on engine carnage. I'm just a software developer that works in a car shop, heh.
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# ? Sep 15, 2011 16:04 |
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Godholio posted:That doesn't seem to be terribly rare, based on how many examples have shown up in this thread. That's insane. Exactly. And it scares me.
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# ? Sep 15, 2011 17:41 |
I'm not sure what the problem in that pic is Gnarly.
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# ? Sep 15, 2011 17:59 |
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Seat Safety Switch posted:What's the story here? Are you an embedded developer doing ecu stuff or something else?
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# ? Sep 15, 2011 18:28 |
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A student posted:I'm not sure what the problem in that pic is Gnarly. Yeah clearly it's no big deal until the brake shoe is worn through and it's the caliper piston getting up close and personal with rotor vanes
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# ? Sep 15, 2011 18:51 |
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peepsalot posted:Yeah I develop reflash software for factory ECUs. I'd consider it more reverse engineering than embedded development. I also develop the desktop applications that allow end users to tweak their tune. I always wondered how people got into this.
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# ? Sep 15, 2011 18:59 |
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Godholio posted:That doesn't seem to be terribly rare, based on how many examples have shown up in this thread. That's insane.
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# ? Sep 15, 2011 19:08 |
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Just found this gem on reddit: More leading edges means better initial bite on your pads!
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# ? Sep 15, 2011 19:14 |
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Z3n posted:More leading edges means better initial bite on your pads!
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# ? Sep 15, 2011 19:18 |
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Lowclock posted:I'm still waiting to see one so bad that it shoots out the pad backing plates and grinds the calipers and rotors so much that the pistons fall out at a stop light and all braking is lost. Once the pad shoe breaks apart and falls out the piston will hit the rotor and not come back, making the car immobile. Well, that's what happened to me at least
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# ? Sep 15, 2011 19:25 |
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Z3n posted:More leading edges means better initial bite on your pads! Extreme slotted rotors
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# ? Sep 15, 2011 19:26 |
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heat posted:Once the pad shoe breaks apart and falls out the piston will hit the rotor and not come back, making the car immobile. Well, that's what happened to me at least
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# ? Sep 15, 2011 19:44 |
heat posted:Yeah clearly it's no big deal until the brake shoe is worn through and it's the caliper piston getting up close and personal with rotor vanes I figured that the pads were taken off for the photo. It was really driven without break pads?
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# ? Sep 15, 2011 20:22 |
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A student posted:I figured that the pads were taken off for the photo. It was really driven without break pads? I thought you were joking earlier. Here is what a brake rotor is supposed to look like: See those radial vanes that are sandwiched between the two solid chunks of steel? Those are what you see in Gnarly's picture, because the person kept driving until the utterly destroyed brake pad wore completely through one side of the rotor.
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# ? Sep 15, 2011 20:46 |
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A student posted:I figured that the pads were taken off for the photo. It was really driven without break pads? Well since there are no such things as "break pads"...
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# ? Sep 15, 2011 21:13 |
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Skyssx posted:Well since there are no such things as "break pads"... A large percentage of Craigslist posters would differ with that opinion.
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# ? Sep 15, 2011 21:16 |
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Those pictures would qualify as 'break pads' to me
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# ? Sep 15, 2011 21:19 |
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Cakefool posted:Those pictures would qualify as 'break pads' to me No guys, conjugate. "Broken" pads.
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# ? Sep 15, 2011 21:21 |
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peepsalot posted:Extreme slotted rotors Lightly Rotored Slots
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# ? Sep 15, 2011 21:48 |
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A student posted:I'm not sure what the problem in that pic is Gnarly. he didn't properly lubricate the brakes. I poo poo you not my friend lubed his brakes to get rid of 'that squeaking noise'
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# ? Sep 15, 2011 22:40 |
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I'd take it to Napa and ask them to machine it just to get their reaction.
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# ? Sep 15, 2011 22:41 |
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revmoo posted:I'd take it to Napa and ask them to machine it just to get their reaction. I wonder if you can still get the core charge? Maybe even prorated since there's only half a rotor left?
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# ? Sep 15, 2011 22:59 |