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The editor of that block'em toss'em robots article was in the comments reminding people that it was engine block casings, not engine blocks. But not qualifying anything else, like how you catch one without damaging it and still making a huge clanging sound, and how much power you'd need to huck one.
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Did he.....say what the hell an engine block casing is? Or are we talking about a lower end? Cause I've never heard that referred to as a engine block casing. Bondematt fucked around with this message at 05:38 on Oct 5, 2011 |
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Oct 5, 2011 05:33
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Lowclock posted:I don't think we really need to analyze the physics behind some stupid fake news article, do we? It's just meant to make you laugh, and it even fails at that. I can't help but analyze the physics behind it, it's a compulsion.
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Oct 5, 2011 07:37
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Z3n posted:randian randian randian randian randian I hate libertarians did you lose a debate in D&D? Here's a friend of mine's NP242 transfer case:   Something seized and the case became two case halves...
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Oct 5, 2011 18:28
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kastein posted:That smug-rear end Amazon box totally makes this picture.
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Oct 5, 2011 18:35
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kastein posted:did you lose a debate in D&D? Time for an Atlas II
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I forget what he replaced it with. Probably another $75 used NP242/231.
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Oct 5, 2011 21:21
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Where the hell do you get an NP242 for $75?! They go for over 200 here all day long!
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I can pick up 231s and 242s on jeep forums around here for ~50-75 all day, or 100-130 if I need one ASAP and go to the junkyard. Where are you? I'm in the rust belt stateside, so jeeps go to the scrapper here long before the drivetrain is worn out. Hell I've bought multiple 4.0L engines and never paid over $160, never paid more than 100 for a transmission or axle either.
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EightBit posted:Time for an Atlas II ...shrugged 
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kastein posted:I can pick up 231s and 242s on jeep forums around here for ~50-75 all day, or 100-130 if I need one ASAP and go to the junkyard. Where are you? I'm in the rust belt stateside, so jeeps go to the scrapper here long before the drivetrain is worn out. Hell I've bought multiple 4.0L engines and never paid over $160, never paid more than 100 for a transmission or axle either. Part of me hates you for the cheap replacement parts, and the rest of me wouldn't move to the rust belt for anything.
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Cakefool posted:Also, there is no telemetry, it's ballistics. Terminology seems to be all over which likely makes it fiction, but picturing it in my head is still somewhat humorous.
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slidebite posted:It's also almost certainly not a belt coming out of a furnace, but a chain conveyor of some sort. I'll admit I did pay a little more attention than normal to our Kawasakis today...
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Oct 6, 2011 21:55
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1998 ford taurus front right inner brake pad. 
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ZombieLicker posted:1998 ford taurus front right inner brake pad. Hey I remember where I left my socket wrench when I changed the wheel now.
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Oct 7, 2011 02:48
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ZombieLicker posted:1998 ford taurus front right inner brake pad. What did the rotor look like? EDIT: Wait, is the pad down with the metal plate up?
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That looks like what happens when one side of the pad hangs up in the caliper "slides" or whatever you want to call it. Happened on a rear caliper of my very first car an RX-7 that I stumbled into and new nothing about at the age of 16. It made quite the unusual sound with very light braking. Easy fix though considering the sound.
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EightBit posted:Part of me hates you for the cheap replacement parts, and the rest of me wouldn't move to the rust belt for anything. Stay where you are... it's not worth it...  Say, isn't there supposed to be a lower control arm mount somewhere on here? (what is normally a 2-3 inch wide piece of 10ga steel plate on each side of the bracket had rusted down till it had approximately a 3/4" by 1/16" section of metal holding it on each side. I hit a rock about the size of a curb while braking and it sheared off.) Of course, a friend of mine had recently parted out his jeep for a variety of reasons including rust issues, and he gave me his dana 30 for free because it needed seals and axleshafts  so I had it ready to go 4-wheeling again by the next weekend.
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Fire Storm posted:What did the rotor look like? That's how it looks. I'm pretty sure the pad would fracture, not bend.
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Arrived at the shop the other day to find this in the parking lot:  And the money shot: 
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Man, somebody managed to break an Intrepid  . One with fairly new tires, even. Always liked those cars (parents owned two - no problems with the first one until mom ran a red light and shortened it by a few feet, second one has lasted forever with no issues). I love the "spray" of grease; "money shot" indeed.
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Oct 8, 2011 01:57
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Root Bear posted:Arrived at the shop the other day to find this in the parking lot: That happened on my '95 Eagle Vision when I was 16. I was just pulling out of my friend's driveway when it went *pop*. Apparently it's a common failure on the LH cars.
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Oct 8, 2011 05:33
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I saw a 929 do that once, but it was a ball joint that sheared along the pin.
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Previa_fun posted:That happened on my '95 Eagle Vision when I was 16. I was just pulling out of my friend's driveway when it went *pop*. Apparently it's a common failure on the LH cars. Yeah same thing on my mid 90's Concorde, the whole front end is just loving awful. Had to replace a lower control arm once, the way they have those things mounted in there is unbelievable. That plus 6 years of midwest weather rust made it impossible to get the old one out normally, ended up cutting it in half with an angle grinder.
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The last car I saw like that was driving along in that state. 
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Geirskogul posted:Man, somebody managed to break an Intrepid Managed to break? The only ones I can find used are all blown head gasket nightmares.
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Micromancer posted:Managed to break? The only ones I can find used are all blown head gasket nightmares. And I've seen them go 300k with no issues, but that doesn't mean they all will. Anecdotes =/= data in either case
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So, a tow truck pulled up just as I was leaving work today: What's that hanging down...  EDIT: \/\/\/ Chicagoland. Go figure. \/\/\/ Root Bear fucked around with this message at 04:13 on Oct 12, 2011 |
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The funny part is, those rubber boots on everything look really new. Did they drive it into the salt lake or something? Or is this just a casualty of salting roads? Where I live they use sand and gravel, never salt, so I don't really know.
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Root Bear posted:So, a tow truck pulled up just as I was leaving work today: What is that that fell off?
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EightBit posted:What is that that fell off? The steering/swaybar, it looks like Edit: VVVVVVV Holy poo poo you're right. Queen_Combat fucked around with this message at 07:17 on Oct 12, 2011 |
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Oct 12, 2011 06:29
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That's the entire subframe which rusted through its mount and dropped on the ground.
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I almost had the same thing happen on my Bonneville. Caught it before it could get that bad. The cradle rusts real nice around the rubber isolators.
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I saw an E30 that was almost exactly like that. He brought it into the mechanic because it was "floaty". The entire front subframe was disconnected from the car.
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InitialDave posted:The last car I saw like that was driving along in that state. I had a 98 corolla that the CV joint suddenly gave out on me suddenly while pulling out of my apartment complex. I popped the curb, took out a bus stop sign, got out of the car and just went, "WHAT THE gently caress?", put it in reverse and parked it back in my spot. Kind of forgot about it for a couple of days since I walked to work in the summer and I didn't really need to go anywhere. Then my roommate asked me to borrow the car to drive to the airport and I lent him the keys without even thinking about the fact that the wheels kind of looked like this | \ in the front. He drove it 15 miles to the airport like that. On the highway. And back when he came home. Didn't even ask me if there was anything wrong with the car when he gave me the keys either.
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that's the whole subframe that holds the suspension arms, steering, etc. I think on some cars it may also hold the motor in. I had a horrible failure last night, but it was more my horrible failure than a mechanical one. Angle grinder vs finger. WEAR THOSE LEATHER GLOVES GUYS, at least it gives you a split second longer before it starts eating tasty flesh. http://i52.tinypic.com/1zei2i8.jpg (not safe for squeamish people)at hostpital, almost lost fingat e: fixed to not use imagecircus kastein fucked around with this message at 15:47 on Oct 12, 2011 |
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Finger looks fine to me 
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hahaha, I got bitten by the images-hack-us to imagewagon/imagebucket etc filter. Forgot about that, will upload using a less retarded host I can't believe it gave a pic of a finger even
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kastein posted:that's the whole subframe that holds the suspension arms, steering, etc. I think on some cars it may also hold the motor in. Heh, I've done that, but hit my fingernail. Even through gloves, that absolute split second is enough time to eat the glove and cut a 1/4" slit into the fingernail and into the nail bed. The poo poo hurts.
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