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14 INCH GRANDPA posted:That still raises the question of why you'd run it with a loving EZ out in there. Because they didn't want to pay for a tow bill to the shop? I dunno. Not everyone is good at common sense.
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chrisgt posted:The OP of that picture on reddit posted a pic of the piston.  Why. What a waste of a good EZ Out.
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Jan 12, 2013 03:29
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Yeah, why would you ever leave an entire ez-out in there? I thought they were supposed to break off, leaving you with the other half for your own purposes.
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Jan 12, 2013 03:34
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General_Failure posted:Not a mechanical failure as such. Slavvy posted:Hahahahahaha oh wow. What in god's name do you need a TV antenna that big for? I'm not being facetious, I genuinely don't understand the purpose.
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Jan 12, 2013 03:35
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kastein posted:Yeah, why would you ever leave an entire ez-out in there? I thought they were supposed to break off, leaving you with the other half for your own purposes. Mine never break 
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Jan 12, 2013 03:36
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Well, long story short, the lower the frequency of the radio signals you're receiving/transmitting, the larger the antenna you need to be resonant at the right frequency (which is the best way to improve transmit/receive distance.) So basically if you want to really make your signals go a long way in the low MHz range you are going to be building some really loving big antennas.
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Jan 12, 2013 03:43
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nmfree posted:It probably was a mechanical failure, since a tower like that should have been able to withstand 75+ MPH winds. My guess is that they bought it used and one of the legs was rusted out on the inside (it could have come like that new, too) or else that one of the mounting bolts failed. Without seeing the base it's pretty difficult to tell. It's possible, although it probably was the ravages of age. General rule of thumb is almost everything here is old. When I was driving past it looked as though it had failed at the base and tipped. No distortion or unevenness at the base. Are these things bolted to a slab or something? There's also one a few houses away that's associated with some kind of storage shed. It just seems to have a single spike coming out the top. I'll try to take a photo tomorrow or something. The owner was there when I went past. They had their car parked near it.
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Jan 12, 2013 03:46
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Anticipating some kind of failure and it's mechanical. A timing belt kit for a Subaru EA81. Really? really? http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/GATES-TI...#ht_1992wt_1170
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Jan 12, 2013 03:51
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I'm pretty sure lifting a car by the wheels' spokes isn't a recommended procedure 
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Jan 12, 2013 04:25
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CommieGIR posted:Mine never break You're either the luckiest person alive or you're lying.
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This is why you should replace that wobbly tire you hit a curb with instead of driving on it for a few months:   EDIT: tables... DON'T POST STRAIGHT OUT OF THE CAMERA (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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General_Failure posted:Anticipating some kind of failure and it's mechanical. A timing belt kit for a Subaru EA81. Really? really? HAHAHA wow... I'd like to pop the hood of my car and watch that guy try to find the timing belt on the ea81. Better yet when I tell him it doesn't even have a timing chain.
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General_Failure posted:It's possible, although it probably was the ravages of age. General rule of thumb is almost everything here is old. When I was driving past it looked as though it had failed at the base and tipped. No distortion or unevenness at the base. Are these things bolted to a slab or something?
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Jan 12, 2013 05:07
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General_Failure posted:It's possible, although it probably was the ravages of age. General rule of thumb is almost everything here is old. When I was driving past it looked as though it had failed at the base and tipped. No distortion or unevenness at the base. Are these things bolted to a slab or something? There are tilt-over towers that are designed to, well, tilt over. You work on your antennas while it's horizontal and then hoist it back up when you're done; that way, you don't have to climb it. General_Failure posted:There's also one a few houses away that's associated with some kind of storage shed. It just seems to have a single spike coming out the top. That's definitely an amateur radio or CB antenna.
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kastein posted:Well, long story short, the lower the frequency of the radio signals you're receiving/transmitting, the larger the antenna you need to be resonant at the right frequency (which is the best way to improve transmit/receive distance.) So basically if you want to really make your signals go a long way in the low MHz range you are going to be building some really loving big antennas. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLF_Transmitter_Cutler
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Well, that's a pretty big antenna... if you're a pussy.quote:The Clam Lake facility, which served as the test site and was originally called the Wisconsin Test Facility (WTF) consisted of two 14 mile (24 km) transmission line antennas (called ground dipoles) in the shape of a cross, with the transmitter station at their intersection. The Republic facility consisted of three transmission lines, two 14 mile and one 28 mile, in the shape of the letter "F" (the shape is not significant and was dictated by land availability).
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nmfree posted:Well, that's a pretty big antenna... if you're a pussy.
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Root Bear posted:This is why you should replace that wobbly tire you hit a curb with instead of driving on it for a few months: If youre uploading to imgur and too lazy to resize/crop your crappy cell phone pics, you can stick before the file extension like so: http://i.imgur.com/qbpDZl.jpg
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Lord Gaga posted:If youre uploading to imgur and too lazy to resize/crop your crappy cell phone pics, you can stick before the file extension like so: Try this, it prevents people from ruining your poo poo: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/138675
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Root Bear posted:This is why you should replace that wobbly tire you hit a curb with instead of driving on it for a few months: Been there done that. On all four tires, until one just stopped holding air and was flat every morning. Replaced it with the cheapest tire I could find, then spun off the interstate and into some woods. The car stopped sideways after doing a 270 at 50mph, having slid to a stop sideways with the driver's door about 18" from a tree trunk...an exposed root punctured the sidewall of the one good tire. 
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Remember kids, when somebody tells you a bolt is left-hand threaded, check the manual before assuming they're right: This had me hanging off the end of a 3-foot snap-on breaker bar thinking "hmm this bolt sure is torqued down"  . It's not that clear but it's cracked almost all the way through in the root of the most stretched thread, made an almighty crack sound as it let go.
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jammyozzy posted:Remember kids, when somebody tells you a bolt is left-hand threaded, check the manual before assuming they're right: Honda crank pulley bolt?
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Close, it's a sprocket bolt from an old CBR600 engine. Never let students loose unsupervised. 
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I don't understand the almost mythical fascination with reverse thread; do people think they're cool by saying X bolt is reverse? I can't remember the last time I've seen a reverse thread anything on any vehicle, tierods excepting. I know they exist but come on, honda are not citroen or jaguar, they won't arbitrarily throw reverse thread in just to gently caress with you.
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Slavvy posted:I don't understand the almost mythical fascination with reverse thread; do people think they're cool by saying X bolt is reverse? I can't remember the last time I've seen a reverse thread anything on any vehicle, tierods excepting. I know they exist but come on, honda are not citroen or jaguar, they won't arbitrarily throw reverse thread in just to gently caress with you. DSM tensioner bolt on the power steering pump. Totally mind hosed me and I rounded it off.
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Slavvy posted:I don't understand the almost mythical fascination with reverse thread; do people think they're cool by saying X bolt is reverse? I can't remember the last time I've seen a reverse thread anything on any vehicle, tierods excepting. I know they exist but come on, honda are not citroen or jaguar, they won't arbitrarily throw reverse thread in just to gently caress with you. At least some Honda engines spin e: meant to say clockwise 
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Slavvy posted:I don't understand the almost mythical fascination with reverse thread; do people think they're cool by saying X bolt is reverse? I can't remember the last time I've seen a reverse thread anything on any vehicle, tierods excepting. I know they exist but come on, honda are not citroen or jaguar, they won't arbitrarily throw reverse thread in just to gently caress with you. all the ring gear bolts on a chrysler 8.25 rearend, used in dodge dakotas, durangos (I think), jeep cherokees, liberties, commanders, and a bunch of other stuff as well. I didn't round them off, but I sure did overtorque one a bit before realizing my mistake. They come out better when you turn them the correct direction.
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Black88GTA posted:At least some Honda engines spin Yes, but even the CW engines (which from what I know is 99% of honda car engines) have conventional pulley bolts. They're just tightened to an insane degree and require a special crank pulley holder tool to undo.
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Slavvy posted:Yes, but even the CW engines (which from what I know is 99% of honda car engines) have conventional pulley bolts. They're just tightened to an insane degree and require a special crank pulley holder tool to undo. When I did my timing belt / water pump a couple years back, I cracked mine off by removing a plug and filling a cylinder with rope to lock the engine. I can't remember if it was a standard or reverse thread bolt though.
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1) Attach breaker-bar and socket to crank pulley bolt 2) Brace breaker-bar against ground, frame, or large boulder 3) Crank engine 4) Profit
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Black88GTA posted:When I did my timing belt / water pump a couple years back, I cracked mine off by removing a plug and filling a cylinder with rope to lock the engine. I can't remember if it was a standard or reverse thread bolt though.  This just blew my mind, what an idea.
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Black88GTA posted:When I did my timing belt / water pump a couple years back, I cracked mine off by removing a plug and filling a cylinder with rope to lock the engine. I can't remember if it was a standard or reverse thread bolt though. Also a good way to change valve guide seals without pulling the head.
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Motronic posted:Also a good way to change valve guide seals without pulling the head. Yep. I have a spark plug air adapter for that too although I feel a lot safer with a bit of rope because there is a mechanical reason for the valves not vanishing into the barrel.
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I know some old Mopar stuff used to use reverse-thread lug nuts on the passenger's side. I can only imagine all the fuckups from minimum-wage dumbass lube techs ( ) not knowing and accidentally snapping studs off due to that.
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Lugnuts on most Army trucks. Thank CHRIST most of them were labeled with "R" if they were reverse. That and split rims with run flats. Changing a Tire was a half a day affair it seemed. 
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They were labeled with R if they were reverse until depot put 4-5 coats of CARC on top of them. After that they're labeled uh... wait... they're labeled? And yeah, I got bit by that fortunately the torque spec was 450+ foot pounds, so even me leaning on them with a 3 foot cheater pipe didn't really overtighten them much before I realized I had to be doing something wrong.
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I haven't run into that issue so far at my unit, but we only really deal with the LMTV/MTV and PLS vehicles. I can imagine how horrible it would be, especially when you've got eight privates running around (me being one of them) and parts getting swapped between bays.
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GAA is your friend when doing run flats. That, ratchet straps, and tanker bars. Don't let your E-5 gently caress you over and make you do it the hard way "cause we had to learn."
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Is something trying to escape?: First you always pull the plugs:  Uh oh, looks like something happened in this cylinder:  Hey, where's the piston?:  That piston really is completely gone:  Oh, there's the piston:  All pictures from a Ford Futura who's last race at LeMons didn't go so well.
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Deceptor101 posted:First you always pull the plugs: Is that a lawnmower plug? It doesn't exactly look like it belongs there.
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