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Saw this on the way into work this morning. Roof rack cross bars are so expensive, I'm just gonna whip up something using whatever 2x4s and u-bolts I have lying around the garage. Now that looks good! drat, the wind really whistles under those things. I think I'll use this leftover expanding foam to plug the gaps. There! Fixed! 
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Kill-9 posted:Saw this on the way into work this morning. Says the guy with the jack on the front of his hood commuting.
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Jan 22, 2013 19:08
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Ahahaha at first glance I thought that was attached to the rear bumper of the car in front 
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Jan 22, 2013 19:12
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You should put it in a plastic case and troll people about how the aerodynamic improvement gives you higher MPG and better front-end bite in corners.
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Jan 22, 2013 19:18
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Kill-9 posted:Saw this on the way into work this morning. Hey now, there's a long and time-honored tradition of building roof racks out of 2x4s. And you're drat right they whistle like hell, that's part of the charm.
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Jan 22, 2013 19:22
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Faerunner posted:Says the guy with the jack on the front of his hood commuting. Looks like it's properly attached to the bullbar, so I don't see a problem here. Those jacks are incredibly useful (and dangerous), I don't go to the junkyard without one anymore.
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Jan 22, 2013 19:36
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kastein posted:Looks like it's properly attached to the bullbar, so I don't see a problem here. Correct. It is properly mounted using purpose designed brackets. The pointy bit sticking out the front isn't too pedestrian friendly though. Also, it's too drat big to fit inside the truck at all. A Hi-Lift is a must on a lifted truck on big tires as no portable scissor jack will even get near flexing the suspension enough to get a wheel off the ground.
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Jan 22, 2013 19:39
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I just put the stock jack under the axle tube if I have to use one, though it does suck to get it in there sometimes. I built big dumb 2x6" 1/4-wall steel box tube bumpers for my offroad truck, with plans of beveling the ends and capping them to look cool, but then realized that the prong on a high-lift fits perfectly into the end of the tube. So they aren't getting capped and now I have a very secure jacking point on each corner for my high-lift.
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Jan 22, 2013 19:42
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kastein posted:
I usually just go digging through cars until I find one. There is always at least one insanely dangerous 70-80s bumper jack somewhere.
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Jan 22, 2013 19:50
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Kill-9 posted:The pointy bit sticking out the front isn't too pedestrian friendly though. You need a way to prevent those pesky lawsuits 
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Jan 22, 2013 20:26
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Kill-9 posted:The pointy bit sticking out the front isn't too pedestrian friendly though. Nothing about a bullbar or a jack attached to it is in any way pedestrian friendly, so you might as well cover it with spikes cause it ain't gonna make a difference anyway.
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Jan 22, 2013 20:40
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Shai-Hulud posted:Nothing about a bullbar or a jack attached to it is in any way pedestrian friendly, so you might as well cover it with spikes cause it ain't gonna make a difference anyway. Unless you want to look like a rolling jungle gym
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Jan 22, 2013 20:43
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kastein posted:I just put the stock jack under the axle tube if I have to use one, though it does suck to get it in there sometimes. Getting a jack securely under the axle in an offroad situation can be a bit of an issue a lot of the time though. Especially if it's the slightest muddy. If I need to lift the front I use the brush guard jack points. From the side my rock sliders are more than beefy enough to lift the truck. From the rear I use the receiver. I haven't done any real offroading in a year. I got the new engine in the Classic and haven't been out. Time to change that soon I think.
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Jan 22, 2013 22:12
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Devyl posted:Here is the full story. That's why I will never trust a cage that isn't built by a professional. That's something you don't just put in yourself over the weekend. Unless you're a pro cage builder. Sad truth mate - half the crap cages ARE built by professional cage makers. That Silva cage that we are all wincing at, that's either a copy or the original actual legit cage made by someone who should know better. poo poo cages come out of pro shops all the time. Good cages arent about being built by a pro - it's about thinking about it and frankly that's what they dont do too often. A pro builder usually follows rules to the letter or customer instructions / bank balance. They arent sitting down and working out the forces involved or the materials that will suit the job best etc etc etc - an amateur in a garage who actually thinks about the process of buildign a cage will almost certainly come up with a design that works better (That's actually where a lot of innovations come from) and as long as the amateur's fabrications skills are sufficient, it'll be as good or better constructed. It is a fuckton of work to do it right, a lot of research and planning. It's not something you you lightly, even if you send it to a good professional, who will sit down for a few hours and work out the best design if they are actually good even if they have templates and rules to work with. All that beign said, I would rather not do it all over again, it's truly a big, difficult, time consuming job. What I've seen of UF's fabrication skills, I'd rather just pony up an airfare, a tanker of DMD, a design and pay him 30 an hour cause gently caress that poo poo for a living.
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Jan 22, 2013 23:06
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Cat Terrist posted:Sad truth mate - half the crap cages ARE built by professional cage makers. That Silva cage that we are all wincing at, that's either a copy or the original actual legit cage made by someone who should know better. poo poo cages come out of pro shops all the time. Ahaha. Here I was thinking how would you get the cage back. I see, bring UF over here. He'd probably make a killing. Actually no probably about it. So many "pros" here do horribly poo poo jobs. If I knew someone around that could do a good job of not loving up a task I'd throw my money at them.
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Jan 22, 2013 23:46
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General_Failure posted:Ahaha. Here I was thinking how would you get the cage back. I see, bring UF over here. He'd probably make a killing. Actually no probably about it. So many "pros" here do horribly poo poo jobs. If I knew someone around that could do a good job of not loving up a task I'd throw my money at them. There'as literally two workshops in Sydney I trust to do a job - SWR in Windsor and RallyEquip in OPendle Hill. Every other fuckign workshop has ballsed up the car I've bought into it and I've had to spend more time fixing their fuckups than it saved getting someone else to do the work. Case in question Pulse Racing dynoed what was my car - I had them do other work. They hosed up the stuts, the suspension AND remounting the turbo - they literally didnt put in the crush washers on the banjo bolts. Guess what happened at the next event? Oil on the exhaust headers. Good thing there was a hose or I'd have one less Subaru at the time. That's seriously basic poo poo that's easy to get right that they utterly failed on. Or how about having a diff go to pieces because a) some one in Canberra didnt put in a driveshaft clip AND b) didnt put a filter on the diff breather? Dirt in the LSD plates AND a driveshaft fell out! Frankly gently caress the lot of them. When you pay money you expect a job done right, not a amateur hackfest. In Canberra I've heard good things about TechWorks (Michael Harding) and the dealings we have had with him have been good. So literally I'm going to take any car I don't have time for 300 kms because no one else in Sydney can do a Subaru to the kind of professional job I expect. Now if that isnt terrible car stuff, I dont know what is.
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Jan 23, 2013 00:30
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IOwnCalculus posted:You mean second pinion? Yeah, it'd rotate the opposite direction from the first - but presumably this would be paired with a reverse-rotation tandem axle. Guess I wasn't thinking. I meant the ring gear in the other axle, but my dumb rear end was picturing two standard differentials coupled together. I didn't even think about a reverse-rotation axle being the obvious answer to my question. I was half right, but totally off-track ( ) I guess. Shows how much I love dealing with gearboxes.
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Jan 23, 2013 00:48
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Cat Terrist posted:There'as literally two workshops in Sydney I trust to do a job - SWR in Windsor and RallyEquip in OPendle Hill. Every other fuckign workshop has ballsed up the car I've bought into it and I've had to spend more time fixing their fuckups than it saved getting someone else to do the work. Quoting in whole because I agree wholeheartedly. When I was helping out the person that runs the local rural / commercial / motorbike / whatever store with ADRs and AS compliance on a motorcycle he was modifying he told me about someone in Deniliquin that does top notch work and exports custom stuff to the U.S. That's good to know and I might have to ask him again who it is. He even showed me his website but damned if I can remember it. A good fabricator is worth his / her weight in gold.
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Jan 23, 2013 01:05
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Not the worst thing I've seen on the road, but pretty nasty anyway. 
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Jan 23, 2013 02:06
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rear end in a top hat casserole posted:Not the worst thing I've seen on the road, but pretty nasty anyway. That looks like plastidip. That poo poo is become an epidemic around here. You mean I can be ricey as hell, spraypaint ANYTHING, and shrug off "haters" because I can just peel it off? 
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Jan 23, 2013 02:10
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Pretty sure it's duplicolor metalcast.
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Jan 23, 2013 02:45
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Carteret posted:That looks like plastidip. That poo poo is become an epidemic around here. You mean I can be ricey as hell, spraypaint ANYTHING, and shrug off "haters" because I can just peel it off? That looks nothing like Plastidip.
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Jan 23, 2013 05:00
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Kill-9 posted:Saw this on the way into work this morning. We used my buddies GF's car to go on a camping trip last summer, to save space in the car, we built a similar roof rack. Worked out great.
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Jan 23, 2013 05:08
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Rhyno posted:That looks nothing like Plastidip.   ^plasti-dip. If it was done as a really lovely light coat on silver wheels, it could look like that. Not saying it was, but I've seen pink plastidip'd wheels around here that look very similar.
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Jan 23, 2013 05:08
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It's metalcast, which is cheaper and if you don't do it right it looks exactly like those wheels (been there, done that...not on loving wheels though).
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Jan 23, 2013 05:13
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Carteret posted:
I've dipped 3 sets of wheels and a poo poo load of other things in the last two years. The wheels in the earlier post are clearly spray paint.
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Jan 23, 2013 05:16
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I'm having a problem wrapping my brain around this picture. Took the time to mask the brakes so they could spray the wheels when mounted....? Why not just simply... I dunno... spray the wheels away from the car?
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Jan 23, 2013 05:40
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Cat Terrist posted:I'm having a problem wrapping my brain around this picture. Took the time to mask the brakes so they could spray the wheels when mounted....? Why not just simply... I dunno... spray the wheels away from the car? You don't spray paint your wheels that color and in that manner because you are smart.
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Jan 23, 2013 05:42
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Doesn't look like they took the time to mask the tires or fender, either. Yay overspray! e: I'm diggin' that big dent in the rim? slice in the tire? at around 5 o'clock, too
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They're at it again. NSFW Ads http://www.yaplakal.com/forum11/topic529891.html We should send these guys a pile of rusted out muscle cars, give them something productive to do with their skills rather than spending thousands of man hours fixing $8,000 hyundais
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The Google Translate version of that page is blowing my mind.quote:Cross truck hit while trying to turn. Machine is not cool. quote:The right-hand side just a little bit of custom, that gave us hope and restore the banana quote:The back of the threshold generally boiled quote:A skeleton car fill up on the stand quote:Sufficient at the rear spar and remove the taste of banana on quote:Now, with a horrible screeching drag balances sex quote:Hands reach for the grinder again, she screams a while now and there is no roof in Tucson It's like a beautiful dadaist poem.
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Jan 23, 2013 06:44
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Powershift posted:They're at it again.  
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Jan 23, 2013 06:52
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rear end in a top hat casserole posted:Not the worst thing I've seen on the road, but pretty nasty anyway. That is NOT plasti-dip. That is spray paint. And Godholio is right. It's the Metalcast finish spray paint. The person was trying to achieve the same color as Work Meister S1's in their now-discontinued anodized blue finish. Picture for reference as to what they probably looked like in his mind: 
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Mot sure what's wrong there - that's decent work. It must be a hobby or something. Very good quality work fixing newish shitboxes doesnt gel to me.
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The Livejournal post has more pictures. I like how the replacement roof is also hosed up, just in a way that's easier to hide: It's the automotive equivalent of eating every part of the animal, or something. I like to think you can't get away with this sort of thing in the States.
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Jan 23, 2013 10:13
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SierraEchoBravo posted:What for? That's the worst school-spirit day I've ever heard of. My college is ripping up all its parking lots to put in new dorms I think there will be a total of no more than 20 spaces on campus. The school has an off-site parking lot that the faculty and students will have to use but its more than 2 miles away from campus. There is a shuttle service, but its unreliable enough to get annoying quick. That picture baffles me. do you go to the university of no opportunity?
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otaku69 posted:do you go to the university of no opportunity? I'd call it normal. My school had enough parking on-site for faculty and about 20% of the student body.
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 Needs sirens.
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http://www.cardomain.com/ride/3119622/2004-saturn-ion/page-2/#31196220010
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Godholio posted:I'd call it normal. My school had enough parking on-site for faculty and about 20% of the student body. Same here. 
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