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Black88GTA posted:Hot oil lines run directly into the gauge cluster / passenger compartment? Its really common for people to use oil line fed gauges when they cant figure out how to wire an electric one. Most of the time this is when the OEM gauge has failed, but in Alfa's case, who can say? I've replaced dozens of alfa convertible tops and frames, but i had to call the local alfa shop to ask them where the trunk handle was. The whole car is a mechanical failure.
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Raw_Beef posted:Its really common for people to use oil line fed gauges when they cant figure out how to wire an electric one. Most of the time this is when the OEM gauge has failed, but in Alfa's case, who can say? I've replaced dozens of alfa convertible tops and frames, but i had to call the local alfa shop to ask them where the trunk handle was. The whole car is a mechanical failure. Don't old minis have this setup as well? Also should probably note that analogue oil pressure gauges are cheap as chips whereas ones that involve a sensor and so on are much pricier.
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Jan 31, 2013 06:39
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Cheap is good, but in that case can I please have it mounted outside the cabin? 
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Splizwarf posted:Cheap is good, but in that case can I please have it mounted outside the cabin? I think this is the only OEM external gauge ever. I could be totally wrong. No idea why it didnt catch on  
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Raw_Beef posted:I think this is the only OEM external gauge ever. I could be totally wrong. No idea why it didnt catch on It was/is a drag thing. If you've got your mint Chevelle, you don't want to hack up the dash or side pillar for gauges, so you tuck them in the cowl and in front of the windshield. It began way before the day of multi-readout digital display EL lit color changing LED screen gauges of today. It's still pretty common with muscle car enthusiasts.   
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Plus if you have a purely mechanical gauge it makes it easier to hook up.
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Nice, this right here is what I was talking about. The other photos posted are kind of tacky but I always thought this style was really smooth.
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Raw_Beef posted:Its really common for people to use oil line fed gauges when they cant figure out how to wire an electric one. Most of the time this is when the OEM gauge has failed, but in Alfa's case, who can say? I've replaced dozens of alfa convertible tops and frames, but i had to call the local alfa shop to ask them where the trunk handle was. The whole car is a mechanical failure. The battery was in the trunk, under some upholstery, behind the jack. I never did figure out how to set the clock. It said BORG on it and had two buttons, neither of which did anything. Also, I misremembered in my earlier post. The speedometer never worked right. The only thing it'd tell you was that an indicated 50 was faster than an indicated 30. Those speeds had little to do with outside reality, changing based on some Italian formula, probably based on weather. I just got good with matching gear and tach to speed limits. (2200 in 3rd is 40mph, etc.) I have got to find my print photos. I have some shots from when I blew up 2nd gear synchro, and my Italian repair man managed to bring me two oily handfuls of pieces explaining why I had to rev-match, and what that noise was, and thank you for bringing it in before we had to replace the whole gearbox.
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thelightguy posted:I have faith that even the most idiotic of idiots could manage to match color to color. Sparking off a battery that's offgassing because they didn't read the loving instructions on the jumper cable package? That's much more plausible. Let me tell you about my frinds who we'll call Stu and Tom, because those are their names, both doing electronics A Levels at the time, apparently one decided the best way to jump a car was to make a circuit with the two batteries. After about 5 seconds I realised this had happened and shouted WHAT HAVE YOU DONE DISCONNECT IT, but the loving cable was so hot it had melted the insulation on the jump leads and burnt Stu's hands. I'd imagine lots of idiots can do this without noticing. Stu and Tom were lucky that in their case an idiot noticed.
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Crankit posted:Let me tell you about my frinds who we'll call Stu and Tom, because those are their names, both doing electronics A Levels at the time, apparently one decided the best way to jump a car was to make a circuit with the two batteries. After about 5 seconds I realised this had happened and shouted WHAT HAVE YOU DONE DISCONNECT IT, but the loving cable was so hot it had melted the insulation on the jump leads and burnt Stu's hands. Holy poo poo it's like when I wasn't paying attention a couple of months ago and connected the one jumper lead across both terminals of a battery. I was working on either the quad or the pocket chopper and using a car battery to start it. Mistake realised in a few seconds when the smoke started. I unclipped one of the clips from the battery although it was actively melting. No Idea how I didn't really burn myself. I was just too lovely about the damage I did to one of my good leads.
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:I never did figure out how to set the clock. It said BORG on it and had two buttons, neither of which did anything. Your effort to change the display was clearly both irrelevant and futile.
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Raw_Beef posted:I think this is the only OEM external gauge ever. I could be totally wrong. No idea why it didnt catch on Trans Am Turbo did it too, although the utility of its gauge is questionable at best.  TURBO CHARGE: HIGH.
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General_Failure posted:Holy poo poo it's like when I wasn't paying attention a couple of months ago and connected the one jumper lead across both terminals of a battery. I was working on either the quad or the pocket chopper and using a car battery to start it. Mistake realised in a few seconds when the smoke started. I was fortunate once not to set a truck on fire when I used speaker wire to jump a battery while I was holding both the battery and the wire. BUUUUTTTTTT no one wanted to lend me jumper cables and it was my only option... Turns out you CAN jump a car with speaker wire but you'd better wear gloves cause that poo poo gets hot.
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11BulletCatcher posted:I was fortunate once not to set a truck on fire when I used speaker wire to jump a battery while I was holding both the battery and the wire. BUUUUTTTTTT no one wanted to lend me jumper cables and it was my only option... Turns out you CAN jump a car with speaker wire but you'd better wear gloves cause that poo poo gets hot. My dad tried that with UPS batteries and alligator clips. We stopped when the smoke started.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Trans Am Turbo did it too, although the utility of its gauge is questionable at best. High doesn't illuminate unless it is overboosting, too.
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^ The only thing that would make that more awesome is if it was a scale of 1-11.Black88GTA posted:Hot oil lines run directly into the gauge cluster / passenger compartment? My '66 Corvette has an oil line to the guage. I didn't realize what it was until I disconnected it while removing the cluster (holy poo poo what a pain in the rear end) but it only leaked a couple of drops; I wrapped it in a ziploc w/rubber band while the cluster was out. Godholio fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Jan 31, 2013 |
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Trans Am Turbo did it too, although the utility of its gauge is questionable at best. Whats sad about this is that if they had rigged up like a dozen little LEDs in a line going from green to red, it wouldve been a totally awesome gauge. Instead they  and made that. Nasca edition?
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Raw_Beef posted:Whats sad about this is that if they had rigged up like a dozen little LEDs in a line going from green to red, it wouldve been a totally awesome gauge. Instead they NASCAR edition (more of a trim package if I remember correctly). Keep in mind that's on a late '70s Trans Am, LEDs weren't anywhere near ready for automotive use then (and were only red, green LEDs were much later).
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DJ Commie posted:High doesn't illuminate unless it is overboosting, too. Or when KITT goes into super-pursuit mode.
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Farmdizzle posted:Anyway, this here is not a *huge* failure, and it's electrical rather than mechanical, but it is pretty horrible when you hit a pothole in a rain squall and your wipers stop working! Why not just resolder the broken joints? You can also bypass the burnt trace with a short piece of 20 or 22AWG wire. This way you'll have a working spare ready
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buttcrackmenace posted:Why not just resolder the broken joints? You can also bypass the burnt trace with a short piece of 20 or 22AWG wire. Read my post again. I did resolder them. Also, the lovely part isn't the one from RockAuto, it's the one from loving GM.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Trans Am Turbo did it too, although the utility of its gauge is questionable at best. I like the direction this thread is heading. Can we have more turbo failures please?     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zx3qKX_Pno
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Is that a compressor wheel broken off the shaft and sucked down the intake manifold?  Kind of like a turbocharger failure but on a bigger scale:  Google find. I think that's a JT9D that chewed something up.
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Previa_fun posted:Is that a compressor wheel broken off the shaft and sucked down the intake manifold? Turbine wheel in downpipe. Here are a couple I've collected. I'd blame this one on poor mounting of the turbo and charge pipes:  This appears to be a cheapo knockoff that didn't pass a burst test:  Here's a Subaru that either had FOD from the up-pipe cat or an oil supply issue:  This was too many boosts I think:   And this was an oil supply issue on a WRX: 
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jamal posted:Turbine wheel in downpipe. Had I thought about how a turbo works for two seconds I would have realized that. Plus all the carbon was a clue. 
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Throatwarbler posted:What? The weakest point along the entire intake tract was this part made of solid 1/2" thick cast iron? Probably not iron, but poorly-cast aluminum. Or, by the looks of it, maybe it was just 3d printed and painted.
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thelightguy posted:Battery offgassing hydrogen + spark. Believe it or not, it's not really common knowledge that you should clip the negative clamp to something metal that isn't the battery. thelightguy posted:I have faith that even the most idiotic of idiots could manage to match color to color. Sparking off a battery that's offgassing because they didn't read the loving instructions on the jumper cable package? That's much more plausible. MadScientistWorking fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Feb 1, 2013 |
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MadScientistWorking posted:I don't own a car haven't driven one in about eight years and yet even I know that. You're smarter than most people. Here's a cookie.
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Throatwarbler posted:What? The weakest point along the entire intake tract was this part made of solid 1/2" thick cast iron? They usually don't make compressor covers out of 1/2" thick iron.
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Camshaft carnage. The smaller objects are the rocker arms that I had to re-assemble CSI-style so as to know how many chunks to look for when taking the sump off. Also have to find the two pairs of collets it smacked out of the retainers.  
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Slavvy posted:Camshaft carnage. The smaller objects are the rocker arms that I had to re-assemble CSI-style so as to know how many chunks to look for when taking the sump off. Also have to find the two pairs of collets it smacked out of the retainers. I guess the camshaft broke and the pistons rammed the valves into the rockers, breaking them? If that's the case it sure sounds a whole lot cheaper than replacing pistons, valves, and maybe even the head itself.
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Previa_fun posted:Kind of like a turbocharger failure but on a bigger scale: I had an APU come back from overhaul, and get installed with a 1st stage that looked like that. Day shift couldn't figure out why it kept shutting down and BITing overtemp during the ops check, till I stuck a borescope down the intake. It looked like someone had fed it rocks.
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MrYenko posted:I had an APU come back from overhaul, and get installed with a 1st stage that looked like that. Day shift couldn't figure out why it kept shutting down and BITing overtemp during the ops check, till I stuck a borescope down the intake. It looked like someone had fed it rocks. hmmm.... was this at NWA in 2005 right before the strike? we had one like that....
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MrYenko posted:I had an APU come back from overhaul, and get installed with a 1st stage that looked like that. That's kind of terrifying. This is what our APUs fail like: 
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 After 6 months of dealing with a signal not working I finally decided to replace the power board on my Range Rovers body controller. *everything* goes through this guy. I lost the front right signal indicator, headlight wash/wipe, and a few other minor glitches like loosing sync with the key.
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At least it went out and not in. I'm guessing there's some sort of shielding on the inwards facing side so you don't shower the passengers or cargo with shrapnel in case it blows?
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Black88GTA posted:Hot oil lines run directly into the gauge cluster / passenger compartment? There was an Australian car that I can't remember the name of from the fake edit: found it. The Lightburn Zeta. Holy poo poo it was a lot more recent than I thought.
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