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CommieGIR posted:I was about to give up when I finally heard the noticeable pop of a bolt coming un-torqued. Can be the greatest sound you've hard in ages in given circumstances.
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I wish I had gotten pictures of what came out of it, maybe next time. I was visiting with my father in law yesterday and my nephews were in town, ages 6 and 4. To help keep the little rugrats occupied, he always gives them little jobs to do. The job yesterday was to wash his almost new JD Gator with about 30 hours on it. He didn't keep a close enough eye on him, and when he want to start the gator to put it up, she wouldn't fire up. FIL turned it over long enough to get it to fire, drove it down to the barn and it stalled again. Upon closer inspection, there was water dripping from the air cleaner housing ( oh poo poo ) and water in the muffler ( oh poo poo ). I pulled the dipstick and it was a quart overfull and a nice milky white ( Oh gently caress ) We drained it, flushed it out, and got it back right again, but I am disbelief the loving thing didn't hydrolock with a quart of water in it. Also reinforced my decision to never have kids.
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Farking Bastage posted:I wish I had gotten pictures of what came out of it, maybe next time. I'm not a farmer or anything but letting 6 year olds play around unsupervised with what sounds like farm equipment seems like a really bad idea.
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Root Bear posted:It's got whiskers Is it too much to hope that's not an actual Goodyear?
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Mar 11, 2013 03:04
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Root Bear posted:It's got whiskers Pray tell what does that mean? Or what are those?
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Mar 11, 2013 03:11
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I'm afraid that's steel belt weave. Nothing says pain like changing a tire with a shifted belt worn through to the weave without very heavy gloves on...you wind up with a tire attached to your palms.
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Mar 11, 2013 03:16
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It's filaments from the braided steel belts inside the tire, coming out to play! This is a very not good thing. e: 
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Mar 11, 2013 03:16
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PainterofCrap posted:I'm afraid that's steel belt weave. Isn't that the truth.
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Mar 11, 2013 03:18
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blaitarch posted:Pray tell what does that mean? Or what are those? They grow up so fast.
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Mar 11, 2013 04:12
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On the subject of tires with metal things sticking out of them, I hope this counts: The Kevlar did its job, but it was barely a millimeter away from jamming the brake and locking the rear wheel in the middle of an intersection.
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Mar 11, 2013 04:34
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PainterofCrap posted:I'm afraid that's steel belt weave. The best way to inspect control cables/wire rope is to have an apprentice run a rag down the length of the cable. When he screams, and blood comes out, that cable fails inspection.
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Mar 11, 2013 04:50
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Bottom bearing of a vertical auger on a Zamboni: Normal wear on a bearing:  Ran for months like that.. sounded like hell and was probably very very unsafe. It is supposed to be sealed.
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Mar 11, 2013 04:59
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Throatwarbler posted:I'm not a farmer or anything but letting 6 year olds play around unsupervised with what sounds like farm equipment seems like a really bad idea. A Gator isn't really what you'd call farm equipment, it's more like the middle ground between a golf cart and an ATV, usually with a box bed on the back. Also, TIL the US Military uses Gators. Rad.
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Mar 11, 2013 05:45
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Gators are those 6x6/4x4 quad tractor things that public parks use to haul drunks around in the back of. Note handbrake. This is significant.
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Mar 11, 2013 05:51
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Gators are those 6x6/4x4 quad tractor things that public parks use to haul drunks around in the back of. Best part of my old motorpool was drifting around in our 6x6 gators.
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Mar 11, 2013 05:54
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Gators are those 6x6/4x4 quad tractor things that public parks use to haul drunks around in the back of. Unfortunately that style of Gator is not available with driven front wheels, they're all 4x2 or 6x4. This is also significant if the bed is full on the six wheelers, as the front wheels can often become merely a suggestion as the rears plow forward (especially if you have the tracks installed). This can be terrifying if you're coming up a hill with a side angle and due to the lack of real suspension the front wheels come entirely off the ground. Those things really need split brakes like a tractor. But yes, unloaded they're a riot and the diesels feel positively unstoppable.
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Mar 11, 2013 06:37
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The new ones are more ATV and less crawler. It's a slightly smaller version of this one http://www.deere.com/wps/dcom/en_US/products/equipment/gator_utility_vehicles/recreational_utility_vehicles/850i/rsx850i.page
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 happened to a friend of mine at Buttonwillow "So...I was chasing down an Evo into Sunset in 5th gear at full speed. Hit the brake pedal, heard a loud pop and went straight off because I couldn't slow down enough. Turns out this is what happened." I never liked how wilwood attaches the discs to the hats. Everyone else uses a belleville washer or something to compensate for expansion and give some float. They just bolt them right down.
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Mar 11, 2013 18:53
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That is a picture to send them with that comment. That is not the first part of the floating setup I'd expect to fail, either.
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Mar 12, 2013 02:11
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Oh man, we just put a Wilwood setup on our LeMons Camaro, because one of our guys insisted the stock hubs would fail...
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Shifty Pony posted:On the subject of tires with metal things sticking out of them... 
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Mar 12, 2013 05:23
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UGH That's scary. Wilwoods have always seemed a little hokey to me and not anything I'd want to put up to genuine track use. Are those slots in the rotors or pad printing?
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Mar 12, 2013 05:31
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i always equated willwood = brembo in quality..ive never really used great brakes outside of my cobra. i guess thats advertising and a high price for ya 
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SNiPER_Magnum posted:UGH That's scary. Wilwoods have always seemed a little hokey to me and not anything I'd want to put up to genuine track use. I feel like I see Willwoods on a lot of track specific cars. Im pretty sure Ive seen them on formula style cars even.
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You do, mostly because they are cheap and light. After putting one set of rotors together years ago I said I'd never touch them again, but still considered them acceptable for a light, low powered car. This happened on an S2000 that is n/a and on street tires, and has brake cooling ducts. For stuff that sees serious abuse I like Stoptech and AP racing. Brembo is good too but it seems like you're paying more for the name. Or maybe I could say that for AP too. In conclusion, buy stoptechs. jamal fucked around with this message at 07:34 on Mar 12, 2013 |
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WebDog posted:I scored this once. Free wrench!  (not my photo)
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MrYenko posted:The best way to inspect control cables/wire rope is to have an apprentice run a rag down the length of the cable. When he screams, and blood comes out, that cable fails inspection. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7ifgUuOukQ. Ping. Ping. Kersproing. Two inch steel wire rope. This company has a series of videos. Dyneema vs Steel is pretty cool, too. Ok. Two hours of youtube fail videos later, and something beautiful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nypb8_HTenE babyeatingpsychopath fucked around with this message at 12:22 on Mar 12, 2013 |
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Mar 12, 2013 10:38
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Magnificent.
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:Dyneema vs Steel is pretty cool, too. I introduced Dyneema at my work, shits light yo. Expensive, susceptible to shock loading & can't handle heat but being 10% of the weight of the rope it replaced is a killer benefit.
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Cakefool posted:I introduced Dyneema at my work, shits light yo. Expensive, susceptible to shock loading & can't handle heat but being 10% of the weight of the rope it replaced is a killer benefit. This is somehow going to come back and bite you in the rear end 
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Someone wrecked into a car dealership here, managing to hit 18 new Hyundai cars:   Where is the mechanical failure?  I don't think that is supposed to happen.
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Mar 13, 2013 15:46
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Along similar lines, a pink Micra loses control and tbones another car in a gas station.
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Mar 13, 2013 15:54
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Throatwarbler posted:Along similar lines, a pink Micra loses control and tbones another car in a gas station. That's an Opel/Vauxhall Corsa.
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No, I'm pretty sure that's an Aston Martin, although it's hard to tell the difference.
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Shifty Pony posted:Someone wrecked into a car dealership here, managing to hit 18 new Hyundai cars: http://youtu.be/Cxqgn_zxDKE I think I've seen this before.....
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Beach Bum posted:This is somehow going to come back and bite you in the rear end Shiiiiiiiiiit.
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Shifty Pony posted:Someone wrecked into a car dealership here, managing to hit 18 new Hyundai cars: I'm sure the driver will conveniently claim that his car was  stolen at some point the night before when they track him down.
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Shifty Pony posted:Someone wrecked into a car dealership here, managing to hit 18 new Hyundai cars: Jesus, it looks more like they were in the crossfire of a knock down drag out between Autobots and Decepticons for Transformers 4!
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Anyone thirsty?
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BrumDart posted:Anyone thirsty? I was craving chocolate milk today. Not anymore.  "How many miles ago was your last oil change?" "Eh, uhm... I dunno... uh... a few thousand I think?" 
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