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Root Bear posted:After a thorough steam cleaning, it'll make a fine boat anchor! Or a coffee table. Could that have been the cause behind the damaged rockers? The grenading piston bending a pushrod or something?
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Where did all the piston bits go? Crankcase and oil sump? Touche. Anyway, before I got over his house he found that the ground for the methanol kit worked it's way out and we believe that caused the kit to miss and caused this lovely carnage you see here. Seat Safety Switch posted:Or a coffee table. Could that have been the cause behind the damaged rockers? The grenading piston bending a pushrod or something? I mean if it was just the one, sure, but there were a few others that had developed stress fractures. Comp said it looked like a bad batch and shipped him out a new set. Dizman fucked around with this message at 03:46 on Apr 23, 2013 |
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Or a coffee table. Could that have been the cause behind the damaged rockers? The grenading piston bending a pushrod or something? If your going to do a coffee table, I find that it has to be an old Jaguar V12. Just looks so fitting.
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BrokenKnucklez posted:If your going to do a coffee table, I find that it has to be an old Jaguar V12. Just looks so fitting. I prefer my V12 coffee tables to be of the L539 variety.
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Sadly I don't have a picture (couldn't get my cellphone out of my pocket while driving and it's illegal anyway) but there was a CR-V on my commute with both the upper and lower control arms torn free of the chassis with the wheel hanging loose inside the inner fender and jutting out at a severe angle. Looked like there was a strut on the hub as well but I couldn't tell for sure. From what I could tell the CV shaft was still attached to the front diff, but it was at a pretty extreme angle and dripping grease onto the ground. I'm guessing that one of the balljoints let loose, and then they kept driving on it until the other balljoint let loose, ripping the entire upright out of the car. Good thing that costs less than a tow, right?
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I'd like a dinner table radial off an ME 323C.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Sadly I don't have a picture (couldn't get my cellphone out of my pocket while driving and it's illegal anyway) but there was a CR-V on my commute with both the upper and lower control arms torn free of the chassis with the wheel hanging loose inside the inner fender and jutting out at a severe angle. Looked like there was a strut on the hub as well but I couldn't tell for sure. I'm imagining it looked a bit like this: 
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Apr 23, 2013 19:25
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Dizman posted:At this point maybe a head bolt... I'm guessing they're aftermarket but if not, the factory ones are torque-to-yield... so not even that 
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IOwnCalculus posted:I'm guessing they're aftermarket but if not, the factory ones are torque-to-yield... so not even that Yeah, after market. In all honestly the only things he's saved are the Fast 102, fuel rails, injectors and throttle body, and those are getting sold since they won't work with the LS2.
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Someone ...used Permatex as head gasket cement? Gahhh 
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PainterofCrap posted:Someone I've actually seen the Permatex headgasket done before. Kid who thought he knew his poo poo about cars decided he wanted to get into the business of flipping cars for profit. Well, he bought a car with a busted headgasket and just slathered about two tubes of black permatex (high temp!  ) in place of a headgasket. Called me over to figure out why it was running so hot. Genius kid, that one.
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Devyl posted:I've actually seen the Permatex headgasket done before. Kid who thought he knew his poo poo about cars decided he wanted to get into the business of flipping cars for profit. Well, he bought a car with a busted headgasket and just slathered about two tubes of black permatex (high temp! The mind really boggles when you consider that a proper, new head gasket is not at all expensive. I guess you've got to cut corners and costs wherever you can though when you're a high powered mover and shaker in the used automotive resale world!
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FIRST TIME posted:The mind really boggles when you consider that a proper, new head gasket is not at all expensive. I guess you've got to cut corners and costs wherever you can though when you're a high powered mover and shaker in the used automotive resale world! Gotta get huge profit margins so you can always relocate when people come in after melting RTV head gaskets!
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CommieGIR posted:My wife was in the back and referred to it as the 'Parade of Shame' I dont know how often they do it, but if you hit the Varsity off of Spring Street, every so often they have a car show. I know the one here (Athens) tends to have one once a month. You don't really see the ricers, more older cars and Corvettes. Always Corvettes.
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The fun stuff that was missed was the apparent 20 years of seawater exposure to the jugs, the green braided poo poo on everything, and the awesome wiring harness that looks soviet at best.
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KKKLIP ART posted:I dont know how often they do it, but if you hit the Varsity off of Spring Street, every so often they have a car show. I know the one here (Athens) tends to have one once a month. You don't really see the ricers, more older cars and Corvettes. Always Corvettes. Is there a car show that owners of C4 and up corvettes won't crash?
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Cars and Coffee, if they hold one near you, is where the awesomeness is. and last time I checked, they stopped the car shows at the Varsity in Atlanta because of a highspeed pursuit ending up there, with the suspect parking and trying to "blend in."
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Carteret posted:Cars and Coffee, if they hold one near you, is where the awesomeness is. No, they certainly crash C&C Irvine. They try to wave them away, but old guys wake up really early. (There is awesomeness though. My last trip has a veyron and a 959.)
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PainterofCrap posted:Someone My idiot mate and his father did that on a Camry he cooked. First time i've ever seen or heard of someone successfully killing the camry 2.2L 4 pot...
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Ferremit posted:My idiot mate and his father did that on a Camry he cooked. My neighbour a couple of doors across about 10 years back did this to a motorcycle. He was an ...interesting person. I remember him riding a kids bike down our street which had a brushcutter motor lashed to it with rope and a bit of pipe jammed on the end of its shaft to act as a friction wheel drive. he also left his Sidchrome tools out on the ground in the back alleyway to rust.
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Carteret posted:Cars and Coffee, if they hold one near you, is where the awesomeness is. Atlanta's is Caffeine and Octane, first Sunday of the month up on the Northside. I want to say its around the Cumberland area.
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CommieGIR posted:No pictures, but Sunday I was driving down I-75 south back to Atlanta, and ricer after ricer was heading up I-75 north towards Chattanooga. That's what you get living so close to Atlanta. Have you taken a tour of Road Atlanta yet? You can drive next to the track in a couple of places since there is houses all over the place there.
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InterceptorV8 posted:That's what you get living so close to Atlanta. Have you taken a tour of Road Atlanta yet? You can drive next to the track in a couple of places since there is houses all over the place there. I have not yet, between tearing down my new ALH motor for my TDI and replacing the motor in the Audi, I've been busy.
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Pretty sure this is not mechanical failure, but pure stupidity. From a friends cell phone
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the_worm_ posted:Pretty sure this is not mechanical failure, but pure stupidity. From a friends cell phone A decade ago I was going to work and had to detour via a side street from the highway due to some guy managing to kill himself after leaving the forks up on his garbage truck and having them slam into a pedestrian overpass which collapsed on top of him. The speed limit on this stretch of highway is 70 KM/h (Lougheed Highway for those in Vancouver) and the overpass was fairly old so it just gave way. The guy died on the scene as it just fell on top of his cab.
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OSI bean dip posted:A decade ago I was going to work and had to detour via a side street from the highway due to some guy managing to kill himself after leaving the forks up on his garbage truck and having them slam into a pedestrian overpass which collapsed on top of him. The speed limit on this stretch of highway is 70 KM/h (Lougheed Highway for those in Vancouver) and the overpass was fairly old so it just gave way. I was working in a warehouse that did pallet sorting and repair. And I watched a guy put a stack of pallets on top of another and then barrel full speed towards the truck dock with his forks still up in the air. I don't think I've yelled louder then that day, luckily the dude stopped just before he put his forks into the raised door and the upper wall behind it.
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Recently one of our CSAs did some work to his exhaust. The idea was to remove the flowmaster muffler, chop off the cats (which he assumed were clogged for some reason), and replace both with straight pipe. The muffler side was botched horribly; replacing a single 2-passage muffler with 2 tubes necessitates bracing the pipes together... which was done with a piece of threaded rod. As was the broken exhaust hanger the guy "fixed". Oh, and rather than a steel pipe he used flex hose to bridge the gap. Now, the cats were taken off, only to discover that they were basically brand new; apparently the PO had replaced them at some point. So the guy "welded" them back in (this is typical of all the welding he did): The cost for this artisan craftsmanship? $350. On a 350 Chevy pickup. You could practically buy a whole new bolt-in exhaust for that price. The whole exhaust leaks like crazy and sounds like poo poo. Oh, and the twin exhaust tips angling out beneath the tailgate? One sits a few inches down, the other is practically rubbing on the body. This on was on a customer's car. He drove it in like this.  ~05 Explorer, front hub was basically being held on by the axle nut.
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Those are the worst welds I've ever seen
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Hey look someone who has worse welds than Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester!
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He gave the truck genital warts? 
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Fucknag posted:
A 99 Ford Taurus came in yesterday for an inspection, and according to the customer "It just started shaking and clunks real bad"   
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Root Bear posted:A 99 Ford Taurus came in yesterday for an inspection, and according to the customer "It just started shaking and clunks real bad" How in... those studs have corrosion on them! They've clearly been broken for at least a few weeks!
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Dick Diggler posted:Those are the worst welds I've ever seen
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I wished I had had a phone with a working camera a few years ago. A 194X Chevy pickup came in with a Mustang II suspension install 'done' and wanted the rear suspension and drivetrain, etc. The 'installed' front suspension kit all looked like this. Moron + arc welder = bubblegum.
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I've never touched a welder. That looks like I did it.
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I read up on welding on Wikipedia for an hour then started some basic MIG welding practice with a Home Depot welder and it was 10x better than that on my first pass. Still looked like poo poo and was boogery, but at least it looked like a weld and not coral growth.
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the_worm_ posted:Pretty sure this is not mechanical failure, but pure stupidity. From a friends cell phone Stupid, but lucky. He could very well have ended up like this truck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gLzZ1rLSF8
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That isn't welding, that's an interlocking pile of weld spatter that happens to hold things together... for now. I tried to learn to weld in 2009 with a 25 amp Craftsman buzzbox from the 60s and a stack of 1/8 6011 rod. My first, second, and third welds were all better than that and I was so bad I proceeded to blow the welder up - not sure what happened to it, all I know is that I saw a large shower of sparks explode out of the air vents on the side of the case and it never worked again.
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InitialDave posted:It's more like a spaceframe or a chassis with an integral cage, if it were a unibody/monocoque, it would have at least some of the outer panelwork as an integral part of the structure, and it doesn't, the body proper is non-structural. It's what's called a perimeter-frame. Well, I guess you could call it a space-frame. Sir Cornelius fucked around with this message at 11:37 on Apr 26, 2013 |
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