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I have debated changing the team name to "Nothing But Problems Rally", because it really feels that way.
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Jul 14, 2013 16:31
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some texas redneck posted:Happened on my F-150 too. Dented the poo poo out of the quarter panel and made a mess of the (pretty much new) exhaust. Except mine somehow still held air. holy loving poo poo! Someone busted some pinion teeth off and then drove/tried to drive with that catching and jerking for a LONG time. IPCRESS posted:Looks like someone's welded the crown wheel trying to lock the diff. But no-one's that stupid. Are they? Nah, that's a clear case of a bad ring/pinion setup and/or abuse wiping the teeth off the pinion gear, then the rotation of the ring gear and the attempted rotation of the pinion gear (probably from keeping driving using the other diff while that one just catches and snags repeatedly) ripping teeth off of it until there just weren't any left. some texas redneck posted:Supposedly they didn't know how to set up the diff, I don't know enough about diffs to guess though. It's time consuming, but not really that complex. If the contact pattern was wrong (too far from the center of the teeth in any direction) or the bearing preload wasn't high enough it could easily cause this. Too little backlash (contact pattern too far into the valleys between the ring gear teeth) would cause excessive heat and detemper the gears, resulting in quick failure, too much backlash or the contact pattern being too far toward the heel or toe of the ring gear teeth could easily just make the teeth break off the first time someone accelerated hard.
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Jul 14, 2013 16:41
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some texas redneck posted:Happened on my F-150 too. Dented the poo poo out of the quarter panel and made a mess of the (pretty much new) exhaust. Except mine somehow still held air. Catastrophic violence transmission
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Jul 14, 2013 19:04
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A workmate had sheared a wheelbolt, and seeing as he was going to need to replace the hub anyway, we decided to have a crack at getting it out. You know how this normally results in the extractor snapping off? Well, that's a new one. We then decided what the hell, we'd try it again, but we didn't have another tap handle, so had to use a ratched with a suitable size socket on it. This successfully snapped the extractor.
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Jul 14, 2013 19:17
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KozmoNaut posted:Looks like an unlimited slip differential.
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Jul 14, 2013 19:49
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IPCRESS posted:Looks like someone's welded the crown wheel trying to lock the diff. But no-one's that stupid. Are they? 
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Jul 15, 2013 00:37
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That was a pretty great troll thread on Pirate.
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Jul 15, 2013 01:18
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InitialDave posted:A workmate had sheared a wheelbolt, and seeing as he was going to need to replace the hub anyway, we decided to have a crack at getting it out. You know how this normally results in the extractor snapping off? Something's missing.  That's better
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Jul 15, 2013 18:02
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buttcrackmenace posted:Something's missing.   At least they know what kind of car hit them.
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Jul 15, 2013 20:44
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Crossposting from the stupid questions thread: My friend had this motor for almost a year, I really wish we thought to remove the valve cover earlier.
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Jul 16, 2013 00:21
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InitialDave posted:
Jesus that Audi must have been going bloody quick to cause that amount of damage 
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Jul 16, 2013 00:38
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You Am I posted:Jesus that Audi must have been going bloody quick to cause that amount of damage It's an Audi. It either gets driven really quickly until it slams into something else or it gets driven slowly until it needs a new timing chain, at which point it gets sold cheap to someone who will drive it quickly.
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Jul 16, 2013 01:01
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OneStopShop posted:Crossposting from the stupid questions thread: I'll bet the oil passages going to the head are completely blocked. Aaaah the SR-20 memories...
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Jul 16, 2013 02:21
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I really like how you just have that link lying around for whenever the welded diff picture gets posted.
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Jul 16, 2013 04:46
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Really blurry... unfortunately all I had was my blingin' flip phone from 1995. What's wrong with this picture? At first I thought it was an attempt at a block lift or block lowering that went horribly wrong due to the installer being an idiot, but then I realized... there is only one leaf of the leaf spring pack left. And that's a stack of 4 broken leaf spring pieces. Whatever Ford did to the leaf springs they used in 1996 it wasn't a good idea.
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Jul 16, 2013 16:45
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kastein posted:Whatever Ford did to cars in 1996 it wasn't a good idea. Seriously though, I have never seen a failure like that. Are you sure someone didn't deliberately cut them to use like some sort of ghetto lowering or something?
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Jul 16, 2013 21:10
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It looks cut.
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Jul 16, 2013 21:27
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The pic does look cut, but it also looks like someone smeared a quarter inch layer of vaseline on the lens before I took the picture. When I checked the ends of the leafs they appeared fractured.
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Jul 16, 2013 22:02
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Just a reminder:  Neglecting to free and lubricate the caliper slides when you do a brake job is just as foolish as merely replacing your completely worn brake pads with the cheapest poo poo you can find and considering it a brake job in the first place. 
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Jul 17, 2013 06:30
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kastein posted:Really blurry... unfortunately all I had was my blingin' flip phone from 1995. Are you sure it's 4 broken pieces under the leaf? Ford used a weird single-leaf "pack" on the rear of some years of the Explorer back in the 90's. I don't know why they'd have the spacer underneath in that case, unless it was purely to let them use the same bottom plate and shock as the multi-leaf packs as a cost-savings measure. edit: What a pain in the rear end it is finding a picture of the Ford monoleaf setup. It was found on 95-00 Sport models. This pic doesn't have the super thick spacer or stack of broken leaves like your find did. 
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Jul 17, 2013 06:46
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You Am I posted:Jesus that Audi must have been going bloody quick to cause that amount of damage The current generation of drivers in Zurich or Solothurn are also shockingly bad according to Swiss standards. The fact they were in an Audi just compounds the stereotype.
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Jul 17, 2013 14:43
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Brings a tear to my eye.
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Jul 17, 2013 15:59
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StimpyBoy posted:I have debated changing the team name to "Nothing But Problems Rally", because it really feels that way. If you have any lowercase "i"s around you can throw one on upside down after the "No." Maybe add a comma after "Problem" as well.
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Jul 17, 2013 16:43
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Just scrape off everything but the word "Problem" and add an exclamation point. "Problem!"
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Jul 18, 2013 00:25
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This one would be more appropriate for rally people as well as offroaders  http://www.amazon.com/Problem-Offroad-Bumper-Sticker-Decal/dp/B001NQQ9WI
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Jul 18, 2013 01:21
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Pope Ron Paul II posted:The current generation of drivers in Zurich or Solothurn are also shockingly bad according to Swiss standards. The fact they were in an Audi just compounds the stereotype. Great. I'm going to be driving around Switzerland in about a week, I was counting on the typically rigid Swiss driving instruction to provide a relatively low-stress environment. 
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Jul 19, 2013 03:52
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PainterofCrap posted:Great. I'm going to be driving around Switzerland in about a week, I was counting on the typically rigid Swiss driving instruction to provide a relatively low-stress environment. Near total failure of the ROPS I expect there'll be a few interesting questions asked of the manufacturer abour that. E: Unless it's the best forced perspective chalk drawing ever.
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Jul 19, 2013 04:07
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If you look at the right edge of the picture there appears to be a ledge, so it might only be a partial failure. Which is only marginally less terrifying.
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Jul 19, 2013 05:18
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Do I win some sort of prize or a plague of broken extractors to come?
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Jul 19, 2013 06:18
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Looks like you win the chance to try again.
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Jul 19, 2013 06:27
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DefaultPeanut posted:Do I win some sort of prize or a plague of broken extractors to come? No finger, no prize.
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Jul 19, 2013 06:56
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DefaultPeanut posted:Do I win some sort of prize or a plague of broken extractors to come? peekaboo!  e: two left hands!  Corrected.e2: My high school art teacher would have given me poo poo about the underlying anatomy of this photo. One hand holds the ez-out, the other gestures triumphantly. With which remaining appendage is the photographer supposed to have operated the camera? here, have a template buttcrackmenace fucked around with this message at 17:19 on Jul 19, 2013 |
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Jul 19, 2013 17:12
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buttcrackmenace posted:e2: My old art teacher would have given me poo poo about the underlying anatomy of this photo. One hand holds the ez-out, the other gestures triumphantly. Google Glass 
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Jul 19, 2013 17:19
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Check and mate high school art teacher 
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Jul 19, 2013 18:38
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My buddy was having a wobbly wheel that was diagnosed as a ball joint so I gave him a spare ball joint I had taken out of my car at low miles. Here's the old one once what was left of the boot was removed: 
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Jul 19, 2013 21:46
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This was in the electrical A/T thread, but this is quite the mechanical failure for the gearheads here: Overhead Crane Failure
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Jul 20, 2013 04:13
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Three-Phase posted:This was in the electrical A/T thread, but this is quite the mechanical failure for the gearheads here: Until recently I didn't realize that purely industrial gas turbines were so large. I guess when it's not flying and pure power at any weight is the goal things get massive. 75 tons of rotating mass though?   That compression ratio. 
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Previa_fun posted:I guess when it's not flying and pure power at any weight is the goal things get massive. 75 tons of rotating mass though? Not like you are changing velocities much. Steady state, rotating mass isn't such a big deal. Probably helps damp vibrations if anything.
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Sadi posted:Not like you are changing velocities much. Steady state, rotating mass isn't such a big deal. Probably helps damp vibrations if anything. They are designed to spin at an anti-resonant frequency so the vibrations are the lowest they can be.
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