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 Expedition for size comparison. The hitch receiver was about the height of my face while sitting in my car 
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Oct 11, 2013 01:45
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Put a watermelon in his tailpipe.
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Oct 11, 2013 01:47
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Crustashio posted:"I just blue myself" "Please be aware that this car does *not* shoot pink flames out of the exhaust when you shift gears, and it seems to be missing it's Manifold warning system laptop. Also, I have pushed every button I could find while driving but have not yet found the one that activates the NOS. The system may have disabled itself because it can't warn me when my manifold is in danger, but my fiancée and I are not really car people, so we don't know. I'm pretty sure these things can be easily fixed by fitting a new laptop and getting a tune up."
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Previa_fun posted:Put a watermelon in his tailpipe. Need something bigger. I could probably fit my head in there. I'm just glad he didn't have a smoke tune.
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Oct 11, 2013 01:49
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Seat Safety Switch posted:The thing I'm most upset about is that whatever retard bought that wasn't around to buy my cars without asking any questions or, apparently, arguing prices. Tell me about it. I'm trying to see if anyone wants to trade an older stock civic/corolla/etc +cash for my e46 330ci sport. It's like pulling teeth. No, I will not straight trade for a stock DX sedan with the same mileage.
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Oct 11, 2013 01:52
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560hp on that loving Civic ahahahahahahahha
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Oct 11, 2013 01:54
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some texas redneck posted:
I really can't understand how these things are allowed to drive on public roads.
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Oct 11, 2013 01:55
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Bovril Delight posted:560hp on that loving Civic ahahahahahahahha With O pictures of the highly modified engine.
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Oct 11, 2013 02:04
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Bovril Delight posted:560hp on that loving Civic ahahahahahahahha I wonder if thats before the NOS! I just picture them being super excited about their car purchase only to suffer the slow and painful realisation that they had made a horrible horrible mistake.
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Oct 11, 2013 02:12
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Bovril Delight posted:560hp on that loving Civic ahahahahahahahha Dyno pics or it didn't happen. tobu posted:I just picture them being super excited about their car purchase only to suffer the slow and painful realisation that they had made a horrible horrible mistake. "What do you mean it only has 110 HP?"
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Oct 11, 2013 02:16
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Pham Nuwen posted:Paging Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester, your welder is working side jobs.
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Oct 11, 2013 02:50
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Mitchard posted:I really can't understand how these things are allowed to drive on public roads. Texas plates 
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Oct 11, 2013 03:48
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The blue Honda has a Clarion amp. That's the icing on the very delicious cake of tears and lies.
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Oct 11, 2013 06:27
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He rode the lightning.
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Oct 11, 2013 06:33
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Anything in particular wrong with Clarion? The OEM stereo in my car is a Clarion, and I have no complaints.
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Oct 11, 2013 06:37
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Tekne posted:He rode the lightning. Has anyone confirmed this to be the actual first wrecked C7? Any more info/shots?
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Oct 11, 2013 07:36
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davebo posted:Has anyone confirmed this to be the actual first wrecked C7? Any more info/shots? The first civilian one maybe, there was that one that spun out on a desert road in Utah or some such and another one that was t-boned by a Lincoln Town Car at an intersection but those were all manufacturer demo/test cars.
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Oct 11, 2013 07:45
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kastein posted:
I don't get why that would break. The axle shaft provides a rotational force and tension along its axis, but has no strength in either the vertical or horizontal axis. The ball joints and tie rod should hold that just fine without an axle shaft. edit: the Dana 44 I have also has the cotter key and nut on the top of the axle, and the bottom is flat. What kind of axle is this one? StormDrain fucked around with this message at 13:52 on Oct 11, 2013 |
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Oct 11, 2013 13:45
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There is truck-related stupidity attempting to happen around the DC beltway today, which is conveniently being photo documented by twitter and shared through local news-radio WTOP. Notable amongst the early photos: Nothing says "I care about safety!" like a bunch of crap blocking your view out the rear.  A sheet of plywood on either side of the truck bed. I hope there are no stiff winds today!
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Oct 11, 2013 14:21
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This Beltway mess should be entertaining. Great way to get support: pissing off the entire region on a wet holiday weekend Friday.
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Oct 11, 2013 14:36
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StormDrain posted:I don't get why that would break. The axle shaft provides a rotational force and tension along its axis, but has no strength in either the vertical or horizontal axis. The ball joints and tie rod should hold that just fine without an axle shaft. If it's an XJ, I think it's a Dana 30? nurrwick posted:There is truck-related stupidity attempting to happen around the DC beltway today, which is conveniently being photo documented by twitter and shared through local news-radio WTOP.
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Oct 11, 2013 14:51
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InitialDave posted:What are they protesting for/about? Angry Rednecks in DC, guess what they might protest about  Obama/Obamacare!
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Oct 11, 2013 15:09
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[off-topic]InitialDave posted:What are they protesting for/about? https://www.facebook.com/ridefortheconstitution Here's the facebook page for this event. http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/173970005?access_key=key-1bm0isg5xzp1c30lui9i&allow_share=true&view_mode=scroll This is the press release full of "Obama-scare," "gas-roots," "Barack Hussein Obama" intellectually vacant tea party bullshit they published a few days ago. [on-topic] It's kind of a horrible car thing in itself to convince truckers to take time away from their livelihoods to do this stuff anyway.
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Oct 11, 2013 15:16
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I'll defer to community judgment but I believe this is horrible: My place of employment has sprung for at least two chrome-rimmed, tinted-windshield, custom-logos-on-the-seats golf carts.
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Oct 11, 2013 15:22
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It's only terrible if they don't let you drive it
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Oct 11, 2013 17:18
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Crustashio posted:My fiancé and I have a 1995 Honda Civic - Completely Remodeled for sale. It has 560HP, Lamborghini Doors, Clarion Sub/Amp, a drop down TV screen with PS3 hookups. (and much, much more) There is some damage to back bumper, it will be shown in the pictures. The car was an impulse purchase, with hopes of getting into the car world, but life took us in a different direction. Neither of us know to much about it, so as for specifics we are open to having viewings with any prospective buyers. We are open to Reasonable offers, but are not going to humor/answer anything unreasonable. As for questions regarding it we would prefer for you to come and see it for yourself, so you can know what it entails. (As we are not aware of all details) Needs more New carpet and appliances.
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Oct 11, 2013 18:03
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KozmoNaut posted:Anything in particular wrong with Clarion? The OEM stereo in my car is a Clarion, and I have no complaints. I bought some replacement speakers that were Clarion a couple years ago and they were pretty drat good for the price. I guess the joke is that it's fitting that a cheap amp was installed onto a cheap car with cheap/tacky modifications.
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Oct 11, 2013 18:04
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nurrwick posted:[off-topic] ...and they got pulled over! http://www.nbc12.com/story/23667282/police-pull-over-truckers-in-protest-convoy
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Oct 11, 2013 18:06
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NBC12 posted:Police say a convoy of about 30 trucks began traveling north on Interstate 95 from Doswell, Va., on Friday morning. The truckers are circling the Beltway. Really demonstrates the shrinking minority that these people cling to. 30 trucks, really? I would have figured more. loving idiots.
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Oct 11, 2013 18:32
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SierraEchoBravo posted:Really demonstrates the shrinking minority that these people cling to. 30 trucks, really? I would have figured more. I'm guessing the rest of the truckers in the DC area were, you know, trucking. I'm sure there were some things that actually needed to be delivered today.
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Oct 11, 2013 20:17
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bigbillystyle posted:I'm guessing the rest of the truckers in the DC area were, you know, trucking. I'm sure there were some things that actually needed to be delivered today. Frankly I'm surprised they were able to find 30 truckers who: 1. Believe in their cause 2. Aren't working on a Friday 3. Don't mind paying for their own fuel for this stunt 4. Have the motivation to drive more on their day off 5. Are willing to be pulled over and ticketed for this
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Oct 11, 2013 20:26
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StormDrain posted:I don't get why that would break. The axle shaft provides a rotational force and tension along its axis, but has no strength in either the vertical or horizontal axis. The ball joints and tie rod should hold that just fine without an axle shaft. Basically: InitialDave posted:At a guess, when the U-joint went out, the remaining parts hit each other hard enough that it semi-unpressed the balljoints, so when they tried to move it with brute force the joints decided the easiest option was to just finish extracting themselves. There's a clip in the rock crawling DVD Hammer Down where an XJ does the same thing to itself while reversing off a section, and the noise is like someone's knee joint being pulled apart. The ujoint yoke ears snap off, the inner shaft is fairly long (18" on the short side) and doesn't have anything except the ujoint keeping it on-axis in the tube at the outer end. So it flops around from the sudden jolt of the ears breaking off, the remainders of the ears sorta jam/ride up/flop around on the outer shaft's ears/broken off ears, and the torque ends up forcing the outer knuckle down via the axleshaft instead of turning things like it is supposed to. This separates the balljoints and whoops, there goes your wheel/brakes/steering/knuckle/everything. I had this happen once, the shaft was already slightly weakened so it popped the second my tire hit the ground (bounced over some large rocks, tire went up, tire came down, tire hit rocks, snap crackle pop wheel/bearing/knuckle fell off) - I had absolutely no time to react. Sadly, I don't know who took pictures of it, so I haven't got any evidence, but it sucks to fix. The knuckle was already disconnected from the axle housing so I took the tire off, removed the inner axleshaft, stuffed a rag in the axle tube to keep water/mud out and lube in, then used a combination of a large hammer, the stock bottle jack, a high lift, and someone else's winch to compress the suspension/jam the knuckle back up and reset the balljoints. They were still trash, but the weight of the vehicle on them (don't worry, not as sketchy as it sounds, AKA it will stay in unless you corner so hard you lift a tire) kept my truck from dislocating its knees again until I got back to camp and could replace them properly. And yes, it's a dana 30. A friend had the same thing happen on a dana 44 (the balljoints go the other way in a dana 44 as you noted, but are still balljoints) but I couldn't find any pics of that incident when I half assedly snooped around in his photobucket. This doesn't happen to kingpin dana 60 axles because of the way they're designed, the outer knuckle wraps around the inner knuckle, the upper kingpin screws into the inner knuckle and seats into the outer knuckle, then the kingpin taper bearing goes into the lower inner knuckle arm and a giant pivot pin gets installed through the lower outer knuckle into it. Unless you break the knuckle or shear either the upper kingpin or the lower pivot pin, it aint coming off. I know people who have broken those too but I haven't found where the pictures went yet. Basically, the rule when dealing with balljoint axle housings and broken ujoints is - when it breaks, stop immediately. If it's still all attached, replace the shaft before you move it even a foot. If it isn't, hope you have spare balljoints with you. This is why people prefer kingpin type steering axles for high performance offroad solid axle vehicles.
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Oct 11, 2013 21:04
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nurrwick posted:I'll defer to community judgment but I believe this is horrible: Sorry dude golf carts, no matter how stupid and done up they are, loving own. There aren't many vehicles out there you can completely hoon around in with little or no consequence. That is, if you avoid doing donuts until the engine blows up, but what do I know about that?
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MrChips posted:Sorry dude golf carts, no matter how stupid and done up they are, loving own. There aren't many vehicles out there you can completely hoon around in with little or no consequence. True story. A friend of mine works for HSN and when being interviewed he had a tour of the campus in the company golf cart that was done up in something like flamingo pink.
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CommieGIR posted:...and they got pulled over! Holy poo poo, the comments. This country is full of morons.
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Oct 11, 2013 21:45
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 It had a steering wheel. 
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Oct 11, 2013 21:52
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kastein posted:Basically: Thanks! That makes a lot of sense and I think I may dig up a Spicer 60 Manual just to look at it. http://www2.dana.com/pdf/5309-3.pdf
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Oct 11, 2013 22:28
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wallaka posted:
Don't worry, it's based on the Focus. It's a car.
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You can see what I mean here: The outer knuckle "wraps around" the inner one and so things have to seriously go pear shaped for the two to separate without a wrench being involved. As opposed to a dana 30, this one's minus the brake parts and unit bearing but it shows the knuckle/inner knuckle/balljoint setup well:  The outer knuckle is below the inner knuckle on both balljoint interfaces and aside from the tensile strength of the balljoints (which isn't very high - probably only a few thousand pounds - and they're pressed into the axle or knuckle anyways, so...) so only the weight of the vehicle is really keeping them engaged fully. If the axle/ujoint explodes and forces the outer half down, it's all over in a split second. There are balljoint dana 60s as well, and this is one of the reasons people don't like them as much as kingpin ones. e: how the gently caress did I confuse this thread and the horrible failures thread when I first posted those pictures that started this derail? I am dumb. kastein fucked around with this message at 23:01 on Oct 11, 2013 |
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