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some texas redneck posted:Looks like a DOHC Subaru. If it is, that's the intake cam gear saying peek-a-boo. DOHC subaru
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I wanna say that's jamal, but I'm not 100%.
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Also, that is jamal in the video.
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Feb 9, 2014 19:50
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The whole Seattle tunnel project has been fuckery of comedic proportions since it was proposed. NO ONE thought it was a good idea, everyone was proposing just updating the existing bridge. But NOOOO, we have to spend a poo poo-ton of money to dig a loving hole in the ground instead.
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Feb 10, 2014 22:47
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MikeyTsi posted:The whole Seattle tunnel project has been fuckery of comedic proportions since it was proposed. NO ONE thought it was a good idea, everyone was proposing just updating the existing bridge. But NOOOO, we have to spend a poo poo-ton of money to dig a loving hole in the ground instead. It took almost 10 years to decide how to replace the viaduct. there's no way this will be on budget or on time.
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Feb 10, 2014 23:22
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Slow is Fast posted:Local idiot didn't change his timing belt or something: The story is that it's a high mileage piece of poo poo. He decided it would be a good idea to put some low viscosity cleaning solution through the engine (he wouldn't say what he dumped in there), but apparently all the cam gears are seized because of it. It's horrible dumbass failure, this is the same person who changed a transmission because he had bad shifter bushings, and then the clutch went out a week later.... I'm not sure how some people are smart enough to poo poo.
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MikeyTsi posted:The whole Seattle tunnel project has been fuckery of comedic proportions since it was proposed. NO ONE thought it was a good idea, everyone was proposing just updating the existing bridge. But NOOOO, we have to spend a poo poo-ton of money to dig a loving hole in the ground instead. This is sort of along the lines of why many Californians, including myself, are against the bullshit proposed SF/LA high speed rail. poo poo, BART wanted to dig a multi-billion dollar tunnel under the city of Livermore to a combined ACE/BART station downtown when every other station is along the 580 and would be easier and faster to do. Joe Mama fucked around with this message at 03:05 on Feb 11, 2014 |
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Feb 11, 2014 03:01
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some texas redneck posted:Looks like a DOHC Subaru. If it is, that's the intake cam gear saying peek-a-boo. Ha, yeah that's me. We had some horrible failures this weekend. Radiator cap just feel off in one session, then the oil pump failed. I haven't gone through my pictures yet though.
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Feb 11, 2014 03:11
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Joe Mama posted:This is sort of along the lines of why many Californians, including myself, are against the bullshit proposed SF/LA high speed rail. poo poo, BART wanted to dig a multi-billion dollar tunnel under the city of Livermore to a combined ACE/BART station downtown when every other station is along the 580 and would be easier and faster to do. "Look guys, we just want to fuckin' DIG stuff, okay? Nobody understands us!" 
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Feb 11, 2014 03:13
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Splizwarf posted:"Look guys, we just want to fuckin' DIG stuff, okay? Nobody understands us!" Been there, done that.
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Feb 11, 2014 03:14
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Hahahahaahaaaa they think the 'economic impact' of people not quite being able to see the trains all the time is going to be over a hundred million more than the cost of the project. It pays for itself, people!
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Feb 11, 2014 03:25
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Slavvy posted:It pays for itself, people! Don't forget that it was only designed to work for a decade - and that is coming up sooner than Pretty much every Reno 911 scene that has been watched on TV has been changed (that was actually in/near there). They just don't want to admit to the butthurt. Gas is also $0.20/gal higher than it is in the capital. Consistently. IMAGINE THAT.
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Feb 11, 2014 03:29
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Joe Mama posted:This is sort of along the lines of why many Californians, including myself, are against the bullshit proposed SF/LA high speed rail. poo poo, BART wanted to dig a multi-billion dollar tunnel under the city of Livermore to a combined ACE/BART station downtown when every other station is along the 580 and would be easier and faster to do. Quit standing in the way of progress. How will this country ever get high speed rail if we don't make a huge mess of it somewhere first?
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Feb 11, 2014 06:36
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 "Why can't we just build it a mile above the city?"
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Feb 11, 2014 06:38
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Splizwarf posted:
The Detroit People Mover definitely qualifies as a horrible mechanical failure. 
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Today's headline: DOT: Fixing stalled tunnel boring machine will take 'months' months 
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Feb 11, 2014 11:30
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a nest of hornets posted:The Detroit People Mover definitely qualifies as a horrible mechanical failure.
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Feb 11, 2014 12:31
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I'm sure there's a real reason, but "it's in Detroit" will do.
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Feb 11, 2014 12:40
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Isn't that the train Topher McGuire saved?
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Feb 11, 2014 14:24
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No, that's Batman's dad's train isn't it? I'm partial to a nice bent conrod picture. This one (out of an Alfa 164) held up admirably. 
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Feb 11, 2014 15:20
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a nest of hornets posted:The Detroit People Mover definitely qualifies as a horrible mechanical failure. In Los Colinas where I used to work, we had one hell of a boondoggle of a monorail there. For the longest time, it only operated for a few hours in the day, from like 11a-3p for lunchtime. Since DART expanded to the area, it runs longer now to ferry people from the DART trains now.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Colinas_APT_System We now work near the DFW airport, but when I worked in Las Colinas, i'd sometimes take these things to lunch, and at least once a week, one of these pieces of poo poo would break. Luckily, the entire area that it services is about 1.5 miles, so it's not awful if you have to walk when it breaks. Unless it's raining. EDIT: Tables, sorry.
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Feb 11, 2014 15:27
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Found some old pics of the inside of the engine of my old Defender when I bought it 10 years ago. Overheated and blew a head gasket not long after I bought it. I think I found a problem.  Needless to say the old man that used to own it didn't take good care of it. I had the heads dipped and cleaned it all out. It ran so much better after I took care of all this. Well, it ran better after I figured out I hooked up the plug wires in the wrong order when I put it back together.  I loved that truck but having 3 Land Rovers to take care of got to be a bit too much. I found I really liked the ride quality on and offroad(and heat and A/C) of the Range Rover Classic so I let the 90 and the '64 go.
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Feb 11, 2014 15:37
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nitrogen posted:In Los Colinas where I used to work, we had one hell of a boondoggle of a monorail there. For the longest time, it only operated for a few hours in the day, from like 11a-3p for lunchtime. Since DART expanded to the area, it runs longer now to ferry people from the DART trains now.  Too bad most existing systems are crap.
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Feb 11, 2014 16:16
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a nest of hornets posted:The Detroit People Mover definitely qualifies as a horrible mechanical failure. Heh, if you want to talk elevated rails, we can bring this right back around to Seattle: Our monorail cars collided back in 2005
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Feb 11, 2014 22:10
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Collateral Damage posted:Why's that, out of curiosity? It's not so much a mechanical failure, as it works like a champ and my wife and oldest daughter use it pretty regularly, but more a planning/leadership/infrastructure failure. It's a dumb automated monorail that only goes in a big circle around downtown. It's lame and isn't useful for much more than moving terrified white people from north of 8 mile from their parking lots to the RenCen/Joe Louis Arena/Cobo.
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Feb 11, 2014 22:23
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nitrogen posted:In Los Colinas where I used to work, we had one hell of a boondoggle of a monorail there. For the longest time, it only operated for a few hours in the day, from like 11a-3p for lunchtime. Since DART expanded to the area, it runs longer now to ferry people from the DART trains now. Yeah, those things are pretty pathetic. I don't think I've ever seen it moving.
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Feb 11, 2014 22:57
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chrisgt posted:The story is that it's a high mileage piece of poo poo. He decided it would be a good idea to put some low viscosity cleaning solution through the engine (he wouldn't say what he dumped in there), but apparently all the cam gears are seized because of it. Are you guys anti-cleanser? I used some pour-in buildup remover/cleaner of some sort before I did my first oil change on my CRV. Had ~120k on the odometer, nothing bad happened really.
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drukqs posted:Are you guys anti-cleanser? I used some pour-in buildup remover/cleaner of some sort before I did my first oil change on my CRV. Had ~120k on the odometer, nothing bad happened really. It's not what happens right after you run it, it's what could happen in the next 1-10k. This all depends on how the car was taken care of, but if you run seafoam/mmo/ect through a block that you don't know the history on and missed a oil change or three, it will break free large contaminants, clog, and possibly cause serious damage. On the flip side, tossing a bottle of Chevron Techron cleaning in your gas ever 15-30k is not a bad idea. I've done it regularly to all our vehicles and it's kept the injectors in great shape.
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a nest of hornets posted:The Detroit People Mover definitely qualifies as a horrible mechanical failure. The planning, scaling way the hell back and everything else? Yeah, those are failures. I think the initial planning was that it was going to go at least through the metropolitan area, maybe to the malls or maybe it was just going to be a much bigger area than just the core of downtown. There are plans for a light rail system upgrade/install in the area but it probably won't directly connect to the people mover.
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Feb 11, 2014 23:56
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drukqs posted:Are you guys anti-cleanser? I used some pour-in buildup remover/cleaner of some sort before I did my first oil change on my CRV. Had ~120k on the odometer, nothing bad happened really. Generally, yes. I'm against magic in a can. My shitbox goes and stops somewhat kinda reliably, I'm not gonna go try and fix something that isn't broken.
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Fire Storm posted:MECHANICALLY, I think it's not that bad. Detroit in my mind is like a real-life version of Baltimore in The Wire.
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Feb 12, 2014 01:30
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Baltimore is a real-life version of Baltimore in The Wire
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Feb 12, 2014 02:47
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Depressing.
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Huggable Bear King posted:Baltimore is a real-life version of Baltimore in The Wire So very true. I lived for years in the Butcher's Hill neighborhood right next to Johns Hopkins Hospital. It was like Ft. Apache the Bronx on a nightly basis.
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My sister went to Johns Hopkins for her nursing degree. White blonde haired girl with blue eyes in Baltimore? Definitely out of place. She was told she was 'a marshmallow in a cup of hot chocolate'. When she would do clinic hours there would be an armed guard that would escort her to and from her vehicle. They said you couldn't have anything visible in your car either, not even loose change since it would likely be broken in to. Crazy rear end place. She's got stories 
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Yeah, that's what you get for living in the lovely parts of Baltimore (which is basically the whole area around Hopkins) it's gotten better in the last 10 years or so though.
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We had one hell of a mechanical failure come into work recently. It's also an excellent reminder why you don't gently caress around with gantry cranes. Customer was pulling a PET Hot Runner from an Injection Molding machine with a 10T rated crane. Apparently the inspection had been done badly or not at all because while the Hot Runner was about 6 feet in the air, it let go on them. For reference, this is a full PET Mold.  That big plate on the left with the brown caps is the Hot Runner. It weighs about 7000lbs. It's made of steel. Those round things on the bottom are mold feet, and they're held in with M14 Bolts. It's sitting on my shop floor right now, covered in concrete dust. Those M14s are all sheared, and the feet (which are pretty drat beefy) are either bent or flat out shattered. It apparently took out a good half-foot of concrete from the customer's bay when it hit the ground. Oh, and the plates are bent. The impact bent 7000 pounds of steel.
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And I'm guessing the whole thing is at least a six figure fuckup?
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MA-Horus posted:It apparently took out a good half-foot of concrete from the customer's bay when it hit the ground. So what you're saying is that it made an earth-shattering kaboom?
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Feb 12, 2014 12:30
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Richard Hammond explores the limits of a steel prop shaft vs carbon fiber https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjErH4_1fks (It's a moving picture)
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For some reason gifs aren't loading on my phone.  Also Baltimore has been a shithole for over two centuries.
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