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Frinkahedron posted:A deer once ran into my house. My stationary house that has been there since the 40s. Yeah, their instinct to just bolt in the other direction of unexpected noises is extremely strong. There's a reason they aren't herded the same way other livestock are, they pretty much can't be. Anything spooks them and they will just bash themselves to death against the barn walls or tangle and break their legs in corral fencing. The consequences of evolving in a land filled(until very recently) with large predators, I suppose. Survival of the twitchiest. They're not the only ones who will do it though, a friend in Jacksonville has some mustangs and one of them got out of her pasture one day. It got spooked by a door closing and bolted headlong into a parked UPS truck and dented the everloving poo poo out of the side while knocking itself silly. The local depot manager drove out because he(very reasonably) thought the driver was lying about the circumstances and she had to show him photos to prove the driver was telling the truth.
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6675636b20796f75 posted:What the gently caress? Really lovely balancing. Think heavy spot + valve in the same place. A good place would remount it and not have to use all that weight.
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Slow is Fast posted:loving deer ran out of the woods and hit my dads old DD mustang right around dawn one day and then rolled down the side of the car: My brothers step-son had almost the exact same thing happen to his almost brand new MX6 awhile back. The amount of damage that deer did was astounding. Almost every panel on the car was damaged in some way along with the drivers side window. The only reason it wasn't totaled was because the car was only a few months old. I drive a lot of unlit country roads for my commute so I have a shitload of close encounters with the bastards. Luck and knowing where they like to cross is the only reasons I haven't slammed into one yet.
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Customer brings in a 2005 Dodge Ram with the complaint of unusual tire wear, and a clicking noise while turning. While a few steering/suspension components were worn out in the usual fashion; there was one bad lower ball joint with a bit of a bonus surprise:   The customer claims he bought it used and has never wrecked it and "it only recently started acting up." Fortunately a replacement knuckle was available locally, and the customer humbly understood why his bill nearly doubled.
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It's too bad it happened back in the days before youtube was a thing, because I remember a news station in Traverse City, Michigan playing a clip where a deer runs up a bank away from west bay in Lake Michigan and plows straight into the side of a loving pickup. It collapses and flops around til it regains its balance, then the beautiful majestic creature picks its retard rear end up and runs away into the woods.
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Apr 26, 2014 09:25
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They are dumb as rocks 99 percent of the time, yet can figure out how to defeat the most intricate garden fencing setups imaginable short of 10' tall stuff. I always worry they will freak out and ram me while I am riding my bike.
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One of my friends hit a deer while biking with no serious injuries or too much damage. I also vaguely remember a thread here a few years back about someone's brother that hit and killed a deer mountain biking.
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Apr 26, 2014 14:19
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Niven posted:My friend brought his auction special in for a balancing.. How can a wheel possibly be so unbalanced? This is another one of those images where I just couldn't work out what I was seeing at first because it didn't make any sense. I thought someone had stuck some typesetting in there for some reason. 
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Niven posted:My friend brought his auction special in for a balancing.. Pff you should see some of the poo poo we had to do while I was at Sears. Giant-rear end off-road rims with super swampers on them that took like 9 ounces. Huge donk style rims with super high negative offset such that there wasn't really enough leverage for the "outer" rim weights (about 9 inches away from the actual outside rim) had no leverage to counteract imbalance, so we wound up with multiple pounds of weights piled up on top of each other just to get the imbalance under an ounce. Threadworthy: Had a Wrangler in once with way-too-large tires, I'm talking 38" tall, 15" wide. Chinesium alloy wheels, so of course they weighed like 30 pounds without tires. He came in for a balance, but we ended up having to send him to a truck specialist shop; halfway through the second tire, the balancer caught fire. Wheel/tire combos were so heavy they made the motor drag, and I guess the excessive current was just enough to ignite some rubber dust or whatever without tripping the breaker. Mind you, this was a machine that we regularly balanced 1-ton/Dually truck wheels on with no complaints.
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Root Bear posted:Customer brings in a 2005 Dodge Ram with the complaint of unusual tire wear, and a clicking noise while turning. While a few steering/suspension components were worn out in the usual fashion; there was one bad lower ball joint with a bit of a bonus surprise: "Customer states bumped a curb and now must keep radio volume at max"
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Frinkahedron posted:A deer once ran into my house. My stationary house that has been there since the 40s. One of my favorite stories I covered was when a deer ran into a residential neighborhood in town, saw it's reflection in a glass door, and charged into the house, through the wooden front door. It looked like someone had fired a small rocket into the front door, and the stupid thing was just losing it's poo poo inside the house the entire time. 
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"Using a hollow-core door on the exterior of a building" is thread-relevant. Unless it plowed through a solid door in which case holy poo poo.
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Captain Bravo posted:One of my favorite stories I covered was when a deer ran into a residential neighborhood in town, saw it's reflection in a glass door, and charged into the house, through the wooden front door. It looked like someone had fired a small rocket into the front door, and the stupid thing was just losing it's poo poo inside the house the entire time. poo poo, you ever heard that news story about that deer smashed it's way into an Arkansas home, and the dude wrestled the deer and snapped it's neck with his bare hands?
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Apr 26, 2014 22:16
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Forgot to post this after I got the car back: 
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Johnny Aztec posted:poo poo, you ever heard that news story about that deer smashed it's way into an Arkansas home, and the dude wrestled the deer and snapped it's neck with his bare hands? His house was on a steep hill. Deer jumped laterally, and because deer are bouncy little fucks this put it over the roof, where it proceeded to fall through a skylight into the dude's infant son's room. Dude called animal control or the cops or whoever the gently caress deals with cervine home invasions, but then it started to spaz out and bounce around the room, jumping over the crib. He realized where this was going, walked into the room, grabbed its antlers, and started hauling it for the door. Ended up snapping its neck in the process. When the authorities got there he was dressing it on the front porch. Article ended with a picture of the family. Imagine a barrel-chested dude with tree trunk arms and an unfortunate haircut, with an identical but smaller copy standing next to him (his elder son).
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Apr 26, 2014 23:28
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Fifty Three posted:Forgot to post this after I got the car back: Subaru second gear? Sure looks like it based on where the speedo gear drive is.
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Apr 26, 2014 23:41
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I have like 37 pictures exactly like that.
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There are so many videos of goddamn deer jumping into buildings it's not even funny. Everyone is way too calm about this, but since it's a taco shop ... eh, not surprised. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyIMIA92ZK8 Walmart? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVy9DvmwVi0 Frozen yogurt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqcJUrQ0R-Y Bonus! Deer don't like public transit either: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1m-K1D_uQs
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Seat Safety Switch posted:There are so many videos of goddamn deer jumping into buildings it's not even funny. 
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So I had to leave posting this for a while but here goes Straight six MAN diesel generator, ill say its for a "ship" but cant say much more than that... They ended up getting a new one from England, I heard it was a static display theyd had for like the past thirty years in their workshop and laughed when we needed it. The hosed one here, destroyed a single cylinder liner, the piston disintergrated, the con rod bent like no tomorrow, push rods like spaghetti and the crankshaft was bowed with stress fractures. Apparently it ran for at least 1:30 seconds before they shut it down, emergency stop ended up killing it in the end, but not before doing the following -         
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Those are some huge-rear end pushrods, wow. How much do they weigh?
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Hahahahahahahaha. Better you than me is all I can say. A friend had similar happen, intake valve disintegrated and spat metal fragments all into the cylinder. Destroyed the following: Intake valves Piston Cylinder liner Exhaust valves Turbo That's impressive about stress fractures on your crankshaft though, haven't seen that before. Do you have PMs? I'd like to ask a few more questions (I'm a marine engineer so failures like that really interest me)
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That looks more like the pottery shards you'd find in an ancient greek archeological digsite than a generator failure 
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Those are some huge-rear end pushrods, wow. How much do they weigh? Push rods are at least a kilo each man, probably more. Holding them, it was like, gently caress, so much power. But the rocker assembly was perfect, infact, I think they still want to use them, As for pm's and what not, im not sure dude, that used to come with an SA standard account, not sure anymore... Im a marine technician, if you're from AUS, than I have no doubt that you do, or have done the job im in right now haha
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Nah, I'm a Kiwi. Are you working in the offshore?
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So, I'm at a complete loss at the potential cause for this failure. Honda D16A6 motor failed us 2hrs into a 12hr endurance race. We think the wrist pin on #3 failed. Any theories? It isn't like this motor was pushing massive power.
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It would have to be wrist pin or con rod at the wrist pin, or I suppose the cap could have come off the bottom of the con rod and it got knocked sideways by the crank. Never seen that happen without there being more damage but I suppose the rod would just be flopping free up and down in the bore.
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Well, we appear to have found what happened to my mate's A3: Yeah, that's not going to pump a whole lot of oil.
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Joe Mama posted:It would have to be wrist pin or con rod at the wrist pin, or I suppose the cap could have come off the bottom of the con rod and it got knocked sideways by the crank. Never seen that happen without there being more damage but I suppose the rod would just be flopping free up and down in the bore. It'll be interesting when we fully tear down the motor.
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InitialDave posted:Well, we appear to have found what happened to my mate's A3: So Audi it hurts.
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kastein posted:Subaru second gear? Edit: I get that the right is 3/4, but what's the thing on the left? Transmissions are magic to me and they just handed these to me at the shop as trophies when I picked the car up. Edit 2: I guess that's the drive gear? Fifty Three fucked around with this message at 04:43 on Apr 28, 2014 |
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You're probably right. I linked your pic on IRC right after responding and chrisgt was like "hi third gear!" He knows way more about subaru explodey transmission bits than I do. I think that is the mating gear from the countershaft or mainshaft but subaru trannies are oddly arranged to me, I am used to RWD units. I know the worm gear between the two there is the vss drive gear. kastein fucked around with this message at 04:43 on Apr 28, 2014 |
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Yep, according to this post on NASIOC you're right, it's probably the 3rd drive gear. Where's the IRC server? I didn't know AI had one.
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irc.synirc.net #ai for general AI. #newenglandai for Jeeps, Subarus, and 5 tons. Along with cursedshitbox. (you really need to give CSB your mobile # when you pop in there, he sends funny MMSs  )
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Sick burnout bro.
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Bucephalus posted:I've had 5 deer collisions. 3 of them were the fuckers ramming me. My Sonoma's hosed up pillar is because of this, dumbass deer ran headlong into my driver's side right at the mirror. Broke his drat neck and my windshield.
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What on earth would cause that?
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