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Preoptopus posted:coolant intake gasket leak and pistons smashing rust ridges? It's a 4.0L jeep... what coolant intake gasket?  The latter is a solid possibility. Might have trashed the rings.
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dissss posted:The worst thing in that picture is the state of the wheels on that (relatively new) Focus Hah, until you mentioned it, my brain just said they're black wheels.
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I HEARD THIS THREAD LIKES BICYCLES. I also heard this thread enjoys screw extractors. Bleed screw out of my brakes. Stupid thing used some torx pattern and I made the mistake of using a HF $3 sale driver for it. Stripped the screw and the torx driver!
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um excuse me posted:I HEARD THIS THREAD LIKES BICYCLES. I also heard this thread enjoys screw extractors. You're supposed to be giving the extractor and bad screw the finger. Please remember for next time.
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um excuse me posted:Stripped the screw and the torx driver! Persistence.
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Apr 1, 2016 21:32
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If anything deserves it, it's the lovely torx I used. 
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Apr 1, 2016 21:37
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Oh, I have those too. Mine rusted to poo poo in the garage.
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Ugh, screw extractors. The only time I've had to deal with one was rebuilding the carb on my GS500. The carb assembly screws are a mechanical failure themselves, all made of soft brass. Not even the extractor helped. Eventually had to hacksaw a slot in the stuck screws and use a big flat screwdriver to remove them. Immediately replaced them all with socket cap screws.
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Groda posted:Folkrace? No no. Folkrace is essentially cheap and simple rally cross (rally-x, whatever). Sprint races on dirt (sometimes some asphalt) tracks. We're driving Skrotbilsrejset, actual 24 hour race on actual racetrack, Mantorp Park. Only quirk is the cars get scrapped after the race, so it's a new car for every event. Held twice a year (around the equinoxes). We're not racing until last weekend of October, but me and one of the other guys in the team are going down for the race this weekend to help out (towing stuff, watching poo poo, doing race radio). I'll also try to get a hold of some strategic spare parts from the scrapped cars afterwards. Always a few BG 323's there, mostly 1.8 DOHC, which is what we're racing the next two races and also has a few common bits with my Miata NA. Might also provide some nice opportunity of witnessing mechanical failures.
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um excuse me posted:If anything deserves it, it's the lovely torx I used. ORANGE HAND
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xergm posted:Ugh, screw extractors. The only time I've had to deal with one was rebuilding the carb on my GS500. I bought a set of HF left-hand drill bits. They make carb work gloriously easy. That and aerokroil. Mostly the left-handed bits, though. Before I work on the carbs, I order a whole new set of screws. Same way with motorcycle brakes. The master cylinder screws are probably made of marshmallow or vegemite or something.
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It's pretty amazing what kind of materials manufacturers will use when they think they can get away with it. A couple of months ago I was trimming some aluminum footpegs to fit my motorcycle correctly (OEM pegs off another bike, not eBay specials), and it was like filing a block of cheese. I hacksawed through the whole 3/4" shaft in like 20 seconds. It was to 6061 as 6061 is to steel. Clearly even this cheap grade of casting aluminum is strong enough for the purpose, but it's still kind of disconcerting. Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 07:02 on Apr 2, 2016 |
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 This was the condition my Bronco was in when I bought it off Craigslist. Now, it's hard to see in the photo, but that's a c-clamp there on the brake hose behind the caliper. It was a 60 mile drive home, you see... Captain Cornflake fucked around with this message at 12:52 on Apr 2, 2016 |
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Figured out why the steering is binding on my kart, one of these is not like the other... 
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Apr 3, 2016 00:19
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Holy scrub radius, Batman! bad ball joint rod end
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How do you line up a go kart?
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Same way as a car, I've yet to do it since I just got it last year but I'm just going to use my cheap Chinese camber tool and some measuring tapes. It's actually easier than aligning a car since there's no need to take the wheels off to make adjustments, there are some fancy $300 lasers but I'm a cheapass and I'm not going to be in contention for anything major this year so I don't see the point.
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Is it just me or do the ball joint mounts look like they're on the opposite sides of the axle? Look where the springs and down connecting metal supports are. It looks like one is at 3 o'clock and one is at 9 o'clock. Edit: Nevemind, I see where the red cross support tube is.
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I don't know what scares me more. The zip tie tire, or the brake pad wearing a nice track into that rotor.
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CommieGIR posted:I don't know what scares me more. The zip tie tire, or the brake pad wearing a nice track into that rotor. The rotor is scarier form a mechanical failure perspective, but the tyre is scarier on the grounds of “what the gently caress were these people thinking?” The rotor is extreme neglect. The tyre is active insanity.
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As the owner clearly has no issues hacking up idiotic solutions, odds are high the rotor is actually particle board from ikea, so both situations are insanity.
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If I had to guess, that's a "get me home" or "get me out of the woods to a waiting trailer/wrecker" repair. I've seen worse. That might just be my remaining faith in humanity speaking however. e: it's a RWD truck of some sort. The tire profile makes me think cargo truck, but the heim joint steering makes me think 2wd desert runner. That's an incredibly skeevy looking weld on the tie rod between the heim joint bung and the tie rod tubing, however. Honestly it worries me more than the tire or brake. e2: I used tineye and it looks like this is the oldest posting of that image on the internet, minus the reencoding artifacts, blur, resizing, cropping, and instagram filter(?). From May 18th of 2014. In Russia, naturally.  kastein fucked around with this message at 21:02 on Apr 5, 2016 |
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How is it holding air? Does it have a tube in it?
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Hopefully it's full of expanding foam. I mean, if I was going to zip tie a tyre, I'd fill it with self-expanding builders foam beforehand. It's just common sense.
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So this happened right next to where I work yesterday:  Mountaineer hits guardrail, guardrail fails, Mountaineer falls 30' into the bed of an F150. Everyone escapes with minor injuries.
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Apr 6, 2016 02:43
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Awww Fords savin Fords. 
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Guess the ford didn't have MILITARY GRADE ALUMINIUM in it because the commercials showed dropping ridiculous weights into the bed with no damage.
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xzzy posted:Guess the ford didn't have MILITARY GRADE ALUMINIUM in it because the commercials showed dropping ridiculous weights into the bed with no damage. If a GM product had landed in the bed, it would have been a different story.
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Ohh, _that_ kind of Mountaineer. I thought the horrible mechanical failure was the guardrail for a minute.
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Those commercials usually show a split second of the truck getting hosed, the frame and/or the suspension bending.
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I hate to bring it back to bicycles again, but how are you people busting spokes? I used to commute on my Haro mountain bike and the only things I ever broke were either crash or stupidity related. I put thousands of miles on that thing too. I've had my Giant hybrid for a couple of years now and haven't had to fix anything. I don't ride daily anymore but I was pushing 300lbs when I got it. I'm not so heavy anymore but even with my fat rear end on it and many miles later it still rides like new. Maybe I'm not doing it right or something.
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As my mechanic is progressing on my head gasket, he's uncovering signs that King Kong worked on this engine before I had it. Valve cover, rocker arm, and head bolts all mashed on so hard most of them were too rounded off to use a socket on, and the valve covers were cracked as a result. He had to use a breaker bar on some of the head bolts. Autopsy results came in, though:  culprit #1 - driver side head gasket  #2 - same side intake manifold gasket, coolant seeping up a bolt hole and puking into the intake  Passenger side head gasket was trying to beat its twin to the punch but didn't quite make it Good news was the heads were both straight and not cracked so that's a couple hundred bucks I'm not spending this go-round. Mechanic believes that by having it towed and not driving it until I took it in to him (~7 miles) I minimized the fallout from the failed gasket. For bonus  , the flatbed that towed me home blew a tire right before my exit, and after dropping me off, the guy declared his intent to drive the hundred miles back home on this:
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uh he's clearly got an extra one right there  seriously though, the dual tires are mostly to spread the weight when fully loaded, running 3 out of 4 rear tires when rolling empty isn't gonna hurt anything.
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Grumbletron 4000 posted:I hate to bring it back to bicycles again, but how are you people busting spokes? I used to commute on my Haro mountain bike and the only things I ever broke were either crash or stupidity related. I put thousands of miles on that thing too. Geirskogul posted:Does nobody tune their spokes anymore? I do mine once a year, on both the bicycle and the motorcycles. Pretty easy by ear.
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moxieman posted:So this happened right next to where I work yesterday: Haha poo poo, you must be in Maine. That's the aqueduct in Bath right? Chrisgt and Slow Is Fast were both nerding out about that accident too. Apparently the idiot managed to take out 50 feet of guardrail. The police are saying that they don't know if speed was a factor but I'm sure it (and driver skill/lack therof) was.
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Got that cracked piston out. Entire way across the face, down through the ring lands, all the way to the gudgeon pin. No wonder it wasnt really holding compression! 
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kastein posted:Haha poo poo, you must be in Maine. That's the aqueduct in Bath right? Chrisgt and Slow Is Fast were both nerding out about that accident too. Yup, I work at the shipyard. From what I hear the kid in the car was special needs, so I'd guess driver distraction if he was having an episode or something + the roads were a bit slick that afternoon + lovely guardrail that was scheduled to be replaced anyway. Pretty incredible that everyone made it out ok.
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Grumbletron 4000 posted:I hate to bring it back to bicycles again, but how are you people busting spokes? I used to commute on my Haro mountain bike and the only things I ever broke were either crash or stupidity related. I put thousands of miles on that thing too. Roadbikes are built to be -just- tough enough to not blow up constantly. They use much fewer spokes to keep weight down. A mountain bike, even a cheap one, is going to be able to put up with much more abuse than your standard road bike.
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