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NitroSpazzz posted:Sorry to distract from tank chat but we had some fun failures at the track this weekend. Yesterday was a practice day so each of our five drivers did two 15-20 minute sessions to relearn the track (Road America) and feel out the car. The brakes were bad before lunch when we bled out a couple bubbles but I still wasn't happy with them after. End of the day we went to put on new pads for the race today and found this... Well that's not good at all.
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Terrible Robot posted:Well that's not good at all. It's certainly less than ideal. We'll have to throw in the spare engine before the next race in December
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Yes, with street treads. The Abrams' are rubber, made by vibram. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpNQbwWP3hQ
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What a coincidence, just today I attended a board meeting for a small airport and one issue we discussed was the army's plans to use the airport for exercise. All the anguish thinking about what all those APCs and SPGs well do to our pristine gravel runways. And secretly hope they'll ruin the tarmac runways and will have to rebuild them.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnSoxqLHbD8&t=127s This was on autoplay after your vid!
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Here's a Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep 3.7L V6 (little brother of the 4.7L V8) doing 3.7L V6 things.  And here's the valve seat that dropped out of the last 3.7L the same guy worked on! 
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Oct 17, 2016 22:03
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They should've kept the Inline 6 and just turbocharged it.
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Oct 17, 2016 23:36
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It's so dinky  What is it in? What's left of the pushrod and rocker?
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stay safe 3.7L V6 ghost
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Seat Safety Switch posted:It's so dinky It's OHC, and they're probably fine or close to it. I don't think that engine family is actually an interference engine. Could be wrong but I'm pretty sure the damage in most cases is from the seat/valve breaking off and bouncing around, not from piston-valve touching (at least at first).
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Seat Safety Switch posted:It's so dinky Imagine that little thing pushing around the massive hulk that is the Ram 1500 as late as 2012.  Seriously, base-model trucks are crazy weak but this took the cake. Chevy had the kindness to put engines with more than 4 liters of displacement in their trucks, and Ford had their 302 HP V-6 from the Mustang in their base F-150 in 2011. Chrysler asked waaay too much of that little turd.
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IOwnCalculus posted:It's OHC, and they're probably fine or close to it. I don't think that engine family is actually an interference engine. Could be wrong but I'm pretty sure the damage in most cases is from the seat/valve breaking off and bouncing around, not from piston-valve touching (at least at first). I believe you are correct. The damage usually happens when the valve seat or valve ends up sideways between the piston and head. He said he just slapped a new head on and had it running later in the day and the piston looks fine from that pic. Probably in a grand cherokee, liberty, patriot/commander, etc since it came from a jeep group. Not sure which.
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I had spent the past weekend having a yard sale with my aunt, in anticipation of a big auction this past Monday. Made 600 bucks. I made the mistake of saying to myself " Hrm, I kind of wish that auction wasn't happening. I'd like to put this money into my truck". Well, as I 'm backing out, my Sun Shell blows out, necessitating a full transmission rebuild. Really, it's not all that bad. It's got 200K on it, so figure should go ahead and do a full one. The timing on it made me laugh though. According to the internets, that is a common failure point on the 4L60E transmission. (2000 silverado 1500)
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CommieGIR posted:They should've kept the Inline 6 and just turbocharged it. Heh Heeeeeh Asking mid-late 00s DaimlerChrysler to dp anything right Hah
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They are still rubbish today. The c200 is by far the worst new car. Had one pissing oil from the oil pan gasket with 35k on it.
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Preoptopus posted:They are still rubbish today. The c200 is by far the worst new car. Had one pissing oil from the oil pan gasket with 35k on it. Unlike the Avenger, the car-show demo unit's headliner didn't fall on me when I closed the door.
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When I was in Hawaii last month my rental in Kona was a 200 and it was absolutely abysmal in so many ways. Quality, performance, ergonomics, pretty much everything except fuel economy which I will say was reasonable. The Malibu I had on Maui immediately after was literally 3x the car. I can't imagine how someone could buy a 200 if they just test drove basically anything else in the same class.
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slidebite posted:When I was in Hawaii last month my rental in Kona was a 200 and it was absolutely abysmal in so many ways. Quality, performance, ergonomics, pretty much everything except fuel economy which I will say was reasonable. Probably to discourage you from trying the Saddle Road 
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Cast drains have a really fun failure mode. Also people will put anything down a floor drain.
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sirr0bin posted:Cast drains have a really fun failure mode. Also people will put anything down a floor drain. On my first ship, we had three female heads with clogged showers. There was a spool piece (3' long piece of pipe, flanged on both ends) after the drains all connected. 5" NPS line. Unbolted it...didn't move. Hung on it. Dropped about 6 inches. Hit it with a hammer, and it finally dropped another foot. It was suspended in mid air by hair. A hairball about 6' long had grown inside the pipe. As we pulled it down more, and it finally fell, we found what started the build up. Someone had dropped/shoved a small jelly dildo down a drain, and it got stuck on some calcium build up. Then Chewbacca started growing.
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Hahah, what the hell. At one of the main women's restrooms at work a toilet got so severely clogged the maint tech had to remove the whole thing from the floor. Underneath in the pipe he found an RFID badge/coil lanyard belonging to one of the HR ladies. He rinsed it off and gleefully returned it to her at her desk
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Phanatic posted:The best part is that it anaesthetizes the olfactory nerve, so you can smell it at concentrations that won't really hurt you, but much over that you lose your ability to smell it. http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-latifa-lincoln-dead-hydrogen-sulfide-20161004-story.html quote:Hydrogen sulfide inhalation killed mother, toddler found on Florida's Turnpike in June
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Ever have one of those days Namely, moving day:  You've got the van all loaded up for the last run of the day, you've just cleaned out the fridge and freezer into two giant rubbermaid bins and stuck them in the back, you're on the clock for the only run where timing really matters, the sun is going down and it's starting to rain, and then the starter says  gently caress UUUUUU
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Oct 23, 2016 03:09
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XK posted:http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-latifa-lincoln-dead-hydrogen-sulfide-20161004-story.html drat, first time I've heard of that. Sounds like they put a non-vented battery in its place to save a few bucks or possibly worse some shop/store did it and/or didn't hook up the vent hoses.
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FuzzKill posted:drat, first time I've heard of that. Sounds like they put a non-vented battery in its place to save a few bucks or possibly worse some shop/store did it and/or didn't hook up the vent hoses. If the only thing stopping the car from murdering its occupants with H2S is lack of a vent hose on the battery that's pretty terrifying.
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Throatwarbler posted:If the only thing stopping the car from murdering its occupants with H2S is lack of a vent hose on the battery that's pretty terrifying. Most vehicles batteries aren't in the passenger compartment, but yeah, there are usually just 1 or 2 hoses that clip onto the battery so when it out gasses they are vented out of the car. I don't think it's hard to find them (the correct battery) anymore but before they were common I know of people putting a similar sized battery without vent lines into the car.
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That's terrifying. Was the OEM battery for that thing a sealed AGM type or something?
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Throatwarbler posted:If the only thing stopping the car from murdering its occupants with H2S is lack of a vent hose on the battery that's pretty terrifying. Not only does it have a vent tube, but the only way to access the battery is to actuate the motorized seat  because German car. http://rennlist.com/forums/porsche-cayenne-forum/729160-cayenne-turbo-battery-replacement-guide-diy.html
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After about 4 hours of soldering:
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joat mon posted:After about 4 hours of soldering: 
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DethMarine21 posted:That's terrifying. Was the OEM battery for that thing a sealed AGM type or something? It likely was a factory agm battery because Germany, but like most europen luxury car owners, they saw the price of a proper replacement and went "GIVE ME THE CHEAPEST THING THAT WILL FIT AND STOP TRYING TO RIP ME OFF  / ". This combined with the fact that if you have to gently caress with the seat, odds are it has other fiddly poo poo that will go wrong or need to be done and german car owners being literally hitler about you accidentally setting a tool down within 5ft of their car because you might scratch their peeling faded clear coat, most parts stores will laugh at you for asking and that rear end in a top hat isn't going to pay a shop to do it.
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Cop Porn Popper posted:It likely was a factory agm battery because Germany, but like most europen luxury car owners, they saw the price of a proper replacement and went "GIVE ME THE CHEAPEST THING THAT WILL FIT AND STOP TRYING TO RIP ME OFF It sounds like from the repair thread posted above there is an actual vent line from the compartment. Probably the vent line got knocked off or the new battery didn't have the fixins to attach the vent line to it. You see sort of the same thing happen when guys replace the stock Miata batteries with j. random parts-shop battery that no longer has provisions to attach the vent hose.
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Cop Porn Popper posted:It likely was a factory agm battery because Germany, but like most europen luxury car owners, they saw the price of a proper replacement and went "GIVE ME THE CHEAPEST THING THAT WILL FIT AND STOP TRYING TO RIP ME OFF You nicely summed up why I quit loving wrenching on other peoples junk for a paycheck. E: that and the whole getting treated like the help instead of a human loving being. MB has done this since the 90s with the W210 chassis putting the battery under the back seat. *shrug*
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joat mon posted:After about 4 hours of soldering: Why?
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joat mon posted:After about 4 hours of soldering: 
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Seat Safety Switch posted:It sounds like from the repair thread posted above there is an actual vent line from the compartment. Probably the vent line got knocked off or the new battery didn't have the fixins to attach the vent line to it. What's best is when they do that and use an improper size battery. Then it slides around in the trunk and they wonder why they have a random no start. Que to opening the trunk and finding a bunch of arc marks from the battery sliding and shorting out the car. 
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My E46 previous owner fixed that with a piece of wood, that's the right way isn't it?
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Godholio posted:Why? Unobtanium tank, Save money to spend on a part that can't be repaired, Learn a new skill.
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sidewalk gum posted:My E46 previous owner fixed that with a piece of wood, that's the right way isn't it? I did that with my Miata. It's been fine for years and didn't even move after several track days. As far as I'm concerned, I just fabricated a custom battery mount  .
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