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MomJeans420 posted:WTF? They spent time and money making that happen? To be fair to GM, there was a bypass switch next to the shifter under a hidden tiny little cover.
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Root Bear posted:Had a late 90's Ford Expedition towed in with only the ability to move in reverse, and even that was a dangerous thing to do. Why you ask? Well... Well, this happened to me. (Not the one pictured, and is somewhat of a common problem in the rust belt) Always thought you just saw off the bolts with the fuel tank. As for what happened on mine, it is a good story. Started out snapping the pinion yoke a mile from my house after a 2,000 mile road trip.
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IOwnCalculus posted:Continued all the way through the fourth gen as well, which makes sense since the fourthgen was nowhere near a clean-sheet design. Official repair method is to drop the tank, which means dropping the rear axle too. I worked on a third gen that was towed in with a no-start. I dutifully diagnose that there is no fuel pressure and that it needs a pump. Pull back the carpet and what do I see? a hack job of a hole that the guy gave up on because he realized that the metal lines are part of the sending unit and couldn't get it out through his automotive goatse.
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Joe Mama posted:automotive goatse. Either new thread title or account name change, can't decide which
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The Something Awful Forums › Discussion › Automotive Insanity › Horrible Mechanical Failures: His improvised automotive goatse certainly was NSFW.
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nmfree posted:The Something Awful Forums › Discussion › Automotive Insanity › Horrible Mechanical Failures: His improvised automotive goatse certainly was NSFW. no piston ring
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Cindy Shitbird posted:no piston ring Or dangling truck nuts.
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He really had to wrench it to get it open.
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TotalLossBrain posted:Either new thread title or account name change, can't decide which "Post your most AG pictures". "Automotive Goatse Makes Joe Mama Go Crazy. Automotive Goatse Makes....." I just wish I could have taken a picture but this was back in the Nokia Brick days and no one had a camera. Stuff like this is just funny as well as facepalm inducing. "Customer says it cranks and won't start. No idea why." (Finds goatse that had to have taken the guy a couple hours). Why people feel the need to try to hide or play dumb about their gently caress-ups, I don't know. You brought it to a shop because you couldn't hack your way through a repair and hosed it up more. Just say so for gently caress's sake. It's not like I'm going to miss your WTF "repair".
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cursedshitbox posted:the old Volvo XCs would go this route too as you'd literally have to take the back 2/3 of the wagon apart to drop the tank. Won't lie, I'm thinking of something similar when I convert my '70 Cutlass to EFI, but I think I'll be using one of the dzus fastened hatches from Speedway.
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Did someone say automotive goatse?
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Someone mangled the drivetrain of a stock-ish looking C5 on the spray at the dragstrip: https://imgur.com/gallery/p2mLk A sample: 
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It looks like a monster lying on its side. "I'm just gonna take a nap here. Don't mind me."
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:It looks like a monster lying on its side. "I'm just gonna take a nap here. Don't mind me." Wow, now I can't unsee that.
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:It looks like a monster lying on its side. "I'm just gonna take a nap here. Don't mind me." Holy crap it's a Troggle.
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Beach Bum posted:Someone mangled the drivetrain of a stock-ish looking C5 on the spray at the dragstrip: https://imgur.com/gallery/p2mLk Also note, owner used to have spray on the car, but took it off because he was worried about the drive line.
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I like the poster trying to blame "poor engineering" for poo poo wearing out and breaking when you double the output the car was designed for. "Chevrolet uses a single trans mount on these cars to handle ALL of the torque." Well, I guess if you ignore the engine mounts, and the torque tube/transaxle mounts, then yeah it's just the one thing. God, what crappy engineering, I can't believe the drivetrain falls out when you overload everything holding it in, wearing them out, what a design oversight.
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It's almost like GM had other design considerations for the boomers buying Corvettes that weren't "will it survive nitrous launches on slicks".
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how do i tell my friend he cannot do an alignment on a car by eye when he has adjustable loving everything currently "its setup right" means "my 9" wide wheels are not touching the spring when its sitting still"
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SquirrelGrip posted:how do i tell my friend he cannot do an alignment on a car by eye when he has adjustable loving everything Get him drunk?
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A lot of shops will check it for free. They should give him a printout showing just how awful it is. Because if he's doing it by eye, it is.
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He'll have to take it to a specialty shop since most places won't touch aftermarket adjusters, and are staffed by people that play with the adjusters until the measurement goes green in the Hunter software.
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oh its awful no doubt about it, it doesnt get driven because its so lovely to drive but he cant put 2 and 2 together i organised someone to check it out for him for free but he had an argument with them. best part is he raves about how nice mine drives even though it has dumb size wheels and is too low, and i should hook him up with the guy who did it 
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Just wait 3,00 miles when his tires are completely hosed and say "told you so."
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I recently drove my Corvette to an alignment shop 30 miles away after replacing a bunch of 50 year old suspension bits. It was "eyeballed" to be close enough to drive reasonably safely for this trip. It was slow to react to steering inputs, but the reactions were dramatic. Correcting for crosswinds made things very interesting. It was not something I would want to drive regularly. Getting a simple alignment cost less than the loving tie rods and made a world of difference. I can't wrap my brain around refusing to get it checked, at least.
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Beach Bum posted:Someone mangled the drivetrain of a stock-ish looking C5 on the spray at the dragstrip: https://imgur.com/gallery/p2mLk TheRagamuffin posted:Holy crap it's a Troggle. gently caress that just brought me WAY back. 
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:gently caress that just brought me WAY back. A few years back I tried to bodge together a Wolfenstein 3D style shooter where the enemies are trogs and you play the guy from math blaster. Wonder where I put the code for that...
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Godholio posted:I recently drove my Corvette to an alignment shop 30 miles away after replacing a bunch of 50 year old suspension bits. It was "eyeballed" to be close enough to drive reasonably safely for this trip. It was slow to react to steering inputs, but the reactions were dramatic. Correcting for crosswinds made things very interesting. It was not something I would want to drive regularly. Getting a simple alignment cost less than the loving tie rods and made a world of difference. I can't wrap my brain around refusing to get it checked, at least. That sounds like how my car reacts after Costco does an alignment. Maybe they're also fans of "eyeballing it."
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Your Costco does alignments? The ones here do tires and batteries only.
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IOwnCalculus posted:Your Costco does alignments? The ones here do tires and batteries only. They said they aligned my tires, but they were either lying or did a poo poo job. Repeatedly. Now I go to the places my co-worker recommends that do computerized load-force balancing.
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Well, tires don't get aligned, so that's a warning sign right there. You sure you're not mixing up balancing and alignment? Either one can gently caress up the way a car handles.
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Costco doesn't offer alignments.
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They rotated my tires, it was a real quick job *spin*
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Ugh, you're right, I do totally have my terminology mixed up.
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lovely tire shops that don't do alignments are happy to keep their wording vague and let you think everything is good to go.
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I have a dude at a local shop who lets me sit in the car while he aligns it to my own preferred spec. It's pretty much the best.
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Beach Bum posted:I have a dude at a local shop who lets me sit in the car while he aligns it to my own preferred spec. It's pretty much the best. I always lol when I remember the story of the fat woman who was asked to sit in her car while they aligned it. She got super upset but c'mon give those dudes a raise because that's attention to detail.
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I knew a guy who did that when he got his wheels aligned - he weighed in at over 4 bills so he knew he was contributing to any issues. He had a Falcon GT and when he traded it in to the dealership I worked at, the driver's seat was reclined all the way back and wouldn't go up to a normal position.
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Back when I autocrossed regularly, I found a shop that would let me sit in it while they aligned it to my specs. Shops like that are awesome.
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