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InitialDave posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKMxWBrKBQo Holy loving poo poo. Trevor is a good dude too, he's fortunate it didn't end worse for the oncoming car.
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Yeah, that's scary. I've seen tires come off and head across the road, fortunately not mine. So far, the ones I've see missed any cars, but it's an incredibly helpless feeling just watching this bouncing missile wander down the road.
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Goddamn. This is why I check my lug nuts 25 and 100 miles after swapping wheels. But yeah, when I towed my MJ on a dolly to Indiana and back in 2012? I had no loving idea I even had to check those. I didn't check those hubs till I had put drat near 3000 miles of towing on them. They were full of the nastiest rusty watery buttmud grease I've ever seen.
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Not to downplay the seriousness off throwing a tire off a vehicle, but lug centric wheels make huge loving racket when the lugs loosen up. Bearings make noticeable amounts of noise when they start to go, not as much as lugs, but noticeable. But these are the ones on the vehicle you drive. I imagine you could miss quite a bit on a trailer before being loud enough to hear.
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um excuse me posted:Not to downplay the seriousness off throwing a tire off a vehicle, but lug centric wheels make huge loving racket when the lugs loosen up. Bearings make noticeable amounts of noise when they start to go, not as much as lugs, but noticeable. But these are the ones on the vehicle you drive. I imagine you could miss quite a bit on a trailer before being loud enough to hear. Bad bearings also tend to throw off a lot of heat as they're failing. If you check your hub temps every once in a while mid trip, you should get some indication things are about to go sideways.
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Oct 6, 2017 03:59
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um excuse me posted:Not to downplay the seriousness off throwing a tire off a vehicle, but lug centric wheels make huge loving racket when the lugs loosen up. Bearings make noticeable amounts of noise when they start to go, not as much as lugs, but noticeable. But these are the ones on the vehicle you drive. I imagine you could miss quite a bit on a trailer before being loud enough to hear. Every trailer I've ever towed has sounded like I was dragging a pile of metal stock down the road with no wheels on it, so I've gotten used to ignoring basically any sound they make. Uhaul trailers and the tow dolly I have are LOUD. I doubt I'd even notice the additional clanking and banging if I lost the rubber off one or two tires on a uhaul utility trailer. Quieter trailers might be a bit different.
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kastein posted:Every trailer I've ever towed has sounded like I was dragging a pile of metal stock down the road with no wheels on it, so I've gotten used to ignoring basically any sound they make. Uhaul trailers and the tow dolly I have are LOUD. I doubt I'd even notice the additional clanking and banging if I lost the rubber off one or two tires on a uhaul utility trailer. Hell, with Uhaul you might be dragging a corpse stowed underneath. They might charge extra for the cleanup fee.
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Colostomy Bag posted:While I've forgotten the flare nut once as everyone else, I enjoy flaring, then bending the line...then realizing the flare nut dropped way down and can't make the bend. This happened to me a few times doing a 5/8" air con flare as the copper pipe goes out of round. Way more times than I forgot the nut, but sucks just as bad.
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Oct 7, 2017 11:46
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Oct 7, 2017 20:18
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"Support your local police" With the funds from multiple, repeat tickets, I presume.
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Oct 7, 2017 20:20
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InitialDave posted:"Support your local police" It's Alabama. Search your heart for the truth.
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Oct 7, 2017 23:48
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Knowing cops and their love of idiot strongmen dictators, the only reason that dude gets pulled over is so they can give him a sloppy wet blowjob. Maybe tickle the taint a little.
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Oct 8, 2017 01:55
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Ain't defacing a license plate illegal? But of course, see above.
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Oct 8, 2017 02:26
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They probably pull him over, give a laughing chastisement, maybe a written but useless warning, and send them on their way.
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Oct 8, 2017 03:11
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I like how it appears to have “ALD TR” printed on a sheet of paper in the back window.
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Platystemon posted:I like how it appears to have “ALD TR” printed on a sheet of paper in the back window. I guess that was the temp plate. I don't know why he would put in the effort to vandalize his plate but not take the temp plate out of the window.
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Cojawfee posted:I guess that was the temp plate. I don't know why he would put in the effort to vandalize his plate but not take the temp plate out of the window. Look in your heart, you know the reason. That being he's too loving stupid.
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Oct 8, 2017 08:34
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I didn't know they have Euro size plates in Alabama. Learn something every day 
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http://www.wcvb.com/article/abandoned-sports-car-parked-near-broken-fire-hydrant/12801478 Nice looking s2000 got manhandled by a busted fire hydrant. Thats a pretty hilarious amount of force. E: i guess he may have just landed that way but it seems like the damage is on the wrong side of the car. Like he hit the hydrant coming from the sidewalk side lol or maybe it just spun a real tight circle after it hit. DogonCrook fucked around with this message at 00:29 on Oct 9, 2017 |
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Oct 9, 2017 00:32
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That's a funny-lookin' offbrand wrench. I know its a rod
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That looks like it's got a bit toasty on that big end there.
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Fermented Tinal posted:That's a funny-lookin' offbrand wrench. I legit thought it was a wrench someone modified to fit somewhere until I scrolled down a bit more. drat.
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Oct 9, 2017 02:03
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Some truckie got pulled over. Aside from finding out he was on meth they discovered he's clamped his brakes off.
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That... got a bit warm. Holy poo poo. Also, crappy google translate says: quote:efren: motor breakage. is finished a season for us in the 208 rally cup, in which we had to fight against our opponents, and many more things ... gently caress! (I'm guessing they were using voice recognition and hermano got picked up as amino? hermano would be brother.. mi espanol es muy malo, though) randomidiot fucked around with this message at 09:20 on Oct 9, 2017 |
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WebDog posted:Some truckie got pulled over. Aside from finding out he was on meth they discovered he's clamped his brakes off. What's the point of doing that?
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WebDog posted:Some truckie got pulled over. Aside from finding out he was on meth they discovered he's clamped his brakes off. Stereotypes are a thing for a reason.
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Rubiks Pubes posted:What's the point of doing that? So he can drift it.
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Rubiks Pubes posted:What's the point of doing that? Seriously though there was probably a leak or something and rather than fix it properly this happened.
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Rubiks Pubes posted:What's the point of doing that? It's so you can stand on your brakes and do a burnout. Front wheels stay in place while the back spins.
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Rubiks Pubes posted:What's the point of doing that? I suspect he has a leak and his rear brakes were locking up due to it.
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Oct 9, 2017 16:32
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They said he didn't have front brakes, either.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:They said he didn't have front brakes, either. Then how'd they pull him over, hmmm?
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tactlessbastard posted:Then how'd they pull him over, hmmm?
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Blue rock salt on a table on the side of the road.
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I've got a Transit van on hire this week. Big bugger, rwd, 6 speed manual, 2 litre diesel, a year old and 17k miles. I've only done 75 miles in it by midday today, and the loving thing starts it's second exhaust filter dpf thing cleaning cycle since I picked it up. I'm heading up a dirt track to a site in first gear and stall it (it is really steep and I'm trying not to wheel spin too much and wreck the track). Start it back up and I get this... Fucks sake, I guess I'll be returning it, but I've got work to do. Keep on up the hill, suddenly it goes haywire and accelerates without any input from me, way past redline. I dip the clutch so I don't crash and it returns to normal. 50 meters later it happens again, by the time I switch the engine off its past 6000 rpm. I get out and there is a sizeable pool of oil on the ground. gently caress. Block seems intact. I've got no phone signal, so gently caress it, let's see if it starts. It runs, it's not pissing oil, but I'm guessing it's utterly gubbed so I start thinking of an exit plan I manage to get it turned, but don't want it going tits again and shooting me off the hillside so I freewheel back down the track. I get to the bottom, to a main road, it goes mad again, revving to 6,500 rpm at least. I figure if I try driving to phone signal it's going to go fully bang, so I start walking. I get phone signal, and call out recovery. Guy turns up. In a van. gently caress. I'm going to have to wait for a truck. So the recovery guy starts it up, revs the tits off it, it smokes like a bugger, but despite some warning lights it seems fine. Turns out the oil might have shot out of the dipstick hole. We test drive it for about 45 mins, it keeps trying to do its cleaning cycle, dash is lit up like a tree, but it seems to drive fine, and eventually all but the EML clears. I drive another 100 miles this evening, and despite an EML still being on it seems fine. TLDR; DPF systems can cause some weird poo poo, but diesel van can survive multiple trips to 6000+ RPM.
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stump posted:TLDR; DPF systems can cause some weird poo poo, but diesel van can survive multiple trips to 6000+ RPM. drat, almost sounds like it was going into, and somehow self-correcting diesel runaway. The DPF system on my truck wouldn't try to initiate a regen cycle unless certain operating envelope conditions were met (>certain speed, engine temp, etc.). I remember when Ford first fitted DPF and regens on the super duty's they were able to regen stationary in traffic and literally melt adjacent cars.
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Yeah, if the oil was going wonky, that was probably runaway.
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Yeah I think it was trying to runaway. I'm surprised it stopped tbh. Recovery guy reckoned the dipstick wasn't properly in place (it was loose after the incident), might have been causing a lack of back pressure, which might have caused the dpf to go mad. I'm not entirely sure he believed me about the overrevving thing. My theory is the exhaust was blocked, which caused the runaway, but I don't have the knowhow to know if that's possible. Either way it wasn't lacking in power once the smoke had cleared. stump fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Oct 10, 2017 |
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Taking bets on the bearings are well hosed even if it is running.
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