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I replaced an O2 sensor to clear the only code my Outback was throwing after swapping a motor for the third time. Bad sensor was either cross threaded or galled to hell. I tried to use a o2 socket and that just rounded the hex. It took a whole weekend of heat cycling and applying atf+acetone, and then nearly herniating myself with a pipe wrench. Threads were hosed but I chased it and now no codes!
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I cleaned it up and posted it for sale. Now to do the same with my truck. 
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Don't ever let me help you work on a car:
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StormDrain posted:Universal antennas are definitely a thing, just put on on the International. You will have to drill a hole. Mounts on a rubber gasket and angle is adjustable so it can point straight up. I got mine from autozone so while the reception is good I doubt It’s heirloom quality, but I’d bet there are nice ones out there. If you want an external antenna, get the factory antenna for a 2005 Crown Vic. It mounts on the passenger rear fender. Although, as mentioned, you might want to locate your antenna amplifier and make sure it's getting power. I don't know if it has it's own fuse or whatever. Over the weekend I put new coils in the CV to try and cure a P0300 random/multiple cylinder misfire. Nope. Hopefully it's the 20K mile old Motorcraft copper spark plugs. New NGK platinums coming this week. also did some cleanup work on my AE86.
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Jack B Nimble posted:Don't ever let me help you work on a car: You monster.
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Finally got the Kartboy XL hangers and downpipe donut gasket installed to finish off the exhaust on the FXT.  
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Imperador do Brasil posted:Finally got the Kartboy XL hangers and downpipe donut gasket installed to finish off the exhaust on the FXT. What engine and can you get me a little video of the sound please?  What's the reason behind the exhaust mod? Just sound? I'm ignorant about exhaust mods of any kind.
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Michael Scott posted:What engine and can you get me a little video of the sound please? It’s the 2.5 turbo. This is just the first part of replacing the entire exhaust from the turbo back for more POWAH! And also it sounds nicer. Here’s a before and after from when I first installed it https://youtu.be/jIJbEWBh_6g
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When did you go there? I was at the Denver pull on Saturday and oddly was walking around looking at people and thinking “god what a bunch of goony looking guys I bet someone here is”. Not that I was in car stuff or recognized anyone. I grabbed the ECU from an LO5 equipped Chevy pickup.
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StormDrain posted:When did you go there? I was at the Denver pull on Saturday and oddly was walking around looking at people and thinking “god what a bunch of goony looking guys I bet someone here is”. Not that I was in car stuff or recognized anyone. I grabbed the ECU from an LO5 equipped Chevy pickup. I got there at about noon and according to receipt left at ten til two. I was in blue coveralls and a Sturgis tshirt and spent entire time crawling around under a baby blue Mercedes sedan. Didn't walk yard because for a change I knew exactly what I wanted and also wanted to get to Aurora for those springs. I was in such a rush all I stole was exhaust hangers and some shift linkage bushings. eighty-four merc fucked around with this message at 05:34 on Oct 31, 2017 |
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I needed a 1/4 inch driver for my hand impact screwdriver but couldn't find one for the life of me but then I remembered I had an impact 6.5mm socket. I don't know how the gently caress I came to own it but thank you 6.5mm socket, you are the savior of the day. 1/4 is like 10mm - can never find one.
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Cop Porn Popper posted:Mod motor plugs and ignition coils can eat poo poo and die.
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Winter is coming! FXT got steelies with Blizzaks  WRX got the wheels from the previous WRX, with Altimax Arctics. I repainted the passenger side wheels because one of the tires had a flat and I had to pull the plasti-dip off of it to get it repaired, so I decided to just go silly and use up what I had lying around.   The blurple wheels have some gold flake on them 
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Imperador do Brasil posted:The blurple wheels have some gold flake on them
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Changed the spark plugs in the Crown Vic P71. I'm no good at reading plugs, but the old Motorcraft nickel/copper plugs don't look that bad:  They all measured out OK at .054-.056 gap. Spec is .054". Most were at that.
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The best stuff comes from Japan including cotter pins   Really I was paying shipping for the boot anyway so the cost was essentially nothing but lmao at OFFICIAL OEM HONDA COTTER PINS bad  good  As a bonus I can confirm that the standard wiring harness for late 80s early 90s Hondas works perfectly, now to find a headunit that doesn't look like a 90s rave. 
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KakerMix posted:now to find a headunit that doesn't look like a 90s rave. I have a pioneer DEH-X4900BT and really, really like it. You can set it to any colour you want, it's not ricey with stupid features (except the dumb party mode bullshit you can turn off), and does all the basic stuff you'd want. Bluetooth, ipod/android over usb or bluetooth, phone calls with an external microphone, spotify, pandora, etc. I'm probably going to get another to replace the miserable aftermarket head unit someone had installed in my mercedes in 1998.
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chrisgt posted:I have a pioneer DEH-X4900BT and really, really like it. You can set it to any colour you want, it's not ricey with stupid features (except the dumb party mode bullshit you can turn off), and does all the basic stuff you'd want. Bluetooth, ipod/android over usb or bluetooth, phone calls with an external microphone, spotify, pandora, etc. I also had a 90's no-aux cd player in the AW11 when I got it, and that Pioneer is what I went with too. I think it looks great in the car. 
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Ha, I just (this morning, hopefully delivered within the next hour or so) bought this head unit. I think it's the 2nd time I've purchased this exact model over the past few years: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01M5KTTVA/ref=ya_st_dp_summary?ie=UTF8&psc=1 You can set the colors on it so it's not all over the place, too. Doesn't have bluetooth, but sounds a lot better than the factory units I've pulled. Only like $50. Other headunits I've had: JVC KDX50BT  https://www.amazon.com/JVC-KD-X50BT-Digital-Receiver-Bluetooth/dp/B007D9NZXK/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8 Has bluetooth, and only like 4 main buttons. No CD, really short length. Fit in a stock metal-dash VW beetle (the orange one I sold last December), and gave pretty awesome sound for the like $70 I paid for it. Had it running solid in a car with no AC in Phoenix heat for 4 years. Kenwood KDC-BT362U  https://www.amazon.com/Kenwood-KDC-BT362U-KDCBT362U-CD-Receiver/dp/B00P9S66IS Also bluetooth, around $100, with a kickin' rad detachable faceplate. Had this one installed in the bus, and wired up so I could use the remote from the bed in the back of the bus, with the stereo on a separate battery. Excellent sound, multiple subwoofer and multi-channel out options, and rear-audio-in so I could run an aux port to the back of the bus. Unfortunately, the stupid screen was one of those black-background LCDs, and even with the brightest color setting I could program (yellow), you couldn't see poo poo during daylight. Like, at all, even with your hand shading the screen. Since the Beetle, I've been using Wago Lever Nuts to install equipment like this. Think of them like wire nuts, but UL listed and rated for household voltages and current. They perform admirably in DC service, too, with a 600VDC and admirable current rating or something absurd like that. They do take up a little more space than standard wire nuts, but you would never use actual twist-on wire nuts in a car because of vibration, and these are completely removable and swappable. I use the 3-conductor model exclusively, so I can tap on or off of any circuit without twisting wires together. They hold TIGHT and will take off your fingernails if you let the little orange lever snap on your finger when closing them. The wire will break before it pulls out of the lever nut. https://www.amazon.com/Wago-222-413-LEVER-NUTS-Conductor-Connectors/dp/B000JJPA66 
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Just buy the proper installation harness, trim it, solder and shrink it, and install your stuff. Never use wire nuts or mechanical connections. It's not that difficult or expensive to do properly.
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I got the harness. Just didn't want to solder, and didn't have heatshrink on hand. Much better than what I usually find behind dashboard, though. Electrical tape or masking tape or what have you, or twist-on wire nuts. You're right, though.
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 I use these a lot due to the convenience of having a soldered and sealed connection with just the use of a heat gun or lighter (later one is especially useful when you are having to fix something on the road). i keep like 3 or 4 of each size in the Car all the time.
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Do you have a source for not-bootleg ones of those? I've purchased a few packs over the years, from various sources on ebay/amazon/ali/DX, but 100% of them were either really old and didn't shrink properly, or had all of the adhesive melted to one side, or something strange like that. They seem they'd be perfect but up until a few years ago I lived in kabumfuck ID and couldn't source anything locally.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Do you have a source for not-bootleg ones of those? I've purchased a few packs over the years, from various sources on ebay/amazon/ali/DX, but 100% of them were either really old and didn't shrink properly, or had all of the adhesive melted to one side, or something strange like that. They seem they'd be perfect but up until a few years ago I lived in kabumfuck ID and couldn't source anything locally. I just stuff them in my pockets at work... that might also explain why i never had a bad one.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Since the Beetle, I've been using Wago Lever Nuts to install equipment like this. Think of them like wire nuts, but UL listed and rated for household voltages and current. They perform admirably in DC service, too, with a 600VDC and admirable current rating or something absurd like that. They do take up a little more space than standard wire nuts, but you would never use actual twist-on wire nuts in a car because of vibration, and these are completely removable and swappable. I use the 3-conductor model exclusively, so I can tap on or off of any circuit without twisting wires together. They hold TIGHT and will take off your fingernails if you let the little orange lever snap on your finger when closing them. The wire will break before it pulls out of the lever nut. Can confirm these (Wago mechanical joins) are super legit, an electrician friend swore by them and threw a load my way and I put them to use in some PA speakers that get bashed about constantly and abused in terms of loudness for 8 hours straight a night. Genuinely fantastic product. 
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As long as you don't use those outside the passenger compartment I won't judge you. Put them under the hood or undercarriage and... You're gonna have a bad time eventually.
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Definitely. They're not weather rated at all, and quite heavy on spans of wire.
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Darchangel posted:Changed the spark plugs in the Crown Vic P71. They look fairly good in my eye. Are those standard for the P71? Curious why they aren't DP.
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Colostomy Bag posted:They look fairly good in my eye. Are those standard for the P71? Curious why they aren't DP. They're the copper plugs that fit. OEM is platinum. I don't really know why I didn't buy platinum then. Brain fart, apparently. DP?
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Double platinum. Or double penetration, your choice. 
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Swapped out the ECU from a 1992 Buick Roadmaster which was presumably running an L05 for the ECU from a 1990 Chevy pickup which was definitely running an L05, however it's a different chip and a different interface. World of difference. Runs without smoking now, purrs on idle, and I got a good couple of laps around the neighborhood with it only dying twice, once my fault on the clutch and the second time for unknown reasons but also after letting off the gas. This gives me a good enough baseline to pull data from and get an actual tune going. Also, the puddles of coolant that used to be in crannies of the intake manifold have dissipated, which means it got hot enough for that to evaporate, and the thing that I thought was leaking and fixed isn't leaking. I idled for a while while my laptop did windows updates, then moved, and there weren't any drips on the street, so another tentative good sign. Hopefully it doesn't mark overnight. Also my street was milled and repaved so anything I find will be clearly new. It died just as the computer was started up to pull data, hopefully that's not related. I couldn't get it started again and ran the battery down trying to do so, but... I could just as easily be out of gas.
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I disabled my truck I moved to Quebec from Ontario, and on Wednesday I took it for an out-of-province inspection, necessary before I can register it here in Quebec. It failed, of course - it's a 21-year-old Ford Ranger - with a mixed bag of minor problems. I want to tackle some of these myself, and introduce myself to my (very) local independent garage for other stuff. The front brakes and bad front left wheel bearing will be up to the professionals, but I feel like I'm up to fixing the windshield wiper sprayer problem (the multifunction switch was going bad, and not activating the sprayer consistently) and the missing foglights. So, yesterday I *tried* to get to the one local JY that's actually frickin' open on weekends, but failed because my tools are so badly organized. But I have a shiny new 1/4" drive ratchet and a complete set of small sockets, now, so that's a plus. Today I succeeded in getting to the JY and pulled a MFS out of one of the dozens of Rangers / Mazda B-series trucks they have. These things are super common, so I had my pick - out of a couple of dozen, only one was missing its MFS (along with the steering wheel and the entire instrument cluster). With no way to test a MFS in a wreck, I just pulled one that somebody else had already partly disassembled (it looked like the engine had been ripped straight out forwards; junkyards are fun). Even with a trip back to my truck to get a screwdriver I forgot, it took me less than 30 minutes to get the MFS out. I got home and got to work swapping it in. The "new" MFS is worse then the old one. When I plugged in the wires I decided to test it. Immediately, the windshield wipers started moving and the sprayers spraying. I could not stop the wipers, but I could get the sprayers to stop. Still, no way to turn off the wipers is not what I want. So I took apart the old one, it's held together by five screws. Of course, as soon as I took the cover apart various springs un-sprung and small plastic parts fell out. In messing around with the two MFS I had I managed to break both, and now either one will cause continuous wiper movement and sprayer when plugged in. Plus, in trying to take apart the arm - the wiper control is at the end of the arm - I managed to break both of them.  A weekend of failures. So I've just placed an order for a new one - the JY one was $10 and I can exchange it (if I can drive to the JY again) for presumably another probably-hosed one. My new one is not OEM and with shipping costs about as much as the OEM one before shipping. Whatever, I'm going to continue to gamble with the cheapest parts I can find.
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Multi-function switches are one of those jobs that I hate doing because at the best you end up stretching some clips or a giant oversized piece of plastic on the steering column that never comes back together 100%. Also the gall of Quebec saying that some other car is too rusty for them. Those well-educated, Gitaines-chugging frogfuckers are lucky if they have floorpans on a two year old Toyota. (You probably also learned a lesson about the junkyard - always pull more than you think you're going to need, because chances are that poo poo is worse than yours).
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Multi-function switches are one of those jobs that I hate doing because at the best you end up stretching some clips or a giant oversized piece of plastic on the steering column that never comes back together 100%. Once EDIT: I went out to clean up and I decided to at least screw the MFS into position, just in case it was something completely stupid and weird like it not being secured in place in the steering column that was causing the problem (spoiler: did not fix it). While prying up on the top cover and trying to line up the screw, I accidentally hit the horn and scared the crap out of a lovely old lady who was walking past the back of my truck at just that moment. So not only am I incompetent, I'm also a disruptive nincompoop. ExecuDork fucked around with this message at 23:08 on Nov 5, 2017 |
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Cop Porn Popper posted:Double platinum. Or double penetration, your choice. Depends on if you are a DIYer or take it to the dealer for work.
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Not my ride, but my mom's. She called me because "It wouldn't start" so I came over to jumpstart it thinking the battery was dead. It cranked over on it's own a few times, so I figured maybe she forgot to put gas in it. Sure enough, the tank was empty. I tried to crank it over again and it backfired real loud then stopped. I tried again to start it and nothing. The engine wouldn't budge. Then I heard a real loud GURGLE and immediately new that all the gas from the tank was dumping into the motor. Pulled the air filter off and gas was coming out the intake  Rodents also chewed through the spark plug wire and coil wire.I tossed it in the trailer and took it home and now it's just waiting on parts to arrive. In the meantime, everything is soaking in WD-40. I'm gonna blast everything with the hose when I'm done and it'll be like a brand new tractor.
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Cop Porn Popper posted:Double platinum. Or double penetration, your choice. Ah. I thought of Dr. Pepper (drink of choice in Texas, of course) or Double Penetration, but didn't see how those applied to my Crown Vic.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Not my ride, but my mom's. My craftsman needed a fuel cutoff between the tank and the carb because bad gas + time/vibration prevented the needle from completely seating in the carb and it would just flush all the fuel into the crankcase. Put a lightbar on it before you give it back, it works awesome. 
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sneakyfrog posted:I halfass washed my car and gave it its first babby oil change That oil filter location, can’t not make a mess 
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