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I'm proud of being the reason building management put up a sign saying you weren't allowed to do work on cars in an apartment parking area. I didn't even live there.
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wolrah posted:As someone who has been yelled at by neighbors in apartment complexes for changing from summer to winter tires in the parking lot, gently caress that. Slippery slope and folks can't have nice things is basically what it boils down to.
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Colostomy Bag posted:Flooded it? Someone on Reddit hypothesised: quote:Miatas have this problem that if you have the fuel line disconnected, the sun will make the gases expand in the fuel tank and bleed out your hoses. I had just finished a swap and was taking my sweet time; I had my fuel lines connected, but there was a leaky injector. In the two weeks or so that I let the car sit, the entire engine had filled with over two gallons of fuel. I didn’t find this out till I pulled off the intake manifold and spilled fuel everywhere. It first filled the manifold, then into an open intake valve and past the rings, filling the crankcase.
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Platystemon posted:Someone on Reddit hypothesised: Cool except that's a Nissan You can tell by the way it says Nissan on the front
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Right, and Nissan and Mazda definitely don't ever buy components from the same Zaibatsu for their fuel and electrical systems or use the same basic fuel system layout as everything else since the mid 80s
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Before we figured out it was a stupid idea, I did a Seafoam treatment on my Camry in my apartment lot under the covered parking, haha.
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Yeah, that's always a way to win over the neighbors.
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And the local volunteer fire department.
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I’ve never done a Seafoam treatment, but from context it results in huge clouds of acrid smoke.
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Yeah it's cool as hell.
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Platystemon posted:I’ve never done a Seafoam treatment, but from context it results in huge clouds of acrid smoke. Turned my pickup into a cloud factory. I went to an industrial part of town and I still felt awful billowing it into the world.
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definitely had the fire department come to the park and ride when i ran a container of it through my dad's mercedes' engine
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You guys must not be using the new pina colada flavor Seafoam.
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LifeSunDeath posted:You guys must not be using the new pina colada flavor Seafoam. Way ahead of you son. I vape flavor Seafoam to clean out my lungs.
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Another cheap drill bit. This time even cheaper than mine. She was trying to put up a baby (dog) gate. At least my drill bits had been hardened. Does anyone have that photo of the drill bit that had been untwisted and then twisted the other way? I guess they're both made of cheese. Platystemon posted:I’ve never done a Seafoam treatment, but from context it results in huge clouds of acrid smoke. I did this with a friend after someone shipped us a couple of cans of seafoam. It made a cloud of smoke so large it drifted across the nearby main road into town, and a couple of police officers came to see if we had set fire to the car, and check we were okay.
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 https://www.9news.com/article/traffic/fiery-truck-crash-i-70-eastern-plains/73-44c9c000-873b-40f6-b8ba-675e1e944022 Where's the cab? 
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nene posted:Another cheap drill bit. This time even cheaper than mine.  Also ^ loving hell I don't see anyone getting out of that
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nene posted:Another cheap drill bit. This time even cheaper than mine. Cheese, yes, but maaaaaybe just a little too much pressure put on the drill. quote:I did this with a friend after someone shipped us a couple of cans of seafoam. It made a cloud of smoke so large it drifted across the nearby main road into town, and a couple of police officers came to see if we had set fire to the car, and check we were okay. And the cloud lingers. StormDrain posted:
That's... impressive. Fell asleep at the wheel, I would presume.
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Mr-Spain posted:Before we figured out it was a stupid idea, I did a Seafoam treatment on my Camry in my apartment lot under the covered parking, haha. Just warn the neighbors that you're spraying for mosquitoes. Incidentally, Seafoam will to a fantastic job of driving off mosquitoes.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Just warn the neighbors that you're spraying for mosquitoes. Does it help your engine like videos claim it does?
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Sure, it gets all that smoke out.
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I'd imagine Seafoam works even better on a lot of modern engines. Direct injection plus EGR bullshit isn't a great combination for avoiding clagging up.
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Seafoam doesn't work for poo poo on direct injection unless there's an injector behind the valves for cleaning them.
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Cojawfee posted:Seafoam doesn't work for poo poo on direct injection unless there's an injector behind the valves for cleaning them. It comes with a small straw to feed it into the intake, so it cleans up valves just like "normal" fuel injectors do.
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Seafoam doesn't do much in the tank, gotta feed it into an appropriate vacuum hose that will ensure distribution amongst the cylinders.
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InitialDave posted:Where are you putting your Seafoam? Doesn't do poo poo for DI engines. `Nemesis posted:Seafoam doesn't do much in the tank, gotta feed it into an appropriate vacuum hose that will ensure distribution amongst the cylinders. Yes. But there is always the fear of hydrolock.
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Dec 17, 2019 01:52
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A very small risk, if you're not a gigantic moron.
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I doubt a spritz of seafoam alone would do much against 100k miles of buildup a Direct Injection engine will offer. It took a ton of solvent soaking, manual scrubbing and walnut shell blasting to get my Golf's valves and runners clear.   
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Yeah I guess it's not an Audi, you can't just hook up a bag of fine sand to the intake.
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Chemical compounds can only tackle the soft carbon buildup. The stuff that grows on DI engines must be removed mechanically if left for a sufficient amount of years (read - the PO didn't do it) What you want is walnut grit blasting which most German manufacturer dealerships and specialists offer nowadays. It's the only reliable way to remove hard carbon deposits without cylinder head removal. Also obviously the only long term fix is EGR delete and an atmospheric crank case ventilation. Combat Theory fucked around with this message at 07:44 on Dec 17, 2019 |
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Does driving it like you stole it and redlining the poo poo out of the engine do anything to help something like NoWake's case?
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Vanagoon posted:Does driving it like you stole it and redlining the poo poo out of the engine do anything to help something like NoWake's case? Not at all. You will remove buildup in the hot sections, the combustion chamber, exhaust ports and the like, which is why engines that were driven long range for the first time in ages "feel" a lot better, but you will do nothing about the cake on in direct injection intakes. It's a design flaw not a usage problem. German cars have been plagued by this for a decade now and the only reliable solution is chemical cleaning at every oil change (which should not exceed 10000 km either), expensive walnut grit blasting when it's too late and an EGR delete and maybe Crank case ventilation Re route. The EGR is a lot worse than the ventilation though. Combat Theory fucked around with this message at 07:59 on Dec 17, 2019 |
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Yeah, Seafoam not being enough to handle properly cooked on stuff makes sense, I thought people were saying it wouldn't get to those areas, which didn't add up for me.
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Horrible Traffic Failures: Port Richmond (Philadelphia) Edition. Now what? 
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I mean, it sure seems like you shouldn't be able to get to that point, but assuming it's not just user error, maybe they just allow that access for the driveways? (That is a driveway on the right, at least, right?) It's stupid, but I've seen city government make shittier decisions.
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I read the street name as Blockius lol
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The real problem is that that area has three streets named Buckius and this particular version is only about two blocks long and google maps can't find it.  Guessing it used to be a single contiguous street and the building of the highway and railways cut it up and no one ever bothered to rename any of the segments. https://www.google.com/maps/@40.0086526,-75.0739246,3a,75y,257.86h,83.37t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sgxChWmToDEkjCICAn8TLpg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
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Combat Theory posted:What you want is walnut grit blasting which most German manufacturer dealerships and specialists offer nowadays. It's the only reliable way to remove hard carbon deposits without cylinder head removal. My friend, have you heard of the BMW M57? 
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Combat Theory posted:What you want is walnut grit blasting which most German manufacturer dealerships and specialists offer nowadays. It's the only reliable way to remove hard carbon deposits without cylinder head removal.
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