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I've just discovered that you can get 20" Hi-Lifts: I can't decide if that's pointless or adorable.
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Apr 20, 2016 21:30
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InitialDave posted:I've just discovered that you can get 20" Hi-Lifts: That needs to go on a lowered Jeep.
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Apr 21, 2016 00:28
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SouthsideSaint posted:I know it's damaging but good loving luck getting a low profile on otherwise. Or getting a tire to seat on a poorly refinished rim. Its bad but I've never found a better way to mount low profiles. Also ruglyde is cheap and comes in big bottles and makes tires easy enough to mount by hand. Your shop needs to invest in one of these. I used one last week to change the 20's on my SRT and it was loving amazing. I've used it before to mount 275/35 R19's and it was trivially easy. I remember using an older machine for low-profile tires and it was torture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX43c-gBamk
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Apr 21, 2016 04:15
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Are the plastic ends of the arms considered a long-term wear item? E: IT EVEN LOWERS THE WHEEL ONTO THE FLOOR FOR YOU. What a time to be alive. Edit 2: vvv Rebrand them as "lo-lift"s and sell them to ricers/stancers literally a fish fucked around with this message at 12:55 on Apr 21, 2016 |
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Apr 21, 2016 07:42
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InitialDave posted:I've just discovered that you can get 20" Hi-Lifts: Panda purchase incoming...
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Apr 21, 2016 10:08
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Cakefool posted:Panda purchase incoming...
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Apr 21, 2016 12:15
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InitialDave posted:It's not actually tall enough to be particularly useful for a Panda! The front and rear jacking points are a good foot off the ground even on a level surface. It's a not-high hi-lift jack.
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Apr 21, 2016 12:53
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wallaka posted:Your shop needs to invest in one of these. I used one last week to change the 20's on my SRT and it was loving amazing. I've used it before to mount 275/35 R19's and it was trivially easy. I remember using an older machine for low-profile tires and it was torture. Yeah I cant even get them to spend the money and replace the computer that died. Which was my access to all data and the like. I'd love for a newer machine. They dragged there feet purchasing any of the tools for the shop. Hooray mom and pop shops that are run by two fucknobs and not the mom and pop who made it what it was.
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Apr 21, 2016 13:29
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literally a fish posted:It's amazing how much flashlight you can get for like $50 including multiple batteries and a charger these days. a Convoy S2+ will output nearly a thousand lumens (well, 800-850, but shush) off a single Panasonic NCR18650PF cell and the most ridiculous part is that the Nitecore charger that I'm a fan of costs more than the flashlight! (total? US$43.50 with free shipping. Yes, fasttech is a legit site, I buy poo poo from there all the time. Shipping's slow as hell, but it does show up!) So I did a bad thing and bought pretty much everything you suggested here from Fasttech (except got the flashlight in red for the metal tailcap button, and spent an extra $9 for the charger with an LCD display.) What's your experience with them on shipping times? I've seen people saying 1-2 weeks to 2+ months on the FT forums, flashlight forums and reddit.
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Apr 21, 2016 19:43
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What do you guys use for oil drain pans that seal? I had this turd from Walmart, but the threads failed after a few uses. I want something that I can seal like that to go dump my old oil.
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Apr 21, 2016 22:48
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Deeters posted:What do you guys use for oil drain pans that seal? I had this turd from Walmart, but the threads failed after a few uses. I want something that I can seal like that to go dump my old oil. Milk jugs bro.
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Apr 21, 2016 22:51
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I have a HDPE 5 gallon jug (like this) that I pour the oil out of the drain pan into.
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Apr 21, 2016 22:57
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dump into a 5 gal gas container. you dont want to have to dump every oil change. i have a pan like this: http://www.amazon.com/Hopkins-11838-FloTool-Oil-Drain/dp/B000AMGYNA that is just ok but good enough for how rarely i end up needing to do changes. the ability to catch a dropped drain plug without fishing all the way at the bottom is kinda nice.
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Apr 21, 2016 22:57
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I bought this cheap thing at Walmart and it's been great. The cap threads are beefy. Use whatever as a drain pan and decant it over. My jeep has enough clearance I can drain directly into it with a big funnel.
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Apr 21, 2016 22:59
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Dont you guys who do your own oil changes buy the 5 quart bottles? Why dont you just dump the oil back into those. Im confused. Also as for finding drain plugs in the oil pan, magnets work wonderfully.
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Apr 21, 2016 23:07
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I don't need a huge jug since I'm in an apartment and I'm not supposed to be doing oil changes in the driveway. I dump it every time to hide the evidence 
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Apr 21, 2016 23:08
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Deeters posted:I don't need a huge jug since I'm in an apartment and I'm not supposed to be doing oil changes in the driveway. I dump it every time to hide the evidence It's similar where I live - I can't do anything car related in my parking spot, so I put it on the street out front and get to work. So far I've replaced a radiator and rebuilt a couple of drive shafts. Before they installed the cameras I just did my oil changes in the garage since it takes all of 10 minutes, but I felt funny as an adult trying to hide when the
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Apr 21, 2016 23:23
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spog posted:It's a not-high hi-lift jack. A low lift jack? Also i dump my oil in used wiper fluid bottles, but a big gas can sounds actually a little more convenient.
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Apr 21, 2016 23:33
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Preoptopus posted:Dont you guys who do your own oil changes buy the 5 quart bottles? Why dont you just dump the oil back into those. Im confused. Also as for finding drain plugs in the oil pan, magnets work wonderfully. A while back I actually did an in depth review of my current pan that I got from Advance Auto (also available at Northern Tool for more money): Cat Hatter posted:The first thing to note is that this thing is loving enormous:
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Apr 21, 2016 23:34
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Cat Hatter posted:Some people need 4, 6, or 8 quarts and then would need to pour into at least two containers (I buy 12 packs of individual quarts because its cheaper for me). Even if you need exactly 5 quarts, its still an extra step vs throwing a cap on the pan and you can't keep multiple changes in the jug. It works fine for many people, but not everyone has the same situation. You know the easiest and CHEAPEST way to get an oil change is just having a shop do it with a coupon. We will get you out the door for 21.09 with tax included, with a semi synthetic blend oil and a American made (  ) ProSelect filter. And if you buy the 3 pack they're like 16 bucks. Why changing oil against policy in a lovely parking lot under the cover of darkness is a better way to do it has me all confused. Not to mention, changing oil is a poo poo job to begin with. To each there own I guess. :/ Preoptopus fucked around with this message at 23:56 on Apr 21, 2016 |
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Apr 21, 2016 23:50
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The Royal Nonesuch posted:I bought this cheap thing at Walmart and it's been great. The cap threads are beefy. Use whatever as a drain pan and decant it over. My jeep has enough clearance I can drain directly into it with a big funnel. Yeah that's what I do too--those all in one pan and container things are kinda crappy these days. I don't know why but like 10-15 years ago they used to make much bigger and nicer pan containers. Now all I see are those tiny ones that are terrible. I just use a big open pan to catch the oil and then dump into a big jug like that. It's a lot easier to clean and store an open drain pan and jug vs. those clunky pan containers.
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Apr 22, 2016 00:39
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Preoptopus posted:You know the easiest and CHEAPEST way to get an oil change is just having a shop do it with a coupon. Easy, but much higher risk of getting your car hosed up.
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Apr 22, 2016 01:17
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Whos more likely to gently caress your car up : A tech that does it every day for a living with the right tools at hand and has his job and reputation along with the shops reputation at stake, or you on your back in a parking lot? Are there lovely techs out there? of course as with everything. But most lube techs dont want to change oil for the rest of their lives. Yea their world is poo poo but they understand they will never move up if they gently caress up and dont take care. Not to mention establishing and maintaining trust with a customer is completely encompassed by the oil change so while lovely, the lube tech has a very important job in the bigger scope of things.
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Apr 22, 2016 01:46
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Counter point: I do my own oil without leaving my house and with a beer in my hand.
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Apr 22, 2016 02:02
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Everyone's got their thing man. Im not knockin anyone and if it makes you happy then hey, you do you. I just dont buy the argument that "I do all my own work because mechanics are all crooks who gently caress poo poo up." Didn't mean the derail, carry on gentlemen.
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Apr 22, 2016 02:08
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Preoptopus posted:Everyone's got their thing man. Im not knockin anyone and if it makes you happy then hey, you do you. I just dont buy the argument that "I do all my own work because mechanics are all crooks who gently caress poo poo up." People in this thread get weird about oil changes. Everything else is like "I find it worthwhile to *perform X procedure*, but to each their own" but if someone mentions how they change their oil it turns into  "Why would anyone change their own oil?" "I use a baking pan and a milk jug and can't imagine doing it any other way!" "Why don't you just get a hose and mouth-syphon it into a 55 gallon drum and then use your forklift to load it into your milsurp 5-ton when its full like I do?"
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Apr 22, 2016 02:48
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Geoj posted:So I did a bad thing and bought pretty much everything you suggested here from Fasttech (except got the flashlight in red for the metal tailcap button, and spent an extra $9 for the charger with an LCD display.) Pretty much that. Sometimes it's 2 weeks, sometimes it's 2 months. There's pretty much no way to tell - it's just a case of whether china post decides to send it all via seamail or airmail... Once it only took 3 days though.
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Apr 22, 2016 03:16
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The only things I've ever had a shop do are alignments and mount/balance. I swear 50% of the time they still gently caress something up. I don't care if others use shops. I'm just too loving cheap to pay some one to do my work and I don't have any shop I trust as much as I trust my self.
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Apr 22, 2016 03:35
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Preoptopus posted:You know the easiest and CHEAPEST way to get an oil change is just having a shop do it with a coupon. We will get you out the door for 21.09 with tax included, with a semi synthetic blend oil and a American made ( This is bullshit, the easiest and cheapest way is to just keep topping off as oil slowly leaks from the everywhere during normal use. Also, all these storage container ideas are a stupid waste of money, if you park just right you can get both the pan and the filter over a storm drain at the same time. It's not hard, it just takes practice; you can set a cone up next to it if you really can't get parked right. Anyway I can't speak for the rest of you guys but I change my own oil because that way I'm taking care of every repair any car will really need, just like Jiffy Lube says, and doing it myself instead of taking it to them makes me feel pretty goddamned responsible if I do say so myself. 
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Apr 22, 2016 03:40
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I think of it like how some people wash their car so they'll notice any new dents/scratches; changing your oil gives you a reason to go under your car and see if anything has obviously gone wrong since last time.
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Apr 22, 2016 03:51
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Sadi posted:The only things I've ever had a shop do are alignments and mount/balance. I swear 50% of the time they still gently caress something up. I don't care if others use shops. I'm just too loving cheap to pay some one to do my work and I don't have any shop I trust as much as I trust my self. The only thing you trust a shop which you dont trust to do are the two most important things you can do to a car to insure your immediate safety tho... Preoptopus fucked around with this message at 03:56 on Apr 22, 2016 |
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Apr 22, 2016 03:53
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Preoptopus posted:The only thing you trust a shop which you dont trust to do are the two most important things you can do to a car to insure your immediate safety tho... I don't trust a shop to do those things either. I just am not willing to pay for my very own laser alignment machine or balancing machine.
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Apr 22, 2016 04:07
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Do you eat at restaurants? Cause they if they drop your steak on the floor, they just wash it, and throw it back on the grill guaranteed. TRUST NOONE! I wrench for a living and try my best to not gently caress up and provide the cleanest best service possible. I have invested thousands into my tools and countless hours learning and studying my craft. And when there Is a comeback my heart sinks not because Im worried about getting in trouble but because the customer is unhappy from a service I provided and they paid good money for. So for people like to to say gently caress shops dont trust em, hits a little home for me and frankly is insulting. Im done with the derail. Have fun spending your hard earned free time making a giant mess and burning your hands on exhaust and hot oil while wasting money while all your friends are out grilling having a good time. Preoptopus fucked around with this message at 04:24 on Apr 22, 2016 |
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Apr 22, 2016 04:16
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Preoptopus posted:Do you eat at restaurants? Cause they if they drop your steak on the floor, they just wash it, and throw it back on the grill guaranteed. TRUST NOONE! If I'm going to eat a floor-steak, I'd prefer to know the conditions of the floor it was dropped on and how well it was washed off  .
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Apr 22, 2016 04:24
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It really depends on the place, I wouldn't trust a quick lube with anything above a beater. There's no shortage of anecdotes from people who got burnt by a monkey with a wrench. I wouldn't put my faith in the integrity of a minimum wage worker who's got incentives to get the work done as quick as possible rather than consult literature on proper procedure. And even getting repairs, there's enough places out there that do shoddy work that goes unnoticed due to uninformed customers, and how many times did you see those undercover news segments that exposed shops that were charging for work that was never completed or not needed? Finding a place that has integrity and takes pride in their work is not so simple and if you can do the work yourself it's a tempting option for the peace of mind. Recent one that springs to mind was that Audi S5 that had it's underbody structures cut up, and it's transmission oil drained at a quick lube. Dealer's are probably going to be competent but are legendarily expensive. A decent shop can probably be trusted to do a good job too at a better price than the dealer. Bringing back the restaurant analogy, sure you can eat out, but I wouldn't want to go to the place downtown that's changed owners 3 times since it's failing health inspections and has complaints of people getting food poisoning. They probably still make some decent food, but the odds of getting something bad are much higher than the fancy steakhouse down the street or the local burger joint by the river.
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Apr 22, 2016 05:00
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Preoptopus posted:Do you eat at restaurants? Cause they if they drop your steak on the floor, they just wash it, and throw it back on the grill guaranteed. TRUST NOONE! You do understand that you're the exception, rather than the rule, right? We love mechanics like you. A perfect example is the Subaru specialist I found near-ish to my house, Mark, who has been in the business for over 25 years, knows an EJ like the back of his hand, had my car for over a month, couldn't quite work out what the problem was, and only charged me for six hours of his time. (It later turned out to be a problem he never would have caught.) Unfortunately, people like him and you are few and far between  If every mechanic at every shop had a work ethic like yours, we wouldn't bash shops. Most small independent shops are decent, but when someone sets up a chain franchise just to make money, not because they actually take pride in their work, it doesn't end well. And with the flatrate bullshit most chains pull, it's hard to both make enough money to stay alive/not get fired, and also actually care about the quality of your work - just take a look at 14", who takes pride in his work and doing it properly, and was literally beaten into a meth addiction by Firestone (and a bunch of other stuff, but you get my point). We're not attacking you. We love people like you. We just wish you weren't the 1%. I also take issue with your last statement - I do have fun spending my free time working on my car, and usually my friends are working on it (and eating delicious kebabs) with me, because they like it too. I wouldn't do it if I didn't enjoy doing it. Bajaha posted:Recent one that springs to mind was that Audi S5 that had it's underbody structures cut up, and it's transmission oil drained at a quick lube. Ah yes, this one. A perfect example of minimum wage idiots who don't care and just want to get the car done faster than the 20 flatrate minutes they're getting paid for. literally a fish fucked around with this message at 05:22 on Apr 22, 2016 |
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Apr 22, 2016 05:18
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Seriously dude. I don't hate mechanics. I just rather do it my self. It doesn't hurt my feelings to burn my hands on the exhaust changing the 2 exhaust gaskets I hosed up at the last rallycross. I got cold beer for the burnt hand. I just don't want to pay $200 for something that cost me $30 in parts and a half hour. Besides fixing poo poo is cathartic.
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Apr 22, 2016 11:38
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Sadi posted:The only things I've ever had a shop do are alignments and mount/balance. I swear 50% of the time they still gently caress something up. I don't care if others use shops. I'm just too loving cheap to pay some one to do my work and I don't have any shop I trust as much as I trust my self. We had a guy in for inspection, his 05 F-150 failed for a loose hub bearing. He said he'd do the work himself. Okay no problem - free re-inspection if you come back. So the truck came back with an entire new front end! All four control arms, both CV axles, both hub bearings both inner and outer tie-rods have been replaced. He did all this himself. So he has lifetime alignment on this truck - I'm like - GREAAAAT this recheck is going to take forever. I only had to adjust one of the tie-rods about 0.06 of a degree. It was absurd. I went out when the customer picked the truck up to see how the hell he did it - he counted the threads on everything he did. He was even shocked at how close he got it.
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Apr 22, 2016 12:15
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Well done, mr. F-150 guy 
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0toShifty posted:We had a guy in for inspection, his 05 F-150 failed for a loose hub bearing. He said he'd do the work himself. Okay no problem - free re-inspection if you come back. Thats amazing. I bet got dealer parts. Aftermarket are always slightly different and will be off even if you count the threads. I apologize for my mood last night. I would just like to ad, being a decent tech pays. Going the extra mile, IE zip tying hanging loose body panels, taking care of back plate scraping, little poo poo, gets customers to come back for bigger jobs and they are HAPPY to empty their wallets knowing there car is in good hands. Thats when you get wreckers dropping cars off in front of your bay at night with a note saying. "Needs brakes, just fix it, call when done, I trust you." I just dont get why anyone would be a lovely tech. oh well. Props to you drive way heros. Preoptopus fucked around with this message at 13:58 on Apr 22, 2016 |
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Apr 22, 2016 13:52
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