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Joe Mama posted:He dropped it to the ground until it touched and unloaded the rear tires. Karma. Lucky biker for sure. Yeah. That's how I saw it too. Airbags make for some really bad ideas sometimes.
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cursedshitbox posted:Another day another I call those the "dodge ramifications" of their (foolish) actions.
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Remember that ultra sketchy truck posted recently that the guy had paid to have hosed up? Well here's what would have happened if he'd used it and it had been a dump truck. https://www.facebook.com/reel/692663935862403?s=yWDuG2&fs=e&mibextid=Nif5oz
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Why the hell did that low rider even have a towing hitch installed on it ? 
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May 27, 2023 21:46
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MREBoy posted:Why the hell did that low rider even have a towing hitch installed on it ? duh
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I wish those style trailers (like Futuras) weren't so fuckin expensive. Great for fast loading a race car without stacking ramps.
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May 28, 2023 00:35
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MREBoy posted:Why the hell did that low rider even have a towing hitch installed on it ? so he can release air from the bags on the highway so the hitch touches the ground and causes sparks like that. he overdid the release air part too much though and unloaded the rear wheels causing the crash.
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BlackMK4 posted:I wish those style trailers (like Futuras) weren't so fuckin expensive. Great for fast loading a race car without stacking ramps. How much do those run? Have you ever talked to a fabricator about maybe doing something like that? I have no idea how much these things cost.
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Wasabi the J posted:How much do those run? Have you ever talked to a fabricator about maybe doing something like that? They start at like $15k, which is 2-3x what you can get a normal low aluminum car trailer for, heh.
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i imagine they're also in the right thread for when an airbag blows out. we were just talking about unloading the rear in a golf, imagine doing it with your trailer
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Large Testicles posted:i imagine they're also in the right thread for when an airbag blows out. we were just talking about unloading the rear in a golf, imagine doing it with your trailer I can't speak for the trailer in question there, but the way these low trailers normally work is they have a mechanism that allows them to drop low to load/unload. The mechanism is locked out with a pin when in lowered or upright position. Either way, I'd definitely not buy an airbag trailer over a torsen axle lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvPC0XpyruA BlackMK4 fucked around with this message at 23:50 on May 31, 2023 |
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You can tell a lot about a vehicle/its prior owners just by pulling the stereo (at least they used an adapter harness).
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Dagen H posted:You can tell a lot about a vehicle/its prior owners just by pulling the stereo (at least they used an adapter harness). Car mechanics will scold you all day for soldering wires in cars (it can be done reliably and there are standards for doing so) yet their wiring looks like this
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No. 6 posted:Car mechanics will scold you all day for soldering wires in cars (it can be done reliably and there are standards for doing so) yet their wiring looks like this It's a 30-year-old farm truck, this thing hasn't seen a mechanic since the warranty expired under Clinton.
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how come no solder do they want the twisty things? we'd wire lovely tape decks up with anything we could find back in the olden times heeee
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Maybe they are worried about the vibrations that come with driving might crack the solder.
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A good solder joint is totally fine, but most people are not capable of making good solder joints. Mechanical connectors are more reliable when installed by dummies. There are some specious arguments you'll hear, like oh no the solder will melt under high current/temperatures in use (lol not unless you seriously hosed up your electrical system), or that oh no solder is stiff and the joints will crack (again, not if it's done right and properly strain-relieved; NASA has a soldering spec that works on rockets). If you aren't soldering, you should be crimping. Wire nuts (I assume this is what you mean by the "twisty things") are no good where the cables are expected to vibrate or move around. There are a lot of good butt crimps and crimpable connector options out there. e: lol see both up there ^^^^ and down here vvvv are people repeating the myth that soldered wires will crack in cars. Not if you do it properly they won't!!
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TEMPLE GRANDIN OS posted:how come no solder do they want the twisty things? Solder isn’t good in things that vibrate, it has a tendency to break after a while. Butt connectors are what you’re supposed to use.
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Sagebrush posted:e: lol see both up there ^^^^ and down here vvvv are people repeating the myth that soldered wires will crack in cars. Not if you do it properly they won't!! Yes because all of us have a Hakko FM206 rework station. Anything lasts the life of the warranty period when done right. Unfortunately doing anything right is a rare trait.
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cursedshitbox posted:Yes because all of us have a Hakko FM206 rework station. THANK you.
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Sagebrush posted:A good solder joint is totally fine, but most people are not capable of making good solder joints. Mechanical connectors are more reliable when installed by dummies. Yes but if you don’t do it properly it will and most people suck at soldering. It’s not a myth. You’re becoming worse than Fishmech ever was JFC.
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I'm going to assume that was done to get a vehicle without struts temporarily mobile, and it wasn't driven like that. For my own sanity. Dagen H posted:You can tell a lot about a vehicle/its prior owners just by pulling the stereo (at least they used an adapter harness). Speaking of sanity... This hurts me physically. I used to be a mobile electronics installer. No. 6 posted:Car mechanics will scold you all day for soldering wires in cars (it can be done reliably and there are standards for doing so) yet their wiring looks like this Soldering is fine. See above. It's not a goddamned rocket ship or airplane. Crimps are OK if done properly, which is always the sticking point. They're also bulky. Large Testicles posted:Solder isn’t good in things that vibrate, it has a tendency to break after a while. Butt connectors are what you’re supposed to use. To solder wires properly (there's that word again) you make a half decent mechanical connection to begin with. It's mostly a non-issue in normal cars. cursedshitbox posted:Yes because all of us have a Hakko FM206 rework station. I do my in-car soldering with a Weller 550 soldering gun. It's loving fine. Bundle and loom wires properly so that they're not just hanging there vibrating by themselves. Jesus. Learning to solder isn't that hard - I managed it, after all.
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Large Testicles posted:Yes but if you don’t do it properly it will and most people suck at soldering. It’s not a myth. You’re becoming worse than Fishmech ever was JFC. I give up.
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Dagen H posted:You can tell a lot about a vehicle/its prior owners just by pulling the stereo (at least they used an adapter harness). When I bought my last car I talked the seller down by $100 (from $1100) on the condition that he kept the headunit, and then while I was signing the transfer paperwork he pulled the headunit as far as the homemade loom would go and hacked it all off with a knife, then dropped the tails back into the dash. I ended up just pulling all the wires from the other end, covering up the speaker holes he hacked in the parcel shelf, buying an OEM stereo delete panel, and putting a bluetooth speaker under the glovebox.
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Darchangel posted:I do my in-car soldering with a Weller 550 soldering gun. It's loving fine. At the rover shop I had a butane powered soldering torch. It worked great for field operations. I actually do own a fm206 and most of the time solder over crimp. There's always outlier cases where soldering is ill advised. Some lovely broke as hell biodegradeable harness that isn't held down on a mercedes v8 hitting on 5.5 cylinders is one of them. I don't go around screeching about SOLDER ONLY AT NASA SPECS! to the average dingus because the average dingus is well, average. A loving Crimp loving Works.
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A proper soldering joint is fine, the issue is most solder jobs on cars are repairs and you often end up in awkward as gently caress places with not enough wire to do things properly, not to mention things like corrosion on the wire contaminating things. I've done it and it works but I don't regret buying a proper ratcheting crimper its just so much easier faster and cleaner.
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Darchangel posted:Learning to solder isn't that hard - I managed it, after all. Did you have a mentor?
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cursedshitbox posted:At the rover shop I had a butane powered soldering torch. It worked great for field operations. I actually do own a fm206 and most of the time solder over crimp. There's always outlier cases where soldering is ill advised. Some lovely broke as hell biodegradeable harness that isn't held down on a mercedes v8 hitting on 5.5 cylinders is one of them. I don't go around screeching about SOLDER ONLY AT NASA SPECS! to the average dingus because the average dingus is well, average. Fair point. Kafouille posted:A proper soldering joint is fine, the issue is most solder jobs on cars are repairs and you often end up in awkward as gently caress places with not enough wire to do things properly, not to mention things like corrosion on the wire contaminating things. I've done it and it works but I don't regret buying a proper ratcheting crimper its just so much easier faster and cleaner. Well, yes, but getting the crimpers in those awkward as gently caress places is also a challenge (trust me... I don't typically solder terminals on, for example.) Pro tip on the ratcheting crimpers, though. Those things make it so much easier to get a decent crimp, that you *know* is actually tight enough. Dagen H posted:Did you have a mentor? Sorta. I had done terrible solder joints for years, but the stereo shop I worked at gave me a few tips and pointers. Turns out clean wire, a decent mechanical joint, and most critically, a decent soldering instrument with a clean tip, including the actual joint to the iron, is key. Also good solder.
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Kafouille posted:not to mention things like corrosion on the wire contaminating things. Darchangel posted:clean wire, There's a discrepancy here
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I've owned too many cars to trust a soldered connection, including ones I may have done in the past 
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Dagen H posted:There's a discrepancy here No! Money down!
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I just tell people to buy an Astro 9477 and use the good dual wall heatshrink splices. Do I trust a well done solder joint in a well secured harness? Sure. Do I trust Joe blow's soldering he thinks he knows how to do? No loving way, not without seeing him do it. A decent ratchet crimper that's correctly adjusted on the other hand you have to be aggressively stupid to gently caress up with. I can tell people to use that and their poo poo will work, every single time.
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Negative camber has reached it's limits we have to go positive to stay fresh.
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in life it's important to always stay positive (camber angle) e, fixed LifeSunDeath fucked around with this message at 17:42 on Jun 2, 2023 |
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That wasn't me lol
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Dagen H posted:That wasn't me lol I fixed it, oops.
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Dagen H posted:There's a discrepancy here Yeah, that's the tough part. Good solder with rosin helps, but yeah. kastein posted:I just tell people to buy an Astro 9477 and use the good dual wall heatshrink splices. Do I trust a well done solder joint in a well secured harness? Sure. Do I trust Joe blow's soldering he thinks he knows how to do? No loving way, not without seeing him do it. A decent ratchet crimper that's correctly adjusted on the other hand you have to be aggressively stupid to gently caress up with. I can tell people to use that and their poo poo will work, every single time. I've got a Chinese clone crimper. One feature I see on the Astro is slots for the screws in the dies. Mine has holes meaning I have to fully remove the dang screws every time. Works fine, though. Lake of Methane posted:That is literally bailing Yep.
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