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Well, when a car is still burning oil and 75/90 WT gear oil just isn't cutting it...
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 You can tell a roast is done when it pulls away from the pan and begins to shriek and spray bearing material. Everybody dig in!
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Jul 11, 2013 03:36
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Safety Dance posted:I guess, like churning milk into butter, you can churn some oils into wax.
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Jul 11, 2013 05:16
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Willfrey posted:Well, when a car is still burning oil and 75/90 WT gear oil just isn't cutting it... 75W-90 Gear oil is only as viscous as 10W-40 or 20W-50 engine oil.
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Jul 11, 2013 05:28
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Another one for the electrical failures/ PO fuckery files.. Mates 1988 GQ patrol- 4.2L carby petrol on LPG.  That's the mountain of useless and dodgy wiring we pulled out of the engine bay and under the dash in the last two days. Highlights include: LH low beam not working due to the fuse being loose in the holder and not contacting properly. Solution: unfused relay hacked into the RH low beam with a wire threaded across the top of the radiator to the other headlight. Relay for the A/C condenser fan failed. Solution- cut off trigger wire from AC circuit. Cut compressor clutch wire, wrap two ends together after stripping, jam into bullet connector and tape. Other end of bullet connector had a wire that ran across the engine bay to the relay bank where it was jammed into the fan side of the dead relay. The entire current of a 10" fan was being pulled off the a/c clutch circuit... The wiper motor had a random wire patched off it going to the positive battery terminal. Removing this wire changed nothing EVERY single fuse in the vehicle was a 30A fuse. The fuse block calls for a single 20A and the rest are a blend of 10 and 15A A very cheap and nasty remote locking and immobiliser system was duct taped to the steering column. The wiring for the immobiliser was scotch locked to all the wrong places- power feeds off the brake switch, nothing fused etc. the actual immobilising was done by a 20A relay under the bonnet. With coloured wiring... The only reason the car actually loving started was that drawing all the current for the starter to lock in the solenoid melted the relay permanently closed! Last one was the stereo. The previous owner had simply twisted all the tails of the power wires- 12v constant, 12v ACC switched and illumination together, twisted them to a length of wire, twisted THAT to the ignition ON switched feed for the gas control switches and wrapped the whole mess with electrical tape. The rear speakers were wired to the front speakers. The original stereo wiring was just cut off and left floating around under the dash live and un insulated. There was no earth for the stereo. I know he only paid $2400 for it, but loving hell that was a mess.
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Jul 11, 2013 08:10
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Opensourcepirate posted:75W-90 Gear oil is only as viscous as 10W-40 or 20W-50 engine oil. It's funny how most people don't realise this. I've convinced several people of this only by pointing out that my motorbike has a gearbox swimming in 10w-40, which itself is rated to 75w-90 as gearoil. edit: holy poo poo the post above me! It's the definition of someone who knows just enough to be dangerous. I'd kill for a safari for that kind of price though. Slavvy fucked around with this message at 08:24 on Jul 11, 2013 |
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Jul 11, 2013 08:21
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its a god drat miracle that the drat thing hadnt burnt to the ground yet! 140W diff oils a shitload thicker than engine oil though. Its a pain in the arse to pump into the diffs on the lux because of the lockers in there. The VMX 80 I use in my gearboxes however is thinner than the 5W-30 Synth I put into the better halfs Tiida!
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Jul 11, 2013 08:45
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Ferremit posted:its a god drat miracle that the drat thing hadnt burnt to the ground yet! Yup, VMX80 feels incredibly thin. Seems to work ok though, based on the old shitters I've rejuvenated with it. Have you ever seen LSD90 which is red? Blew my mind when I first saw it, looks exactly like dex3.
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Jul 11, 2013 09:03
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VMX is awesome in the big heavy gearbox on the cruisers- Gets rid of my mates 80 series 2nd gear crunch completely. its very life sensitive though- I work on a 40K kms gear oil change, and by 35K kms the gearbox is starting to get notchy again.
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Jul 11, 2013 09:45
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Liquid Life Saver mix?
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Jul 11, 2013 23:01
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Jul 12, 2013 05:01
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Took me a minute. I'm surprised that doesn't happen more often - I see tons of rusty wheels with the worst rust concentrated in that area.
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Jul 12, 2013 05:07
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drat that's nasty.
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Jul 12, 2013 15:22
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That makes me feel a slight bit better about having shiny aluminum wheels on my TJ, but I know that one day I'll get major rock rash on them and regret everything.
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Jul 12, 2013 18:37
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 : I have split rims on my Jeep. : Hey, pretty cool, man. : No, not really...
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Jul 12, 2013 21:11
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So I get a call from my wife today. Her boss is moving and giving away a bunch of furniture and a fridge from her old house. I wanted the fridge for sure, and maybe some of the furniture. An old, longtime customer of mine has a sweet old 86 Chevy 1 ton dualie pickup in the shop at the moment, and I offered him $25 bucks off his bill if I could borrow it for a few hours this afternoon. He said that was fine, and so off I went. Got the fridge loaded up, the furniture was ok, but I didn't wan't any of it personally. On the drive over, I noticed the left front tire dancing a little bit around 30mph, but I just figured it was out of balance and had planned to take a look at it when I got back to the shop. I didn't make it back to the shop. The loving tread separated on the freeway at 65mph going downhill. Thankfully I was able to maneuver the big bastard onto the shoulder and call a tow.   For a high speed tread separation, I was really expecting more carnage than the bent piece of trim and a curled up fender liner. I put a screw through the trim and coaxed the fender liner back into place with a hammer. Customer wasn't even mad. Better you than me they said.
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Jul 12, 2013 23:24
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drat. Is the customer replacing the tire, or are you? 
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Jul 12, 2013 23:43
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Seat Safety Switch posted:drat. Is the customer replacing the tire, or are you? I paid for the tow back to the shop and the customer will replace their tire since that probably would have happened to them anyway when they came to pick it up.
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Jul 13, 2013 00:03
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DrPain posted:
 Maybe it's just me, but I would have been in the mood to separate that guy's scalp just like that tread.
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Jul 13, 2013 04:21
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Why? It sure as hell isn't the driver's fault either way.
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Jul 13, 2013 06:44
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DrPain posted:I paid for the tow back to the shop and the customer will replace their tire since that probably would have happened to them anyway when they came to pick it up. I'm impressed. Very few people have the restraint or state of mind to make a decision like this. Is this guy shady or anything? Is there a good reason why he wouldn't want to show up with an insurance guy, or in court? It would be so easy to get free tires out of this.
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Jul 13, 2013 07:05
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DrPain posted:An old, longtime customer of mine has a sweet old 86 Chevy 1 ton dualie pickup in the shop at the moment, and I offered him $25 bucks off his bill if I could borrow it for a few hours this afternoon. He said that was fine, If I had to guess, this will explain the questions. And yeah, if someone had a blowout unexpectedly while borrowing my jeeps, I'd wonder which of my offroad abuses had damaged the tire and figure it was better that they ended up having a lovely day than me. ... speaking of which, I need to put "newish set of tires for the XJ" on the list of stuff to buy when I start getting paid. The tires on that thing are a pile of poo poo and none of them even match at this point due to the number of blowouts I've had doing stupid poo poo offroad.
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Jul 13, 2013 12:56
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^^^ that tooHorse Divorce posted:... Because he's an "old, longtime customer" and they both want to keep it that way. If they were going to fight, Dr.Pain probably would have tried to backcharge for the tow since it was the customer's tire that caused it, but in the end, the cost of fighting would be more than the cost of the tow or tire. Basically, it's a small incident, fairly easy and cheap to fix, why ruin a good business relationship over something like that.
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Jul 13, 2013 12:56
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Exactly- the old boys going to tell people about it in a positive light now, if he was a dick about it I guarantee the old guy would tell everyone he knows about it. Nothing fucks a business harder than negative publicity
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Jul 13, 2013 14:01
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Horse Divorce posted:I'm impressed. Very few people have the restraint or state of mind to make a decision like this. Is this guy shady or anything? Is there a good reason why he wouldn't want to show up with an insurance guy, or in court? It would be so easy to get free tires out of this. If the customer was shady I wouldn't have even considered asking to borrow their truck. We work on their entire families vehicles and have bailed them out of many lovely repair situations in the past. Not everyone is out to get any and everything they can for free at the expense of someone else and a trick of the legal system. That set of free tires would cost them finding a new mechanic, and nobody wants that. So much so that it was never even considered. His first question was "are you ok?" and his second "who do you recommend I buy tires from?". I pulled one of the dualie tires off the left rear and threw it on the left front so they could drive it to the reputable tire store nearby. No spare. For the record I still gave him the $25 bucks off his job, as promised. DrPain fucked around with this message at 16:22 on Jul 13, 2013 |
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Jul 13, 2013 16:08
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DrPain posted:If the customer was shady I wouldn't have even considered asking to borrow their truck. We work on their entire families vehicles and have bailed them out of many lovely repair situations in the past. Not everyone is out to get any and everything they can for free at the expense of someone else and a trick of the legal system. That set of free tires would cost them finding a new mechanic, and nobody wants that. So much so that it was never even considered. His first question was "are you ok?" and his second "who do you recommend I buy tires from?". I guess I'm just a pessimist. In my experience, any "customer" is just a hairline trigger away from trying to rip you off. It's great it all worked out for the best.
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Jul 13, 2013 18:00
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In my experience, customers usually only act like that if the guy behind the counter is a dick. (It's me, I was the dick behind the counter.)
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Jul 13, 2013 20:20
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For better or worse, both decency and 'gently caress you' tend to be self-fulfilling.
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Jul 13, 2013 20:31
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DrPain posted:
Sounds like a good customer to me. Unrelated...on my brothers E30. Who can tell me what's wrong with this picture 
NitroSpazzz fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Jul 13, 2013 |
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Jul 13, 2013 21:35
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I'm glad everything went so well with that guy, that kind of thing could so easily become a big mess. I guess that's why he's a long-term customer, huh?
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Jul 13, 2013 21:41
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NitroSpazzz posted:I had this happen at about the same speed on the back of a VW caddy/pickup, full tread flew off leaving just coards and a flat tire.. I noticed it leaking and had filled it up a few miles ago at a gas station. Seemed like it lifted the whole back of that dinky little truck off the ground when it went and drat did it make a bang. Missing a bolt on the top right of that support. Missing a support around the bottom right bolt.
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Jul 14, 2013 03:32
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Fucknag posted:Why? It sure as hell isn't the driver's fault either way. It was more or less a visceral reaction on my part. At any rate, the indignation wouldn't be worth skunking a long-time customer relationship and any future business. poo poo happens.
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Jul 14, 2013 03:46
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I was looking online for a small trolley jack and came across this review:
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Jul 14, 2013 05:08
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Dude's name is probably "Aaron" 
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Jul 14, 2013 06:06
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Dick Trauma posted:I was looking online for a small trolley jack and came across this review: Which end is the "rad" end?  Also it appears that someone is confused on what day this "sharting" occured 
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Jul 14, 2013 06:13
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NitroSpazzz posted:I had this happen at about the same speed on the back of a VW caddy/pickup, full tread flew off leaving just coards and a flat tire.. I noticed it leaking and had filled it up a few miles ago at a gas station. Seemed like it lifted the whole back of that dinky little truck off the ground when it went and drat did it make a bang. Happened on my F-150 too. Dented the poo poo out of the quarter panel and made a mess of the (pretty much new) exhaust. Except mine somehow still held air. Made the truck jump pretty good too. e: to contribute: 
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Jul 14, 2013 15:00
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Looks like an unlimited slip differential.
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Jul 14, 2013 15:05
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Looks like someone's welded the crown wheel trying to lock the diff. But no-one's that stupid. Are they?
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Jul 14, 2013 15:10
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Supposedly they didn't know how to set up the diff, I don't know enough about diffs to guess though.
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Jul 14, 2013 15:16
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That's some hella tight camber there! Oh, poo poo.  You dirty bastard.  Fixing your rally car on stage, not fun. Owning a tow dolly instead of a trailer so you HAVE to fix it, even worse.   And yes, there was a jackstand under there as well. Always leave both in. The full story will come in a day or two in the Alliance Motorsport thread.
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Jul 14, 2013 16:07
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