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Kill-9 posted:I don't think anyone sets out to intentionally taste gear oil. It just drips into their mouth right at the moment they open it to ask for another wrench. Cue spitting/coughing/cursing fit for the next 5 minutes. I'd rather gargle with gear oil than ever have to deal with gasoline burps six hours later ever again.
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13 INCH DICK posted:I'd rather gargle with gear oil than ever have to deal with gasoline burps six hours later ever again. words of a man who has never tasted ford friction modifier.
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Dec 12, 2013 05:50
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13 INCH DICK posted:I'd rather gargle with gear oil than ever have to deal with gasoline burps six hours later ever again. I've never been that desperate for a drink.
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Dec 12, 2013 05:51
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Powershift posted:words of a man who has never tasted ford friction modifier. I actually really like the smell of gear oil and friction modifier. The last time this was brought up I mentioned I've been saving a giant ball of cat hair to roll around in it before lighting the whole mess on fire and I believe I was compared unfavorably to Pol Pot.
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Dec 12, 2013 05:53
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13 INCH DICK posted:I'd rather gargle with gear oil than ever have to deal with gasoline burps six hours later ever again. As extra credit on my final in Engine Performance I, the instructor had us do a blind taste test on various fluids. Motor oil, ATF, various gear oils, coolant, and brake fluid. You dipped you finger in a cup of the fluid and licked it. You got an extra 1% for every fluid you identified by taste. Gear oil tastes awful, but brake fluid tastes the worst. His justification was that when working under a car, it's faster to ID a fluid by taste.
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Dec 12, 2013 06:04
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heyou posted:As extra credit on my final in Engine Performance I, the instructor had us do a blind taste test on various fluids. Motor oil, ATF, various gear oils, coolant, and brake fluid. You dipped you finger in a cup of the fluid and licked it. You got an extra 1% for every fluid you identified by taste. Gear oil tastes awful, but brake fluid tastes the worst. The justification was that it was loving hilarious to have you all voluntarily do that.
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Dec 12, 2013 16:16
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Never taste brakleen, that poo poo burns like a mother fucker. This was not an intentional discovery. I honestly don't mind the feeling of brake fluid on my hands (hell, it dissolves grease and oil and makes them somewhat soluble in water... anything that makes washing my hands easier is cool by me) but it does in fact taste terrible.
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Dec 12, 2013 16:25
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heyou posted:As extra credit on my final in Engine Performance I, the instructor had us do a blind taste test on various fluids. Motor oil, ATF, various gear oils, coolant, and brake fluid. You dipped you finger in a cup of the fluid and licked it. You got an extra 1% for every fluid you identified by taste. Gear oil tastes awful, but brake fluid tastes the worst. So he had you all taste a bunch of chemicals all containing known carcinogens?
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Dec 12, 2013 16:40
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Seat Safety Switch posted:poo poo, I didn't know one kind was safer for dogs and cats. I'm gonna definitely look for that next time I buy coolant (which is often because I own a Subaru). It's functionally impossible to seriously poison yourself with propylene glycol by accident, and they put it in dog food. Still no es bueno for cattes though, but they're not really attracted to it like dumb dogs are. They put it in lipstick even, which is great because it gets the crazies going on about TOXINS.
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Dec 12, 2013 16:52
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Armacham posted:So he had you all taste a bunch of chemicals all containing known carcinogens? Lawsuit time!
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Dec 12, 2013 16:53
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Armacham posted:So he had you all taste a bunch of chemicals all containing known carcinogens? I bet the diet sodas were the hardest part of the test. Coke or Pepsi? gently caress. It seems like nobody worries about carcinogens in their food, drink and air other than the flavor of the week media-popular ones, so who cares? The amount of things that contribute to vulnerability to one of the thousands of cancer flavors is staggering enough to simply ignore. Plus it's actually pretty valuable information, and if you gotta taste a tidbit of nasty poo poo to learn something valuable, welp, at least it's not LD50 baselining. v  v
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Dec 12, 2013 18:08
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Splizwarf posted:I bet the diet sodas were the hardest part of the test. Coke or Pepsi? gently caress. It seems like nobody worries about carcinogens in their food, drink and air other than the flavor of the week media-popular ones, so who cares? The amount of things that contribute to vulnerability to one of the thousands of cancer flavors is staggering enough to simply ignore. There's a big difference between the cancer risk of artificial sweeteners (of which there is no recognized risk in humans, only rats: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/artificial-sweeteners )and that of petroleum distallates, as well as the various other nasty things in brake fluid and the other chemicals mentioned.
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Dec 12, 2013 18:34
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..and to think I've been using Goo Gone as a sweetener for years with no ill effects. 
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Dec 12, 2013 18:38
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[automotive fluid tasting bonanza] And here I was thinking it was common sense to keep my mouth closed while working around my cars' fluids. You people are weird 
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Dec 12, 2013 20:31
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Beach Bum posted:[automotive fluid tasting bonanza] I can't swear through my nose.
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Dec 12, 2013 20:54
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I must say, I prefer the taste of diesel to gas 
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Dec 12, 2013 20:57
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CommieGIR posted:I must say, I prefer the taste of diesel to gas B100 tastes like crayons.
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Dec 12, 2013 21:08
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My wife caught a random piece of debris in the windshield today. Thankfully it did not do worse than ruin the glass. At least the replacement is not too expensive.
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Dec 12, 2013 21:12
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Seat Safety Switch posted:I can't swear through my nose. This man speaks truth. And that made me laugh more than it really should have, I expect.
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Dec 12, 2013 21:14
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Seat Safety Switch posted:I can't swear through my nose. My grunts and guttural caveman vocalizations are quite enough for my purposes. When I absolutely have to cuss the car the right way I make sure it's not going to be able to give me a mouth shot counterattack
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Dec 12, 2013 21:29
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cursedshitbox posted:stay away from the parts stores ones, they kinda suck and are way over priced. If you guys ever need any rover parts shipping over from the motherland then feel free to shout!
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Dec 12, 2013 22:15
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Yeah. A water pump for a V8 is £30-£50 here.
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Dec 12, 2013 22:59
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a few weeks too late. coulda got a clutch from you guys for 1/2 of what I paid here. so uhh d110 can be taken apart and shipped in little boxes right?
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Dec 12, 2013 23:06
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CommieGIR posted:I must say, I prefer the taste of diesel to gas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXtePW4v8zs
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Dec 13, 2013 00:34
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General_Failure posted:I've never been that desperate for a drink. I had a 600ml iced coffee carton sitting on a work bench one morning and one of my halfwit workmates overfilled a chainsaw and spilt two stroke on the bench under my iced coffee. Didnt think much of it since it only spent 30 odd seconds there before I hauled it out, but the first mouthful nearly made me chunder from the unleaded that had soaked through the cardboard into the milk. Petrol burps for a loving DAY afterwards.
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Dec 13, 2013 00:48
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CommieGIR posted:I must say, I prefer the taste of diesel to gas 'A great natural energizing drink' (Oil drinking) stone soup fucked around with this message at 00:52 on Dec 13, 2013 |
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Dec 13, 2013 00:49
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One of the rear struts on this Lexus is bad, can you guess which one? "I bought this truck not long ago and I get a bad clunking noise when I put in 4-wheel drive. Think it might need a u-joint or two."    E: This was just the right side. The left side u-joint was a bit worn as well, but still all there. 
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Dec 13, 2013 06:55
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I've always thought it'd be fun to make an antifreeze flavored snow cone. Just look at this and tell me it's a bad idea.
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Dec 13, 2013 07:17
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How does that even happen to both U joints?
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Dec 13, 2013 07:20
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Root Bear posted:
Is that from a TTB setup?
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InitialDave posted:Yeah. A water pump for a V8 is £30-£50 here. I called all over town and the cheapest was $250. I got in touch with an parts shop I've had good luck with in the past and got one for $35/shipped. The Rangie is only driven 3-4K miles a year so that should hold it for at least 10 years if not longer.
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blugu64 posted:I've always thought it'd be fun to make an antifreeze flavored snow cone. Just look at this and tell me it's a bad idea. How ... will you freeze it?
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Dec 13, 2013 18:29
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Root Bear posted:"I bought this truck not long ago and I get a bad clunking noise when I put in 4-wheel drive. Think it might need a u-joint or two." yikes. Just imagine that shaft bouncing in and out at double whatever speed the truck was moving.
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Dec 13, 2013 18:47
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StormDrain posted:yikes. Just imagine that shaft bouncing in and out at double whatever speed the truck was moving. If the truck's moving the opposite wheel would still be spinning fron the ground moving underneath it, so it wouldn't get to double the indicated speed unless the truck was completely stuck. Otherwise it'd be double the difference between wheel speed and ground speed. Rolling on dry pavement in a straight line the two parts would be perfectly synced (within the margin of error of tire diameter and road surface variations). edit: just had a thought, if when in 2WD the resistance to movement of the driveshaft, diff carrier, and front-drive parts of the transfer case exceed that of the broken axleshaft such that those parts did not rotate at all, the broken shaft could end up spinning the same speed backwards as the good wheel is spinning forwards. Beyond the noise that'd cause if it came in contact with the other part being spun by the wheel, I'd imagine that's not a good thing for any spider gear that happens to end up on the "top" out of the lube bath. This is all assuming no or nonfunctional hublocks as well of course, if they're there and disengaged none of these bits will be "driven" through the road. wolrah fucked around with this message at 19:15 on Dec 13, 2013 |
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Wasabi the J posted:How ... will you freeze it? Actually, undiluted ethylene glycol might not melt snow. Its pure melting point is 9 degrees F (~-13C); it works when diluted because the glycol interferes with the formation of ice crystals, and concurrently the water molecules interfere with the glycol freezing; basically they block each other. If the ice is already frozen, though, and the glycol is cold enough, you could probably pour it on without significant melting. This is something we should test, although I obviously can't because I live in Florida. Kastein perhaps? e: Not that I'm saying you should eat it, mind you (this goes double for 13 INCH DICK).
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Fucknag posted:Actually, undiluted ethylene glycol might not melt snow. Its pure melting point is 9 degrees F (~-13C); it works when diluted because the glycol interferes with the formation of ice crystals, and concurrently the water molecules interfere with the glycol freezing; basically they block each other. If all else fails, use liquid nitrogen.
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SyHopeful posted:Is that from a TTB setup? Nope, TTBs have a sort of formed sheetmetal inner knuckle/beam. That sure looks like an early 00s or so dodge fullsize pickup but I'm not 100% sure on that, I can't quite place where I've seen that unit bearing bolt pattern or axleshaft "shoulder" at the splines. That guy is really god drat lucky he didn't have the shafts ride up on each other and separate his balljoints at speed. Holy loving poo poo. He should buy half a lottery ticket, he'd still win.
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Cakefool posted:Any goons here that work in aircraft maintenance? I attended a little talk at work a couple of weeks ago that talked about how the designers took "maintenance" and "what is humanly possible" and no part exists in isolation" into account when designing systems, fastenings, plumbing, routing etc. It was all very interesting & they showed some cad walkthroughs of an engine mounted on a wing, maintenance doors opening, human arm and recommended tool comes into view, bolts & brackets get removed, parts come out & in again. I'm days late catching up on this thread, but after 20+ years of military and civil aviation maintenance, I have come up with a single rule of thumb that covers the whole gamut: Every part is 5% larger than the hole it's meant to go into or come out of.
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Acid Reflux posted:I'm days late catching up on this thread, but after 20+ years of military and civil aviation maintenance, I have come up with a single rule of thumb that covers the whole gamut: Every part is 5% larger than the hole it's meant to go into or come out of. Including all fasteners.
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kastein posted:Nope, TTBs have a sort of formed sheetmetal inner knuckle/beam. That sure looks like an early 00s or so dodge fullsize pickup but I'm not 100% sure on that, I can't quite place where I've seen that unit bearing bolt pattern or axleshaft "shoulder" at the splines. This was a 2001 Ford F350 HD. The kind with the vacuum actuated auto-locking hubs, as evident by the giant vacuum seal on the outer flange:  The loose outer shaft also pulverized the roller bearings on the inside of the hub bearing assembly and the grease fitting was sheared clean off of the upper ball joint. No idea how this didn't cause some kind of horrible catastrophe.
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