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atomicthumbs posted:The Germans are masters of miniaturization. This is the truth. They reduced like 20 million people in the 30s and early 40s!
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DefaultPeanut posted:Horrible engineering failure?  That is a rather visible way of showing the problem I mentioned in the_spyder's thread a while ago.
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Dec 19, 2013 11:28
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DefaultPeanut posted:Horrible engineering failure? Yes. A soils report should have indicated that some settlement was expected, and that the building should either be built on piers, or over-excavated and re-compacted or soil amended. Comparing the soils report to the as-built survey indicating a previous overpass which would have been very solid and compacted by years of gravity and load, that should have been completely removed or excavated around it and compacted entirely. Horrible engineering failure. I hope that building is not intended for any manufacturing, or that's a serious claim. Otherwise, remove the hump and pour a new section of slab, the building likely won't go much further in it's life. Edit: or build an indoor go-kart track with terrain change.
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StormDrain posted:Edit: or build an indoor go-kart track with terrain change. Based on the fact that the door in the back shows the building is in use, it appears to me they went for the cheap option: leave that room vacant and pretend it doesn't exist.  I bet guys after work have fun rolling office chairs over it though.
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Dec 19, 2013 16:39
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StormDrain posted:Horrible engineering failure. I hope that building is not intended for any manufacturing, or that's a serious claim. Otherwise, remove the hump and pour a new section of slab, the building likely won't go much further in it's life. 5,000 bags of self leveling cement. Done.
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Dec 19, 2013 17:12
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That area is going to be turned into a public clothing / accessories area after it has been fixed, whatever that entails. The dis concerning thing, the new overpass was built about 200 feet from the door you can see through. Whenever a tractor-trailer goes past, or even a large cube van, you can feel the ground quiver, you get bounced by a cemi.
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Dec 19, 2013 17:51
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Before. After.  A old buddy of mine hit some back ice Tuesday night and went off the road into the back of a coal truck. Skull fracture, fractured C1 and the fucker is already up walking around trying to get discharged from the hospital.
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Dec 19, 2013 19:05
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Jesus Christ.
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evilnissan posted:Before. Horrible morphine failure
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Dec 19, 2013 19:06
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Just wait until he realizes he was in a probe.
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Dec 19, 2013 19:11
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A guy I know back in East Texas had his truck light on fire. He got out ok with his guitar and burritos.
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Dec 19, 2013 20:22
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Wow, those Doritos Jacked Hot Wings really are hot*.  * I had to google this. God forbid that such a flavor really exists.
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Dec 19, 2013 20:23
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 That's the right rear axle area on '00 Ford Expedition, which came stock with air ride suspension. A previous owner removed all that, and welded springs to the axle since there was nowhere to mount them. Which I guess worked ok until yesterday when a spring broke... Now what? 
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Dec 19, 2013 21:45
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Just keep welding more spring to the axle
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It's probably not good that my first thought was concern for the weld heat tempering the spring. The real question is, what does the other end of the spring go to? Do air ride shocks have jounce cups or is it assumed they have an internal bumpstop or something?
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Dec 19, 2013 22:25
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Why not just weld on a spring cup from something else?
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Dec 19, 2013 23:02
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InitialDave posted:Why not just weld on a spring cup from something else? Because redneck.
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Dec 19, 2013 23:04
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CommieGIR posted:Some simple upgrades fixes that. There are some engines that no fixes will save. The 350 Olds-based diesel was OK in it's last years, when they gave it beefy enough head bolts, a decent head gasket, and a water separator. It was even better if you put a turbo on it. Still a slug compared to modern turbodiesels. I don't know a great deal about the Chevy pickup 350 diesel.
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Darchangel posted:The 350 Olds-based diesel was OK in it's last years, when they gave it beefy enough head bolts, a decent head gasket, and a water separator. It was even better if you put a turbo on it. Still a slug compared to modern turbodiesels. Exactly. Most of its drawbacks were stupid engineering mistakes that were easily rectified.
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CommieGIR posted:
You really can't post that without mentioning the timing gear is on the firewall side. And that those guides are prone to failure.
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Customer drove his car down to us to have us inspect it.
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Dec 20, 2013 01:42
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kastein posted:The 3vz-fe is a completely different engine from the 3vz-e afaik. Whoops, I meant the 3vz-e. And I'll stand by what I said, once the head gaskets are replaced, they'll run a long time with regular maintenance. As for low power and poor fuel economy, well, that sounds a lot like a Jeep 4.0 to me.
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13 INCH DICK posted:Customer drove his car down to us to have us inspect it. Guaranteed that if you do more than "check" it the customer will be angry.
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kastein posted:edit: nearly forgot, the center upper timing belt pulley GOES AROUND THE WATER NECK FOR THE UPPER RADIATOR HOSE. Like, the bearing wraps entirely around it and then the pulley wraps around that. What the loving poo poo, Toyota? If you break one of the (four, IIRC, might be two studs) tiny bolts holding the neck onto the LIM (again, IIRC) you get to tear your timing set apart to replace all that crap. And it's not like tiny steel bolts ever corrode into cast aluminum parts when exposed to coolant, nope! Never. I had to Google this to visualize it and hahaha holy poo poo 
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Ringo Star Get posted:Guaranteed that if you do more than "check" it the customer will be angry. RO status: Closed Light operation correct. No abnormal behavior found.
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The VW Wasserboxer was a truly terrible engine too. http://www.sub5zero.com/great-moments-crappy-engine-history-volkswagen-wasserboxer-w-video/ quote:Rather than placing conventional flat gaskets between the block and cylinder heads, VW engineers instead used rubber lip style gaskets to prevent leakage where the parts joined together. What’s more, the cast iron cylinder liners stuck out beyond the decks of the aluminum block; the protruding liners then slid into recesses in the heads, and the tops of the cylinders were then sealed off with compressible metal rings. The actual combustion chambers were bowls in the tops of the pistons instead of recesses in the cylinder head; these are known as Heron type combustion chambers. Finally, the casting around the cylinder liners was mostly empty space, creating a water jacket (or one big coolant passage) around them. http://www.gowesty.com/library_article.php?id=107 It was basically an air cooled vw boxer engine converted rather thoughtlessly to be water cooled, and it was rubbish.
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Previa_fun posted:I had to Google this to visualize it and hahaha holy poo poo But....but...but...why not just run it on a roller OVER the coolant flange? Vanagoon posted:The VW Wasserboxer was a truly terrible engine too. Yeah, the Wasserboxer was utter tripe, I don't know what the gently caress VAG thought they were doing.
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CommieGIR posted:Yeah, the Wasserboxer was utter tripe, I don't know what the gently caress VAG thought they were doing. All the German engineers who could do things efficiently for the common man were put to death after World War II.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:All the German engineers who could do things efficiently for the common man were See: aeronautical insanity thread & German engineers in the design bureaus working on their jet engines.
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Slavvy posted:Cooling is ordinary until the plastic thermostat housing cracks... I just found out about this particular phenomenon - tonight! - on a Ford 4.0L V6, via the giant puddle of coolant that my wife's car barfed up all over my garage floor. And of course, antifreeze doesn't freeze on the garage floor even when it's precisely no loving degrees. Good advertising for Peak, I guess. (grumble grumble, loving mess, grumble grumble, swapping parts in an unheated garage in Maine but at least I'm inside, grumble, etc.)
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CommieGIR posted:But....but...but...why not just run it on a roller OVER the coolant flange? I've wondered about that before and all I can come up with is someone in management specified the belt types the designers were allowed to use and, given the length of the belt they had to work with, it was simpler to do it like that and go, 'job done' and gently caress off to the pub rather than decide to work later tyring to turn a stupid management decision into something workable. "Okay people, the warehouse called and apparently they've got 50,000 of these KS-450 timing belts sitting there taking up space. So accounting has decided we're going to be using them in our engine." "But they don't fit anywhere." Make them fit." 
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CommieGIR posted:But....but...but...why not just run it on a roller OVER the coolant flange? My guess: the specs called for the belt to wrap at least 180° around the cam pulley, and if the upper portion went over the thingy, they'd need rollers right about where the tensioner spring is. I don't know enough to guess at why this wasn't done, maybe they don't like the belt to go around sharp angles, dunno. Or plan B, why didn't they put the pulley completely below the coolant thingy? Probably more like: the lead designer thought it up, was really proud of his novel solution that saved space, and nobody had the balls (or foresight) to tell him that it was a bad idea.
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It's probably a combination of your last item there, and some spec that says the belt can't have a turn sharper than N degrees, and a small roller under the coolant hose would be a pretty sharp turn.
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I would probably relocate the water neck but hey, that would make too much sense I guess.murphle posted:Whoops, I meant the 3vz-e. And I'll stand by what I said, once the head gaskets are replaced, they'll run a long time with regular maintenance. As for low power and poor fuel economy, well, that sounds a lot like a Jeep 4.0 to me. I've gotten over 23mpg out of one hauling 3/4 ton of cargo, with 210+ on the clock, an automatic trans, and no rebuild ever on either, so I'm going to have to disagree
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Previa_fun posted:I had to Google this to visualize it and hahaha holy poo poo The 5VZ-FE that Toyota replaced that shitpile with is a markedly improved design. Power is still unimpressive by modern standards (183 hp, 217 lb-ft TQ), but that thing has run like a goddamn clock for 228k miles and gets just about 20 mpg no matter what.
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kastein posted:I would probably relocate the water neck but hey, that would make too much sense I guess. You squeezed 23 out of a 4.0 under that kind of load? You must show me your magic!
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Horse Divorce posted:You squeezed 23 out of a 4.0 under that kind of load? I never got more than 16mpg highway on a completely unloaded 4.0 with 130k miles. I find that number extremely hard to believe.
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BoostCreep posted:I never got more than 16mpg highway on a completely unloaded 4.0 with 130k miles. I find that number extremely hard to believe. What were you driving and how was it geared? I never saw higher than 17MPG when I had a TJ but I routinely get 23MPG highway in my Cherokee.
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The 4.0 loves to run at 210 degrees (especially in northern climates this time of year.) You can get up to 3 MPG just by swapping the rec'd 195 thermostat out for a 205. I know a guy hitting right around 25 MPG in a '99 auto with 3.55's and 30" tires. With 3.73's and a manual he could probably hit 27+.
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Philip J Fry posted:With 3.73's and a manual he could probably hit 27+. In a 4.0. So, you'd have to kick the revlimiter down to what? 2.5k? It'd seem more like a crawl than a first?
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