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Remember this one? Click here for the full 1405x790 image. That was his transmission. http://www.easycarblog.com/2009/01/921-hp-jeep-grand-cherokee-srt8-annihilates-its-transmission.html/
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Lord Yod posted:Probably lost traction and slid sideways into a curb doing something upwards of 50mph. One of my buddies in high school stole his parents' 325i and did this, ripped all the wheels off the car. Wish I had pics. The best bit was that the police turned up, searched the car, and found some weed. Then the kid's parents turned up, and it became clear that it was their car lying in a ditch with its wheels folded under the floorplan. So the Plod just told the parents all the details, then hosed off and left them to it.
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Nov 5, 2009 21:07
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ZombieLicker posted:I'll tell you what it wasn't. The tow hook.
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Nov 7, 2009 16:17
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GWBBQ posted:I remember, from my unfortunate time as a lube tech, the old Mercedes-Benz diesel engines had a small lever next to the intake manifold that had "STOP" printed on it. I can't find a picture, but I'm sure someone here knows what I'm talking about. To start it, you flick the lever so there's less resistance to work against while you spin the starter handle, then flick it closed when you've got a few rpm. You also have to have the front wheel (yes, singular, it's a 3-wheeler) on full lock so your knuckles don't hit it while you're cranking, and because the fuelling's out of whack, you use a piece of binder twine wrapped round your foot to pull on the throttle so she'll start. Seriously, no bastard's ever going to steal it. Even if by some miracle they started it, the pedal layout's set to the pre-war standard of centre throttle, right brake, and the gearbox is impossible to navigate even having driven Fiats for over a decade...
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Nov 18, 2009 21:31
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ACEofsnett posted:This is epic. However, someone's probably going to steal it now, given the detailed instructions you've provided. Do you think it could handle the tongue weight of a small car trailer with an integra type-R on it?  Yes, it would tow a trailer with a ton or so of Honda on it. No, it wouldn't go very fast, and God help you if you needed to stop. Single leading shoe, rod-activated drums on the rear axle...
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Nov 18, 2009 22:45
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it boggles the mind. It could probably pull a house down, albeit at 5 mph.
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ab0z posted:Holy crap AWD escort? I need this information yesterday.
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Nov 19, 2009 19:44
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sw0cb posted:It looks like its actually set up well, and judging by the other posters response, I don't think there is any reason to give this guy poo poo, that happens when your wheeling in a rock garden. Props to him for using his tussed up suburban properly.
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Nov 19, 2009 21:25
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You Am I posted:No. The Euro Escort AWD was based off a shortened Sierra AWD chassis. The US Escort is based off the Mazda 323 platform.
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Nov 19, 2009 22:35
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BigKOfJustice posted:As for the cast steering knuckles being an issue.... It's like how you see all the comedy crash test videos of Chinese copies of older western or Japanese designs, because they're simply cosmetically similar, and aren't as well designed or built.
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Nov 20, 2009 19:22
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chem42 posted:This truck is rated to haul 800,000lbs, whats another 200,000 going to do?
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Nov 20, 2009 21:23
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ab0z posted:Don't try to shift the focus of the conversation
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Nov 21, 2009 13:48
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JnnyThndrs posted:I thought people had some pretty good splines, personally.
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Nov 21, 2009 17:03
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Elviscat posted:I think it's cool that their thoughts are all synchro'd up.
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Nov 21, 2009 19:18
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thArf posted:Does this count? 
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Dec 8, 2009 01:34
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badcompany9 posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB4EdVql8dE
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Dec 12, 2009 23:39
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Skyssx posted:Because some person must be found at fault. Mechanical failure is never the issue. Say J.D. Smith worked on some bearings 300 hours ago. Those bearings shot out and ruined the whole engine. Therefore, it was J.D. Smith's fault.
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Dec 13, 2009 20:18
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Purple Haze PS3 posted:How does something like this affect the longevity of an engine? I'm sure it would fail sooner, but do you think he would get less than half the life of a well maintained engine?
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Dec 15, 2009 00:27
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drzrma posted:To contribute picturewise, since I've been a failure at that so far, I give you this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Elwha. Yes, in the wiki picture she looks fairly functional, but that's a temporary condition. She's about due to run aground, hit something, or catch fire any day now. quote:After an investigation, Captain Charles Petersen was found to have violated four sections of the ferry system's Code of Conduct on July 25, 1996 when he took the Elwha 15 miles off her designated route... Along with being charged with putting his vessel, passengers, and crew in jeopardy with the unauthorized detour, Petersen also tested positive for Marijuana use during a urine test following the incident
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Feb 2, 2010 23:34
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With aerospace engineering, it's usually taken as a given that it's best to learn from someone else's mistakes. As such, the training information you get presented at seminars etc often contains some absolute gold.Training Presentation posted:A KC-135 Aircraft was being pressurized at ground level. The outflow valves which are used to regulate the pressure of the aircraft were capped off during a 5 year overhaul and never opened back up. The post-investigation revealed: that a civilian depot technician who, "had always done it that way," was using a homemade gauge, and no procedure. And this is what a tiny crack in a turbine component can do: 
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Feb 4, 2010 22:55
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Sponge! posted:What the bleeding gently caress did he do to it that he requires a full block *AND* both turbos? Head on into a girder or something? Jeezus.
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Feb 5, 2010 13:37
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Boat posted:I'm just curious as to where the nimrod who was pressurizing the thing was at the time  Nimrods are the patrol/reconnaissance aircraft built by BAE
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Feb 5, 2010 22:51
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sharkytm posted:So...0.1% are lost at sea. Maybe its as high as .5%, but thats a LOT of containers. The worst thing is that, depending on whats inside, they can remain "floating" (usually just barely above the surface) for weeks. Major loving navigation hazard.
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Feb 6, 2010 22:04
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DefaultPeanut posted:The Fubar videos were great. Showing how stupidity prevails. After watching a handful of random videos, I have learned a decent amount about diesels themselves, and the entire PowerStroke line.
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Feb 7, 2010 11:29
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Frank Dillinger posted:I don't think you need to be secretive...doesn't that fall under salvage? Luckily, if you're shipping a car in a container, the "total loss" insurance for when the container goes for a swim in the drink isn't expensive, but apparently damage insurance is a complete arse to organise.
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Feb 7, 2010 15:35
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Jorsh posted:fourteen thousand dollars!! FOURTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS!  FOURteen thousand dollars! FourTEEN thousand dollars! Fourteen THOUSAND dollars! Fourteen thousand DOLLARS!
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Feb 7, 2010 21:58
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:it was friday afternoon, beer was calling "hey i'm in the fridge come drink me" drat, we need some more pictures in this thread:  Click here for the full 1600x1200 image. 
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I don't think that the airbagged truck has the best suspension system I've ever seen (I'm not too keen on the design of some of those brackets, and the whole thing looks a little on the weedy side), but on the other hand the Powerstrokehelp video on fitting a suspension lift pretty much just involves big lift blocks. Now, he does have the nous to fit much beefier U-bolts, and cautions people about getting the diff nose angle tweaked to compensate for the angle the prop will be at, but I just really hate these things: Horses for courses. That air suspension truck definitely looks more for show than for off-road use, but a hell of a lot of people who lift leaf-sprung trucks do it "incorrectly" as well. I've churned through a fair chunk of that guy's videos now, and I'm only seeing the odd thing here and there which I actively disagree with. Besides, he's in Georgia, so I'd feel short changed if there wasn't a good bit of  going on.Anyway, carnage for the carnage thread:   
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Both extremes of truck modification are equally stupid: And yet with Subarus, it doesn't offend me: 
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Sponge! posted:I lost almost 30lbs (I was 5'11 175 going in, and 5'11 148 coming out.) Man was it hot as hell in there, even in March-May. I got to wear a cool powered forced air breathing apparatus though.  Working in an injection moulding plant in the middle of summer was bad enough. Anywhere dealing with large amounts of molten metal must be utter hell.
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InterceptorV8 posted:Those have to be the worst storage shelves I have ever seen. Think foam rubber sounds squishy and delicate? When it's 1) strapped to a pallet and 2) descending from thirty feet up, it'll gently caress up what it hits good and proper.
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Someone here smacked up their Saxo on the 'Ring, and due to not having facility to trailer it away, had to let them take it away and crush it, on top of paying for the nice men to replace the Armco he hosed up.
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May 19, 2010 21:43
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CommieGIR posted:Some people fail to understand that your car cannot breathe water This is actually what the vents behind the front wheels on Range Rovers are for - intakes. Apparently the logic is that a good bow wave during wading will help keep them reasonably clear, and that you'd be unlikely to submerge both at once unless you're blatantly being an idiot. To which I say "Umm". I think a snorkel would still be a good idea if you're expecting to go through anything that deep, but there you go.
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rscott posted:Hey we make parts for that airplane! Not engine stuff though.  Engine stuff.(Only small bits. But some critical ones)
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Roflex posted:Do I really want to know what counts as a non-critical part in an airplane engine?  territory by default.We make fasteners - something that's holding a cowling on, or attaching random oddments together isn't that critical, and these are made to what most people mean when they talk about "Aerospace spec" for fasteners in terms of quality, traceability and so on. You know which company made it, and with a bit of detective work you could narrow it down a hell of a lot, but you would not necessarily be able to get right back to individual manufacturing batches. You also have the "If this breaks, we be hosed" things like tierods that hold together a sandwich of multiple rotating components, and the controls for these are on another level entirely. You want to know who fitted the collet to the lathe that did this operation on this batch? Fair enough, that's what you're paying us for, just give us the number on it. They take this poo poo seriously, too. I get purchase orders occasionally from people which have a note on them basically saying "FFS, don't buy material from _______", and when you look the company up, it turns out the entire upper management were indicted for falsification of certification. Doing that deliberately, and getting someone killed because of it somewhere down the line, can be a life imprisonment and eight-figure fine booby prize. Hell, the other day we had to have a customer rep come in so we could show him our entire system for control and documentation, simply because one company we occasionally buy from sent out one batch of material with the incorrect heat treat on it, and a less careful manufacturer than us went and made some parts which were then stretching under load. The HT was correct to what was on the material docket, that was fine, but the customer had ordered something else and not checked it properly. The parts were only spotted when one tech putting in one fastener noticed it was showing more bare threads than the others when torqued up. Needless to say, getting off an end user or major supplier's poo poo list is rather hard work, so you don't gently caress around. Nothing makes you popular like being the guy who gets to tell the Director that nope, that $40,000 worth of parts is going in the bin, and yep, you are going to start again from scratch. A tenth of a thou is as good (well, bad) as a mile. Holy poo poo  . Here's a picture of a turbine that was lonely and wanted a cuddle:
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Coasterphreak posted:Haha, that's my father. He runs the NDT division at a local manufacturing plant that mostly does parts for helicopter jet engines. I am always amazed when he explains how much paperwork he has to do if he doesn't want to lose his job/license/freedom, in addition to making sure everyone else does it too (always an adventure in backwoods NC).
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dietcokefiend posted:If I had to guess he is referring to a lot of the dye-based penetrating chemicals they use to non-destructively test parts that help locate cracks under UV light. Having a UV tattoo in that field would be a bit of an inside joke. If you're going to be  about it, NDT is of course any test that doesn't cause damage, but we specifically use the term to mean crack testing.
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Horrible stereotype failure: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/10475343.stm BBC posted:An Arcadia shopping centre spokeswoman said an elderly lady had been driving the car, but the Met is yet to confirm who was in the vehicle when it crashed. quote:Referring to the driver, the shopping centre spokeswoman said: "She was parking and thought she'd hit the brake but hit the accelerator.
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Godholio posted:I'm pretty sure it was a joke about the use of the word "careered" instead of "careened."
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Fayez Butts posted:Was it like in Fargo? So someone could have sneaked up and fed him into it, and there isn't any evidence. 
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