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RE: Dipshits leaving lug nuts loose https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHT84A5t418 "IT FELL THE gently caress OFF."
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sharkytm posted:Why is this 4 runner misfiring? Don't run Bosch plugs in a 4Runner. At least with mine, it runs like dog poo poo with anything but OEM NGK/Denso twin-tip plugs. The 5VZ is really picky about plugs and wires, for some reason.
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Oct 18, 2013 03:28
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The Midniter posted:When I was around 13, I was walking from a video rental store that my dad dropped me off at to the CVS he was at across the street. An 18-wheeler took a right turn too sharply and squeezed one of the tires against the sharp curb, and the tire proceeded to explode. This was about 50 feet in front of me, and not only was it the loudest thing I'd ever heard in my entire life, but it propelled sand and dirt right into my eyes. I'm surprised I didn't have a heart attack that day. I was working at a bulk storage terminal (where the tankers get gas) and when I was up by the road, a passing tanker blew out a tire. I hit the deck and expected to be blown to bits in the next nanosecond. When you hear an explosion and you are surrounded by 500k-1mil gallon gasoline tanks, your life does indeed flash before your eyes. Apologies for the double post, I had some catching up to do with this thread.
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Oct 18, 2013 03:48
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I love that test article. They beat that engine like a rented mule and it just begged for more, and it was down ~30 ci from what they thought they were working with. It pretty much puts the high-dollar, high-strung import engines to shame in every possible way.
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Nov 27, 2013 04:47
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two forty posted:You don't really have to disassemble a 240 quite as far as that picture shows, but it is labor intensive. Mr. Benstein has a nice write up at http://cleanflametrap.com/heater_core/ 240s are kind of like Legos, they can be really easily disassembled and reassembled. I never did a heater core but ended up disassembling the entire dash for various purposes over the years and it's honestly not as bad as it looks. And I didn't have one single dashboard squeak after reassembly in 6 years of driving them while learning the ropes of auto work. Your move, GM. My father-in-law bought an 850 wagon for $400 last week. It was belching oil smoke and leaking oil like crazy but was in excellent cosmetic shape. He cleaned and removed a plastic piece from the flame trap and replaced a cam seal and it runs like a dream. No more smoke or leaks.
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Dec 2, 2013 05:41
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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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Dec 20, 2013 19:55
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kastein posted:The fact that the company did a recall that usually covers the frame really helps there, it is a costly repair otherwise. My aunt and uncle had one done, they ended up with free new brake lines gratis and had to pay for new shocks because they fell apart being removed. Then I did a new exhaust from the manifold flanges back, some new o2 sensors, they tossed new tires and brakes on it and it is basically good to go another 150k now. The cab and bed are rusting a bit, but that isn't really structural... Bulletproof until the trans cooler in the radiator bursts and lethally injects coolant into your transmission. Of course, that's not the transmission's fault. The Jeep equivalent of the A340 is the AX15, right? My A340e keeps ticking right along after 230k miles with almost zero maintenance.
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Mar 24, 2014 02:05
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kastein posted:Careful, the 3vz-fe is quite different from the 3vz-e, I don't know if the bellhousing pattern is the same. And the 3vz-e is an awful engine so please don't put it in anything but the scrapmetal dumpster next to the 305s The power of a 4-cylinder with the fuel economy of a V8  God, what a shitpile the 3vz-e is. Quite literally ZERO redeeming qualities. If it were at least reliable, you could forgive thirsty and underpowered, but that went out the window with the whole headgasket thing.
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Mar 25, 2014 01:17
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iForge posted:I was sent that pic with the wheel stuck in the guys face back in October, and the story went that he is a Union boilermaker working in a refinery and couldn't fit the grinder in where he needed to cut off a flange stud so he took the guard off. I'm surprised you were even allowed to use a hacksaw without a hot work permit. I've done groundwater sampling at terminals and we had to use metal buckets with grounding straps (no plastic because of static, I guess), a special snowflake of a peristaltic pump that was intrinsically safe, and we had to cajole and beg to use an interface probe to gauge depth to groundwater in wells and a water quality probe to monitor temp, pH, ORP, conductivity, DO, and turbidity. I totally understand the reasoning behind the rules, but it doesn't mean they don't make my job a hell of a lot more difficult. We did have to get a hot work permit to drill wells out in the tank field . I can assure you that the pucker factor of using a drill rig to put an 8" diameter, 90' deep hole in the ground about 4' away from a 2,000,000 gallon tank of gasoline is quite high.
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Apr 10, 2014 17:58
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the spyder posted:Sadly my uncle is one of these fellows and I can only assume the years of drug abuse throughout his teens/early 30's will not help his life expectancy. I know several other painters and they are all as described. Never quite right in the head after all the years of exposure. It's a shame. When I paint my FD, I'm buying a supplied air respirator/hood and installing a fume vent above my paint mixing area. Ehhh, I don't know if supplied air is necessary for paint work. A full-face with a few extra organic vapor/particulate filter cartridges on hand should provide an appropriate level of protection, as the VOCs from the paint are the main concern. Definitely get some Tyvek suits too.
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Apr 10, 2014 18:07
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kastein posted:I don't work as a mechanic, I sit at a desk and design PCBs/write firmware all day. I do this poo poo for fun (there's something wrong with me...) and therefore workmans comp doesn't really help much. A while back, but at Boy Scout summer camp about 20 years ago, I was playing soccer in a large campsite and clotheslined myself across my left eye on bailing twine some shitheel strung between two trees. My open eye slid about a foot along the rough-as-gently caress twine and all I could feel was searing pain in my left eye. Doc had to pull some pieces of thread out of my eye and I wore a patch for a week, but I still see fine out of that eye. To this day, there is scar tissue connecting my eye to my eye socket on the far left side of my left eye. Every new eye doc has to say something about it.
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Apr 13, 2014 03:09
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jamal posted:A guy in the bike threads had a squirrel get caught in his front wheel, which sent him over the bars at high speed, causing a scratched up face and broken collar bone. My ex-wife's dad maced an aggressive dog and it's front leg went into his front wheel. He went over the bars but he couldn't kick out of his pedals before he went tumbling. He ended up with a spiral fracture going up his left(?) femur. Now he carries a little .38 pistol instead of mace.
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Nov 16, 2014 07:18
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Slavvy posted:Yes, really. Some of the more superficial stuff seems to make sense and isn't too stupid, but as soon as you want to do anything serious you have to bust out the special tools and take half the car apart. My brother's old MK3 Golf was an absolute oval office to do anything on the interior. It was a 2.slow, so engine stuff was easy enough, but holy fuckin poo poo that interior was maddening. To replace the stereo, half of the panels on the dash had to come apart because every piece overlaps the next, and you had to start and the door and work your way to the middle. It was a pretty nice first car, but he treated that poor thing like poo poo.
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Mar 16, 2015 05:19
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I finally have a mechanical failure at work that I remembered to capture on camera! I work on commercial laundry equipment for a living right now. Not glamorous by any means, but it's steady work. The guy I work for owns 9 laundromats, and several of them are starting to show their age. I went to one today to collect money and fix any machines that were down and found one of the 25 pound washers down. I saw that the breaker was tripped, so I flipped it back on, and cranked the timer around to start the machine. It then let out the most godawful roaring/grinding noise while turning and promptly tripped the breaker again. At this point, I knew the bearings in the motor were smoked and the motor needed to come out to get rebuilt. What I didn't know was that the bad bearings caused it to pull waaaay too much current and do this to the high speed spin contactor   That was almost certainly a fire at some point this week, and I'm glad the whole store didn't burn to the goddamn ground.
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Aug 27, 2015 05:33
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cursedshitbox posted:hah! I run 300v in the moto and toyota red for coolant. Yeah p much this. Motul also smells rather pleasant. Zerex Asian Vehicle Formula works quite well and is also red/pink too. Only comes in 50/50 premix though.
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Aug 25, 2016 00:13
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MadScientistWorking posted:Is the issue with the Rotsun that whatever ancillary stuff besides the engine just not capable of handling the power? The chevy 4.3 made power, but had massive lag and kept breaking the motor. The new ford 5.0 makes massive power, seems happy doing it, but now breaks everything downstream. Expecting a T5 to hold up to 550 hp and 600 ft-lbs of torque was a loving joke, so naturally it broke bad on the second drag pass. The Subaru diff with 3.90 gears will be next to go, if the axles don't act like fuses in the driveline. If they want to do it right, a TKO500/600 and a better rear end situation will fix it. But that won't happen.
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 This is what happens when the bearings fail on a blower for a landfill gas flare. The fins and blower housing have had an unfortunate meeting.
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