Horrible Mechanical Failures: Looks Like the Tin Man's Undies After Taco Tuesday

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insta: Jan 28, 2009

scapulataf posted:

Holy gently caress, I always thought it was the case that busted on those G series trannies.

Not always

Did this pulling a 2.2 60' in my 130whp Escort.

# ¿ Nov 18, 2009 23:29

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# ¿ Apr 20, 2024 02:05

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scapulataf posted:

Since it was an escort doing a 2.2 60 ft. I'll assume it was an EGT w/ G series.
Holy gently caress, perhaps they aren't as robust as I thought, though I was aware before that they weren't indestructible.
Seeing the pics of the MSP diffs also jogged my memory. I seem to recall now, guys in P5s and MP3s having issues with the G series.
THough alot of the people I've seen with a bpt swap in first gens don't seem to have the same issues. Maybe I've just forgotten.

Agreed, steel is strong.

G5M sedan ratios (taller than normal) in an Escort ZX2 with boltons. The 98 ZX2 trans was awesome for drags, nice short gears and as bulletproof as I've seen the G-series transaxles. But, I couldn't find a 98 trans ever at my pick-n-pull, so it was usually the one from the 4-door sedan. The only actual ZX2 trans I found was stuck in 3rd gear

# ¿ Nov 19, 2009 17:08

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ab0z posted:

How long does it take him to detail a car like the veyron for $12,000? If it's under a month then holy poo poo he must make a PILE of money.

Look at the equipment he has. Multiple Makita (not cheap) angle grinders used for buffing. A $10,000 bottle of wax. Dude is rolling in it.

# ¿ May 13, 2010 19:17

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CommieGIR posted:

No, that isn't mechanical failure, thats just pure stupidity and lack of ability to drive, still good though

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT7nM4ddoCM&feature=related

Part Stupid Part Mechanical Failure

Look dumbass do you understand what your radiator does and how it works? If you create a TON of load on your engine and it has no way to cool itself sufficiently (i.e. no airflow beyond what the fan is pulling) your car is going to DIE. There is a reason Dynos have a HUGE fan in front of the car

That was the tires.

# ¿ Feb 19, 2011 08:17

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Previa_fun posted:

Most of the time I used my little ~$150 WalMart generic "Weed-Eater" brand mower. I put a Gator blade on it and with the bag removed it would mulch even tall grass into pieces small enough they were invisible in the yard. I really can't say enough about Gator blades. Way better at mulching than the curvy mulching blades that are more common. http://gatorblade.com/

Did you sell me your mower on CraigsList four days ago for $35?

# ¿ May 19, 2011 14:40

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trouser chili posted:

He did eventually get it to behave.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_0poJpCD18

Note that in the first video posted when it goes runaway and the first three minutes of this one, it's running BACKWARDS. Looking at the flywheel, it's spinning counterclockwise, it should spin clockwise.

Honest question, what can this engine do that my 105hp TDI cannot?

# ¿ Jul 16, 2011 18:41

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I like InitialDave's answer better. Education had!

# ¿ Jul 16, 2011 19:39

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BlackMK4 posted:

There was a bomb involved there, right?

Industrial shredder?

# ¿ Oct 25, 2011 06:48

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Tsuru posted:

That depends... do they use synchros for fuel level signalling?

It's VAG. You can tell by the 1/1, 1/2, 0 markings on the fuel gauge.

# ¿ Jun 28, 2013 21:39

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Rubiks Pubes posted:

I guess that doesn't have to be welded back on then.

Just a bunch of bolts. I took mine off to cover in dynamat when I replaced my jettas stereo. No tambourines there.

# ¿ Apr 19, 2014 15:52

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kastein posted:

drat, and I thought my junk power steering pump from February was the most hosed one I'd ever see. That's just plain impressive.

Normally the high setting on a blower motor skips the resistor together, the resistor just taps into the wire as it goes by. The lower speeds go to various taps on the blower resistor via a multi-position rotary/slide switch. That switch is another common failure point, since manufacturers are cheapasses and love to shove 20 to 40 amps through a lovely slide switch down underrated wiring to the blower resistor and motor, though some did it right with a relay bank near the resistor and it's now becoming a moot point since many makers are switching to (much superior) PWM driven blower motors as they computerize their HVAC controls.

For example here's the circuit diagram for a 1999 jeep cherokee: http://www.revbase.com/BBBMotor/Wd/DownloadPdf?id=16386 (note that switch position 1, HIGH, connects to the resistor block, but doesn't go through it.)

Ah the days when copper was cheap and micros were expensive :allears:

# ¿ Sep 21, 2014 07:57

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My 2006 made peak torque at 1800 RPM (240 ft/lbs). It was something like 180ft/lbs without the tune. Are the vanes stuck?

# ¿ Jan 13, 2015 05:46

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The TDIs gulp a full 2 liters of air every revolution since they have no throttle plate. They will definitely drop temp if you idle them when it's sufficiently cold outside. The real failure is people who ignored me when I said "let the glow plug light turn off, its the squiggly one on the tach" and went "OK CRONK SMASH KEY TO ON :downs:

# ¿ Jan 17, 2015 18:24

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kastein posted:

A friend of mine had a block of 6061-T6 sitting on his desk with a 1/2" tapered end mill jammed about 1.5" into it. The "chips" were roughly 1/4" thick, clearly had been molten on the back surface when they exited, and roughly spiraled away from it. On the block was written "probe tools?"

I heard that one happen from across the shop, he probed on the vice, forgot to probe the tools, hit start, and the first step in the program was a full-rapid to 0 Z. Never heard a spindle stop so fast in my life.

Whenever I own a mill I'm going to make the Z endstop a pair of alligator clips and use the workpiece and mill itself as the probe.

# ¿ Feb 9, 2015 19:47

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kastein posted:

Yeah, any kind of fine dust of some sort that won't break down and get flushed out by the body is bad loving news. Silicate dust (very fine sand or glass dust)? Silicosis. Asbestos? Asbestosis. There's a growing body of research that says fiberglass and most other similar insoluble particulate matter with sharp edges is a cancer risk too.

Guess where Raybestos got their name?

No companies making friction parts in the US that I'm aware of still use asbestos because it's a huge liability even if it was allowed. No one wants their name on something like that these days.

However I would bet on anything made in the 70s having it in the brakes and clutch and possibly things in the 80s too, especially if the design hadn't been changed since the 70s or a parts crossref tool shows that the pads/shoes fit a vehicle from the 70s or earlier as well.

Some other poo poo used it too, like high temp wiring and (for instance) intake preheater hoses that went from the exhaust manifold shield to the air filter housing.

+ carbon fiber dust. It's apparently really, really bad as well.

# ¿ Apr 24, 2015 23:17

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TKIY posted:

You are my GenBro

Does this count for the coupe, and what year does this take effect? Not hugely impressed by my '13

# ¿ Jun 1, 2015 21:21

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Are we still bitching about going into reverse? Can I throw in a vote for the 2013 GenCoupe? It's got the "slap hard to the left" style of finding reverse, rather than the collar the Veloster has, or the "push the shifter down" mechanism a VW has.

Why the gently caress would you make your sports car shift into the money gear when you're ripping a downshift from fourth to second? I simply cannot get my sweet driftorou on that way.

Also sixth gear eating itself. Third transmission by 25k miles. Forth will probably come in another 3-4k if the pattern holds.

The two statements are unrelated. :colbert:

# ¿ Feb 15, 2016 15:24

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I don't have pictures of asploded engines, but I do have plenty of bitches about shift patterns.

How about this? Pending mechanical failure? I sorta helped build it, so probably
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VWN7XT6Cdg

# ¿ Feb 15, 2016 17:15

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evil_bunnY posted:

he said the packs had neither cooling nor BMS'es, which is par the level of professionalism they display.

Tesla sub-modules contain both cooling and BMSes. The cooling is liquid, but there is no provision for detecting its presence as far as I know. There are just AN fittings for coolant in/coolant out. The cells are also in huge parallel sets, with thin jumper wires from positive to the bus. If a single cell fails short, it blows that jumper. This doesn't stop the now-shorted cell from going really hot, which the coolant would do...

# ¿ Nov 27, 2018 02:57

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Things relying on being liquid cooled usually work better with coolant flowing through them, though? The battery that burst initially looks to be right in the middle of the pack, where most of the heat soak would be.

I guess I don't understand what the pack should do instead. The BMS handles balancing, but I don't think it is a full 4.2v/cell CC/CV power supply. If they were feeding it with a non-regulated supply, it might overwhelm the balancer and overcharge cells. I don't know if the BMS can disconnect the whole pack or not. The fuse wire is a last-ditch "self healing" feature to isolate dead or dying cells, but that absolutely needs the coolant to try and contain the thermal runaway.

# ¿ Nov 27, 2018 14:49

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Haha yeah I know what .. *squints* a car nutsack is doing on the ground haha

# ¿ Feb 6, 2019 05:07

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Krakkles posted:

You must not be American. The solution to everything is guns.

It's a tire not a school, sheesh

# ¿ Sep 10, 2019 18:54

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Colostomy Bag posted:

When I got clipped...they were digging around and found a spot where I wasn't numb. You can imagine that joy. So yeah a horrible failure.

My local didn't take, and I found out on the scissor snip into my sack.

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# ¿ Jan 11, 2020 17:19

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babyeatingpsychopath posted:

They were very apologetic. The customer service rep said "your technician is VERY detail-oriented." Yeah, I documented the exact discrepancy on an aviation part, just like I do literally every day for every task. At the risk of throwing them under the bus, it was a Dzus installation tool. Notice it's got a product spec sheet with callouts for every dimension? There's no other thing this thing could be for. I don't see another product in their line like this, and the one we got has the part number roll-stamped into the tool. $250 for that thing, btw, after shipping and everything. The new one showed up today with an ID of .214". It was reamed, but whatever galvy process went on after was kinda lumpy and garbage. I'm sure it'll peel off eventually, but the QC on these is straight trash, and I think they're getting $20 parts from China or somewhere else metric with low QC and marking them up 1000%.

Another mechanical failure; this time with crimpers. The shop owns a Daniels Wire Repair Kit for one of our airframes. In it is all the high-quality Daniels crimpers with turrets, Ideal strippers, pin pushers, pullers, extractors, gauges.

I was using the M22520/2-01 (an Astro Tool version, not the Daniels) and went to set the crimp stop to the correct wire gauge when I hear some little springy thing go whizzing past my ear and pieces fall into the nose avionics bay. Astro is sending us a loaner for Monday and we're sending this one to them to be overhauled. $100 for this service, and well worth it.

Because I couldn't just stop crimping pins, I sacrificed a ballpoint pen to the cause and managed to get the thing operational for one wire gauge. It'll make legal crimps for 22awg now, but doesn't validate the "go/no-go" gauge for anything else.

Is this post going to be an eventual Exhibit A?

# ¿ Feb 1, 2020 13:59

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xzzy posted:

https://imgur.com/iabQZEB

not sure how to embed so you can turn on the audio though because reasons

# ¿ Feb 27, 2020 18:24

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Krakkles posted:

Worth saying, he mentioned those are M30 bolts. That's a whole lotta broken rear end poo poo.

lol those aren't real

:ohdear:

# ¿ Mar 31, 2020 19:07

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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:

a bung is the thing the cork sticks in to

That's the bunghole, sir.

# ¿ May 20, 2020 19:49

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LifeSunDeath posted:

it's so stupid, how did they get these cars past all the regulations?

Release first, certify later?

# ¿ May 27, 2020 01:26

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Puddin posted:

This is supposedly the heavy duty window regulator for a Hyundai i30.

This dogshit piece has broken 4 times in 4 years.

Pray it doesn't break whilst it's raining cause there's no way to keep the window up without removing the whole inner door frame and propping it up with 2 pieces of wood.

It hasn't rained where I live for about 3 months, it broke last night and I awoke in the middle of the night to pouring rain.

No joke, if you model the plastic part, I will print it from some badass material that should be stronger than whatever that was.

# ¿ Jun 10, 2020 03:07

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Puddin posted:

That is great info, thank you!

The one in the middle is the one that failed, OEM printed on the left, which doesn't fit the rail, printed copy on the right which fits great.

Turns out my regulator must have been fitted with a skoda/vw part as that's the one on thingiverse that matches.

I'll bring in the printer to work tomorrow and increase it by the 2.5 % with 100% infill, the one I did last night was only 10% for sizing and that was a two hour print. Will remove the tower sticking out as it's not needed on my car.

Pfft 3D printing is such a fad, you're just printing trinkets, nothing useful gets done with them

# ¿ Jun 11, 2020 21:47

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You Am I posted:

I was hoping that video had the actual sound that was going on, instead of some lovely song. I wanted to hear the crack as the bolt finally moved.

You did, like 8 weeks ago. You thought it was maybe a car backfiring outside or something.

# ¿ Jul 7, 2020 01:34

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LifeSunDeath posted:

There was a vid a few months back where a truck turbo blows out the hood and is spinning like a top 20 feet away where people were standing, and the truck was mostly inside of a garage at the time...bottom line if I ever end up around a vehicle being dyno'd I going to stay far far away and behind cover.

Got a link?

# ¿ Sep 23, 2020 21:47

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Sagebrush posted:

So I know I posted the question in the wrong thread but this is where it is now so here is the follow up.

Good suggestion! I poked around at the evap purge solenoid and yes, all of the hoses going into it were dry-rotted and probably leaking, and the one between the throttle body and the valve had outright fallen off. Haven't replaced the parts yet but I'll bet that's the problem...

There is this additional little hard plastic line that comes off a T underneath the valve. As you can see it's got a hole worked into it from rubbing on a metal edge. The bottom of the T leads into the engine, right leads back to the valve, and this plastic line leads through a hole in the firewall that is surrounded by the AC lines and I really don't want to have to pull that all apart to replace it. I can't find it mentioned in any of the parts fiches I have found. What is this line for, and can I just put some self-healing tape around it and call it a day?

e: I slid a vinyl sleeve around it to patch the hole, sealed it with self-healing tape, and called it a day. With that and the new hoses the engine now idles normally and the codes haven't come back. Thanks much

Pro tip: put the rear swaybar from a mid 1990 Escort wagon on the ZX2. They're like $30 and the whole car comes alive.

# ¿ Mar 20, 2021 16:36

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STR posted:

Well that sounds lovely.

Luckily I'm not throwing any codes (yet), and all of the readiness monitors are showing ready, so I don't think there's anything majorly wrong. Still trying to figure out why my mileage is garbage (maybe my 3 mile commute? I know the thing is just barely going into closed loop when I get to work), but there's no longer any fuel smell, and the fuel pressure is where it should be now.

dude ride a loving bike to work

# ¿ Jul 30, 2021 14:27

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Darchangel posted:

I'm generally not for increased regulation of cars, but brodozers can go burn in hell. Those things are a plague of stupid.

It was said earlier in the thread, it's really hard for other cops to get a ticket.

# ¿ Aug 6, 2021 23:50

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Computer viking posted:

There's also the part where airplanes last way longer than cars, so even if you put strict regulations on aircraft engines starting tomorrow, it would take ages to make inroads.

And if they'd done it 40 years ago, we'd be seeing plenty of unleaded aircraft engines.

# ¿ Jan 5, 2022 22:13

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glyph posted:

Looks like something not necessarily automotive, like the base of a [cheap] swiveling bench vise. The casting looks too lovely for a vehicle.

So what Chrystler is it from?

# ¿ May 22, 2022 06:49

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Mr. Wiggles posted:

I have rear drums in my Mazda2. Someday I'll upgrade to the Fiesta ST discs all around, but with the upgrade I did to the fronts already it's not really necessary. I can already do a stoppie.

No you can't. Not without video proof.

_please

# ¿ Aug 2, 2022 22:45

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Ambassadorofsodomy posted:

Much like teslas, they shut the autonomous features off .00000000000000000002432 seconds before a crash is detected that way the driver has plenty of time to take control and use evasive action to avoid crashing. Clearly the driver was at fault here.

Yeah, generally the warning beep and the driver's scream collide in midair inside the car and cancel each other out.

# ¿ Aug 16, 2022 23:35

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# ¿ Apr 20, 2024 02:05

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funeral home DJ posted:

Do you track the BRZ or is this something like a known issue?

My GenCoupe is on transmission #4 because the 6th gear synchro keeps going out, and Hyundai warranty kept giving me new ones. I have no idea how 6th gear keeps going out, it's not like that's a gear you actually beat on.

# ¿ Nov 9, 2022 21:14

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