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Not so much a failure, but this was a royal PITA. Bought a 64k 1986 RX7 and had to do rotors. It had the factory originals still on it 26+ years later. They had welded themselves to the aluminum hubs. I broke the outside ring on the first one with a 5 pound sledge. The second I just cut in half and beat it off with a hammer.  
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drukqs posted:Are you guys anti-cleanser? I used some pour-in buildup remover/cleaner of some sort before I did my first oil change on my CRV. Had ~120k on the odometer, nothing bad happened really. It's not what happens right after you run it, it's what could happen in the next 1-10k. This all depends on how the car was taken care of, but if you run seafoam/mmo/ect through a block that you don't know the history on and missed a oil change or three, it will break free large contaminants, clog, and possibly cause serious damage. On the flip side, tossing a bottle of Chevron Techron cleaning in your gas ever 15-30k is not a bad idea. I've done it regularly to all our vehicles and it's kept the injectors in great shape.
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Has this been posted yet? http://garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=242662   
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Apr 8, 2014 22:11
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Preoptopus posted:This. You never see any retired painters. 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 further shorten 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. the spyder fucked around with this message at 18:02 on Apr 10, 2014 |
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Apr 10, 2014 17:59
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2" PVC is a failure waiting to happen... 
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Apr 16, 2014 21:44
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I had one of those "I should have stopped for a picture, but did not want to look like a gawker" moments on Saturday. I was driving up a local highway and the truck in front of me swerved to avoid road debris. I dogged what appeared to be a corner marker light, various headlight pieces, and a fender liner. ~100ft ahead sat a Silver 2004'ish Mustang, hazards on, with the drivers side wheel shoved into the fender/door and halfway under the car. I can only imaging that a control arm snapped, wheel broke, tire blew, or some other terrible failure caused this. It destroyed everything within a 20" radius (bumper, fender, head light, hood buckled). The best part was the three guys standing in front of the car, just staring at the damage. I'm guessing the failure had something to do with the hellaflush suspension on the rest of the car... (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) the spyder fucked around with this message at 20:22 on Jul 30, 2014 |
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Jul 29, 2014 01:14
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Either let insurance keep it, or part it out. Good side of a part out: People need parts; running engines/trans/diff/brakes/electronics. There's at least $1k in profit from a part out. Bad side: gently caress cheap as FC owners who want to trade you their girlfriends dog for parts.
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What's your MPG on the AWD Ecoboost excape? I'm looking at one this weekend, seeing as I need a 4 door car now.
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OFFICER 13 INCH posted:Actually those photos were taken from the parking lot because he refused an inspection and just wanted us to bleed it, the hood got popped after we noticed the fluid on the front and it snowballed from there.  The whole thing is just so what the gently caress. I mean, common, really? 
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Memento posted:I remember many many years ago when I worked for Mazda we had an FD RX-7 come in after it had a new turbo fitted at one of the dealerships. Actually not that difficult a job, no idea why it went so wrong, initially, but after fitting the turbo and the tech test driving it the car died and wouldn't start or turn over. Turns out he had left a 10mm nut inside the turbo manifold that had fallen into the combustion chamber when he took off facing down hill. It left a whole bunch of little hexagonal indents on the rotor face. We ended up doing a full engine, and the good parts ended up finding their way into my boss' race car. We kept the hosed rotor on the wall of shame. That was the only example I can remember now, but we had some egregious fuckups on that wall.
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Bibendum posted:I thought the whole reason for buying Snap-On was the warranty. He should just throw it back at them. Or is that just for professional customers? Check out CPI if you ever need a mechanical torque wrench. They are SO's OEM. Amazon has a ton of them and all our 1/4 + 3/8 are CPI.
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Terminus Est posted:Wind speeds over 25m/s. Dude who died pitched all three blades to full run position then either the brake failed or was released. With no load on the generator the turbine turned into a helicopter for a split second as the rotor over sped. There was a brief hop as the nacelle tried to lift then the tower buckled. Was pitching the blades to full run part of the inspection? Are there control systems that prevent this now? Or is it purely a over ride situation?
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rainwulf posted:According to reddit, the guy lost a spanner, couldn't find it. Shrugged, and started the car. That's not a car... Definitely a heavy piece of equipment, in Caterpillar yellow or similar.
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Slavvy posted:You're in for a fun time. The control arm bolt you can see isn't the only one. There is another one which bolts into the subframe through the sway bar mount, you can see them on the right in the second picture. If the whole cast assembly that holds the bush has moved, the subframe is bent. My wife's Mini has never been the same after a similar hit. We replaced everything except the subframe and just deal with the camber wear. Ugh.
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14 INCH DEVITO posted:Always make sure the objects have tapered bases or you gotta knock holes into them to thread a hook through for extraction 
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Cakefool posted:Even if they were cars you could buy for 20k they sound like the sort of car that needs 20k in missed maintenance, then 20k in NLA parts. This. This right here is the future of the 93-95 Mazda RX-7.
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Enourmo posted:Land Rover, not Volkswagen I would trust him.
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What happened to C15?
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The Door Frame posted:
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Memento posted:I get 'nam flashbacks every time I see that poo poo. There was a bank of solenoids in the guts of that loving spaghetti mess that never got recalled, even though they knew they were shitter than poo poo, so they were just replacing them on a case-by-case basis. I did about 20 of those things things in 1999-2000, with each one having a warranty time of ten hours. Mazda being Mazda, that time was basically only achievable if you had wrists that bent all the way backwards so you could touch the point of your own elbow, and also if you designed the emissions system to begin with. I live your nightmares. Three engines I've built up from kegs in the last few weeks.     Don't worry, I fix them too. 
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wallaka posted:The gently caress is EMPTY PIPE for? Automatic transmission additional vacuum reservoir.
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Is it bad that I have the diagram 90% memorized? Ugh. Thankfully I'm doing more single-turbo swaps now that the ECU/Turbo tech finally caught up to the consumer-level. Companies like Adaptronic, Injector Dynamics, CJ Motorsports, and BorgWarner really changed the possibilities for these cars.
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Horrible manufacture failure?
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mekilljoydammit posted:http://www.spcalignment.com/component/content/article?id=291 Bookmarked. Those are awesome.
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Thanks Discount Tire! Had my wife get a tire rotation and she started to complain about a noise from the passenger side. Came out to the car to find this:    Every bolt was over 120lbs. If not higher. Repaired them myself because at 7pm on a Sunday, what other choice do you have?
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Ebay turbo anyone? 800 miles...   
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With all the hose chat- what's the best option for standard rubber air hose ends? I hate hose clamps and it sucks to trim the hose back every year once the barbs eventually cut through.
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What is that, a Rx-7? I bet that carries at least a 60 octane rating.
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I've always wanted to rig a microswitch on the key holder so our lathe won't run without the key in its "home".
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shy boy from chess club posted:Thats a wicked nice mower, my granpa has a couple like that that hes restored. Kohler makes the best gas engines hands down. I have a 22hp twin on one of my commercial mowers with 2500 hours on it and it runs perfect, still has crosshatch in the bores and plenty of power. I just regasketed it this winter and now its really like new with no leaks. You're making me want to rebuild the 314 sitting in our barn. What oil in the Kawa's? My Hustler just hit warranty and I'm thinking of switching to synthetic for no good reason.
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I will continue running the cheapest SAE 30 oil then, because I have 6 quarts and that should last the next few years.
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I've been a fan of my $280 Jackson - but I recently tried an Optrel and now I want to spend $$$. https://www.jacksonsafety.com/product-page/truesight-ii-digital-variable-adf-black
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That has to be a troll. There's paint scraped off on the upper holes. Even then, would never run that myself.
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It's a GenY hitch - got a clearer view from some of his other videos. https://genyhitch.com/product/mega-...7waAhEkEALw_wcB
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LifeSunDeath posted:OOF  I'm doing this to my neighbors Dodge. Pictures at some point.
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CommieGIR posted:Well you don't want to leave it there, yes, but once you rinse it off it'll stop reacting. Ideally use something else if you can avoid anything with Lye in it. Easy Off - Fume Free - lemon scent - is my choice for cleaning aluminum when normal APC or Purple Power won't touch the road grime. Still not amazing for you - but less likely to cause issues with aluminum. 2-(2-butoxyethoxy)ethanol potassium carbonate 2-aminoethanol isobutane d-Limonene
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