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ratbert90 posted:It's hydrolocking all right. On fuel. If you have the plug wires on wrong it can bind like that. Just as the piston is coming back up from BDC if the plug fires a charge in the cylinder it'll feel like the engine is hydrolocked and will slow down cranking. If they're all one plug off, it will crank really weird. Check your plug wires.
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Rujo King posted:When the front right CV went out on my Subaru, that's pretty much exactly what happened. That was the day I found out that the vehicle speed sensor is attached to the drivetrain before it connects to the wheel, so my speedo said I was going 85mph when I was pretty clearly running about 85mph less than that. But yeah, no smoke or wheels exploding or anything like that, just a nice leisurely slowdown accompanied by horrific grinding noises from the right side of the car and horrific swearing from my mouth. That sounds much more laid back than my subaru. I've had an axle seize. That makes horrible voilent drivetrain shaking and apparently breaks your pitch stopper bracket.
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Sponge! posted:Wouldn't they be plunderers? Not really... any good pirate knows the age old saying... First you pillage THEN you plunder.
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Jan 17, 2012 14:11
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Being a computer nerd too... I hope the servers weren't harmed!
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Feb 2, 2012 22:45
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Slow is Fast posted:If this happens in NH, I would come on a weekend. Could try and get sis to bring her fancy rear end DSLR. I wanna see poo poo get hosed up. I'd ride down with ya. Blowing poo poo up is fun!
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Feb 7, 2012 03:30
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Sounds like "blow up engine, and show off your most AI poo poo pile" meet.
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Feb 8, 2012 21:03
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kastein posted:If we hold this event at my place I can try and blow up the motor in my 98 XJ, it's got a bad head gasket and it's getting so bad it will barely accelerate. I have the new motor sitting there waiting to go in but I feel like I should give it a proper send-off. Is it an automatic? Because seized engines and automatic transmissions are a big holy loving pain in the rear end. This picture sums up how I feel about it. 
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Feb 14, 2012 01:00
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kastein posted:Yeah, I haven't been a member long enough to sign up for it yet or something. There's enough room in a jeep to pull the engine with the TQ attached? that makes it a lot easier. There isn't enough room on the subaru (due to a two foot rod in the TQ). So sawzall and grinder time... That engine made the most horrible bone chilling noise ever before it went. It was like the sound of someone dying in pain...
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Feb 14, 2012 21:58
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Alphius posted:I've pulled engines from two different Subarus with the torque converter attached with no problems. They were both due to stuck torque converter bolts. Remove the radiator, leave the A/C condenser with cardboard in front of it, remove the front accessories from the motor and it all comes out easy. I don't even break the A/C or power steering lines open. Hmm, interesting to hear that! A couple people told me that there was no way and I'd have to pull both at the same time. Which I didn't want to deal with.
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Feb 15, 2012 21:34
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Ziploc posted:You're right. Wonder what happens to that guy. Surprised he didn't die. It was covered a while back in the thread. If you look closely, the pilot is flung out of the helicopter, the pulled back in by his seatbelt. I don't think they pulled the cable into the blades. There's a lot of turbulence around a helicopter rotor, the cable probably got sucked in.
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Mar 6, 2012 03:54
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bull3964 posted:My lower control arms on my '02 WRX are starting to look that bad. Actually, I wish they did look that bad since they are doing a recall on them right now. If they are bad enough, they replace them. If they aren't bad enough, they just rust-proof them. Just spray a high concentration salt solution on it... Then you'll get new ones. Or come to Maine and drive around in the winter. You'll be eligible in about 3 days.
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Mar 9, 2012 13:48
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kastein posted:I know it wasn't enough to kill it, but I'd rather play it safe, no sense wasting a good 4.0 block, especially when I'm pulling it at some point in the near future anyways. I hydrolocked the ea81 in my Subaru at decently high RPMs. Cranked the water past the rings. Lots more cranking it fired up and I drove it home. Changed the oil, and it's been fine for many thousand miles. Good compression and nice oil pressure. Oil analysis came back from blackstone, and they didn't say it was eating itself. I guess I've found an engine tougher than a jeep 4.0...
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Mar 20, 2012 13:53
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I stumbled back across this gem from when the rear suspension tube on my 89GL rusted out...  It started handling funny, so I pulled over to take a look... That kinda ruined my day.
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Apr 4, 2012 01:47
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I had an outboard like that... terrible thing... It was constantly having electrical issues. Running on one cylinder, losing timing, carb jamming up. It pissed me off so bad. Hopefully there aren't any wasps left in there!
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Apr 6, 2012 12:47
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Alereon posted:I don't want to pretend to be some sort of anodic protection expert, but I've always heard of Magnesium and Zinc being used to protect mild steel, though based on the anodic series Aluminum would work to protect stainless steel. Zink is used to protect steel boats. If you have a ground leak it'll keep the boat from eating holes in itself. Also if you're in a harbor that has ground leaks with lots of stray current in the water, it'll protect the steel. I've seen 30lbs zinks be eaten up in one season in a badly wired harbor. Also, there are different grades of zink/alloys for different applications. It's a slightly different mix for fresh water use. Also for aluminum boats, there's a special mix.
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Apr 9, 2012 03:11
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Crustashio posted:BMW switched to electric water pumps on E90s and possibly other models as well. Do they use a thermostat still? Or just regulate the temperature by controlling the speed of the pump? I've always wondered about that.
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Apr 10, 2012 01:08
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some texas redneck posted:Suddenly my yearly registration sounds loving cheap. And I was bitching about it going up $10 this year (moved to a new county). That's it?! I pay $85 a year in Maine for my stupid base model 89.
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Apr 18, 2012 01:01
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I had a Subaru come into the shop that happened to. The rotor flopped around and hosed up the ABS tone ring. Surprisingly, not much other damage. The car had also gone off the road, it happened during hard braking, so that wheel lost brakes and shot the car ring off into the ditch. Fortunately it wasn't oncoming traffic!
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Apr 29, 2012 16:52
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I had a fuel leak on my home made moped. It's a air cooled two stroke, so the cylinder head gets a lot hotter than the engine block in a car. Fuel was dripping on the head and actually sizzling and boiling off. I was scared shitless for a minute that it was going to explode. But the autoignition temperature of gasoline is somewhere around 475 degres F, so I guess I was safe... I've never taken a heat gun and actually checked what the head temp is on that, but I'm betting it's considerably lower.
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Apr 30, 2012 15:49
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Godholio posted:I just use the ones you hammer onto the bolt head. They cut into it at like 8 points and you just throw a wrench on it. I gave up on extractors, they're way too brittle. That's what I use too, they work pretty awesome. The main issue with extractors isn't that they suck. It's that they break off inside your stuck bolt. And now you're extra hosed because, not only do you have a stuck bolt, it has a bit of hardened steel stuck in it that you can't drill out.
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May 14, 2012 18:33
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Mr.Peabody posted:No it's not tougher enforcement we need, they should just have a program like in Germany. Every October when a car goes into a dealership or service station, they get all their lights checked for function and aim free of charge. The Government pays a small subsidy for each vehicle checked, and it has a demonstrated record of reducing accidents and generating cost savings. In Maine we have kinda the same thing with state inspection. They check light, brakes, brake lines, suspension, etc. Make sure the car isn't full of rust holes and it's safe. And it costs $12.50, and if the car isn't safe, you fail inspection and it's illegal to drive...
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May 29, 2012 20:40
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thelightguy posted:I don't know a single state that actually checks headlight focus in their inspections. If the lamp turns on, they'll slap a sticker on it. Maine is SUPPOSED to check, but I've never heard of a shop actually failing anyone for focus. Unless it was ridiculously off. There's a lot of stuff they SHOULD check, but it would take hours to run through the whole book. I have a car that probably wouldn't pass inspection at most shops. But if I take it to the shops with faded state inspection signs, maybe with a few shot gun holes, the old fat guy with a mustache and porn on his desk will slap a sticker on.
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Dielectric posted:
That might have something to do with not abusing the axles. Axles don't like WOT at full lock.
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Jun 2, 2012 01:16
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The video would have been more funny if she didn't turn. One of two things would have happened. Either the car would have made it half way up the ramps, then rolled backwards over the guys. Or the sketchy-rear end ramp setup would have failed and the car would have received horrible damage as it scraped the front end down the back of the u-haul truck. The back of a u-haul truck gives no fucks, so the car would be pretty beat to hell. She ruined making the video more funny, and probably saved those guy's life's.
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I think the state inspections here in Maine are a good thing. Sure, it pisses me off to make my car safe to pass sometimes, but with all the rust, total heaps would be driving around. But my car has good joints, brakes, suspension is ok, nothing is very loose, and no rust holes that are too big. And it will pass, it all depends on where you go. He even told me to get the minor fuel leak fixed sometime before next year inspection.
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stevobob posted:We have biannual inspections in Nova Scotia for cars and trucks, annual for bikes and I think trailers. New Brunswick has annual, I think, as does PEI, as far as I know. Maine should have trailer inspection... Of course then mine wouldn't pass, but still. It's not uncommon at all to see trailers with wheels fallen off. And one, just recently down the road from me. The axle was rusted in half. I can't say much as the frame on mine broke in half hauling fire wood once, but a ratchet strap and 2x4 got it through 2 more seasons...
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Jun 28, 2012 01:19
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Ferremit posted:And in OTHER news... That's a very common failure on those. I've seen a bunch of them do that. It's even more fun when the threads in the bracket get hosed up. Replace those loving idlers early and often.
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Jul 2, 2012 12:56
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kastein posted:Apparently back in the 80s/90s he filmed some kids jerkin' it, and got in a lot of trouble over it. In some video he said that the mother of his son wasn't telling him about David. David wanted to become famous enough of youtube for his son to find him and see who he was. There's actually where he ends up meeting up with his son. At the point where he met his son, he basically said gently caress the youtube channel, the point of it was to meet up with my son. It served his purpose, it seems he's moved on from youtube.
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Jul 8, 2012 01:55
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kastein posted:they're great for removing fragments of metal from one's eye... the horrible mechanic failure in this case being my stupidity and ensuing lack of eye protection while using an angle grinder several years ago. So you're saying you've just been lucky for the last few years? 
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Aug 2, 2012 12:14
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Splizwarf posted:Half of US service stations? Where are the ones that don't sell diesel? Most service stations in northern and western Maine are small stations. The kind where you go inside to pay, and after hours you're hosed if you run out. And most of them do not have diesel.
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Aug 8, 2012 00:57
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Motronic posted:I have a hard time believing that someone who worked at a quick lube knows this word, even if they spell it wrong. Just because someone works at a quicklube to make some money on the side doesn't mean they're a total loving moron.
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Aug 13, 2012 02:36
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Gorilla Salad posted:Can someone explain what's happening here It looks like he's either hitting it with an ice pick to puncture it. Or, some truckers have a stick they hit the tire with. Depending on how it bounces off they can tell if the tires are at proper inflation or they're low.
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Aug 16, 2012 15:05
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Horrific attempt to remove a stuck lug nut?
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Aug 22, 2012 01:17
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dissss posted:
That's a really odd carb manifold on that engine. No subaru in the US ever came with a twin carb setup like that, only very few models in japan did. I wish I could fit a full size spare under the hood of mine, but my tires are gigantic and don't come close to fitting. Instead it just eats trunk space.
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Aug 24, 2012 12:15
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bidikyoopi posted:What's that shaft coming up from the blue worm gear through the bellhousing? Speed sensor
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Oct 12, 2012 18:33
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Fire Storm posted:How much of a horrible idea would it be to flux core MIG weld a piece of patch metal in place without taking the pan off? (proper metals and proper wire, nothing like a piece of a tin can onto an aluminum pan with mild steel wire with a DC welder) Oil pans are so saturated with oil, they absolutely suck to weld. It's drat near impossible to get the oil out of the metal. If you do it without cleaning out the inside of the pan (because it's still on the engine), as you weld it'll suck oil into the bead making for a terrible weld that will leak.
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Poisonlizard posted:He meant the oil and the atf were the same color I think. That's what he meant. But on the note of dip stick handles. On my subaru, the engine oil, ATF, and front diff gear oil handles are all yellow. The engine oil fill cap is yellow as well. It ends up with the wrong oil in the wrong place quite often, there are a lot of questions on subaru boards like: "I just put 2qt gear oil in my transmission, now it doesn't work"
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General_Failure posted:So what's with the brown stuff? Is it oil from drilling through the top of the piston / the schrapnel? I'm genuinely confused. Mostly about that funny drillbit thing. The OP of that picture on reddit posted a pic of the piston.  So it appears they ran the engine with that in there and punched a hole through the piston. I can only assume this would allow the cylinder to fill with oil, which is why it looks like it was filled with oil. I guess they didn't think it was sticking out that far into the cylinder? dunno. But seems pretty dumbass to me.
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14 INCH GRANDPA posted:That still raises the question of why you'd run it with a loving EZ out in there. Because they didn't want to pay for a tow bill to the shop? I dunno. Not everyone is good at common sense.
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General_Failure posted:Anticipating some kind of failure and it's mechanical. A timing belt kit for a Subaru EA81. Really? really? HAHAHA wow... I'd like to pop the hood of my car and watch that guy try to find the timing belt on the ea81. Better yet when I tell him it doesn't even have a timing chain.
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