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eh, this is the only personal one I have, an alternator that didn't need all of its bearings.
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Psylocibe posted:Guy takes a piston to the chest. god drat that must have hurt like a bitch in the morning.
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You Am I posted:Poor metallurgy back then. Metal strengths have changed over the years. These days you can have thin sheets of metal that has the strength of thicker sheets back in the 30s and 40s. And yet we still haven't seen the return of straight-eights 
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I guess this goes here. My brother called me yesterday, terrified. He was driving his car (a '98 Honda Accord) and was experiencing unintended acceleration. He was at a Lowe's and afraid to drive. I head over there and start poking around. I noticed that the top of his air intake box was completely unlatched, but didn't think much of it. When I pulled the intake off, though, I found something lodged tight in the throttle body, preventing it from closing (it was stuck at about 75% throttle). I managed to free it and pull it out...  It was a radiator cap! He had a local shop replace his radiator last week (it was leaking bad) and they apparently placed the old cap on top of his filter (why they had the box off, I don't know, they should have had plenty of room) and forgot about it. It got sucked up toward his engine and got jammed under the throttle plate. Scary stuff. That very, very nearly could have caused an accident and a lawsuit or several. I'm calling the shop shortly to tell them about it.
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PhotoKirk posted:Holy poo poo. I have the same generation Accord. You don't have to pull the air box to replace the radiator. I threw that picture on reddit too, and somebody mentioned that it's easier to replace the hoses if you take the filter box out. So they probably replaced the hoses. Oh god I wonder where the old hoses are.
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My sister-in-law saw this driving down the road over the weekend.
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Half of my cars don't have a functional parking brake. I should probably get that remedied 
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A friend just posted these to Facebook. I guess this just happened to her minivan. 
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Freestar? My bad, I thought it was her minivan. I think it's their other vehicle. Ford Escape I think.
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:That reminds me of a video I once saw of a cow that got clipped by a train. Most of its head was missing but it was still alive and walking around. Tell me, why did I have to go find this 
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