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Veeb0rg posted:there is a differnce in office depo chairs and actual corperate office furniture. True. I have three upholstered swivels, two are from the early 70s and one from the mid-90s. They are solid steel all the way through. I was at one point well over 350-lbs. No problems. They're built like tanks.
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InterceptorV8 posted:That engine must have gone off in a bloody explosion that must have been really bloody impressive and created itself an superfund site at the same time. Guy didn't even lift the hood so I couldn't see a drat thing. Oil cooler line?
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I vote casting flaw + vibration...no signs of mechanical impact/peening inside the impeller housing
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ratbert90 posted:but you have to torque them twiiiicccceeeee* And with Plymouths, too. During the rebuild of my 383 in 1987, I checked the main bolt and connecting rod nut torques at least three times before buttoning up the pan. Four months later, it threw the rod on #3 after the bearing cap nut worked loose. Apparently, I was supposed to pull the pan & re-torque them again after the first 1000 miles. Which is odd, since they don't do that at the factory. Then again, it could've been my cheap-rear end Pep Boys torque wrench.
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mutt2jeff posted:More of a failure on the part of the driver, but still spectacular. "B-b-b-but it's maintenance-free!" Reminds me of when I was pumping gas for a summer job in 1983, working at a full-service gas station in PA. Relatively new, very clean '79 Mercury Monarch pulls in for gas. Funny. I don't remember Ford making a diesel...I know GM's mucking around with one... I ask her if she wants oil. She says, no, just fill it up. I have her pop the hood to check the oil anyways (good old days of full-serve). Yup; spark plugs. She had to be seriously low on oil to be grinding away like she was. Sure enough, the dipstick comes up dry. There's 39K on the odometer. I ask her when she had her last oil change. "Oh, this car doesn't require oil changes, ever! It's maintenance-free!" *Looks under hood at blue Motorcraft sealed battery with MAINTENANCE-FREE in screaming letters* "Um, no. See,. you have to change the oil on any car, at most, every 5000-miles, 3000 if you drive hard, etc." I finally convince her with the bone-dry dipstick that she needs oil. It took nearly five quarts. Christ. She starts it up; it quiets down a little (from Cummings to sewing machine full of sand) and then immediately starts smoking oil out the tailpipe. She drives off into oblivion. VV that finally occurred to me about seven years later, when I was a casualty insurance adjuster, and I investigated a similar claim at a service station we insured. You're absolutely right. Nowadays, I wouldn't even have touched the car. mini-derail: I live in NJ, where full-serve is the law. When I get my 66 Pontiac filled, the attendant usually lets me do it myself, partly because they can't find the fill neck (behind the license plate) but mostly because they're afraid of damaging it. PainterofCrap fucked around with this message at 14:43 on Jun 10, 2011 |
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Motronic posted:It's a British Leyland part, sorry. Fermunky posted:Can we get a picture of these mechanically failed hypothetical devices? 
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Slow is Fast posted:I must be going blind. What am I looking at?
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Oh! I see it now. I also see the bell of the valve is, uhh, no longer circular or flat... Or whatever it is girdling the stem. Whatever it is, it ain't right
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At my sister's today fixing her lawnmower, which wouldn't stay running. Cleaned out the carb, fired it up...knelt down next to it to check the carb & this horrible clanking started up. Thought the crank had gone, had the next loving thought...O poo poo ... & shut it off before I had my knees surgically removed. VVV Ja. Should be posted in "Expected Mechanical Failures" thread before it gets gassed. PainterofCrap fucked around with this message at 13:15 on Jul 24, 2011 |
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Jul 24, 2011 00:21
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Idler pulley VVV no, just extra ignition modules (for my late, great '86 Ford Escort L) and U-joint repair kits (for any Chrysler RWD product) VVV PainterofCrap fucked around with this message at 05:37 on Sep 5, 2011 |
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:FREE BLASTER OF JUSTICE!!! which have bad rear donut Gee: ya think?
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14 INCH DICK TURBO posted:My dad had like a 30 year old paint can of some sort of industrial carb dip, I dunked one of my old carbs and it came out shiny new in about a minute. Got some on my hands and it seriously felt like I had poured boiling water all over them instantaneously. Wonder what it was. I miss that stuff... <sigh> 
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Nathan Explosion posted:I find the idea of the earth opening up and swallowing an entire Wal-Mart followed by a great belch of methane hilarious. I can;t imagine a finer episode of South Park or The Simpsons.
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Ladies and gentlemen, check your parking brakes... (from Bring A Trailer, my hosting)  Was in there for the better part of an hour  abbreviated story here http://bringatrailer.com/2011/12/07/wheel-chock-delete-1968-porsche-912/ PainterofCrap fucked around with this message at 16:13 on Dec 11, 2011 |
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NOTinuyasha posted:Not seeing how anyone could have survived that.
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My brother-in-law test-drove a Viper at some dealership in Arizona a few years back (when Vipers were new). I don't know where the salesman took him with it - a desert highway or a private track - but he said that he was going over 120MPH in 3rd or 4th gear and saw that the car had a long way to go (and at least two more gears) before it was wound out. Scared the crap out of him. He wound up buying a supercharged Jaguar back home in PA. Much more sedate
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The clock thus appears to be the least of your problems. I would've guessed the key was in the RUN position but not yet started...
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Sexual Lorax posted:
One of the very few socio-political comments he ever made onstage.
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you for posting this. Some of Cosby's funniest work, and, even if you only think it's kind of funny, you need to listen to the whole thing. Payoff is worth it.
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Most of that can be rectified with wrenches alone. Hardest part will be the fender itself. Ball joints and bearings are available.
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Nerobro posted:we're starting to develop what could be a metal pill.. you drop in the oil filler and wait 3 hrs for a dead motor. .... this is evil. What were they putting in engines to kill them for the clunker program? I remember a segment on NPR that demonstrated the procedure and it seized the motor up in under two minutes.
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I'd say it's a constructive total loss...the frame & frame box at the right front are bent. See how the rocker trim's popped off on the driver's side? OTOH, anything's rebuildable if you have the money...
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Now you guys got me wondering how I separated mine when I had my motor rebuilt in 2010... Ah. +1 for unbolt the TC VVV Ja...and the fucker ran hot anyway. Go figure PainterofCrap fucked around with this message at 03:56 on Feb 17, 2012 |
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Dr 14 INCH DICK Md posted:Yeah that's what eventually got it out. It's also what bent it over in the first place. I couldn't get it to come out in the car after repeated attempts but for whatever reason after I had that poo poo all removed and clamped in a vice it finally decided to cooperate. Once you got it into a vise, it finally realized that you were serious.
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Many years ago, in Rochester NY, in midwinter, a friend of mine drove from a mall several miles to her home. Most of the trip was on the freeway. On arrival, she heard an odd howling from under the hood. Turned out a cat had crawled up into the engine compartment seeking warmth. It was, miraculously, physically uninjured, but permanently damaged psychologically. It lived under her bed for seven months. I only ever saw the cat once, as a grey blur streaking up the stairs when I came through the front door. Any noise spooked it.
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thecobra posted:What? Are those from wasps? Or do I know nothing about outboard motors? Mud wasps. And the nests are like concrete.
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I carry a silver fire extinguisher in my 66 Bonneville (car shows occasionally require them).  I have had a number of kids ask if it was a bottle of nitrous. PainterofCrap fucked around with this message at 04:42 on Apr 30, 2012 |
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Apr 30, 2012 04:39
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drat, you (& he) were lucky. #1 cause of fires in aircooled VWs is just that. Never, ever put a fuel filter back in the engine compartment...
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Guessing what's left of the piston after somebody kept driving it after it clearly had suffered a major malfunction.
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May 5, 2012 21:18
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Nice towel rack & grapefruit cannon
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opengl128 posted:For some reason, amid all that, my favorite is the satellite receiver on the hood Mine is on the hood of my Flex. Granted, it's running through the door gasket, so oh well.
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B4Ctom1 posted:I like to set a nut down over the top and then put a bead of weld on it. Christ, I haven't seen one of these since 1987. I had that exact tool, right down to the blue hammered case. Good times  Content: nthing my burning hatred for screw extractors: 
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Willderbeast331 posted:Dang, you really missed the center on that top bolt. The hell I did! It rode off of what was left of the damned extractor! I stopped & let the machine shop deal with it.
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That is some high-quality gunk, right there. Excessive heat nearby?
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It's like Thomas the Tank Engine on PCP
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grover posted:How did this happen? Shifted belt/weave. Had it happen on the Pennsylvania Turnpike to the '74 Fury III I had in 1983 as I was returning home from a semester. Car was wandering all over the road like a lost puppy & the wheel had a nifty shake. It didn't ever come apart like that, though - mine developed an odd wrinkle in the tread.
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some texas redneck posted:IIRC that actually bent the poo poo out of everything (frame, control arms, etc). So no... at least not while stock.  we'd pay for it as collision. If there were a stupidity exclusion, I'd be unemployed.
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Hot as hell today
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Muffinpox posted:That's a photoshop. EightBit posted:Very poorly done photoshop at that. Reuters? 
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Fucknag posted:You know, I was gonna post about the 4.6, which has 3 chains similarly arranged but all on one end of the motor, but then I went on GIS and I found this: And I thought powering the 1966 Toronado FWD transmission with a chain was nuts...
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What happens to even a Chrysler slant 6 if you don't change the oil regularly... #5 connecting rod journal. Motor did have a rod knock.  HAMMER TIME   The bottom two are #5 rod. Bearing shell at top for comparison 
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