IAmGod posted:

This '72 Charger used to be my daily driver until I had to take it into a guard rail to avoid hitting someone this afternoon. Poor baby

Bang Me Please posted:

you can't see the brake failure but the end result is impressive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIYFTDbW22s

Fermunky posted:

I imagine it would have made the same sound the cement truck made in that memorable MythBusters episode that they blew to smithereens.

EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:

That video led me to this wonderful clip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufx5x1ZLmec

Whoops.

E: Unless it was an intentional beaching for a chop yard.

CommieGIR posted:

Non-horrible mechanical success:




ZALGO LIVES!

AlternateAccount posted:

So am I the only one who's first experience jacking up a car was with one of these?

KozmoNaut posted:

I'm not sure if it's a mechanical failure or an electronic failure. Apparently the dual zone climate control in my parents' Citroën C5 has decided to simultaneously get stuck on max cooling on the driver's side and max heat on the passenger side, no matter what you do with the controls. Sure is interesting driving around with the driver wearing a big coat while the passenger wears a t-shirt

French cars

14 INCH DETECTIVE posted:

Galler posted:

I always tighten down lug nuts in stages using a cross/star pattern and finish up with a torque wrench. I also checked them again with a torque wrench after ~25-50 miles.

The only time I won't use a torque wrench on a fastener is if I can't find a torque rating or if it's not possible to get a torque wrench onto the fastener.

I don't know if that's abnormal but it's how my dad taught me.

Astroman posted:

For GMs (and probably other cars too) there's OEM parts sites with exploded diagrams. I'll check those for a hard to find part, then check Rock Auto, Amazon, and other places for the best deal.

Astroman posted:

http://www.gmpartsdirect.com/ or google "gm oem parts" and a bunch of others come up. Click "browse catalog" at the bottom, put in make, model, and year and a list comes up of various systems (engine, brakes, body, etc). Then click on "available parts diagrams."

They are a bit pricey, but I usually can find the parts elsewhere once I've gotten the real name and part number from them.

InitialDave posted:

Dear PO, why did you wire the tail lights to the foglights, the brake lights to the tail lights, and the foglights to the brake lights?

Paul Boz_ posted:

goddamn, dude. More pics?

some texas redneck posted:

Muffler exploded. Or to be more precise, the engine backfired through the exhaust bad enough that the weakest link (the muffler) said

A backire that big happens sometimes if you flood the poo poo out of an engine and get it started before all the gas has evaporated. Makes one hell of a bang.

14 INCH DETECTIVE posted:

Teaser for later, day 3 at the new shop and I'm already balls deep.

Team140 posted:

Zombie 4.9

Team140 posted:

I once helped a friend remove an O2 sensor from the downpipe on his 2nd gen RX-7. He brought it to me because he couldn't get it loose with a standard wrench.

"No problem, I've got an O2 socket. You should invest in one. They're handy!"

My particular O2 sensor was an impact O2 sensor socket. Plenty of room for a breaker bar, so I slipped it on and... holy poo poo it won't budge! We both tugged on it and did nothing but flex the 3' Craftsman breaker bar. I grabbed a floor jack handle and used it as a cheater handle for the breaker bar. We both put everything we had into it and... SNAP! The O2 socket shattered.

As I try to comprehend WTF is going on and wonder if the O2 sensor is welded in place, I look at the sensor up close and personal and realize the O2 sensor bung in the downpipe is not round, but is hex and the O2 sensor JUST happened to line up exactly in the with the bung so my socket went past the sensor and we were trying to wrench the welded in bung loose!

I went and got my cheap-rear end HF O2 socket, placed it at the correct height on the sensor, and I accidentally loosened it when I put the ratchet on it. It was apparently not much tighter than finger tight.

Powershift posted:

I can only imagine this is the result of "hold my beer and watch this"

thelightguy posted:

Quality restoration there.

trouser chili posted:

This is a picture my wife took of me years back entitled "I've lost control of my life."

xzzy posted:

My dad ran a kerosene forced air heater in the garage when we lived in Alaska and managed to move into a house without a heated garage.

Turned the place into a sauna, those things do not mess around when it comes to producing heat.

daslog posted:

Subaru Fuel Filler pipe vs New Hampshire winter.

Delivery McGee posted:

(I'm one of those guys who uses a 3-pound hammer as a cheater instead of a piece of pipe.)

Slow is Fast posted:

loving deer ran out of the woods and hit my dads old DD mustang right around dawn one day and then rolled down the side of the car:

Frinkahedron posted:

A deer once ran into my house. My stationary house that has been there since the 40s.

Deer are just loving stupid.

kastein posted:

You can be fatally electrocuted by a 9 volt battery if you are dumb enough. http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1999-50.html

Play it safe when electricity is involved.

I've felt a shock from 12 volts before, I was covered in coolant and accidentally leaned on the positive terminal of the battery. That being said, the rules for working safely with electricity are pretty simple and shouldn't be difficult to master.

Powershift posted:

That's broken.



edit: these are bosch platinum +4 plugs, apparently it's a thing they do.

Powershift posted:

There's no damage to the piston, so hopefully they just blew out the exhaust.

Powershift posted:

The doors still work