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That's just spider poop, disregard it. They had a proper rager when they arrived at the promised land and saw your shining face.
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13 INCH DICK posted:The inner tie rod end I've been waiting for apparently is NLA with our parts distributors, Rock Auto has it for cheap but for some reason our parts supplier has a line on an entire remanufactured rack for about $50 more than the tie rod on its own would have been so I'm just going to throw a whole new rack into it. Ordered, a couple days out. Do yourself a favor and keep the old rack when it comes out, you know drat sure that the new one will fail for no reason in a few months if you don't.
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Oct 24, 2013 20:04
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That's a loving ripoff for you dude, haynes manuals are drat near worthless from what I've seen. The $15 I spent on mine was wasted.
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Oct 29, 2013 03:39
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No need to smoke that mystery wad of automotive bellybutton lint, but if you want to I'm not going to do much to stop it... 
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Oct 29, 2013 04:06
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 I had no intention of this actually happening. I have to say though, you chose the right shirt to wear. Also I am glad I'm not the only one with a head gasket hanging on my wall. ExplodingSims, the wiring diagrams are all mismatched, from the wrong years (specifically an issue with the jeep XJ manual, as I recall) and range from dirty lies to a fabulous work of fiction. Among other inaccuracies.
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Oct 29, 2013 04:44
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Your  TOP SECRET DOCUMENTS have shipped but all USPS can tell me is that they will arrive sometime in the next 3 weeks.I must warn you that I don't believe they were intended to be smoked, either. They're not quite "eyes-only burn before reading" grade secret, but rather far more pedestrian than that, much like those who rely on Haynes manuals for instructions on repairing their daily drivers 
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Oct 31, 2013 07:22
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Crap, I thought I got the right one  Oh well. It was really cheap compared with what I expected.
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Nov 7, 2013 19:00
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That is not a car, that is a lunchbox. (With apologies to achmed the dead terrorist...)
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Nov 14, 2013 17:32
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13 INCH DICK posted:There's an '82 civic at the pick n pull with a 5 speed, brand new CV axles, the front hubs, rims, everything I would need for a 5 speed/4x100 swap in one place and I'm broooooooke Pull everything and stuff it in the back of the shittiest vehicle you can find that won't get crushed for a while, pile filthy carpet, floor mats, and old seat cushions on top of your pile. Write WARNING: INFESTED WITH HORNETS on the side in grease pencil. Disable all external door handles, lock the doors, close them. Come back in 3 weeks, pop a window, and buy the parts.
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Nov 15, 2013 14:39
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It's a combination of methods I've used (hide poo poo under poo poo in lovely cars) and methods I've come up with or had suggested, but not had the opportunity to use yet.
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Nov 15, 2013 14:53
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I'm not afraid of the breaking down part, more afraid of the finding rare/discontinued parts in an unfamiliar backwater. I prefer finding rare/discontinued parts in a familiar backwater, one where I know all the junkyards, know what they generally have on hand, and am on a first name basis with their forklift operators. This is why being on a make/model specific quality forum can be great, if you're going off on a trip in something that has unobtainium parts, you can post up and first of all, plan to meet up with people along the way, and second, make a HELP HELP OH gently caress MY CAR BROKE SOMEONE NEAR EAST BUMFUCKISTAN SELL ME PARTS thread if anything goes wrong.
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Nov 24, 2013 07:24
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I'm pretty sure all you need for that thing is a pair of old weight lifting benches and a couple friends, not a lift, but a lift makes it even easier.
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Dec 2, 2013 22:50
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13 INCH DICK posted:And the shitter I'm now trapped in is out of toilet paper. It's too bad you didn't bring that wrong manual I sent, though I think a haynes would actually be more fit for that purpose 
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Dec 7, 2013 22:55
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Frequent players have nicknamed them crapaliers, cadavaliers, catastroliers, etc. Careful where you apply that hammer item, if you apply it to the wrong two terminals the car catches fire and explodes.
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Dec 12, 2013 16:15
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I'm pretty sure NIPTIP would be more appropriate.
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Dec 12, 2013 22:06
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Blue Rupie posted:Oh dear, I found a bug where my engine's sound is replaced by a mobile phone rumble in Route I-70. How can I fix it? There is a good chance that is the most accurate representation they could find for your mount, what make/model is it? Mid 80s yugo?
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Dec 15, 2013 16:59
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Burnouts. If burnouts are not possible, apply the low friction road surface hack and try again. It looks like you're about halfway done with the latter, just wait.
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My best recommendation to everyone saying "flat rate is stupid, I had no idea my mechanic was being hosed that hard!" is to find a good, solid mechanic... and have him do poo poo for you at his rate (or even a bit higher), as a side job, by the hour instead of going to shops. Gotta be careful doing this, you don't want to get him fired, but realize that the shop rate of 95-120-150whatever dollars an hour is not what the mechanic sees, either. Often it's more like 20 an hour, or less, flat rate. Choosing a good mechanic: not the one that tells you everything is wrong with your car and you are going to die, unless your car is a piece of poo poo. Not the one that says nothing is wrong, unless it's new. You want the one that is willing to show you what's wrong, point at stuff, etc, and IMO the mark of a truly honest mechanic is one that will show you things that aren't wrong yet - and tell you that you don't need to do that service, yet, but you should budget for it sometime in the next x months/years because it's going to need doing. Of course, this is all predicated on him being able to do stuff in the shop after hours or work out of his driveway or something, which isn't always possible. If you can find a brand specific freelancer that's even better. For instance book time on a 97-01 jeep cherokee heater core is something like 6 hours, I did my first in under 4 and could probably do another in 2-3 if I was really motivated. Knowing all the tricks in the book and exactly which tools are needed for every nut and bolt on the vehicle helps, you can grab a handful of wrenches and wade in and not have to come out for 30 minutes. kastein fucked around with this message at 18:18 on Dec 29, 2013 |
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Will you be at your present address long enough for the wedding gift to arrive? I unfortunately can't find black widows by the pound on Amazon, just ants and ladybugs, which aren't really a good substitute. e: I'm on the other extreme of that sort of thing right now, first date with someone I've known for 7 years in the near future, the funny thing is I've never actually met her, we interned at the same navy base in 2006 and I was mildly interested then but never really followed up. Fast forward a few years and she's been chasing me pretty hard on facebook. Who knows where this one is gonna go, worst case we yap about top gear, guns, politics, Roadkill, engineering, cats, construction/DIY house repairs, and such for a couple hours while drinking beer
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I do mechanics a favor and never bring them a heater core job. But if I did, they'd be happy because they don't have to drain my AC system, it's a patented jeep slow release self draining system 
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Oil loves soaking into belts and ruining them (and any other natural rubber product), not so sure on coolant.
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Jan 5, 2014 07:43
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IMO it's worse than hydroplaning, it doesn't slow you down anywhere near as fast, and studs only help so much. Black ice is just scary poo poo.
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Jan 6, 2014 21:33
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I have made it my goal to avoid any of those design decisions being made on the vehicle I work on. Unfortunately you'll probably need an A&P cert to work on it in any significant way, and they're likely to be expensive/niche market enough that only me and James Woods will ever get to work on them 
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Jan 9, 2014 23:21
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I saw a Maserati Biturbo 228 today at the junkyard, no more than 3 cars away was a TR6. I considered convincing you to buy the Maserati but it looked comfortable where it was. It was snowing like the end of the world though so I got the parts I needed and got the hell out.
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Jan 19, 2014 00:09
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Can I instead tell you about how hilarious it is to see every other mid 90s Explorer around here driving around with either completely collapsed or broken rear leaf springs or the shackles rusted into oblivion? It's all fast easy repairs that probably pay a lot of book time compared to actual time and you can assume any saggy Explorer has at least one of those problems.
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Jan 21, 2014 22:04
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I raced a garbage truck at a light once. And lost. The best part was that a cop could have watched us do it and not realized we were drag racing at all.
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Last time I said that I ended up driving it home, so yes you should go check it out.
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13 INCH DICK posted:So what happens when a part that hasnt been installed on a small volume asian import since 1975 breaks What part, and how complex is it?
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Fortunately I bet the heater core in that thing takes about 3 minutes and a single philips screwdriver to replace.
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Antiseize is herpes for mechanics. And a 1 ounce tube will cover an entire shop floor and everything else in it. Doesn't matter how big the shop is.
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meatpimp posted:Anti Sieze in lipstick tubes. More expensive. Worth it. This has my mind going a million miles an hour thinking about all the pranking possibilities.
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mafoose posted:I have scorpions all around my property. If someone has the means of encasing them in glass we could be rich! epoxy is pretty easy, but you're going to end up with encased scorpion ash if you try with glass...
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What thread pitch, diameter, and length? I realize these are very personal questions and you can just not answer if you're not comfortable with it.
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Apr 28, 2014 16:51
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Well, did you see some pretty serious poo poo, or is that a metric speedo?
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Yeah, dirt is like hobo vomit, you can always clean it off again. Rust is more like the IRS, once it decides you owe it something, you're never getting it back.
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May 17, 2014 16:17
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I like everything in my life to be basket cases too. Buy the drat thing. Also I lay no royalty claims to that quote if you actually want to make shirts unless boomerjinks is involved
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May 24, 2014 22:36
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13 INCH DICK posted:Tonight was lesson one in teaching the GF to drive stick. Things certainly get exciting in a hurry. I've never heard my Civic make those noises.... Well I am pretty sure she isn't a thing, so you are still in the clear.
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The first girlfriend I had after buying my own car made fun of me for driving an automatic Fortunately that's a thing of the past... I don't buy automatics anymore without a full fledged plan for converting them. Of the 5 vehicles I own, 3 are manuals, the other 2 are 2WD automatics that will become either 4wd or RWD manuals by the time I'm done with the builds I have planned.
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Having gobs of torque really helps, so I suggest a jeep for learning purposes, of course (I still managed to stall the poo poo out of it, repeatedly, while learning)
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The first stop after getting in an auto for the first time in months is always rough, I usually nearly put my head through the windshield Big dumb automatic brake pedals and big feet trying to find a clutch don't go well together.
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