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MustardFacial posted:Did you ever get to look inside the car or under the hood before you bought it? I didn't. The door were locked. After I bought it, it coughed into life for 20mins and then never again. Yes. I started it and drove it around the blovk which makes it all the more ridiculous that I bought it.
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some texas redneck posted:I do the same anytime I'm about to touch a bolt, and doing the "righty tighty, lefty loosy" chant. And that's just from the front... if I'm having to do it backwards like you describe then I have to reverse the chant. I always get poo poo at work when I go to turn valves and I motion in the air which way I want to turn it, and then if it's backwards, I turn 180 and do it again....juuuuust to make sure.
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I was just laughing at all your misfortunes when:bolind posted:
Yeah I've done that bolind posted:
And that (and I don't even have the excuse of being distracted). I've also put a back wheel from the staggered set I had on my V35 on the front and let the car down off the back before noticing. leica posted:Ouch. I bought my current car (a Mazdaspeed 3) sight unseen with no service history from a dealer four hours drive and a four hour ride on a ferry boat away for far too much money. Aside from some stonechips on the roof and a bit of scratched paint it's been fine but looking back on it it was pretty stupid. Also I found put the car was originally purchased as part of an elaborate fraud scheme where a local government fleet bought cars then almost immediately sold them back to a the dealer (and then onto associated dealers) so it technically has 6 owners before me. dissss fucked around with this message at 10:48 on May 29, 2015 |
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neckbeard posted:I thought Subaru was an Australian car company for the longest time (because of the Paul Hogan commercials) I thought it was Australian, but just because there are stars on the logo that are _vaguely_ in the same position as the southern cross on the Australian flag
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May 29, 2015 11:47
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Mr. Wiggles posted:I unironically like the the Prius. I will like the Prius when the battery packs start going and they are dirt cheap so I can pick one up and drop a V8 in it with side exit exhausts with the boot lid covered in hippy save the earth stickers.
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I have a truck, it's a 1994 Ford Ranger Splash. I've had it for about 5 or 6 years. It was my grandfather's truck when he died, I bought it from my grandma. The 4WD never worked, and I figured it was the automatic hubs, but I wasn't sure and since I'm a cheapskate I kept talking myself out of it "Oh jeez maybe it's something more expensive, better just leave it alone". Just this year I finally had my mechanic fix it, I think it was a whopping $250 to put lovely cheap manual hubs on it. It's a loving beast in the snow, why the hell did I not do this sooner? Continuing with my sins, about 4 or 5 years ago I hit a deer with the truck. I have the money to fix/replace the damage (grill is gone, bumper bent) but I just can't bring myself to spend [really not that much money] for no good reason. Also, the only spot of rust on the truck is the driver's front fender at the bottom. It looks like I could just get a new fender and bolt it right on, but eh  Basically I'm the worst because I'm a cheap, lazy bastard and unwilling to spend ~$400 and spend a few nights unbolting/bolting poo poo back on to get my truck back to looking normal (and even sellable if I wanted to).
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May 29, 2015 14:38
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dreesemonkey posted:Basically I'm the worst because I'm a cheap, lazy bastard and unwilling to spend ~$400 and spend a few nights unbolting/bolting poo poo back on to get my truck back to looking normal (and even sellable if I wanted to). My Miata has had a leaking water pump for well over a year, and I've had the parts to fix it for just as long, I just don't ever feel like doing it My Camry also has a pile of new parts in the shed. I really hate working on my cars these days, can't they just run without any problems?
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May 29, 2015 16:12
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I've never used a torque wrench to put my lugnuts on, I just get them good'n'tight with a tire iron. I've never had a wheel come off or sheared a lug.
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May 29, 2015 16:20
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EightBit posted:I've never used a torque wrench to put my lugnuts on, I just get them good'n'tight with a tire iron. I've never had a wheel come off or sheared a lug. The few times i've tightened my wheel bolts with a torque wrench, it didn't seem much torque when it clicked. I went "Nah, gently caress that." and got a bar and gave them a bit more. Torque wrenches are for head bolts. 
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May 29, 2015 16:23
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I never used a torque wrench on lugs until I got an electric impact and got a torque stick for it, and even then it was just so I didn't accidentally shear a lug off or tighten it too much.
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cursedshitbox posted:I owned a Yugo Not embarrassing hth.
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http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3522722
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Also I was 16 once and had no idea what the gently caress I was doing with cars. Never had an automotively-inclined family member, grew up without having to fix my own poo poo, etc. I went into a tuning shop once and asked the guy to order me performance plug wires for my Mustang because "I have a CAI and exhaust and that helps horsepower, but I want to increase my torque some now." It was also for a 1999 4.6L Mustang. With COPs. 
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May 29, 2015 19:26
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I once tried to repair a BMW sunroof.
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May 29, 2015 19:28
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BigPaddy posted:I will like the Prius when the battery packs start going and they are dirt cheap so I can pick one up and drop a V8 in it with side exit exhausts with the boot lid covered in hippy save the earth stickers. That's the thing about the Prius - outside of the whole "hippy save the earth" thing that gets applied to them, they're really just a good practical car. If your requirements in a car are reliability, cargo space, and fuel efficiency in a car that's around 20k, it really doesn't have much competition. I think, really, that's why it's become such a popular car among such a wide variety of people - not because they care particularly about saving the environment, but because it's a fantastic automotive appliance.
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I built a 400 SBC over the winter. I had ordered a set of Sealed Power Hypereutectic pistons, expecting a deck clearance of 0.015 we assembled the rotating assembly and spun it a few times to make sure everything was smooth. We were a bit excitable putting this together and neither my brother or I took notice of the deck clearance through all of the 8 cylinders. I set up to measure for blueprinting and the dial reads out at 0.150. For the first time since purchase I check the Sealed Power box, in big block letters on the lid is written, "400 SBC +0.030 FOR USE WITH 5.7 INCH RODS" 400 SBCs have 5.565 rods.
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May 30, 2015 00:01
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I like my 2014 Corolla and think it is a Good Car. Also, I like the engine noise when I accelerate.
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I bought an S14 200SX SE-R with rust through the rocker panels and a big loving kink in the rear axle so that it dogtracked. I knew about the rust.I I didn't know about the axle till a few days later. I had graduated and had a degree at this time. Not even a year later I wadded it up sliding on slushy ice with lovely all-seasons. I park next to a large concrete post in the underground garage in my apartment building. I've scraped my Speed3 on it two separate times and repaired it both times.
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CBD posted:I built a 400 SBC over the winter. I had ordered a set of Sealed Power Hypereutectic pistons, expecting a deck clearance of 0.015 we assembled the rotating assembly and spun it a few times to make sure everything was smooth. We were a bit excitable putting this together and neither my brother or I took notice of the deck clearance through all of the 8 cylinders. I set up to measure for blueprinting and the dial reads out at 0.150. For the first time since purchase I check the Sealed Power box, in big block letters on the lid is written, "400 SBC +0.030 FOR USE WITH 5.7 INCH RODS" Low compression ratio! Just add turbo/supercharger! 
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Lower control arm bushings are toast on my cobalt, according to the dealer when they did my ignition recall. I should probably change them, considering the noise over bumps, the shake in the steering wheel, and the slightly irregular tire wear pattern. Buuut, I've known for 30,000 km and I have 275,000 on it now... so who knows if/when it'll get done.
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Mooseykins posted:Low compression ratio! Just add turbo/supercharger! Maybe. 400s don't handle heat all that well, and my cam is all kinds of wrong for forced induction. I'd also need a forged Crower crank for better balance. But I did end up with a really nice set of floating pin Eagle I-beams. here is another engine building mistake with a 302 SBF. Getting ready to assemble the rotating assembly I counted off all the rings while placing them in a container of oil, I only had 7 compression rings. I called Hastings, they have awesome customer support, and they mail me out a spare. When it arrives I stick it with the rest and begin assembling pistons. When I go to stick #1 in the bore I look down and see the missing compression ring. Turns out someone distracted me after I wrote down the ring gap but before I pulled the ring out. CBD fucked around with this message at 14:54 on Jun 3, 2015 |
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Also, on 3 separate occasions I have installed a SBC distributor 180 degrees out of phase, then sat there thinking, "Why won't this engine start?"
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i once spent 800 dollars fixing a problem the dealership would have fixed for me for 300.
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My first "big" repair I did on my first car was the timing chain. It was a small block Ford so easy peasy. Got it all back together and it wouldnt run right so I thought I messed up the timing marks. Took it all apart, checked it and put it back together and it still wouldn't run right. Turns out I had 2 wires off on the firing order the whole time. It sucked because the first time I did it I took my time and made sure everything was nice and pretty, no RTV everywhere, etc. The second time it was a mess since I was trying to hurry  Another awesome time I had was with a 90s Saturn. It was my buddys car and he money shifted it and lunched the differential. On those cars its a wicked pain to swap the trans cause you either have to pull the whole drivetrain or drop the subframe. Working in my dirt driveway we decided to drop the subframe. All in all it went pretty well, the wrestling the trans back on to the motor part even went well. Then as we we high fiving and happy that it was back together I spotted the clutch fork and throwout bearing lying on the ground. Of course the second time the wrestling the trans part back in sucked and took a wicked long time.
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Replaced the upper shock bushings on the XJ. Easy 20 min job, etc. Drove it for a day or two before I noticed this: I left thr wrench down there after tightening up the last one. How it it stayed in there I have no idea. Thank heavens it didn't fall and get tossed thru someone's windshield by the tire.
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dreesemonkey posted:2. This is pretty embarassing, but I can't park our 2015 hyundai sonata very well in our work parking lot. I over-correct and end up crooked if I'm not parking next to another car. I think it's a combination of being fairly short, new car high beltlines, and the window/beltline sloping up slightly that has me screwed up (could previously use that as a guide to judge how parallel I was). I still do this 6 years into owning my V70 wagon. Thread be the judge of whether or not I should be embarrassed: I use old clothes for grease rags - including holey underwear. There are underwear on my garage floor right now.
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LloydDobler posted:I still do this 6 years into owning my V70 wagon. What the hell else would you use them for? Not like it matters if they get stained more
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AI, I've never confessed these sins. As a young, foolish man, I took a 1985 4runner and added not just a yellow steering wheel, shift knob and 'racing' pedals... I also added a tachometer that went to 10k. On an engine that couldn't see half of that without blowing. And white faced gauges. And clear corners. And I painted the skid plate yellow. And I tinted the windows myself, badly. It's been 16 years and I still feel guilty. Sometimes I try to tell myself that it was the 90s and that I was just a dumb teenager. But then I see this picture and my stomach drops  : I come now before you AI, prostrate, and ask, how many times do I need to watch Fury Road to be free of this guilty conscience? What penance should I pay?
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"Oh, my turbo oil drain is leaking? Eh it's fine, I'll just check the level regularly and keep it topped off." A few years later: "Hmm, engine's knocking a bit, better save up for an engine rebuild." Another 6 months: "Golly, my engine sounds like a blender full of rocks! That is probably bad." While swapping the motor out I replaced all the seals on the new engine, including the rear main, which I drove in to its max depth. I realized the error of my ways when I got it all back together (no mean feat given the Protege doesn't have a single connector to unplug the engine harness, so every connector has to be undone manually), let it run and warm up, and discovered a trickling stream of oil dripping from the bellhousing joint. I got so pissed off I didn't touch it for like another 5 months. The Blazer was a comedy of errors on my part. Ran it out of fuel the morning after I got it, in the process discovering that no, the fuel gauge was not in fact broken, it was just actually that low. Ran it out again a couple months later when I overestimated the safety margin below E. Ended up killing the thing during a valve cover gasket job that turned into an intake removal when I accidentally snapped off the heater hose bung in the manifold; I'm pretty sure some gunk dropped down in the valley while I had it off, which worked its way down and (I assume, never did a postmortem) blocked the oil pickup the next morning on my way to work. Lost oil pressure at 80 mph, limped off the exit, truck never drove more than 30 feet under its own power again.
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Mat_Drinks posted:AI, I've never confessed these sins. As a young, foolish man, I took a 1985 4runner and added not just a yellow steering wheel, shift knob and 'racing' pedals... I also added a tachometer that went to 10k. On an engine that couldn't see half of that without blowing. And white faced gauges. And clear corners. And I painted the skid plate yellow. And I tinted the windows myself, badly. I put projectors with angel eye rings on my Audi when I was 24. I still cringe when I think about that one. I was into cars long enough at that point to know better but I did it anyway 
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This is cruel and unusual punishment for such an awesome truck. 
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I have a Nissan Bluebird SSS with the SR20. The other morning I heard squealing on startup so stopped it straight away and tore off the valve cover. Sure enough, the oil lines to the cams were not so good. I caught it before it did any real damage, and got it fixed. While I was there, I decided to change the oil and filter. Couldn't get the filter off easily so resorted to a screwdriver. I sheared the thread off the block.  Only positive is that as I found it's not actually directly attached to the block, but a bolt-on housing. Otherwise it would have been throw the engine away time.
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If it's anything like my protege, that might not even be cast into the housing, but just a piece of threaded tube. Could be a $3 fix.
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I just replaced the housing. Christ I felt like a dick.
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In college, I bought a lovely '92 Mustang (2.3L auto  ) off a trade-in lot at a large dealership for $125, and drove it ~20 miles home. The oil pressure gauge was reading zero the whole time. My thought process went something like "Hmm, there's no way this obviously neglected piece of poo poo could be out of oil, the gauge must be broken!"Yeah, the gauge wasn't broken I threw in a quart of oil after I got home, and the pressure came right up.  Oh, and the cooling system was half full, due to a leak in the radiator that was pissing the whole time.
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Black88GTA posted:In college, I bought a lovely '92 Mustang (2.3L auto Haha that reminds me if a good one. One of my friends when I was living in Florida had this like 95 S10 with a wicked built 355, like a 13 second in the 1/4 or whatever. We were driving it to a friends house and before we hit a dirt road we decided itd be a good idea to blow some donuts in an intersection. Didnt think much of that but on the way home the temp gauge just kept climbing and climbing but it kept running fine so we thought it was a problem with the gauge. Enough so that the gauge went all the way around to the low temps. The next day we figured out that we threw the belt blowing donuts and the gauge was totally right and that engine had to be close to 300 degrees or more. It never even boiled over on the 20 minute drive home. That truck is still running today, totally fine, haha.
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The first time i did my own oil change i thought "Wow, its black but it looks so think, like water" as i undid the drain plug. As it turns out i was draining the transmission fluid On my last autocross i came out of a dip which compressed the car to hear a loud "KA-PING!" metallic noise. Thinking my suspension had come completely undone, i finished the run and looked at the car, which seemed ok. A corner worker came up to me and said "this thing fell off". It was a circular piece of metal i didnt recognize at first but i realized it was a special oxygen sensor socket, which i had put on the sensor and i guess just walked away. It must have been there for weeks.
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MattD1zzl3 posted:The first time i did my own oil change i thought "Wow, its black but it looks so think, like water" as i undid the drain plug. As it turns out i was draining the transmission fluid One of the salesmen at my last job told of a tech who did this to a customer's car, but didn't catch it;
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Enourmo posted:One of the salesmen at my last job told of a tech who did this to a customer's car, but didn't catch it; I did this the first time I changed the oil on my Subaru. I remember thinking "that oil looks really red...must just be what's in there." I caught it when I started filling the oil and it was way over the full mark, though. Had to admit to it right away too, because I needed to borrow someone's car to go get more transmission fluid. The time after that I didn't double check that the filter seal came off with the filter, double-sealed the new one, and blew all my new oil out on the way to returning the old oil. Made it to the Canadian Tire parking lot, though. Not automotive, but related: when I worked at a Bobcat dealership, I had to replace the drive motor in a customer's machine. My wrench slipped removing one of the lines, and knocked a bigass hole in the plastic hydraulic tank. My boss was not happy that we had to eat ~4h of labour (at $125/h) and the cost of a new tank (I think like $4-500).
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