Automotive Addicts Lounge V5 - P0306

[MisterLANCE]

Chat about yer cars here folks

Old Thread: [URL]https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1501065[/URL]

[QUOTE=Valon Kyre]If you want to legitimately talk diesels, then PM me. Its what I do.
[url]https://facepunch.com/member.php?u=181429[/url]

To give you a quick explanation:

Fords

Dont hold their value so well. $3000-10000
7.3L ford = bulletproof but gutless. Cheap.
6.0L = ticking time bomb or good to 300k. Nobody wants them because EVERYTHING goes on them. FICM, PCM, Headgasket ($3500 to do right), Injections ($2300 just parts), oil cooler, high pressure oil pump, turbo, you name it. They're shit
6.4L ford = even worse than the 6.0l but now you've got electrical issues tacked on as well
6.7L ford = actually pretty decent

Dodge:

Value: $2500-19000 (excluding fourth gen) all trucks hold their value really well.
First gen (89-93) = trucks are built like shit and fall apart/rust easily. Expensive for a nice one, cheap for a beat one. Driveline is solid, never worry about anything
Second gen 12 valve (94-98) = easily the best ones made. Never worry about anything, the famous "go to a million miles" engine, caveman simple trucks that work and that are simple to make big power with. 1998 has the updated interior.
Second gen 24 valve (98.5-2002) = more refined, but a little more susceptible to problems because of that. Engine is solid so long as you have an aftermarket lift pump installed so that the injection pump is always getting fuel (uses it as lubrication). Trannys are alright in the 94-2002 second gens, autos are good if you kee them stock, 5 speeds dont like towing in 5th because its a small OD gear, and the 6 speed is a bullet proof bus trans
Third gen 5.9L (2003-2007): MUCH better truck, a lot nicer to drive because they improved it a bunch, the engines are easy to make power with and fairly reliable, on part with the 98.5-2002 trucks, but injectors are prone to go ($2300 just for parts).
Third gen 6.7L (2007.5-2009) engine is solid, truck is solid, expensive to but but they're good trucks. The egr and dpf is annoying is all
Fourth gen 6.7L (2010-present) = much nicer trucks, not as rugged and tough as the older ones but much nicer inside and out and to drive. Expensive since they are new

Chevy:
Value: LBZs are soaring in price, the rest are 5000-11000
6.5L detroit = absolute shit. Gutless, no power, cheap, shitty trucks, dont even consider it.
LB7 (98-2004 I think?) headgaskets and injectors are prone to go, solid trucks otherwise. Cheap because of the chance of aformentioned parts going. Has interior and electrical problems
LLY (2004-2005.5) injectors are prone to go, solid trucks otherwise. Little more money for a nice one.
LBZ (2006-2007) best year of the old body style. Gets a VGT turbo that sounds godly, no headgasket or injector issues, really nice trucks but expensive.

Pm me any other questions or even craigslist ads and I'll give you a hand. I've been workin with diesels for a while now and consider myself pretty well versed.[/QUOTE]

[Del91]

👌 title

[LineArc]

Genius

[Timezbrick]

I don't get it :(

[turke]

[QUOTE=Timezbrick;50998673]I don't get it :([/QUOTE]

Misfiring code

[Timezbrick]

Ah thank you. Speaking of misfiring; my car no longer runs on all 4 cilinders, I had the same problem before but after tweaking the carbs and tuning it less rich it ran fine. But now I have the problem again, what else could cause this? could replacing the spark plug help?

[Rævskjegg]

[QUOTE=Timezbrick;50998848]Ah thank you. Speaking of misfiring; my car no longer runs on all 4 cilinders, I had the same problem before but after tweaking the carbs and tuning it less rich it ran fine. But now I have the problem again, what else could cause this? could replacing the spark plug help?[/QUOTE]

Carbs can vibrate out of the right settings so you might just have to tweak them again.

[TheBirdman]

Reposting for new thread and so I can continue discussion:

I got to workin on that damn minibike again
[t]http://i.imgur.com/F5NfSfJ.jpg[/t]
2000 lumen ledwork light as a headlight
front and rear led blinkers
fucking loud little horn
led taillight, brake light, license plate light
led blinker flasher
thumb controls for all of them, and brake switch hooked up to the clutch brake

Everything I need to get a title and be street legal in South Dakota

Its too much work to put a charging coil on the predator engine, but I got all leds so I should be able to run all the lights off a laptop battery for 2 or 3 hours before needing charged. in the daytime it would only be running the brake light and blinkers, so it would last much longer without the bigass headlight.

Edited:

I think I need a stuffed animal or severed doll head to mount on the triple tree.

[quote=dpkiller]Rc batts would do awsome in that cituation and would probably charge faster. Just would have to be carefull with over discharge on both.[/quote]

Last month I bought a lot of lightly used laptop batteries on ebay and I extracted all the lithium ion 18650 cells from them. Aside from the obvious form factor, they are almost identical to the lithium polymer rc batteries, and they are also overvolt protected. Im gonna build an either 3s2p or 4s2p battery pack and use my fancy dancy balance charger to charge them all.

[FordLord]

Radiator on the Subaru sprung a leak, luckily it has a warrenty and was a free replacement.
Think the radiator was faulty from the start, it's running cooler than it has since i installed that rad.

[The Decoy]

[QUOTE=FordLord;50999525]Radiator on the Subaru sprung a leak, luckily it has a warrenty and was a free replacement.
Think the radiator was faulty from the start, it's running cooler than it has since i installed that rad.[/QUOTE]

That reminds me, my amazing poxy-ass job on my own radiator is still holding up

image from 12 months ago
[t]http://i.imgur.com/4o8Qw2b.jpg[/t]

Take THAT big radiator companies! selling me your radiators that are designed to fail many years after your warranty periods, with the expectation that I would buy many over the course of my life time. hu har!

[NO ONE]

Welp, we kept the tread good on the last thread for 9 fucking months, wonder how long this one will stretch for!

To whoever it was with the smoky truck, it kept making me think of that [url=http://jalopnik.com/the-time-smoke-came-pouring-out-of-my-brand-new-ferrari-1782025180]Doug Demuro article about his Ferrari smoking[/url]. Ran through all the usual smokey engine stuff too, with the only difference being he had no coolant. I can't seem to find a conclusion for his specific issue, but maybe he's saying some cars just burn off coolant just like how some cars burn oil. I mean, would exhaust issues contribute at all?

Did you manage to drive it and make the smoke go away?

Also, I'm considering changing at least 1, in not all the belts in the Miata. Despite still not even having 30k miles on them, I figure the mild squealing I hear from time to time must indicate age is starting to get to them. Probably should do plugs and wires as well. Car still runs and autocrosses great, but the sounds and very occasional quirks with the engine make me think some more maintenance is called for.

[Slayer3032]

[QUOTE=NO ONE;51000243]Welp, we kept the tread good on the last thread for 9 fucking months, wonder how long this one will stretch for!

To whoever it was with the smoky truck, it kept making me think of that [url=http://jalopnik.com/the-time-smoke-came-pouring-out-of-my-brand-new-ferrari-1782025180]Doug Demuro article about his Ferrari smoking[/url]. Ran through all the usual smokey engine stuff too, with the only difference being he had no coolant. I can't seem to find a conclusion for his specific issue, but maybe he's saying some cars just burn off coolant just like how some cars burn oil. I mean, would exhaust issues contribute at all?

Did you manage to drive it and make the smoke go away?

Also, I'm considering changing at least 1, in not all the belts in the Miata. Despite still not even having 30k miles on them, I figure the mild squealing I hear from time to time must indicate age is starting to get to them. Probably should do plugs and wires as well. Car still runs and autocrosses great, but the sounds and very occasional quirks with the engine make me think some more maintenance is called for.[/QUOTE]

Retensioning your belts after a few years/some miles usually helps quite a bit. My belts after 30k miles got loose as hell or were probably never tensioned in the proper manner just like how my distributor was never timed after a timing belt replacement at the same time.

[Shustriyvich]

Man, I sure am used to my Altima being easy to work on. On the car I just bought, to replace the starter, I had to take off the exhaust manifold and the air intake box. Might as well change the gaskets on the manifold :\

[NO ONE]

[QUOTE=slayer3032;51000761]Retensioning your belts after a few years/some miles usually helps quite a bit. My belts after 30k miles got loose as hell or were probably never tensioned in the proper manner just like how my distributor was never timed after a timing belt replacement at the same time.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I do remember the guys I bought it from telling me to periodically check the tension on them. Last time I had them do something with the car, they tightened the power steering belt. I suspect that might be part of the mild squeaking I hear.

Still, in my head I worry that age is a big factor. You really don't typically get big obvious signs with these things. Half the people I read about say their belts looked fine other than being broken.

[butre]

[QUOTE=NO ONE;51000243]Welp, we kept the tread good on the last thread for 9 fucking months, wonder how long this one will stretch for!

To whoever it was with the smoky truck, it kept making me think of that [url=http://jalopnik.com/the-time-smoke-came-pouring-out-of-my-brand-new-ferrari-1782025180]Doug Demuro article about his Ferrari smoking[/url]. Ran through all the usual smokey engine stuff too, with the only difference being he had no coolant. I can't seem to find a conclusion for his specific issue, but maybe he's saying some cars just burn off coolant just like how some cars burn oil. I mean, would exhaust issues contribute at all?

Did you manage to drive it and make the smoke go away?

Also, I'm considering changing at least 1, in not all the belts in the Miata. Despite still not even having 30k miles on them, I figure the mild squealing I hear from time to time must indicate age is starting to get to them. Probably should do plugs and wires as well. Car still runs and autocrosses great, but the sounds and very occasional quirks with the engine make me think some more maintenance is called for.[/QUOTE]

I drove it and the smoke went away but this morning it was back, but not as severe. it's still got coolant in it.

[editline]4th September 2016[/editline]

for now I'm just going to drive it and see if the coolant level drops. if so I'll keep feeding it coolant just like I already do with every single other fluid except power steering fluid

cars don't just burn coolant or burn oil, if either one is happening, something is wrong. neither one should be getting in the combustion chamber. for oil, it can be rings or head gasket, for coolant it can be head gasket or god forbid a cracked block or warped head. since there's no water in the oil and it's not down on power I'm betting on a head gasket leak between the water jacket and the cylinder so I'm not super concerned about it

I've had the thing making 450 at the wheels for 10 years and 300,000 miles so it's not a surprise that something is wrong with it by now

[TheBirdman]

[video=youtube;sX7YMh1yuUE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX7YMh1yuUE[/video]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/TkwY7MK.jpg[/t]
fuck how do I into cable management

[MisterLANCE]

go hit up some of the nerds at cipwttkt

[Del91]

Someone, I think Sam, has a homebuilt electric bike over there iirc.

[Missing User]

[QUOTE=Birdman101;51002614]
fuck how do I into cable management[/QUOTE]

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[clutch2]

EDIT DEL91 called it. I did the bad thing on Craigslist. The twins are separated right now. Got the better body one delivered yesterday.

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Already got the tank dropped and tomorrow I plan to buy myself an engine picker and start tearing that SOB out. I'm really excited to have a project for myself instead of for everyone else :)

[TheBirdman]

wait what did I call?

either way, gratz. Those look fun.

[clutch2]

You were the one that guessed that those cars were the news I had, or I thought so anyway. Nothin too exciting (unlike a dope minibike lol).

[TheBirdman]

I always said Im a motorcycle guy because I dont have the budget or space to be a car guy. Now Im down to working on the minibike because I dont have the desire to start another big bike project.

Also I want a neat little practical mode of transportation like the china scooter guys, without being a gigantic pussy like the china scooter guys.

[Del91]

My name isn't birdman

[TheBirdman]

Yeah I was gonna say unless I drank a lot more than I thought I did, I dont think I remember predicting that.

[Zombii]

[QUOTE=Birdman101;51002948]I always said Im a motorcycle guy because I dont have the budget or space to be a car guy. Now Im down to working on the minibike because I dont have the desire to start another big bike project.

Also I want a neat little practical mode of transportation like the china scooter guys, without being a gigantic pussy like the china scooter guys.[/QUOTE]

what's that horn on the minibike? the horn on my ninja is out and ill get around to replacing it eventually. for now the number 1 concern is new front turn signals since the current ones were destroyed when it was dropped.

also that LED headlight looks fucking INCREDIBLY bright

[mastoner20]

Well, so, a good friend of my mom and stepfather's a local racer who does a lot of VIR and other non-NASCAR tracks. Apparently at the end of this season he might be looking to get me to help him and give me a foot in the door at racing possibly. I'm kind of excited.

[Timezbrick]

Guess the faulty carb:
[t]http://i.imgur.com/T3Nt05R.jpg[/t]
New sparkplugs, after a +/- 12km ride

[TheBirdman]

[QUOTE=Zombii;51003097]what's that horn on the minibike? the horn on my ninja is out and ill get around to replacing it eventually. for now the number 1 concern is new front turn signals since the current ones were destroyed when it was dropped.

also that LED headlight looks fucking INCREDIBLY bright[/QUOTE]

horn
[url]https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01AUYK4EC/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1[/url]
headlight
[url]https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00E0KPXN0/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s01?ie=UTF8[/url]
blinkers
[url]https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B013JWM74C/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s02?ie=UTF8&psc=1[/url]
special led blinker flasher
[url]https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JXLH7CG/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1[/url]

yeah, the headlight is a 2000 lumen work light, its a little overkill for lighting up directly in front of you, but it doesnt get as much distance as an actual headlight. Close enough though.

[Timezbrick]

Solved one more problem with my car, the egghead's that owned the car before me put the fuel filter in the wrong way around. that was why the fuel pump was doing a terrible job ( still pretty good for sucking on the wrong end of the filter ) and the car in general was running like shit