Automotive Addicts V8 pt. IV: We're not changing until V12 because engine meme
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Mods asleep post Twingo:
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squinty 240 here to end ur fun
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Bad title because V10s
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Garage starts going up this monday, which means i can finally do the welding on Sketchy and the XJ, thunderbird and roller can finally come home.
Life is good.
For a while I've been thinking my engine has been leaking oil, and yesterday after I changed my catalytic converter and end muffler I finally confirmed that sadly. I put some degreaser on the bottom of my gearbox where it was all pooling up, fresh oil appeared there while I took the car for a test drive, joy. I can't find any fresh oil higher up the block while I can only find the oil collecting on the bottom of the bell housing. I really hope it's not my main rear seal leaking, shit.
Nope, that oil would never come in contact with the clutch, because it's coming from behind it and getting flung out. I'm sure super minute amounts make it on, but get burnt up or further flung off.
Rear mains are never, ever fun. The rear main on my suburban is leaking and since I gotta pull the tranny off anyway, I'm gonna pull the whole block out and redo every seal in the fucker.
and maybe slap a fat cam with new bearings in there and change the timing chain. I'm In there already, might as well.
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posting for my next car, the anime car
Damn, I really hope it's something simple that I can find. Maybe I might pour some UV dye in the engine and try to track it down through that. I have to do all my work on our tight driveway, so if I have to pull the whole block out that will be a bitch.
Yeah that's definitely a job that if you're able to, do it at home because just the labor of doing that at a shop (with the standard us rate of 100 bucks an hour) would easily go into 1k+.
Plus, it'll be a """""fun""""" learning experience.
I do know a guy that has an engine hoist standing in their storage lot where I might be able to squeeze my car in, then I'd just need to source a Haynes manual and try to get the hang of it. Then again, I first need to confirm where this leak is coming from. I still believe it's coming from the bottom somewhere, just not the oil pan as it's not in direct contact with the gearbox. We'll see I guess.
You can't post v10s without posting it's son the I5:
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Well seems I wasn't that far off. Jacked the car up and dove under it, close to the firewall. Looks like the gasket between the crankcase and block are leaking. I was hoping it would be more easy and just the oil pan leaking.
I had some luck with that anti-leak engine oil additives. I'm was surprised it worked. Not perfectly, but my car went from dinner plate sized puddles of oil every night to puddles about three inches across every so often.
I was thinking about that, but it seems to damage your other seals by softening them, which is what makes me so on the fence about doing that. Though while I'm driving and park somewhere, when I pull out again I don't see any puddles of oil whatsoever, or at least never paid attention to it. Guess I will once I leave my brother's place.
Omega 917 works wonders for oil leaks. I've used it on several cars with pretty great results. Costs quite a bit but it's worth it.
sometimes, I wish I wasn't the kind of person to give a damn about interior design and quality of materials
because this looks really nice and seems to be SO MUCH FUN, but I would blow up in a fit of rage the moment I saw something that tickled me in the wrong way
I'm being serious.
Please please please don't put anti-leak in your engine, trans, radiator, or anything. That shit literally works by plugging leaks and swelling seals. It'll just make your problem worse by damaging seals even further, and plugging small oil passages.
In my time in the auto service industry I've replaced many radiators because of stop leak, and I've seen many engines suffer from oil starvation, especially the upper end where there's lots of small intricate galleys.
It's gonna suck, but you've got to do it the correct way. Putting a band-aid on the solution only fucks you later down the road
Shoutout to volkswagon who made me take the entire air in take assembly off just to top up brake fluid. Top stuff.
Also the brake cylinder hone isn't effective in reaming my bushings down by 1/128". End me.
wtf, its 20 euros a hour max here
not counting specific brand like Audi or BMW, or are we?
Guess my underbelly feeling about those bandaid solutions might be right after all then lol. I drove the car for about 30km through the city mostly making smaller stops, never once did I see pools of oil where I parked. Maybe I might just leave it as it is for now and focus on a bit more pressing matter that will make the car fail inspection: the steering rack boot is rotten to shit.
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Made it into the eEurofest promotional materials for the 2nd year in a row. Also got my VIP package stuff in the mail - maybe this year is the year that I cook the engine in the Mercedes with unlimited autocross...
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finally the tickets are on sale again so I can get them. Bit more expensive than first run but I got saw it like 2 days too late so they sold out initially.
Lets face it. A Berlingo is like natural flavored yoghurt, "Now with less flavor". So after months of being too fucking slow to finish this, i finally got around to complete this absolutely pointless novelty addition for it.
Behold - The Boeirlingo 747
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Woah
A friend of mine just went to try and buy a car. I told her to take it to a mechanic during the test drive because it was a Subaru with 140k and I could hear the headgasket screaming from here.
Mechanic said it looked like the headgasket was leaking and pretty close to needing replaced pretty soon.
She goes back to the dealership and you know what that asshole tells her?
"The car doesn't have a head gasket, there's no gasket there, it doesn't need one."
Yeah right, and I've got a bridge in New York to sell you.
She didn't buy it, right?
Nope. I've been teaching her more about cars because she's tired of getting dicked over by mechanics and shit after her 99 nissan SUV craphole just took an expensive dump. She knows enough to steer clear of that one, and hopefully we'll get her something that's easier to work on to boot so she can start doing her own services.
Shit like this is why I got out of the automotive industry. I tried to be as honest as possible but I worked with people just like that and I couldn't take it anymore.
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