• Automotive Addicts Lounge V2- Why we are all broke:
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[QUOTE=Del91;47734696]Did you flip your lid[/QUOTE] I fliped my shit.... Does that count? What am I looking to gain here? I just think water would be able to get in when you do maaaad crash and dashes into puddles along the side of the road.
[QUOTE=DPKiller;47734235]I want to get into hot shot trucking on the side and possibly full time. I really don't want to be a owner operator, but cant find any company's around me that do this... [editline]16th May 2015[/editline] [editline]gkhgh[/editline] I just got done building 4 male trailer 7 way plugs with 6' ends, and 2 female vehicle side with 2' wire ends. Normally at stores each one of those will run you about ~20-30 on the trailer side and 20$ on the vehicle side. I did mine for about.... 14$ each. The major issue was finding 7 way wire, I found 6 way for 1.45 a foot but 7way for a astronomical 5.00$ a foot and its not even heavy duty 12ga for tandem axle trailer brakes! I'm gonna have a electrical junction box on the neck of the trailers to go to a 4way plus powered brakes. Gonna look really nice. All because Texas made a law for every trailer grossing more than 4,500lbs requires brakes. And it doesn't help that I have mostly 8,000# axles under everything but my airplane trailer... [editline]ghgh[/editline] Note: All trailers and semitrailers that exceed 4,500 pounds must pass an annual safety inspection (Transportation Code §548.051). On the bright side... This is giving me alot of work of tossing new axle assemblies under trailers with brakes.... But making me spend money to fix my own shit.......[/QUOTE] Hey I build trailers,Just wrapping up on 75ton equipment hauler. Gimme a shout if you have trouble finding decent axles we are happy with our supplier.
[QUOTE=DPKiller;47734716]I fliped my shit.... Does that count? What am I looking to gain here? I just think water would be able to get in when you do maaaad crash and dashes into puddles along the side of the road.[/QUOTE] Unless your fording rivers, which you'd need a snorkle anyways, you shouldn't have anything to worry about. Really it just makes the intake sound louder.
[QUOTE=JesseR92;47734821]Hey I build trailers,Just wrapping up on 75ton equipment hauler. Gimme a shout if you have trouble finding decent axles we are happy with our supplier.[/QUOTE] I'm really pleased with Dexter down here in the south. It's what most people run. Only issue I have is (not really needed) but my little 4x8 enclosed trailer has torsion axles and they HATE the light load I carry. The trailer likes to jump about a foot into the sky every time I hit a bridge at 80mph.... I gotta convert it to leaf springs and remove springs..... Plus the axle is alittle bent the inside of the tire wears down 3x as fast as the outside. Ohhh welll its only money. [t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1031910/Stuff/IMAG0419.jpg[/t] And... as benifit of working at a steel shop.... we fix trailers once people knock the running gear out from under one making 9" of deflection in a 12" I beam. Had to cut out half of the beam, straighten it, and weld in a new section. Trailers are fun and cool. I enjoy the piss out of working on them. We have seen alot of commercial trailers come in with a broken off receiver. And come to find out its been cracked for a long time and they went around a corner wile breaking and it was just right to apply the amount of pressure needed to break it completely off the truck! Safety chains! [t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1031910/Stuff/2014-06-25%2011.55.31.jpg[/t]
Just saw Mad Max: Fury Road. What they did to those cars were incredible. Makes me wish I could do something to my Hyundai without attracting further attention from the Police during RBTs (as if being a P plater wasn't enough.)
Just came back from Mad Max too lol. Tom Hardy seriously had that "I am schizophrenic" face. On another note, one of my dreams after getting my own car is to join in an amateur rally. I was looking at the local ones and it required shit like 5 point safety harness, roll cage, some fuel retardant, extinguisher, 2 independent latches for bonnet etc etc. The worse part is you need all that PLUS a roadworthy registered car and in NSW language which means spending 80% of your money on trying to get it engineered and certified. Eeeeeeh too much work and cash. In Malaysia there's an annual amateur rally where the regulation was literally, a stock 1.6-2.0l engine, no turbos and 2wd, bucket seats and 4 point harnesses and that's about it. Its to get people interested into rally and if you do not have one already they'll appoint an actual pro-rally guy to be your navigator.
Reading this thread makes me miss my wee little Ranger its not much but I love that truck and love working on it. Replacing the A/C, adding new tires, and fixing the inevitable small things that go wrong with a car made in 1994 are all so satisfying. Tinkering is one of my happy places Also I only paid $750 heh
[QUOTE=A_Pigeon;47734097]That Sentra frame is torqued. How did she break the mirror tho[/QUOTE] Crashing into a mailbox.
[QUOTE=Snickerdoodle;47735374]Crashing into a mailbox.[/QUOTE] Is she constantly texting while driving? You really got to stop letting her use the car.
thats one serious mailbox if it transferred enough energy to break the mirror on the opposite side.
[QUOTE=A_Pigeon;47735647]thats one serious mailbox if it transferred enough energy to break the mirror on the opposite side.[/QUOTE] ?? She hit the mailbox with the mirror.
So, I don't know how late I am, but there's a company out there who professionally makes working pneumatic engine blocks in Legos for model Lego cars.... and some of them are impressive. (Media tags borked for some reason... sorry guys) [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=18&v=5f5eKg8f1N8[/url]
That's not a video link. [editline]16th May 2015[/editline] Now it is
[QUOTE=Gulen;47735915]That's not a video link. [editline]16th May 2015[/editline] Now it is[/QUOTE] Yeah, I deleted the wrong section like a dummy, but it still wouldn't embed for whatever reason, so I just had to leave it as a link. Sorry. Still impressive when you look at some of the stuff they've built. One's a V8 that connects to a single crank that revs over 5k RPM.
So with all that shit yesterday with the transmission I'm driving it last night and suddenly second gear starts meshing properly again and no longer pops out. The fuck is going on inside this gearbox???
[QUOTE=MIPS;47736227]So with all that shit yesterday with the transmission I'm driving it last night and suddenly second gear starts meshing properly again and no longer pops out. The fuck is going on inside this gearbox???[/QUOTE] Magic. Transmissions are the witchcraft of automobiles, automatics are.... alien...
[QUOTE=MIPS;47736227]So with all that shit yesterday with the transmission I'm driving it last night and suddenly second gear starts meshing properly again and no longer pops out. The fuck is going on inside this gearbox???[/QUOTE] Something that's not supposed to happen, I'd take it back to the guy who rebuilt it ASAP.
[QUOTE=mastoner20;47735911]So, I don't know how late I am, but there's a company out there who professionally makes working pneumatic engine blocks in Legos for model Lego cars.... and some of them are impressive. (Media tags borked for some reason... sorry guys) [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=18&v=5f5eKg8f1N8[/url][/QUOTE] [Media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f5eKg8f1N8[/media] Usually you just remove the 's' in 'https', but you have to remove the 't=18&' in that one. Normally links don't have that.
[QUOTE=FordLord;47736626]-Brick Engine- Usually you just remove the 's' in 'https', but you have to remove the 't=18&' in that one. Normally links don't have that.[/QUOTE] I removed the S. Don't know how I missed the embedded portion of the link. Thanks.
[QUOTE=Valon Kyre;47733618]Sube may be sold tomorrow for 17k! Going to spend it all on parts for the dart, ARE YOU PLEASED SERJ?!?! 17k ALL TO THE DART[/QUOTE] This pleases me. [editline]16th May 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=mastoner20;47735911]So, I don't know how late I am, but there's a company out there who professionally makes working pneumatic engine blocks in Legos for model Lego cars.... and some of them are impressive. (Media tags borked for some reason... sorry guys) [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=18&v=5f5eKg8f1N8[/url][/QUOTE] Dude... [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs386R2KVBA[/url] I want more money and legos.
so i went to go trade my miata for that truck, and I drove 2 hours out there in nasty as traffic, for him to text me that he "can't find the title" [I]i think one should find the title for their vehicle, BEFORE they list it on craigslist[/I]
I've been looking at welders. I'm not going to lie when I say that I'm a huge fan of Miller products (our Bobcat 225 engine driven welder is just a champion). But 1,800 for a TIG machine is expensive. So I've been looking around and I like the AHP AlphaTig 200x. An AC/DC TIG with HF and pulse for $750, and it looks like a pretty good machine. Now I just gotta save up the $750 for the machine and enough for an argon bottle.
I'd like to start welding, but I have no idea where to start learning, or even what equipment to get.
[QUOTE=notlabbet;47736933]so i went to go trade my miata for that truck, and I drove 2 hours out there in nasty as traffic, for him to text me that he "can't find the title" [I]i think one should find the title for their vehicle, BEFORE they list it on craigslist[/I][/QUOTE] You can still transfer the car if he has the registration. You just file for a lost title.
only a fool would buy a vehicle with a "lost" title should clarify: its legal to do so... but I'm not the one to risk buying a stolen vehicle
Why? I sold a car with a lost title last year, we just signed a "transfer of ownership" and filed for a lost title, exchanged money and keys and he was on his way.
[QUOTE=Gulen;47737824]Why? I sold a car with a lost title last year, we just signed a "transfer of ownership" and filed for a lost title, exchanged money and keys and he was on his way.[/QUOTE] Things might not be that simple in USA :v:
Considering that in the U.S., generally speaking, purchasing and owning stolen property carries the same sentencing as stealing the property outright; it's never a good idea to risk it.
[QUOTE=Ldesu;47737877]Things might not be that simple in USA :v:[/QUOTE] No, they are.
[QUOTE=mastoner20;47737898]Considering that in the U.S., generally speaking, purchasing and owning stolen property carries the same sentencing as stealing the property outright; it's never a good idea to risk it.[/QUOTE] You can be charged for buying stolen property here too, but a lost title isn't a big deal. If you're in doubt, you look up the plates, check the seller's ID to see that they're the actual owners, use "official" documents to transfer the ownership and file for a lost title, and you're good. No need for that stuff anymore, though, as we can now transfer ownership online, title or not.
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