Automotive Addicts Lounge V5 - P0306

[Xarxes The Great]

I've got ivory soap in it so i can fix fuel leaks but thats about it :v:

[mastoner20]

I generally keep a firearm, a pair of channel locks, a phillips head, two knives, duct tape, a roll of electrical tape, and a bag of salt (in the winter) in my car. Basically the essentials to jury-rig a small problem and melt some snow away in the winter just in case.

Also, an extra jacket and a pair of gloves because I'm a little bitch, and hate being cold. But that's mostly because I'm a plumber and nothing sucks worse than getting drenched when it's cold.

[butre]

a gun and tools is kind of a given tbh.

[editline]23rd November 2016[/editline]

I also keep 12 quarts of oil 3 quarts of transmission fluid a quart of brake fluid and all the gear oil I can get my hands on

[Xarxes The Great]

[QUOTE=butre;51414320]a gun and tools is kind of a given tbh.

[editline]23rd November 2016[/editline]

I also keep 12 quarts of oil 3 quarts of transmission fluid a quart of brake fluid and all the gear oil I can get my hands on[/QUOTE]

Can't bring a gun across state lines into New York because liberals.

I have no use for all those fluids. It's a brand new car. If there's a problem with it Chevrolet is going to fly me home.

[mastoner20]

You'd be surprised how many people look at me like I'm nuts for keeping a rifle and a tool pouch in my trunk.

[butre]

[QUOTE=Dr. Deeps;51414333]Can't bring a gun across state lines into New York because liberals.

I have no use for all those fluids. It's a brand new car. If there's a problem with it Chevrolet is going to fly me home.[/QUOTE]

[url=http://imgkk.com/i/1tor.gif] bring some miscellaneous plumbing parts then [/url]

[gukki]

I'm bad with electronics, I changed the interior lights on my shitroen to LED's. They only work with open door position OR manual on position

(as in the polarity switches with the 2) anyone have good idea to make them work in both positions?

[DPkiller]

[t]http://i.imgur.com/MmWcVGL.png[/t]

Anything in red I don't wanna visit anyways.

[TheBirdman]

[QUOTE=Dr. Deeps;51414333]Can't bring a gun across state lines into New York because liberals.

I have no use for all those fluids. It's a brand new car. If there's a problem with it Chevrolet is going to fly me home.[/QUOTE]

My family has been driving our heavily used family vehicles to utah and back (2000 mile round trip) 3-6 times a year for the last 20 years or so, and around half of those trips have been in the winter. Honestly, if you know the car enough to trust it, thats all you really need. long mileage road trips arent hard on cars at all. Theyre basically just running at cruising speed for 30 hours, and thats sure as hell easier on all the parts of a car than 30 hours of city driving, and in some cases (old diesels), easier on things than 30 hours of idling. Obviously bring the common sense basic tools, and if theres a small piece thats known to break on your car, pack a spare, but apart from that (and a spare tire, you nugget), thats all youll need, car-wise. Bring snackies and get some free trial audiobooks off audible to keep you entertained.

In all the years of family roadtrips, we lost pieces of the exhaust off my dad's 2003 F150 2 or 3 times, killed a coil pack twice (F150s eat them for breakfast), killed an alternator once, and flooded my moms shitty old taurus in sub-zero michigan weather so bad it didnt start for half a day. With a newer car, chances are astronomically slim that youll run into a single problem.

EDIT:
Hell, I drove my truck back from utah on backroads and I-80 last january in blistering cold, the day after coming out of storage for 4 years with a bad batch of diesel, leaky injection lines, a tank transfer switch that didnt work, unresponsive fuel gauges, no registration or insurance, and one headlight. youll be fine.

[Xarxes The Great]

Chevy dealership tried to tell me it was a $500 option to get a spare. I don't even know what my lug spacing is to try and find a spare at a junk yard.

[TheBirdman]

MEEEERGE

[gukki]

[QUOTE=Dr. Deeps;51414509]Chevy dealership tried to tell me it was a $500 option to get a spare. I don't even know what my lug spacing is to try and find a spare at a junk yard.[/QUOTE]

The worst spare I've ever seen has been with this POS God damn. Then again citroen electrics are what they are. God I hate my car. Maybe I'll spend my next year sober for the sole purpose of not getting fucked by french idiots

[Del91]

[QUOTE=DPKiller;51414463][t]http://i.imgur.com/MmWcVGL.png[/t]

Anything in red I don't wanna visit anyways.[/QUOTE]

Hey washington isnt that bad

[butre]

[QUOTE=Dr. Deeps;51414509]Chevy dealership tried to tell me it was a $500 option to get a spare. I don't even know what my lug spacing is to try and find a spare at a junk yard.[/QUOTE]

unfortunately it's a 5x105mm iirc

ie absolutely nothing at the junkyard will fit. it shares that size with like a dozen cars

[editline]23rd November 2016[/editline]

and looking online every aftermarket wheel in that size is very offensive

[mastoner20]

[QUOTE=DPKiller;51414463][t]http://i.imgur.com/MmWcVGL.png[/t]

Anything in red I don't wanna visit anyways.[/QUOTE]

Hey now, Maryland isn't that bad.... At least not the 1.2 miles I drive through to get to PA, anyways.

[Xarxes The Great]

[QUOTE=DPKiller;51414463][t]http://i.imgur.com/MmWcVGL.png[/t]

Anything in red I don't wanna visit anyways.[/QUOTE]

Well I mean the only reason I'm going to New York is cause I'm from there. If I was going on vacation somewhere in Arkansas or Texas I'd be strapped obviously.

[Xanadu]

[QUOTE=Dr. Deeps;51414333]Can't bring a gun across state lines into New York because liberals.

I have no use for all those fluids. It's a brand new car. If there's a problem with it Chevrolet is going to fly me home.[/QUOTE]

Locked in a case and not within arms reach of the driver or any passengers and it should be fine. That's pretty much all the SAFE act covers for transportation.

[Ridge]

[QUOTE=Dr. Deeps;51414509]Chevy dealership tried to tell me it was a $500 option to get a spare. I don't even know what my lug spacing is to try and find a spare at a junk yard.[/QUOTE]

Which vehicle? Most GMs are either 4x100 or 5x100

[Missing User]

Really don't need a gun anyway.

[Xarxes The Great]

[QUOTE=Ridge;51415073]Which vehicle? Most GMs are either 4x100 or 5x100[/QUOTE]

2016 Cruze. Not the Cruze Limited, the new body style one.

[editline]23rd November 2016[/editline]

[QUOTE=Code3Response;51415083]Really don't need a gun anyway.[/QUOTE]

You always need a gun.

[Scientwist]

[QUOTE=slayer3032;51414102]On older Hondas you can just cut the ALTC wire from the ECU and it gets rid of the CAFE/EPA MPG boosting garbage that causes crazy voltage fluctuations.[/QUOTE]

I remember reading about that here some time back, I think in the last iteration of AAL.

I thought about doing that to my own (95 Accord V6) but being it's the oem alt, I don't want to risk stressing it. Being I have a yellow top optima at I think 850 CA and a 5 farad cap for my amp, might be good to not do so till really needed. 80 amp alt and all.

[Slayer3032]

[QUOTE=Scientwist;51415255]I remember reading about that here some time back, I think in the last iteration of AAL.

I thought about doing that to my own (95 Accord V6) but being it's the oem alt, I don't want to risk stressing it. Being I have a yellow top optima at I think 850 CA and a 5 farad cap for my amp, might be good to not do so till really needed. 80 amp alt and all.[/QUOTE]

I can't imagine it being much worse. If it constantly kept cutting voltage and never fully charging the system after the surface charge or whatever it's called wears down or off. I would think it would constantly struggle at lower voltages to charge a larger system rather than just being able to wind up and do it's job. The OEM alternators are tanks anyways, they generally last a solid 200k+ and then if you pop in a Denso reman it'll probably see just as much if not more.

Your ALTC is probably rigged to come on with the EGR to push highway cruising MPGs as far as possible. Unless you're seeing the results of voltage fluctuation which you probably shouldn't with a decent battery, I wouldn't bother otherwise. My Integra had a shot to shit 6 year old nEverstart that never tested above 12v with the car off. Luckily though, never once in it's life did it ever not start so it wasn't that bad I guess.

After getting an OEM Honda battery I don't see my lights change brightness anymore which used to happen at one point in RPM about 1/3rd the time even with a new Alt and the ALTC cut. Which was improved from the fucking multi step spaz where it would go from dim at idle, to bright at 1500-2500 to dim at 2500-3200 to bright at 3400+. Not to mention the brake switch, throttle position and A/C clutch also being considered in the circuit along with RPM, Load, MAP and other parameters causing my cluster lights to dim and brighten at random times.

It's only present on USDM models anyways so it probably wasn't implemented as nicely as it has been on newer models where it's present globally and there's much more to the system than what is probably just about turning the alternator off. :v:

[LowlyKommrad]

[QUOTE=Code3Response;51415083]Really don't need a gun anyway.[/QUOTE]

Rather have and not need than need and not have.

[editline]23rd November 2016[/editline]

I live/travel along I-80 which is a HUGE route for illegal shit like hard drugs and people smuggling. The kind of people you can run into all along I-80 make for a convincing case for packing a firearm.

[editline]23rd November 2016[/editline]

Most of America is buttfuck nowhere and a firearm is just a useful thing to have. Pretty good multi tool tbh

[evilweazel]

NO OFFICER STOP DON'T DO IT DON'T TREAD ON M-

[QUOTE=Code3Response;51415083]Really don't need a gun anyway.[/QUOTE]

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[clutch2]

The 2016 Cruze is 5x105, which is shit tier bolt pattern indeed. Thanks GM cucks, for making another abortion unto the automotive world with an unnecessarily strange bolt pattern just so people can't replace your god tier OEM alloys with something of their choosing.

In other news.
Winter is here :( And my Buick is still sitting in the driveway, double :(
The place where it's supposed to go for storage shoulddd have room tomorrow, so hopefully that happens.
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The brake lines and fuel lines are all ran, and the brake lines are flared and connected. Now we just pray all the flares were good, because the fittings I used were a wee bit shorter than the original ones.. but I think everything bottomed out properly and well if they're no good, so be it I'll redo the 18 flares (sigh, lol).
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This is what's under both fenders
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I needed to plug the hole for the gas filler, tube, too. These little caps for 3M Super33+ electrical tape containers worked pretty nice, haha.
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And and work last night I had like 3 hours to kill between the end of my shift and an employee's going away get together in town, and I didn't want to drive an hour round trip home and back, so instead I ran to Lowe's, got some good spray paint and sand paper, and got busy with the parts for the interior that I only had in tan and needed to be black for the interior swap. Here's what I came up with.
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I finally built the plenum for the heater, this should help heat the garage evenly!
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And now it's time to start the engine/ trans project I've decided. Going to clean up the trans and spray it with some aluminum colored engine paint, then tear down the engine to paint and regasket it! And slide in a cam, that kind of thing.
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I started using a little wire cup on the trans with my cordless drill, and the battery died in like.. a minute. At that point it was like 1 am so I decided it was time to call it a night.
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I also snapped one of the 4 bolts off on the trans for the trans mount... not sure if I'm going to fish it out of there or not, but that's something for future me to deal with.

[LineArc]

[URL]http://www.kijiji.ca/v-cars-trucks/red-deer/1992-jeep-comanche/1218029264?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true[/URL]

What do you guys think? Looking for a winter beater/city cruiser/parts grabber considering my truck is huge. Its actually worse than the pics make it out to be, box is finished so I was thinking flat deck and the doors and front clip switch with an XJ.
4x4 4.0L 5 speed, pretty proven driveline so im not worried about anything breaking.

[editline]23rd November 2016[/editline]

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Rolled the truck outside today too, thought I'd make a halfway transformation tuesday! Decided to con it as "LICH"

As per wikipedia roughly:

"Liches are depicted as being clearly cadaverous, bodies desiccated or completely skeletal."

Which I thought kinda fit with the truck being its a conglomeration of parts and has otherwise been pretty abused in its life.

Idk haha it just works to me

[RoboChimp]

[QUOTE=DPKiller;51414463][t]http://i.imgur.com/MmWcVGL.png[/t]

Anything in red I don't wanna visit anyways.[/QUOTE]Apart from Vegas no one outside America gives a shit about the blue parts, middle is America is just there to earn money for the coasts, they're called the fly over states for a reason, I mean what's there, Sears?. That's the problem with driving through America, you risk being shot in the face by some redneck gun nut.

[clutch2]

I mean... the other option is driving through Australia where you get speared by an abo or poisoned by a spider, or a snake, or a scorpion, or a frog, or a bug, or a centipede, or a kangaroo, or horrible government anti violence propaganda?

[evilweazel]

[QUOTE=RoboChimp;51415490]Apart from Vegas no one outside America gives a shit about the blue parts, middle is America is just there to earn money for the coasts, they're called the fly over states for a reason, I mean what's there, Sears?. That's the problem with driving through America, you risk being shot in the face by some redneck gun nut.[/QUOTE]

O wow

If you really think the most interesting parts of America are contained to the west coast and New York I'm sure there are plenty of your fellow non-Americans who would be happy to tell you how silly that statement is :rollout:

And I'll have you know I've only been shot in the face a few times, mister

[RoboChimp]

[QUOTE=clutch2;51415515]I mean... the other option is driving through Australia where you get speared by an abo or poisoned by a spider, or a snake, or a scorpion, or a frog, or a bug, or a centipede, or a kangaroo, or horrible government anti violence propaganda?[/QUOTE]That's about right if you're a cartoon character. But in reality if you're in America and you want to drive from LA to NYC, you have go through gun nut states, where any old idiot can have a sub machine gun and use it to make you hand over your car.