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I love his redneck impression.. Gives me the LuLz..

Look what I found tonight.
About the size of a coffee can lid.
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You have found probably the ONLY reason not to live in Hawaii

That thing is fucking hideous and you can not let it live.

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Here's my $250 Miata. It has hail damage and had a spun bearing. This pic is just after cleaning it. It belonged to a coworker who really wanted to get rid of it. Now its my daily driver.

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Cool Rimz

Shit, for that price you spray paint right over the rust and crud and call it good.

- Mayor Wright Housing (Palama/Kalihi neighborhood of Honolulu)
- Kuhio Park Terrance (aka KPT) (Kalihi, Honolulu)
- Palolo Valley Homes (Palolo, Honolulu)
- Kamehameha IV Housing (Kalihi, Honolulu).

Notable high concentrations of Section 8 buildings:

- Aniani St. (western side of Waipahu)
- Pupu Streets (western side of Waipahu)
- Ohai Street (Wahiawa)


Hawaii is not unlike any other city in the world, it has good spots and bad spots all the same. Gasoline prices there are 47 cents higher than KC's current prices and I've read a gallon of Milk can be lot as 5$ and high as 9$.

Visit? Hell yeah. Living? I'll pass.. Too many fuckin people for me anyway.

Must've bought this from a honda owner with those wheels.. :giggle:

Really though? $250 for an NB? What the fuck... :facepalm:

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This I hate 300ms, everything is a pain in the ass. Ive been workin on cars so long not much is hard anymore, some shit just takes way to long for the job, every car has atleast one thing. Did a head on a aveo in 3 hours one time, next car did a fuel filter on some honda van took me like an hour and a half. I was pissed. Could not get the damn filter off.

damn you! the cheapest NB around here is $2500 and it needs some love

I sanded and painted them with silver wheel paint. I tossed the hideous chrome star hubcaps. I'm rolling on steelies until the 14" tires wear out.

Fixing the engine required lots of love ;)

Lose weight fast! Eat what you want without the guilt!

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This guy is outrageously funny.

Bridgehampton, NY 1960

A BMW:

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and a WTF this is:

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Steam tractor:

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And regarding Hawaii, "Haole crap go home!" is what I remember most. And the thugs in Waianae. And everywhere else.

Like this one:

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Upper and middle intake manifold must be removed and coolant must be drained to change spark plugs because they are located inboard of the valve covers in the middle of the vee next to intake ports. Cocksuckers at Mitsubishi probably giggled like schoolgirls when they drew this one up.

The 4-cyl Ford Ranger pickup was similar. Had to pull the intake manifold to get at the plugs.

As a general rule, this sort of thinking has generally been a distinguishing characteristic between American-designed vehicles and Japanese-designed vehicles. There are exceptions, obviously, but for the most part, the Americans seem to design the layout of components and fasteners to maximize ease-of-assembly on the production line, often sacrificing serviceability to do so.

The Japanese, by contrast, seem to at least acknowledge that at some point in the future it will be necessary for a mechanic to service the vehicle, and thus they provide affordances to maximize the efficiency of design-basis service tasks.


Unrelated:

Apparently, KPBS has a reported named Jose Jiménez. Anyone familiar with the Mercury / Gemini / Apollo era of US spaceflight should recognize this name.

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That looks to me like an old belly tank off an airplane. Ya know the ones for extra fuel then they would jettison them once they where empty. A lot of the early salt flats cars where just that. Not sure on the engine though. I checked out So-Cal speed shop not too long ago and they had a WWII belly tank that was for sale. I think it was $10,000 or some ridiculous amount.

Are those Rotas on that thing? Didn't know they were around back then. Fucking hellaflush.

i have chevrons...im doing it wrong.

I love unicorns.


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This is... weird.

Funny

but for that price you could have just thrown in a new motor and still would have been ahead of the game.. swaping a motor is a lot easier then fixing one.

Some weird kinda Pulsejet maybe? I think it'd be badass to build one.

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Exactly what I did. :) I swapped it by myself. I have the original engine as a spare. I probably overpaid for the replacement engine, but its been what I expected. Pull, replace and drive. I have almost 20K miles on it now.

Yeah those are a bitch to get to, but these motors otherwise seem to run forever. had a montero that had 235k miles on it before i blew it up blasting up and down the dunes in 110 degree heat, coolant temp guage maxed out, you probably could have seen the warp on the heads with them still bolted in.

Now I have a mighty max that only has 170k on it, guy sold it to me for 700 because it had a bad oil leak, turned out the seal on the oil filter had broken. I plan on being a little nicer to the new truck.

I really hate saying this to someone so brilliant... but....
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I've had 3 rangers and sadly became a bit of an expert on their repair.. :bang: Remove the old plug wires with a pair of 11" needle nose, use spark plug socket and locking socket extension to remove plugs. Install some quality plugs, buy new wires, and make a special tool to install the wires. Took a 3/8" piece of roundbar about 12" long and a 1" OD washer with about a 1/2"ID. Cut a 1/4 notch out of the washer and weld to the end of your roundbar and use this tool to guide and install plug wires onto the plugs.

Major pain in the ass, but it works very well. ;)

Assuming a had a Ford ranger that needed it's plugs changed:

A. I don't have 11" needle nose pliers, never had a need for them.
B. Don't have a welder
C. Would never buy an American piece of shit in the first place.

Ok, that's true.

This wasn't my truck, it belonged to a friend, and we were doing it in the parking lot of her apartment. She was a lot more interested in just getting the truck running again than watching me fabricate tools.

Ever change the plugs in a 4-cyl Toyota pickup? All you need is one wrench.

That's the general idea I was trying to convey. With American vehicles, many common tasks wind up being annoyingly convoluted. The Japanese vehicles seem to be designed with ease of service in mind with a minimum of special tools. No need for 11" pliers or foot-long pieces of round bar stock with half a washer welded to one end.

The 80's vintage Toyota vans were a good example- the ones where you sat on top of the front wheels like a VW bus. Servicing those things could potentially have been a nightmare, except they made it so that you pull one lever and half of the floor pops up to expose the side of the engine. Need to access the other side? Pull a couple of bolts and the other half of the floor lifts completely out. In five minutes you can have the whole thing exposed and access any component on it with ease.

I will say the mid? engine toyota vans were cool.

I'm sorry for you.

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1996 Ranger 2.3 Liter 5 speed.
Brake pads, shoes, oil, coolant, tires, spark plugs, and battery. Those are the items on the truck which were not installed at the factory. The clutch, transmission fluid, rear differential, and entire truck are 100% original. I'd bet money this truck will see 500,000 miles before any major service is required and is driven 80 miles a day every day of the year.

A significant portion of parts on that truck were manufactured by Mazda btw.. Not to mention the 2.3 Lima motors were bullet proof, even if they did only make 50hp..

Toaster Van! Fuck yeah!!! Back when Toyota made something worth buying

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Best friend had one of those in HS.

I said what the hell, I'll click on it so I can tell Viperormiata that guy sucks. As it started playing I was secretly hoping that he would be outrageously funny so I could post something like:
"I clicked on it so I can tell Viperormiata that guy sucks but he really didn't that was fucking hillarious."
Sadly, I cannot say that. I made it 1:53 until I turned it off.

Random:

You fail at humor man. That guy is fucking great. Have seen several of his shows at a local comedy club.

Try this one.. Just watch the whole video.... His impression of Don LaFontaine is great!

You have to remove the skidplate from the new Tundra Pickups to remove the oil filter (little cartridge type deals). I've never done one before but my "grand father-in-law" has one and was asking where the filter was. After a little research I found that it was not even visible (well, the access bolt that holds it in was not visible) unless you start taking parts off. Not sure if removing bolts and lowering a 20 pounds slab of metal to just get to the cover over the filter qualifies as "ease of service".


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UGH! I watch the whole thing. No, HE fails at humor. Sorry. Nothing against you or him. Comedy is in the eye of the beholder.

Try this (for the love of God, this is NOT SFW - you have been warned). If you don't know the aristocrats joke you should watch a few on youtube to get the feel for it:

Aww boo. With the proper tools it's a 30 second task. Either air or electric impact, zip them right off. I do several of these a day, on Lexus SUV's. I will admit I avoid them when I can, getting the holes to line up when going back on can be a bitch at times.

You cannot say "Aww boo" and "I avoid them" in the same post. :giggle:

Ugh...FUCK Toyota and their skid plates...one of those fuckers was the cause of my severed Achilles tendon. To this day, I'd still love to punch a number of Toyota engineers in the face and balls at the same time.

Not so random picture:

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Ok Rob, that's two insanely gross things I've looked at/watched this morning that you've posted.

Has leatherface hacked your account?

Meanwhile, behind the facade of this innocent looking bookstore...


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That's probably what my tendon looked like while they were fixing it.


Actual pic of staples from surgery being removed from my leg. Note that my leg was a little bigger aroudn than a soda can because of atrophy

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Yep. We had a 1984 Toyota Van LE for 20 years, RWD, tilt roof up front and a powered full sliding roof in the rear. Also had an "Ice Maker" between the front two seats, basically two ice making trays set in mini fridge cooled by the a/c system. Take out the back two rows of seats and you basically have a large covered truck. Didn't have much power but pulled a loaded small Uhaul trailer without much complaint. I think it may have had a better turning radius than a Miata but the ride was bouncy as hell. Only engine work I did that was a pain in the ass was replace the alternator, everything else was pretty easy like Joe said. After 500,000 miles it finally had some sort of major engine failure and sat until we had it hauled off. While we had it we had a '91 Previa too, very similar vans.

For serious?

I can only hope my 4.0 will be that reliable...

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Jorts, wifebeater, wallet chain, velcro sandals, mullet, child. :loser:
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Just stuff 'em in your pants
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