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  • Why Me, Auto Gods? WHY ME!?

    So, while I'm working on rebuilding the Pontiac's motor, I figured I'd just drive one of my other cars around.

    How about the hard-luck one? The one I got dirt-cheap off the back of my wrecker as a theft-recovered car? $500, without wheels? The one that's been wrecked and rebuilt twice? (neither time my fault, one by careless driver who hit it parked, one by careless doe that wandered in front of me on a blind curve) Surely it would NEVER tempt me to throw it away by going down on me a FOURTH time in my hour of need, right?

    Aaaaaaaaaaaaand, there goes it's transmission..... MOTHER OF

    You're lucky I like you!

    Or maybe it's codependency?

    Either way, they just finished putting it back together this week, at least there's nothing exotic about the General Motors TH-400 series transmission, there isn't a single electrical sensor in it!

    http://c7.staticflickr.com/9/8131/30...31b8a6a3_b.jpg
    - They say nothing good happens at 2AM, they're right, I happen at 2AM.

  • #2
    No sensors, but it probably needed a couple censors. After all, your language when the transmission crapped out was probably unprintable.
    Any fool can piss on the floor. It takes a talented SC to shit on the ceiling.

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    • #3
      I was in "Five figures owed to the FCC if you said it on radio" mode
      - They say nothing good happens at 2AM, they're right, I happen at 2AM.

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      • #4
        After MANY curse words...

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        • #5
          Dog was bored, looked down, and thought, "What can I do to make life interesting for my good friend Arga?"

          Anatevka...
          I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
          Procrastination: Forward planning to insure there is something to do tomorrow.
          Derails threads faster than a pocket nuke.

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          • #6
            I'll just leave this here...
            http://imgur.com/gallery/WqNez

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            • #7
              Well, I did it again...

              Fixed one thing... which gave me the uncontrollable desire to fix other things...

              New carpet inside for starters...

              Old and busted:

              https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...48&oe=5896D5F2


              Brand-new hotness:

              https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...49&oe=58C51ED9
              - They say nothing good happens at 2AM, they're right, I happen at 2AM.

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              • #8
                ... Fuzzy dice, bongos in the back. My ship of love is ready to attack! ...
                I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
                Procrastination: Forward planning to insure there is something to do tomorrow.
                Derails threads faster than a pocket nuke.

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                • #9
                  Quoth Argabarga View Post
                  New carpet inside for starters...
                  But keep the old, worn carpet for alternators?
                  Any fool can piss on the floor. It takes a talented SC to shit on the ceiling.

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                  • #10
                    Quoth wolfie View Post
                    But keep the old, worn carpet for alternators?
                    No... Generators.
                    I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
                    Procrastination: Forward planning to insure there is something to do tomorrow.
                    Derails threads faster than a pocket nuke.

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                    • #11
                      Anything since at least the '60s would have had an alternator instead of a generator.
                      Any fool can piss on the floor. It takes a talented SC to shit on the ceiling.

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                      • #12
                        Trust me, there's enough "wiring to nowhere" inside this car to take care of any and all future splicing needs... I think the previous owner was a bit of a stereophile and must've had it loaded up with amps and speakers...every panel you remove vomits up that red wiring......
                        - They say nothing good happens at 2AM, they're right, I happen at 2AM.

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                        • #13
                          Oh lord, my wife's Red Car is like that. There are times where I just want to start tearing stuff out of it, but I'm desperately afraid that I'll bork something important that way...
                          “There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.
                          One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world.
                          The other, of course, involves orcs." -- John Rogers

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                          • #14
                            Quoth Argabarga View Post
                            Trust me, there's enough "wiring to nowhere" inside this car to take care of any and all future splicing needs...
                            Been there, done that. The "improvements" done to my MG's wiring were truly legendary. Someone had hacked up the harness to fit an AM radio some years ago, and buggered it up. At least that was an easy fix--find some wiring in roughly the same colors and solder it in place. What wasn't so easy, was trying to trace some of the other wires. There were some "repairs" involving wires being let in, with the old ones still in place () and bare connections against the bodywork How that car never managed to set itself on fire, I have no idea! First thing I did...was to rip all of that shit out and replace the entire harness. Expensive as balls, but other than the odd dirty or loose bullet connector, the wiring gremlins have been banished.

                            ...and here's some electrical goodness for you all. That's the inner workings of an original Lucas 25D distributor, which up until last year, had been running an electronic ignition module. This had failed, so I had no choice but to go back to points. The only reason that module was fitted, is that I wanted something that I wouldn't have to mess with. Then it failed, and I had to "retrograde" the car anyway. Oh well, at least a set of points is less than $10, and they tend to give a warning before they're about to go...
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                            Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines. --Enzo Ferrari

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                            • #15
                              Quoth protege View Post
                              Oh well, at least a set of points is less than $10
                              Don't let the folks at British Rail find out where you can get a set of points for that price, otherwise they'll buy out the entire stock.
                              Any fool can piss on the floor. It takes a talented SC to shit on the ceiling.

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