/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Beat yourself to death with the brake drum you gigantic faggot.

>>1989407

OP is proud of his experience, you're just a jealous faggot who never fixed his car.

>>1989408
Being proud of disabling a drum brake is like being proud of being potty trained.

>>1989391
Well... I once poured some leftover "camping ethanol" (everclear) in a vehicle after misjudging how much fuel it takes to drive up and down a bunch of hills to camp in middle of fuck nowhere. Got me back to a gas station.

>>1989418
I'm wearing Northshore Megamax's, what's your favorite brand?

>>1989407
Low quality post

>>1989407
Retard

>>1989407
>>1989418

Was driving home with my mom from out of town. Flat tire, pulled over, turns out the tire iron in the trunk was too big for our lug nuts. I saw a soda can on the side of the road, got a strip of aluminum from it, and wrapped it inside of the tire iron so that it fit the lug nut.

>>1989450
I hammered a dime between an oversize open ended wrench and a rounded bolt to break it loose once

>>1989450
i like dis

>>1989391
One of many things you have to remember driving a shitbox is always slowly roll it a little on neutral to check if your brakes aren't seized.

>>1989391
>office parking lot acter work
>shift linkage snaps when I try to put it in gear
>do a quick tear down
>place the linkage on shifter, hold in place and put it in gear
>drive home without further incident
Profit??
I mean anyone else wouldve paid a tow truck to take the car to a stealership to get charged hundreds of dollars on top of what they paid their tow truck driver

Driving to work in the morning in my 65 F100 that was about 40 years old at the time, and the motor abruptly stops with me in the fast lane of 15-501 heading into Chapel Hill rush hour hell traffic, but somehow I was able to coast through the right lane onto the narrow shoulder. The motor looked ok, so I pulled the distributor cap, and I don't know why, but I touched the rotor and it spun freely. So I pulled the distributor, and thank god the gear didn't fall down into the engine, because the pin had sheared. I fixed it with a finishing nail, and timed it by eyeball and sound and got to work about an hour late.

The punchline is that the original distributor had lasted about 39 years except for the advance diaphram, so I bought a rebuilt one, and that's the one that died within a year. After I put a proper pin in it ran until I junked it this year. Kinda hard to put a truck down that you've owned since 1978.

>1971 Mercury Capri rally edition 2000cc 4cyl
> Late 90s, no cell phone, living in the boonies
> Drive to pick up replacement radiator, get there just before close due to traffic
> Heading home, late, dirt road, dark/chilly
> Car passes other way & throws a rock directly into my grill
> Get out to check, and coolant is literally gurgling out
> Jab a stick in the hole & consider options

Only tool I had was one small crescent wrench and a jug of coolant. Swapped the entire radiator on the side of the road, in the dark, and saved enough coolant to make it home.

A little foolish b/c I could have walked to a farmhouse & called someone, but I was young & broke & knew the car pretty well.

Not really stuck anywhere but
>be me
>get gas after work
>06 impala
>go to leave, stuck in park
>can't press shifter button
>wtf?
>go under hood, try to pull shifter linkage by hand
>nope
>google.exe
>solenoid burnt out, normally activates when brake applied to shift from park
>pop up plastic surrounding shifter to see solenoid
>should be a plunger on the back that can be depressed manually
>see solenoid
>is accessible
>require some sort of long rigid tool to press it
>Pic related.exe
>depress plunger and shift to drive
>5 min drive home
>still haven't replaced solenoid as its a minor inconvenience at worst and kind of an anti theft feature, also couldn't be fucked to rip apart the console to change it

>>1989933
Always carry an actual flashlight.
Always carry a knife
Always carry a roll of duct tape
Always carry some rope/cable.
Roll these things up in a blanket
A 24pack case of water is optional.
The flashlight should be able to double as a hammer.

>INB4 Wtf kind of rape kit are you carrying there, anon?

>live a long ways down 4 wheeler trail
>have guests over, break out 30 year old suzuki
>morning temps in 30s, takes a while to start the machine and head back to town from cabin
>battery is broken
>stop several miles down the trail, about halfway between cabin and town for a nic and piss break
>pull off seat to yank on recoil starter
>it wont start
>try for a little longer until I realize the inline fuel filter is snapped in half
>and i forgot the toolbag
>cut up fuel filter to make new fittings to connect gas lines while trying not to spill any gas (i only had enough in the tank to get back)
>ziptie gas line back together and bump start it downhill
>get back to the road system to realize the other four wheeler was running on fumes because we forgot to refuel it

>>1989925
>anyone else wouldve paid a tow truck to take the car to a stealership
Don't be so full of yourself, there are plenty of us that will rip apart our cars on the side of the road

>>1989948
Wtf kind of rape kit are you carrying there, anon?

>>1990006
Been there done that and I carry enough tools in each truck (or motorcycle) to make it easy.

>vehicle breaks down
>I barely make it down the overgrown path
>finally a root breaking through the crude path that would havce laid ahead of me
stops my path
/1

>>1989930
Op here, I live off 15-501 in the rural pittsboro area. Small world

>>1989391
>100 degree day on blacktop, toyota starter not working
>Hit with wrench while turning key
>Starts

>-10 degree day in mountains, carburetor not working
>Hit with wrench, then turn key
>Starts

Nature is balance

I got another one actually, no repairs but some work
>be me
>going to campsite, private
>5 km off highway, unmaintained dirt road over hills
>03 impala
>"my dad made it in a compact"
>not too bad but sketchy
>bang.mp3
>stop, get out
>hit large rock with subframe, frame resting on rock in the front right corner imilar to pic related
>rear of car at edge of trail on a hill
>rock is wedged into frame
>rock is huge
>car faces up hill
>ground soft and wet
>reverse impossible
>forward impossible
>be 7pm
>take supplies and tent to site by foot
>return next morning
>decide to undermine rock
>dig.exe
>use tri-fold shovel
>breaks
>fren has ww2 era german army shovel
>dig.exe
>slash at roots with machete, sparks, edge fucked, dont care
>rock ends up being probably a xubic meter
>mostly undermined
>tired
>decide to push rock into hole with frame of car
>car no longer stuck
>nearly start sliding down the hill
>drive.exe
>barely clear hole but car is free
>fill hole
>finish trip and made return trip without incident

>>1990073
Im with you too just tell me where you are and we can repair each others souls and take perfectly morally acceptable and legal™ substances during new years

>>1990086
Pic related

>>1989947
Same happened to wife's girlfriend's car turned out the solonoid was fine the wiring harness was f'ed. If it was mine Id baling wire the button down but she got some guy to pay to fix it... I figured this out by downloading the tranny blueprints in a parking lot.

>>1990096
Lol I've considered that too but for the effort involved it's really just easier to pop it with my knife. And like I said, good luck stealing it

>>1990096
Lol my Navy Seal Dad has the same issue with the simplest of things

>be me, retard
>get flat tire TWICE on the SAME POTHOLE

>>1989391
I had a fun one at work:
>Dropping ~10 pallets off at international airport
>little warehouse is in the bottom floor of the terminal, requires security check of person and vehicle, escort, and backing in between a few JetBlue planes
>last couple pallets, liftgate starts moving slow, get the last pallet off and the liftgate dies in the down position on the tarmac
>look at the trailer, then the connections, shortly after realize that this tractor doesn’t have an outlet for the liftgate, somebody hooked it up a couple days before and ran the liftgate off the trailer batteries all day and they stuck the tractor side of the cable in the little carrier so it looked like all the cables were connected
>ponder my situation, it’s going to be all day with my trailer parked on the tarmac because of all the security BS and what it would take to get another tractor over there before the Airbus needed to pull out
>hop in cab and think, see old charging harness from computer that used to be installed in there
>3x thinner wires, hack off insulation on either end, tie wires together so I have slightly more copper thay won’t burn up so quickly
>loosen + clamp on truck battery, jam one end of wire harness in there
>grab liftgate power cable to trailer, ham other end of witing harness in the hole (trailer is grounded already, only one pin)
>wait a few minutes, then a couple more so trailer batteries have some charge and 3x thin wires don’t turn into smoke when I hit the liftgate
>Get liftgate up, narrowly avert delayiny flights and having to explain to Int’l Airport why I didn’t do a proper pre-trip on the truck

My battery terminal connector crumbled apart one time and I jammed a penny in there to make the connection and get home.

My clutch went out 20 miles from a paved road. We were able to get it rolling enough to shift gears managed to limp home and didn't stop.

>on road trip in OR
no insurance, AAA
>high pressure oil line to turbo blows off on highway
>sprayed about 4qts of oil out
>luckily had the replacement in my trunk
>friend hitches ride to bend to get oil and star bits
>picrel tools i had on hand
>back on the road 3hrs later

Whats the latest build year for a car where you could do most yourself in a situation like that? like if you go on a longer, rural trip and cant call anyone

i imagine something around 80s?

>>1990533
The cars still operate the same, you can try and patch a coolant line or nig rig whatever. Maybe keep a bluetooth scan tool in the car so if your dash lights up, you can check to see if it’s a real issue or bullshit.

The biggest concern would be stuff like this >>1989947 I had a similar situation where a little bushing on the shift linkage crumbled and the car was stuck in reverse after pulling out of a parking spot and I pulled apart the center console and stuck the little arm back on so I could get home. If it were a push button trans and the software started to bug out or some component on the circuit board fried, I’m not sure what you could do. Maybe fuel injection was the point where computers became more essential and certain problems would leave you stranded for certain.

Also so many cars these days come with 2 years of roadside assistance instead of a spare tire, that doesn’t help.

>>1990318
Similar story but it was my house key and it was a work truck

>>1990525
Maybe you'll learn someday of the superiority of the N/A air cooled engine and all of its glory.

>>1990533
Its difficult to determine.
Any old 350 sbc engine would be super easy to wrench on the roadside however your chances of something happening requiring you to have to do roadside work are increased (depending on the miles on that engine) I mean if you pay attention to life, you'd check all the right things before going on a trip like that.
Whereas a 1zz-fe engine would likely not cause you any major issues, it would be slightly more involved to wrench on the roadside.
Also keep in mind, wrenching on one bank of cylinders its much easier than two.
The less moving and electronic parts the better.

If I were preparing for a trip with an SBC, I'd swap out the timing chain/belt for timing gears, slide in a fresh set of cams, springs and lifters. Replace the waterpump, thermostat and radiator, fill 'er with fresh coolant and oil, check all lines and hoses for aging and replace as necessary, then proceed on my trip. Same would go for the 1zz engine minus the cams, lifters and springs (1zz is more reliable there)
As for the rest of the vehicle, take a spare tire AND a can of fix a flat. Inspect the axel boots know if your brakes need replacing.

Pic related is a 5VZfe, also reliable and ready

>>1990754
>If I were preparing for a trip with an SBC, I'd swap out the timing chain/belt for timing gears, slide in a fresh set of cams, springs and lifters. Replace the waterpump, thermostat and radiator,

Jesus fucking christ. Do you pack a lunch every time you go to the bathroom.

>>1990761
Top kek. Driving as far from civilization as some of these posters have in their adventures is no trip to the bathroom, anon.

>>1990754
Ok for fix a flat. Ive always been told its a fucking whore to clean off the rim so I've never used it but I was talking with a dude that's used it alot because he fucks alot of tires. Apparently if you follow the instructions it stays on the tire, go figure. Just putting it out there

>>1990779
I think if youre 400 miles deep into the forest and that far from civilization, you wont give a fuck about how sloppy or clean an emergency repair is.
The reason I advise both a tire and fix a flat, is because things can go wrong more than once and youll want to keep that spare handy for worst case scenario. If the breach is small enough to fix the flat, then save your spare for a full blown tear in the tire.

>>1990795
Oh no I'm agreeing, I meant some people may be hesitant to use it because they heard bad things. That being said you do what you have to do out that far

>>1990803
It mustve been awful in the day when all you had was a horse and if it fucked its leg or something went wrong that far out, you'd have to shoot em rather than leave him suffer and unable to run from bears and shit.

>>1990811
Thats a good point, you can stick weld with a pair of batteries and bottle jacks are a dime a dozen now. Your wagon wheel breaks in the middle of nowhere you're basically fucked

>>1989391
>first car
>82 opel ascona
>roadtrippin with my then gf in a snowstorm
>car just dies in absolute nowhere
>oh fuck slightly panic a little
>cranks fine, no start
>fiddle around in the engine
>all i have to work with is a cheap leatherman copy, a jack and some random junk
>find the distdibutor spins freely and not connected to the cam
>drive pin on the distributor broke off where it engage the cam
>hammer it out using leatherfake and the jack
>find a rusty nail in the trunk junk
>wiggle it in there somehow and cut it to the proper length
>reassemble
>drive off and doesnt fix it again it last for years

>>1989947
Came across a stuck shifter release solenoid from spilt soda and coffee. Used a piece of wire to rig it back. It is a safety device for fags anyway.

>>1990838
Kek, im glad you mentioned that, my dad had an old thunderbird supercoupe. He wired it somehow to bypass something. Cant remember off the top of my head. Anyway
>be me
>3 or 4 years old maybe 2, cant remember
>grocery shopping
>come back
>mom brings in groceries
>climb in front seat and do something
>car rolls back
>door open
>nearly rip it off on a snow bank
>when dad came home and found out he couldn't even be mad because he bypassed the safety that would have prevented it
>pic related

This probably doesn't sound to impressive, but 18yo me was dumpster diving for electronics behind an apartment complex years ago when my shitbox Celebrity wagon wouldn't start. The solenoid was moving but the contacts must have been bad inside and it wouldn't power the starter once engaged. I had to have someone hold the ignition while I used my jumper cables to energize the starter. I felt pretty bad ass at the time.

>>1990538
I have one of these Ultragauge. I've got a 2006 ranger so I have useful gauges really. I've been happy with this. It can tell you tons of information and will read/delete check engine stuff.

>>1989391
Not the same but the same
>friend was in film school shooting a short film
>film was about a WW2 deserter lost in the woods
>hiked out to the middle of no where to film it and me and some other friends went with him to help
>retard forgets the cable that goes from the battery pack to the camera
>proprietary multipin bullshit connector
>i find some other wires, twist strands together until its the diameter of the pins in the connector and makeshift a cable, saving the shoot
>everyone thinks im a genius for knowing how wires work, still talk about it to this day

>>1991008
> still talk about it to this day
obviously

>car stops working completely
>after 5 minutes figure out that the central communications processor had a faulty memory location
>override switch and open hatch
>take out arduino and laptop
>hack an obd2 by some 100 lines with custom C and assembly
>works perfect
>drive to macdonalds and get QP

>>1991083
kek

>>1990123
What tires? How big was the pothole?

>>1990737
>not modding your overheating engine to run off the Stirling cycle

>>1990525
what is that a '98?
i have literally never seen an indicator like that this is like barnstein bears or some shit.

Im here to tell you all im an idiot. I am also drunk. Yesterday I was driving down the highway to my parents house to grab some shit. and I made it about 80% of the way when I heard a metal thunk-thunk-thunk noise from somewhere within my engine. I figured i knocked a rock up from the road (even though I didnt see any rocks).

well, 5 minutes later my oil light came on. for those who arent well versed, this light is your "oh shit, youve got 20 seconds to turn off your engine, tops" light. looks like one of those old timey oil things, i dont care. Well, I remembered some reddit post that said to pull over and turn off the engine, and did so. I then spent the next 45 minutes waiting for some family to give me a tow.

You know what the problem was? not a hole in the oil pan, only people who are good at maintenance get one of those. no, I had a loose oil pan drain bolt. the whole bolt fell out. no joke, the bolt (drain plug) itself fell out due to my shit ability to tighten things. again i posted this so that yall could shit on me, remember?

Anyways so i got a tow from some family, and they also had an oil plug. I put the plug inyself and filled the engine up with oil, and thank the fucking lord the car started up with no issues.

sorry i shitted up your post with a story that didnt really fit the bill but I wanted to tell somebody how dumb I am. Yesterday was a roller coaster of emotion.

>>1991181
At least you caught it and didn’t blow the engine.

My neighbor, MILF, got a brand new Ferd Explorer a couple years ago. The day she gets it home, she’s driving and the oil light comes on. Boomer neighbor has 2 quarts of oil in his garage, pours it in, tells her she’s good to go. A couple hours later, MIlF is running errands, oil light, keeps driving because they poured 2 quarts in so it’s obviously good, car seizes in the middle of the road.

Never heard the full story, but obviously some bad leak from the factory, next day she had a different color Explorer in the driveway.

>>1989391
Rusted brake line burst while I was on the highway, 100 miles from home, it was 5pm and no mechanic wanted to help me same day. Limped to AutoZone. Bought brake fluid and filled the reservoir up so I could get maybe one good panic brake by pumping it. Used manual trans / engine braking to drive the 100 miles home all gas no brakes. I missed 2 exits because I couldn't slow the car down enough to safely turn off the highway. Thankfully never had to stop the whole time I was on the highway. It worked out but I would not ever recommend it or do it again. My ass was puckered the whole drive and knuckles were white from gripping the wheel so hard. Got home and just sat down for a while in silence and made a good burger to appreciate still being alive.

>>1991114

>>1991439
I have a similar story but its an automatic and I used my parking brake to stop. Going to work and the brakes get real soft all of a sudden. I had actually just replaced the front lines and thought the rear was fine. Bought the car off a guy that was driving it but I had to get the lines done for a safety.
Anyways, take a quick look, dripping fluid from above the crossmember where I cant even see the line. Mostly backroads to work, early morning, won't get home until late.
20 miles using the engine to slow down and the parking brake to stop with that last pump of the brakes in reserve. Ended up doing the rear brakes when I got home

>>1991467
That's terrifying in an automatic, you have balls of steel

>>1991469
If I didn't know the route as well as I did or if it was busier in the day I wouldn't have tried it but it was mostly long and straight and I knew I could coast to a stop as long as I kept a good social distance. If anyone cut infront of me though I'd dump all my fluid though so it was a gamble but I won

>>1991181
>he left the fucking drainplug out
Id expect nothing less from a plebbitor

Ok off topic too, this is the exact opposite to a /diy/ road repair but it's along the same lines so
>be me
>drive to work
>5 mins away start seeing some smoke
>burning oil
>get to work, 6am
>flashlight, cant tell, possibly valve cover, leak seems small just some vapor and a smell
>leave from work, on highway
>knock knock.mp3
>engine light, low power
>ffs pull over and assess options
>lots of smoke this time
>40 mins from home on the highway, this fuckers' dead, go as far as possible so tow is cheaper also on expensive toll highway
>turn enginevover
>deploy smoke.mp4
>snap crackle pop finally turns over but I have to keep on the gas just to keep it at idle
>merge onto highway to try and get to the next exit to avoid expensive tow fee
>Columbia.webm
>looks like I'm launching the fucking space shuttle on the highway
>need to keep the throttlw open to avoid stalling
>gasgasgas.mp3
>pass people going 130kph leaving thick white smoke 3 lanes wide
>run out of smoke
>exit is close
>turn off and pull into parking lot spitting and sputtering
>call for ride
>saved probably 100$ on the tow

Will post part 2 later

>>1991516
amazing story. where's part 2.

>>1991516
So I cant make it to work the next day but I got a car lined up to be bought that morning and I was back on the road by noon that day. So I have to get rid of this car now, you may ask why I didn't just tow it to the scrap? Well I had just bought brand new winter tires and the wheels will fit my car, infact it was basically the same car, 03 monte carlo out, 06 impala in. So this car is sitting around and I can get twice as much for it if I drop it off, scrapyard is only like 3km away so I think I can make it, call up my dad to follow in the truck, he suggests putting some oil in to make the trip but I decide against it, this fucker is loud now and the last thing I need is a bunch of smoke too, plus there's no insurance on it now. Story starts up where it left off
>ruhruhruhruhruh.mp3
>ruhruhruhpopruhpapappopruhruhruhpopbangbrrrrapbrapbrapbrap.mp3
>need gas, BRRRRRAPPAPAP
>starting to think its a head gasket, either way it just needs to run for a couple minutes without oil
>let's do this
>cant stop without holding the brake and gas at the same time
>3 stop signs
>3rd one crosses a busier road
>waiting, waiting BRRRRRAAAPPAPopopuhfuuf
>shit
At this point there was a guy that was accross from me turning left, he turns and pulls over to get out to check on me, he said he could see flames, looking head on like that I can only imagine he can see the combustion cycle, fucking block must be cracked or something. Tell him its fine, just going to the scrap anyway which is now less than a km away
>get out, go to tell dad he's going to have to push me
>already on my bumper
>signal all clear to cross and we make the final stretch
>ruhruhruhruhruh
>trying to start the car the whole way
>go through a little roundabout
>just a little further
>mission complete
>roll to a stop at the scrapper and get my money
>yeah just leave they keys in it
>dont matter where I put them dude, this thing isn't moving anywhere
Think I got 400$ would have been 200 if they picked it up

>>1991483
just not tight enough, i wish i forgot the whole plug, lmao.

>be me at home one cold winters eve
>relaxing in my comfy chair
>sipping some hot tea
>wife due home from work soon
>*ring ring* phone rings
>"hello?"
>oh, it's my wife
>"Help! My tire went flat and I'm le stranded out here!!1"
>She's 15 minures away and it's dark and cold out.
>im getting too old for this sh-t.mp3
>drive over and meet wife at the foot of some driveway off a back road
>i get out
>"This better be important!" I say
>"The tire's flat."
>oh right
>survey the scene and look at the tire
>yep, it's flat alright
>things look okay otherwise
>meanwhile... the owners pull into their driveway
>inquire about the situation
>"just a flat!" I say
>decline their offer for help and assure them we'll be on our way shortly
>challenge accepted.exe
>take a look in the trunk
>see a spare tire and jack
>just_what_i_needed.wav
>block the tires with some rocks lying around
>jack the car up and replace the tire with the spare
>lower the car back down to mother earth
>mission accomplished.gwb
>but, will it blen--I mean drive?
>sure enough, the car drives fine and we both make it home without incident

Wasn't the first flat tire incident with that car in a short span of time, nor the last. It really just needed a new set of tires I think, and we ended up replacing them not long thereafter. I've got a few more similar stories I could share if there's any interest.

My neighbour got a call one day, his wife was broken down for some reason. So he goes to pick her up and bring her to work. Cant remember if he got it towed or did something on the side of the road but he's telling us about it the next day.

Now this guy is a Supreme bullshitter so keep that in mind. He had just done the brakes and apparently didn't tighten the slide pins down, one of them worked loose and got caught in the wheel. Tjink about that for a minute. First off his story was he almost killed his wife who had just got off the highway, why would you even admit that? Second and slide pins ive ever seen are on the inside of the wheel, not facing outside so I'm not sure how he fucked up but it was in such a spectacular way that he felt the need to make up an embarrassing and completely unbelievable story instead of just keeping quiet about it

>>1989391
Nothing really exciting.
>drove up to the bank
>done with bank business, go to start car, no crank
>battery seems fine
>must be starter
>grab hammer and screwdriver
>give a few love taps while the wife cranks the key
>starter begrudgingly turns over
>and we're off to Advanced Auto to get a new starter.

Heard about trying this but never actually did it until then.
Saved the cost of a tow
Feels gud

>>1992312
This happens to me at least once a year at work. The trucks get started at least 25 times a day, so those starters don’t last very long, or the bolts loosen up on them. Always fun getting covered in grease and dirt trying to get under there, plus they all have idle shutoffs so you will probably be under there a couple more times before the day is over.

>>1990073
Siler City masterrace checking in

>>1989391

>Be me, cruising on a Saturday night in 4cyl Fiero
>Belt breaks about 7 miles from home
>No alternator, no water pump and no spare belt
>Decide best method of attack is to get up to about 70, hold in clutch, shut off engine and coast
>Remember to turn key back to run setting so steering column doesn't lock.
>Drive home by intermittently starting engine, getting up as much speed as I could and shutting it back down.
>Car is phallically shaped so it will coast forever.
>Get home, engine is hot but never even boiled over.
>Next day get belt and everything is back to normal.

>>1990525
nice crack, def goin in my crack folder thx bro

>>1991516
>>1991827
That poor, poor engine. How do you sleep at night?

>>1992388
had similar experience with daewoo espero
>dual fuel, lpg reductor hose barbs broke, no heating
>reductor gets covered in ice and stops working after a bit
>speed up, coast as much as possible
>repeat until engine cuts out
>wait for reductor to warm up from engine bay and ice melts
>rinse and repeat
had to do 150 miles or so this way in middle of night, would take me 3-4 hours, took maybe 6-7
couldn't use petrol because petrol pump broke some time before and new one was in glove box, I was heading back home to have it sorted
loved that car, peak 90s technology

>>1991469
>That's terrifying in an automatic, you have balls of steel

Something similar happened to me but the caliper piston popped out of the caliper and leaked fluid out everywhere, I had to cruise in the slow lane and just used my ebrake while driving on the streets.

>>1992430
Had the same happen on a loaner once the brake pad got so worn down it fell out of the claw. Then it was just the caliper pushing on the brake pad untill it all wore down and leaked fluid everywhere. Cue no brakes. I stopped had a look around took me a while to figure it all out. Used a hammer to beat the caliper back and had to drive back 30 miles with no brakes just judging speed and engine braking.

The dumb cunt i borrowed it from just commented he had been wondering for a while if he had to replace the brake pads.

>>1992595
Pushing on the brake disk not the callper sorry.

>>1992317
Had to change a starter at work once, it was an rv company with a gravel storage lot. The starter died on an f150 and they didn't want to tow it down the street when they could just pay me minimum wage to go up there with a handful of tools and no jack to crawl under there and change it on an August afternoon. It was actually not too bad

>>1992410
Considering how well I know those motors and that I knew the car was a write off I made an informed choice and decided if it deserves to go out fighting. 3800 series 2, w-bodies have been the only thing I've ever owned. I actually swapped the lower intake gaskets on that motor about a month before, whi h brings me to my next story.
>still me, most of this thread is me
>drive to work, Monday morning after a holiday
>just came back from Montreal, about 12 hours round trip
>get off the highway and I start to smell coolant
>thats the intake gaskets or the coolant elbows, fuck please just be elbows
>flashlight.exe because early and winter
>why is it always winter when this happens
>notice small bubbling and a low hiss at the head an vavlebody
>fuckingcocksuckingsonofabitchfuck
>ok how bad? Check level at lunch, coolant down about a cup
>leak is external, apparently
>decide to drive the almost hour home after work
>call up dad, need a hand, can you pick up some parts?
>has rattleguns an air compressor and everything else i dont have
>get to his place, 5ish
>whats up?
>yeah remember when I had to do this on the last car? This again
>shhèèeiit
>waste no time tearing it apart and cleaning everything
>throw it back together like its nothing
>actually the best time I had working with my dad on a car
>everything went well and we got it back together fine, missing 1 bolt though, not important just some redundant bracket so idc
>get it car, activate wipers, bolt goes 8nto the grass
>found it
>total time like 3 hours
>had a shower and something to eat, in bed by 10

>>1992595

My brake lines had some crud innit and I guess was causing back pressure causing the piston to not retract, flushed the brake lines and problem solved.

>>1992682
Wait, wut?
So you played with the intake gasket and after driving for a while, you blew your head gasket?
Then youre telling me that drove it like that to your fathers house where you proceeded to replace the head gasket in 3 hours without sending the heads to a machine shop?
For clarification, these are iron heads? I know I can look this up online, but I want to hear you tell me.
Also, can you tell the audience why youve driven only wbody gm vehicles? We'd like to know if this is by choice.

>>1992871
No no, I replaced the intake gaskets a month before the smoke show and I thought it may have been the head but when that guy pulled over and said he saw flames I thought the block was cracked. I actually don't know what the real problem was ibur if it was pissing that much oil its fucked and I never saw a leak at the head and block so I really think it was the block its self

>>1992871
>>1992881
Sorry second question, my first car was an 03 impala, be leaf. I researched reliable motors and ended up with that because the 3800 stood out, 5 years out of that car before I replaced it with an 03 monte carlo, thats the problem car. It was an emergency replacement and cheap and I could transfer some parts, front sway bar, front brakes, wheels. It had the intake go then blew up a month later and I bought an 06 impala, kept my winter tires and have been happy ever since. Its actually spotless and only 145k or something now. The 3900 is known for some gasket issues but I can deal with it. The handle wonderfully and have food power economy and space, I love them

>>1992881
Thank you, now can you tell us about your history with Wbodys?
Were these just your preference or was it a cost thing? Was it just because you knew your way around them and the 3800?

>>1992886
>>1992888
>I transfer parts from my dying aging cars to newer used ones for maximum savings in cost and time
I like that strategy and thanks for the follow up answer

>>1992888
>>1992889
Answering both questions here, yes it was a cost thing. Ive always joked that I can find parts for these things at the side of the road. As a new driver I wanted a common car, theres a very good upick near me and ive replaced alot of shit for cheap over the years. The 3800 is really easy to work on and I learned alot working on beaters this way and I regret nothing. When it comes to sway bars breaks and tires they were replaced recently, the swaybar was an upgraded solid part, and everything else was better than what was on that monte that had alot of issues including the breaks in >>1991467
Not a strategy I would recommend but success came from familiarity and experience so I stuck with it. Ive never had a car payment in 12 years and ive spent probably s grand a year sans insurance and gas to drive wherever I want

wifes car brake lights wont come on
Notice brake switch washer missing
Good pollock tape in a dime
Shit works: feels good
Wife says take it out and use a penny

Vehicle manufacturers who still use drum brakes should be imprisoned.

>>1993182
This

>>1992682
>>yeah remember when I had to do this on the last car? This again
>>shhèèeiit
Jej

>>1989407
get the fuck out of here you useless disk shill

>>1989391
>Playing in the mud in my 94 Ford Bronco. Lifted, 35" tires, 5spd manual
>Starter was showing signs of going out, but this was the one day in the year the mud levels were perfect and all my friends could meet up all at once. Think nothing of it
>Go mudding, Everything is fine, have a blast.
>Friend wants to drive my Bronco, I figure why not he knows how to drive a manual
>Friend tries to take off in the mud and tries to launch it for some reason, he digs it in pretty good
>He killed it after digging in
>Try to start it, nothing
>Pull out our e tools and dig enough to slide under the truck by starter
>Wiring checks out fine, confirm power to starter, starter won't turn flywheel
>Have to replace starter, get into friend's truck and drive as fast as we can to Autozone as darkness and -10F temps are approaching
>Hour and a half later we come back with starter
>Easy swap, only a few bolts and some wires
>Wire plugs don't fit
>All stores are closed at this point and it's freezing, and if the farmer sees my truck out there he will pull the frame out with his tractor
>Look it up because it's weird, turns out there was a recall on the starters because of wiring issues and such, and has a different plug
>Plugs from my light bar fit, try to splice into existing wires
>Insulation peels off, can clearly tell the wires got very hot at one point
>Time it with friend and touch the wires to their connectors on starter, truck starts
>With help from a wench we get out of the 3ft deep ruts
>Drive back and rewire the whole thing
My fault entirely, but it was kind of fun thinking back on it.

On the way out of a camping trip my buddies 2wd truck got stuck in a little shallow creek bed. You had to cross the creek to get to the camp site, and every one that crossed it made it no problem including the 2wd. We had a 4x4 we could have used to push it out, but the creek crossing was an extremely tiny lane and he was the last out so we couldn't get back behind him. In retrospect this was retarded, but he made it over it once easily. We had 3 light duty tie down straps and one heavy duty one. I tried to pull him out while everyone pushed w the heavy duty strap and it ripped. Then we tried to double it up and if ripped again. A friend of mine is a carpenter who had all his tools on hand and he tore down his camper shell cot platform to make recover boards. We put them under his rear tires and I braided the light straps, doubled those and then braided that with the destroyed heavy duty strap tied back together. The trucks were nearly bumper to bumper. With everyone pushing, the recovery boards and the braided straps we were able to pull him out. That saved an extremely long drive to civilization to get actual straps which would have killed an entire day of the trip. If you go camping all the time and spend lots of time off-road, the extra 1k for the 4x4 model is definitely worth it. Also always carry recovery equipment when driving into the wilderness. Learned a lesson that day

>>1994467
I've had two similar stories to this one, both on road trips hours from home
>Onnainterstate
>About 2 hrs from home
>Pull over to piss at rest stop
>Try to back out
>Front tire is dragging
>Get out shitty hand-me-down toolbox from granddad filled with mystery tools
>Remove wheel
>Brake caliper has fallen off with no hardware remaining
>Parts store is 10 miles away
>Rural area so no uber
>Nobody has triple A
>Dig through mystery tools for hardware
>Find a bolt, by some miracle it is the same thread pitch
>Able to bolt the caliper down with one bolt and about 2 turns worth of threads
>Drive to parts store
>Get hardware
>???
>Profit


Also
>Pull over at gas station after 2 hrs of driving
>In Missouri, live in NC
>Try and start
>Nothing
>Bottom of hill so no roll start
>Grab my biggest open ended wrench and ask random guy to start my truck while I smack it
>Get electrocuted, sparks thrown in my face, wrench blasted out of my hand
>Guess I arced my starter somehow
>Starter moved when I hit it
>Gears not engaging at all
>Starter gear was just spinning against air
>Disconnect battery
>Locktite.exe
>Gorilla monkey tighten starter back down
>Truck starts fine
>Drive to parts store
>Swap starter after lots of suffering under vehicle in parts store parking lot

Why is it when i grab both terminals at once i barely feel a tingle, but my starter literally electrocuted the hell outta me?

>>1989418
Okay, fuck you. Drum brakes are a bitch and a half to work on

>>1994810
its an electromotor which is inductive
having lots of current through an inductor and then cutting the current off fast will create a high voltage spike

>>1995832
This. Your best bet is to use a puller to pull the drum off and essentially destroy everything then replace all the hardware along with the shoes, sometimes the wheel cylinders too.

Only ever really "broke down" 4 times, all of them in my old van within a span of a month, back when spending 50 euros was a lot of money to me.

Going down a bad road and suddenly lost all drive.
Turns out the key holding the slip yoke bounced out and the drive shaft followed.
Put JBWeld on the splines, waited 2 hours, and drove home.

Woke up to a spongy brake pedal and fluid around the wheel.
Clamped the flexhose with vice grips, and replaced the wheel cylinder later.

Ran out of diesel a few km from the pump and just poured about 3l of 15w40 in the tank.
Week later 2 of the injectors start sticking, so I pull them out and soak the nozzle in mineral spirit and they cleared up.

Replaced the fuel filter after I ran it dry of diesel, but forgot to pull the O-ring out of the housing.
Couple of days later air got into the system and wouldn't start and I drained the battery trying to prime it.
A city construction crew towed me half a km until I got it running again.

>>1990895
pretty cool desu

>>1991008
>>1991053
I think he meant they do, idiot

>>1992099
this post SCREAMS reddit, jesus fucking christ. I cannot believe you censored "shit" on 4chan

>>1996036

He actually used the "will it blend" meme. Goddamn this place is infested with reddit boomers.

I dont know how to Green text. But:

Car wont start because it is - 20 in sweden, my renault master. The diesel "spark plugs" are old, have to change two of them, freaking cold and so hard to reach, takes 2 hours, need to warm my hands every 5 mins because the Steel is freezing. Fix it, manage to drive and pick up the stuff i had to do.

>>1996328
>dont know how to greentext
Where did you come from? How did you find /o/?
What other boards do you lurk?

I didn't fix it there and I could of but hindsight is 2020

>be me getting mcdonalds for dinner for family with my mum after taking her to town
>in drive through
>order food
>please pull round to the next window please
>press gas pedal
>dies
>wtf, just died and won't start
>stuck in drive through with a big queue
>mum gets out and pushes me round
>mum pays the cashier standing at the window whilst I skateboard my car very slowly round to the waiting bay
>call rac
>ring ring ring
>on hold for 20 minutes
>fuck this.jpg
>call brother for a lift to parts store 20 minutes away
>buy tow rope and get my other car which had a stuck brake caliper
>tow it home with second car with the brake disc glowing red and smoking
>dad making hand signs behind me the whole way
>ignore him and just drive steady doing 50mph
>get home and the next day change the fuel pump
>shit won't start, check fuse
>blown fuse, coulda jumped it with some wire I had


Dunno why I never thought to check fuses, checked everything else except fuses, felt so stupid

>>1996375
>could of
Fuck, man.

how about boat broke down in ocean?
was out on buddies boat in gulf of mexico, chugging along and serpentine belt breaks for pumps and alternator..everyone panics ..i started looking around, pulled straps off canopy, shoe laces and string, make a belt of of those items, install it, tighten up best I can and start up engine, looks good, not slipping so head back to mainland and cruise around a little and then back to home worked fine

>>1996940
What was plan b?

>>1990079
Small world. I had the same truck but opposite temp configuration and a hammer not a wrench...

I'm a diesel mechanic. Had a issue with a truck running rough, low power. Are computer was down so they told me to take it 10 miles away to another shop to diagnose it and then drive it back to make repair. Get to the shop and the turbo is no good, won't build boost. I call my boss and tell him it should be towed instead of that turbo sitting and pumping metal into the engine. He said NA run it. OK. on the way back the internal seal popped and it started pumping oil into the exhaust side. Smoked like a rocket ship taking off. Well he did say run it. Burned 8 gallons of 10 gallons. Fuck em

>>1989407
Fpbp

>>1996940
boat towing service

>>1997447
Maybe one of you is from australia?

>>1996328
every diesel i have ever owned would start at -20 with one or even all glow plugs non-funtional. all it takes is a pretty damn good battery and the balls to crank it until it starts (or the cables burn out)
i fit the biggest cca batteries that could physicly fit in my 7,3 idi, didnt have to "wait to start" it came to life even with used engine oil on the tank in -30 and only 3 glow plugs working.
>t. western neighbour to sweden.

>>1996036
>>1996044
>when newfags fall for reddit parody posts

Every post ITT is based except for >>1989407 >>1989418
You are an extreme faggot and should kys

Not a field fix story but still apply ghetto

>91 pontiac grand prix
>it has retarded vacuum assist breaks for that year only.
>I did not know this when I bought it in 2006
> One day breaks get spungy for no clear reason
>Eventually the only way to stop the damn thing is to mule kick the break petal and even then I only slow down.
>Mix e-break and mule kicks to get my car home.
>After some googling, find out about this system.
>Complete separate vacuum system designed to let me turbo charge the car while keeping prototype anti lock breaks
>Coolstorybro.png
>After some testing, turns out the complete custom vacuum sensor is dead.
>No after market parts to be found.
>Idea
>"Well all I need is to charge the vacuum chamber every few breaks right? Who needs a sensor?"
>Wire the pump directly to a light switch and stick the switch on my dash.
>Every few stops flip the switch for about 10 seconds and test the breaks.
>Worked like a charm for about another month before the pump itself exploded.

I loved that car but hated thoes damn breaks.

Charged battery, turning alternator by hand.
Used gravity for fuel pump.
Used a bottle of alcohol when way too low on gas.

>>1990533
depends on the vehicle. Most malfunctions that I can think of wouldn't be fixable in a 9th gen civic wouldn't be fixable in a late 90's ranger. Injectors are much less of a pain than carburetors. most common things like damage to fluid/vacuum lines would be the same for the most part, perhaps a bit more inaccessible in the honda. Manual gearboxes on both, so I guess it ultimately may come down to transmission. I've heard some auto trans can just spazz out and malfunction with perfectly working components(early ford dct's, BMW) sometimes requiring dealership tools. A friend's ram truck occasionally bluescreens. It's hilarious.

>>1998138
>redditor tries to save face
no one tries to parody reddit on /diy/, and if they are they're the ones that are newfriends

>>1996328
you just put a > at the beginning of the line. that's all. welcome to the site. also they're called glow plugs

>>1998302
fucking kek

>>1998302
>mule kick
Either you dont know wtf that is or youre the greatest automotive braking champion of all time.

>>1990096
>tranny
I never thought of that. You just ruined transmissions for me.

>>1995966
Anon, for the safety of yourself and others, please stop trying to fix your shit yourself

>>1998672
why? this is true redneck engineering, except the o-ring incident thats just pathetic but oh so common.

>>1998689
Can you elaborate on the slip yoke? You put JB weld on the splines? There's grease on them, its supposed to move a bit and I cant understand how it fell out with the ujoint intact
I can understand pinching the flex hose but I wouldn't do it unless I was completely fucked and desu i didn't think a fuel system could handle motor oil, thats probably why the pump burnt out and definitely why the injectors got gummed up and I also don't get why tou had a harder time bleeding actual fuel but didn't have a problem with the oil

>>1998700
Filter* idk why i read pump

>>1991516
Thanks for the laugh

>>1991827
Holy fucking kek

>>1991516
>>1991827

had to have been that shit 3400, the 3800 could lose most if the block and stay running

>>1998799
No it was the 3800, probably the only reason it did last aftwr all that. I dont think the monte carlo even came with a 3400. I'm convinced the block broke, bad luck i guess

>>1998408
So mule kick might not be percicely correct but I had to kick and stomp on that break petal about as hard as I have anything in my entire life. I'm not a small man either. I probably could have stopped that car flintstones style with the same amount of force.

>>1989407
kys subhuman

>>1998882
Kek. I still prefer to imagine a person repositioning themselves in the driver seat to mule kick the shit out of the brake pedal.
I had to actually mule kick a wheel seized onto a car I was working on. Ive never felt that much power transfered from my body onto an object ever. I braced my hands on a wall too.

>>1998882
His is a gif, since your nitpicker is lazy.

not really a roadside repair, but I'll share a tale from my college days
>driving out in the middle of nowhere at night
>cross railroad tracks a little too fast, probably 40mph+
>didn't see slight hill at beginning of tracks
>everything inside my car levitates for a split second as I manage to go slightly airborne
>bottom out extremely hard
>somehow manage to make it back to my dorm that was 10+ miles away(still have no clue how)
>wake up next morning with a gigantic pool of red underneath my car in the parking lot
>tranny won't shift into any gears
>check under car
>A huge hole has appeared in my transmission oil pan
>poor collegefag at the time, only basic tools and basic supplies
>roll car into another parking spot so nobody knows it was me that made the 40 foot wide shit streak in the brand new parking lot
>armed with nothing but a basic socket set and a small scissor jack I stretch armstrong my hand underneath the car to undo all 15 or so bolts from the pan
>bring pan inside my dorm and try to wash off as much grease as possible from the pan in the bathroom sink after carefully removing the brittle as fuck cork gasket
>only supplies to fill this hole: a partially used pack of JB weld that has been sitting in the trunk for years
>mix up super thick almost chunky JB weld
>hole is so fucking massive I have no way of supporting the shit while it dries
>open note book and begin tearing paper off into little strips to act as a paper mache filler
>manage to make an ugly as fuck big blob of gray JB and white paper that can support itself while it dries
>rip up a mcdonalds burger wrapper and throw it in for good measure
>JB finally set enough after a couple hours to attempt to put pan back on
>stretch armstrong my arm under once again and attempt to hold the pan and carefully thread a bolt in one handed
>this process lasts for about half an hour
>eventually succeed, pour last two quarts of ATF in, pray to jesus that the JB weld doesn't immediately leak like a sieve

>>1999311
>JB weld appears to be holding
>car still won't shift
>pour a quart of power steering fluid in
>it shifts
>quickly hop in my car after counting up change to buy more quarts of ATF
>manage to make it to the auto parts store just barely with the transmission slipping like a bastard
>found out new pan costs $40
I had to drive it around like that for a couple of months to save up for that 40 god damn dollars. Replacing the pan also involved stretch armstronging with the same scissor jack and socket set.

I also had to manually inject grease on a weekly basis into the CV joint boot to quiet it down, as it was clacking like a son of a bitch.

I still kinda miss those situations. Being able to afford things now just doesn't have the same amount of adventure and fun as being poverty level, lost40PoundsIn3Months-tier poor.

Replaced a alternator on the side of the trail in the uwharries off-road trails. Had a friend 4x4 it up the trail pick me up and then grab a alternator from the parts store and then 4x4 it back. Driving out of there was the most satisfying feeling of my life

>>1989391

fuel pump stopped working out in the boonies on my 84 corolla

had a 5 litre empty water dispenser and some clear tube around i emptied fuel from the tank into the dispenser , ran the tubing from the nozzle on the dispenser into the fuel filter in the engine bay and strapped the dispenser the roof with a ratch strap through both windows.

turned on the tap on the dispenser, the fuel pressure was pretty average, since it was graity feed. but i managed to get to friends, after going a long way to avoid hills. got about 5km with it like this.

>>1989391

block off the non working brake, to keep pressure in the system

>>1999317
Extremely based

Once had a rear trailing arm snap off an isuzu rodeo I was offroading. Wrapped it back into place with like 3 wratchet straps and drove it the 60 miles home. That rear end wobble whenever you accelerated/shifted was pretty tense

>>1989391
1st time:
>doing some kinky shit in the industrial area in the winter at 2am
>come in a 3x 90° at like 50,
>first two went well,
>3rd one is like 10 car lengths down the road
>wanna flick it
>understeer straight over curb, over a concreted in metal barrier, into a field.
>3 wheels flat
>steering ripped one side
>bent chassis
>kinda stuck inna field
>get it unstuck and hide behind a fence
>fuck off home on foot
>get new set of tires in my mums car
>swap tires
>limp home with one front wheel 45° offset
>fix it in 1 car garage over the next weeks.

>>1999370
2nd time
>go 4wheeling inna woods at night
>path is getting worse
>I'm scared to stop, so I just send it
>works okay'ish so I keep sending it
>works okay'ish runs out
>stuck
>try to unstuck for like an hour
>go home
>come back with ratchet straps and a winch
>unstick the car for like 4 hours
Was kinda fun but also kinda dumb.

>>1999371
Also hauled a boat cross country one time
not really thread related but people like the image.

>>1990795
>hink if youre 400 miles deep into the forest and that far fr
I know that car from /o/ and I'm 90% sure that it's one of the 3 actual car owners there.

>>1999363
Do you really need a rear trailing arm? Wouldn't the vehicle work regardless

>>1999379
No you should remove them to save weight

>>1990795
are you.... crow anon?

>>1999634
Big brain nigga

>>1989391
>>Im not using these for work, just the occasional little project
i bring a bike with me on roadtrips, and have pedaled to autozone a few times, lol

I drive a ranger and my girl drives an old chevy van. everyone dude over 45 who goes outside knows how to fix our vehicles

>>1989450
>Was driving home with my mom from out of town. Flat tire, pulled over, turns out the tire iron in the trunk was too big for our lug nuts. I saw a soda can on the side of the road, got a strip of aluminum from it, and wrapped it inside of the tire iron so that it fit the lug nut.
i recently found out that aluminum lug nuts swell up and dont fit stock tire wrenches of the vehicles they come with.

>>1989925
>anyone else wouldve paid a tow truck to take the car to a stealership
Don't be so full of yourself, there are plenty of us that will call our cousin to come rip apart our cars on the side of the road

>>1990996
>I have one of these Ultragauge. I've got a 2006 ranger so I have useful gauges really.
i want t upgrade my elm238
pill me on this

>>1999906
>aluminimum?
Also very first time I tried to change a tire I used that shitty shit in the trunk and it broke, had to walk to canadian tire to buy a breaker bar
>>1999911
This

>>1999906
Yeah that fucking blows. I had a similar situation awhile back. Began with the tire shop counting to 20 ugga dugga with the air supply turnt to 11, it’s those glorious Chrysler lug nuts with some chrome hard metal cap over a soft ass nut underneath. Try to use the tire iron in the car, the thing bends before the nut cracks loose, strips the fuck out of the nut. Plugged the tire without removing it, made it home, try to use extractors on the nut and it just shreds the outer cap, and then the extractors would peel off layers of this soft ass metal the interior nut was made of before it ever cracked the lug loose. Had to drill the stud out.

>>1999948
Wtf happened to those knock offs, the ones you just hit with a mallet

>>1999948
>expanding lugnuts

they also tried to sell me 4 sets of replacement lugnuts at $7-25ea set. can i just find these on the ground at pick n pull? are lugnut threadings universal?

the expanded lugnuts are still on my girls 2011 sienna van, i just bought a wrong-sized socket that has a better fit. do i need to replace these lugnuts now before we run into trouble?

>>1999957
Kek. They still have the single nuts on some high performance cars, like the fancy 911s, the GT2 RS and shit, they have them but you will never change that on the side of the road unless you keep a 4ft breaker bar or big impact wrench with you.

I’m guessing those weren’t as effective as multiple studs and nuts for different reasons. Also possibly safety, one loose lug nut and 4 tight ones on a wheel won’t kill you.

>>1999960
No, it’s not universal threads. Plus some have the tapered end where it goes into the wheel, some are flat. When I replaced the one in the pic, Vatozone tried to sell me the wrong threads, I had cross referenced it with Rock Auto and I think they changed from metric threads to SAE one of those years and AZ’s website was fucked up. And then when I told VatoZone guy to give me the proper thread with the acorn tapered shape, I ended up with some 15/16 nut size or 21mm instead of the 19mm-3/4” that was on the car.

Also if you use anti-seize and torque the nuts properly, hopefully you won’t have an issue. Keeping a HF breaker bar in the car isn’t a bad idea because the roadside emergency kits are often dogshit. If I get my wheels messed with at a shop, I will re-torque them when I get home because so many shops just slam the fuckers on with air tools, that’s why I had the issue in the first place.

>>1999992
Yeah you got a point there also>>1999960 just bring in a nut to canadian tire or something, they usually have a little rack with nuts and bolts with the lugnuts so yo can identify the threads, its like 20$ for new lugnuts, the roadside shit is in fact bullshit so its cheap insurance to swap them out and keep a breaker bar instead

>>1999999
>>2000000

>>1999992
It's good practice to carry a toolbag with a simple deep socket set, swivel adapter, rachet, extender, open ended wrenches, steel hammer and breaker bar in the trunk for these reasons. Imagine having a serpentine pulley work its way loose and having to call a tow truck or bother one of your friends with a rescue mission cause you don't have a 1/2in wrench to bolt it back down with.

>>2000000
>>1999999

>>1999906
>aluminum lug nuts
Surely you mean aluminum wrapped steel lug nuts, ....right?

can i find lugnuts for my gfs 2011 siena minivan on the floor at pick-n-pull?

if not, where can i find them for less than $20 for (4) sets of lugnuts

>vehicle grinds to a halt
>lolwut.jpg
>check engine
>apply oils
>try her again
>nothing
>pray to the machine spirit
>holyshit.jpg

made it in time to defend holy terra from heretic scum
emperor protects/10

>>1999370

I was a few friends 20 yrs ago in my Mazda 626, took a bend to fast, back whipped out lost control, did a 180 spin, slammed into the gutter and bent the rear right axle. Wheel was hanging out the side, smashed the windscreen too. Couldn’t see shit. Drove to the garage 3 kms up the road with the bent axle and munted wheel.

>Driving down the road With my head out the window. car shaking and bopping up and down, while pumping the prodigy out of my house speakers with my tape deck

>>1989391
Not really broken down but I got rear ended in my crapbox civic and the frame was bent a bit and the trunk wouldn’t close. Obviously didn’t want to pay to fix anything on this pos, even though I got a nice check from the driver’s insurance, so I used my jack to jack the bent frame back in position enough for the trunk to close and drove it around for a good few more years before retiring it. Built a new computer instead with the insurance money.

>>1989948
Sure anon, but other than rape why take those specific items, and not others?

>>1989391
Never really had to improvise on the road, the only one I can think of is:
>run out of LPG
>LPG only ute, not petrol tank
>walk to servo, get jerry can of petrol
>fill washer bottle with petrol
>rerun hose to air filter box
>give the air filter a big splash for good measure
>turn key
>IT'S ALIVE
>drive 2km to servo using careful throttle control and spurts from the washers

As for paddock bombs I have done all kinds of retarded shit:
>replace broken throttle cable with string running in window
>weld diff to fix broken spider gears
>stop clutch slipping by cutting groves into flywheel with angle grinder
>replace broken fuel pump with roof mounted jerry can, actually brought a new fuel pump after roof mounted fire
>filled punctured tubeless tire with grass

>>1989947
>Car requires a long rigid tool to start
>Pic related
I'll be honest anon, I thought your post was gonna go in a different direction

>>2000522
If you read through some of these stories anon, I used my knife to pop my car into gear for one>>1989947

>>2000544
This fucking guy kek
>>2000579
My dick isn't that long

>>2000416
This is a quality shitpost

>be teen
>take my little sister hiking
>beater 1989 Escort hatch
>on the way to a trailhead
>road is rough and long
>road ends
>road is wrong road
>irritated
>drive back out long rough road
>sister is getting nervous because she thinks we're lost
>irritated
>engine stalls
>cranks, no start
>miles from civilization on a road that doesn't go anywhere
>damn it
>irritated
>"god fucking damn it"
>sister is deeply concerned with situation
>IRRITATED
>say something needlessly cruel and exit car in a huff
>pop hood, smell gasoline
>fuel line is flapping around
>stuff it back on the nipple
>get back in car
>sister is crying quietly
>I'm a monster
>reassure sister
>car starts
>no fire
>basically history's greatest hero
>give up on hiking and go home
>imouto thinks I can fix cars
>everybody clapped
Worst story ever.

>>2000817
Never go hiking or camping with women

>>1989947
i have the same knife, always comes in handy. only downside is that the clip tends to come loose and the screws feel easy to strip. excellent otherwise

>>2000817
did you get a blowjob at least?

>>2000915
I got something even better: the fleeting admiration of a precious little sister.

>>2000212
Shit I would just bring a bolt the same size as her studs and go to town searching. They may not be a matching set but im sure you'll find something.

OP here. Making this thread must have cursed me. Last night I drove to grab some take out and when I got back into my truck to start it it just made a horrific grinding sound. Got under the truck and the starter was bolted down right so I was clueless. I was at th bottom of a very slight hill too so I wasn't able to skateboard push the the truck to roll start speeds. manager came out and saw me struggling and went back inside and came back out with 3 linemen from the local high school football team that worked there part time busing tables. They were (easily) able to get me to the top of the hill so I could roll start it on the other side. Made me feel like a beta lmao. I suspect that my flywheel is fucked and the starter gear is not engaging right. Now I get to pull my transmission in the middle of winter.

>>2000910
I noticed that too, getting loose. Clean everything nice and blue lockouts. Wouldn't be a bad idea to bend the clip in a bit. The screws are fine to tighten hand tight. If you don't know what that is i can explain but its basically wrist tight

>>2000975
Loctite**

>>2000959
dont feel like a beta, you gave local footballers a chance to use their skills in everyday life

>>2001003
Hopefully they walked away w a lesson on how to roll start if they didn't already know how

>tfw cat lady neighbor blew a coolant hose last night
So she called her boomer friend who is sort of all over the place. I showed up first, saw the hose popped off, was just putting that back on when he pulled up. He’s a boomer and I’m just a millennial, seemed to me that this Honda had the temp sensor on the fan side go off, so it got hot at idle and blew the hose. Fans were still good, I turned the AC on and they went full blast, but not when the temp gauge got up. Boomer logic, he dumped coolant in and we jumped one of the fan connectors to get her car home, but he was never really concerned with bleeding the air out of the cooling system, so he tells her to hop in the car and try to get home and the temp gauge is way up before we get out of this parking lot, then he starts ranting about the thermostat and leaking radiator and this and that.

Anyway, we dumped more water in and that with the jumped fan was enough to get home, and I ordered the temp sensor so boomer guy could pick it up and put it in cat lady’s car. The whole day cat lady is telling me boomer was doing this and that, one minute it’s the thermostat and next it’s a clog in the system and next it’s a leaking radiator. I told the lady I’m not getting in the middle of it if boomer is going to keep messing with it.

It’s amazing how impatient boomers are when it comes to troubleshooting, and how fast they will bounce around and act like the cat lady needs a new radiator after seeing some steam when he was at it this morning, not remembering that the entire contents of the cooling system had been pumped all over the emgine bay a few hours before.

Electric fan doesn’t kick on, fuse still has power, turns on with AC and runs when jumped, why are you going to bounce around to thermostat and leaking radiator and clogged coolant passages after seeing that?!

>>2001155
Your doing everything right bro, do not let that boomer push you around. Tell that stupid fuck you do the cheapest and easiest thing first and that's not changing the radiator

>>2001519
No he didn’t. Sunday night we were working in the parking lot, then I ordered the sensor and he installed it in the morning and then was boomer-ing out when they saw some steam. I told cat lady it’s most likely just coolant they spilled, and today she says boomer was there again and says it looks good.

I’m going to do a flush for her soon I think. The car had blue coolant in there, we added a half full VatoZone bottle, a half full Advance bottle, a quart of tap water, and then I think he poured in some more Carquest 50/50 when he changed the sensor.

>>2001596
Idk what all you put on there but you really want to avoid mixing coolant, do you know how to so a proper flush? Id recommend zerex coolant if you're going to go through the trouble

>>2001657
It originally had the Jappo Blue coolant, my Yamaha scoot has the same stuff. She was going to bring it to the dealer when she thought there was still an issue, I told her to do a flush and they could pressure test that bitch and everything while she was there. But I try to keep her away from that place, they quoted her $800 for a motor mount and a vtec solenoid gasket, I told her fuck that, I ordered the stuff from RockAuto, did the mount a couple months ago, and I’m going to do the gasket along with an oil change probably this weekend.

>>2001718
Not familiar with Hondas but if you wanted a motor mount and whatever 800 seems normal as a leaf

>>2001801
Yeah it’s normal for the dealer, but it’s a fucking ripoff. The motor mount from RockAuto was like $11, and that’s not even the cheap one, but the better aftermarket. Put a jack under the motor, 3 bolts out, 3 bolts in, take the jack out.

The gasket was only a few bucks, it’s some solenoid bolted on the engine block, I think that’s like 2 bolts and doesn’t look too bad to reach. Might lose some oil, so I’ll do it while I’m doing an oil change and swap the thing while the old oil is draining. $800 for 2 hours in the garage (doing it for the first time, motor mount would be 10min for a Honda mechanic who has done it a bunch of times), and <$30 shipped from RockAuto.

I kind of hate volunteering for the work, but this lady runs a cat rescue and spends all her money on vet bills and cat food trying to trap and neuter all the stray cats, so I’m not trying to see her pay $800 for shit I could get done after work before dinner is ready. Boomer guy is the same, he doesn’t have time for the work, but neither of us wants to see her go pay Honda $400 for a $30 sensor and some coolant.

>>1989391
Idk how well this fits but I was moving halfway across the country with everything I owned in a subaru
>Going pretty ok, leave early morning
>Drive all day through washington and idaho
>Getting late, want to push through mountains in montana
>While driving down slick montana slopes on roads totally obscured by packed snow my alternator breaks
>100% battery power for lights, engine, tranny
>Voltmeter slowly ticking down from 12 volts
>Just as I reach a lone gas station in the middle of nowhere the battery starts flagging, I lose brightness, shifting power and my dash goes crazy with warnings
>Swap spare into car
>Super fucking cold and dark, gas station is closed
>Limp into big timber MN to the super 8
>Been up almost 24 hours of stress and cold
>Research my options
>Best bet is a 400 dollar taxi ride to billings for a non oem alternator
>Second best is dragging it to bohunk mechanic and waiting a week, missing getting the keys for my new place and first day at new job
>No idea if it'll work right
>Get to billings, drop another few hundo on alt and tools to replace it
>Taxi driver is super into wacky theories like ayy lmaos
>Actually changing the alt is fairly easy, less than fifteen minutes job
>Start up car
>Check engine light
>Not enough volts lmao
>Still putting out 12 volts tho so I'm ok
>New battery
>Limp another 600 miles to my new home
>New battery is toast lmao

And then I bought a used alt on ebay that was broken and toasted the big boy fuse so my car was undrivable for another week

Two years later I sell the Subaru and buy a camry

>>1989391
>self employed
>working on a project a little too big for me so working 80 hour weeks
>pay shit mechanic to swap out the carrier bearing in truck out of sheer tiredness and necesity. (tacoma uses a 2 piece driveshaft)
>driving to jobsite early in the morning and drive shaft breaks lose from transmission
>unmount the drive shaft from the rear differential with a channel lock and vice grip
>pop truck into 4x4 and drive it as front wheel drive for a week until I had time to fix it myself.
>dumbass didn't tighten the bolts

>>1999307
I've been laughing hysterically at this gif for about 5 minutes now

>car always runs kind of hot
>overheats on 45°C day
>turns out the thermostat isn't opening
>remove thermostat
It's been like that ever since, thermostats are for fags.

>>1989391
I always carry one or two gallons of distilled water because when my radiator hose broke I was able to pour that in as a substitute until I was home

>>2001813
Based, I hate cats because they kill wildlife but if she's doing something about it then I'd help out, I stopped working on other peoples cars a while ago but if it's that easy then why rhe fuck not.
>>2001961
Kek, food thing tou had the front as an option, I just did a carrier not too long ago. My stands aren't that big and I only have 2 anyway so I was about to buy some ramps when I had an idea. There's a retaining wall next to the driveway that goes from 1 brick to 4 tall. Back that fucker up on it, pop the embrace and get some chocks under the front. Can practically do cartwheels under it

>>2001813
>giving away your precious free time while taking food off of other mechanics tables

You arent the knight in shining armor you think you are.

>>2002394
>old lady breaks down on road, cant get tire off
Sorry can't help, tow truck driver needs to eat
>dead battery, need boost
Sorry bro, not worth my time
>stuck in mud or snow
I hope tou have caa, I didnt buy this 4x4 for other people to use
>mom needs an oil change
Going to have to take it to jiffy lube, i ain't getting paid for this
>neighbour needs to fill up his tires
Thats what gas stations are for dude
>buddy wants to borrow my code reader
Just take it to the dealer man, fuck
>hey you mind giving me a lift to the part store, I forgot something and my cars apart
Fuck you man, you never help me

You must be a charming fellow

>>2002394
>no fun
>don't help your friends and family
>you WILL take it to the mechanic and you WILL do the grubhub dance out of happy consumer fulfillment.

>>2002394
It’s ok, she can pay the Honda techs double when I totally fuck something up. Also Home Depot and the tool companies are doing pretty good.

I told her to fuck off when the starter went tho. I had googled it to see what it’s like on that car, saw the whole intake manifold had to come off and come in from the top and I had a bunch of shit to do that weekend. Boomer guy didn’t google, he said “Sure, it’s just a couple bolts” and he tried to start it one afternoon after work and gave up at like 10pm with all of these parts laying in her driveway overnight and had to finish it the next day.

There will be another sucker for the Honda techs.

>Be driving down a treacherous path
>just as I pass through the core my vehicle breaks down
>Doesnt matter im just gonna walk
>get arrested for walking to highway
>put in mental institutions for over 1 year
>chemical lobotomy
>wean myself out of the system

/2
>Setting up plans to assist captured persons in instutions with their escape and temporary housing
Should I buy a caddy with 100.000km for 2k?

>>2004469
>Caddy
While Vans are ridiculously expensive in Ger, these high roof wagon thingies are at a rock bottom price.
Now people say they are like only 2/3 as big but then think about it, a rough caddy goes for sub 1000 bucks, a rough van of the same year for like 5k Double-tripple that for age or condition changes. Point is that you easily pa a premium by a factor of 5x for mediocre gains. And that's like that for VW/Opel, the Frenchies, Italians and so on.

>>1989450
Haha I've done that before with a bit of old rope on a lawnmower when I was 12. Felt like McGuyver.

>>1989947
Janky cars are the best anti-thief device. My '04 Suzuki Jimny (Samurai) has a fucked gearbox: the stick cannot be put into reverse unless it's pushed up into fifth and then down into reverse, and the first gear literally does nothing. The only way to pull off is to put the car in second and very carefully pad the gas pedal. It's been like that since I bought the car in 2008 and honestly I wouldn't change it. If Jamal tries to jack my ride they'll just stall it again and again.

>>2004822
ever turned your engine off standing at elevation?

>>2001961
did you get your money back?

>>1998450
absolute /diy/-virgin zoomer. transmissions have been being called trannies since before trannies were being called trannies

>>1999372
kek and based prideboat

I drove a dodge dakota 45 miles on a radiator hose half made of duct tape, stopping frequently to add more water from drinking bottles I had in the truck for the camping trip. Not really interesting but saved me an expensive tow. I always keep water and duct tape in my cars now.

>>2006475
Also transformers & transistors

>>2006478
>THe_KvD !ZNBx60Gj/k 01/15/21(Fri)01:36:47 No.2003530▶
>File: image.jpg (1.33 MB, 4032x3024)
>>>2002394
>It’s ok, she can pay the Honda techs double when I totally fuck something up. Also Home Depot and the tool companies are doing pretty good.
>I told her to fuck off when the starter went tho. I had googled it to see what it’s like on that car, saw the whole intake manifold had to come off and come in from the top and I had a bunch of shit to do that weekend. Boomer guy didn’t google, he said “Sure, it’s just a couple bolts” and he tried to start it one afternoon after work and gave up at like 10pm with all of these parts laying in her driveway overnight and had to finish it the next day.
>There will be another sucker for the Honda techs.
>>>
> Anonymous 01/16/21(Sat)03:30
It's only gay if you are cucked enough to brand everything that isn't greyscales as gay.

>>2000544
>roof mounted fire
Fucking lel

>>2006745
what is this mess of a post
anyway like I said based rainboawt. pretty gay anon, love that 4u <3

>>2006623
Transmissions ya but I never heard it for transformers and transistors, I only ever heard that on /diy/ and it seemed like a forced meme.

> be 5 years old
> on the road with Mum in our old Fiat 126
> she stops at a fuel station to get snacks
> leaves key in ignition
> returns and car won't start
> I remember my dad told me, that the fuel pump keeps on running when ignition is on and floods the engine
> I tell her to take the key out and wait 5 Minutes
> car starts
> Mum tells everybody how I fixed the car

>>2007818
>>>1989391 (OP)
>Idk how well this fits but I was moving halfway across the country with everything I owned in a subaru
>>Going pretty ok, leave early morning
>>Drive all day through washington and idaho
>>Getting late, want to push through mountains in montana
>>While driving down slick montana slopes on roads totally obscured by packed snow my alternator breaks
>>100% battery power for lights, engine, tranny
>>Voltmeter slowly ticking down from 12 volts
>>Just as I reach a lone gas station in the middle of nowhere the battery starts flagging, I lose brightness, shifting power and my dash goes crazy with warnings
>>Swap spare into car
>>Super fucking cold and dark, gas station is closed
>>Limp into big timber MN to the super 8
>>Been up almost 24 hours of stress and cold
>>Research my options
>>Best bet is a 400 dollar taxi ride to billings for a non oem alternator
>>Second best is dragging it to bohunk mechanic and waiting a week, missing getting the keys for my new place and first day at new job
>>No idea if it'll work right
>>Get to billings, drop another few hundo on alt and tools to replace it
>>Taxi driver is super into wacky theories like ayy lmaos
>>Actually changing the alt is fairly easy, less than fifteen minutes job
>>Start up car
>>Check engine light
>>Not enough volts lmao
>>Still putting out 12 volts tho so I'm ok
>>New battery
>>Limp another 600 miles to my new home
>>New battery is toast lmao
>And then I bought a used alt on ebay that was broken and toasted the big boy fuse so my car was undrivable for another week
>Two years later I sell the Subaru and buy a camry
>>>
> Anonymous 01/13/21(Wed)01:55:15 No.2001961▶>>2002392 >>2005803
>>>1989391 (OP)
>>self employed
>>working on a project a little too big for me so working 80 hour weeks

Are you gay?

>>1989947
based spyderco bro

>>1990434
>not dragging with the starter in 1st gear to get moving
what's the point of a manual if you don't know how to use it?

>>2008445
okay cool I thought this was a troll in the first place but now that you've made the post even more messy I'm sure. thanks for the clarification and like I said thanks for being open about your support by using your rainboawt! <3

>>1989391
ignition coil replacement on the backside of an engine in the middle of fucking winter
fucking automakers putting coil on plugs way back in the engine bay where you have to take a bunch of shit off to get to them... fuckers deserve to lose their jobs

>>2008461
modern cars have lockouts on clutch for this

>>1993182
rear disk brakes all have drums on the ebrake retardo

>>2008600
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>>2008617
>he doesn't know

>>2006478
>>2007818
>>2008600
Gay.

>>2008681
i'm not the one with a rainboawt, lol

>>2008682
But you're the faggot obsessing about selective symbolism.

>>2008686
you're the one so threatened by it. i was making a note about how glad I am he's supportive. just saying something nice. =) idk why you're responding so much, I'd say losing your marbles over someone complementing someone is a lot more obsessive

>>2008695
k

>>2008697
I figured you'd see it my way! =) If you really are rainboawt guy, thanks for your contribution to this thread! It's been really enjoyable overall!