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Lunch of Champions!
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@Xenophon @Evil_Bender @charliebrownau The damage for a sparkplug change is $10 for the plug, maybe $20 if you have dual plugs like some of the ram trucks. Could also people coils, or the sign of greater problems (piston rings beginning to fail). Best to pull the plug and check how it looks vs a new one. Is it covered in oil or carbon? Check the gap with a $3 measuring tool you can buy at the auto parts store. If the gap looks good and it's not oily, you swap it with a new one and save the old one just in case. If the problem doesn't go away, swap the ignition coils around (assuming it's individual packs).
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I need society and the banking cartels to collapse. Think of all the free time for subsistence farming you'll have everyone!
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soon enough my friend. soon enough.
oh and while i have you here, what is the normal damage for something like a spark plug change? I have an engine that is misfiring
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They all drink river water and eat hand foraged berries and home grown chickens.
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I would love to do that. But I live in the real world.
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@Evil_Bender Proceessed goyslop with posion soda with posion sugar
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Probably, but what isn't? I have a career and bills. I don't have an extra 18 hours a day to raise my livestock and crops.
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@Xenophon @Evil_Bender @charliebrownau Chasing down misfires is satisfying diagnostic autism.
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@Evil_Bender @Xenophon @charliebrownau I'm suggesting that Marbleavius Statuequavius Autismavius do his own spark plugs. It's a good skill to learn.
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Shops are flat rate, which is well over $135/hr even on a straight forward they'll hit you 1 hr diag and up to 2 hours labor. More if it's labor intensive
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@Evil_Bender @Xenophon @charliebrownau Sounds like a fun job, honestly. I know it beats you up and you're around chemicals that are fine in small doses but probably cause nerve damage over time (brakleen), but I love fixing engines and mechanical things.
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All I do is fix shit
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Common repair, oil module gasket failure. Gotta pull the water module the turbo drain all the fluids, good times.
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@Evil_Bender @Xenophon @charliebrownau It sucks that DIY auto maintenance stuff is becoming harder in the age of turbos and fancy sealed transmissions.
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@BowsacNoodle @Evil_Bender @Xenophon @charliebrownau my mom wants to buy me a 2001 chevy minivan
cuz it's cheap and i need a car vehicle thing.
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@monsterislandcolonizer @Evil_Bender @BowsacNoodle @Xenophon @charliebrownau that's another reason i hope this place don't sell and i can just live here, i got a really nice 2 car garage that my real grandpa built.
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Even in my free time I turn wrenches. I'm good at it, I have some kind of retarded rainman thing with mechanical stuff.
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@Evil_Bender @BowsacNoodle @Xenophon @charliebrownau Tfwno detached garage
I need to move
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I just need to finish mine so I can hang out in there 24/7 like my old one
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The real limit to wrenching at home is computer diagnostics. I can personally tell you that what keeps people out. This 1 box of adapter cables was almost $2k and this is my personal set. This isnt even the software to do the diag with, just the interface.
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@Evil_Bender @Xenophon @charliebrownau I've learn a good bit of stuff from Eric The Car Guy and random poorly made YouTube videos shot unedited on some dude's phone, but I feel totally clueless when it comes to dealing with wiring and electrical past putting in a buck(breaker) converter to wire LEDs where they aren't meant to go or rigging an automatic headlight circuit.
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@Evil_Bender @Xenophon @charliebrownau I remember chasing down a random misfire on my buddy's Honda and it was like every damn thing on earth only to realize that there's a weird flaw that hits cylinder 4 on a lot of the V6 engines.
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Erik the car guy is good I like his stuff. If you have tools, patience, an internet connection and some basic mechanical knowledge it's all easy.
This was an $800 upgrade. Half hour online and I found a company that makes the sales code flash kit and the OEM switch. $400. YouTube is your friend.
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Im all for doing stuff myself. Its more fun, but also its not worth the time if i might just fuck it up
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@givenup @Evil_Bender @Xenophon @charliebrownau Early 2000s vehicles are like the sweet spot for a lot of stuff where it's still easy to diy service but it's more refined than old things. Minivans are sick because you can carry a full sheet of plywood or drywall in it. Watch out for Dodge and Chrysler transmissions though.
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@BowsacNoodle @Evil_Bender @Xenophon @charliebrownau i said it was a chevy lol
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@givenup @Evil_Bender @Xenophon @charliebrownau Glossed over that on accident my bad. I know nothing about Chevy minivans.
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Make the potential buyers believe it is haunted. Possibly on Indian burial grounds
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@KennyWhitePowers @Evil_Bender @Xenophon @BowsacNoodle @charliebrownau @monsterislandcolonizer this land used to be inabbited by a pony pasture, my mom's dad owned across the road and lived on that land, and had a pony pasture right here where i live
my mom remembers that well LOL
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Are you the owner, or is someone else selling it?
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@KennyWhitePowers @Evil_Bender @Xenophon @BowsacNoodle @charliebrownau @monsterislandcolonizer my mom owns it, the way they did it to avoid inheritance at all, was my grandma and grandpa sold her the house years ago with a stipulation that they could live there until they died. so she's always owned htishouse since hten< but it wasn't vacant till november last year.
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See, it's a danger to cave in at any moment. Nobody should buy it for safety reasons.
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@KennyWhitePowers @Evil_Bender @Xenophon @BowsacNoodle @charliebrownau @monsterislandcolonizer no, but we have a bottomless well into a mineshaft if you want
shady coal company dug under this land partially evne tho he had no right. long timea go.
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@KennyWhitePowers @Evil_Bender @Xenophon @BowsacNoodle @charliebrownau @monsterislandcolonizer to this fuckin' day, the well in the back yard has been filled in like 20 times
and it keeps sinking in
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A pony pasture BUILT ON A GRAVEYARD
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@givenup @KennyWhitePowers @Evil_Bender @Xenophon @charliebrownau @monsterislandcolonizer Has anyone gone exploring down there?
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@Evil_Bender @BowsacNoodle @Xenophon @charliebrownau Took the van in to the dealer for a new ignition module (total chrysler engineer death) and they handed me $15k worth of suggested repairs, including $550 for spark plugs and $400 for a power steering flush
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@poastoak @Evil_Bender @Xenophon @charliebrownau >power steering flush
Honestly, that one disgusts me. You can cycle your fluid with a hand pump, shop vac, or even a turkey baster, and that's if you're being lazy and don't want to properly disconnect hoses. I think flushing fluids is an actually a good idea, and too many people ignore it on brake lines and other stuff.
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Service departments are the only reason dealerships make money.
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@KennyWhitePowers @Evil_Bender @Xenophon @BowsacNoodle @charliebrownau @monsterislandcolonizer i acutally use it as a burn pit since it's a circle sunk into the ground, and if it caves in WELL, oh well, have to get like a cover for it or something at that point tbh, don't need to lose no dogs or other animals down it.
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@poastoak @Evil_Bender @Xenophon @charliebrownau They definitely make a killing on it. Maybe they're swapping fluids and using OEM everything along the way. I know some of the glorious Nipon auto makers have tranny fluid folded over 10,000 times or something because they charge 5x the regular ATF price for smaller bottles.
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@BowsacNoodle @Evil_Bender @Xenophon @charliebrownau $499 for a transmission cooler line replacement. I got the part for $35 and had it done in 45 minutes. Only tools used were a pick and a trim screwdriver, and a 10mm socket to remove the hood latch crossmember to access easier.
Book time on that couldn't have been more than half an hour, even if they put in a mopar instead of the dorman part it's absolutely mental
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@KennyWhitePowers @Evil_Bender @Xenophon @BowsacNoodle @charliebrownau @monsterislandcolonizer my tiller came in a big crate, i turned that crate into a pen for baby chicks to be raised in away from da parents, i also took some wood off it and pulled nails out to save that wood for soemthing else.
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I have piles of lumber I scavenged from skids and pallets at work. Probably going to be the bulk of the material for my garden shed
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I do. I'm quite handy
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@KennyWhitePowers @Evil_Bender @Xenophon @BowsacNoodle @charliebrownau @monsterislandcolonizer i have to jerry rig everything since i'm poor, LOL i got piles of shit i keep around just in case so i don't ahve to buy something
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It's my own fault for being too damn handy
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@KennyWhitePowers @Evil_Bender @Xenophon @BowsacNoodle @charliebrownau @monsterislandcolonizer i dunno man,
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Oh no. That ding could wake her from the dead. I still play occasionally though
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@KennyWhitePowers @Evil_Bender @Xenophon @BowsacNoodle @charliebrownau @monsterislandcolonizer naw i just thought you were doing the meme of "i'm nothing but a workhorse to my significant other"
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My wife would hear the ding of the xbox from the garage and remind me of a project she needs me to work on
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@KennyWhitePowers @Evil_Bender @Xenophon @BowsacNoodle @charliebrownau @monsterislandcolonizer that's kinda fucked up, i'm sure you're just joking.
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My wife doesn't care. My old garage I had a sectional and my xbox in there. As long as I was home
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The wife might be watching. It isn't hanging out, it's "working on something". If they ask what just make up some technical sounding thing. The transradial inverter is acting up, so I'm going to give it a once over.
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@Evil_Bender @Xenophon @charliebrownau @poastoak isn't power steering the one where you can hook up a hose with a funnel to the inlet and a hose to a bucket on the "outlet" and just pour it through until it runs clean?
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IMHO never do a flush. Sediment settles to the bottom, pulling it back up thru the system is almost the single worst thing you can do.
Transmission - drop the pan and filter run fresh fluid thru top to pan. Replace filter and pan.
Power steering - drain and replace
Cooling system - drain and flush DO NOT suck fluid back thru the system. Modern engines are sand casted and you'll pull silicates back into the engine.
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@BowsacNoodle @Evil_Bender @Xenophon @charliebrownau I just disconnect the return line, push a piece of vinyl tubing over it running to an empty milk jug, and turn the wheel clock to clock 15 or 20 times until it's dry
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@poastoak @Evil_Bender @Xenophon @charliebrownau Yeah that's what I'm talking about. I used some of that mega thick honey looking stuff once in a car with a leaky pump and it actually gave me a week extra while my new pump came in.
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@poastoak @Evil_Bender @Xenophon @BowsacNoodle @charliebrownau surely this is a V6 crossover or minivan and you have to tear apart half the engine bay to reach the back 3 spark plugs
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@Evil_Bender @Xenophon @BowsacNoodle @charliebrownau Oops i misremembered they actually wanted $900 for the spark plugs
Is that just a fuck off price because they don't want the work or are mechanics really thinking an hour of labor is worth $850 in 2024
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@skylar @Evil_Bender @Xenophon @BowsacNoodle @charliebrownau It is a v6 minivan but you can get the plugs off with a universal joint with minimal effort
Unlike my 4banger ranger, had to pull the intake for that motherfucker
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