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All you fuckers living in rusty places

[memphis] said:
This is the money making jobs up here. $100 per line plus time. Straight time.
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on one car that is well known shop-wide for being terrifying to put on a hoist because it has broken in half before and will do so again (he got some other shop to scab it back together)
I got them to pay me 8hr to replace the rear brake lines (in a couple hours)
 
Ummduh said:
I got that done a couple weeks ago

This weekend is putting the winter project up on jackstands.

How do fair weather state people justify 6 month projects if they can actually use their shit all the time? It's the perfect excuse here. 4 months of driving, the rest of the time it's taken apart
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I’m trying to get a few projects done so I can get back to my blazer after Xmas . Sled deck needs wood, bike engine to rebuild and few loads a dirt for the lawn gonna be a busy month
 
Steve300xcw said:
Fuck that
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Exactly, he paid us quite well to do it however we could've made more doing other stuff. EVERYTHING we touched broke except the 2 fuel tank studs. Stupid odd ball fittings had me drilling the lines out of them and wire wheeling them so we could reuse them. I had to drill and tap new holes for the hoses to mount to cause the bolts all broke off. It just was a massive time suck. Bending out the lines and flaring them was the easy part.
 
Steve300xcw said:
Fuck that
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No shit :laughing:


The second gen Dodge rear u bolts tend to rust away due to dodges genius idea of the u bolt plates being a cup to hold all the dirt and road grime around them until failure but that's about the extent of it in my world. Fuck everything about living in the rust belt and being into cars. :homer:
 
DWT said:
No shit :laughing:


The second gen Dodge rear u bolts tend to rust away due to dodges genius idea of the u bolt plates being a cup to hold all the dirt and road grime around them until failure but that's about the extent of it in my world. Fuck everything about living in the rust belt and being into cars. :homer:
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chevies in the gmt400 era were the same configuration
u bolts rusted down into toothpicks just where the bracket thing holds salt water for half the summer
 
subybaja said:
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I think the red corner of Illinois is where they pull the salt from under Lake Michigan. They salt the roads in south east Michigan when snow is forecasted just laying it down on dry roads and sometimes it doesn’t even snow :shaking:
 
KrustyTJ said:
I think the red corner of Illinois is where they pull the salt from under Lake Michigan. They salt the roads in south east Michigan when snow is forecasted just laying it down on dry roads and sometimes it doesn’t even snow :shaking:
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We're just on the other side of lake huron.... It isn't even cold enough and the cities have already started brining the bridges....

Nothing like spraying bridges with corrosive shit that will rot out the rebar in said bridge and all the columns.
 
yall can have all that shit. I'll deal with sweaty nuts for 2 months instead. fk salt and all the asshole cops and stuff that go with it! its bad enough dealing with the 4 months of cold we get here.
 
Winchested said:
We're just on the other side of lake huron.... It isn't even cold enough and the cities have already started brining the bridges....

Nothing like spraying bridges with corrosive shit that will rot out the rebar in said bridge and all the columns.
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brine is better than rock salt. Hits the target, less waste, and less salt in general.
 
Winchested said:
We're just on the other side of lake huron.... It isn't even cold enough and the cities have already started brining the bridges....

Nothing like spraying bridges with corrosive shit that will rot out the rebar in said bridge and all the columns.
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There is so much failing infrastructure throughout the northeast, and i can't see even a small percentage being fixed before failure. Columns crumbling, bridge steel with rust holes in can fit my hand through.
 
Winchested said:
How old is "newer"? I mean they been using almost the same truck "classic" for like 15-20 years...
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It was less than 10 years old and had like 80k on it. I can look it up Monday and see for sure.

Steve300xcw said:
Why would you even bother fixing it?
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Wasn't my choice, these days everyone wants to fix their shitbox cause new and used vehicle prices are outlandish.
 
larboc said:
Source? Units? If thats on an annual basis it's not correct. The Keweenaw peninsula of michigan uses 10,000x+ more salt per year than Tulsa. We get two 1000' ore boats a year delivered.
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dude just posts a map with no context.

"The model’s predictions for where road salt concentrations will stabilize in 461,567 lakes and reservoirs larger than 2.5 acres. Each point on the map represents a lake or reservoir. The predictions assume that road density and salt application rate per unit of road remain constant at mean 2010-2015 levels. Credit: Solomon, C.T., Dugan, H.A., Hintz, W.D., Jones, S.E. (2023). Upper limits for road salt pollution in lakes. Limnology and Oceanography Letters."

phys.org

Road salt pollution in many US lakes could stabilize at or below thresholds set by the EPA

Since de-icing with road salt began in the 1930s, the salinity of lakes across much of the US has been steadily increasing, posing a potential threat to aquatic life and drinking water supplies.
phys.org phys.org
 
Dethmachinefab said:
There is so much failing infrastructure throughout the northeast, and i can't see even a small percentage being fixed before failure. Columns crumbling, bridge steel with rust holes in can fit my hand through.
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maintenance doesn't pay off like replacement does


ETA for the slow ones: in bribes and kickbacks
 
[486] said:
drill a little hole 3/8" deep in the end of some bar stock
get yourself a junked out big truck u-joint
use the needle rollers as disposable pin punches stuck in the hole
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What’s wrong with using a regular punch? Besides buying it?
 
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Thatg9659 said:
I just love drilling out seized cotter pins in bj’s and tre’s, a little grease can go a long way.
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Just snip them off, put a wrench/socket on and yank. The pin won't stop you, it'll tear and get threaded on the way off. I almost never pull them these days unless I'm saving the part for some reason.
 
At least a BMW can live in the snowbelt for 20 years before a rust bubble appears. Domestic garbage won't have rockers or fenders in 10 years. :shaking: Too bad the Germans don't make any real pickups though.
 
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