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The "Indians fixing stuff" thread

So what i figure is that these guys pull a piece of trash out, do some shit, get a million views on YouTube, get paid and throw the thing back in the trash.
I imagine they make more from a single YouTube video than they do in a whole year otherwise.

Edit: like those people building primitive shelters and shit but there's track marks in the dirt.
 
87manche said:
So what i figure is that these guys pull a piece of trash out, do some shit, get a million views on YouTube, get paid and throw the thing back in the trash.
I imagine they make more from a single YouTube video than they do in a whole year otherwise.

Edit: like those people building primitive shelters and shit but there's track marks in the dirt.
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Plausible...but it sure took a lot of effort and energy to fab out the big ass gears from scratch, for YouTube views. Seems like they had several of them in the background ready to go.
 
This one is domestic. I wonder how much the crank moved after all that welding.

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billybob_81067 said:
And you've never had a radiator with scale build up inside that needed rodded out or dipped?
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I made the mistake of rodding out a rad
leaked everywhere afterwords, maybe the older ones got thicker tubes, but a '93 ford rad just don't like that kinda cleaning action
 
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I made the mistake of rodding out a rad
leaked everywhere afterwords, maybe the older ones got thicker tubes, but a '93 ford rad just don't like that kinda cleaning action
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I tried filling one with muriatic acid hoping it would chemically dissolve the scale buildup. I ended up just getting a new one anyhow because I don't know wtf I'm doing. :laughing:

But yeah I'd imagine a heavy equipment radiator probably has thicker tubes and fins and everything is just beefier.

I have successfully soldered up a leak in an old cat 12 grader radiator.

I have unsuccessfully tried to patch up a tube on an aftermarket aluminum radiator for my 7.3idi. Maybe I need to channel my inner Pakastani more. :flipoff2:
 
billybob_81067 said:
I tried filling one with muriatic acid hoping it would chemically dissolve the scale buildup. I ended up just getting a new one anyhow because I don't know wtf I'm doing. :laughing:

But yeah I'd imagine a heavy equipment radiator probably has thicker tubes and fins and everything is just beefier.

I have successfully soldered up a leak in an old cat 12 grader radiator.

I have unsuccessfully tried to patch up a tube on an aftermarket aluminum radiator for my 7.3idi. Maybe I need to channel my inner Pakastani more. :flipoff2:
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oh don't get me wrong, I ran that shit with well water and finely ground black pepper until it plugged all the pinholes up
only figured out it was full of holes after I'd soldered the end tank back on, so at that point I was committed (and wasn't going to knock both tanks off to plug the leaking tubes)

still gotta decide if I'm gonna buy a fan clutch or run a steel strap from one of the fan bolts to one of the WP pulley bolts (well, two of them identical for balance reasons)
 
Not exactly Indian, but close... (click on "video on Facebook").
 
Norm said:
How do the water jackets not leak :confused:
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In theory you cut a section out of the top of the head so you have access to weld the back side of shit and then you weld/braze the top back on.

I doubt they put that much effort in over there. Probably just weld what they can and epoxy what they can't. :laughing:
 
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