skully
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Close ....318 in a 1968 dodge charger
What have you done to your car today?
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Steve Vai
Endurance Guy: Tolerates most of us.
Few hard laps around the industrial park behind my house to set the suspension in. I adjusted the camber too aggressive on the passenger side so I have to fix that. It needs an oil change anyway so it’s a quick fix. Gonna wait for it to cool down to do the rear, it’s horrible outside.
iman29
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Copycat. !
Tires only 3 months old. I always buy the road hazard warranty and this repair/patch was zero doll hairs yesterday.
you guys riding in the gutter or something? i find punctures/nails to be fairly rare anymore. (and apparently car mfg agree since many arent including spare tires on cars/suvs anymore, not saying i agree with this move)
TommyF
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But the sealant you have to use makes them shimmy at highway speeds...
Finally got the parts together to swap out the air conditioning compressor clutch. I now 100% understand why shops won't do it and will only replace the compressor. Spent hours getting the old connectors off for the old stator and rigging up a new ground wire to the engine block as the bolt for the stator is completely inaccessible.
And I get to the point where I put the belt back on and I-just-can't-get-it-back-on. It was tight pushing it over the pulleys previously but no matter what I would do I could not get it on the pulleys. After forever struggling with it, realized the clutch pulley they sent me was the wrong size. So back on the old parts go once again...
This is all so I can have working A/C in my car, which so far I only had one day where I needed it.
And I get to the point where I put the belt back on and I-just-can't-get-it-back-on. It was tight pushing it over the pulleys previously but no matter what I would do I could not get it on the pulleys. After forever struggling with it, realized the clutch pulley they sent me was the wrong size. So back on the old parts go once again...
This is all so I can have working A/C in my car, which so far I only had one day where I needed it.
sundaydoug
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Track insurance. Costs me like $90/day for event weekends and they cut me a check for $20K if I do something really stupid. Not too bad of a deal.
I did the ac clutch(the bearing in the pulley went out on it) on my truck around Thanksgiving last year took me 1.5 hours and everything was accessible on ramps in the driveway....
You don't have a microvan. 🙂
The ground screw is on top of the A/C compressor and only accessible if you take the compressor off. Which I started to to but one of the bolts goes through two ears vs through the compressor casings and it's extremely rusted and looked like it was going to snap off. The force I was applying to that bolt and another one had me not wanting to be trying to get broken bolts out of my engine block.
And then the power wire's connector fused to the metal bracket it goes onto way down where I don't have a lot of clearance. Which I eventually got the connectors apart from each other, just can't re-attach to the bracket which is no big deal.
That was all a PITA, but not a huge deal, normal shit working on cars. Wasn't until I had the oversized pulley that it really became annoying.
I wanna say this is what you get for driving a Honda but I'm sure they aren't the only ones that pull this stupid shit
I think anything that uses a Denso air compressor.
First thing broken in 100+k. I would have ignored it but I like having the working defroster. Hardly use the AC.
mtn
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Yep. Bumper cover is optional. There for aesthetics and fuel mileage.
this was my situation as well
yea i hear ya on this (not that i would live without AC in the summer, but still) my situation would have eventually seized and destroyed the serpentine belt
as a side note, im amazed how many people dont know the car runs the a/c when the defrost is on
Finally got the correct parts for my A/C clutch. I ordered a "refurbished" kit from R&Y, even though they sold a new kit for not much more money. I'd happily have bought new but I had concerns I'd get the wrong sized pulley and figured refurbished I'd more likely get the right sized one. Exactly the same size as the stock one. Had to make a new ground wire to attach Stator to the top of the engine block vs to the top of the compressor but the 50th time R&Ring it's pretty easy..
Other PITA factor is I decided to replace the serpentine belt. Belt was so tight I actually took the A/C pulley back off, wrapped the belt around it to install the unstretched belt and re-installed the pulley.
Now I have:
A) Working A/C which I really only needed once this year and will probably not use for the remainder of the year except for the defroster.
B) Fog lights with bright LED lights for dark curvy country roads.
Oddly it seems you can buy regular Halogen lights or LED lights brighter than the sun. No in between.
And now that my A/C works again, has anyone had luck with those re-charge in a can kits? My A/C is pretty weak, always has been. Figured it's a low charge which seems to be common and I hate bringing my car to mechanics. Since I don't really need A/C it's not a high priority or something I want to throw money at.
Other PITA factor is I decided to replace the serpentine belt. Belt was so tight I actually took the A/C pulley back off, wrapped the belt around it to install the unstretched belt and re-installed the pulley.
Now I have:
A) Working A/C which I really only needed once this year and will probably not use for the remainder of the year except for the defroster.
B) Fog lights with bright LED lights for dark curvy country roads.
Oddly it seems you can buy regular Halogen lights or LED lights brighter than the sun. No in between.
And now that my A/C works again, has anyone had luck with those re-charge in a can kits? My A/C is pretty weak, always has been. Figured it's a low charge which seems to be common and I hate bringing my car to mechanics. Since I don't really need A/C it's not a high priority or something I want to throw money at.