Car Enthusiast Club [Now Motorcycle friendly!] - First thread to 150k! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[vetali]

3 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Similar, the snap ring jumped out when it hit the floor. I caught the ring trying to dislodge itself the day before when I grabbed it off my box and had noticed the ring was moving around to different locations on it's own which isn't something it had ever done before. I might put a little dab of silicone sealer or blue loctite on the new ratchet to help hold the snap ring from relocating itself over time.

I pretty much was like the "oh no, anyway" Jeremy Clarkson meme. I hoard ratchets. My backups have backups.

[IPD]

54 minutes ago, Bitter said:

So the other day pulling the turbo off a Saturn Sky I dropped my favorite ratchet, my Matco BFR8T. It hit the ground, popped open, and I'm missing the tiny spring that pushes the pawl up against the gear. Emailed Matco about the rebuild kit being out of stock and no distributors in the area, they emailed back to get my address to just send me a whole new BFR88 which is the newer model of the same ratchet. Awesome, especially since I found this ratchet under the hood of a stick shift 1st gen Toyota Rav4 lodged between trans and slave cylinder like 10yrs ago. That's some good customer service there!

I thought you were gonna say you lost the 10mm

[Bitter]

43 minutes ago, vetali said:

I pretty much was like the "oh no, anyway" Jeremy Clarkson meme. I hoard ratchets. My backups have backups.

I have several others even a pre Snap on JH Williams B52 Super ratchet with it's cool double pawl mechanism. But I like the Matco BFR8T for how thin it is and how finely it ratchets so it's my 'go to'. I've got a flex head soft grip long Snappy and fixed long handle Snappy as well. I don't have a huge amount of tools, I tend to skip over buying useful stuff and get the niche things that I then find a way to use more than I thought. Like the needle scaler, love that loud little bastard!

[Beerzerker]

Snap-On is too pricey for the same tool elsewhere and a real PITA about honoring their warranty.
Getting them to honor warranty can be like pulling your own hair out because it's "Fun" (NOT) to do.
Never had such issues with the Mac guy, although he was almost as expensive you never had a problem from him about it - If it was broken he took care of it, unlike the Snappy guy.
The Snappy guy would try to come up with every excuse not to honor it and while I will say tools DO get abused alot of the time, there were also alot of cases a tool wasn't abused, the tool itself showed it by the amount of wear it had (worn out) yet he'd still claim it was broken/not working due to abuse.

Got alot of my stuff from Mac - I only dealt with Snappy if it was a tool only they had and I had to have it for what I needed it for, the rest was Mac, Craftsman (The old, good Craftsman stuff) or whatever I could find wherever in a pinch.
Harbor Freight comes to mind and did save my backside more than once.

[AlwaysFSX]

10 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

Don’t we all wish lol 

when are you ls swapping your miata again?

[DildorTheDecent]

Stinky

[bcredeur97]

28 minutes ago, DildorTheDecent said:

Stinky

-snip-

I thought Chevrolet was doing something to prevent dealers from doing this? 

[theninja35]

4 hours ago, DildorTheDecent said:

Stinky

Why would anyone pay that much for a car like that anyway?

[IPD]

2 hours ago, theninja35 said:

Why would anyone pay that much for a car like that anyway?

I mean, when the 2004 Ford GT debuted, they were trying to sell it to Jay Leno for 3x MSRP.

[iDeFecZx]

On 8/23/2022 at 3:55 AM, Beerzerker said:

real PITA about honoring their warranty.
Getting them to honor warranty can be like pulling your own hair out because it's "Fun" (NOT) to do.

Can say the opposite for my Snap-On dealer over here. Give him the tool and its either repaired, replaced or sent off there and then with no questions asked

[TVwazhere]

On 8/23/2022 at 9:01 AM, DildorTheDecent said:

Stinky

And I thought the Bronco's were bad at 25K MSRP over. 

[Bitter]

Dune buggy is back.

[jagdtigger]

On 8/23/2022 at 3:01 PM, DildorTheDecent said:

Stinky

The non-refundable deposit part should turn away most sane ppl, let alone the unashamed amount of markup......

[iDeFecZx]

Car go vroom

[vetali]

7 hours ago, iDeFecZx said:

Car go vroom

How many CELs?

[iDeFecZx]

1 hour ago, vetali said:

How many CELs?

None, just some very warped front brakes lol

[JoaoPRSousa]

12 hours ago, iDeFecZx said:

Car go vroom

 

 

Fucking BMW piece of shit /s

[iDeFecZx]

6 hours ago, JoaoPRSousa said:

 

Fucking BMW piece of shit /s

Why anyone would own one is beyond me

[Bitter]

Big Money Waster

[bcredeur97]

9 hours ago, Bitter said:

Big Money Waster

Money Is Automatically Taken Away

[Bitter]

So that dune buggy I posted pics of earlier....in for an oil change and mentioned they thought one side of the engine was sitting lower 'maybe an engine mount or something, check it out for me'. Oh it's bad. Someone welded extensions to the 'frame horns' and one of those poorly welded extensions cracked off and looking at everything...well it just needs to be totally re-done under there. We suggested 2 2x2 or 3x3 I or H beams from the front to the rear to tie the front suspension clip to the tub to the rear suspension to the engine to give the thing some structure and then tie the beams together with some 1/8th steel plate sections welded or bolted across to give some rigidity to it all. It's not even a wet noodle, it's like a dipped beef sandwich that's been sitting out for about 20 minutes.

[IPD]

11 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

Money Is Automatically Taken Away

Just Empty Every Pocket

Found On Roadside Dead

Drips Oil Drips Grease Everywhere

Fix It Again Tony

It Sucks Unless Zero Used

[iDeFecZx]

Few of my favourite on track shots

[bcredeur97]

2 hours ago, IPD said:

Just Empty Every Pocket

Found On Roadside Dead

Drips Oil Drips Grease Everywhere

Fix It Again Tony

It Sucks Unless Zero Used

Lots Of Trouble, Usually Serious

[bcredeur97]

13 hours ago, Bitter said:

So that dune buggy I posted pics of earlier....in for an oil change and mentioned they thought one side of the engine was sitting lower 'maybe an engine mount or something, check it out for me'. Oh it's bad. Someone welded extensions to the 'frame horns' and one of those poorly welded extensions cracked off and looking at everything...well it just needs to be totally re-done under there. We suggested 2 2x2 or 3x3 I or H beams from the front to the rear to tie the front suspension clip to the tub to the rear suspension to the engine to give the thing some structure and then tie the beams together with some 1/8th steel plate sections welded or bolted across to give some rigidity to it all. It's not even a wet noodle, it's like a dipped beef sandwich that's been sitting out for about 20 minutes.

oof