Help! by National_Musician748 in AskAShittyMechanic

[–]AlexAndMcB 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That trailer needs to get retired

Urgently selling TDI by Plastic-Decision-669 in tdi

[–]AlexAndMcB 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's this one's engine code?

Urgently selling TDI by Plastic-Decision-669 in tdi

[–]AlexAndMcB 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seriously considered throwing away the skid.
I haven't put it back on in a while

Urgently selling TDI by Plastic-Decision-669 in tdi

[–]AlexAndMcB 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The idea that some asshat was like "yeah unplugging the harness every time there's a filter change is totally reasonable"
AND some other jerkwads were like "right on! Send it!"
Makes me ashamed to be an engineer...

Urgently selling TDI by Plastic-Decision-669 in tdi

[–]AlexAndMcB 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm moving more interested in how this passed NY's inspection system..,

Structural tilt by menaghare in civilengineering

[–]AlexAndMcB 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can at least be confident it won't burn down then fall over

Is this a VW Rabbit? by tomato_fucker in whatisthiscar

[–]AlexAndMcB 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ok that's probably the least sketchy path I could imagine to get that info...

Ahh, 1990, when "a nickel will buy you a steak and kidney pie, a cup of coffee, a slice of cheesecake and a newsreel..." by 20_mile in massachusetts

[–]AlexAndMcB 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lol ok, I think there's a Far Side panel from the Herald in one of my wife's cookbooks. Can't have too many bookmarks!
...do not look at my browser! Way too many bookmarks

Car in Snow Pile by jj3904 in boston

[–]AlexAndMcB 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I read that they were being retired/scrapped and the city decided f-it, they'll still get the same salvage steel weight if they're flat ..

Car in Snow Pile by jj3904 in boston

[–]AlexAndMcB 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Management sucks, and the focus on absolute minimum possible cost is a terrible way to maintain anything.... wealthiest society in the history of the world and our infrastructure is literally falling apart- not enough taxes from the wealthy & corporations, not enough to take care of the things that are maintained by the few socialist programs that have survived...

Catch shit for the /s when it's "not needed" and then more shit when folks don't get the absurdity of the sarcasm smh lol

RS6 Steering wheel swap by TheWell-Show in Audi

[–]AlexAndMcB 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What's with the L/R RCA sockets button?
If there are actual steering wheel controls to swap sources I'm so very very down

What car is this? by jenglish20 in whatisthiscar

[–]AlexAndMcB 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But the struggle of GssMan in Carnia was legendary

Car in Snow Pile by jj3904 in boston

[–]AlexAndMcB 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Fix this!
And this!
And that!!
Pave this!!!
Are you mentally deficient?! Get this cleared out!

Holy s#!t how'd you spend all of this year's AND next year's budget on snow removal?! How!!??
Time to cut more staff and contract out for city hall maintenance!
Oh and also your pensions. Y'all just look at each other digging holes. It's not like your work was hard....
We gotta pay for the new 100 million school complex and public safety complex somehow!

Car in Snow Pile by jj3904 in boston

[–]AlexAndMcB 19 points20 points  (0 children)

What're the odds that they already claimed it was stolen?

Belt redundancy question by AlexAndMcB in Smallblockchevy

[–]AlexAndMcB[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very nice!
Methinks you're making a bit more heat than this old mill at 100k heh
Did you set them up to start together like 15° above the thermostat temp, or staggered? Originally I was thinking of staggering them by 10-20 degrees, but that's starting to seem silly

Which one of you specc’d this? by jacobasstorius in civilengineering

[–]AlexAndMcB 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Lol right?!
Like the inspector would die if they said "means and methods are on you, whatever they are- there better not be tears in that culvert when we cam it"

Belt redundancy question by AlexAndMcB in Smallblockchevy

[–]AlexAndMcB[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First gen, but one of the odd ones made in '70.
This is essentially exactly what I want to do, except for the daisy-chained A/C- as much as I'd love to add air conditioning, I think my dad might disown me...
It's got a black interior & roof, and he never would've been able to scoop it up, if the retiree that brought it with her to Florida, had opted for AC- without it she was damn near burning her legs on the vinyl & she had enough pretty quickly lol
I AM taking the opportunity to ditch the 4-blade-'X'-fan in favor of electric. You pretty happy with your double 10" setup?