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Posted: **Tue Oct 07, 2008 8:25 am**

before posting this, i am an asshole and make no excuses
http://www.subaru-svx.net/forum/showthr ... post567408
i did warn you i kinda feel bad, but mostly for his car...

and so discuss,

Posted: **Tue Oct 07, 2008 2:11 pm**

Yeah, there are some dum dums out there.

Little does he know that he has probably passed the yield point on the bolts, and they have been work-hardened.

Posted: **Tue Oct 07, 2008 3:06 pm**

jeffast wrote:...i am an asshole and make no excuses...

I knew I had a reason to lurk here...

Thanks Jeff

...but yeah, you're right... this kid just doesn't seem to get it...

Posted: **Tue Oct 07, 2008 6:17 pm**

Do you mean to tell me I cant just use my 27" breaker bar and stand on the head bolts????

No wonder my car has been overheating!!! LOL

Posted: **Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:43 pm**

lmao awesome thread.

Posted: **Thu Oct 09, 2008 12:37 am**

Yeah. Keep that guy away from anything mechanical you need working, thanx...

Posted: **Sat Oct 11, 2008 1:13 pm**

You guys are jerks.

Posted: **Sat Oct 11, 2008 10:52 pm**

No, just Jeff is.

Posted: **Sun Oct 12, 2008 8:11 am**

It's people like him that give us REAL mechanics JOB SECURITY

BTW......ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted: **Mon Oct 13, 2008 12:47 am**

^ This!

It is kinda mean to flame someone bad for being ignorant, but at the same time, I don't feel bad for people who dive into stuff without doing any homework what so ever.

My friend Derek, who rebuilds trannys for a living had someone tow their own AWD Highlander (or something) in with a two wheel dolly. The customer isn't going to be very happy with the phone call they get tomorrow morning, and he tells them their tranny is even more borked since he towed it in with two wheels on the ground.

I don't feel bad for him at all because it clearly states in the owners manual that the vehicle must be towed on a flatbed or with all four wheels on the ground.

Posted: **Mon Oct 13, 2008 8:05 am**

Saw this on nasioc, down in history....

Posted: **Tue Oct 14, 2008 3:55 am**

Someone get a torque wrench and photoshop on a "hella" setting.

Posted: **Tue Oct 14, 2008 10:30 am**

94SS_Canada wrote:Saw this on nasioc, down in history....

yeah i don't think i'm going back to nasioc off topic for a while. i know i'm a bit of an asshole. but that place is just malicious.

Posted: **Tue Oct 14, 2008 5:35 pm**

haha, this car is currently at the shop i work at

Posted: **Wed Oct 15, 2008 11:50 am**

jake15 wrote:haha, this car is currently at the shop i work at

so his head gaskets are really blown right?
PIA?

Posted: **Wed Oct 15, 2008 7:40 pm**

jeffast wrote: so his head gaskets are really blown right?
PIA?

actually no, we loosened the head bolts and actually torqued them and it seems to have fixed his problem for the time being.

and yes, i work at PIA

Posted: **Wed Oct 15, 2008 11:42 pm**

Interesting. I've always been under the idea that once the headgaskets have been crushed, they are pretty much junk if you loosen the head again.

Posted: **Thu Oct 16, 2008 4:35 pm**

93forestpearl wrote:Interesting. I've always been under the idea that once the headgaskets have been crushed, they are pretty much junk if you loosen the head again.

yeah, it's not the way we would have gone about fixing it but the kid had no money and thats all he wanted us to try. i think of it as more of a bandaid for a knife wound

Posted: **Thu Oct 16, 2008 5:44 pm**

No money, but he's doing a turbo swap. Another potential NASA employee. He'll be back with blown headgaskets soon.

Posted: **Thu Oct 16, 2008 6:44 pm**

my sides hurt

Posted: **Thu Oct 16, 2008 7:17 pm**

Aussie_in_mo wrote:my sides hurt

I KNOW... sheesh! That's like letting a hooker deliver your baby... cause she's had so many of em, she "knows what she's doing."

it's shat.. er "shade-tree mechanics" like that, who destroy the poor unknowing bastard's enthusiasm in cars... I mean, if the blind guy leads blind guy #2 off a friends cliff... I blame the "friend"... though I dont excuse the cars owner... his greed/cheapness just killed his car...

*waves to fellow in missouri*

Posted: **Thu Oct 16, 2008 11:56 pm**

jake15 wrote:
jeffast wrote: so his head gaskets are really blown right?
PIA?
actually no, we loosened the head bolts and actually torqued them and it seems to have fixed his problem for the time being.

and yes, i work at PIA

He name dropped you guys in the thread, do you mind me quoting this over on the svx board for the official thread.

also when describing his torque method did he use the phrase "tightened them hella"?

Posted: **Fri Oct 17, 2008 12:43 am**

jeffast wrote: He name dropped you guys in the thread, do you mind me quoting this over on the svx board for the official thread.

also when describing his torque method did he use the phrase "tightened them hella"?

go for it.

i think he actually did say something to that effect

Posted: **Sat Oct 18, 2008 2:08 am**

AWD_addict wrote:Someone get a torque wrench and photoshop on a "hella" setting.

Posted: **Sat Oct 18, 2008 9:58 pm**

Nice!

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