1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

we had 3 days all day presentations this week, and i'm travelling for the next 2. So exhausted on top of the usual levels of cluterfuckery.

 

@0xDEADBEEF

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Ive been doing super redundant revisions to drawings for an engineering firm. Dude wants me to label stuff six ways from Sunday. Apparently a relay needs 4 different identifiers. Its on revision C now, gonna see how far down the alphabet I get before I get an approval.

 

Take your truck to pick up that last one, one of the best offroad parks in the country is in Harlan.

Definately methy though LOL

 

Afraid a Pokemon isn't the only thing one would catch being out there

 

@se7enine found a newish bar ... honky-tonk themed but damn are their burgers and steak options delicious. Been here enough after work the midshift bartender now knows the missus and I by our drink orders

 

4 identifiers?! Lemme guess... 1 is the brand, 1 is the part number, one is the device label (CR1) and 1 is ... the terminal numbers for where each wire lands on the relay?

 

@Wulf
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Jebus I hate yellow jackets.


This kinda shit is my biggest worry/concern of moving back east. I dealt with em waaaayy more growing over over there, compared to the puget sound

 

No brand, but it does have some random identifier that means nothing to me and was assigned by the civil engineer overseeing everything. Along with everything else you mentioned.

Its gonna confuse the hell out of the panel shop guys.

 

Those weird outliers always make my gears turn. Maybe it's because I've always been a "parts guy" at heart, but it really bothers me when I can't figure em out on my own lol

When I worked at the panel shop and came across those notes, if I couldn't come up with the answer.. or if our in house engineer/panelshop manager didn't have an answer, I'd always have to make up a reason before making space to include it on the label

 

Just had to deal with that last week

 

Oh FFS. Drive shaft arrives Sunday and was going to get started now that I finally have everything. Noticed this today when giving the transmission a look over. According to the service info, have to pull the valve body to replace the throttle cable. Really don't want to do that. FML.



A340E A340F Throttle Cable

 

I used the death wheel for the whole project! Honestly don’t think I went to the sawzall much at all.

When do you start cutting?!

 

Only benefit to our 03-04 transmissions… no cable like that to get damaged in handling.

edit: It’s always something too. Always. Something.

 

So anyway, I made a hole

 

Just got done with first long-ish night drive....LED projectors with hard cutoffs can gtfoh. It's awesome how everything below the level of about halfway up a street sign is bright as hell but you can't see anything above it lol. And can't see but like 50ft in front.
I don't think I'm built for modern vehicles.

On a brighter note, new GT episode is out and they're driving rally cars...

cc @xtremewlr

 

Always making excuses



Kidding. That fucking sucks here's a funny, kinda similar, story to help take your mind off it.


When I was 19 and just getting into fixing up cars I had a 86 VW cabriolet with a 3 speed auto. Had a hard time shifting and learned from a mechanic at work who helped me look at it, that my throttle cable had a similar failure. Figured "I'm just learning how to work on stuff, I'll do a trans fluid/filter change since I have to change the cable as well"

Bought the Hayes manual. Bought gasket, filter, and 5qrts of royal purple ATF, LOL. Real proud of myself for spraying the valve body down with brake clean and pulling material off the magnet in the pan. Didn't see a fill plug on the trans like the oil cap on an engine valve cover, so my dumbass, instead of reading the manual close enough, filled the pan to the brim with fluid and reinstalled it that way.

The amount of fluid that rained down on me while I tried to lift it level and start all the bolts one handed. Oh lawd, I just unlocked repressed memories




Any whoseit, I drove it for a week with it shifting like shit before I asked the mechanics at work what I might have done wrong, and they explained I fill to capacity through the dipstick tube. Added the remaining quart and 1/2 that didnt fit in the pan and it shifted just fine. But i did enough damage that from that point on, whenever it started to shift like a drag car, I knew it burned through another quart of fluid.

And that's the one and only time I ever bought royal purple products. When you're a broke teenager, store brand ATF works juuuusssstt fine when you have to buy 1 a week.

 

Yesssss

How was that very first cut? I remember it took me a bit, like, “Am I really going to take a cutoff wheel to a perfectly good truck?!”…

 

Looks like you didn’t have to get into your cab mount, tho. Nice!