1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

Tool for measuring hub to fender height. Stick the tape measure end in the slot and run the tape up to the fender opening.

 

Can't say I have much faith in traffic light engineers to do anything sensible after seeing some of the light patterns around here.

We have metering lights on the feeder ramps to the interstate. They run at seemingly random times. They were advertised as being tied to through-traffic volume/speed, but they're obviously not. Sometimes one ramp will be metered and the next one will be open, meanwhile through traffic is cruising along at 70mph (in a 65mph zone) and at a low volume. The most spectacularly bad part is that they release both lanes at the same time, so there's a little drag race every 3-5 seconds.

We also have sensor-driven protected left turns at some intersections. The lights need to go through a complete cycle to allow a left turn, so the through traffic lights will go yellow then red then back to green after less than a second as the left-turn light comes on.

 

I live in a green town that is replacing traffic lights with roundabouts. Once we got enough of them, traffic does flow better.

 

@0xDEADBEEF find the short

 

@0xDEADBEEF also that comes off the main for the battery backup. Apparently its instant death if you touch it. But there isnt a single warning around it

 

An un-shielded mains bus seems like a good idea

 

This whole place is good ideas. All this is live. Not a single warning sign, or something to stop you from hitting it.

 

Is that an exposed copper busbar

Yes apparently it is

 

That's fucking wild man

 

some people just want to watch the world burn

 

I’ve noticed my truck starting to lose more and more oil to the pint where it’s burning just as much as my Land Cruiser, which is weird since compression is excellent and I don’t see any major oil stains underneath. Must be the valve stems seals I guess.

 

Do you see a puff of smoke on start up that then goes away? Valve stem seals was one of the things that went wrong on the 4.3 in my astro. About a qt low every oil change but if it sat for any length of time (especially overnight) there'd be a huge puff of smoke on startup that went away

 

Total loss. Complete part out

 

I haven’t noticed a puff but I haven’t been looking for it. It’s only been a quart in 5k miles or so so it’s not too bad.

 

Just needs some Rotella 10w30

 

Oh for sure

It's already a huge hassle (even though the issues described are extremely minor)

 

I was thinking about it but it might kill my cats. I have móvil 1 10w49 in it now

 

I thought these trucks took 5w-30?

 

Try lucas oil stabilizer instead if you're worried about cats.

There's also plain 10W40 non diesel oils which are fine for the cats