he prob changes the stickers at self checkouts
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Duck
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I should put one of those stickers on the handheld scannerhe prob changes the stickers at self checkouts
389 Hood
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This be you @Duck ? It looks like something that you'd build. My question is, how come there aren't 2,487,490 pictures of the build?
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Electric Chicken
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Duck doesn't get that fancy or high dollar. He'd be the guy putting a go-kart engine in an old wrecked Corvette instead.
Duck
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I saw a YouTube video once.
Some guy made an adapter to put a riding lawnmower carburetor on some old 70's car with a V8 just as an experiment.
He was able to get it doing about 50 mph in the flats but even the slightest hills would slow it down significantly.
And when I say "slight hill" I'm referring to an incline so slight that someone like you wouldn't even notice because you've got actual hills in your area.
It took me nearly 20 years to realize that Rt 50 through Manteno, IL is not mirror flat. And I grew up in the flatlands. I only noticed it once because I had the cruise set at 35 mph in the van and I was watching the instant MPG display.
But that's the kind of "hill" that was slowing down the hypoaspirated car in the YouTube video.
I think I just invented a new word.
Duck
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The one in my van is built into the ceiling between the two front interior lights.
It's got a button labeled "step" and another "reset".
It's got a trip meter that's always within 1 mile of the dash tripmeter but never the same tenths when I gas up & reset them.
It's got instant and average MPG, inaccurate temperature, inaccurate compass and DTE distance to empty.
The avg mpg on the display is always one or two MPG lower than the math I do at the pump vs dash tripmeter.
So I think that means my DTE is a higher number than actual. I dunno
DTE is hard to predict because the computer doesn't know where I'm going or if I'm suddenly going to get a lead foot or drive into a headwind.
But last week I ran the DTE down to 17 before I got gas.
Rigjockey
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All my life I thought Toronto was flat until I started driving trucks grossing near 80,000 Lbs. Oh there is a hill here? When did they install that?I saw a YouTube video once.
Some guy made an adapter to put a riding lawnmower carburetor on some old 70's car with a V8 just as an experiment.
He was able to get it doing about 50 mph in the flats but even the slightest hills would slow it down significantly.
And when I say "slight hill" I'm referring to an incline so slight that someone like you wouldn't even notice because you've got actual hills in your area.
It took me nearly 20 years to realize that Rt 50 through Manteno, IL is not mirror flat. And I grew up in the flatlands. I only noticed it once because I had the cruise set at 35 mph in the van and I was watching the instant MPG display.
But that's the kind of "hill" that was slowing down the hypoaspirated car in the YouTube video.
I think I just invented a new word.
The hills are not big enough that you need to start dropping gears but enough that you start losing speed.
The closest thing to a gear dropping hill near here is Hamilton Mountain and it is not much of a mountain, you may have to drop a gear or two.
Our instructor in trucking school took us up and down the "Mountain" to teach us how to down shift on a grade and use engine braking (no Jakes) going down hill.
He got in shit for doing that because it was out of the area we were allowed to go but I did learn a lot.
Hillbilly Canuck
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These days you can't even get up enough speed to worry about a runaway down the mountain. It's a parking lot fucking up the 403 and Linc simultaneously almost any given time.
Electric Chicken
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I finally sat down and de-programmed the transmission coasting and speed variances out of the Mack. It holds a lot better now and my average times on the regular customer have dropped a little.
Granted it's almost never at gross. More like 60k but the way it was programmed it would deliberately reduce fuel input to try to eek out more MPG. But we have too many roller coasters for that to really work, so basically you end up slowing slowing slowing then it downshifts and gives full throttle to get back up to your set speed.
It really ends up being worse on fuel economy with all the downshifting (because it has to blip the throttle every time) and the full throttle to regain. Not to mention it wouldn't give you any kind of run going down to help you go up. It would cut fuel going down, slowing you down, and then you're at a disadvantage already too slow at the bottom.
I get tired of manually throttling through all the time, and just want to be lazy.
Duck
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Well I decided to stop driving around with only one headlight and no left turn signal when I noticed the license plate sticker is expired. In Illinois they can't pull you over for only one non-moving violation. There has to be two. Headlight out + expired tags = disco lights.
The flat part of the chassis or body or whatever that the headlight bolts to was wrinkled up like a crushed beer can but I was able to flatten it out with two decapitated railroad spikes, two c-clamps, long stroke air hammer and my brake drum hammer.
The flat part of the chassis or body or whatever that the headlight bolts to was wrinkled up like a crushed beer can but I was able to flatten it out with two decapitated railroad spikes, two c-clamps, long stroke air hammer and my brake drum hammer.
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Electric Chicken
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Can't even tell.And the new headlight fits right up.
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5 pictures ain't quite enough to trigger the Ravioli Queen I don't think..
Duck
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Getting a quarter panel to fit will be impossible. For me.
Body shops only want to rebuild it to factory specs and charge $7500 or some ridiculous price.
I just want a damn fender. Fuck the hood, fuck the bumper, just make it line up.
I gotta find some guy who will do it in his garage where there's no rules.
Electric Chicken
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I'm sure you could papier mache something.
You had a hippie art teacher once, didn't you? I did and I'm in the country. If I can't papier mache a fender I can definitely make one out of macaroni. Especially for a Dodge.
Duck
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I'd go to the junkyard and get a fender and f*in weld it on & spray paint it before I'd make one with papier mache.
But I like your way of thinking..
Electric Chicken
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My sister made a papier mache giraffe once. She said she'd help. Yeah I talked to her in the last 15 seconds in the middle of the night just to keep the joke going.I'd go to the junkyard and get a fender and f*in weld it on & spray paint it before I'd make one with papier mache.
But I like your way of thinking..
Not really.
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