My buddy never went into much detail about it (I was anxious to get my bike welded up more than BS about trucks)... but he did mention how large and heavy they were... so maybe it was for a dump truck (IIRC he mentioned Mack... but this was 10 yrs ago). His dad was footing the bill for the transplant but apparently…
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Fascinating link, CBus. I’m an ex-powersports tech 16 years so am on the opposite side of the drivetrain spectrum size-wise... but the big stuff’s always been pretty cool to my gearhead sensibilities... mostly because applications rarely go to civilians (I suppose a CDL is the way in for most people to become familiar…
That sounds *amazing*. Had a guy welding the cases on my SV650 up in WA... in his shop he had a big green 2-stroke Detroit he was planning to put in his dad’s truck. Had no idea they sounded as good as this... dude did say they were LOUD...
2-stroke V-8, diesel, turbocharged... basically peak Jalop powerplant. Too bad…
Sorry for being on the ‘it-takes-two’ side here... but where was his situational awareness? And why did he stop in a merge, without keeping track of what’s behind him? Mandatory, esp riding for years to work in the Seattle metro area, which is waaay more boss-level than elsewhere in WA...
Only place I got rear-ended in…
OXO makes much better openers than this — ones that cut the outside edge of the lip/seal of the can, so you can use it as a lid if need be. This type also doesn’t leave a razor-sharp disc to cut yourself on while digging it out, which even with magnetic retainers will do, occasionally.
I own this model, and since OXO…
OXO makes much better openers than this — ones that cut the outside edge of the lip/seal of the can, so you can use…
Exactly. My preference for this task, though... is the adjustable grip hitch. Easy to remember, as well.
Moved house including 800-lb rollaway toolbox full of tools in a Penske truck... nothing but one comealong, lots of rope and a few choice knots (the zeppelin bend, alpine butterfly & alpine bend were some of them).…
Have to agree. Where I live there are a lot of Brazilian visitors and transplants, a few are close friends. Some of the stories they tell me about life in big cities like Brasilia and Rio, with a completely pokered, hey-whaddya-do face... send chills up my spine. Guess it’s all about how your experience frames ‘go’ &…
Yup. Of course once this gets repeated enough, it becomes the truth.
Even assuming all production methods were flawless and chance were eliminated... imo it’s still a crapshoot letting kids handle lithium-ion-powered devices, judging by how many times my Game Boy and Walkman met the floor back when. No one’s heard of…
As a motorcyclist who also had to ride regularly in 60 mph gusts to pay his rent (yay Seattle ferry commute, where it’s $30/day by car, or $8/day by bicycle/motorcycle, but must ride year-round in whatever’s out there)... even I wouldn’t be riding in a typhoon gusting to 180. So this ultramaroon got the hard stop he…
One intuitive solution to being exposed to deadly windblast during ejection, is to design the cockpit to separate as a whole...
However that obviously opens many other cans of worms, that’d doom such a design from anything we’d see in fighters within fifty years... if we even had the tech to do it.