To be fair, hammers are sometimes extremely good at cracking the layer that makes threads stick and making your actual wrench super effective.

Use Acetone, never use brake cleaner, even in the green can. Acetone is a whole lot cheaper, and super effective, and won’t potentially kill you.

Wheels are much stronger than you stated! Bumps cause a LOT of force. Wheels can deal with that, and then some. But you’ve gotta keep in mind that there’s a big difference between its radial strength and axial strength... but it’s probably strong enough! Most cars can corner at 0.8+ G, which means the wheel is going…

I’ve found that brake cleaner doesn’t actually hurt my eyeballs themselves... just everything around them! Like eyelids, sockets, etc.

Also, good job posting a 2-stroke Harley as the lead image :)

Hey, I’m not expecting it to be done already, and I really appreciate that you’re trying to make it happen! And clearly I am already out of the gray on Lanesplitter, so thanks for that too :)

You seem like a lot of fun

Shill!!

What I ride: 1980 Peugeot 103. Sliiiiightly upgraded.

I don’t know a ton about Ducatis, but the fact that the belt tension spec is in given in Hz doesn’t surprise me, and immensely pleases me.

I’m no expert website programmer... but there HAS to be a way to have a blanket approval on Kinja/Gawker/Jalopnik. I can post just fine on Jalopnik, but any other Kinja pages seem to have me in the grey. I’m definitely not a troll, and have been posting on Jalopnik for several years, so as a regular user it’s…

At least if it breaks there, you can still get the head off. And often times, you shouldn’t be reusing those bolts to begin with. Get the rest of them off, pull the head, extract.

This is the reason I TIG weld

I have an IS300 wagon with about 210k on the clock you can have for a good deal! It’ll come with a fresh timing belt, fresh alternator/power steering/water pump belt, and a tiny bit of rust! (thanks Michigan). It runs great! (seriously)

This happened to me yesterday. Driving the 2002, which had maybe 100hp to begin with, and closer to 60 now. Guy is doing no more than 30 in a 45-zone in the left lane. I pass him on the right, paying it no mind, and get back in the left lane to pass more cars on the right, cruising along around 45-50. About 10 seconds…

Yup yup. I’ve done the same thing myself. It wouldn’t have taken me long to save money for a couple cars I’ve bought, but I took out a loan because I don’t have much credit history, but it was super affordable for me and would build my credit, so why not?

Judging people’s financial practices? That’s sad.

I’m confused... why doesn’t it sound like a flat-plane crank? Am I losing it??

Did you do this on purpose??

Ah, my bad. Had similar pattern as a title on the paper. Thanks for clarifying, this may prove useful to me at some point in the future.