two quick things to add: to prevent blotching, a lot of woodworkers recommend laying down wood conditioner prior to staining, and if you’ve sanded the wood or if it’s fresh wood, wiping the wood with a wet rag and then sanding again will help keep loose fibers from rising when the stain is laid down.

aight, but the base transmission for the 5.3 has definitely stranded me twice

I’ve had nothing but trouble with mine. IWEs needing replaced, vent cap getting replaced, transmission needing flushed and filter replaced, and now I’m having electrical/comm issues with BLIS, cross-traffic alert, front windows, mirrors, airbag alert, and HVAC controls going crazy. Waited 2.5 weeks for a new FCIM to…

god I’m glad I don’t have to wade through piles of loose cash everyday. I bet it’s just exhausting for people who have that kind of lifetsyle

How far can you go on it at 70mph before it stops being fun? Does it feel undergeared for spending 2 hours on the interstate at a time? Are there already different exhausts ready to swap out that go low rather than high? Can you get any shots with two-person seats? Are those tires as annoyingly big as they look and…

hmmm fair enough. it’s kind of hard to figure out how the newer EVs are managing their awd, compared to older ICE cars like subies. I think most drivers are okay with brakes simulating LSDs on front wheels, because I think the newer tacomas will do that, and it’s how most descent control systems work, but I feel like…

okay, so your argument that asking for triple lockers is silly because AWD EVs have two motors, so at most you would only ever need is two lockers, or two slipping differentials that provide the same function as a locker but with different methods? That doesn’t address why salmon said that lockers on EVs won’t be a…

most EVs don’t have a motor per wheel, though - you need a way to keep the stuck wheel turning and brakes heat up fast if you’re off road. A triple locker makes sense in EVs with one motor, which is most of them. The rivian truck is supposed to have 4 motors, but the ford lightning is going to have only 2 motors. How…

Speeding doesn’t save much time at all, and you’re stressing over speed and not getting caught for no good reason. If you’re traveling 60 miles, driving 10 over on a 70mph highway is going to save you 6 minutes. 6 minutes of getting mad at trying to get around slower drivers and missing heartbeats when you see a cop.…

I think that the shadiest thing tesla was trying to pull was trying to avoid giving the old battery back to the leasee. perfectly good tesla batteries are big money and they were trying to prevent him from receiving his original battery while still charging full price for the new one.

I agree. Electrified Garage really ought to recommend a stiffened belly pan to prevent having the exact same failure, especially since they’ve seen the failure before and their fix doesn’t remove the root cause but actually makes the probability of failure even higher if it happens again

wow, I hate that unit shorthand

brass in plastic, less than 2psig differential, less than 150F temperatures.

if your air compressor isn’t built-in to your mattress, but a loose one, you can run it with the intake shoved against the vacuum bags to pull air out. just be careful not to let the compressor overheat

seems smart to me. though, I do break a lot of those threaded c-clips on our mazda 3. I haven’t used rivnuts, but I hope they’re durable

that seems like a lot of money for an ambulance which are known to be electrical nightmares, possible transmission issues, high mileage (ish), CEL, and malfunctioning AC, but this sounds like a fun as hell project, and who can pass up goddamn millenium falcon switches?

shit damn, that trip is $4k+ per person, and $1100+ just to bring a passenger

Mmm less decision making in the mornings, I like it

$16k.

it was mentioned in an article on lifehacker, and maybe elsewhere too, that PC users can just slightly narrow the browser window so you don’t need to click through the slideshow. JIC you weren’t aware yet