This reminds me of when a ski resort I frequent calls rain “non-frozen precipitation”

LOLLLL. HA. 1st tier? Have you been to pretty much any other city in a developed country in Europe? They are all far cleaner with far better public transportation. NYC is a dirty cesspool full of shallow assholes.

The biggest problem lies with the morons who don’t prepare well. When I get to the front of the line, my belt is off and in my bag, pockets are emptied into my bag, laptop is out, etc. All I do is dump it in a bin with my shoes and ready to roll. All sorts of jagoffs in front of me who are just figuring out what to do.

Unfortunately, you are incorrect. Cargo holds are both pressurized and climate controlled.

Things they make out of FRP that must not get holes in them when impacted: helmets (motorcycle, car, hardhat). Not so sure any of these could be certified if impact was an issue. Not sure I have ever seen an aluminum helmet. Steel? Maybe helmets were steel before they cared about weight.

LOL so with no real evidence or actual engineering knowledge you are assuming that these guys are right and that carbon fiber is going to have issues? Good work with terrible “journalism” but maybe I am misunderstanding the point of your little COTD article. Carbon fiber is insanely tough. I will venture a guess that…

Solution 1) Don’t live in a city

I am a motorcycle enthusiast who used to be obsessed with motocross. I am also an enthusiast of brutal punishment and enforcement for stupidity like this. I think if you are riding an ATV or dirt bike on the street and don’t stop, you deserve to get absolutely annihilated by a cop car if necessary. Want these…

Nah, I’ve been here most of my life. CT and Boston. Almost no one says “I” in front of the road number. Take 95 North to 91 North. Take 93 North to 91 North. Take 90 West to 395 South. Never I-90 West to I-395 South unless you are Google Maps or Waze.

Nah, in CT we have The Merritt Parkway. It is not Merritt Parkway. You don’t take “Merritt Parkway North”, you take “THE Merritt Parkway North”.

This is an awesome article!

This guy is a wuss. Spray the mofo and use wheel cleaner. 200k miles on my Ford Ranger and that’s what I have been doing. No problems. Does he really think that manufacturers design engines that can’t get wet? This is the slowest slowest way to clean an engine. Ever.

Go drive a Model T! Foot gear selector, reverse pedal, hand throttle, ebrake/neutral lever. Oh yea, manual spark advance. Good luck going from forward into reverse on any sort of incline. Good luck driving with normal modern wide shoes. Actually, David, you should go to the Gillmore Car Museum and take their Model T…

Dave, I also worked at Fiat Chrysler as an engineer, but my experience working on cars was quite different than yours. I often worked on my vehicles with technicians in the garage. They knew that I am incredibly competent with tools, that I truly cared about what they had to show me/teach me, and that I treated them…

Nice! I hope that cutoff wheel was rated for aluminum. It can be dangerous (sometimes deadly) to use cutoff wheels/grinding wheels on aluminum unless they are made for it. Be careful!

I’d slap the head back on with any gasket (even the old one will seal enough for this test), throw some pressure in one cylinder (about 10psi) with an air tank (so there is plenty of excess air so you can hear leakage). Run the engine through 720 degrees of crank rotation and listen to where the air is coming out of.…

Well, you have 10k lbs of vehicle and a s**t load of rotating mass in those massive tires. A ton of energy for an itty bitty pinion brake to work against. Brakes turn energy into heat. Simple, really.

That’s not the diff itself glowing, that is the brakes. They have brakes on the pinion and not at the wheels.

IIRC in the early 2000s, in Ford full size trucks with a 5.4L engine, if the rear passenger plug blew out of the head (which happened thanks to many “brilliant” things Ford did), the official Ford procedure to helicoiling the hole in the head was to remove the body from the truck to gain access. Thankfully, the smart…

Oh man. Reminds me of the times I tried to use the kitchen as a kid when my mom wasn’t home and she found me mid-action cleaning engine parts in the sink.