by "TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts." (thebloody)
Published 01/10/2017 at 09:11
by "TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts." (thebloody)
Published 01/10/2017 at 09:11
Tags: CP
STARS: 0
Crack kills....
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Edit: Fucking Kinja
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
01/10/2017 at 09:18, STARS: 5
"Party-vi" (party-vi)
01/10/2017 at 09:19, STARS: 4
Kinja kills
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
01/10/2017 at 09:20, STARS: 1
All those little ruined images and bits of broken formatting are a cry for help. “STOP ME BEFORE I KILL AGAIN... OH GOD THE VOICES”
"Wacko" (wacko--)
01/10/2017 at 09:21, STARS: 2
that and rust is what kills jeeps
"TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts." (thebloody)
01/10/2017 at 09:22, STARS: 0
Son of a...
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
01/10/2017 at 09:28, STARS: 1
My grandfather had a CJ3B that he ran in the third world, and after it got frame cracks he switched to Land Rover.
"CalzoneGolem" (calzonegolem)
01/10/2017 at 09:31, STARS: 0
And when that fell apart he got a Studebaker.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
01/10/2017 at 09:44, STARS: 2
I’m aware “he switched to Land Rover” is an insane-sounding sentence. However, he was able to string them out with blacksmith shop repairs for far longer - up to ~300,000 miles. He was actually maintaining a whole fleet of them and keeping meticulous records, so he wrote to BL to ask if they wanted a summary of common breaks and failures over lifespan. They said yes, the fools.
What they got was something like “...and at 170,000 miles, some engines are showing advanced ring wear from the second rebuild. At 175,000 miles, the cracks in the front edge of the front fenders start to reappear (if previously fixed). At 180,000 miles, the cars are due for wheel bearing regrease, suffix A/B transfer cases require intermediate shaft bearing replacement....”
All the way up into the hundreds of thousands of miles. He got a short answer along the lines of “we strongly suggest that you get a new vehicle”, which translates from British as something like “WHAT IN THE FLYING FUCK WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU”
"CalzoneGolem" (calzonegolem)
01/10/2017 at 09:55, STARS: 0
From many other people that’d be an insane-sounding sentence. From you and your clan I wouldn’t even bat an eye at it.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
01/10/2017 at 09:58, STARS: 0
CalzoneGolem got me to
tell a story
...
"E92M3" (E46M3)
01/10/2017 at 10:00, STARS: 0
It’s not like he’s asking $50k. There’s probably one person out there that would pay $20k just because it’s a Borrego with low miles, and seems to be in better shape than most you’ll find of that generation. He’s got some room to negotiate.
I really like that generation, but I could never do that yellow.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
01/10/2017 at 10:04, STARS: 1
Well, it was like this: east asia, 1950s - huge in-country duties on any imported vehicle, and difficulties of import wherever the vehicle was coming from. Some REALLY strong motives for keeping a vehicle running as long as humanly possible. Either he could get a CJ into the country with a base price about 2/3 the Rover, pepper his angus for all the fees and duties, and drive it for 40,000 miles before it snapped in half, or he could get a Series shipped out of a local rep in Indonesia for more, get it in-country, and continue to fix it for the next eleventy years with a set of wrenches, a screwdriver, and a hammer. Dirt washboard roads, driving 12 hours in a day at about 30-40mph = short lifespan Jeep. If the Landie cracked a frame, he could use a carbide acetylene torch rig and just fix it.
"TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts." (thebloody)
01/10/2017 at 10:28, STARS: 0
and what a wonderful story it was. As the saying goes, “You never throw away a perfectly good Land Rover”.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
01/10/2017 at 10:38, STARS: 0
My granddad was driving his favorite - a marine blue ‘58 88 diesel II with IIa-converted swivel housings - up until the day he died... by getting internal injuries when hit by a bus. My dad and others saved some of what was left of the 88 from that day in ‘84 including the front axle and a partial set of Fairey hubs, which are now on my 88 (I’m named after my granddad, funny enough). You never throw away perfectly good Land Rover parts either... At any rate, my dad had completely forgotten that his spare front case was off *that* Series until we were putting mine back together with it and noticed it was slightly bent. Yeah.
We had another front case we had to straighten, but that was due to being surplus from one of the victims in Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls.
"TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts." (thebloody)
01/10/2017 at 11:23, STARS: 0
That movie was terrible, it’s a step below the Star Wars movies that were never made.
It’s funny, my dad bought his first Land Rover in ‘71. It was a II pickup with a busted starter motor so he only could crank start it. He’d still have it if it hadn’t been wrecked by a runaway truck that plowed into it when he was in a store getting food. The next one he bought was the current 109 that he pulled from a police scrap yard and rebuilt from scratch.