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"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura) 05/27/2015 at 16:24 • Filed to: None

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Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/27/2015 at 16:29

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That's one of the ones where you know what's going to happen but you watch it anyway.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/27/2015 at 16:29

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LOL

yeah the buggy has GREAT pulling power......

Alfalfa Romeo > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/27/2015 at 16:34

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He wasn’t trying to remove the bush, he was just testing his roll cage. Nothing wrong here.

HammerheadFistpunch > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/27/2015 at 16:36

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What is torque anyway?

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 05/27/2015 at 16:42

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True. But it was even more entertaining than I expected.

Drakkon- Most Glorious and Upright Person of Genius > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/27/2015 at 16:44

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Why wear a seatbelt? I’m less than 4 miles from home! Also, I’m not going that fast

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > HammerheadFistpunch 05/27/2015 at 16:53

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Scenario: You are changing the half-shaft on a FWD automobile. There’s a large nut holding the front hub together. Something like 24 or 32 mm. You weigh 200 pounds. You put a 36-inch pipe over your breaker bar and you stand on the end of the bar. You don’t jump or bounce, you just stand there. You get your brother to put down his beer and his cigar and get up off the porch — it’s his car after all — and have him come over and photograph you with his iPhone 6. The picture will show a moment of torque being applied to that nut which, by the way, probably didn’t budge.

The bar is 3 feet long and you weigh 100 pounds. 3 ft x 100 lbs = 300 pound-feet of force — torque — applied to that nut in that relative instant.

The key idea here is that torque is measured in a moment or an instant . So when car manufacturers are talking up the amount of torque their car’s engine generates, it doesn’t mean much because torque is an instantaneous measurement and your car is constantly accelerating and decelerating and the amount of torque being applied is constantly changing.

HammerheadFistpunch > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/27/2015 at 16:57

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I was being facetious.

newsmctado > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/27/2015 at 16:57

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I have to share the Google targeted ad that displayed while I was watching this video:

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/27/2015 at 16:58

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It was indeed.

Frank Grimes > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/27/2015 at 17:01

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shoulda left that engine in the chainsaw and just cut the bush down.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > HammerheadFistpunch 05/27/2015 at 17:21

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Sorry. Did I do a good job explaining it?

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Frank Grimes 05/27/2015 at 17:22

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Well said, sir.

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/27/2015 at 17:51

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Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > Frank Grimes 05/27/2015 at 17:51

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Echo51 > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/27/2015 at 18:10

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Should’a tethered it lower down, but then you’d just get wheelspin because no downwards pulling effect..

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/27/2015 at 18:36

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I have an iPhone 5S. But the rest is pretty accurate.

thefinalmonster > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/27/2015 at 19:09

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Those bushes are actually very stubborn. I tried doing the same thing with my F150, with 4WD and lockers, but it would just spin the tires. Quite embarrassing.

SALfan > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/27/2015 at 23:54

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Dude, you should have used a Massey-Ferguson. True story: in central MS, there is a soil formation called Yazoo clay; nasty stuff, expands and becomes plastic when wet, shrinks and turns to concrete when dry. After a long dry spell, trying to dig up similar size shrub, got frustrated and decided to yank it out with trusty Isuzu pickup. Backed truck to within 2 feet of shrub. Hooked 12-foot braided nylon tow rope to truck and shrub, put truck in low gear, gunned engine. Two seconds later, truck was stalled, my internal organs were rearranged, tow rope was seriously stretched, shrub (and large chunk of surrounding clay) was against back bumper of truck, wife was collapsed on ground howling with laughter. Truck had moved rapidly to end of tow rope, rofope had stretched to its limit, truck stopped like it hit a battleship, shrub and clay flew out of ground and up against back bumper. No damage to truck (or house, luckily). Moral of the story: be careful, and before you try something like that, fasten seat belt/shoulder belt TIGHT.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > SALfan 05/28/2015 at 00:33

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He should have gotten these guys to help.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/28/2015 at 06:01

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Charles Darwin is slipping.

Quattro-luvr, Powered by Datsun & Stinger > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/28/2015 at 10:02

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I enjoyed reading you scenario.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Quattro-luvr, Powered by Datsun & Stinger 05/28/2015 at 10:38

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Thank you. That’s my book report, actually. I trolled a couple of engineers a few weeks back about torque, did some homework of my own, and tried to put it into terms that a 7th grader could understand. No affront intended there, because I am in fact a 7th grade math teacher.

Thanks for the reply! (And my brother actually owns an iPhone 5...)

Quattro-luvr, Powered by Datsun & Stinger > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/28/2015 at 10:57

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Thank you for teaching math.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Quattro-luvr, Powered by Datsun & Stinger 05/28/2015 at 11:27

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You’re welcome, but no thanks necessary. There are days when I actually enjoy it.