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Adam

Adam

Audioholic Jedi
I'm not the only thinking that it's just time for a new truck, am I? :D




Good luck, man. I drove around here without AC when I first moved out. Sure, I was younger and tougher back then, but it still sucked driving about a mile to the new car places to go shopping and arriving drenched in sweat. I can only imagine that my condition led every salesperson to think that I was easy pickings.
 
STRONGBADF1

STRONGBADF1

Audioholic Spartan
My wife, for some reason, bought me Queens of the Stone Age tickets for Easter. I like her.:D Brody Dalle opened and was pretty good. The opening opening act was Unlocking the Truth...didn't know they were going to be there.:cool: Not bad for three eighth graders!:eek:

QOTSA set list:

  1. You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, but I Feel Like a Millionaire
  2. No One Knows
  3. My God Is the Sun
  4. Smooth Sailing
  5. I'm Designer
  6. Monsters in the Parasol
  7. I Sat by the Ocean
  8. …Like Clockwork
  9. If I Had a Tail
  10. Little Sister
  11. In the Fade
  12. The Fun Machine Took a **** and Died
  13. Fairweather Friends
  14. Make It Wit Chu
  15. Sick, Sick, Sick
  16. The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret
  17. Go With the Flow
  18. Encore:
  19. The Vampyre of Time and Memory
  20. Feel Good Hit of the Summer
  21. A Song for the Dead


We had a great time!:cool:
 
M

MidnightSensi2

Audioholic Chief
Rickster71 said:
Edit #2: I just re-read and saw the bolt head is snapped off.
Is the head or manifold aluminum? (where the bolt is)
In your case. (you probably tried this already) I'd soak it in Liquid Wrench, repeatedly, for as long as you can.
Use a breaker bar or pipe on the end of socket or wrench to get as much leverage as you can fit in there.
If you can fit a drift pin right on top of the stud, I'd hit that with a hammer a few good shots, along with the liquid wrench.

The best way to get a bolt like that out is heat.
Usually 02 & acetylene. It will take ten seconds; you have to get the bolt red. I've had it work even using a small atctylene (yellow tank) The real stubborn, rusted bolts have to be red hot and the come right out.

Edit: Bring to one of those outdoor car washes with the spray wand. Wash all the grease off the engine first.
I know how you hate to get messy.:D
Good luck, at least you have nice weather.
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Yeah, I grab the torch if its really bad / thermal contraction. Soak it in WD-40 or Liquid Wrench, let it sit as long as possible, then re-spray and heat.

If completely stuck, then its a drill and re-tap. :/

When you put the stuff back together use some Never-Seeze.
 
M

MidnightSensi2

Audioholic Chief
I did not sleep well.

Tired. Yawn.

I'm going to walk to the store and get some Gatorade.

Stuff, is fun.
 
Alex2507

Alex2507

Audioholic Slumlord
MidnightSensi2 said:
Pft, you can hit it pretty hard. :p Try and hit it right on the center though (less chance of breaking the ratchet or socket).

Another option if the extractor doesn't work is to drill it out and re-thread. :/

I assume you've tried Coke and all that? Regular Coke is good at getting stuck bolts to go...

Get some Never-Seeze for when you tighten it all down.

"If it don't fit, force it. If it breaks, needed a new one anyways." ;)
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Rickster71 said:
Edit #2: I just re-read and saw the bolt head is snapped off.
Is the head or manifold aluminum? (where the bolt is)
In your case. (you probably tried this already) I'd soak it in Liquid Wrench, repeatedly, for as long as you can.
Use a breaker bar or pipe on the end of socket or wrench to get as much leverage as you can fit in there.
If you can fit a drift pin right on top of the stud, I'd hit that with a hammer a few good shots, along with the liquid wrench.

The best way to get a bolt like that out is heat.
Usually 02 & acetylene. It will take ten seconds; you have to get the bolt red. I've had it work even using a small atctylene (yellow tank) The real stubborn, rusted bolts have to be red hot and the come right out.

Edit: Bring to one of those outdoor car washes with the spray wand. Wash all the grease off the engine first.
I know how you hate to get messy.:D
Good luck, at least you have nice weather.
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Thanks for the tips. The problem with coke is that it doesn't pour 'up'. Penetrating fluid however does.The a/c compressor has three long bolts that bolt 'up' into the block. The mechanic had snapped one of those. The bolt snapped somewhere in the middle of the compressor housing so it then acted as a stud or pin that the housing then had to clear before the compressor could be removed. The real b!tch was that the bolt had seized in the housing.After I removed the other two bolts I had to reinstall the belt to provide some tension to assist in sliding the compressor housing off the broken bolt.

BTW, my block is steel. My truck was built with wrenches, not chop sticks.

I've been dying to use that line. :D

Now the 'manifold' is the part of the a/c lines that attaches to the compressor. The problem there is the bolt that holds that in place is 3/8" and the mechanic thought it was a 10mm. So aside from being rusted up it was rounded off pretty good. I got all that down to Eddie's and clamped down in a vice. A little PB Blaster, a little heat from a propane torch (not the yellow bottle Mapp gas) because I didn't want to throw a ton of heat at the compressor which has what I have to assume are heat sensitive valves and seals. I tapped the manifold with a large hammer and finally got an extractor socket on that suck-ah and POW ... right in the kisser.



My $200 bolt came right out. From my junk yard I had a replacement bolt ... lucky me.

Anyway I got the system put back together which wasn't a cake walk. Now it goes to a mechanic. I didn't have enough time (wasn't fast enough or good enough) to get the accumulator installed but when I talked to the mechanic yesterday he had said that that was the easy part. It looks like hell to me but I don't have to worry. I'm just going to have him 'pop' it in there before anything else. It just occurred to me to have him try to pull a vacuum before he disconnects anything.

I thought mechanics was interesting when I didn't know how stuff worked. Now I think mechanics is nasty, dirty and most of all hard work.

Oh, the bolt that was broke and seized in the compressor housing came out with very little effort (once the housing was slid off it). After I had lined up two different sets of vise grips, a propane torch, PB Blaster and probably a comfortable seating arrangement the first turn was so smooth that I thought I didn't have the pliers tight enough. It came out the rest of the way with a regular pair of pliers. If it was more fun than work, I would have taken pics but man, what a job.

Anyway, I gotta go see a man 'bout keeping my ***** cool. :D

EDIT: All I can say is thankfully there was no drilling and no tapping. I actually contemplated leaving the broke bolt alone and just using it as an alignment pin but like I said, it came out easily. It's all such a huge pain that you gotta make the little victories count. This sh!t's like Survivor Man: you gotta keep a positive mental attitude otherwise you'll like f^%&in' die. If I don't check back in you'll know that the truck won.
 
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fuzz092888

fuzz092888

Audioholic Warlord
Anybody have any experience with a mechanical keyboard? Thought I might give one a try now that the Logitech I had been using has crapped out.
 
Alex2507

Alex2507

Audioholic Slumlord
fuzz092888 said:
Anybody have any experience with a mechanical keyboard? Thought I might give one a try now that the Logitech I had been using has crapped out.
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Man, did everything you own break?

I don't know anything about keyboards.

My a/c worked for a while. I don't know.

Good news is that the new control arms and fresh alignment is pretty snazzy.

The truck goes straight. Period.
 
fuzz092888

fuzz092888

Audioholic Warlord
Nope just everything attached to the old computer at the time of demise plus the keyboard which was cracked in transit.

I recently had my caliper seize up. Bought the parts from a NAPA friend and had somebody else swap the caliper, brake pads and rotor. Now the car stops. Period.

Alex2507 said:
Man, did everything you own break?

I don't know anything about keyboards.

My a/c worked for a while. I don't know.

Good news is that the new control arms and fresh alignment is pretty snazzy.

The truck goes straight. Period.
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Alex2507

Alex2507

Audioholic Slumlord
The electromagnet on an automotive a/c compressor, can it get 'weak'? As PENG would put it, "is it sleeping a lot"? I have removed the shim which took the gap down from 49 (kinda sloppy) to 16 (kinda tight) thousandths. I'll see if that helps the clutch stay engaged. But anyway, can that magnet get weak?

EDIT: If my truck blows up, I am going be a little embarrassed.

2nd EDIT: I also put a couple a drops of some mystery oil (I mean I have no idea what kind of oil it is not actual Mystery Oil) on the three little clutch springs. Actually the first attempt was to sand the rust off the plates. That got me some further before melt down. I just did the shim removal and oil thing now but have not had it out for the long haul. As sweet as I think it all might be, who needs the drive when I could be doing this and listening to Itzhak?
 
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