WEEKEND RENCHING GENERALSpoke Too Soon Edition
Are walmart batteries typically this crap? I bought one 17 months ago and it's dying already. (Checked alternator and checked for current draws, car is an 8th gen civic driven on 1hr commute 4 days/week)
>>29126109>pulled windshield, addressed rust in preparation for a new windshieldSafelite was supposed to come today. >>29126114I've had terrible experiences with the everstarts.
>>29126114It's Walmart? What did you expect?
>>29126109Been doing work at my rental property. Sanded down these cabinets, 1 coat of stain, and 3 coats of polyurethane. It'd look better with more coats of polyurethane, but I've already put it too many hours, so I'm calling it good.
i have been cooped up in my apartment bored out of my mind for so long that i'm genuinely considering calling up a friend of my grandma's and offering to "fiddle with" his car that's been parked halfway under a tree on his property for a dozen years while also having exactly zero mechanical experience.if there were literally any jobs within walking distance that would hire me other than retail cashier i would be working one of those right now instead of even humoring this idea.
It's so over...
>>29126844What happened? Did the HG fail here and that area is warped now?
Gotta replace this (and the other half of it) with the new guy.Any tips for the nuts threading it onto the studs at the exhaust manifold?I got a 6 point socket, an impact, a breaker bar and I'm marinating it in pb blaster as we speak.Those fuckers were tight enough I was sure that the stud was gonna let go, so I quit, sprayed it down and have proceeded to wait. I also have a propane torch.
I'm retarded>>29126956
>>29126114 In my experience?-In the past 15 to 20 years, "cheap" batteries have gotten much worse, middle of the road stuff is where cheap used to be, and "premium" is on the way out.Cheap batteries in the U.S. market were often made in Mexico, some parts of Eastern Europe, or Southeast Asia. They were usually "good enough" for around three to five years of common use before they'd drop a cell or short out.Now it's all made in China or India, and they're just unpredictable. Some will almost be as good as the old stuff, some will fucking die in a week.
>>29126844Grim. How deep in the hole are you already?
>>29126951It's eroded from combustion heat and pressure moving between the two jugs.
>>29126956Heat, PB, take a small hammer and a punch and tap on it. If you're not in a hurry, give the penetrant time to work and apply it often. You can use a drop light with an incandescent bulb or heat bulb to keep that area warm and help it seep.The impact is probably going to break shit. Judging by that downpipe, you're going to be dealing with broken studs anyhow.
>>29126976I'll hose em down some more and get to tappin. Honestly I think they might come off
>>29126984Spoke Too Soon Edition
>>29126984>>29127052Fire is always the answer. A blow torch and an impact is the best way, and if it snaps off with that combo, then you had no chance anyway.
>>29126114Project Farm did a battery test like 3 months ago. Todd concluded that WALMART batteries suck.
>>29127161Sad it only covers Oreilly and Walmart. I just bought an Autozone one. Hope it lasts.
>>29126971Not at all, the HG blew and I've just pulled and disassembled the engine yesterday. Now I'm debating whether to buy a new head from aliexpress for around 350 euro or get a machine shop to weld and machine it for unknown amount of money.
>>29127052Sorry to see bud.Well, hope you're up on broken fasten extraction.Good LH drill bits are your friend.
>>29127052well... it came off
>>29127756>>29127756I have the nastiest jury-rig imaginable going on right now but the exhaust system is sealed(ish) and quiet.Gonna get some map gas for the manifold and have a buddy weld on a big nut. We'll get her done. If you learn a little something, did you really fuck up *that* much?
>>29126518>decide to look into the paperwork side of it>realize that for either of us to legally do anything with the car beyond make it start and run in his driveway i'd need to somehow get him out of his "conservatorship" he's got himself into that is practically trying to unperson him and steal all that he ownsall this for a chevy celebrity that's nearing 40 by the way
>>29126969It's not just the cheap ones. Some recent Toyotas in Europe shipped with a Varta branded battery that was probably made in a sweatshop in Turkey or India.For a while, Toyota topped the vehicle unreliability charts, basically entirely due to 12 V batteries that die with no warning after a couple years. No other problems with the cars, it's just that they won't go anywhere if the 12 V battery has dead cells and can't even power the dashboard.Think they at least changed the supplier after that.
>>29128895>chevy celebrityI think these had a transverse v6 that put the spark plugs right up against the firewall, and there's not enough room for tools. I think it's one of the worst cars you could possibly choose to work on.get one of those mechanic simulator games, or my summer car or something
>>29129132i looked it up earlier and they can have those or a 2.5l i4, and i'm like 99% sure that his has the i4. i'll be over at his place either later this week or the next to see for myself and if it does have the v6 i'll probably throw in the towel>get one of those mechanic simulator games, or my summer car or somethinglike 75% of the reason i'm considering doing this isn't to have a car, but just to have something to do outside of my bedroom. i spent all summer cooped up in here being a lazy piece of shit playing vidya and jacking off and i want to change that in a way that won't result in me being stuck in a checkout kiosk interacting with middle aged single mothers for 8 hours a day, the car is just a bonus
What say you, guys. Is it screwed big time?
>>29129639Nah, that'll clean up fine.
