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Show us your Cars

This A.P. News story on colorful heavy transport vehicles in Pakistan could be entitled 'Show Us Your Trucks'

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AP PHOTOS: Pakistani truck art elevates heavy transport into mobile masterpieces

Trucks thunder along Pakistan’s dusty highways and through bustling city streets, like rolling canvases ablaze with color and poetry, transforming heavy transport into mobile masterpieces and offering a window into the country’s folk culture.
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Dr Morbius said:
She gets me around pretty good, for an 86 year old!
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And no weird electronic computers to contend with.
My truck was making a noise which I though might be a cracked or broken flex-plate where the torque converter mounts. So I put in on a friends rack at his shop, separated the trans from the engine and the flex-plate was fine. Now, I needed to start the engine to see if the noise was coming from it (if not, it would be coming from the transmission). But, due to the computers, the engine won't start without the transmission connected to it due to the computer system controlling both the trans & the engine (instead of being stand alone computers that talk to each other).
Now I had to "rig" a way to start the engine without the transmission attached to it.
Which I accomplished but it was an un-necessary thing (from a "working on the vehicle" point of view to have to do because of making the vehicle cheaper & easier to assemble, to hell with what the people who have to work on it need to do (and what a customer would have to pay to have it done out of warranty) which is far out of. For this vehicle the trans usually lasts 200 K-240 K miles before rebuilding it is needed but the engines typically last 400 K miles before rebuilding is needed.The noise is not coming from the engine, so tomorrow it's time to start going into the transmission.
A day wasted toward getting the truck back to normal because of the physical design of the computer system that operates the engine & transmission.
And when I am done, then the computer system will need to be fine tuned by a "tuner". To optimize the operation of the transmission and engine working together again.
 
Dr Morbius said:
Damn those computers!
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I like them to tune with and when they are stand alone but communicate with each other but this particular implementation (which is a 2004 one, and is the way that manufacturers have gone), is a pain in the BUTT when you are trying to find out which unit the noise is coming from.
Your vehicle is easier to diagnose but the parts are harder to get (and you may have to fabricate them yourself).
3D printing has become a wonderful thing for cases like that, a great use of computers for the mechanic/technician to have someone that is trained to use the technology available (or if they, themselves can do it).
 
Mine is rarely even clean.


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That was from a few years back, minor mods since then, namely rocking a softtop and different beadlock wheels.
 
Dr Morbius said:
She gets me around pretty good, for an 86 year old!
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Daily driver 1923 frame, 1927 body (with a few mods).
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Belongs to Sam, the guy that I use for my alignments:
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Sam doing my wife's 2025 Subaru CrossTrek Touring after I lifted it 2 inches.
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My 2000 Nissan Frontier 4 cylinder (now making 180 HP instead the 148 it originally had). And my 2004 Chevy Silverado 1500 HD SS for towing bigger stuff.
Both have just over 200 K miles on them.
 
EJ3 said:
Daily driver 1923 frame, 1927 body (with a few mods).
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Belongs to Sam, the guy that I use for my alignments:
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Sam doing my wife's 2025 Subaru CrossTrek Touring after I lifted it 2 inches.View attachment 456295 My 2000 Nissan Frontier 4 cylinder (now making 180 HP instead the 148 it originally had). And my 2004 Chevy Silverado 1500 HD SS for towing bigger stuff.
Both have just over 200 K miles on them.
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That’s one nice model T hot rod, the paint job must have cost a mint!
 
Dr Morbius said:
That’s one nice model T hot rod, the paint job must have cost a mint!
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It's been the same paint scheme since I met Sam in the early 70's.
As to who did it (does it now to maintain it), I never asked.
Another car in Sam's shop while I was there for my wife's Subaru alignment:
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If you have a car with LUCAS electricals, you may need this part # so that you can put the smoke back in your wires (remember to get the filter, too, so that only the correct sized smoke will get back into your wires):
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Dr Morbius said:
That 1953 or 54 Studebaker is Outrageous! What an eye grabber!
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It's been a track only car all of my life (I'm a 1957 vintage), as far as I know.
The hardcore vehicles are on the other side of the wall in front of the Subaru.
Owners of them & Sam are the only people allowed back there.
Sam is the owner, Sole proprietor & sole worker.
He owns & lives on that property. The building has no signage that indicates what it is & is about 3/10s of a mile off of the main road there.
But you have seen some of the cars that are in there if you pay attention to NHRA, IHRA & the lesser NASCAR tracks.
And the occasional Road Racer or 100 mile public road event participant.
 
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EJ3 said:
HP=How fast you hit the wall. (are you limited to 155 MPH?)
Torque=How much of the wall you take down when you hit it.
Bentley x 155 MPH takes a LOT of WALL!
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Hello EJ3,
yes, a real bullet with 12 cylinders.
It goes over 320 km/H (about 200 mph) although I rarely drive it because it belongs to my son.

Very nice car, but I wouldn't spend that much on a car.

The most expensive car I've driven myself was a BMW 750IL

Since I retired from the business, I drive the "small" BMW with diesel twin turbo.

The next one will probably be a hybrid or a pure electric vehicle.

I don't know yet.
 
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