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SchizophrenicMC

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SchizophrenicMC last won the day on January 28 2012

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About SchizophrenicMC

  • Birthday 07/25/1994

Previous Fields

  • Your Pathfinder Info
    Wrecked 1990 WD21 SE
  • Mechanical Skill Level
    Wrench And Socket Set Mechanic
  • Your Age
    16-21
  • What do you consider yourself?
    Weekend Warrior
  • Model
    SE
  • Year
    1990

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    Male
  • Location
    Texas
  • Country
    United States
  • Interests
    Nissans

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  1. That reminds me: My cruise doesn't work at all. I'm hoping it's just a switch. I really don't want to try and find a working cruise module.
  2. Because my Jeep is comfortable, but the Pathfinder is cheaper to drive and wheel.
  3. If it's an old Sentra with a cable clutch, you probably have a stretched cable. Clutches have a lot of resistance for a cable to fight to open. Over some years, it'll stretch. If it was a hydraulic clutch, that'd be a bit tougher to diagnose. Lot more parts.
  4. I can't tell if you're at me or the dude who was cussing me out. Also, why am I the negative-rep bad guy? That's harsh. Anyway, the truck still drives, but it's pulling everywhere, now, and making more noise. I think the wreck broke something back there. Great.
  5. I'm goin' to my friend, Scott's, place. We were gonna go to Fry's and look at some graphics cards for the machine my cousin gave me. I'm into his neighborhood, and I see this 300ZX down the street before his, so I go and look at it for a second, then I turn around to go back to his street, but I turned one street too early, so I'm shooting back around, and this guy in a Blazer is backing out of his driveway as I'm going around. I couldn't have been going more than 35- any more and I would have rolled the truck on that bend. Besides, immediately after the bend is Scott's street so I was slowed up to turn onto it. Anyway, I park across the street from Scott, get out, walk to his door, and am crossing the street again, Scott behind me, and the douche from the Blazer starts cussing me out about my driving. And this dude's a drunk Mexican, beer-stained shirt and all, cussing me out. So I fskcing snap, tell Scott to get in the truck, and I peel out in reverse. Ain't no one behind me, so I figure it's not gonna matter. In any case, this asshole's parked in the middle of the street to cuss me out. Well, in my fit of rage and, frankly, feeling threatened, I didn't realize the wheel was crooked slightly right. So I get to about 15mph before hitting the front end of this guy's F150. Nothing too bad for him. A bent bumper, smashed grille, bit of a bend in the hood. Nothing insurance won't cover. Well, fskchead starts cussing me out again and calls the &^%*ing cops. So instead of handling it civilly, between me and the Ford owner, it comes to 3 cops showing up in Chargers, the douchehead still cussing me out from across the street, and so I get a ticket from the asshole Sergeant in the '11 Charger (They give the new models to the cops with the most traffic citations under their belt) for "Failure to maintain proper control of a vehicle" on top of my premium bound to increase, and the damage to the back of my truck. The hatch is smashed, the tire carrier's smashed, neither will open, the bumper's screwed, the body work under the hatch is screwed, the spare wheel and tire got ruined, and the rear wiper's stuck in the middle of the rear window. And Progressive refused to cover my truck against collision when we got the policy, so I only have Liability. The repairs I already needed to the front end, added to the stuff for the rear end, comes up to about $1200, including the body work to fix the radiator support and the back, which is more than getting a newer Pathfinder. Or, for that matter, an older Z or a 240 or something. Hell, maybe an automatic Saturn or something. I just fskcin' got this truck, man... And I'm unemployed so what the hell am I gonna do to pay for any of this @!*%?
  6. Wrecked it. Based on the damage, I'm writing this pathfinder off. It needs more repairs now than it'd cost to buy a new one.
  7. I'm calling 1994SEV6 out. This guy talks out his ass more than I do. Anyway, what Tungsten (dense metal) said. Simplicity of design reduces cost significantly. The major cost of automatic transmissions is not the additional mass they carry, but the complexity of manufacture. It requires far more in terms of design, tooling, and training to get an automagic into your car, than it does to do a manual transmission. Even more so for a TCVT, which has 4 moving parts. Even a 5-speed has 20-something gears, dogs, and linkages. When you consider the 5-speed requires small gears with high strength, and have a relatively high complexity of design, you must note how expensive it is to produce. The TCVT has a small number of parts that don't rely on anything more than friction to create difference. The servos to actuate the friction plates are cheap, there is no need for linkages, minimal need for lubricants and their circulation mechanisms. It falls to friction material and electronic controls to make up the rest of the way to completion. There are a number of friction materials available for this application, so that leaves the computers. This is the fun part, but also the least expensive part. A college computer science major could write the algorithm to control a transmission that simple. Frankly, there is no cost to justify massively expensive TCVT prices, so they will be sold as cheaply as automatic transmissions, and only because they are a premium addition, otherwise, profit could still be made at lower price points.
  8. He wouldn't. What he would need to know is cost of production versus demand. If the projected demand price doesn't exceed the cost of production, he won't authorize production. If it does, however, he'll do what he can to profit.
  9. I'm not even gonna keep going with this. I don't have to defend my ideas about my car, they're mine. Now we're way off the topic of Pathfinders, talking about sbcs in old Corvettes. Anyway, topped off the tank before gas prices went up this morning. Screw oil speculation.
  10. I tried to pull the bent radiator support back out, but since I only have a hand winch and the back of the GMC, I didn't get anywhere with that. If only I had a buddy and could find the ratchet tiedown straps. Also a tree. Now, neither of my headlight assemblies, nor my grille, are attached, and the bend in the rad support is all the more noticeable.
  11. DDD INITIAL D (My Car is Fantasy) -Mega NRG Man
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