Universal joints are mesmerizing in action, but as you can see from the animation above, they are no constant velocity joint!
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This is why you want [1] a very straight steering column as well as [2] CV joints in the column for the ultimate in steering feel.
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Cadillacs of the 60s used driveshafts with CV joints front and rear for superb smoothness. Can’t find a damned picture of course…
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The first Gen SRX and probably the CTS used Guibos but they made you buy the whole drive shafts if it needed to be replaced.
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Everyone spells Giubo as Guibo. Guess which one is correct?
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Regardless of how it’s spelled (the latter, obv), it always reads as “guido” to me first.
Note: I have Italian heritage, but have spent no real time in New Jersey. Plenty of time on Lawn Guyland as a kid visiting grandparents, though. -
Guibo looks and sounds more Italian, especially with a hard G, despite Giubo being a contraction of giunto (joint) and Antonio Boschi’s surname. It’s probably just looks too much like Guido (or there are more dyslexic people in the automotive community than the general population).
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There’s sort of a knack to repacking CV joints. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/Simple_CV_Joint_animated.gif
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I assume there’s some sort of stop to prevent the spheres from popping out? (I’ve never actually taken a CV joint apart).
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Yes, there is a cage not shown in this simplified gif.
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This is the video I used to figure-out what to do on Ford CV. About five minutes in you can see the cage coming apart. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsytyVzokBg
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Videos like this are fantastic entertainment. Yet I end up being a bit sad faced, too, because it is such a tiny bit of the “how a car works”-universe, and I still just barely understand all the reasoning done here. Hard to be a car guy without being mechanically inclined.
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And press ‘Save’.
Thank you. If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is a GIF worth?-
Multiply the number of frames by 1000. 😛
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But if you double them up, they are.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Cardan-joint_DIN808_type-D_w-arrangement_topview_animated.gif-
One of the invaluable lessons I learned from trying to build an articulated 4WD tractor from Lego Technic pieces in ~1993. (Before Legos got too specialized. Get off my lawn, you darn kids!)
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After over a month of fiddle farting around, and waiting for parts (and receiving wrong ones), I’ve finally rebuilt my 9-5’s turbo with a new center section and seals. What you see here is a care package I put together for my car that I’m giving my mechanic tomorrow. Along with the turbo is a bunch of “while you’re in there’s”… including an upgraded turbo intake pipe for 30% more flow. Heheheh.-
How many horses do you get out of 30% better air flow?
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Not anything measurable. It’s more for faster turbo spool/throttle response, and better fuel mileage.
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does it give you better whistle? better whistle is super important
i’m all about the whistles-
That is only half the job, you know. Remember to upgrade the bells, too.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Police_car_bell,_2009_HCVS_London_to_Brighton_run.jpg -
a crucial element!
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Make sure the wastegate can keep up.
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SAAB used this intake pipe with the same turbo on later 9-5’s so I’m not too worried.
Worst case, I swap the TD04HL sitting in a box under my desk, that I got sent by accident instead of the GT17 core I ordered. Basically a direct bolt on with a water/oil line adapter kit.
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go see mad max
Hey Batshitbox, what do you think of this?
1969 Rare International Scout Canadian postal only 175 in Can
http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NTMyWDgwMA==/z/KeIAAOSwBLlVSQvY/$_27.JPG
It’s a right hand drive Scout!
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Oy, vey. I’ve given up on my RHD 2WD Scout 80, but not enough to actually, like, get rid of it. So basically it’s still sitting in the garage where it’s been for a few years. Turns out getting rid of a project is itself a project.
Is there a link to that sale? I’m curious in a fanboy sort of way. It looks like it still has the mail service logo on the door, and it’s pillarbox red, which is probably correct for the civil service in a crown colony. Royal Mail? I’m a couple generations removed from my Canadian ancestors, though, not sure what it’s supposed to look like.
Machinist porn: Analogarithmic Edition
This is a Bridgeport tracing mill with a small lathe mounted to the bed. Also a pair of precision vices. So, two Model J vertical milling heads and one automatic, hydraulic (systematic! why, it’s greased lightning!) tracer, two precision vices and a bench lathe, all in one setup. Also, the machines are nicknamed Goldilocks and Mama Bear.
Why? Well, in a word, bagpipes. http://www.irishpipesandwhistles.com/blog/
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Complexity much?
So awesome in the right hands. So much opportunity to break stuff if you don’t know what you are doing.-
DIY: Multimachine.org
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This interesting couple has been standing outside my school lately. The Citroën is a crepes food truck.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-A9iw_tTeVjI/VWmDCcrG__I/AAAAAAAAAKg/N9i8ykWVsnQ/s912/Citro%2525C3%2525ABnDodge2.jpg
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-DRbnJkhft74/VWmClL7gOUI/AAAAAAAAAKY/soWE59EHicM/s912/Citro%2525C3%2525ABnDodge1.jpg
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Astrid Söta Gröna? You’re in Sweden?
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Yep. And you’re from Norway if I remember that right?
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Stemmer det! The Hooniverse is one of the most international spots on the internet I know of – relative to its size. Would be cool if Jeff could spit in some stats?
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That would be interesting. So if you’re from Norway, I’m from Sweden and Antti is from Finland, I wonder if there is any Dane here to keep the balance.
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I know I’ve been away for a while and I’m glad that I can contribute regularly again, but things I miss on Hooniverse currently are the weekend used car features. Any chance of them coming back?
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I think those were posted by Jim “UDMan” Brennan and we haven’t heard from him since around the time of the Intense Debacle / Snowpocalypse 2015. He also gave us the Hooniverse Obscure Muscle Car Garage and Classic Captions posts which are greatly missed.
http://hooniverse.info/author/udman/-
I don’t remember $kaycog making the leap to Disqus either. Anybody hear from her?
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Who is this friend of the ‘Verse that I rudely tailgated and dangerously photographed driving past the Westwood WalMart today?
Reveal yourself!
NB: if the photo is too spuddy to decipher, that is a Homicides sticker low on the bumper.
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Homicides? Auto-correct claims yet another victim.
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Thank you. I have added Hooniverse to my phone’s dictionary to avoid future embarrassment.
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Is Bradley the only Miata guy here?
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I will have to be on the lookout for this guy. Although admittedly, I don’t travel much around Westwood anymore.
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If memory serves and my eyes didn’t deceive me at the time, the driver had a bob haircut.
I ain’t one to judge, but He-Man is the only man with a bob that I’m aware of, and I don’t think he’d fit in an MX-5.
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The illustration should ideally show the input shaft rotating at a steady speed, exaggerating the uneven pulsing at the output shaft.
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Any thoughts on the Thompson CV joint?
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My thoughts on that subject are mostly centered around whatzzahuhhowzit?
https://d2t1xqejof9utc.cloudfront.net/screenshots/pics/41adfebce53c79c79749d4ba2960c0c3/medium.gif
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