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Anton Chigurh

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  1. Changed the oil on the FJ today.
    Great job by the toyota engineers.
    Go from:
    • unscrew one plastic thing
    • rub a little oil on the new one
    • screw it on
    To:
    • take off rock shield
    • take off little metal flat piece
    • shove plastic piece in to housing and spray oil everywhere
    • get special tool and take off housing and spray oil everywhere
    • drain and clean housing
    • replace gasket on housing
    • put filter in housing
    • screw housing in
    • replace gasket on outside of housing
    • put metal piece back in place
    • replace rock shield
     

    It really is my least favorite part of the damn vehicle.

    Can also add to that: have rock shield bolts previously over tightened before your ownership that cause them to strip out. Part is not replaceable since it’s part of the core support, so I had to drill and tap. Went ahead and did all 4 so I have new threads and same bolt size on all of them. Stupid. I might actually get this just so I don’t ever have to touch it again.

    https://rcimetalworks.com/product/10-19-4runner-front-skid-plate/
  2. One month between R3 and R4 and then back to back Baku -> Miami. A bit inefficient there...
    Miami is in a damn parking lot - surely they don't need to shoehorn it in like that.

    Because China got canceled. I thought they were looking for a replacement but I guess they never found one.
  3. Toyota’s management structure was god-awful. It’s no wonder they didn’t make any noise.

    They had way too much red tape between the race team in Cologne and everything else in Japan.

    At first, Honda had the same problems when they came back (and they aren’t even a chassis constructor), but they got it figured out.

    Gazoo Racing (set up by Akio Toyoda) has been better, but was too late for the F1 effort.

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  4. I would have died happy if Tony Scott had made an F1 movie. Ron Howard gave it his best shot but there's just something off about Rush. 

    Yeah, Rush was good, but I just don’t ever find myself wanting to re-watch it.
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  5. Stolen from Reddit
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    Of course, Porsche tried to do that, they just got shut out by RBR.

    Ferrari will also be doing it, though they aren’t confirmed to do IMSA yet (car spec is the same, though). Alpine as well.
  6. So, hypothetically speaking, if one wanted to remove sharpie from a nitro guitar, a Magic Eraser should do the trick, no? Nitrocellulose is pourous and I expect it to hold onto the ink pretty well, but has anyone attempted something like this?
    https://reverb.com/item/61047082-gibson-les-paul-standard-hp-2018-mojave-fade-signed-by-leon-bridges
    I might make an offer, but if removing that signature fucks up the finish it's going to royally suck.

    Would the dry erase marker trick not work here?
  7. Its endless audiophile jargon and marketing blabber designed to get middle aged dudes to part with their spare change for a reissue of an album where you can usually pick up the pressing from the original era for less than ten bucks.


    Many, if not most times, the original pressing is the best. That’s why I posted all the info that I did above on what to look for. Sometimes it is harder to find clean copies, though. It just kind of depends.
  8. Another thing is to not buy any of the mostly European bootleg stuff from labels like WaxTime, DOL, DMM, 4 Men With Beards, etc. It’s all CD sourced.

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