HOT DAMN! The Corvette finally ran out of...power steering fluid!

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HOT DAMN! The Corvette finally ran out of...power steering fluid!

Post by 5chn3ll » Thu Dec 13, 2018 8:33 am

For about a year, the Corvette has been bleeding what I believed was motor oil dripping down the motor and off the gearbox or MAYBE leaking gearbox oil, though it didn't stink nearly badly enough to be the sludge I run in that slushbox. But I digress.

The dilemma: I couldn't see that it was leaking any more of either of those fluids than normal, yet the Corvette diapers (the sheets of old cardboard) were really getting a workout, but never pooling or even gathering in large enough drips to positively identify color or viscosity.

About three months ago, I decided I would only top up the mission-critical fluids (oil, gearbox oil) and see what ran noticeably low first. Despite normal measurements before the "experiment," I was sure it was going to be gearbox oil...I have a couple of strange but minor gearbox behaviors resulting from YEARS of being beat on for 8 hours, parked for 7 days, beat on for 8 hours, ad infinitum...so I was STOKED when I cranked the wheel to pull into the driveway last night and instead of complying, the steering pump howled its complaints about running out of hydraulic fluid.

The one system I give zero shits about is the one that's been pissing all over my garage for a year!

Win!

Understeer: You will hit the wall with the front end.
Oversteer: You will hit the wall with the rear end.
Horsepower: How hard you will hit the wall.
Torque: How far you will move the wall.

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Re: HOT DAMN! The Corvette finally ran out of...power steering fluid!

Post by DTMiller » Thu Dec 13, 2018 5:40 pm

Power steering is for wimps.
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Re: HOT DAMN! The Corvette finally ran out of...power steering fluid!

Post by Kalashnikov » Mon Dec 17, 2018 12:53 pm

Run as is, will make you strong as bull.

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Re: HOT DAMN! The Corvette finally ran out of...power steering fluid!

Post by Kalashnikov » Mon Dec 17, 2018 5:34 pm

Found your car today.... Man, that shit is leaking bad. Typical GM though.
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Re: HOT DAMN! The Corvette finally ran out of...power steering fluid!

Post by 5chn3ll » Wed Dec 19, 2018 8:21 am

Yeah, I was on the prowl for a "new" BBQ, and then the plan changed.

Understeer: You will hit the wall with the front end.
Oversteer: You will hit the wall with the rear end.
Horsepower: How hard you will hit the wall.
Torque: How far you will move the wall.

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Post by FRUNKenstein » Thu Dec 20, 2018 9:30 am

Out trolling the parking lots for Snottsdale skanks again, eh Kalash?
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Re: HOT DAMN! The Corvette finally ran out of...power steering fluid!

Post by Kalashnikov » Thu Dec 20, 2018 10:10 am

I would delete the 2nd one KC... Danielle Bregoli is 15....

And that Verte lives in my community....doesn't drive much, I assume because it is always broken.

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Post by FRUNKenstein » Thu Dec 20, 2018 10:35 am

Kalashnikov wrote: Thu Dec 20, 2018 10:10 am I would delete the 2nd one KC... Danielle Bregoli is 15....

And that Verte lives in my community....doesn't drive much, I assume because it is always broken.
OK, changed it. Never heard of Danielle Bregoli. Just found her pic when I Googled "skank".

(but damn, that chick is only 15?!?!)
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Re: HOT DAMN! The Corvette finally ran out of...power steering fluid!

Post by Kalashnikov » Thu Dec 20, 2018 10:48 am

She is a sign that our world is heading to full scale Idiocracy in a few generations.

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Re: HOT DAMN! The Corvette finally ran out of...power steering fluid!

Post by 5chn3ll » Thu Dec 20, 2018 11:27 am

That's what happens when the beef and milk are full of hormones and kids are sexualized to the point where it's normal to wear booty shorts with shit printed across the ass.

I don't have ANY idea how you raise a properly-adjusted kid these days. The shit that porn makes people think is reality, plus all of the grossly hypersexualized products they're targeting at kids, will continue to screw some kids up real bad...how do you insulate kids from ALL of that creepy content when technology is pervasive and kids are almost expected to spend their waking hours buried nose-deep in their smartphones? I know there are parental controls - but I also know tweenage me would have been around those parental controls quicker than a puzzled adult could have said "hey, where'd that bottle of Jergens go?"

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Understeer: You will hit the wall with the front end.
Oversteer: You will hit the wall with the rear end.
Horsepower: How hard you will hit the wall.
Torque: How far you will move the wall.

Gone hunting with Alec Baldwin and Dick Cheney. Back soon.

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