The Official *Things that piss you off* thread

[Navarone]

People that sound like they're shitting while they're eating. Grunting and coughing and all that. Fucking a!

[Todd Black 88]

All the fucking commercials during the Walking Dead!

26 minutes last night, in a 60 minute show!

[SubDad]

I wasn't going to contribute to this thread because complaining spreads like the 'flu and everybody's morale goes in the crapper, but it's Monday and I'm Grumpy.
So:
Majour league: People trying to drive while drunk (Hypocritical here, but I'm older now).
People pretending that they can drive and text. They can't.

Minors:
People coming to a full stop at the bottom of escalators or just past the revolving door.
People bringing their entire extended family to the airport or F***ing IKEA or the grocery store and ... everybody comes to a full stop at the bottom of the escalator or just inside the door. (After 40 hours of travel, starting in the Rub Al'Khali, at my home airport a huge family group was at the bottom of the escalator having happy happy group hugs. From about half way up I yelled that they should get the F*** out of the way, 'cause I'm waffles coming through. They scattered, yeah!)
Text zombies on the sidewalk.
Rudeness to store staff, servers, cleaners etc. There is nobody who is not worthy of courtesy. Except people at the bottom of escalators.

People who fail to recognize that they share the planet with other people, and that they are not more important than anybody else.
Rudeness and lack of consideration, in general.

Vulgar behaviour or attempts at humour (Ref: Milan Lukic). Grade nine is over, grow up and get some dignity.
Which brings us to: Morning radio DJs and their forced laughter.

People who believe everything they hear without questioning. I like the line "Interesting, if true."

Neighbours who believe being neighbourly consists of threatening to sue, but with regret.

And those darn, pesky kids on my lawn.

(Mr. Burns, Are you talking about the guibo/damper bolts at the front end of the drive-shaft? I used a three foot breaker bar and sheer blinding anger. After each bolt I opened my eyes and thought "Well, I haven't brought the car down off the stands and I'm not crushed, so...Next!")

[IRON-E]

I drive for a living and, do my best to follow all of my training. So while I'm driving, I leave enough distance to follow accordingly to my speed. Yet, every cock sucker that sees the opportunity, cuts me off making that cushion space really small and most times non-existent.

People who text while driving and, slowing me down when there's obviously no traffic at all. "PLEASE GET OFF THEORY ROAD"

[shameson]

This week has really killed me

-Found out I have patellar subluxation in my right knee. Could possibly need to go through physical therapy
-Cant go running for awhile. That was one of the only things helping me deal with stress and help me get in shape
-Have spent $600 over the last few days on things I didn't want to but had to and I just got paid. That was extra money I was going to put into savings
-E30 isn't running. Hasn't been for like 3-4 weeks and it practically causes depression since I can't drive it. (Luckily last of the parts I need come tomorrow)
-My anxiety and stress is going off the charts

[flyboyx]

stupid m*therfcking vibration dampner thingy on the tranny side of the driveshaft will be the absolute DEATH of me.

it will not budge and I have giant muscles.

I don't want to drop my entire DS just to remove the halfshaft.

FFS.

ok, here is the secret: the bolts and nuts are 17mm. the only thing that will fit on either side are a good quality combination wrench. (craftsman or better) you will need 2 of them as i recall. on the front side you will only be able to get the open end in there. on the back side put the box end over the bolt head. then get yourself a larger combination wrench such as a 15/16"(doesn't matter the exact one. now....lock the box end of the (15/16") into the open end of the 17mm that is attached to the bolt head on the back side. now you have about 4x the leverage you had with a single wrench.

the one on the front can wedge against the transmission tunnel. all you have to do is hold it so it doesn't slip off the nut.

its really nice to have someone sitting inside the car that can pull the parking brake to keep it in place. this way you don't have to keep crawling out from under the car every time you need to index the next bolt.

i do not have giant size muscles and i never have trouble getting them apart this way.

[Stanley Rockafella]

Random boners..

I love em' esp when their awkward and happen at inopportune times

Makes me feel like an old friend from high school math class just came to visit (that's where I used to get them...there was this cute chic Erin I really liked and we used to joke around a lot, we used to talk on the phone a lot and she wanted me to ask her out, but I was a wuss. Then when I had a chance in university, she got all fat and unattractive and had some strange facial hair thing going on so I was like "naaaahhh").

[SubDad]

Mr. Burns, sir: Yes. What Flyboy said. As I recall, and it's been a year or two, a really good fit on the open end wrench is important. I think I used a short 6 point socket and a universal joint on the other end. Before you bend your muscles make sure that the tools fit. If you have to tap them on that's good.
Flyboy lost me a bit on the wrench set he used but I got my breaker bar to fit under the car well enough to break the initial torque. You only need to get 1/16 of a turn and you've won.
What Flyboy describes is effectively constructing a long bar. Leverage. Patiently fitting the tools well enough to absorb your cold deadly rage and your lever is what's needed. Nuts are always looser than bolts, and once you've defeated a couple of fasteners on a coupling the rest will admit defeat.

[e30vert]

Courtesy Flush when someone enters the stall next to you. As the toilet flushes it does 2 things that are favorable. Removes some , but not all of the stench of your bombing run and also allows one to blast out another round as the toilet flushing sounds will mask 80-90 percent of the blast into the bowl. Time it right and it works real well. One should immediately refocus on the sounds of the water swirling through the bowl, upper tank, and pipes and not concentrate on the other party entering the adjacent stall.

Then after another round of bombs - courtesy flush and refocus again.
After all it is a courtesy and you dont really need to be concerned with water conservation when taking care of your "business"

On the Harmonic Balancer issue -

- Soak the bolts and nuts in PB blaster. It has a capilary action that will wick the lubricating fluids down into the threads. Then use the double wrench technique mentioned above as a person much more intelligent than I once said ,"With enough leverage you can move the world"

Thread is kinda taking a positive turn here as we offer helpful tips about shitting and loosening frozen fasteners. Is this still R3v? Get back to complaining folks!

[mrsleeve]

^
You are thinking of Archimedes and this quote translated to from greek of course.. "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world"


When you take your truck to line-x people for a spray in liner. You tell them no less than 7 times UNDER THE FUCKING RAIL. When you go to pick up your truck, there is bed liner sprayed 2in down OVER THE FUCKING RAIL.....................

I just ordered new moldings, trim and badges to clean up the old crap thats going to shit. Now I have to deal with bed liner all over the side of my truck and somehow figuring out how to make it look presentable

[Navarone]

What the hell? They better remove that shit. Post pics

[mrsleeve]

they did a good job with it, but its not what I wanted done and granted they only charged me for what I wanted done. There is not "taking it off" whats done is done till I repaint the whole truck

[Northern]

I think almost everyone can relate to this.


-Making $45k+ a year and pinch pennies left and right but life always throws curve balls at you and wipes out your savings.
-Can't save up EVER to go on vacation but it seems like all of your friends are capable of doing anything financially while they work at McDonald's.

This kind of shit is what makes me want to:
-Get rid of my cellphone
-No more car payment
-No car payment means I can run just PLPD on the Mazda/whatever car.

Ends up being >$500/month more I'd have to just

[flyboyx]

Mr. Burns, sir: Yes. What Flyboy said. As I recall, and it's been a year or two, a really good fit on the open end wrench is important. I think I used a short 6 point socket and a universal joint on the other end. Before you bend your muscles make sure that the tools fit. If you have to tap them on that's good.
Flyboy lost me a bit on the wrench set he used but I got my breaker bar to fit under the car well enough to break the initial torque. You only need to get 1/16 of a turn and you've won.
What Flyboy describes is effectively constructing a long bar. Leverage. Patiently fitting the tools well enough to absorb your cold deadly rage and your lever is what's needed. Nuts are always looser than bolts, and once you've defeated a couple of fasteners on a coupling the rest will admit defeat.

i've had to take a couple apart with the dampener and iirc, there isn't room to get a socket in there with those. i think thats why i had to use combination wrenches. the cars with no dampener came apart with the breaker.

by the way, the dampener is an interference fit on the driveshaft. once you get it apart, you can tap it off with a hammer and throw it away.

[Mr. Burns]

Subdad and Flyboyx thanks kindly for your guidance, I shall do exactly as mentioned Thursday (the next time I can get under the car sadly)
IronX also mentioned to drop the CSB a little bit to gain that extra bit of room...I will do this aswell, but such a PITA with the intense heatshields in the way.

can you tell I don't like working UNDER the car? lol

until than, I shall sit at work just pinning about getting to it and the relief I'll feel once it's loosened lol

side note...throw it away?

I won't be using the front part of this DS anymore, but I don't know about throwing it away altogether...