Dose's Sometimes DIY and Pay Someone Home & Boat Improvement Thread

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

36 minutes ago, Kinkstaah said:

Why would you do something like that? Someone actively wanting a N/A RB is just the smoothest brain take on earth, cmon man you deserve better 😛

Oh yeah nah, needs to be high comp, have VCT, ITBs with e-throttle/DBW, big cams, big RPMs, flex fuel, etc. and nitrous for when I need to overtake.

10 000 rpm or go home kind of affair, inspo here:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CfXJUs4uYrh/

 

[Kinkstaah]

28 minutes ago, Dose Pipe Sutututu said:

Oh yeah nah, needs to be high comp, have VCT, ITBs with e-throttle/DBW, big cams, big RPMs, flex fuel, etc. and nitrous for when I need to overtake.

10 000 rpm or go home kind of affair, inspo here:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CfXJUs4uYrh/

 

This is just inefficient.

Yes yes, its a bit silly me having the N/A car saying "But to have an engine without a turbo is just inefficient and dumb".

But I'm standing by it, and we're all various levels of dumb anyway  

Would make more sense to have a high revving N/A Honda in there.

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

40 minutes ago, Kinkstaah said:

we're all various levels of dumb anyway  

We are on this forum and we have donated tens of thousands to the aftermarket automotive industry.

We are the very definition of dumb, autistic if I may.

[No Crust Racing]

4 hours ago, Kinkstaah said:

This is just inefficient.

Yes yes, its a bit silly me having the N/A car saying "But to have an engine without a turbo is just inefficient and dumb".

But I'm standing by it, and we're all various levels of dumb anyway  

Would make more sense to have a high revving N/A Honda in there.

You just shut your filthy wh0re mouth. 

[MBS206]

On 10/29/2023 at 11:04 AM, The Bogan said:

The body is shot, lots of rust holes in every panel and parts on the body

It does have the glass and one or two parts you could strip for parts, but, work says no

There is also about half a dozen old motorcycles that are in various stages of being stripped in disrepair, a old land cruiser that has been pulled of its frame, and fully stripped, pallets of old wheels, exhausts, suspension and dead engines

The shed is meant to be for people to wash and service cars on base, but no one has been able to get in there for years because random unfinished project stuff is everywhere 

The powers that be sent out a message about removing "everything" out of the shed, and it not to be used for projects

Nobody has claimed their stuff so it is all going "in the bin"

I'm all for this "6 bay" shed only being used for washing, and in/out serving stuff

Having a undercover area at work for servicing and cleaning cars will be a great place to be when I need to head out from work to do some "administration"

How big of a trailer do I need to organise?

 

Car engines, drive line, and bike engines/stuff is always good for projects

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

Man I hate Westinghouse, all their appliance are junk.

So the builder/property developer spesh house we bought came with all Westinghouse junk. Not the brand nor low end crap appliances I would buy. 

Anyhow, 2.5 years in and it throw a F5 error, this apparently (according to the user manual) is an issue with the inlet hose/solenoid valve. Found a place that was open on Saturday (albeit not cheap, can be had like $50 less) so bought a new hose. Still same error, and I was looking at the stupid thing running, I could see water weeping from the diverter valve housing.

Ok fine, let's take it apart and clean it, fking thing is more brittle than a Pringle. Reset the cheap shit sad looking stepper motor and put it all back together and re-ran the cycle. Yep, goes from drain then tries to go into wash and then doesn't. Pressure valve trips, and F5 comes up again.

I'm hoping tomorrow I can drive out to yet another shop to buy this stupid valve.

If this doesn't fix it, I'm going to buy a Bosch washer.

Westinghouse junk.

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

Fixed the croc of shit.

$230 later in parts, also the supplier charged me wrong 1st time too, so they did an adjustment when I came back for the stupid diverter solenoid valve.

If this piece of shit fails again, it's going into the bin and I'm buying a Bosch washer.

 

[niZmO_Man]

On 06/11/2023 at 3:51 PM, Dose Pipe Sutututu said:

I'm buying a Bosch washer

Don't. You'll say the same thing when the electronics fail and you'll be looking for another brand.

I trust LG with this stuff, my old "direct drive" clothes washing machine going hard almost 10 years later (copped many mats and shit being overloaded). Bosch one lasted 5 years before dying without warning. Yes I replaced my parent's washing machine with the LG one (I lived there so might as well). Also had a Bosch dishwasher which randomly died after like 6-7 years, and was replaced with some random brand my dad got (didn't care by then, I was going to move out).

 

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

@niZmO_Man oh that croc of shit Westinghouse junk is a dishwasher lol... I should have been a bit more specific.

Funny enough my mates with Bosch & Miele dishwashers have had theirs close to 10 years, still going hard. Not to mention they clean better and dry better.

I have Bosch dryer and clothes washer and they're solid af

[admS15]

Seems like we treat our white goods like our skylines. Just keep fixing them. I've been through what you have Johnny with a Samsung dishwasher. It's on its 3rd feed in solenoid hose and can't remember, I replaced some other bit too. 12 years old now.

Like Ravi I also have an lg washing machine FL. Still going strong after 12 years. Westinghouse dryer needed some starting capacitor after a few years, then a motherboard failed a couple years later. That was terminal. Was looking for a replacement when an identical dryer popped up on gumtree for $50. I grabbed that and used the best parts from both to build 1. Built not bought 😂.

[soviet_merlin]

I wonder if this is the kind of thing where you'd be better off buying a 10 year old second hand Bosch than a new one. I wouldn't be surprised it they are riding on brand recognition and going cheap on parts as well nowadays. Saying that as someone who has a Bosch dishwasher in the apartment but has never used it

[Duncan]

sorry, did you say bosch washer or borg warner

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

1 hour ago, admS15 said:

Seems like we treat our white goods like our skylines.

The curse of knowledge, my non car mates just buy brand new things as soon as something goes wrong, be it big or small.

3 minutes ago, Duncan said:

sorry, did you say bosch washer or borg warner

Bosch washers won't spit turbine wheels like Borg Warners lol.

[No Crust Racing]

Bosch washer here, but only a year in. Samsung one prior went 10yrs and got gifted still working but getting tired. 

Asko dishwasher was in the house over 5yrs before we got here, we've been here 5 years since 0_0

Panasonic fridge scrapped in 5yrs and wasn't getting cold enough anymore, couldn't find the issue. 

Mitsubishi replaced it, been a year, hope it goes hard for long time. 

[niZmO_Man]

Went back to parent's place to grab more of my crap.
The dishwasher is Bosch, so yeah that's 10 years going strong (although hardly used, Asian household lol).

As long as the price isn't too high, should be good with Bosch. Very solid build quality. the 1,200 rpm front loader washer lasted for ages being overloaded, mechanically great, electronically not so much, as German things tend to be (BMW owner here hehe).

[GTSBoy]

On 11/10/2023 at 8:10 PM, soviet_merlin said:

I wonder if this is the kind of thing where you'd be better off buying a 10 year old second hand Bosch than a new one. I wouldn't be surprised it they are riding on brand recognition and going cheap on parts as well nowadays.

Like many things, the different series of Bosch dishwashers (and presumably other appliances) are made in different places. I can't remember the details, because the last time I bought was when we renovated half the house, which was about 7 years ago, but I looked into it then and chose appropriately. "Appropriately" effectively came to mean "not from the bottom couple of tiers of models". That dishwasher replaced the previous >10 yr old Bosch which was still going strong when we pulled the house apart. It was so good that I donated it to the landlord of the rental we used for a few months while our house was unliveable, to replace the shitty shitty (probably Westinghouse) dishwasher in that place. probably still going strong if it hasn't been tenanted to death.

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

2 hours ago, GTSBoy said:

shitty shitty (probably Westinghouse) dishwasher

They're all fking junk. Westingarbage.

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

Pretty quiet on the car front, my house decided that blowing a water line was a fun thing to do late in the year.

Whoever built the house (typical Western Suburbs property developer) used some china PEX underground instead of copper or the real deal PEX.

Anyhow there goes the gearset money LOL.

In other news, some great person chipped paint off our door, when my wife approached the lady, she was welcomed a bunch of swearing. Found the business, got in touch with the owner/husband and greeted with arrogance. No point pursuing it further, not worth my energy or time dealing with terrible people. Is what it is, I'll sort out the other carpark door dings and shit all in one go when we sell the shit box.

And some related car bullshit, I'm really over smelling the catch can, so I'm going to add a fitting to it and feed that to the turbo inlet pipe. I'll still leave the top vent on the catch can exposed, when the crank case/cam breather overwhelms the feed back to the turbo inlet it can still breathe out of the top. My broscience tells me that on idle, light load (off boost or tiny bit of boost) the vacuum generated by the turbo intake pipe should be enough to pull out some of the oil stench/fumes and combust it.

There isn't much room to fit a fitting anywhere so an ORB to 10AN fitting will be attached to the front side, this landing in the 2nd chamber of the catch can. I did want to put a fitting next to the 2x exisiting ones, however we will need to get a pipe internally to bypass the first baffle at least, or else you'll just end up pushing liquid into the can and straight into the intake pipe.

 

Not a good month, money exiting Dose's bank account too fast, and future bank account.

[No Crust Racing]

That sucks about the pipe. 

Life loves to bend you over sometimes. 

Catch can idea seems sound to me. 

[niZmO_Man]

Sad to hear about the dog excrements in the ute. Should shoot three of their tyres yee haw.