The Unofficial "Ask a Stupid Question" Thread

rampagingsloth said:
Ah, ok, so it's not a good idea to take the hinges off and work them over on a bench? I'm wondering if I need to go to a body shop for this, I don't have those kinds of tools here.
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You only would need to remove the hinge that attaches to the door after getting the old pin out, the one on the body stays unaltered which is the hard one to remove anyway.

A drill press makes it extremely easy, and if you don’t have one get one if you have the space. Doesn’t need to be anything fancy, I’ve done some really crazy things with my cheap Skil press, including those. Same goes for a cutoff wheel, the harbor freight one is cheap as dirt and there’s always coupons for it. Those two things are really all that’s necessary

I also am a proponent of removing the fender to do the hinges, access becomes ample without it
 
rampagingsloth said:
Ah, ok, so it's not a good idea to take the hinges off and work them over on a bench? I'm wondering if I need to go to a body shop for this, I don't have those kinds of tools here.
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I did both doors on my sons car and I took the doors off and did the hinges in a vice, It's not a bad idea. You just have to plan for it. Rebuilding the hinges isn't a terrible job by itself. Drilling some holes. Installing the bushings, pins and the new roller. Gaining access to do it is what takes time. Now, when I did SuperBirdos hinges the doors were off. So no big deal. But I had already pulled the entire wiring harness out of the doors.
I think you can do the job without removing the hinges from the A pillar. But I'd expect to remove the door form the hinges.
 
I had never considered taking the fender off to do the hinges. After doing it the traditional way, I think I'll try removing the fenders. That is a lot of stuff to deal with but to me, I think it might be easier. Would certainly take more time for sure. While I had the passenger door off it would be super simple to change the vacuum hoses to the evap cannister also, something I have always fought with.
 
GRWeldon said:
I had never considered taking the fender off to do the hinges. After doing it the traditional way, I think I'll try removing the fenders. That is a lot of stuff to deal with but to me, I think it might be easier. Would certainly take more time for sure. While I had the passenger door off it would be super simple to change the vacuum hoses to the evap cannister also, something I have always fought with.
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Getting the fenders off isn't a terrible job. Actually that might be the smartest way to do it. Leave the door attached and drill one hinge at a time. As well the upper hinge has a stud on it that has a nut on the inside of the A pillar. I'm pretty sure I had the dash out to get to that. So the fender removal seems smart the more I think about it.


When I did them on SuperBirdo the car was all blown apart anyway. Nothing was ever in our way.
 
I saw a bunch of bands in the Knoxville coliseum. Alice, both AIC and Cooper, Ozzy/ Sabbath, Ozzy, sabbath,BOC, AcDC , Saw acdc and met bon scott, Met Ozzy, Randy Rhodes, Van Halen, And almost got backstage for Page and Plant.
 
Jerry's dead, Phish sucks. Get a job.
 
MadMikeyL said:
Reminds me of a joke…
What has nine arms and sucks?
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I have no clue how old y'all are but if you dig way back to 1978 or 1979, Def Leppards debut album was awesome! Their follow-up High-N-Dry was probably their best. The 3rd LP was OK and everything from then on sucked...

At one tome they were a rockin' band...when they were hungry and had to work for it. Happens to a lot of great bands... I could name a dozen or more, but I won't.
 
I feel the same about Van Halen. If you exclude 5150, the Van Hagar era was terrible. It was a better band in the beginning with Roth. They had the success with 5150 but after that it was all trash to me.
 
Grog6 said:
All the poly stuff I bought came with lube. After I added zerk fittings, I bought another smaller grease gun for silicone dielectric grease. Regular grease is bad for the poly.
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I may have asked before...where do you find silicone grease in small tube's. I have to give the zerk fix a try. This squeaking, wreaking noise is killing me!
 
Derphound01 said:
I feel the same about Van Halen. If you exclude 5150, the Van Hagar era was terrible. It was a better band in the beginning with Roth. They had the success with 5150 but after that it was all trash to me.
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Exactly! First album was amazing, second and third, some say 4th were OK. A few good commercial hits here and there. I kinda liked Van Hagar and 5150 but IMO, the first album was the best by far...
 
GRWeldon said:
I have no clue how old y'all are but if you dig way back to 1978 or 1979, Def Leppards debut album was awesome! Their follow-up High-N-Dry was probably their best. The 3rd LP was OK and everything from then on sucked...

At one tome they were a rockin' band...when they were hungry and had to work for it. Happens to a lot of great bands... I could name a dozen or more, but I won't.
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Pete Willis was the soul to Def Leppard, once they got Phil Collen they went from hard rock to soft rock. Just like Roth to Hagar with Van Halen

Hagar pre VH ironically was great, be it solo or in Montrose
 
Derphound01 said:
I feel the same about Van Halen. If you exclude 5150, the Van Hagar era was terrible. It was a better band in the beginning with Roth. They had the success with 5150 but after that it was all trash to me.
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It wasn't terrible, it just wasn't Van Halen. I used to defend that version of Van Halen because I loved Sammy's solo albums before he joined them. But, in truth, "VOA" was a weak album, very '80s sound, not as hard rock as his earlier stuff. What Van Hagar is, really, is an improved Sammy Hagar solo band, once you look at it that way it's fine. It's weird, I think Alex's drumming improved with those Hagar songs but Eddie's guitar sounded terrible to me. And he didn't sound the same or play the same as he did in the early Roth years. Except for "Get Up", nothing was nearly as memorable as the Roth stuff, though "1984" was weak with those shitty Eddie keyboard songs (I refuse to listen to "Jump" and "I'll Wait" is almost as grating). So now I no longer act like it's still really Van Halen, but it's not bad.

I still prefer Sammy's earlier solo stuff before Van Halen to the Van Hagar tracks, "Love Or Money" is one of my favorite songs -


That era still had the Montrose vibe. Sammy's solo stuff after Van Halen isn't bad but it's different, some songs rock and others are just decent. Van Halen couldn't get their shit together until Wolfgang convinced them to retool some old unused Van Halen demos into new songs. That "A Different Kind Of Truth" album was great, though a little overproduced, and the tour was really good.

If you really love the older Roth stuff, get your hands on the "Firestarter" bootleg, 3 CDs of almost all their early demo songs, some of them are as good or better than anything they actually released. "Get The Show On The Road" rocks, one of my favorite Van Halen songs, period.

 
GRWeldon said:
I may have asked before...where do you find silicone grease in small tube's. I have to give the zerk fix a try. This squeaking, wreaking noise is killing me!
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I've never found silicone in tubes, you'll have to load it directly into the gun.
 
I'm going to install a trans cooler bypassing the radiator. I plan to cut the hard lines and connect the rubber hose that came with the cooler.
Do I need to flare the hard lines to prevent the rubber hose from being blown off? Or are the hose clamps sufficient?
 
rampagingsloth said:
It wasn't terrible, it just wasn't Van Halen. I used to defend that version of Van Halen because I loved Sammy's solo albums before he joined them. But, in truth, "VOA" was a weak album, very '80s sound, not as hard rock as his earlier stuff. What Van Hagar is, really, is an improved Sammy Hagar solo band, once you look at it that way it's fine. It's weird, I think Alex's drumming improved with those Hagar songs but Eddie's guitar sounded terrible to me. And he didn't sound the same or play the same as he did in the early Roth years. Except for "Get Up", nothing was nearly as memorable as the Roth stuff, though "1984" was weak with those shitty Eddie keyboard songs (I refuse to listen to "Jump" and "I'll Wait" is almost as grating). So now I no longer act like it's still really Van Halen, but it's not bad.

I still prefer Sammy's earlier solo stuff before Van Halen to the Van Hagar tracks, "Love Or Money" is one of my favorite songs -


That era still had the Montrose vibe. Sammy's solo stuff after Van Halen isn't bad but it's different, some songs rock and others are just decent. Van Halen couldn't get their shit together until Wolfgang convinced them to retool some old unused Van Halen demos into new songs. That "A Different Kind Of Truth" album was great, though a little overproduced, and the tour was really good.

If you really love the older Roth stuff, get your hands on the "Firestarter" bootleg, 3 CDs of almost all their early demo songs, some of them are as good or better than anything they actually released. "Get The Show On The Road" rocks, one of my favorite Van Halen songs, period.

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I never thought about it that way but you’re right; it’s Sammy’s solo band filled with the Van Halen brothers and Michael 😆 For better or worse, I don’t like VOA outside of the overplayed I cant drive 55, and a lot of what I don’t like about that album is in Van Hagar.

Eddie’s guitar was tuned a half step down in every Roth album, he switched to standard for the Hagar years and it sounds too bright.
 
Kidd-7 said:
I'm going to install a trans cooler bypassing the radiator. I plan to cut the hard lines and connect the rubber hose that came with the cooler.
Do I need to flare the hard lines to prevent the rubber hose from being blown off? Or are the hose clamps sufficient?
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Yes. Don't ask me know I know why you need to. :facepalm:
 
Kidd-7 said:
experience is an MF'r

Does the type / size of the flare matter? I need to pick up a flaring tool.
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A single flare is adequate for them. I’ve actually gotten away with double clamping but do as I say not as I do 😆
 
XR7-4.6 said:
I never thought about it that way but you’re right; it’s Sammy’s solo band filled with the Van Halen brothers and Michael 😆 For better or worse, I don’t like VOA outside of the overplayed I cant drive 55, and a lot of what I don’t like about that album is in Van Hagar.

Eddie’s guitar was tuned a half step down in every Roth album, he switched to standard for the Hagar years and it sounds too bright.
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Agreed, though it more than the tuning. He started writing different, too. Hagar said that Eddie didn't write songs like other guys he's worked with. He said Eddie writes riffs, tons of riffs, and records them and puts them away. Later, when it's time to write a song, he gets those riffs out and combines them and then I guess Roth comes up with the lyrics. I think with Sammy he started writing "normally" because I'm sure Sammy had his own music ideas and so they combined that. So you don't wind up with as many memorable Eddie guitar riffs, you wind up with regular songs and his solos. Which is taking away Van Halen's greatest strength, those riffs.

I mean, if you listen to all the early demo stuff, you can hear bits of known Van Halen songs in there, it's just Eddie reusing ideas. None of those ideas really wound up with the Hagar stuff. I mean, I've read about that happening in maybe one or two songs with Sammy. Even when you listen to that best of album where Roth came back and sang on a couple new songs, it sounds like Hagar thinking with Roth vocals. Thankfully that reunion album went back to the vaults, I think there were only three really new songs on there, and they ain't as good as the rest of the rebuilt old songs.
 
Kidd-7 said:
Does the type / size of the flare matter? I need to pick up a flaring tool.
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I usually use a bubble flare but don’t flare it all the way. If the end is too sharp, it can cut through the hose over time, so a half-way bubble flare will give it enough of a lip to not slide off, but will be smooth on the edge so the hose slides on easy and doesn’t cut the inside of the hose.
 
rampagingsloth said:
Agreed, though it more than the tuning. He started writing different, too. Hagar said that Eddie didn't write songs like other guys he's worked with. He said Eddie writes riffs, tons of riffs, and records them and puts them away. Later, when it's time to write a song, he gets those riffs out and combines them and then I guess Roth comes up with the lyrics. I think with Sammy he started writing "normally" because I'm sure Sammy had his own music ideas and so they combined that. So you don't wind up with as many memorable Eddie guitar riffs, you wind up with regular songs and his solos. Which is taking away Van Halen's greatest strength, those riffs.

I mean, if you listen to all the early demo stuff, you can hear bits of known Van Halen songs in there, it's just Eddie reusing ideas. None of those ideas really wound up with the Hagar stuff. I mean, I've read about that happening in maybe one or two songs with Sammy. Even when you listen to that best of album where Roth came back and sang on a couple new songs, it sounds like Hagar thinking with Roth vocals. Thankfully that reunion album went back to the vaults, I think there were only three really new songs on there, and they ain't as good as the rest of the rebuilt old songs.
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Honestly I think there was a point in the mid 80s Eddie lost his passion for guitar, maybe because he was pigeon holed into being “the guitar guy”, maybe because every other guitarist new and old at the time was copying him etc. I heard a few theories to either effect based on his rare interviews. So what you heard was either just going through the motions or something completely different(keyboards).

Honestly the demos from the 70s are some of my favorite versions of Van Halen songs. Something lacking on almost all studio tracks in the Roth era are the guitar rhythms behind the Solos, for better or worse, but to me and just like you say Eddie’s rhythmic riffs were one of his most underrated traits. There’s not nearly as much whammy bar/tapping theatrics in the demos either, which really showcases just how solid of a player he was even before fame.

For me House of Pain in particular is unquestionably better than it’s official release on 1984. You be the judge though…


 
A while back I asked about the function of this metal plate.

Well...in the interest of science, I removed it from a junkyard shroud and drove without it.

Anyone what to guess what happened?

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Can't be good. Check engine light then it died?! :unsure:

Joe
 
very low fuel trims. In the data the amount of intake air would be next to nothing. The ECU probably began yelling at you from the passenger side floorboard. Hope you had the music up.
 
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