Dan Fixes Coin-OpsCalifornia youtube man: 🐰
...and that's how to replace a radiator on a 2005 Honda Element! It's a fairly easy DIY, budget an hour or so.
My Pittsburgh ass: 🦝
I spent that long fighting with one rusted-to-fuck radiator hose clamp and when I finally got it off I made the exact same sound as when I cum
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsDan Fuckses Cars Up
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsGot a more appropriate tool for whizzing those hose clamps off and this last clamp came off muuuuuch easier, now to wash the grit and coolant out of my eye
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsThe top DuckDuckGo result for what to do if you get coolant in your eye:
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Step 2: Neutralize the Coolant
Once you’ve flushed your eyes, it’s essential to neutralize the coolant. You can do this by applying a small amount of baking soda or white vinegar to your eyes. These substances help to neutralize the pH of the coolant and reduce its toxicity. To apply baking soda or white vinegar: (See Also: Does Radiator Coolant Evaporate? The Truth Revealed)
Mix 1 teaspoon of baking soda or white vinegar with 1 cup of water
Soak a clean cloth in the solution
Gently apply the cloth to your eyes, avoiding the eyelids
Leave the solution on your eyes for at least 15 minutes before rinsing with water.
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Dan Fixes Coin-OpsFINALLY fucking BASTARD
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsI'm glad I'm not a car mechanic 'cause pins and vids can be tricky to work on sometimes but at least they're usually not so... wet, y'know?
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsLike even if a coin-op's had mice (so so many of them have) they're usually not still in it and still ejecting fluids
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsPinballs are mercifully dry things to work on, cars are all 🚙
woUld yoU like soMe of my FLUIDZZZZZ
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsArcade games: 🕹
️ oh no I got a bit damp in a corner and now my MDF is turning to a crusty dusty crumbly tragedy
Cars: 🚙 schlorp schlorp look at all my goo
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsGuys used to doing electrical work: 🦝 Now we really don't wanna get anything wet on or near this thing
Cars: 🚙 great tanks of juice, all different sorts, some is thick and some is thin and some cools me down and some explodes and some is super super slippery and all of it smells weird, hurry up with your cup of tea because I want so desperately to leak and spurt and trickle and squirt it all over your skin and hair and face
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsCars are just... unpleasantly wet, that's all. Always pumping and squirting the juice around, sloshing, gurgling, bleeding, dripping, they can't help it, they're just Wet Machines. It's their nature.
But boy oh boy am I not used to it
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsIf I go to open up a Pac Man and it's wet, something's badly wrong y'know, it makes me think OH NO WHAT THE HELL, it sets off the Unusually Bullshitty Bullshit detectoring parts of my brain
I go inside a car and it's all 🚙 squish squelch schlup slipslipslip mmm I love being ickystickyslippery all over, and I know consciously that this is how they're supposed to be, but that "Machines should be dry" part of my brain is... not quick on the uptake
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsElectricity only leaks out of the circuit if something's gone REALLY wrong, it takes far less trauma to accidentally release The Substances
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsThe impetus of doing this job was The Goo Is Falling Out and yaknow what happened all throughout the job? You know what happened? To the goo? Do you know what the goo did? It fell out
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsNow that the old rad's out I gotta put a temp switch in the new one and put the new rad in and then d'you know what I gotta do? With the goo?
I gotta put, the goo, back IN
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsNot the same goo! Same TYPE of goo, but not THIS goo, this goo's bad 🙂
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsImagine if the other machines in your life needed as many different sorts of fluids and pastes as a car
Imagine topping off and draining out and flushing through all the chambers and tanks on, like, your phone
This is literally the stuff of nightmares, this is creepypasta territory
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsSo taking the old rad out took like a day and a half and putting the new one in took about half an hour lol
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsI just saw down the Bad Leg of the Trousers of Time and narrowly avoided this series of internet searches:
Radiator coolant in eye
Safety goggles fogging up
How stop safety glasses fogging up
Prevent safety glasses fogging forum
Transmission fluid in eye
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsRad filled up, battery reconditioned and now she purrrrrrrs
Gotta get some screws to replace the rounded-off or broken ones from the old rad (fan was held on with zip ties wtf) and then I can run it out for an inspection
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for the first time in forever,
Dan Fixes Coin-Ops🦊
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what's this on my computer now
🦊💻 looks like a guy doing his own repairs on a 20-year-old car
🦊💻 what a silly thing to do, why would you do that
🦊💻 I know how to help
🦊💻 "You should buy an electric vehicle!"
🦊💻 There, that'll help put him on the right track
🦊💻 Honestly, how are so many people this oblivious when the solution is so obvious
Dan Fixes Coin-Ops🦊💻 "If an EV is unaffordable for you, why not simply send your butler to mechanic school"
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsMuch like nobody on fedi has a normal relationship with technology, nobody here has a normal amount of money either. Fedi is either stripeysocked people who don't have two pennies to rub together because they'll give their last fiver to a starving artist and forget "oh shit wait I'M a starving artist" and so they have keep passing the same wrinkled fiver around in a big stripey circle, or it's Computers People who've been doing Computers Things so long they don't know how to live on less than a hundred grand a year and there's nowt in between
This thread's for the first half, if you're in the second half I'm obviously not talking to you, I'm not fixing this car for fun y'know, you're welcome to watch but You Must Be At Least This Poor To Comment