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Chunky Stool

Chunky Stool

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Aeroknow said:
Chirping the tires at 60yrs old still? Fuck yeah!!!
:-)
As far as i can tell, the pump is working. Gonna score some more 50/50 dexcool tomorrow along with a new thermostat. Might even boil the old one first to see if it opens. There's a chance there's some air still in the system i guess. I'm gonna go through a whole drain and fill and burp and hopefully that fixes it.
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I've got a leak in my cooling system on a 2000 Tacoma 4X4. Antifreeze ends up in the floor of the passenger side, under the mat.
Where would you guys start troubleshooting this? I'm tempted to just have a real mechanic fix it, but it might be something simple. Dunno.
 
mr sunshine

mr sunshine

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Chunky Stool said:
I've got a leak in my cooling system on a 2000 Tacoma 4X4. Antifreeze ends up in the floor of the passenger side, under the mat.
Where would you guys start troubleshooting this? I'm tempted to just have a real mechanic fix it, but it might be something simple. Dunno.
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I'd line the floor with shammys and call it a day. You can wring them out and get most of your antifreeze back....
 
BarnBuster

BarnBuster

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dstroy

dstroy

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Chunky Stool said:
I've got a leak in my cooling system on a 2000 Tacoma 4X4. Antifreeze ends up in the floor of the passenger side, under the mat.
Where would you guys start troubleshooting this? I'm tempted to just have a real mechanic fix it, but it might be something simple. Dunno.
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I'm not a professional mechanic either but I like doing that kind of work.

If you want to fix the leak today you can bypass the heater core, but it'll have no heat until you can fix it.

There's a video on youtube on how to replace it:

 
cannabineer

cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
BarnBuster said:
oh, boy...

"North Korea announced it detonated a thermonuclear device Sunday in its sixth and most powerful nuclear test to date."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/north-korea-says-6th-nuke-test-was-h-bomb-perfect-success/2017/09/03/9176314e-9086-11e7-8482-8dc9a7af29f9_story.html?utm_term=.6fddd5dc807f
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From the bit of reading I've done, it was probably a marginal thermonuke, such as the Greenhouse George device (fusion capsule on axis of a cylindrical nuke) or or a Sloika (layer cake) device such as the RDS-6s the Soviets tested in '53. It was good for 400 kT, most of them from fission.

It was not the modern Teller-Ulam two-stage imploder that is the universal design for deployed thermonukes. In that, a small fission device irradiates and compresses the cylindrical secondary to the point of ignition.

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Chunky Stool

Chunky Stool

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dstroy said:
I'm not a professional mechanic either but I like doing that kind of work.

If you want to fix the leak today you can bypass the heater core, but it'll have no heat until you can fix it.

There's a video on youtube on how to replace it:

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I watched the entire video... FUCK THAT SHIT!
How do I bypass the heater core? I'll just wear a coat when it's cold outside...
 
neosapien

neosapien

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I ordered the tickets. It's going down. Fuck you guys and your hoopties. I'm going to the land of eternal carbon emissions. Where motorcycles and cabs are in a blurry line of welded marriage. Where rickshaws and hookers share fares and noodles. Where guns are illegal but knives kill you just as dead. Miss me. Dec 12th.
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
Chunky Stool said:
OK just for the record, hydrogen bombs *are* ATOMIC bombs.
The news is reporting that "atomic" & "hydrogen" bombs have different yields. They are really referring to fission vs fusion -- both of which are atomic.
WTF?
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Hydrogen bombs are a subset of nuclear devices, but the language convention has been nuclear = atomic i.e. pure or mostly* fission devices.

The key term is "thermonuclear", which is specific to fusion reactions. The standard fission bomb is "nuclear" since the reaction is not sensitive to temperature. Fusion reactions only run at high temperatures and pressures, and in practice a nuclear (atomic, fission) first stage is needed to get temp and press high enough.

The yield difference is essentially an artifact ... pure fission devices are limited to about a megaton (ref. Ivy King test) while thermonuclear can be scaled up almost without limit. (ref. Tsar Bomba)

*mostly because modern nuclear bombs are often "boosted" by injecting tritium, which adds "thermonuclear smolder" neutrons to the mix, boosting fissile conversion efficiencies. I read about bomb designs some 20 years ago; fascinating stuff
 
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