I live in Los Angeles
Many bars on the windows here . . . unless you live in “rich part of town”
I don’t
I hope this link works. It demonstrates the safe way to change a tire without worrying about the car falling off the jack.
I can hear one of their dads now,
“It all fun and games until somebodies, burka gets caught in an axle,…Kids”!!!
@Yosemite
This is an examination in a course. Here is the description:
Unusual group of Saudi students changing tires on a Toyota FJ Cruiser Final exam at Saudi University for senior mechanical engineers Class “Display of Dynamics in Motion” Class No. 377 3 units. This class is not graded on the curve. It is pass or fail only.
If a student fails the course, the student probably won’t be changing majors.
An amazing video, but they didn’t change the tires. They went back on the same hubs they came off of. I wonder if they practiced, and how many wheels they dropped or people fell off before they got it right.
Is that real? How did the car stay going forward and the differential not put power to the wheels off the ground? I would have expected the wheels off the ground to be spinning.
TwinTurbo Your co-worker reminded me of my first day on the job for Purolator Courier in 1979. I was riding along with the driver I was replacing. He was first showing me the daily vehicle inspection. I was getting a 1976 Pinto station wagon manual transmission. I was pleased. We checked lights and signals then he checked the oil while I checked the tires. We had 2 full time mechanics and 2 service bays. There was a 55 gallon oil drum with pump and a gallon can with spout for the drivers and mechanics use. My “trainer” was returning to the drum for more oil. I asked him how much oil did it take? His reply. One of these but it still isn’t full. I pulled the dipstick and the oil level was over half the entire dipstick length! He had removed the filler cap from the rocker cover and could see no oil so he was filling it up. It was obvious he had never actually checked the oil level in the 6 Months he had worked there. I told the head mechanic what had happened and he was not pleased. We pushed the Pinto onto the lift where he drained and replaced the proper 4 quarts of oil. I realized that my “trainer” was an idiot. It was later confirmed when I realized he was an idiot driver. He was quitting this good job to go to school and be an airline pilot! To this day when boarding an airliner I pray he didn’t graduate.
Good point. Must be a modified rear axle (differential locked to the right wheel, left wheel free). Also, you need to run 80 psi or so in those wheels on the ground.
I have seen lots of bailing wire holding hoods down, ratchet straps doing the same job, and even window unit ACs with a generator bolted to the back of the car or in the bed of the pickup. I figured they must live or camp out of their car to go to this trouble and expense. It seems like it would be easier to fix the AC if that was the problem.
Many years ago in traffic and while sitting a light I saw a guy driving an older Ford full-size station wagon.
The left rear quarter glass had been removed and replaced with a piece of sheet metal.
He had a small cast iron pot-belly stove in the back with a fire going and smoke rolling out of the chimney pipe protruding through the sheet metal panel.
I guess the thought of an impact and a heavy, red hot, cast iron stove slamming into the back of his head was a moot point.
The stove in the car is better than the AC units! I have heard about people running wood gasifiers in their cars. You have to burn like a 55 gallon drum of wood to go 50 miles so it is labor intensive.
@cwatkin During WWII with gasoline supplies cut off, several car owners in my town in Europe had these large gasifiers mounted on the back of their cars. They were the size and shape of a very large water heater. The fuel put in was wood or anything the owner could find that could be pyrolized.
The power was greatly reduced and the cars did not move very fast. But we did admire the inginuity of the owners. My dad had horses so we never ran out of hay.
Good point. Must be a modified rear axle (differential locked to the right wheel, left wheel free).
Hardly necessary. Open differential and the ability to apply the brakes to the left side wheels only is all you’d need. If you look closely at the video the rear wheel stops immediately once off the ground, can’t tell about the front wheel.
I hear that in north korea they still are using gassifier wood burning trucks, at their nuke sites even!
I am, of course, aware they use window bars in the big cities. I have visited NYC and others.
I went back and looked at the picture again. Still comes up Mexico. Note the buildings are mostly made of concrete, and the vertical beams are standard Mexican construction.
Also, bare cement block walls in at least two places, with what looks like wooden section to keep in/keep out unwanted things.
I haven’t been everywhere in the USA, but as I said, it makes me feel at home. Looks like my neighbor’s houses. I don’t see many cement block houses, or block with revoco houses in the US. They could be there, but I haven’t seen them. I would expect them maybe in McAllen, in a colonia, and even there the country would probably not give occupancy permits.
“He had a small cast iron pot-belly stove in the back with a fire going and smoke rolling out of the chimney pipe protruding through the sheet metal panel.”
Survival of the fittest would imply this idiot won’t be alive long enough to contribute to the gene pool
This idiot is right down there with the guys that that get killed because they’re hanging under the car while it’s driving . . . to hear a noise . . . and then get wrapped around the driveshaft
Ba dum bum bump . . . what was that sound?
Just asking for a friend, but is doing a front end alignment (toe in) using a 2x4, straight edge and a pencil considered redneck?
Only if it works.
2 yard sticks can set toe relatively accurately on a vehicle with a solid rear axle.
I don’t think it’s redneck enough. Doing it with fishing line is more redneck.
How do you think alignments were done before Hunter machines?
Like this:
I’ve been doing my own alignments this way for 30 years. 4 wheel alignments and solid-axle 2 wheel alignments. Fishing line, jackstands and measuring tapes. Once a 4 wheel alignment is zero-ed in (0 thrust angle), toe changes are simple.