Oh yeah for sure. I’m just a home gamer and I can’t stand jumpsuits, so any axle grease or bearing grease turns me into a spec ops camouflage expert.
I’ll re-shill tub-o-towels here. Seriously fucking awesome for getting the even most sticky grime off your hands before you touch any doorknobs (or to clean your hands when there’s no faucet around).
Yeah, I’m pretty sure that’s for rotating the inner tie rod when adjusting toe, not for replacing the inner - though I do love purpose made tools.
I do a lot of track days and racing, so my toolkit is usually pretty minimal since I don’t own a semi to haul my tools over. My rule is usually “make do with what you have twice. If you’re still swearing the second time, go buy a quality dedicated tool and find room in the mobile tool box”.
Because there already are tracks without electricity where I live. When coming from a nearby major city by me, the train has to stop for 40 minutes while they switch from an electric to diesel power car. Same process while taking a train into the city, switching from diesel to electric.
Oof. What if I don’t want to buy a 33mm wrench for the one inner tie rod I’ll do in five years?
Also, Tub o towels is the most magical product I’ve ever discovered for people to do automotive work. I could bathe myself with those
Well a battery electric train is probably useful for those routes with a section that isn’t powered.
Not sure if it would be awfully cleaner than a diesel electric train, because those are already pretty efficient as I understand it.
For sim, I utilize iRacing to practice and learn tracks before real life amateur endurance races in champcar and lemons as well as track days.
IMO iRacing physics are so good and the tracks are so well modeled that it’s a very effective learning tool. It’s the first sim since Live For Speed that really feels close enough to real life for me to forget I’m playing a sim.
Plus traffic management and race craft are so crucially important in wheel to wheel racing & I simply don’t get any other opportunity to practice those.