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8ender posted:As far as I know the engines that can take abuse like this are the 4.0, GM 3800, and Nissan VQ. The Ford SPI 2000 gets an honourable mention for being unkillable but also focusing that neglect back at the owner in the form of vibration and noise. This is why I'm setting up an alert light for our toad's brake system, but inverting the logic, so that the light turns off if the brakes are applied. Light on? Go. Light off? Better be slowing down or not be towing something. I've heard so many horror stories.
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Jonny 290 posted:I'll nominate the old Chevy 250 six, too. I had a 77 nova with a dime sized hole in the radiator and my trips were scheduled by hops between gas stations with free water, dictated by the temp idiot light. Beat the gently caress out of that thing and it just kept working. My best friend drove a '68 C10 with the 250 I6 in high school without a tach. After it cracked the head (hauling rear end on the way to take the SAT), we figured out that he'd been basically running the poor thing at or above redline every day for several years before it gave out. Usually low on coolant or oil as well, or both, because it leaked both constantly. The only issue it ever had before it died entirely was the junkyard HEI distributor killing itself with its own ball-bearings (put one right through the middle of the HEI controller, wish I'd gotten pictures of that). Terrible Robot fucked around with this message at 11:40 on Jul 3, 2014 |
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Jonny 290 posted:I'll nominate the old Chevy 250 six, too. I had a 77 nova with a dime sized hole in the radiator and my trips were scheduled by hops between gas stations with free water, dictated by the temp idiot light. Beat the gently caress out of that thing and it just kept working. I had a 72 Nova with a straight-6 in it. That thing was indestructible. Had a rock chew a hole in my oil pan and it got me 120 miles to the nearest service station. After the hole was patched I got me from Montana to Chicago no problem at all.
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Don't forget about the Iron Duke / Tech 4 for the unkillable list. I've never subjected an engine to abuse like I did with the Tech 4 in my Cutlass Ciera. It was a gutless, sputtering clattering mess but it just would not die.
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I would like to nominate the Ford 302. I have the original motor in my 1980 F250 and I can't count the number of times young me overheated that motor or ran it low on oil, and it still chugs away to this day at over 300,000 miles.
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Seconding ford 302. We fed it 8psi of boost through a procharger for years and it was finally retired because it was pushing so much oil out of every crevice it caught fire. Still ran great after it was put out and some wiring fixed up.
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Lister/Petters single-cylinder diesel. "Dad, when did you last change the oil in this?" "Eh, some time in the late eighties, I think"
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Then there's the LDT/LDS 465, the least reliable iron inline 6 I've ever experienced. loving thing. Design failures: Head gaskets took 3 revisions to get right 478 cubic inches (7.8L) of displacement, yet it only makes 175hp and ~525 foot pounds 5 miles per gallon and they're known for making GBS threads conrods out the side of the block, because the motor was originally designed to do no more than ~2300rpm and the upgrades to make it go faster mostly involved the military leaning on the manufacturer until they said "ehhhh, well, our factor of safety probably is good enough, so now it can do 2600rpm!" Which is why I want to replace mine with a 5.9L Cummins that is smaller, hundreds of pounds lighter, spins 15% faster stock, and good to 1000hp with the stock bottom end. Oh, and it can be made to spin 50% faster by upgrading just the valvesprings. e: oh yeah, the drat thing takes SEVERAL HUNDRED revolutions of the crankshaft to build any oil pressure. I don't know how. It's not just mine, either, that's one of the "features" of the design. kastein fucked around with this message at 20:31 on Jul 3, 2014 |
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kastein posted:5.9L Cummins that is smaller, hundreds of pounds lighter  Holy poo poo
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Rectal Placenta posted:
It's over 1800lbs fully dressed, dry. A Cummins 6BTA5.9 is around 1100lbs fully dressed, wet. OTR truck engines are commonly well over a ton.
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That is abysmal, even for a motor designed with WW2 technology.
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3rd'ing the 302 (5.0L) ford. All the roller blocks with the E7TE heads and forged pistons (87-92) were superbly durable from the factory. I tore down several that had 300k miles (480000 km) that had fresh looking cross hatching and nice internal clearances. They could take a beating from boy racers running poorly installed/tuned nitrous, superchargers, etc that no engine had cause to survive. Many a mishap fixed with fresh head gaskets. This was just one of the aspects that gained them favor with that crowd. As a GM guy who actually delved into that realm, it was a hard pill to swallow.
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B4Ctom1 posted:3rd'ing the 302 (5.0L) ford. All the roller blocks with the E7TE heads and forged pistons (87-92) were superbly durable from the factory. I tore down several that had 300k miles (480000 km) that had fresh looking cross hatching and nice internal clearances. It's a shame most of them got bolted to AODs, possibly the worst domestic RWD automatic transmission ever built.
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MrYenko posted:It's a shame most of them got bolted to AODs, possibly the worst domestic RWD automatic transmission ever built. Every rwd chrysler transmission ever would like a word with you. Chrysler was still putting 3 speed autos in the ram van right up until it's death in 03, and even those couldn't stay together.
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Nah, they strapped an OD unit to the back. They still couldn't stay together though, for a variety of reasons including maintenance, ignorant shops, and some idiot design flaws. If they had just stuck with the tf727 instead of loving with the design things would have been better for everything except the environment.
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http://newstalkkgvo.com/montana-rail-link-train-derails-near-superior-three-cars-in-clark-fork-river-audio/ Those are 737 fuselages...
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QuarkMartial posted:If we're doing junkyard matches, can I suggest another one: Get a cheap car and replace all fluids with Lucas products (and nothing else), run it, and see what happens. This is where I got all defensive of English Lucas Industries products, and totally forgot about those Lucas oils because I am dumb. pants in my pants fucked around with this message at 05:11 on Jul 5, 2014 |
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Jul 5, 2014 05:02
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Lucas Oil, not Lucas Industries. Roughly the same reputation, but for fluids.
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Godholio posted:Lucas Oil, not Lucas Industries. D'oh! Carry on, then!
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:http://newstalkkgvo.com/montana-rail-link-train-derails-near-superior-three-cars-in-clark-fork-river-audio/ quote:“Those cars contained aircraft components, denatured alcohol and soybeans, most of which were the aircraft components,” Frost said. Horrible Grammatical Failure: I thought he was saying the soybeans were components.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Those The railroad/article referring to an entire fuselage as "aircraft components" is hilarious. It's technically correct, but makes it sound like they were boxcars full of parts instead of nearly complete planes.
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Junkyard engine wars? How has the OM617 not been mentioned? (Hint: probably because they never wind up in junkyards)
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Theris posted:The railroad/article referring to an entire fuselage as "aircraft components" is hilarious. It's technically correct, but makes it sound like they were boxcars full of parts instead of nearly complete planes. That's the part where I lost it too.
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Noeland posted:Junkyard engine wars? How has the OM617 not been mentioned? You see them once in a while, generally once the body is rusted beyond recognition or got hit by a truck or something.
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Godholio posted:Lucas Oil, not Lucas Industries. Out of curiousity, what sort of real reputation do they have? I've used the oil stabilizer/stop leak in my wife's car and it seems to do what it claims. Obviously there's no "mechanic in a bottle", though. And my desire to replace all fluids with Lucas products is to see how bad it'd run, not how well 
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:http://newstalkkgvo.com/montana-rail-link-train-derails-near-superior-three-cars-in-clark-fork-river-audio/ Another angle of this: 
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'Aircraft Components'...
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Oh, my mistake 'Aircraft? Components!'
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'Aircraft, Components...'
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You guys act like you've never seen a 737 heading back to it's spawning grounds before.
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QuarkMartial posted:Out of curiousity, what sort of real reputation do they have? I've used the oil stabilizer/stop leak in my wife's car and it seems to do what it claims. Obviously there's no "mechanic in a bottle", though. Stop leak is little flakes that clog up small holes, tears, or other leaks, and anything similar. Like coolant or oil passages, radiators, heater cores, etc. Oil stabilizer is intended to increase the viscosity of the oil...which you can do by simply buying the correct oil for your application to begin with. 5w20 leaks a bit? Step up to 10w30 or something. Or fix the problem instead of sticking a bandaid over it. Don't pay more for crap additives that claim to do the same thing.
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Pivit posted:You guys act like you've never seen a 737 heading back to it's spawning grounds before. 
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Pivit posted:You guys act like you've never seen a 737 heading back to it's spawning grounds before. Killing me here...
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Well that is gonna throw a loop in the factory schedule. Crazy enough though, the factory that builds all of the 737s is up to a 40+ rate per month. Hardly a drop in the bucket of overall production for the year.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:'Aircraft Components'... Let's just call them pipe or tanks. The press have made the whole plane/train crash thing so sensationalized that the respective industries have to downplay everything. Just like lives lost to guns compared to all the other forms of death. As if these two forms of conveyance have some multiplier that increases the value or each dollar/life lost over other forms because of news sensationalism.
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Great Beer posted:Another angle of this:
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Collateral Damage posted:A rarely seen view of adolescent aircraft leaving their birthing place in the sea and crawling onto land for the first time. I expect to see this kind of poo poo on icanhazcheezburger or jalopnik, wtf. A friend was over for a BBQ at my place today and upon attempting to leave, the lower balljoint on his 1997 accord snapped in half. It didn't separate, the drat stud broke off the ball. It had been working on breaking for a while too because part of the fractured surface was rusted/aged. Carnage pictures in the morning when it gets light, it ended up accidentally hellaflush with a ripped out cv shaft and getting it the 200 feet back to my place with functioning suspension on only 3 corners was... interesting.
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kastein posted:I expect to see this kind of poo poo on icanhazcheezburger or jalopnik, wtf. Jalopnik would be "how do these plane fuselages in this river affect kim kardashian and the iphone 6"
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Naw it would be "The most amazing plane fuselages you've ever seen in a place you'd never expect that will blow your mind and make you lose faith in humanity and brown manual diesel wagons."
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"Three 737's crash landed in a river at the same time and we've got EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE"
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