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wilfredmerriweathr posted:Even Red Green would be ashamed of this man's handiwork. Not enough duct tape, of course.
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cursedshitbox posted:90s benzes had biodegradable harnesses that died too early. Oh, yeah, I had a scare with this when I bought my $600 '94 e320. Fortunately, the upper harness had been replaced, but there were three wires that ran straight down around the area of the starter: one was some kind of ground on the starter, another was a signal lead for the oil pressure sender, and the third one was hot in some way that probably fried the gauge as it now always reads full pressure. When I touched the insulation, it just flaked off. I managed to change out all of 'em manually, but I think it's too late for the poor oil gauge  At least the intermittent CELs for the MAF went away after that.Speaking of which... Sudo Echo posted:
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wilfredmerriweathr posted:I want to see a picture of that. Almost thanksgiving... ask and ye shall receive.   Full backstory on this motor and its eventual doom: <lots of words> 98 XJ - It started running lovely and the CEL came on in late 2010. I put new plugs and wires in it, CEL went off and it ran nicely so I brought it back for inspection again. It threw the CEL again and started running lovely again the second I pulled up. I gave up in frustration and parked it. Then everything else I owned broke too, so I ended up driving it. A few months later I noticed it would backfire out the intake if I goosed the throttle, and it idled very roughly. In fact pulling the injector leads for cylinders 3 or 4 didn't change the idle at all. I figured that meant either junk valves or a burnt gasket, and it's a 4.0, with a spare sitting in the shed and another in storage, so I just said the hell with it and drove it as-is. It got really, really rough right around fall 2011. I figured all the unburnt gas had melted down the cat, so I bored a couple holes lengthwise through its core with a 3/4" ship augur since the whole exhaust was pretty much hosed anyways. Nothing changed. Did a compression test, readings were 150/150/30/30/150/160 from 1-6. I noted that during testing, I could hear air rushing out of cylinder 3 when I tested compression on 4 and vise versa... Since 4.0s sell for around $100 near me, and I already had a few on hand, I just stopped caring and drove the drat thing with my foot on the floor and the CEL blinking. Cat and engine were already junk, and the whole jeep was worth less than a thousand bucks and was beat to poo poo and patched together, so why the hell not? Probably put 15k miles on it that way. More than once I checked and found the coolant a gallon low, just filled the fucker back up and kept going. It saw rev limiter every time I drove it. It was almost like inverse vtec - almost no power and ran like poo poo up till 2500rpm, then completely fell on its face until around 2800rpm, at which point it would backfire a lot till 3k rpm, then it ran normally and had great power. Since it was an auto that basically meant floor it so it downshifts and goes over 3k because you sure as gently caress aren't going to accelerate from 2500 through 3k, ever, unless you have a long downhill available. This made it drat near undriveable in the rain. Summer 2012 rolled around and I had a lot of spare time, so I slapped a new engine in it one weekend. Pulled the old one apart and found... almost no damage except the head gasket. Slight fire polishing/etching on the head surface, a few thousandths burnt off the fire deck of the block. I planned on putting a new gasket in it and keeping it as a spare, but kept forgetting and it ended up sitting outside in the yard with no cylinder head on it, open to the elements, for an entire year. Fall 2013 came up and we had an AI meetup at my place. Black88gta brought 8 pounds of thermite. We decided to slag the old engine since it was clearly junk at this point, right? It's full of water, it has to be seized up by now. Filled one bore with thermite, lit it off, put flower pots over two more and slagged the pistons with more thermite. We saw the oil pan glow red hot and heard oil/water boiling inside it. Once everyone was suitably drunk I decided we should probably tear it down and see what the bottom end looked like. So we did. On a whim I threw a breaker bar on the crank and... it turned. Not only did it turn, after cranking back and forth a bit, the rings scraped all the thermite slag off the bores and it turned over easily by hand again. We found absolutely no damage - the mains and rod bearings were all almost perfect, crank looked great (aside from being caked in thermite slag in a few spots) and you could still see the crosshatching on all the cylinders. If it weren't for the fact that the top of the bore we poured the thermite directly into stress cracked away from the fire deck, I could have bored it 5-10 over or maybe even just honed it and slapped some new pistons/rings in it, shaved 5 thou off the deck to get rid of the rust and slight blown HG damage, and run the fucker as-is. This is why I love the 4.0, I can do utterly retarded poo poo to them and they just keep on going. They might not make much power or get very good fuel mileage while doing it, but they are very difficult to break. </lots of words> kastein fucked around with this message at 05:28 on Nov 26, 2013 |
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Sudo Echo posted:
Nope, I'd say it's perfect.
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Slavvy posted:Nah bro it's those super sweet Bosch Performance blue ignition leads making it run mean. What kind of car is that? The intake is different to the commodores with that engine that I'm used to seeing.
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kastein posted:On a whim I threw a breaker bar on the crank and... it turned. Not only did it turn, after cranking back and forth a bit, the rings scraped all the thermite slag off the bores and it turned over easily by hand again. We found absolutely no damage - the mains and rod bearings were all almost perfect, crank looked great (aside from being caked in thermite slag in a few spots) and you could still see the crosshatching on all the cylinders. If it weren't for the fact that the top of the bore we poured the thermite directly into stress cracked away from the fire deck, I could have bored it 5-10 over or maybe even just honed it and slapped some new pistons/rings in it, shaved 5 thou off the deck to get rid of the rust and slight blown HG damage, and run the fucker as-is.  That's loving insane.
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kastein posted:This is why I love the 4.0, I can do utterly retarded poo poo to them and they just keep on going. They might not make much power or get very good fuel mileage while doing it, but they are very difficult to break. I had a similar experience and justified love for the Ford 300ci I-6. Way back in time before dinosaurs - I mean cell phones - A couple of friends and I went tubing in Munson, FL. A good 40 miles from home. My steed of choice was a 1971 Ford F100 2WD with a 3" body lift and 36" Ground Hawgs on it. I know, I know - I was 18, shutup! Around the halfway mark on the trip home, I noticed it had no power as we were trying to make it over a bridge. Looked down at the temp gauge and it was pegged. As long as I can make it to the peak of the bridge, we can coast into the gas station at the other end and I can top the radiator off. We reach the station, I get the hose and turn the water on. The hose is six feet long and the radiator is 9 feet away. Here I am standing outside a gas station filling up my radiator by squeezing the hose just right to get a strong enough stream to arc into the radiator without spraying everywhere. Each time a customer came up, I'd have to pinch off the hose to let them by. Try calling for my parents or friends but nobody is answering cause it's a Saturday and they've all got stuff to do. Truck is still hot, but full of water now, let's see if we can baby it home. We made it about 5 miles further down the road. As soon as I turned on Creighton Road, everything was uphill. No way we could make it so I pulled over to the side of the road, opened the hood and let it cool with the hot Florida July air. After probably 30 minutes, I tried to start it and it finally spun over and started. All of this time it was overheating, the sluggish start was getting progressively worse until it wouldn't spin over at all on Creighton. We hauled rear end up the hill so we could get to flat ground ASAP. I babied it as much as I could. Short bursts of power followed by a long coast at idle to try to get to the next gas station that might have water. Every one we had stopped at up until this point had no water. We finally hit the perfect store. The clerk behind the counter just had an experience with overheating and gave us the water hose they stored in the store for employees only. I left the truck running, stuffed the hose in the radiator as far as it would go and cranked the water up. The truck was hurt. At idle it had fallen to stumbling, sheet metal was squeaking like it hadn't squeaked before. It was as if it was breathing its last breaths of life. Then it happened. We were sitting on a picnic table talking about god knows what when the engine let out an epic clunk or clank or twang - it's a hard sound to describe. It was so forceful the entire truck shook when it happened. I ran over to check out the gauges and the temp gauge was falling like a rock! I threw the hose out of the radiator, called for everyone to jump on board and made our final run toward the house. We were 3.5 miles from home. We can do this if we work the lights and traffic doesn't mess us up. I started out easy and calm. Using the same technique as before. Short bursts of speed with a long idle filled coast back down to keep things cool. We got lucky at the light at Palafox. We arrived just in time to be the last one through the left turn light. Palafox was pretty uneventful. It was the longest leg of this part of the journey. A nice, straight shot south. We were just about to make the light at Airport Blvd, but it turned red. I looked down and the temp needle was pegged. DEFCON 3 PEOPLE I immediately yank the wheel and turn right on red at Airport Blvd and assess the next light ahead. We have green lights but I really want to turn left and there's oncoming traffic. Screw it, blast through it straight. The next light is a T junction. Either left or right turn. I have to go left. If I go right I'll never make it back home with this truck. Light turns yellow as I approach. poo poo. Clutch in to prepare for the turn and the engine dies as the light turns red. poo poo. DEFCON 2 OHSHITOHSHIT I'm in a giant 20 year old truck with a seized engine blasting through a left hand turn at 30+MPH. What's a guy gotta do? Dump the clutch and hope these 36" monster tires have enough to spin the engine over. So I did. The tires slid on the pavement for probably 20-30 feet. Felt like we were going to stop completely when the engine burst back to life. I look ahead at the unprotected left turn into my neighborhood I was going to have to make and it looked like the start of a Nascar race ahead. As far as I could see, side by side cars headed my direction that would block my turn before I got there. DEFCON 1 THE RECKONING I reckon at this point, I should make a shortcut. The truck is fighting me tooth and nail at this point. It just wants to die and I'm playing god by not letting that happen. I yank the wheel to the left into the neighborhood next to mine. As I clutch in to make the turn, the engine dies yet again. Not on my watch. I pull the same stunt as before and the engine roars back to life after the tires wailed in agony. There's TWO MORE turns between me and my house - both in the neighborhood off of the main roads. I got this. I make the first turn without using the clutch. The truck sounds like a diesel now. Clattering and puffing away. We come barreling down on the last turn before my house. It's a left, but I'll risk the ticket for running the stop sign if I can just. get. home. I reach for the brakes, preparing to downshift and turn left when off to the right I see essentially this woman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpx6o4gvmXE&t=136s AAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!! I stop so I don't T-Bone the old lady. The truck is dead. Toast. Kaput. We push it the final 300 feet or so into our driveway. I pop the hood and the heat is so intense I can't get close enough to it to close the hood again. After I took mom's car to take my friends home, I came back, looked at the truck and spritzed some Mt. Dew on the exhaust. It boiled. This was nearly an hour after it was parked. The next morning on the way out the door to work, I decided to see if it would spin over on a whim. It not only spun over, but it started and ran smooth as a top. I took it to work the next day after replacing the water pump, and every day for the next 4 months. It used a lot of oil, but ran strong. When I eventually tore it down, the cylinder walls were worn to .045-.050, the head gasket was in ridiculous shape, the head had 19 cracks in it (a record, according to the head builder where I worked), the pistons and rings had become one, and the crank was warped. But... I drove it into the garage where I pulled the engine. So. That's my bulletproof inline six story. 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I want a coffee table book filled with these I6 stories.
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Team140 posted:Zombie 4.9 God drat I love the Ford 300 
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kastein posted:Not so fast, he's such an agressively ignorant, unskilled chucklefuck he could probably manage to make TIG welds with a $20k machine look like that. And be proud of it, too. My theory is a harbor freight acetylene torch with a patented coat hanger filler rod.
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:God drat I love the Ford 300 I love drat near any I6*... the Ford 300 is pretty high on the list. Especially after that story Hell, the 2JZ-GTE will reportedly put down 1000hp with 3 liters of displacement. * except the monstrous lump of iron in my military truck that mostly converts fuel to noise without the benefit of power. That thing can gently caress right off, though it did survive throwing the belts and being driven for 25-35 miles with no water pump or fan, having boiled half its coolant out the overflow.
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I never had the pleasure of operating a ford truck with the I6 but I did drive Tugs for a year at an airport and mine was equipped with the ford I6. It would easily tow 100,000 lbs.
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The AMC/Jeep 4.0 is especially tough, they will be the cockroaches that survive the apocalypse.
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I had an early 70s Nova with the 250ci I6. No water? No oil? gently caress it, who needs fluids except for gas?
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kastein posted:I love drat near any I6*... the Ford 300 is pretty high on the list. Especially after that story Over 1000whp. Same with the S54
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Not to mention all that power comes in about the last 50 RPM before redline for those kinds of numbers. I'd rather have 5-600 horsepower and a mostly flat torque curve.
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Slavvy posted:Only on a dyno, though. 800hp+ rb's and jz's are impressive sounding but tend to blow up pretty quickly if they're actually used very often. They're great for racing but as a road car pretty hopeless. Theyre not great for racing unless you're racing from a roll on a highway.
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Fucknag posted:Not to mention all that power comes in about the last 50 RPM before redline for those kinds of numbers. I'd rather have 5-600 horsepower and a mostly flat torque curve. I remember reading an article a while back where a magazine built a factory-internals rb26det and a vg30det (VQ30? the 300zx engine is what I mean). They used the same One Big Turbo on both, with injectors/IC/tuning to match, and found that peak horsepower was slightly better for the rb but the v6 had a significant (like 200nm) torque advantage at lower range and was much more driveable.
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I've driven a 6xxWHP r33 and it was not a very useful power curve. Nothing until 6k rpm and then "holy poo poo I need to shift!" But it was a gigantic huge turbo that made 800+ on race gas, so a smaller turbo would have made a similar amount on pump gas with a lot wider powerband. An R35 with that kind of power drives like a regular car and just goes really fast when you put your foot down. I also hear the rb26 has oiling issues when you start upping the power and revs.
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Huge heavy rear end iron block engine from a super rare expensive sports car can make some power with forced induction? Meh. It's almost as good as a rusty $500 SBC from a base model truck in a junkyard. http://www.hotrod.com/techarticles/hrdp_1109_stock_gm_ls_engine_big_bang_theory/
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To top it all off they accidentally got 1200hp out of a stock LR4 bottom end instead of a stock LM7 like they thought they had. 
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I love that test article. They beat that engine like a rented mule and it just begged for more, and it was down ~30 ci from what they thought they were working with. It pretty much puts the high-dollar, high-strung import engines to shame in every possible way.
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kastein posted:I love drat near any I6*... the Ford 300 is pretty high on the list. Especially after that story I have a 96 with a 300 and it's a great engine, but hooked to a loving awful transmission (2 slave cylinders in 3 years/20k miles). I ran it on the verge of overheating for a few weeks during the summer in the SoCal desert because I could make it to and from work without it pegging and barfing coolant all over the street (most of the time). The thermostat was stuck and the radiator looked like it was rusted through in a few spots. Also the heater core decided to randomly dump coolant all over the floor one time. That was fun.
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I love a good heater core failure. Nothing like 10 hours labor to replace a $50 part.
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DrPain posted:I love a good heater core failure. Nothing like 10 hours labor to replace a $50 part. It's about a 30 minute or less process in the 96 150. Once you figure out where all the screws are. It comes out through the glove box basically.  Not my picture/truck but same basic idea. Plinkey fucked around with this message at 05:31 on Nov 27, 2013 |
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Plinkey posted:It's about a 30 minute or less process in the 96 150. Once you figure out where all the screws are. It comes out through the glove box basically. On behalf of the volvo owners of ai, gently caress YOU Oh god heater cores on an old brick would make 13 inch cry for his mother and beg for the sweet embrace of death. On the subject of unkillability a friend from the volvo club just hit the million km mark in his daily driven 244.
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EightBit posted:The AMC/Jeep 4.0 is especially tough, they will be the cockroaches that survive the apocalypse. No kidding, I have a '92 Jeep that was leaking oil at the rate of a bit over a quart a day for a while, due to a oil filter adapter/rear main seals combo, and it ran fine that way for at least a few months. Someone needs to post that youtube video where they're killing a 4.0 for cash for clunkers and it still runs after blowing the front of the engine off.
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I'm pretty sure the 4.0 is a horrible mechanical success. No oil, no coolant, or water in the cylinders: choose one (at a time) and your engine will continue to operate. Two, and you're pushing things a bit The one in one of my trucks right now had 198k when purchased from a junkyard, friend ran it for several years with no air filter beating the poo poo out of it, may have never even changed the oil. I bought it, have run it hard, hydrolocked it gently (self-clearing) 3 times and somewhat hard (at idle, but I had to pull the plugs) once, it's been run without oil, it's been run at 280 degrees for long enough to rupture a radiator hose, it's been run for hours at 240-250 while stuck in traffic jams. No signs of failure, it just keeps going. A friend of mine's son rolled their jeep and it ran for ten minutes while on its roof before he thought to shut it off, AKA no oil supply. They fixed the jeep up and kept the same motor in it because, well, why not? But kept an eye out for a replacement all the same, because it had 20psi of hot off-idle pressure and was starting to make some ugly noises. It lasted 15k miles that way before it shot a rod through the block. Also, 99-04? 05? Grand Cherokee heater cores are rumored to be horror and pain to replace. But then again so are 97-01 Cherokee heater cores and I knocked out my first swap of one of those in 4 hours flat. So I'm not sure what people are bitching so much about. kastein fucked around with this message at 07:31 on Nov 27, 2013 |
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Plinkey posted:I have a 96 with a 300 and it's a great engine, but hooked to a loving awful transmission (2 slave cylinders in 3 years/20k miles). I ran it on the verge of overheating for a few weeks during the summer in the SoCal desert because I could make it to and from work without it pegging and barfing coolant all over the street (most of the time). The thermostat was stuck and the radiator looked like it was rusted through in a few spots. Also the heater core decided to randomly dump coolant all over the floor one time. That was fun. That's the "Mazdog" transmission. Any other option is better. My granddad ran 240 Fords and 250 Chevys to death in pulpwood trucks from the 60's through 80's. 300s and 292s ran too hot and couldn't survive with a 6"x6" hole through the radiator. This was a problem that could be solved with a good pair of needle-nose pliers back then--remove the limb and pinch the radiator passages to compliance.
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wallaka posted:That's the "Mazdog" transmission. Any other option is better. My granddad ran 240 Fords and 250 Chevys to death in pulpwood trucks from the 60's through 80's. 300s and 292s ran too hot and couldn't survive with a 6"x6" hole through the radiator. This was a problem that could be solved with a good pair of needle-nose pliers back then--remove the limb and pinch the radiator passages to compliance. Yeah, gently caress the M5D0 transmission or whatever, but I love this truck. It's also rusting out in the back fenders, what's my fix? I only have 120xxx miles on this thing. New bed from Arizona? Plinkey fucked around with this message at 08:31 on Nov 27, 2013 |
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wallaka posted:That's the "Mazdog" transmission. Any other option is better. Which is weird to me. My cousin has a 95 that he's had since new, and the only parts its needed outside basic maintenance was a slave at 230K miles, and a u joint at 280K. Truck is at 315K now and he finally half retired it.
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Big Daddy Keynes posted:On behalf of the volvo owners of ai, Seconding. I volunteered to replace the heater core in my sisters '81 Datsun 210 (uh, yeah, this was a while ago). It sat there above the passenger footwell, looking all innocent & pluckable. Three hours later, my sister came out to see what was taking so long.   ...at her car, which now had nothing forward of the front seats except a denuded steering column, pedals, and a windshield. And the loving heater core. I just pictured the Nissan plant: here comes this nice, new frame down the line, fresh out of the paint tub. A lone worker steps up, and affixes the very first part onto the frame. The loving heater core.
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Amykinz posted:I'm linking this because it's kinda gory, but my husband managed to have his hand slip into a running power steering belt yesterday at work. I'm honestly surprised it's not a LOT worse. He doesn't wear his ring at work does he? I guess giving up your finger for love is pretty romantic
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Amykinz posted:I'm linking this because it's kinda gory, but my husband managed to have his hand slip into a running power steering belt yesterday at work. I'm honestly surprised it's not a LOT worse. Ugh I did exactly this about 5 years ago, to the same finger. That finger is now missing a 'corner' and the nail doesn't really grow back properly at the end. Also that was some of the worst pain I've ever felt. Ouch. My advice to all the goons out there - don't do this.
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