"Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs" (yowen)
01/24/2014 at 11:12 • Filed to: None
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"Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs" (yowen)
01/24/2014 at 11:12 • Filed to: None | 1
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The premise of this TV show is that it is impossible to use anything with electronics, even if you have a battery for them. So this include cars... But then I got thinking, this doesn't include all cars! What about diesels with mechanical fuel pumps? If you devised some sort of manner in which to turn the engine over, like perhaps by rolling it down a hill, wouldn't the engine run? With ZERO electricity required.
The TV show has people relying on steam power, but one would think older diesel trucks with Ford IDI and older Cummins or Chevy diesel engines would be able to run too?
505Turbeaux
> Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
01/24/2014 at 11:15 |
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I watched the first few seasons. I think the premise was actually the things in the air that caused the shutdown actually robbed anything of it's energy value, even fuel or gunpowder. Otherwise I would be rollin deep with a W123, right over motherfuckers
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Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
> 505Turbeaux
01/24/2014 at 11:17 |
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No, guns actually work in the show, people use a whole variety of guns from revolvers to .50 cal machine guns. I see no reason, within the limits this show has set, why a diesel shouldn't run, if you manage to get it started.
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505Turbeaux
> Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
01/24/2014 at 11:23 |
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oh yeah now I remember that. been a while. I have started diesels this way before. A tiny shot of ether and roll it down a hill or heat the block up and roll.
HammerheadFistpunch
> Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
01/24/2014 at 11:28 |
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seemed like a pretty flimsy premise, but yeah. it would be hard at all to get a mechanical diesel rolling. Maybe use one of these?
Its a mechanical spring wound starter for diesels.
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
01/24/2014 at 11:37 |
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BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion
> Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
01/24/2014 at 11:37 |
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Not sure about a diesel, but I can totally get my car going without a battery, as I did just a few days ago. Sure, it needed the battery to keep going, but it's not impossible if you:
shift into second
press the clutch all the way in
get the car moving by push or gravity force
suddenly dump the clutch
Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
> Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
01/24/2014 at 11:54 |
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What about an older gas motor with a crank start and a magneto?
Tekamul
> Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
01/24/2014 at 11:55 |
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Yeah, but 15 year old diesel..... Plus no way to get more, as wells, refineries and the like need power.
I think that's why they went with external combustion. Dig it out of the ground or chop it down, and light it on fire over a boiler.
Also, how many people watching really understand the difference between diesel and gas, mechanical versus electronic injection, and on and on. They don't want people to think too hard
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Tekamul
> HammerheadFistpunch
01/24/2014 at 11:56 |
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Oh, come on, have more fun with it.
Start it with a shotgun shell!
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> HammerheadFistpunch
01/24/2014 at 12:31 |
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Oh awesome, great idea! The writers of the show best be being attention :D
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> Tekamul
01/24/2014 at 12:32 |
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That's probably why they went that route, but it would just be so cool if every were driving around in full size trucks and/or older Mercedes's.
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> BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion
01/24/2014 at 12:33 |
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The thing is, a spark cannot be made, ZERO electricity in any way shape or form, so a spark plug wouldn't work.
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> Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
01/24/2014 at 12:33 |
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Hmmm, do magneto's generate a spark though? Because I think that would be a no-no.
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> Tekamul
01/24/2014 at 12:35 |
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Perhaps old diesel is nice an clean? Since it'll have had a chance to settle, haha.
I'm sure they could figure out ways to make biodiesel and or run off of grease. Shit I know IDI Ford diesels will even run on engine oil, transmission fluid or hydraulic fluid, lol.
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Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
> Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
01/24/2014 at 12:38 |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignition_…
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BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion
> Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
01/24/2014 at 12:42 |
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Yep, that's what would really keep it from going functional, but if the same method could be applied to diesel... Well, I think it would end up working.
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Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
> BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion
01/24/2014 at 13:42 |
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Yep, you just wouldn't have lights of any kind or and signals over anything with a wire really. Need vacuum powered gauges. But who gives is a shit, the place is lawless as fuck, there's no speed limits.