"webmonkees" (kayoteq-of-the-forest)
06/02/2015 at 00:45 • Filed to: Monkey Wrench
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"webmonkees" (kayoteq-of-the-forest)
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Today’s puzzler: Eight millimeters of mystery
A bearing is bad. The crank is also bad. But why?
Bad oil
Over boosted
Clutch loose
Torqued wrong
Missing external bolt
Hole in oil pan
Engine mount broken
Coolant system failure
Wrong length bolt in oil pan damaging timing belt
Distributor shaft warp
Answers in the video, courtesy !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , who includes this poem:
Now this is a story all about how
My bearings got flipped-turned upside down
And I’d like to take a minute just sit right there
And tell you how I used to mix and burn my gas and my air.
In RVA suburbs born and raised
On the dragstrip is where I spent most of my days
Chillin out, maxin, relaxing all cool,
‘n all shooting some BS outside with my tools
When a couple of guys who were up to no good
Started running races in my neighborhood
I heard one little knock and my rods got scared
And said “You put it in the garage until you figure out where...”
I Begged and pleaded that it not be that way,
But it didn’t want to start and run another day.
I kissed it goodbye, because the motor punched its ticket
I got out my camera, said “I might as well kick it.”
Crankwalk yo this is bad
Drinking metal shavings from an oil pan.
Is this what the rumor of crankwalk is like?
Hmm this won’t be alright
But wait I heard knocking, grinding and all that
Is this the type of failure that should happen to this cool cat?
I don’t think so, I’ll see when I get there
I hope they’re prepared for this video I share.
Well I pulled all the bolts and when I came out
There were chunks in my fluids in the pan and they drained out
I aint all depressed cause I seen this before.
I got my books and my wrench and we’ll do it once more.
I sprang into action like lightning disassembled
I whistled while I worked and my hands never trembled
If anything you could say that this bling is rare,
and when I saw what broke I stained my underwear.
I turned off the air compressor ‘bout 7 or 8
And I yelled to crankcase “Yo holmes, smell ya later”
I looked at my internals they were finally there
To sit on my workbench and stink up the air.
-Jafromobile, December 2011
uofime-2
> webmonkees
06/02/2015 at 10:30 |
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That’s an interesting video, really drives home the point that the powertrain is a large system with a lot of complex interactions some of which are not very intuitive.
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webmonkees
> uofime-2
06/02/2015 at 13:22 |
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Excellent. You ‘got’ it. It was a bit of a surprise, that one. Also, I need an air tool.
Jayvincent
> webmonkees
06/02/2015 at 21:09 |
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I'm pretty sure that'll buff right out. Remember to put some RTV on those bearing journals before you button it back up /s :>
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webmonkees
> Jayvincent
06/03/2015 at 03:11 |
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I like how he shunts it over to ‘spares needing cleaning’.