"BvdV - The Dutch Engineer" (dutchengineer)
09/12/2016 at 07:14 • Filed to: None
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"BvdV - The Dutch Engineer" (dutchengineer)
09/12/2016 at 07:14 • Filed to: None | 2
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I’m a lab assistant for a basic course on automotive technology, meaning I and two colleagues teach new students some practical skills, and basic knowlegde.
However since university bought 4 new engines (2 VAG TSIs and 2 GM/Opel CDTis) we needed to prep them. This basically means breaking them open for the first time. Damn, those head tension bolts are tight.
Anyhow, where half way by now. But I gotta stop due to lectures, but paid wrenching without time pressure is quite fun.
shop-teacher
> BvdV - The Dutch Engineer
09/12/2016 at 07:19 |
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Not a bad day at work!
LongbowMkII
> BvdV - The Dutch Engineer
09/12/2016 at 07:27 |
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Last motor I deconstructed I was having trouble getting one of the heads off (GM 60' V6). Me and a neighbor couldn’t get it off for anything, we just kept hammering and tapping in wedges. Eventually we broke the aluminum head in half (not a problem, I was scrapping it anyways).
We missed the head bolt behind the dipstick.
Derp.
My X-type is too a real Jaguar
> BvdV - The Dutch Engineer
09/12/2016 at 07:28 |
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The question is can you put them back together with no extra parts. J/K
yamahog
> BvdV - The Dutch Engineer
09/12/2016 at 07:43 |
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Here’s hoping your students are more useful with hand tools than my junior level aero lab!
...I was the only one who knew how to use a torque wrench. I actually called up my dad after class to thank him.
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BvdV - The Dutch Engineer
> My X-type is too a real Jaguar
09/12/2016 at 07:43 |
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Well, I hope so, haha. Though we keep the ancillaries off for simplicity’s sake.
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BvdV - The Dutch Engineer
> LongbowMkII
09/12/2016 at 07:46 |
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Sometimes you just miss stuff, happens to the best!
We tried to remove VAG timing chains without the tools, which meant we broke the chain guides. There probably was another way, bit we couldn’t bother to find out.
Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom
> My X-type is too a real Jaguar
09/12/2016 at 08:30 |
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Years ago I had an ‘85 Omni while in college. I did head gaskets, timing belts and new bottom end bearings/oil pump during the two years I owned that turd. But without exception, every time we worked on it there were some kind of bolts or nuts left over. Every damn time. And it always started and ran.
My theory is Chrysler knew what a POS the car was going to be and that frustrated owners would be wrenching on it themselves, so they had to build in extra fasteners.
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My X-type is too a real Jaguar
> Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom
09/12/2016 at 08:33 |
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Since the Omni was French in origin, extra parts are a given.
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Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom
> My X-type is too a real Jaguar
09/12/2016 at 08:35 |
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Vaaat? How do you figure it was French?
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My X-type is too a real Jaguar
> Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom
09/12/2016 at 08:40 |
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It was Designed by Chrysler Europe designed in the UK and Engineered by Simca in France.
Cé hé sin
> Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom
09/12/2016 at 08:46 |
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Compare and contrast: Dodge Omni/Plymouth Horizon and Chrysler/Talbot Horizon in that order.
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LongbowMkII
> BvdV - The Dutch Engineer
09/12/2016 at 08:51 |
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Yeah, it was a case of not being concerned about the final product and tunnel vision.
That assumes the guides weren’t already broken :P
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LongbowMkII
> yamahog
09/12/2016 at 08:53 |
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Wat.
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yamahog
> LongbowMkII
09/12/2016 at 08:55 |
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Yea, as any tech will tell you, being an engineer does not mean you are inherently any good at wrenching
duurtlang
> My X-type is too a real Jaguar
09/12/2016 at 09:25 |
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They were re-engineerd in the US for the US. These things tended to come with Chrysler engines in the US. Or with a VW diesel engine.
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BvdV - The Dutch Engineer
> yamahog
09/12/2016 at 09:42 |
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Last year’s batch wasn’t too bad, here is hoping to this year’s batch being capable as well.
gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
> BvdV - The Dutch Engineer
09/12/2016 at 21:39 |
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How to use a torque wrench should be a two day course.
Intern: the fixture (pressure vessel) is broken. its wont seal correctly?!
Me: and you torqued it evenly?
Intern: yes
Me:(what I wanted to do)
never learned you don’t put one bolt in, torque, insert next one so the seal was squashed out the side.