Test Drive

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Test Drive

September 21, 2018, 08:27:35 pm

75 miles and counting...No issues. Purr's like a kitten

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Reply #1 – September 21, 2018, 08:29:20 pm

Awesome work. Looks fantastic and sounds good too.

Mark

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Reply #2 – September 21, 2018, 08:56:38 pm

Glad you be at the end of that road👍🍺

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Reply #3 – September 21, 2018, 09:24:01 pm

Quote from: bbeane – September 21, 2018, 08:56:38 pm

Glad you be at the end of that road👍🍺

Yup, with 20K saved in my hip, knowing it was done right....

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Reply #4 – September 21, 2018, 10:45:37 pm

How many man hours? Well worth your efforts, which seems to be a common thread when dealing with even "professional" factory authorized shops. Shove them in, shove them out ASAP, attention to detail, or standard of care seem to be old school. I guarantee the end result would look nothing like yours. I salute you.

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Reply #5 – September 21, 2018, 10:52:10 pm

Grace,notice you have a similar CAC as mine,if you haven't done it yet,take the louvers off and look where the top and bottom
of the CAC mounts,the tabs are aluminum and 3 out of four on mine were broken,it was being held by one tab and the hoses.

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Reply #6 – September 22, 2018, 08:58:48 pm

Quote from: Old phart phred – September 21, 2018, 10:45:37 pm

How many man hours? Well worth your efforts, which seems to be a common thread when dealing with even "professional" factory authorized shops. Shove them in, shove them out ASAP, attention to detail, or standard of care seem to be old school. I guarantee the end result would look nothing like yours. I salute you.

Thanks. Well it took a year of constant research off and on. But actual physical time was about 80 hrs, including my friends time of maybe 30 hrs. The fastest thing was assembling it complete, then putting it in. Only took a day to hook everything to it, then oil and coolant.
I am with you about having a professional do it. From what I see these day's, tech's just throw parts at something till it works. They don't know how to fix stuff.You pay to train them. I can tell you story after story that my customers tell me.
That coupled with the 'F' word "FLAT RATE", it's no wonder. Tell me how a tech can flag 200+ hours in a 40 hour work week? Ask me how I know. Flat Rate is a licenses to lie, cheat and steal.
Not saying all techs are bad. One things for sure, every bolt and nut is ck'd, ck,'d ck'd and double ck'd. With lock tight on them.
Ever part is new, or in prefect used condition, heavily checked over, then cleaned and painted.
Chris

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Reply #7 – September 22, 2018, 11:35:04 pm

I pretty sure the flat rate is now hyperinflated, as all vocational training in public schools has been discontinued in favor of total college prep. No real life skills being taught. No problem solving ability, just stare at a sometimes bogus computer screen that is presented by programming experts that have never spun a wrench. I'm a year into training a tech who's never made any outside effort into discovering the HVAC trade that is paying his salary. I graduated engineering school with 172 credit hours and quickly found out i didn't know shit from shinola. Dug my heels into it and now unfortunately i am the only go to guy in the office. End of rant. Your pride in your work speaks volumes, rock on, and be a winner, instead of an also ran.

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Reply #8 – September 23, 2018, 12:46:27 pm

Quote from: Old phart phred – September 22, 2018, 11:35:04 pm

I pretty sure the flat rate is now hyperinflated, as all vocational training in public schools has been discontinued in favor of total college prep. No real life skills being taught. No problem solving ability, just stare at a sometimes bogus computer screen that is presented by programming experts that have never spun a wrench. I'm a year into training a tech who's never made any outside effort into discovering the HVAC trade that is paying his salary. I graduated engineering school with 172 credit hours and quickly found out i didn't know shit from shinola. Dug my heels into it and now unfortunately i am the only go to guy in the office. End of rant. Your pride in your work speaks volumes, rock on, and be a winner, instead of an also ran.

Thank you for the compliment, and back at you. Respect for you man.....When I fix something, people say "wow, your so smart". I say no, just experienced that before. Like a tech plugging a refer into the inverter outlet, and the ice maker into shore outlet.Gee why does my batts go down, besides, I leave the inverter on all the time.

I am with you, I did terrible in school, I hated it. Car's ,surfing and girls were more important. My mom helped me get graduated. I had to take 2 auto shops in my senior years (we had split days 2 sessions), then a welding shop at night at the JC to get my diploma. I was horrible in math.
All my schooling was hard knocks like you, and skinned knuckles.When I did my 1st van conversion, I was poor, but determent. I started out cutting the metal roof out, with a carbon blade in a skill saw. When the 2 blades went bad, I picked up the hand shears, and cut the last 3/4's of the roof out.
If some says "You can;t do that " then I will, just because they ticked me off!
Rock on too brother
Chris

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Reply #9 – September 23, 2018, 12:52:02 pm

Worked on many big Cat and Waukesau engines,was lucky most of them were rentals owned by the company we worked for,we
were able to do it right and not worry about a customer trying to save money by cutting corners.

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Reply #10 – September 23, 2018, 01:03:38 pm

Did a few Cat engines myself. Had DW hold dated newspaper to show when I had rebuilt the engine.

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Reply #11 – September 23, 2018, 01:50:17 pm

Quote from: craneman – September 23, 2018, 01:03:38 pm

Did a few Cat engines myself. Had DW hold dated newspaper to show when I had rebuilt the engine.

Way cool. Wish our 3126 had liners, would have made it easier. They really aren't that complicated. As I mentioned, once I saw it inside, and the quality of Cat parts, I like them better.
The 2 piece pistons are a trip, but make sense.
Looks like you did a 1st class job.
Chris

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Reply #12 – September 23, 2018, 02:13:40 pm

Did alot where we had a liner puller and used a crane to lift the liner out.We would use the old lanolin gojo to lubricate the seals.

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Reply #13 – September 23, 2018, 02:44:57 pm

Quote from: gracerace – September 23, 2018, 01:50:17 pm

Way cool. Wish our 3126 had liners, would have made it easier. They really aren't that complicated. As I mentioned, once I saw it inside, and the quality of Cat parts, I like them better.
The 2 piece pistons are a trip, but make sense.
Looks like you did a 1st class job.
Chris

The pistons are one piece must be photo angle.

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Reply #14 – September 23, 2018, 04:50:50 pm

Quote from: craneman – September 23, 2018, 02:44:57 pm

The pistons are one piece must be photo angle.

OH, mine are.

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Reply #15 – September 23, 2018, 04:54:09 pm

Quote from: John44 – September 23, 2018, 02:13:40 pm

Did alot where we had a liner puller and used a crane to lift the liner out.We would use the old lanolin gojo to lubricate the seals.

My friend has a boring bar. Could have bored it to 50 thou in the coach (what it would have taken to straighten it out). But could only buy a 40 thou piston. He didn't feel he could do a good job putting a sleeve in the coach.
We tried

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Reply #16 – September 23, 2018, 05:23:05 pm

Back in the day I had a portable crank grinder turn rod throws in the trucks. He only charged a hundred bucks. used the engine starter motor and hung a device on the throw. A skill long forgotten.

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Reply #17 – September 23, 2018, 05:35:27 pm

"Back in the day I had a portable crank grinder turn rod throws in the trucks. He only charged a hundred bucks. used the engine starter motor and hung a device on the throw. A skill long forgotten."

And when I was a kid delivering parts for my dad I knew how to mic a crankshaft. You just needed to know those things back then.

When I was beside the road and the propellor shaft had just yanked the speed sensor out of the Allison I went to the next town in the Jeep thinking some coolant sensor pigtail would get us going. I almost never convinced the counter guy to loan me the picture book instead of trying to look up Foretravel on the computer. (By the way it was the same as a Chevy cobalt or something like that. We were going within an hour.)

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Reply #18 – September 23, 2018, 05:50:53 pm

I can remember when rebuilding air cooled VW engines using valve lap/grind paste on the cylinders to "polish" the heads. Normally upped compression by 5 PSI or so. Really good seal, since there was no gasket!

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Reply #19 – September 23, 2018, 05:53:36 pm

I've got three air cooled beetle convertibles. You can't drive one without knowing how to pull the engine. Ha.

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Reply #20 – September 23, 2018, 06:07:51 pm

Quote from: Johnstons – September 23, 2018, 05:53:36 pm

I've got three air cooled beetle convertibles. You can't drive one without knowing how to pull the engine. Ha.

Yes, I have "pulled" and overhauled them all over the world. Most bazar was in Gorgan, Iran (on the Caspian sea) in the early 1970's. No parts for a 1500 CC bus engine at at VW dealer?

?? Rebuilt it as a 3 cylinder and drove it (bus, third gear) to Kabul. That whole trip was CRAZY!

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Reply #21 – September 23, 2018, 06:20:05 pm

Your life more interesting than mine.

Reminds me of my dad and his brother telling the story about taking the bad piston out of a model A and cutting a stump to hammer in the hole.

Good old days? I'm not too sure about that.

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Reply #22 – September 23, 2018, 06:59:25 pm

The DW put s set of jugs in her VW motor whith it setting on the kitchen table.

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Reply #23 – September 23, 2018, 07:12:19 pm

Can we call you the "Wolf of Iran",impressive trip Brett.

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Reply #24 – September 23, 2018, 08:30:15 pm

Quote from: Johnstons – September 23, 2018, 06:20:05 pm

Your life more interesting than mine.

Reminds me of my dad and his brother telling the story about taking the bad piston out of a model A and cutting a stump to hammer in the hole.

Good old days? I'm not too sure about that.

All great stories

We pulled 2 push rods out of an Ford Econoline 6, took the plug wire off, and drove it 300 miles to and from the Colorado River from Palm Springs (where the trouble started), and back to Orange County.It had a hole in the piston.

Remember when you took your crank shaft to Napa, and they exchanged it for another turned one with new rod/main bearings for $35.00!

I assembled a 389 Pontiac in my bedroom apartment. There was a side door to get it out.I got evicted!

One night when I worked in a gas station in Orange, I picked up a Napa crank kit. My 65 Dodge A-100 Van (pictured) had a slight rod knock. I kept putting a new bearing in it, but it kept coming back. I was surfing in Mexico all the time, so didn't want to take a chance.
I started at around 3 PM at the station which was my shift. While waiting on cars (remember when gas stations did that), I dropped the pan, trans,ETC. (on the hoist) and installed the new crank and bearings in the van. I cleaned up and went home at 11 PM. All this with out pulling the engine box sides or anything. I did pull the timing cover to do the chain. Ran fine after that.

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