This noon, about 14 warning signs later (rather small village with narrow, low city gates and lots of "you're too high and too long for it!" signs), he decided to take a short brake and let the truck's rear wheels relax a bit:



You can still see the stone and rust dust at the trailer floor.

 

That that's a steerable trailer too.

 

But just not enough...

 

It's ironic then that he was neither too high nor too long -- just too low! A standard semi trailer (in the US anyway) would've easily cleared not only the curb but also the shrubbery in the center of the traffic circle.

 

Found on a Jeep forum:

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Locking differential?

 

Awesome!!! Now where's the pic of the driveshaft when he gave it gas for the first time?

 

If I had to guess, since it's not inside of any kind of a housing, I would say that that's a photo of a part of a sculpture, and not anything that's supposed to work mechanically.

- Eric

 

Maybe not. Welding up the pinion gears is a common way of making a locking differential. The guy probably wasn't aware there's more than one pinion gear inside a differential.

 

It looks like a good weld to me.

 

Um, no ... welding the spider gears is a common way of making a spool ... welding the pinion is a good way of making your vehicle permanently stationary.

 

I have often heard the spider gears referred to as pinion gears, rightly or wrongly.

 

The caption reminds me of a quote from François-Marie Arouet.

 

"Le sens commun n'est pas si commun." — 1764

- Eric

 

This is one of those I saw it on youtube and looked like a good idea. Got it disassembled to weld it up and you're like wow that wasn't so bad. Go to put it in and well, crap! Or it was the friend with the welder that's done it a million times

 

I've got a request for a core 455. I've got several, but decided to pull one out that I got at an estate sale several years ago. I didn't pay much for it, which is a good thing! I wanted to inspect it and started by pulling the intake. I saw a bent pushrod which is not a good sign, but what really caught my attention was what looked like aluminum chips in the intake port

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My first thought was did someone pour something down the carb? But that should have been in all the ports not just one. Oh, I see there's some in the port directly across from this one. I'll pull the head to see how bad of shape the piston is in.


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Well, that must have made quite a racket!


What's this loose piece sitting on top of the piston?

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OK, looking at the head now I understand.


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Oh my.

I think that engine will need some work.





Interesting that it's a low compression motor - that damage must have been exclusively from revving - not from detonation.

- Eric

 

John, I've seen this on some newer motors threw the dealer ship, but never thought I would see it on a olds lol. How is the cylinder wall ?

 

A quick hone and valve job and you are good to go.

Larry

 

The cylinder wall actually looks OK, at least the portion I can see. There's another cylinder that's rusty and preventing me from easily rotating the crankshaft. The rod seems to have stayed in place, so unless the wrist pin moved and scored the wall it may actually be alright Looking at the damage I wonder if it did this before he could shut it down, or did someone drive home with it clanking all the way?

Another interesting detail on this engine. Its a 1973 with J heads, deep dish pistons (as noted by Eric) and the vin stamp confirms 1973. But the block is an F block not Fa. I thought, but must have been wrong, that all 1973's were Fa blocks.

Anybody up for a challenge? Rebuildable 455, cheep!!!

 

Really surprised that the piston and connecting rod stayed together. My guess is it was driven home making the racket but never know.

 

It doesn't take much for that kind of damage to occur. Dropped a valve in my air cooled VW years ago, shut the engine off within seconds of the "bad noise" starting and the valve remnants were already embedded in the piston. 3,000 RPM is a lot of banging in a short time.

I got luck and only had to replace the piston and head. If I had let it run another few seconds I think the piston would have been spread into the engine and journals.

 

Moving off after emptying the refuse container, I think I forgot something...



3 cars destroyed.

 

See anything missing ???

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Naw, that's just a new sintered pad installed upside down! LOL

 

Here is a pic of the caliper. I am still impressed that it got this bad gezzz

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These people drive among us.
Typically while texting, I fear.

 

Tons of idiots on the road !

 

I have a pic somewhere that shows the cooling vanes exposed on the inboard side of a rotor. That must have been one rough ride until it spit out the piston. Ride all over...LLH!
More of them walk amongst us than do not from our "leadership" hint hint on down to the peasants

 

I've seen the rotor ran through , but I have never seen the pad get so thin that it either flew out of the bracket or wore threw
I measured rotor thickness and the missing meat from the caliper and is was just over a half an inch.

 

Okay so a tech installed five used transmissions at a few hundred miles before they felt a banging sound/slipping, went to another tech and found the rear axle was poping out of the rear diff. as he was installing it another tech noticed that both rear control arms were installed upside down

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That would make great garage wall art.

 

You can't post a pic like that without sharing it's story.

 

I don't know the story just yet it was just here Monday morning non of the service wrighters know anything about it,our body shop service wrighters don't know either. So it seems it was dropped off but no agreement on any work has been done
I can tell you when I walked by it it stopped me cold in my tracks tho

 

Poor traction like that.

Many would have stopped the car and installed the spare.

But, who am I to judge? They were probably in a hurry. Or maybe it was raining. Or they were being chased by zombies.

- Eric

 

Right !! It does have a spare and I bet the are threw 2.5 inches of the rim there est cost is 300 on rim 150 tire sensor and 158 for tire that's not counting the fender damage from the tire flipping off

 

i wish i had a pic of my bosses rim,caliper came loose and rattled against the inside of the aluminum rim. wasnt until the air came out and the tire went flat he pulled over,middle of nowhere, $800 tow bill and another bolt for the caliper

 

And that's why he's the boss, right?

- Eric

 

Okay I found out the story and here it is a lady was driving at night going threw a bad area when she got a flat . She didn't feel safe so she drove about 30 min to a better part of town and called a tow truck

 

A buddy called yesterday said his car would not start after installing a new battery. Went over and looked. He had not removed the plastic cap from the negative post and connected the cable over the top of it. "No connecty, No power"