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FE Power Forums => Non-FE Discussion Forum => Topic started by: machoneman on March 18, 2015, 08:10:18 AM
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of all time! ::)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBF6iZfguF0
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That actually got to be a common problem with tractor pulling diesels running big boost. They were splitting the blocks, HORIZONTALLY!! :o
This has always been one of my favs also...
https://youtu.be/9I9k9rHB4EA
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Any time you drive over your own engine it is a bad thing.
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never drove over my engine, but after a strange noise I looked in the rearview to see rods, bearings, oil & antifreeze. at least the intake & one head was good.
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Best I've gotten to witness:
New Engineer at work. They sent a Governor to the boat with instructions of wait for a Senior Eng to show up to install it.
New guy wanted to impress so he installed it.
Of course you really need to know what you are doing, the rack needs to be set perfectly, etc. Anyway, he fires it up.
Dunno if any of you have seen or heard a 16 cylinder 2 stroke diesel with 149 cubic inches PER cylinder spin to 6,500 rpms and hold that for 4-5 minutes before it explodes.... well it's pretty spectacular.
I was on another boat about 1/2 a mile away, but the smoke show and the dudes running around frantically trying to figure out what to do was fascinating. The sad part is our engines had an air kill which would have shut the engine down, but I think the dudes there were too scared to get that close to the engine.
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Ran over it! No worries that'll buff out. ::)
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Dang I forgot the best part of my story....
The Eng was the nephew of an old Capt at the company.
He goes to his uncle and says, "Do you think they'll fire me over this?"
Capt: "Didn't he tell you not to fck with it?"
Eng: "yeah"
Capt: "yeah, you are fired."
Eng: "Because I blew up the engine?"
Capt: "No, because you are an idiot."
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More fuel, more boost, more power in a diesel...until it finds its weakest point LOL
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Geez, we could probably start a whole thread on engine explosion stories LOL! Here's a related one, that my Dad told me 40 years ago. Apparently a bunch of his friends had an old 40 Ford convertible that they liked to run in parades in the mid 1950s, in Youngstown Ohio. They had rigged it up with a second coil, connected via a long wire to a spark plug in the tail pipe. They had also put a wooden box under the hood, and a big steel plate. The box contained a hammer. The car had rust holes in the floor. For the parade they would all get into the car carrying old pistons and connecting rods. Anybody see where this is going? ;D ;D
As they idled past the judging stand they would pull the choke to make the engine really rich. It would backfire a bunch of times, and the spark plug would ignite excess fuel in the tailpipe, shooting flame out the back. As soon as this was happening, they would start dropping the pistons and rods through the holes in the floor, so that as the car continued to move forward it looked like it was dropping parts on the ground. Finally after about 30 feet of this they would stop the car, all four would jump out, grab the pistons and rods, and run to the front of the car. Open the hood, put all the parts in the box, grab the hammer and pound the steel plate to make a bunch of noise. Close the hood, get back in the car, and drive away. Apparently, they were one of the more popular parade attractions LOL!
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Jay, you ought to do an automated version of that for Drag Week. Use a couple of old iron 4-ring pistons and little-finger-diameter rods. ;)
KS
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I'll donate a piston and 450 empty Yuengling cans that can fall out of the car when you open the door.
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Lager, of course.
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Lager, of course.
Dammit Shady... of course lager..... I can't drink that many Black and Tan's in a month off.
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I live 20 min. from the plant. Myself, I'm a diet coke man, but not by choice. once in a while I sneak a Lager just to confirm that it is still so good. Nectar of the gods.
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I grew up round there, spent lotsa time on 611, Easton/Allentown area, thinking I was killing time, then I realized time was killing me.
Was a huge joy to me when they started selling it in the deep south. Prior to that we had natural ice and steele reserve..... that stuff is like methadone for alcoholics, enough to keep you going, but it just isn't right.
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Drew the blow-up of a 149Cu In per Cyl engine even getting half way to 6,000 is off the charts for me. One of my marine customer's ships was in the shipyard. As I drove by the dumpster I noticed a large new piston in blue in it. I climbed up on the dumpster thinking I get the ultimate coffee-table and tried to move it. It was cocked against an I-beam and figured it was being held in place. That night I took the CE and Port Eng out to dinner and had them laughing when I told them of my failed attempt to snatch the piston out of the dumpster - it had flunked Mag and was tossed. How was I to know a Colt-Pielstick piston weighed 550lbs?
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On one of my Buick 455 engines the crank,pistons, rods and all went throught the pan. Meanwhile the heads and intake blew a big hole in the hood. After that I invested in a tach with a rev limiter, who knew a big block Buick comes appart after 7000 RPM, you live you learn. A chunk of rod was embedded so deep in the track they had to use a chipper hammer and pry bar to remove it.
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Lager, of course.
Dammit Shady... of course lager..... I can't drink that many Black and Tan's in a month off.
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Hmm Yeanlings Black and Tan, I have had a few incidents caused that way. One with a chainsaw.