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Piston problems won't cause low oil pressure. The pistons are not pressure oiled. However, a bad main bearing will make that exact noise at idle. Rod bearings make a much faster rattling sound and typically won't rattle at idle. Main bearing make a slow steady knocking sound that increases...

He probably did the right thing. She's kinda' a loser. I would hate to be married to a porn star. Bang her, yes. Marry her, no. He probably got tired of the drama. Plus, charging her with spousal abuse probably helped him win custody of their child after she got out of prison. What father wants...

When I got my truck it had 16K miles on it. It used to burn about 2 qts oil between changes. I started driving it real hard. Now at 40K+ miles, it does not burn a drop. The oil stays at exactly the same spot on the stick after 5K miles between changes. Motor has always had Mobil 1, 0W-40...

I agree, nice man-tits. Yeah, he probably had one hand on his man-boobs and the other in his pants. He was steering with his feet and had it on cruise and the dog was licking off the peanut butter. By the time he saw the rock pile, moved the dog from between his legs, grabbed the steering wheel...

All of you out there that think that there is a magic carbuetor out there that will give you 100 mpg are sadly mistaken. Scoobert is right on this one. None of this crap will ever amount to a hill of beans. It is possible that supplementing H2 into the intake could somehow boost combution...

1st law says you can't get something for nothing. The 2nd law says that in reality, you can't even break even.

I don't know how much HP the truck needs to sustain 60, but at 15 MPG, the calculations show how much fuel the truck consumes. In other words, the truck plus the tranny, plus the motor use that amount of fuel. If we knew all the parasitic losses, we could deteremine how much is actually...

I found an error in my calculations - here is a repost with the new values (and I corrected it above as well): The biggest kit from scoobert's post makes 50 liters of hydrogen/oxygen mix per hour. Since it is separating hydrogen an oxygen from water, then it is exactly at the right percentages...

The biggest kit from scoobert's post makes 50 liters of hydrogen/oxygen mix per hour. Since it is separating hydrogen an oxygen from water, then it is exactly at the right percentages to be recombined during combustion. Since our motors are 8.3 liters, it would take around 24 complete...

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Actually, you are absolutely correct -- I appear to be mixing my methodologies (might be the beer, but the jury is out on this one). If you are detecting excessive leakage but are having trouble determining if it is mostly the rings or the valves, a couple of squirts of oil will artificially...

To accurately do a leak down test (and a compression test, as well), you need to put a couple of squirts of oil through the spark plug hole. This will help the rings make a good seal. When the motor is really running, there is a ton of oil splashing around on the bottom of the pistons and the...

If you are gonna' go through the hassle of pulling the valve covers again, at least use a mechanics stethoscope so that you can isolate exactly which one is causing you the trouble. However, I think you will be surprised at how noisy the normal valve train is. Even though they are hydraulic...

You could go get a mechanic's stethoscope and pin point the problem.

That sounds like exhaust noise. It seems too slow for it to be something hitting a piston (the exhaust stroke only happens every 2 revolutions, so exhaust sounds are usually slow like that). It is either leaking around your PVC breather where it goes into your exhaust or right at the manifold...

Just got mine inspected today. It passed, but the evap was "not ready". Not sure exactly why the evap test was not ready, but it seems to be common.

Notice, he is running the 62/71/13. I would think the 64 and larger would be laggy.

Here are the specs of guy over on the competitiondiesel forum running low 11's, weighing in at 7300lbs Here's the parts run down: Air: MPI 62/71/13ss ^ S480 race cover Fuel: F1 diesel Flux 3.8's (190 hp) PPE dual cp3 kit ( Floor It Stg.2 on bottom& stock Dmax on top) FASS 95gph Tuning: I...

What are the specs, and how much?

Are you saying it doesn't shift? Does it just stay in first gear? Oh, and you have to remove the pan to change the filter.