Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[BassmanPaul]

Thanks @Stumbo the over sixties aren't as scary as they used to be...

We over seventies can be very ratty at times. That said, you’ll all be here soon enough!!

 

[BadExample]

What doesn't turn gray, shrivel or hurt, falls off.

 

[Al Kraft]

The weird stuff that one remembers from agricultural/industrial engineering classes, I had a whole class on engines and mechanical transmission power systems.

...and IIRC the gold standard textbook in the early 70's was Ed Obert's "Internal Combustion Engines and Air Pollution" - I'm just guessing that name might ring a bell.

 

[Al Kraft]

On a 2, 4, 6 or 8 cylinder in-line engine, it's going to be an odd number of mains, for a 6 cylinder, 7 is the gold standard. Front and back main and a main between each cylinder. V type engines can share mains between opposing cylinders (the offset of the cylinder banks is a rod journal width), so a V6 would be front, back, and one between the first and second bank and another between the second and third bank, 4 total. A V8 would add another for 5 total. V type engines typically will have larger main journals (and maybe more bearing cap bolts) because they are carrying the load of more cylinders.

The weird stuff that one remembers from agricultural/industrial engineering classes, I had a whole class on engines and mechanical transmission power systems. Didn't end up using this very much

I'd have to go back and do some research, but I think some of the very early Chevy (and perhaps other brand) straight sixes that actually had 4 main bearings (with the connecting rods split 2, 2 and 2 between them). However, your recollection of more modern technology designs is spot on IME. We'll forego the discussion on 2 and 4 bolt mains and some of the more interesting connecting rod designs where they actually crack the forged lower end to form perfect mating half surfaces as opposed going with precision cut halves.

 

[ric426]

In 2006 we found out that Jeep was discontinuing the I6 engine (supposedly because vehicles with the I6 couldn't pass new crash test requirements) and having had several Jeeps prior to that, we started searching for a remaining Wrangler with an I6 engine. A local dealership finally located one and said they could get it for us, so I traded in my beloved 2003 Subaru WRX (most fun and potentially scary car I ever had). My wife still drives the Jeep, oil leaks, rusted out fenders and all.

 

[Ken Morgan]

This is my new Esquire...the pickguard sets it for me. Also have one in Telecaster style, front pickup cut out.

The End of the Trail has a deeper meaning than it should

 

[Al Kraft]

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This is my new Esquire...the pickguard sets it for me. Also have one in Telecaster style, front pickup cut out.

The End of the Trail has a deeper meaning than it should

Very classy!

 

[BassmanPaul]

I too own a Jeep but it really is more of a car than a cross country vehicle. It’s a Compass and I really love it. The CV transmission is a dream. It has a 4 cylinder engine but I did buy the slightly larger version. It’s a 2010 and we’ve done a bit over 26 thousand Kilometers together.

 

[agedhorse]

I had an F150 with a big inline 6, fuel injected 300 CID. Solid motor, but not very fuel efficient. Pulled loads very nicely.

 

[Ken Morgan]

I had an F150 with a big inline 6, fuel injected 300 CID. Solid motor, but not very fuel efficient. Pulled loads very nicely.

Had that same motor in a standard transmission truck...87...ran thru 4 sets of tires, 2 transmissions, 2 clutches, 3 sets of brakes, and 279K miles, most west Texas Highway, lots pulling a trailer. Actually outran the paint. 3 fwd gears plus “super low”

Called it ‘Ol Blue’...

 

[RoadRanger]

I had an F150 with a big inline 6, fuel injected 300 CID. Solid motor, but not very fuel efficient. Pulled loads very nicely.

I've got an '85 out back with the 4 speed OD (no granny). Super high first but supposedly good on gas...
I wasn't sure if they ever had an injected 300 - guess they did . What year?

BTW last owner loaded up firewood in it and couldn't move - not enough torque to the wheels in first on soft ground .

 

[Al Kraft]

I wasn't sure if they ever had an injected 300 - guess they did . What year?

It was around the late 80's IIRC, probably 1987.

 

[RoadRanger]

It was around the late 80's IIRC, probably 1987.

I was asking what year ancientpony's truck was . I had a '85 Chevy K10 which had the first non-straight-6 base motor (350 with two cylinders sawed off LOL) and was the last carbureted one. I know Ford stuck with the straight six a few more years...

 

[ric426]

One of my first cars was a '67 Barracuda (not a 'Cuda and not a fastback) that I inherited from by Dad. He had bought it from a Chrysler employee who had special ordered it with a 225 inline 6 coupled to a truck transmission. That car would not be stopped. I sold it with 136,000 miles on it and the next owner drove it another 40,000 miles until the idiot forgot that you're supposed to check the oil level occasionally and seized the engine.

 

[agedhorse]

Going from memory, mine was an '89

 

[mikeswals]

I wasn't sure if they ever had an injected 300 - guess they did . What year?

I bought 300 CID 5-speed F150 new in '94, obviously by then everything was fuel injected.

 

[BadExample]

I miss mine. My first nice vehicle. Bought it on the base in the Philippines in 1985, it was a 79. Ran like it had a V8, until you hit 3rd gear. No granny, didn't need one, 3 speed. It was like new when I got it, but it had an 82 engine in it installed by the dealer under warranty, because they guy blew up the 79 in 4WD low. Is not, but looked like:

Though mine was a bit darker brown. First truck I ever saw with a soft dash. Also had a "bucket bench" seat. Basically a pair of bucket seats and what looked like a console, but was a narrow padded seat and had a lap belt for the middle passenger. Fond memories. We went on a lot of 10 or 12 hour off-road trips in the Philippines, and road trips that often turned into off-road trips.

There was a tiny crack in the shift boot. Coming back from a long day off-road, my wife in the middle, our maid (who was family to us) on the right, and we were almost back to pavement and on a sort of a road, almost two lanes, muddy clay. My wife was getting comfy again (I used to scare the crap out of her, and myself sometimes). So she starts yapping, realizine we would live to fight another day... bla bla bla... and then it was like slow motion, a blob of mud flipped up through that crack in the boot, end over end like a kicked football. Sloooooow motion, I watch the bit of mud going end over end over end... and it lands, of course, in her open mouth Of course I just look at her sternly and tell her God's telling you something. No nookie that night.

My old Willy's was more fun to drive, over powered, great off road, but I'd take the I6'd J10 over it any day. Wish I'd kept it. The only vehicle I ever had that I could drive as far as I wanted and not get sore or tired of being in it. Also the only vehicle I ever had that I never ever worried about anything breaking on it. I miss it.

 

[RoadRanger]

Well, I just had to look it up :
https://jalopnik.com/heres-why-the-ford-300-inline-six-is-one-of-the-greates-1795351528

 

[BadExample]

Well, I just had to look it up :
https://jalopnik.com/heres-why-the-ford-300-inline-six-is-one-of-the-greates-1795351528

Ford still makes an I6? It seems implied so in that article.

 

[Al Kraft]

I was asking what year ancientpony's truck was . I had a '85 Chevy K10 which had the first non-straight-6 base motor (350 with two cylinders sawed off LOL) and was the last carbureted one. I know Ford stuck with the straight six a few more years...

Oops! I thought your question was on when Ford went to FI on most of their truck engines...so much for displaying good situational awareness and being on point...