Comments by "flagmichael" (@flagmichael) on "Toyota's New Engine assembly Full start to finish!" video.

@TheCarCareNut I guess we really shouldn't be surprised. This engine is not like the Dodge slant six my first car had. I don't think a minute in the procedure went by that I didn't see something I had never seen before. PCV between the crankcase and intake flange makes a lot of sense as long as the oil is maintained!
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@TheCarCareNut You are a wild man!
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I really am in awe.
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Coming from 34 years with a major electric utility (heck - being retired 2 1/2 years I can name them: Arizona Public Service) I am confident electric infrastructure is the big limitation. The excessive photovoltaic solar from California will make it worse west of the Rockies unless people are able to charge their cars in the afternoon. I see it coming but don't know if I will live to see it. NERC estimated the North American (US and Canadian) infrastructure needed about half a trillion dollars in upgrades before EVs were a coming thing, and failing to build for the future is always a mistake. Since most of the infrastructure - at least in the US - is privately owned it will be ratepayers who foot the bill. As a political conservative I will still say this is a legitimate national issue; the five interties ("grids") in the continental US span multiple states (except Texas - theirs is mostly their own) and in Arizona we had a major blackout in 1996 from overheated lines sagging into trees in Washington and Oregon. Barely a month earlier much of the same area was hit because Idaho had too much load. It's time to make this a priority. For all that, I have never been afraid of the future and I'm not going to start now. It can all be worked out; it will just take ingenuity, sane government (okay, that's a tough one) and time. And money.
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@charlesjackson1700 I'm in that boat, too. At 68 years old my capabilities and enthusiasm are dropping while engine complexity is rising. I think my engine teardown and assembly days are mostly done. Funny - I'm not sad about that!
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@TheCarCareNut I've never known of a piston breaking apart - lots of thrown rods but never heard of a thrown piston. I loved this video for all the new adventures in working on a modern tech Toyota engine.
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