Comments by "Dennis Young" (@dennisyoung4631) on "I Do Cars" channel.

  1. Another advantage of using the “cam plate” is you can optimize that part for its bearing properties, and the head proper for, say, retaining valve seats and other things.
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  2.  @skylinefever  submarines? The big ship diesels often use bunker fuel, but I’m not sure about “smaller” ones, e.g.the several thousand horsepower locomotive diesels use #2 as a rule, supposedly. (Including the Fairbanks-Morse opposed engines - used in both trains and submarines, supposedly.)
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  3.  @guthrie_1  actually, it’s a simple light oil. I’ve used it as a cheaper (due to the volume of the package) version of 3 in 1 oil - and it seems to loosen crud in engines, too. I used to put in a third of a bottle about fifty miles or so before oil changes (back when I owned a car, and could afford it) which I did every 3 to 4 thousand miles. Seems to help the most if you do a lot of shortish trips, like I did for a few years.
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  4. Perhaps have a water-methanol spray into the ports to keep things clean?
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  5. Hamsters on Hamster-Craque, supposedly. They get to jumping a lot. Sometimes, one jumps out of the engine.
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  6.  @anivicuno9473 I rarely went over the speed limit, back when I still had a car. (Mostly a lack of money is why I currently don’t have a car.) Were I to drive now, though - I’d stay under the speed limit, as I want to avoid attention at all costs.
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  7. “… with a dose of M.M.O. to help clean things out?”
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  8. Would small amounts of Marvel Mystery Oil (in fuel) and slightly larger doses in Oil (prior to changing said oil, along with regular changes every 3 to 5 thousand miles) help such engines be cleaner inside? I recall dosing engines in the cars I’ve owned with M.M.O. prior to changing oil, so as to help them be cleaned out inside.
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  9. Is it a good idea to replace that gasket/o-ring preemptively?
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  10. How does one purchases “piston fragments?” (To be melted down to cast model-engine pistons, or that’s the plan.)
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  11. Presuming, of course, one uses a moderate or better quality of oil, and does the other parts as well. Example: one uses MalWart’s house-brand synthetic oil and changes it every few months - with, as a rule, less than 500 miles between those changes. I have heard that with limited driving, e.g. one is “retired” and does not need to drive much - groceries, bill-paying, doctor visits, and perhaps a shortish excursion now and then - it is better to change on a schedule.
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  12.  @realbigtuna667  one near the lathe, another near the mill, another pair in the bike tools…
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  13. F.O.R.D. = “Flakey Obsolescent Reworked Design.”
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  14. Question: if one drives very little - say, less than 100 miles a month, with over half of this mileage being steady - 40-55 mph driving, on freeway or similar - is it better to change oil on a time-based schedule, or on the basis of mileage? Was thinking that I would change every 4 to 6 months. Not quite the “92 mile oil change of comic books,” but definitely well under 1000 miles as a rule. Also, use a good synthetic oil, or similar, with a dose of M.M.O. and 20 minutes of easy driving prior to changes?
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  15. Sounds like the first car I had. Leaked both oil and transmission fluid. Carried a jug or two of each. Checked both fluids in the morning most days before driving. Still had an idiot light blink occasionally when coming to a stop. Usually drove carefully to get home then, as it was usually dark then, and I was commonly exhausted then. On long trips, though - check both at each rest-n-bathroom stop! I had three quarts of oil and four of trans fluid for the second one, as I was towing a trailer with stuff in it while moving north to the Portland area!
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  16. I’d like a copy.
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  17. Perhaps put one of these in the Chaguwar?
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  18. The “B’hang Guuud?”
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  19. The 3k-c (70s pushrod engine - small, but real screamers) are interference. I bent the valves on mine while getting clear of an aggressive driver - missed a shift.
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  20. Concur - paranoia (about life in general) is a matter of life experience. You get experience with Age.
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  21. “Why, they’re made of Cheesium, of course!”
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  22. The EV will wish periodic maintenance as well. I dose the gears of ebikes with Mobil-28 grease on something of a schedule.
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  23. Are piston nuggets available for sale? (They work well for certain kinds of hobby casting.)
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  24. @@PeterAngles-ks9fp thanks. I currently do not have a conventional vehicle. I was thinking “If I should somehow get one, and then could somehow afford to pay insurance, etc on it. Currently, I cannot afford the latter - so I must “make do” with an Ebike, one I put together myself - and no, it was NOT cheap - at least, not cheap for a disabled, nominally-retired person with a number of chronic illnesses that mostly started in childhood. The current one cost more to buy the parts and tools than I recall spending on my last car - a “bought used off a dealership lot and financed” car. Granted, that was thirty years ago, so I’d need to double that then-considerable (for me) figure.
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  25. “Sprong!!!”
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  26.  @benjamins9121  Just women? I think there are some men like that, too.
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  27. How often should you check oil? (Haven’t had a car in 20+ years, largely due to poverty.) All of the cars I had were older ones, and I typically changed oil every 3,000 miles. I checked it whenever I recalled to do so, unless the car was a “dripper” (oil leaks) or I was driving longer distances, in which case I checked it at every rest stop, usually about every hour or so when on the freeway.
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  28. If that’s the case, then one wants to use synthetic oil, change it frequently, and then dose with MMO just prior to changes?
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  29. That big bar looks to be a cousin of one I recall from my teens. That bar I knew was known as Beezelbub.
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  30. Those are “old-style” units…
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  31. N2O - nitrous?
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  32. A six-holer? Interesting…
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  33. How often should one check oil? Every time you get ready to drive, or every hour of operation on longish trips? (Last longish trip I took driving, which was in the late eighties, I had to stop about that often anyway. )
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  34. Almost want to flush said motor with diesel fuel prior to dismantling.
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  35. Not just grandfathers. Lotsa farmers seem to have a similar attitude - which makes entire sense to me.
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  36. Kroil for penetrating oil? Have heard about this stuff, and used it once to unstick an antique “Ford Wrench.”
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  37. “Engine has burst!”
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  38. Hence using stainless steel dowels?
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  39. At 21:30 - he breaks out the Beezlebub Bar.
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  40. Engine is full of gunge.
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  41.  @dustypeppers1358  yes, I did have a “No-Go Nova” many years ago. It was then followed by a “Draštić Dödge” truck, and then sometime later, one of “Saki-Blender with sewing machine” cars. The last got totaled - full-on crash, followed by Fire - by a speeding driver as I was creeping through a left turn. That was twenty years ago. Been too poor to replace it since then.
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  42.  @arc00ta  thanks. Currently I cannot afford the operating costs of a car, but if some day I am able to, I would most likely drive it very little - bill-paying, groceries, doctor visits, and the occasional longer trip. Note that most of this travel would involve between ten to fifty miles at a time, with the usual non-freeway speeds being between 35 and 50 miles an hour. Longer trips would involve longer stints, e.g. hours at a time, again mostly staying off of freeways.
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  43.  @karlschauff7989  as in “492 mile oil changes?” (Added “400” to the comic strip - or was it mad magazine? It was nearly fifty years ago - figure of “92 mile oil change.”) Note that such an interval would be a good portion of a typical winter, unless I needed to do a longer trip, e.g. to Astoria or similar - 90+ miles one way, with perhaps a handful of brief stops for food, fuel, and bathroom. Oh, and quasi-religious use of Marvel Mystery Oil, only not just prior to changing? Like a third of a 1 qt bottle per change?
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  44. Fram oil filter? Are these bad?
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  45. Was hoping for a 4.0 V-8
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  46. Mahle is pronounced something like “Mahl-uh,” with the first syllable emphasized. B-58, eh? Is that model of BMW known as the Hustler, like the early supersonic Bomber of that name? (B-58 Hustler.)
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  47. Do heavily-carboned engines benefit from things like Marvel Mystery Oil? As in adding some a bit before oil changes (2 weeks/3-500 miles) while using a good grade of Synthetic Oil - and regular, frequent oil changes???
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  48. “Engine has burst!”
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  49. Gives it Yarrop and turns the crank - or is that Crunk in this case? (CRank + jUNK)
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  50. So it’s not just locomotives that blow turbos…
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