Transmission trouble - Page 9

DieselDoctor · #81 07-09-2018, 12:20 AM

Oil cooler lines, GM's cure for dusty roads!

cubby102 · #82 07-09-2018, 02:20 AM

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Originally Posted by J-Mech

Oooohhhh....

If you get an answer, it will be vague. We don't talk about what he does, or who he works for. He works on airplanes.

There was a 4.3 V8 too. Caprice's in the 90's had them. Just sayin.

I had to step in. There was also a 4.3 much much earlier than the 90s lt1 variant.

cubby102 · #83 07-09-2018, 02:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Jeff in Pa

I have a 4.3L Mercruiser V-6 in my boat. Good engine

Ever have the "pleasure" of changing sparkplugs in a V8 Chevy Monza? Driver's side was real

to change. Take off wheel, distributor cap and remove driver's side motor mount to frame bolt. Jack up engine and use all the extensions from the neighborhood to go thru the wheel wheel to get to the plugs.

Yup, tons of fun

Monza were a big pain. I used a wrecked monza to v8 swap my 76 astre wagon. If you think that puppy was tight in the monza you should play with a astre/Vega. Real pain the rear there. Probably why I sold the car. Then i went and did a v8 s10 thinking it would be easier for some odd reason. Still fun though!

cooperino · #84 07-09-2018, 07:45 AM

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Originally Posted by sir_lancealot

Lol. That’ll work.

I’m active duty military. Been an avionics tech for about 15 years now.

They sold a conversion kit to go from central sequential to multi-port. I was going to put one on my 98 K1500 5.7, but ended up trading it in.

Ah, yes, best aviation group there is. I purchase quite a bit of military surplus GSE.

I think the 5.7 with spider made it into a few models between 1996 and 1999. I never owned one but I had heard about them. Then one day of mine asked me to do a conversion for him with the "spider" "upgrade" I told him nooo don't make me do it lol.

cooperino · #85 07-09-2018, 09:00 AM

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Originally Posted by J-Mech

Didn't they also use that slant 4 in industrial applications?

Never understood what the goal was in the slant motors. Apparently, whatever it was didn't pan out. That wasn't a design that stuck, lol.

I know triumph, scout, and Vauxhall made slant 4's. I think there must have been others. I have not seen a slant 4 industrial but I have seen Chrysler slant 6 in tugs and some other equipment. We all know why straight 6 engines are typically hard to break. I think engineers got the idea that a slant would be "best of both worlds" in this respect. An inline engine with slightly less component friction by slanting away from crank. I do know one thing.. I had a Dodge dart with one.. Could not kill the damn thing. Overheated it, ran it low on oil several times because it leaked and burned and I would forget to top it off. Well the day came to junk it so I decided to um "test its limitations" LOL.. Beat the balls off it for a couple hours. Burned up a tire in the process. Changed the tire and continued extremely high rev Neutral drops. Nothin! still running. Ok. Drop the oil I figured. That should kill it! after about 30 min of knocking she finally shut down. They guy from the junk yard showed up an hour later, lowered his flat bed, proceeded to get in the car, start it up and drive it onto the flatbed

Was I just lucky? Or was there something about the design of this engine?

cooperino · #86 07-09-2018, 09:25 AM

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Originally Posted by J-Mech

There was a 4.3 V8 too. Caprice's in the 90's had them. Just sayin.

In 1955 there was also a v8 4.3. They used it in lots of things including the corvette. Not a "vortec" but still a 4.3 v8 and where the term "small block" came from.

sir_lancealot · #87 07-09-2018, 10:00 AM

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Originally Posted by DieselDoctor

Lance - I respect your trade. AP tech does it right or else. The bird does'nt get to pull to the curb and wait for a wrench to show up. Thank you for your service to our country.

Thank you for your support!

cooperino · #88 07-09-2018, 12:03 PM

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Originally Posted by sir_lancealot

Thank you for your support!

Much respect here as well for both your service and your trade. Are you on jets? props? copters?

J-Mech · #89 07-09-2018, 01:08 PM

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Originally Posted by cubby102

I had to step in. There was also a 4.3 much much earlier than the 90s lt1 variant.

The later 4.3 V6 was an LT1 variant, but not the V8. It wasn't even a Vortec, just a TBI.

ol'George · #90 07-09-2018, 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by cooperino

In 1955 there was also a v8 4.3. They used it in lots of things including the corvette. Not a "vortec" but still a 4.3 v8 and where the term "small block" came from.

We preferred to call them a 265" in the day as metric had not become common in America.
It had no oil filter provision on the block like the later ones in '56-up.

You could punch them out 1/8" and put 283" pistons in that block. and the '57 283's could be punched 1/8" to 301" with aftermarket pistons.
I did several.
In '58 they went to side motor mounts and thin wall casting, so +.060 was all that you could go safely.
moot point now as it was too long ago for most younger fellows.

Those 1 year only 1955 blocks, that we didn't like back in the day, now command a good price because of restorers wanting numbers matching correct parts.

Gm knew the "boys" were coming back from Korea with a lot of saved $$ and wanting something better than a stove bolt 6 or a flathead ford.
so they started a tradition of building affordable speed parts at dam near cost, for the small block equipped sedans and hard tops.
And it worked, you could afford Cams ,dual quads, dual point ignition, any rear gear ratio you wanted all the way to 5:88 on gas station jockey wages, or a grocery bagger.
You could build a 1/4 mile sedan that you shifted @ 7500 rpm and ran the low 14's on a budget.
the rest is history, a wonderful time to grow up.