Kjets On a Plane
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What does the coating process entail?
Dry ice or walnut shell blasting for adherence/no gritch embedded in the alloy piston & some sort of chemical/heat treatment?
Is it possible to clean around the rings w/steam jet & leave them on the pistons after you remove them from the short block surgically?
I don’t like sand, coal ash or slag or glass beads to clean anything if I can help it? (Unless it has no moving/working surfaces/parts & there’s some way to deal with the dust/environmental impact?).
It’s frustrating as the engine ‘works fine’ w/virtually no blowby efficiently, but it’s a little noisy cold in drive/taking off down the block under light load.
If I could magically remove the pistons gently & note the clocking of the rings & steam/ultrasonic them squeaky clean gently & magically apply coating & add squirters/coated late model oil pump & transfer pipe to the existing motor to try to get ~60 years out of one engine/car/set of super toxic non-us DOT scam date code Vanagon weight rated Michelin tires I could retread in my back yard, that’d be grrr8. Plz Halp?
Kthxbye?
Ishould be good ‘n dead/not driving anymore in ~60 years (or not hopefully if in good health w/(near)universal access to bio-medical advancement?)
If there even are roads & ICE dinosaur vehicles operated by humans at relaxing low stress distances apart from each other on the public? Roadways as we know them by then?
With a block heater, quality copper B230Ft oil/water heat exchanger & good oil, 2-5k miles/yr @ gentle cruise/good maintenance / not caring about smog/air pollution (much/within reason as a constraint) / exempt , ~100+ years should be possible from 1 hooptie ‘87 B230F in ‘mild’ (such as that’s going to be ‘a thing’ going forward?) climate/garaged car/carport?
Idk about temp cycles on the alloy head/timing belt engine?
Pity the trans tunnel isn’t all that generously sized on the Volvo for some sort of electric assist in the trans bellhousing…
…how can I get a maneuverable space efficient vehicle w/20+ year production run w/external drip rails, foot vents, wing windows etc that’s smog/rules/recurring registration costs exempt?
Trying to achieve classic pre-smog 2-stroke Peterbilt long haul trucker longevity in miles & Massey/IH tractor/stationary engine longevity in years w/bite size/ obscure furrin’ midsize car (& budget, accordingly…this is TB?)?
Dry ice or walnut shell blasting for adherence/no gritch embedded in the alloy piston & some sort of chemical/heat treatment?
Is it possible to clean around the rings w/steam jet & leave them on the pistons after you remove them from the short block surgically?
I don’t like sand, coal ash or slag or glass beads to clean anything if I can help it? (Unless it has no moving/working surfaces/parts & there’s some way to deal with the dust/environmental impact?).
It’s frustrating as the engine ‘works fine’ w/virtually no blowby efficiently, but it’s a little noisy cold in drive/taking off down the block under light load.
If I could magically remove the pistons gently & note the clocking of the rings & steam/ultrasonic them squeaky clean gently & magically apply coating & add squirters/coated late model oil pump & transfer pipe to the existing motor to try to get ~60 years out of one engine/car/set of super toxic non-us DOT scam date code Vanagon weight rated Michelin tires I could retread in my back yard, that’d be grrr8. Plz Halp?
Kthxbye?Ishould be good ‘n dead/not driving anymore in ~60 years (or not hopefully if in good health w/(near)universal access to bio-medical advancement?)
If there even are roads & ICE dinosaur vehicles operated by humans at relaxing low stress distances apart from each other on the public? Roadways as we know them by then?
With a block heater, quality copper B230Ft oil/water heat exchanger & good oil, 2-5k miles/yr @ gentle cruise/good maintenance / not caring about smog/air pollution (much/within reason as a constraint) / exempt , ~100+ years should be possible from 1 hooptie ‘87 B230F in ‘mild’ (such as that’s going to be ‘a thing’ going forward?) climate/garaged car/carport?
Idk about temp cycles on the alloy head/timing belt engine?
Pity the trans tunnel isn’t all that generously sized on the Volvo for some sort of electric assist in the trans bellhousing…
…how can I get a maneuverable space efficient vehicle w/20+ year production run w/external drip rails, foot vents, wing windows etc that’s smog/rules/recurring registration costs exempt?
Trying to achieve classic pre-smog 2-stroke Peterbilt long haul trucker longevity in miles & Massey/IH tractor/stationary engine longevity in years w/bite size/ obscure furrin’ midsize car (& budget, accordingly…this is TB?)?
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no way am I going to be able to achieve clean room standards, but a portable 20A quiet 0-clearance screw or wankel air compressor & oil pump would sure be nice?
if sending them out for coating if masked off/no oil? Maybe the fear I have of bending used rings around to reinstall them the way they were when removed & working ‘fine’ & factory setup is a bit irrational? (Idk what I’m doing I’m neither a trained nor experienced/proficient machinist, diagnostician, engine assembler or engineer in the relevant field).