Kevin Rutherfrauds $200000 Signature glider truck has complete engine failure!!!

I've always liked sea foam. I use it as a fuel treatment for my lawnmower fuel can, and going into winter I'll get ethanol free fuel for my motorcycle and add sea foam for when I park it a few months. Shut off fuel and idle till fuel bowl is empty, then drain rest of bowl on ground. Come spring, hit the fuel shutoff, remove battery tender, and she kicks right over. I really hate having to pull carbs and clean when someone gets lazy or forgetful going into winter or long storage.

 

One of my friends had a product we had dreamed up in college. Instead of using 180+ coolant in a after cooler, use a second evaporator in its place (high 30*). More dense the air charge , the more air you can pack in the cyl! More air more fuel you can burn = more power. One of my bar room napkin ideas made someone some money. That's being a tad caty . He "did the hard work" and developed a workable system to bring to market, and deserves the payoff.

 

Rislone? Warm engine, drop in a quart (draining a quart of old oil first if necessary), idle for 10-15 minutes, empty out the oil and put in a new filter and fresh oil. It was OK used wisely but sometimes dissolved the 'goo' that kept old engines from leaking internally and externally. Hydraulic lifters would sometimes suffer.

 

A turbo was added to the later military M35 trucks with the 'Multifuel" engine in the 1960s. It was a 472 cubic inch 130HP diesel with 22:1 compression and could burn gas in an emergency but wasn't good for it. The point is the same on the turbo. It was there to stop the engine smoking and make sure more of the fuel was burned, not to jack up the horsepower. Boost was low, 3-6PSI.

 

Evans Coolant guy is on the show trying hard to make simple subjects sound complicated. Thinks 230° isn't that exotic and is ok with fans turning on at 230...

On using Evans Coolant in an older engine: "Well we wouldn't go out of our way to market to high hours/miles owners because we want our customers to be happy and newer engines have less problems to blame on coolant."

 

Here's the issue I see with running at 230... Your oil temps always run a bit over water temps, and when oil temps get up to 250 and above, you'll start having issues with mineral oils breaking down. You'd be taking oil that's already at the upper limit of it's temperature range and spraying it on a hot piston, heating it further. Just sounds like a recipe for disaster to me.

 

this thread still going.. yep.

 

More gems from today's show:

If you flip 2" offset wheels around, KR says they basically become 0 offset. They don't, they become -2" offset (see pics in my thread)

It is too easy for manufacturers to become smartway certified (so why aren't airtabs?)

There is no difference between a 13, 15, & 18 climbing hills, but a 10 is definitely worse (top 5 gears of a 15 are the same ratios as a 10 so unless you're in low range, a 13/18 is going to climb better)

and...

The more whole the grain, the more toxic the food.



That's it, I can't take any more...

 

we're on two different wavelength's here. I'm not arguing against your filter, or telling you that you shouldn't have gotten it. My argument is about how you determine the value of these things.

I have heard people say, "my oil's cleaner" and cite the micron rating, etc... Just apply a little more rational thinking to the process. Don't tell me all that matters is how clean some engine was at 1.5 million. There's plenty of engines that run to 1.5 mil with a regular filter with few problems.

If you want to get one just cuz you like it and it makes you feel good, go for it, it's your truck put curb feelers on it if you want.

But if we're going to have a rational discussion about a product then we measure the pro's and con's, risk and reward, cost vs return, right ?

 

cowpie is the only one who offered a documented improvement for no bypass vs bypass on his engine. that's good info. Saying that you have a bypass and your engine is clean is not.

My 2000 Intl got good fuel mileage and it had a Turbo3000d on it. Is that proof the Turbo3000d works ?

ya see the logical breakdown ?