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

Kevin says "I wasnt aware of multiple ecm and turbo changes!!" lol I think he paid no attention to the truck progress after the truck was 1st having issues until last week

 

OK. For the members who don't do. "Facecrack"



The kr trucks motor with inserts any where from .003 to .005 as well as some being crooked. The motor was over bored for larger inserts.

All taken from the "track this truck"_on face crack

 

he sounds a little Flustered , doesn't sound like he does well on his defensive when he is up against the wall.

The main question is what was causing the initial overheating. Too aggressive of a Tune or incorrect engine machining and assembly

 

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from the sirius web site....

 

The owner said its had poor mpgs, power and vibration issues, so the Sig truck kept going into PP shop and they thought "lets try this.." (turbo, ecm etc)
they (PP) did say "in the quest for Hp and mpg sometimes things like this will happen"

 

Geez, seems like everyone is back tracking.

 

From what I've heard, some of those waterless coolants are designed to let the motor run hotter and (allegedly) more efficiently. To get the most out of them, you'd run a hotter thermostat and change the cut-in/cut-out temps for the engine fan to allow the engine to run at those hotter coolant temps. Could all of this have been done, leading the truck owners to THINK the truck was "overheating" (when it really wasn't) because they didn't understand how it was supposed to be working? ...And if that is the case, was everything (thermostat, fan settings, etc.) changed back when they switched to a more conventional 50/50 mix? That WOULD lead to the water boiling out of the mix, and if tap (or any other impurity-ridden source) water was used, all of the minerals in the water being deposited on the inside of the cooling system leading to more problems.

When you don't understand how components and systems on the truck are designed to work, it's easy to screw things up. I'm just curious how much blame the truck owners need to accept, how much the specs contributed to the issues, and lastly what role the actual engine builder played.

Short version: Was this a case of an ignorant truck owner, that the entire situation could have been avoided entirely simply by sitting down with the buyer at the time of the sale and educating them on what they were buying and how to care for it?