Kevin Rutherfrauds own personal tractor throws a rod.

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  1. Studebaker Hawk

    Studebaker Hawk Road Train Member

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    Listening to the beginning of his program Saturday 4/11/15 @16:00 hrs edt. He starts the program by saying he needed to do routine maintenance on tractor and RV with the studio in it. While doing a test drive bobtailing he said the engine threw a rod. Then he yammered on about doesn't matter how many oil analysis you do metal fatigue is totally unpredictable yada yada yada.

    I am betting he follows all of his own advice, 300,000 between oil changes just filters and analysis, Evans Coolant, Fleet air filters etc.
    With 2 high profile failures a month apart I am thinking some of his advice is less than creditable. And his recent trend of giving medical/fitness/ nutrition advice might be deadly. Lets hear his excuses this time...
     
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  3. jason6541

    jason6541 Road Train Member

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    yeah I'll keep running my Delvac and doing 30,000 mi oil changes, greasing trk every week and never have issues. It should be interesting to hear how he tries to explain this one. Wonder if PP builds him an engine?. Probably lugged the crap out of that dripdroit.
     
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  4. Dale thompson

    Dale thompson Road Train Member

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    UUUMMMM he was test driving routine maintenance ???
     
  5. joseph1135

    joseph1135 Papa Murphy

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    This guy is the gift that keeps on giving.
     
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  6. Dakota1358

    Dakota1358 Medium Load Member

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    No S@#$ Oil analysis is a TOOL (a guide) nothing more.It can and does show problems in the engine with wear.Put metal through the heat and stress of a diesel engine and something is going to give eventually.Seems to me he is just trying to downplay the big cluster F his last project turned into and take himself out of the equation.
     
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  7. KW Cajun

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    So he knows for sure it was due to metal fatigue... lol.

    It was probably due to a massive blown head gasket...
    due to zero liner protrusion...
    combined with running 185° operating temp (remember, the DD engineer said anything over 180° was lethal beyond hope)...
    which also warped the head...
    which allowed the Evans to flood that cylinder...
    and since Evans (liquid) isn't compressible....

    the rod broke! ;)
     
  8. double yellow

    double yellow Road Train Member

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    Gosh, who built that engine?


    And metal fatigue is pretty well understood:

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    Stay below the fatigue limit and steels/titanium will last indefinitely. But if you take an engine designed to make 430hp and turn it up to 650hp -- I can all but gaurantee you will exceed the fatigue limit of some parts &, left unchecked, will eventually have a fatigue failure.

    Other likely possibilities are having a bearing lock up (would be pretty easy to spot if this were the case) or hydrolock...
     
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  9. TAfool

    TAfool Medium Load Member

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    Considering the guy can't even properly clean an air filter nothing more really needs to be said.
     
  10. double yellow

    double yellow Road Train Member

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    Tried to find more info on facebook -- seems that any mention of it in the usual KR places gets deleted
     
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  11. Boardhauler

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    I would love to know what really happened & I'm afraid we may never find out. This thread was started 2 hours ago & we don't have a bunch of acolytes rushing to his defense?
     
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