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Originally Posted by J-Mech
There it is! That's cool.
Can you say who's engine plant? Gas or diesel? What engine? Anything? I'm curious now. In Tennessee, I'm assuming either Nissan or GM. 
Not to get off topic or anything, but as a mechanic, I've always found it amazing the mass production process of assembling an engine. Just really amazing that they assemble them so fast and they run as long as they do. Comparatively, it takes forever to do a good rebuild of a motor in a shop. Sure, a lot of that is parts cleaning and machine work.... but even if you have everything sitting there it still takes quite a while to assemble one. You mechanics know what I mean. I mean.... how many motor are assembled in the factory a day? Hundreds right? |
I've often wondered that also. I have a Dodge Intrepid that originally came with a 2.7L engine which were junk. They have a water pump issue that when the pump starts to go it leaks antifreeze into the oil pan directly and you don't know it unless you're either lucky to catch it or your motor is blown. I bought it from my company (it was a company car) and the engine blew at 51k miles. The best way to fix those is to replace it with a 3.2L which doesn't have this issue. It's almost a direct swap. The first time I did it was when I got the car in 2004 (it was a 2001). The second time (after I put 160k on the replaced motor) in 2014 something let go internally. I tried taking the top end apart and it took me 3 days just to get into the valves because of all the crap bolted to the top of the engine. I gave up and did another engine swap. I swapped the whole engine in 3 days. The same amount of time it took me to get inside the engine, and I still wasn't far enough to see anything. I see engine design and assembly as something of a masterpiece I guess, and I curse that masterpiece almost every time I have to work on something on it because it's either impossible to get to or rusted tight. I don't know how they do it... But the car is still going strong now with almost 240k. It doesn't look or sound a mile over 100k.
