Originally posted by Sig2340: It takes me 7 1/2 minutes to find the first socket I dropped.
A 10mm no doubt
It always hits the top of my shoe which is unfortunately tapered toward the middle of the underside of my vehicle.
I should be so lucky. The top of MY shoe is angled towards a black hole...
There’s a commercial for cold medicine where the guy sneezes and drops his tablet down a storm drain; I think it’s pretty funny.
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October 18, 2018, 05:37 PM
egregore
It's a lot easier when the engine is easily accessible, simple in design and not covered in years of dirt and oil seepage.
October 18, 2018, 05:43 PM
Ryanp225
The air displaced from those cylinders in 1/4 mile will inflate a frikin blimp.
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October 18, 2018, 05:43 PM
BamaJeepster
What's the big deal, I could do that in about 6 minutes!!
Yeah, 7 1/2 years from now it would still be in pieces and collecting dust if it was up to me!
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October 18, 2018, 05:49 PM
wrightd
quote:
Originally posted by KDR:
quote:
Originally posted by Sig2340: It takes me 7 1/2 minutes to find the first socket I dropped.
A 10mm no doubt
12mm is almost as bad.
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October 18, 2018, 07:25 PM
beltfed21
Did you notice that almost all the work is done with hand tools, very little with air tools.
Also, a lot of normally individual parts are combined as sub-assemblies. That helps speed things up!
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October 18, 2018, 09:49 PM
2012BOSS302
The warranty flat rate for an engine rebuild said 7 1/2 minutes and they made it.
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October 18, 2018, 10:03 PM
phydough
That engine probably had <75 seconds of run time since it was last rebuilt. Some warmup time, burnout, staging, then a few seconds in anger. Then torn down again.
October 18, 2018, 10:27 PM
darthfuster
You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier
October 18, 2018, 11:03 PM
sigmonkey
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Originally posted by phydough: That engine probably had <75 seconds of run time since it was last rebuilt. Some warmup time, burnout, staging, then a few seconds in anger. Then torn down again.
While what you state is true in the majority of top fuel engines, that engine never ran. It was built/torn down/rebuilt in the studio to exhibit the process and had zero seconds running.
Most assembly lube is gone within 10 seconds.
The video shows lube all over the crank/bottom end.
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Yeah, 7 1/2 years from now it would still be in pieces and collecting dust if it was up to me!