Would you trust this repair?
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Topic: Would you trust this repair?
Posted By: bigal121892
Subject: Would you trust this repair?
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2025 at 8:33am
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Would you trust this repair? I'm not saying the guy didn't do good work, but........ https://www.facebook.com/share/v/19SdahMUPZ/?mibextid=wwXIfr" rel="nofollow - https://www.facebook.com/share/v/19SdahMUPZ/?mibextid=wwXIfr
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Posted By: Ky.Allis
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2025 at 9:40am
| Yea, like a wet fart. |
Posted By: plummerscarin
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2025 at 12:47pm
| I was impressed. A work bench and wearing socks and shoes! |
Posted By: ekjdm14
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2025 at 12:57pm
I would've trusted the work more if he was working barefoot on a dirt floor and using only a 16Lb sledge, rusty hacksaw/dull file and some old batteries as a welder TBH. The bench and footwear suggest he's not all that, and is trying to make an impression online... In all seriousness though, some of these repairs they manage to pull off are highly impressive.
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plummerscarin wrote:Posted By: HudCo
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2025 at 1:09pm
| wow , wonder if he allready dialed in his sharpey . i think that the guy that answers the phone for cummins now |
Posted By: DougG
Date Posted: 05 Jul 2025 at 5:59am
| Pretty rough for sure, but they keep our old stuff running and making a living - with the US having all the pollution control etc, on our new stuff- kinda makes you wonder,, |
Posted By: Gary Burnett
Date Posted: 05 Jul 2025 at 6:50am
| Do what you gotta do when you don't have the $$$$.give these fellows credit they aren't standing around waiting for a gov't handout.They'll make it where the average American would starve |
Posted By: DougG
Date Posted: 05 Jul 2025 at 6:59am
| Exactly,, its all the same world- we send all our old stuff off - emitions????? They have a play day with it!! |
Posted By: Les Kerf
Date Posted: 05 Jul 2025 at 7:28am
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I was on board until he fired up the cutting torch and then welded it with no apparent effort to keep the crank journal aligned with the piston pin. Also the cutting/welding heat would distort the crank journal enough to require a final cut to make it round. The overall repair is probably strong enough though.
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Posted By: DrAllis
Date Posted: 05 Jul 2025 at 8:00am
| Makes me think I've been wasting all my $$$$ for decades having conn rods reconditioned for reuse at OH time!!! I get being in parts of the world that do what they have to for survival, but the way that rod was broken open in more than one place, it almost looks to me like it was split open intentionally to make a video ???? There's no sign of a bearing burn out. There's no sign of heat from a spun bearing ?? Looks like a set up deal to me and NO, I wouldn't even waste my time installing it for fear of when it breaks (and it will) punching a hole in the block and ruining the crankshaft. |
Posted By: IBWD MIke
Date Posted: 05 Jul 2025 at 8:24am
| Had a lot of the same thoughts as the Doc, didn't want to type up a book this morning. Metalurgy would be my big concern. |
Posted By: Les Kerf
Date Posted: 05 Jul 2025 at 10:36am
I dunno, I distinctly recall seeing MacGyver weld up a connecting rod somewhere in Darkest Peru or somesuch using a coin for an electrode and a 12 Volt battery; if Mac done it it's gotta be true, right?
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