You bring up many valid points, like no info is better than bad or wrong info. But even though you don't know something, many times you can at least comment and give your opinion. Many times guys like that too. Just so long as you don't get butthurt just becasue someone disagrees with your opinion. Or even make a suggestion. LIke even if you don't know. As in, I don't know how to fix that oil pressure guage in the dash, but it if were me, I'd go with a good quality aftermarket manual analog guage that I feel is going to be much more accureate than the electrical OE guage in the instrument cluster. If you commented something like that, I'd totally agree,
Yep, places like HAMB and Pirate4x4 is exactly what I wanted to make sure this place did not become. Where people are afraid to interact or comment due to belittling asshats. It comes at a cost though. Like we do end up with threads that end up down a rabbit hole, which so long as the answer or purpose of the thread has been addressed and resolved FIRST, then the thread continues on down the rabbit hole, does it really matter at that point? Is there any harm? I don't think so. Once someone comes in looking for an answer to a problem, they find the thread, they start reading it and get the answer they needed and the issue resolved, then what happens past that is optional reading if they choose too. They don't have to continue reading if they don't want to, and most people who are in a bind that don't have time for the horseplay, or even no horseplay, once they got the answer, they're out and they go fix it so it doesn't really matter what happens after the question has been answered, or the problem has been resolved. So we PREFER threads to stay on topic and we used to clean them up and take extra content to the off topic thread to keep the place tidy. It doesn't happen near as often anymore and it's OK so long as the issue was resolved FIRST before it went down a rabbit hole.
Things like your engine build thread not only helps others that find it, it can also help you also. You may have missed something that someone else catches, or a product or part might be suggested that you didn't know existed, or a tool that's new technology etc. Like, I see people doing an engine build and they show pics of their kit and talk about machine work and I don't see anything mentioned about the connecting rods being replaced, balanced or re conn'ed. Con rod, know as Connection rods are in fact, the #1 failure in a new engine build where 3 or 4000 miles later the engine is junk where it chucked a rod of spun a bearing. Well yeah, because the engine first failed at 200,000 miles with a spun bearing. They did get the crank turned replaced the pistons on the build, but they never though to have the rod's reconn'ed, meaning, hot tanked, magnafluxed to be checked for stress cracks or the big ends resized and that last rod that had spun, put the big end into an egg shape tha wasn't noticable by the naked eye, now you just built an engine a previously damaged rod and it failed 4000 miles later. The story I tell there, my ex son in law built an engine and was trying to stay within a budget. I told my daughter to tell him, make sure you have those rods reconn'ed at the machine shop, you're taking them in there anyway to have the pistons pressed on, so have them reconn'ed, maged, checked for twist, resized and get the rod and pistons balanced too. It might be $10 or so, but it's insurance for all that money you just spent. She told him about it and why. When all the stuff was ready to be picked up at the machine shop, he was working so he sent my daughter to go pick the stuff up and pay for it. She looked at the invoice and never seen Rod Recon and asked, were these rods re conn'ed. They said, NO he didn't tell us to do that but there was nothing obvious wrong. She said, Recon the rods. My dad told him to do it and as much money as we've spent on this build I want it done. But ma'am it'll cost more now since we'll have to press to piston's off an back on again. She said, I don't care do it. So it ended up costing $15 a rod now but guess what? 2 damaged rods and had to be replaced. 1 was twisted and 1 was cracked. This engine had blown a head gasket and got water in the cylinders is why it was being rebuilt. Water doesn't compress and something had to give. 2 rods is what gave and had they not reconn'ed the rods, they wouldn't have found it. Now if he knew what he was doing, he would have caught the twisted rod when he built it and noticed the pistom was slighted turned in the cylinder, IF HE THOUGHT TO look for that, but this was his first engine build. I doubt he'd have caught it. So it cost them an additional 200 for the rods reconn'ed and replaced the bad ones and balanced them all so they all matched even the 2 new ones, and they purchased used rods from the machine shop out of another junk engine they had and that's totallly fine. so long as they're matching. My daughter used to be smart. When daddy said, she did and husband at the time lied to her trying to not go over budget any more than they already did. Like I told them, to hell with your budget, some things you just do whether it puts you over budget or not. However, never did get that car running. He built that engine and wanted to change the cam timing blah blah blah, and him being out of state, I couldn't go see what he had done. He got overwhelmbed with it, and sold the whole car with the non running rebuilt engine to another airmen on base. He took the engine back out, went through it all again and re assembed the short block, new head gaskets put it together with just an RV cam and it's probably still running great to this day. Point being, your engine thread not only helps others, it might just help you too as others who know what they're doing are watching and mking suggestions along the way.
EDIT, Geez man, I typed all that, I gotta go back to bed. LOL
