Back in the '80's when I moved to the north side of Chicago, I bought a Dodge D50 pickup manufactured by Mitsubishi. Hey, it worked in Chicago. At 50,000 miles exactly some idiot light came on. The odometer hit 50,000 and POOF to the very second, on it came. To me, the timing seemed suspect, so I scanned the owners manual, and there in plain English, at 50,000 miles some idiot light will come on to remind you to have the timing belt changed. Ahh Haa, a gimick to get me down to the Dodge garage and spend money needlessly...I figured. Well, if it can be programmed to come on at 50,000, then there must be a way to shut it off as well...I figured. I crawled around under the dash and found a little slide switch somewhere near the back of the idiot light panel, slid it, and the light went off. That will teach them a lesson...I figured. Driving down the road one cold Friday on my way home from work just before some long holiday weekend, the engine just quit and on came another idiot light, as I recall somewhere under 50,100 miles and I glided off to the side of the road dead in the water. I ended up being towed to the Shell service station near my house and sat out the long holiday weekend vehicleless. On Monday, my neighbor and friend, Chuck from the Shell station called me and said that the timing belt was broken and needed to be replaced. Luckly the low compression engine didn't float any valves far enough to get slapped by any piston domes and do anymore damage when it happened. The belt got replaced, and on my way, the idiot went.
Used to build big block Chevys back in the '70's. When the timing chain or gear would go on an 11:1 or 12:1 high domed piston and a floating valve would get slapped, scrap heads afterwards, most definately pistons, and sometimes connecting rods. A common mistake when folks would lose the teeth on a timing gear, and they would replace the chain and gears, they wouldn't think to pull the oil pan, remove the oil pump sump pickup and clean the pieces of the broken teeth out of the pickup that now blocked the screen from being able to pickup oil to lubricate out to the various parts and compnents of the engine that would then result in spun bearings and all kinds of other very expensive issues due to no oil flow.
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Today's Featured Article - Talk of the Town: The Saga of Grandpa's Tractor - by The following saga is from the Tractor Talk Discussion Forum. Someone. The saga starts with the following message: Hey guys I have a decision to make. I know what you all will probably suggest and it will probably agree with me way down inside, but here it is. I have a picture blown up and framed in my "tractor room" of a Farmall M. It was my Grandpa's tractor, of which whom I never got to meet. He froze to death getting this tractor out of the barn to pull a truck out of the ditch before I was born. Anyway my dad and aunt had to sell it at the auction,
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