Have you ever worn out an engine?
I read recommendations made about the value in changing oil. I have been operating roughly 20 diesel engines at a time over the last 30 years. Some are 40 years old and still running. I have a Cat C15...
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Lowsuv wrote:
We tried to wear out and blow up our 1980 Chevy LUV Mikado pickup .
We had a lumber business and we used it as a sales & errands truck .
It only had 80 HP and was 1800 CC , I think .
I drove it a lot and my employees drove it a lot .
It never got TLC . Top speed flat out might be 90 mph .
We had to wind it out in very gear .
But it got twice the gas mileage of my big block Chevy pickup .
We had it for 19 years and 200,000+ miles .
After 10 years it became a running joke that it would leave us broken down on the side of the road .
It never gave up .
It was really an Isuzu Pickup with a Chevy badge .
Isuzu's are very good. A colleague at work for years drove an 80's Chevette he had bought at auction for next to nothing. It had a standard transmission and the optional Isuzu diesel 4 cylinder engine. He got 364,000 miles out of that Chevette before the body became too much of a rust bucket to drive.
A commercial fisherman bought the drivetrain...little diesel Isuzu engine included...to use in a small commercial fishing boat.
Maybe still running...I don't know.
