How Many Miles?
#81
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Re: How Many Miles?
Ouch !
Actually, it ran very smoothly, but it was a regular Saturday morning job to
put oil in the twin SU's dash pots :-)
Just hit a major milestone today - finally towed away Dad's 1952 Mercedes
300L from my house back to his. Must have been a tow weight of not far off 3
ton including the trailer, but the Wagoneer hauled it along well. Been
trying to get rid of that Mercedes for several years. Truth be told, the
anticipation of today was the 75% of the reason I bought the Wagoneer.
Dave
"Carl" <carlsaiyed@hotmailREMOVE.com> wrote in message
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> It was smooth because it wasn't running. >BFG<
>
> Carl
Actually, it ran very smoothly, but it was a regular Saturday morning job to
put oil in the twin SU's dash pots :-)
Just hit a major milestone today - finally towed away Dad's 1952 Mercedes
300L from my house back to his. Must have been a tow weight of not far off 3
ton including the trailer, but the Wagoneer hauled it along well. Been
trying to get rid of that Mercedes for several years. Truth be told, the
anticipation of today was the 75% of the reason I bought the Wagoneer.
Dave
"Carl" <carlsaiyed@hotmailREMOVE.com> wrote in message
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> It was smooth because it wasn't running. >BFG<
>
> Carl
#82
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Re: How Many Miles?
Ouch !
Actually, it ran very smoothly, but it was a regular Saturday morning job to
put oil in the twin SU's dash pots :-)
Just hit a major milestone today - finally towed away Dad's 1952 Mercedes
300L from my house back to his. Must have been a tow weight of not far off 3
ton including the trailer, but the Wagoneer hauled it along well. Been
trying to get rid of that Mercedes for several years. Truth be told, the
anticipation of today was the 75% of the reason I bought the Wagoneer.
Dave
"Carl" <carlsaiyed@hotmailREMOVE.com> wrote in message
news:csqdnaaTD49rp5bYnZ2dnUVZ_uidnZ2d@comcast.com. ..
> It was smooth because it wasn't running. >BFG<
>
> Carl
Actually, it ran very smoothly, but it was a regular Saturday morning job to
put oil in the twin SU's dash pots :-)
Just hit a major milestone today - finally towed away Dad's 1952 Mercedes
300L from my house back to his. Must have been a tow weight of not far off 3
ton including the trailer, but the Wagoneer hauled it along well. Been
trying to get rid of that Mercedes for several years. Truth be told, the
anticipation of today was the 75% of the reason I bought the Wagoneer.
Dave
"Carl" <carlsaiyed@hotmailREMOVE.com> wrote in message
news:csqdnaaTD49rp5bYnZ2dnUVZ_uidnZ2d@comcast.com. ..
> It was smooth because it wasn't running. >BFG<
>
> Carl
#83
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Re: How Many Miles?
Lon wrote:
> Bret Ludwig proclaimed:
> > Carl wrote:
> >
>
> A very good interpretation of the old Jag 6 was done by Toyota. Had
> Jaguar been smart enough to buy the Toyota versions and trash their own,
> they might be something more than a gussied up Ford today.
The XJ engine was mechanically very stout, also overweight. Bad
auxilliaries were the cause of trouble, and deferred maintenance. If
maintained they are a extremely durable, reliable core powerplant. The
big DOHC six in Land Cruisers was also a decent powerplant, why can't
you get it in trucks?
The later XJ40 Jag aluminum "slant six" was also a decent plant. You
can get them for nothing, but they don't bolt up to any common
driveline and they are all electronic. There is a distributor but it's
just a rotor, like the Dodge Magnums.
I also
> like the older Nissan straight 6, to me smoother than the oft-touted Bmw
> straights. The Volvo straight 6 wasn't bad either, if too short lived.
Which Volvo six? The one I remember would go 500K routinely.
> For service under extreme duress, I gotta vote for the old International
> straight 6. I helped rebuild one of those, all during the while
> wondering how that poor baby managed to even spin with all that was
> wrong with it.
Yup. The really big truck six was even more impressive. There was a
guy who put three 58 DCOE Webers on one and put it in a torsion bar
suspension Packard instead of the straight eight. It would outrun
anything on the road except a gas station. He claimed it would put 350
hp to the rear wheels.
#84
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Re: How Many Miles?
Lon wrote:
> Bret Ludwig proclaimed:
> > Carl wrote:
> >
>
> A very good interpretation of the old Jag 6 was done by Toyota. Had
> Jaguar been smart enough to buy the Toyota versions and trash their own,
> they might be something more than a gussied up Ford today.
The XJ engine was mechanically very stout, also overweight. Bad
auxilliaries were the cause of trouble, and deferred maintenance. If
maintained they are a extremely durable, reliable core powerplant. The
big DOHC six in Land Cruisers was also a decent powerplant, why can't
you get it in trucks?
The later XJ40 Jag aluminum "slant six" was also a decent plant. You
can get them for nothing, but they don't bolt up to any common
driveline and they are all electronic. There is a distributor but it's
just a rotor, like the Dodge Magnums.
I also
> like the older Nissan straight 6, to me smoother than the oft-touted Bmw
> straights. The Volvo straight 6 wasn't bad either, if too short lived.
Which Volvo six? The one I remember would go 500K routinely.
> For service under extreme duress, I gotta vote for the old International
> straight 6. I helped rebuild one of those, all during the while
> wondering how that poor baby managed to even spin with all that was
> wrong with it.
Yup. The really big truck six was even more impressive. There was a
guy who put three 58 DCOE Webers on one and put it in a torsion bar
suspension Packard instead of the straight eight. It would outrun
anything on the road except a gas station. He claimed it would put 350
hp to the rear wheels.
#85
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Re: How Many Miles?
Lon wrote:
> Bret Ludwig proclaimed:
> > Carl wrote:
> >
>
> A very good interpretation of the old Jag 6 was done by Toyota. Had
> Jaguar been smart enough to buy the Toyota versions and trash their own,
> they might be something more than a gussied up Ford today.
The XJ engine was mechanically very stout, also overweight. Bad
auxilliaries were the cause of trouble, and deferred maintenance. If
maintained they are a extremely durable, reliable core powerplant. The
big DOHC six in Land Cruisers was also a decent powerplant, why can't
you get it in trucks?
The later XJ40 Jag aluminum "slant six" was also a decent plant. You
can get them for nothing, but they don't bolt up to any common
driveline and they are all electronic. There is a distributor but it's
just a rotor, like the Dodge Magnums.
I also
> like the older Nissan straight 6, to me smoother than the oft-touted Bmw
> straights. The Volvo straight 6 wasn't bad either, if too short lived.
Which Volvo six? The one I remember would go 500K routinely.
> For service under extreme duress, I gotta vote for the old International
> straight 6. I helped rebuild one of those, all during the while
> wondering how that poor baby managed to even spin with all that was
> wrong with it.
Yup. The really big truck six was even more impressive. There was a
guy who put three 58 DCOE Webers on one and put it in a torsion bar
suspension Packard instead of the straight eight. It would outrun
anything on the road except a gas station. He claimed it would put 350
hp to the rear wheels.
#86
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Re: How Many Miles?
L.W.(Bill) ------ III wrote:
> Notice how many 240 and 280 Zs running around???? NONE! Not one of
> those twenty year old rice burners running!
*** talking some more are we Bill?? Yes. The last time I was in LA one
thing that surprised me was the number of Brit and Jap cars from the
50s, 60s, 70s (the 240Z is 33+ years old now) on the road. The tin worm
has kiled them all out here. The engines ran up to the end and then
some.
The OHC Nissan 4 and 6 were long running engines as were such Toyota
engines as the 20R and 22R. Heavy though.
#87
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Re: How Many Miles?
L.W.(Bill) ------ III wrote:
> Notice how many 240 and 280 Zs running around???? NONE! Not one of
> those twenty year old rice burners running!
*** talking some more are we Bill?? Yes. The last time I was in LA one
thing that surprised me was the number of Brit and Jap cars from the
50s, 60s, 70s (the 240Z is 33+ years old now) on the road. The tin worm
has kiled them all out here. The engines ran up to the end and then
some.
The OHC Nissan 4 and 6 were long running engines as were such Toyota
engines as the 20R and 22R. Heavy though.
#88
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Re: How Many Miles?
L.W.(Bill) ------ III wrote:
> Notice how many 240 and 280 Zs running around???? NONE! Not one of
> those twenty year old rice burners running!
*** talking some more are we Bill?? Yes. The last time I was in LA one
thing that surprised me was the number of Brit and Jap cars from the
50s, 60s, 70s (the 240Z is 33+ years old now) on the road. The tin worm
has kiled them all out here. The engines ran up to the end and then
some.
The OHC Nissan 4 and 6 were long running engines as were such Toyota
engines as the 20R and 22R. Heavy though.
#89
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Re: How Many Miles?
Dave Milne wrote:
> Ouch !
>
> Actually, it ran very smoothly, but it was a regular Saturday morning job to
> put oil in the twin SU's dash pots :-)
Most of the six cylinder Triumphs were swapped out for Buick V6s,
Mazda rotaries, or fitted with Webers here in the States. I threw at
least twenty of the old Strombergs used on Jags and such over here in
the smog years in the aluminum smelt pile a few years ago. No one
misses 'em. The SU was another matter: a good easy carb to work on once
you learned how. The Harley guys used to be the big market for them
used.
#90
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Re: How Many Miles?
Dave Milne wrote:
> Ouch !
>
> Actually, it ran very smoothly, but it was a regular Saturday morning job to
> put oil in the twin SU's dash pots :-)
Most of the six cylinder Triumphs were swapped out for Buick V6s,
Mazda rotaries, or fitted with Webers here in the States. I threw at
least twenty of the old Strombergs used on Jags and such over here in
the smog years in the aluminum smelt pile a few years ago. No one
misses 'em. The SU was another matter: a good easy carb to work on once
you learned how. The Harley guys used to be the big market for them
used.