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Ford 6.0/6.4 diesel, Aluminum block vega, GM 5.7 olds diesel, Ford 351M/400, Dodge 2.2 4cyl.

Anything with Tecumseh written on it.

I was just thinking today…the auto industry is constantly changing but never perfecting anything.

Constant recalls problems with reliability safety etc.

Seems most are just engineered to meet a certain profit margin and price point anymore.

Gonna keep driving my 20 year old Duramax

I just had my 6.2 Chevy gas have an mis because of lifter. 5000 dollars down the tube. I’m not exactly a happy camper. Less than 70000 miles and nothing but easy duty. Crap. Edk

aww, C'mon man... i love my Indian head engines ...it's the Briggs i have trouble with!...

Oldsmobile diesel

Oldsmobile 330

Chevrolet 307

Ford 4 cylinder turbo

i forgot about those!... we couldn't keep em in stock at the Salvage Yard.... main bearings!...

forged crank in the 330's... fits in any Olds small block!... 307 Chevy's were cam eaters for some odd reason, bad run of cams maybe?..

Briggs and Scrap iron industrial. Cummins triple nickel. 04 -05 6.0Ford we had a fleet of 57 of those on a job in Russia. We had more problems with the transmissions than we did with the engine. We had a 25mph speed limit on the job site which caused most of the engine problems.

Rush 1300, I believed it was called, used in Simca automobiles. Used more oil than gas. It drank Areo paraffin recycled 30 weight by the gallon. What didn't leak,, dusted skeeters effectively. Bought it in Twentynine Palms for $50 and drove it north. It gave up the ghost in Elko. Got $10 for it, and bought a 52 Chevy short box for $90, and drove it to Pendleton. Had it for about a year, and upgraded. Would like to have the 52 Chevy now!

The 3.0 V8 in the Triumph Stag. Widespread serious problems with the cooling circulation, failing timing chains, block warping and terrible QC.

Carbonized oil around the pushrods near the heat riser passages- - - - -jammed the pushrods and the drag on the lifters wiped out cam lobes. Usually #4 or #6 cylinder. Engines running 10W-40 oil had the most problems, causing GM to deny warranty coverage on any engine running that weight oil in the mid-1980s. What GM would NOT say was "Don't run Quaker State 10W-40". Field service engineers would admit it privately, but they would NEVER put it in writing.

Don’t tell my dogs their ride could have broken down at any point in the 12 hours to and 12 hours from the pheasant fields this past weekend. Hit 200k on the ride home.

Quaker State had a bad run of oil in the late 70's? as i recall... they wound up footing the bill on a lot of their customers engines... we ran from that schit, used Kendall, Schaeffers & Wolfs Head...

sold one those Stags to the bad loan debt collector at the local bank... he loved it... when it ran!... lol

The Yugo 55, followed by an old Maytag washing machine, kickstart, 2-cycle engine.

It wasn't uncommon to see the Maytag's fitted to the rear frame of a retired Derby Car with
a wooden lever, tensioning a drive belt on a pully attached to a rear Derby Car wheel.

1950s Fargo. This not uncommon activity got all the kids in the neighborhood's attention and
they and their dogs would run behind the sputtering derby car - and soon a local
police car would also get into the spirit of the fun - But not think it funny.

A mate of mine had one, but not for long. Looked good, sounded good too when it was running, but completely unreliable.

i have over 222000 m on my 6.4 no engine problems just some wiring stuff😊

norm

good news for sure... seems like most folks do nothing but piss on them though... bro's got an 01 7.3 with very low miles... should last him the rest of his days...

I musta set a record. Had over 300,000 on a 2.8 in a Citation X11. Never had a single problem.