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[Jimy Bilmo]

DEETAILS please

We run this:

110 lb. Pressurized Abrasive Blaster

Amazing deals on this 110Lb Pressurized Abrasive Blaster at Harbor Freight. Quality tools & low prices.

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But here’s a nice little thread utilizing their even smaller blaster, plus details for the vacuum and such:

DIY decarbonize your engine - (Updated!)

So you've hit that point where your car is starting to feel a little sluggish or what of your automotive clients have come to your shop complaining of poor engine performance or even the dreaded check engine light. Upon inspection you see that your O2 Sensor or normal tune-up job has turned...

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[sktchy]

I mean really you could use an empty bottle full of walnut shit and a tube with hole in it through said bottle connected to compressed air to Venturi the sand out of the bottle at a high velocity.

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

Or just pour it into the intake while driving 100mph?

 

[bikrboy128]

pin the throttle and dump the sand directly into the intake. It'll clean the valves all at once. Big time saver, 10/10 I do it to every shitty carboned up DI car that rolls in

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

MookBOT 5000 aspire to this gentlemans ability to search and post related diy contraption solution fer us poor grease monkeys.

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

Sand is small enough to clean the cat channels too!
2 birds, one highly pulverized stone.

pin the throttle and dump the sand directly into the intake. It'll clean the valves all at once. Big time saver, 10/10 I do it to every shitty carboned up DI car that rolls in

 

[sktchy]

2 days later when some dumbass reads that and dumps literal sand down the throttle and the rings end up fucking zooted

 

[Mr_Roboto]

Windows domain controllers. This thing acts like it got hit over the head with a hammer and it's half stupid.

 

[rocco]

Cam and lifters on a Suburban

 

[DEEZUZ]

Cam and lifters on a Suburban View attachment 196731View attachment 196732View attachment 196730

Chicken or the egg, what's your thoughts?

 

[rocco]

Chicken or the egg, what's your thoughts?

I see a lot of lifters for pitting causing misfires, with no physical damage on the camshaft lobes. I’ve also seen several cams with a big chunk missing on the lobe, and no damage to the roller on the lifter.

I think all these parts they’re building them with is junk. It’s typical GM sourcing for the cheapest possible parts as usual. Luck of the draw when you buy one of these. Some last forever. Some don’t make it past 10k miles.

 

[DEEZUZ]

I see a lot of lifters for pitting causing misfires, with no physical damage on the camshaft lobes. I’ve also seen several cams with a big chunk missing on the lobe, and no damage to the roller on the lifter.

I think all these parts they’re building them with is junk. It’s typical GM sourcing for the cheapest possible parts as usual. Luck of the draw when you buy one of these. Some last forever. Some don’t make it past 10k miles.

Because lifter/cam failure is what I see on 6.0/6.4 as well, I've never seen a chip like that but I've had them worn and mushroomed so far you can't remove the lifter from the bore... Every single one of these engines will fail at some point from this.

I can't tell who goes first but sounds like your same situation.

 

[DEEZUZ]

6 in a row makes it tow

 

[ASlowV6]

I was tasked with recontrolling this crusty old bitch of a pool room dehumidification unit.

Apparently the controls have been giving them issues and they haven’t been able to maintain temp/humidity. The unit is about 25% operational as is, so I opted to just wire the blowers to run full time and control the compressors off a stand-alone controller.

 

[rocco]

Malibu with a 1.5 and a dead miss.

 

[Mr_Roboto]

That'd do it.

 

[v6buicks]

Second turtle habitat is getting expensive, but turning out so good.

I tend not to listen to the turtle groups at all when it comes to building materials because the nonsense they come up with definitely displays their level of handy work. However, one guy brought up a great point regarding the basking lamp fixture. Most heat lamps or flood lights have ceramic bulb bases. This one I saved from our kitchen remodel may burn up. I hope it doesn't because I like the way everything looks so far.

 

[sktchy]

Lca's on a Passat. I seem to do these somewhat frequently and I think it's because you gotta drop the cradle down some and weasel the trans up some to get this bolt out on the driver side. When they go out it feels like the it's just straight up missing a motor mount and it can get kinda violent under the hood so fairly often these are flip cars somebody passed on fixing.

 

[Mr_Roboto]

Lca's on a Passat. I seem to do these somewhat frequently and I think it's because you gotta drop the cradle down some and weasel the trans up some to get this bolt out on the driver side. When they go out it feels like the it's just straight up missing a motor mount and it can get kinda violent under the hood so fairly often these are flip cars somebody passed on fixing.
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Reminds me of doing fiberglass leaf swaps on Astro Vans. Gotta drop the gas tank on the driver's side. Either that your cut the bolts, do an ever so slight dimple on the outer part and put them back the opposite way.

 

[sktchy]

Reminds me of doing fiberglass leaf swaps on Astro Vans. Gotta drop the gas tank on the driver's side. Either that your cut the bolts, do an ever so slight dimple on the outer part and put them back the opposite way.

Trans pan, meet 4 lb chunk of iron stuck to the end of a stick.

Jk

 

[Mr_Roboto]

Trans pan, meet 4 lb chunk of iron stuck to the end of a stick.

Jk

If the bolt goes in from the other side you just cut it and stick another one through the opposite way.

 

[sktchy]

If the bolt goes in from the other side you just cut it and stick another one through the opposite way.

It definitely does not lol. Threads into the cradle to make it even more convenient they're not terrible after youve done a few

 

[importcrew]

Donating plasma today.

 

[DEEZUZ]

2011 6.7 customer just bought.

#6 is dead and loud pop out exhaust... Thinking cracked valve and or wasted cam/lifter.

Cylinder next to it was 410 psi

 

[rocco]

New pistons for a 5.3 oil burner