[AT] AT Digest, Vol 145, Issue 25

[Chuck Saunders]

I think that the way engines are manufactured now there is a lot less extra
available for reboring and other machining work along with surface
treatments.It's like your new car comes with it's engine bored .080 over.
As a result engines (and other parts go out of spec from wear. Rotors don't
have enough meat for one turning much less multiple but replacements are
much cheaper. In order to build the engines on tighter margins requires
tooling that isn't justifiable to the local machine shop.

But over half a million miles is something to brag about, good job.
Chuck Saunders
KCMO

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 12:01 PM, STEVE ALLEN <steveallen855 at centurytel.net>
wrote:

> This was written with tongue-in-cheek, right?
>
> Neither I nor anyone in my family has ever had a Chevy Small Block fail,
> and the first one came into the family in the '50s.  But just in the last
> couple years I've lost two '99 Ford V-8s.  Complete failures, not even
> rebuildable.  And, of the folks I know who have bought "remanufactured"
> engines, it's about a 50-50 crap-shoot on their quality.  So, "assuming
> decent maintenance," give me my '69 327.  Sure, it's been massaged a little
> bit, but it has never failed (other than a bad valve, which was an easy
> fix) and has well over half a million miles on it.
>
> No intent to cause a hassle, but I am no fan of the "new and Improved"
> (translation:  more expensive and unfixable).
>
> The "original" Steve Allen
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> Actually, there's a real answer to your question.  We got here with modern
> engines made from much better materials, with much better manufacturing
> processes, and much better lubrication.  There was a time, now decades in
> the past, when engines would wear out and the corner garage could rebuild
> for you.  They last FAR longer now, assuming decent maintenance, and engine
> rebuilding at the corner garage is long gone.  These days, engines are
> "remanufactured" in a factory setting, and either a short block or long
> block is dropped in rather than rebuilding what's there.  So the demand for
> Plastigage has dropped dramatically, to the point where people who you'd
> think should know better have never even heard of it.
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