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Mine came out of WI/NG's PMCS. It has a vise on the bumper, and seemed to be well taken care of.... But! I don't believe the NG units ever got their trucks new. Mine had a machine gun mount at one point that had been removed. So obviously, she had a few other roles. -Chuck

That is what I figured. I can hear some whistle in every turbo, but the C sure seems to stand at the head of its class (in whistling). -Chuck

Ok, I see the direction you are going. I hope we can get some more anecdotal evidence on blow ups. It would be nice to see if there is a pattern. The sad part is someone out at Continental/Hercules/White already has done this work, and knows the answer... It is a shame we can't find him. -Chuck

My only problem with that hypothesis is the rod journals I have seen pictures of have universally been clean and shiny. That is atypical of bearing failure. I am more of the belief, at this time, that the failure is due to the rod bolts being over tightened, or perhaps being reused in the...

Why does a whistler (C turbo) whistle, and a D turbo not? Is just the speed it happens to turn, or is there some other mechanism? -Chuck

By "modified" do you mean rebuilt? I was curious to see whether the factory built engines fared better than the Toole rebuilds. -Chuck

Did yours throw #6 too? A few more #6's, and we might be justified in declaring a trend. Perhaps this is why they upped the flow on the oil pump in the LDS engines? -Chuck

I'm way to conservative to ever be a racer, but I have a number of friends that get their kicks pushing the iron past its safe limits. It works for a while, but in the end it results in a 2 or 300 hour engine life... sometimes much less. I have never seen anything detailing the design...

The only similarity it requires, I believe, is long periods of high RPM operation of the engine. A deuce with standard tires, tooling down the road at 55MPH, is rather a kin to running a passenger car at the redline continuously. It works for a while, but in the end it will shorten the engine...

That helps prevent dry bearing wear on start up, but I don't think it has anything to do with the rod failures that are vexing us. None of them look like seized bearings; all that I have seen (so far) look like over speed failures. -Chuck

A couple of additional questions I would like answered: 1) Was the engine remanufactured? If so, who did it? 2) Which cylinder threw the rod? (#1 front, #6 against firewall) 3) Was the crankshaft journal burned and scored, or still shiny? 4) Was the rod cap still attached, or were the bolts...

Yes, but much of the surprising information had to do with the military users of the engine. We, presumably, are more gentle on our engines, and don't do things like stuff gasoline soaked rags into the air bell, and then run at full throttle. -Chuck