IAC visits Gypsie

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Re: IAC visits Gypsie

Post by ruckman101 » Sun Jul 17, 2011 5:21 pm

chachi wrote:whatever happened, happened at speed and from my limited research, if it was hydrostatic lock, that's not good either.

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Re: IAC visits Gypsie

Post by Xelmon » Sun Jul 17, 2011 10:47 pm

... Wow, that takes a lot of force.

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Post by chachi » Mon Jul 18, 2011 7:24 am

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Post by Sluggo » Sun Apr 29, 2012 5:22 pm

Wow! I didn't even know it could bend.
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Re: IAC visits Gypsie

Post by Amskeptic » Tue May 01, 2012 8:04 pm

Sluggo wrote:Wow! I didn't even know it could bend.
Little slow on the uptake there, Sluggo. Connecting rods bend.
We rarely see them "only bent" though, because usually any force that hits a rod enough to bend it while it is running, is usually also grenading the engine into pieces.
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Re: IAC visits Gypsie

Post by drober23 » Thu May 03, 2012 6:05 pm

I work for a company that sells dynamometers and engine testing equipment / software. You should see what happens when a cylinder gets a bunch of fuel in it (hydrostatic lock), and a motoring dyno tries to spin it with a several hundred foot-pounds of torque!
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