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I think I have mentioned this in another thread about doing wheel seals and torquing axle nuts but Harbor Freight makes this device. Turns any breaker bar into a torque wrench up to 750 ft*lb. Works very well. It is made in Taiwan not China so the quality is good an its only $65 3/4 in. Drive, 150 to 750 ft-lb Digital Torque Adapter

My first job out of college was working at the Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory. We were testing the newly developed reactor coolant water pumps for the then under development Columbia class submarines. Not sure if they have been debuted yet or not but it was like a 15-20 year project. The Columbia class is slated to replace the Ohio class ballistic missile sub....the ones that stay submerged for months on end and carry the doomsday nukes. The amount of engineering and painstaking effort that is poured into every component of those submarines is incredible.

I was considering purchasing a 40-60hp Ford farm tractor of mid 1980s to mid 1990s vintage. They all had the same 3 or 4 cylinder wet sleeved engines. And from my research there was was repeated mention of cavitation and/or "porous blocks" in those series/vintage of Ford tractor engines. I don't know if those two terms are synonymous or different issues that are conflated by people that don't actually know. Anyway I decided I didn't want to take a chance on something that was coming up on 40 years old that had known issues when they were brand new.

So based on this analysis what is the conclusion as to why some engines suffer more so than others due to cavitation issues? Is it the specific harmonic that a particular engine creates inside of itself as well as the engine's specific liner design / material? Also does cavitation affect parent bore engines? Or does it but there is so much material between the wall of the water jacket and the wall of the cylinder that it never becomes a problem?

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Communism. The only viable excuse to keep the military industrial complex ever expanding after the real conflict was settled. Both sides knew it. Stalin was dead by 1953. Nikita Khrushchev was much more relaxed and open to diplomacy. IMO it shouldn’t have been United States’ say in what government a country should have. The terrible aftermath of that decision has been on display for the last 45 years in Iran and other places. Vietnam. lol. What a joke. Communist. Now the US’s 7th largest trading partner. US is joined at the hip with China in every way conceivable. Communist.

Why does US/Iranian history start in 1979? As if nothing happened before that, and the hostage crisis was something that seemingly happened out of thin air? Hmmm. Why doesn't anyone ever acknowledge the United States CIA overthrew Iran's democratically elected government in 1953, manipulated the 1954 general election, and subsequently installed the Shah. Then the Shah gave half of Iran's oilfields away to Western interests and reformed the country through his White Revolution containing tremendous US influence. Culminating in the Iranian Revolution where the party currently in power took over. The hostage crisis was a small side quest of the overarching Iranian Revolution. All Carter had to do was turn over the Shah who had fled to the US in exile in exchange for the hostages. But no he drug it out for over a year and the Shah ended up dying of cancer in Egypt. That is just a tip of the iceberg summary and there is obviously much more to it than that but essentially the US created the problem in 1953. Now it wants everyone to forget history and bomb a sovereign nation and topple it's government. Shameful. I highly doubt the "death to America" mantra is totally unfounded. If the US CIA had not been playing around in Iran back in the 50s 60s and 70s, and If the only interaction the US ever had with Iran was buying its oil on the open markets we wouldn't even be here. At this point dropping bombs on them and killing their citizens is treating the symptom not the problem. Moreover, I think the US meddling in Israel's matters is not in the US citizen's best interest. How come you never hear "death to Spain" or "death to Chile" or "death to (any country that mind's its own effing business)"? You don't hear it because those countries don't operate outside their borders and mind their own business. Period. I don't think US foreign policy is righteous. In fact on the contrary, probably for about the last 80 years US foreign policy has been overall terrible, and has not been in the best interest of the American citizen. The USA is a highly corrupt, morally bankrupt debtor nation that thinks its omnipotent. I think there is ample evidence to support this. Any American killed by Iran up to last Friday can posthumously thank the US CIA, British MI6, and BP Oil for their untimely deaths. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the logic behind Operation Epic Fury. I am being told Iran can't have a nuclear weapon by the same person who unilaterally bombed Iran without provocations less than a year ago and said Iran's nuclear program was totally obliterated and set back decades, possibly forever. Interestingly that same guy unilaterally shredded a functioning Iran nuclear weapons deal in 2018 that had been put into place in 2015. Now the US taxpayer is using its trillion dollar military to kill Iranians, topple a foreign government (again), and probably enter and occupy a sovereign nation. Its like the last 30 years taught us nothing. RA, RA, RA. USA, USA, USA! This county's time is coming and everyone will stand around and wonder how they were manipulated into believing such utter nonsense. "Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He’s weak and he’s ineffective." -Donald J. Trump (citizen), 2011. To be clear I'm not supporting or defending any president, politician, or political party. I have zero allegiance to any nor believe any are somehow better than others. I am just observing blatant hypocrisy and corruption. And continuously watching 495 totally corrupted individuals impose their evil on 350,000,000 people and systematically destroy a once respectable country.

Yea I never drove one or really been around an L10 but I routinely heard they were small workhorses with above average to excellent reliability.

I've seen plenty of stationary equipment with John Deere diesels as stock power. As for Mack ever being asked about selling bare engines for equipment use kskarbel would probably know the answer.

Wawa brand 10w-30 probably has better performance characteristics than the best oil available when that truck was new. I wouldn’t worry about putting any available modern day diesel oil in it.

I assume you mean the front drive axle and not the actual front axle. Is the suspension camelback?

Probably so but the reasons for those terrible economic years were not his doing. The GFC & Great Recession had its seed sown from Clinton era legislation and came to a head in 2007/08. The bad economic years of Obama's first term was the result of a decade or more of disastrous banking practices. That's certainly a possibility. I think there are other more significant contributing factors that compound on one another.

100% delusion. Is It?

Just 14 short years ago. This is not an endorsement of this President or his policies. But rather a look back at the behavior and decorum of the entirety of the Congress. The USA is ripping itself apart from within.

"Countries that were ripping us off for decades are now paying us hundreds of billions of dollars." "And as time goes by I believe the tariffs paid by for by foreign countries will, like in the past, replace the modern day system of income tax...." State of the Union Delusion. Every American schoolchild knows the Constitution gives Congress the authority to levy tariffs and taxes. And The President carries out the execution of the law. Trump is the first President who believes the Constitution gives the President the power to levy taxes while simultaneously thinking other countries are paying said taxes. Also, Can someone explain how a country, specifically the USA, which has 4.25% of the world's population, consumes 28-30% of the world's natural resources annually, produces nothing meaningful other than tech and weapons, is usually ranked in the top 15 out of 193 for highest standard of living, and just about every one of its citizens are in the top 10% of the wealthiest people on the planet is getting ripped off by other countries?

Not a single democrat voted yes to and it passed.

He didn’t need them too. Thats the point.

I assume you mean January 6, 2021? Those folks breached and entered the US Capitol Building not the whitehouse. If so where were you living during the first half of 2021? lol. It was nonstop coverage, conspiracy theories, trials, hearings, witnesses. The works. A little something for everyone.

Yea I get it but I guess I was meaning more along the lines of reciprocity. Basically saying “the USA will not impose tariffs on any country unless other countries impose them first at which point the USA will impose the exact same tariff on them. As a baseline, starting now, all tariffs will be adjusted up or down to match what any other nation has imposed on USA”. Something like that to start. Then with some type of language to quickly bring to the floor and vote on a long term deal with another nation should such a deal be negotiated. What we got on “liberation day” (😂) was preposterous to say the least.

I don’t get why the President didn't codify the tariffs into the “One Big Beautiful Bill” but instead chose a haphazard path that was doomed from the start. He had the political system by the balls a year ago and squandered it IMO. Supreme Court got it right. I’m not a constitutional scholar but from the looks of it it’s pretty straight forward. The Constitution is quite clear on which entity can impose tariffs. now the big India trade deal is in limbo and probably dead at this point…..

yea that is a whole different can of worms. I’ve ready through the files quite a bit. Very problematic. That’s all I’ll say.

I agree. I personally wouldn't have said anything and not given the reporter any satisfaction. But based on the one sentence he did say I find it problematic he was publicly called a real looser by the POTUS in front of the entire world. Not a good look at all. The man is his own worst enemy.

I’m not defending the guy in any way. He made a statement after being asked a question that was loaded. He answered it in a very much sidestepping manner while probably still being honest. If you want to criticize him I understand the reasons given.

Two things can be true at the same time. Also your conflating people and the MSM. I don’t know a single person who isn’t appalled at the blatant fraud that takes place at every level of government. Tariffs are a mixed bag. Some people like em some people hate em. Some people haven’t got a clue.

Maybe. maybe not. Not for us to say. The man has free will and the United States and Italy have free speech laws. The reporter asked him a question that was political. The answer given was very vague and accused nobody of anything. He never mentioned Trumps name or anything specific. I wouldn’t consider his one or two sentence answer a rant at all. Not even close. Nothing he said was offensive. He didn’t volunteer anything unprompted. He was asked the exact same question every other athlete on the team was and provided a one sentence response. I don’t know Hunter Hess so I can’t say if he is out of touch or not. I doubt it though. He’s probably just a normal guy from Oregon that spent his last 20 years trying to become the best skier on earth. Probably makes no real money and has no real influence over anybody. My guess is nobody even knew who he was prior to the Olympics. He could have lied. He could have declined to answer the question. But he didn’t. He gave the answer he did. Heck he could have praised the admirations policies and we wouldn’t even be having this conversation. Either way I wouldn’t fault him. Sorry but there is nothing patriotic about not standing up for what you believe. But all of this is beside the point. The point of my original post was how unbecoming Trump’s truth social post is. If anything here can be considered unpatriotic it’s probably that. The world watched a guy answer a question that was asked of him then saw his president publicly call him a loser. I guess that’s on me though. I keep forgetting that’s normal behavior now.