close, I would like to build an engine form raw stock but I have no experience in anything of the sort.

well neither do

unfortunately

found some guy on youtube rebuilding a really old CAT engine and thought "that looks simple enough"

lol

the combustion process that engines use is simple in concept.

@-@

well, to be fair those old engines were very simple, i'm lucky enough to be driveing a truck older then me for work right now.

in practice, it takes some machining

ooh

as far as engines go I find myself wondering why we don't see the valve train being done by electronics rather then haveing a cam shaft.

I know the tech is out there and it seems like it would make the engine easy to tune, and it could be tuned on the fly.

hmm

interesting concept

I never really given any thought to engines except for maintaining cars.

that's fair, I kinda want to be able to do my own work on my own truck but the electronics are a bit overwhelming for me, mostly because the wireing is a rats nest in most everything.

oh yeah

especially when it comes to building a PC

the wiring gets everywhere

even though I would still take it to a shop most of the time, it's nice to know how it is built and wired so I can take a good guess at what is wrong.

at least in a PC everything is more or less standardized.

mmm

I guess so

When you're picking parts you have to make sure that the CPU and PSU and Motherboard

can handle it

but yah, take that and scale it up to about 10 or 20 feet, now make it so the case covers most of the wires and needs heavy equipment to move.

hell yeah

can i post youtube links here?

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that's what a truck is like.
what's worse is the one I have is a bit of a hodgepodge.

oof

You can post links in here, but they won't embed (precaution for new folks in case folks come in to spam unsavoury images to get the server taken down)

reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee SCP-81723897213721398 has escaped confinement!

from what i know, the brand of truck no longer services the brand of engine, then I know the fuse box got replaced at least once, and the gauge panel.
the good news is the brand of engine is one of the most common so most shops can service it just fine.

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as it naturally does

lots of fun! but at least the big trucks are not really proprietary for the most part.

yeah

All I know is how to work on a 2000 Chevy Malibu

I replaced nearly everything in her

Good evening folks