I’ve never before seen a truck that needed a stoker as well as a driver.
“Twastard Engineering?” ROFL!
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My SO thinks I look ‘cute’ in a beard. After >20 years, I’ll take cute, it’s the best I can hope for.
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Oh, I belong to several weird groups. But I’m not about to play No True Beardsman for everyone sporting anything more than stubble. As you note, it takes more than a beard to suss out exactly what kind of shithead (or not) you may be talking to.
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Should have told him, “why don’t you go tell that to Chuck Norris?”
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They are often not even just messing with the emissions systems, but injecting fuel into the exhaust manifold. Which is of course a pure waste of fuel, and destroys the catalytic converter, if they leave it installed. Actually, maybe that’s part of the “modifying emissions” that they are doing, removing the the catalytic converter so it doesn’t get clogged.
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it sort of has the sound of a horse clippety-clopping along.
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Apparently there was a period from the 1920s to the 1950s when a red necktie was sometimes used as a subtle underground code that the wearer was LGBT, kind of like wearing an earring on the right ear was supposed to mean in the 1980s and 1990s.
I don’t think either fashion was really the clear-cut signal some made it out to be, but of course that’s not necessarily a bad thing if you’re living in a society where you have to maintain a degree of deniability.
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See also: handkerchief code
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How long until Trump bails these dudes out ?
Those can be fined by the state for emissions problems.
reversing those mods can be $$$$$
There are performance gains like improving the fuel economy and power by bypassing the emissions equipment, but obviously the trucks are much less clean as a result.
The most common modification on older pickup diesel engines is an “EGR delete” … by removing the system that dumps exhaust back into the motor you minimize risk of engine failure from the badly engineered “oh shit we have to make the EPA happy real soon” thing. Later trucks have better EGR engineering and I doubt it’s much of a benefit. The old ones are a PITA to service and the cooling system was inherently weak.
I’m not sure about the “much less clean”, because you have to use custom tuning (altering the factory programming) to get those clouds of black smoke. A well-done EGR delete on a well-maintained clean engine is cleaner than a truck with a fouled EGR valve and dirty injectors.
You have to consider the carbon footprint of making a new motor to replace the one killed by an EGR failure: Typically getting coolant into your cylinders and the resulting vapor explosion blowing the head gasket out the side of the block. Is savng the motor and getting 15% more MPG better than the matginally higher emissions of a typical EGR Delete?
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my lungs should not be treated as an externality.
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Air pollution isn’t just about the visible particulate matter. Most of the toxins and greenhouse gases that come out of your car’s tailpipe are invisible to the naked eye.
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