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"Nomen Nescio" > wrote in message
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> >You drove it like that for *months* before you got it fixed. Coolant is a
> >rotten engine lubricant when cold, even worse when baked and whipped with
> >hot oil. Your main bearings, cam bearings, big and small end rod bearings
> >will have suffered.
> >
> >But that's OK, 'cause you obviously don't care.
> >
> ..blah, blah per Daniel J. Stern
>
> You miss the entire point of this failure mode, Dan. The objective should
> be design and fabrication perfection; ie, prevention of such failure
modes,
> so detection of these malfunctions need not be made by owners or users.
>
> Certain advances in design and construction were made in tires, for
> example. Have you noticed how rare it is to have a flat these days with
> tubeless tires? With tubes, flats were commonplace. No car company would
> think of using tubes, even if tubes cost half as much as tubeless, which
> they don't.
>
> But since I have identified the problem of head gasket failure and given
> the world the solution to same, have you seen progress in that direction?
> Even by supposedly world reknown German "craftsmen" and "engineers" there
> has not been one iota of progress towards a failsafe head design.
>
> To reinterate: No water or oil should go through any openings in the head
> gasket. The only holes in the head gasket should be cylinder bore holes
> and cylinder bolt holes. Instead, the block and head should be two
> separate, closed systems for coolant. The radiator, pump and thermostat
> all stay the same as it is now. But, water does not flow vertically from
> block to head. Instead, the coolant flows from the front to the rear of
> the block, exits the block and enters an external manifold. Therein, it
> traverses vertically to the rear of the head whereby it begins its
> horizontal flow forward and exits to continue its cycle round and round.
> To facilitate even cooling and distribution, so-called "water
distribution"
> tubes can be used. Oil is likewise transferred via an external manifold.
> The manifold would be a dual, cooland/oil manifold of cast aluminum.
There
> are no flexible lines to leak or go bad. This arrangement may require a
> certain amount of h.p. derating, but it is well worth it in terms of
> reliability.
>
> Using the above design specification, head gaskets would still "fail"
> occasionally, but the consequences would be trivial. As you observe, head
> gasket failure today in 99.99% of the cases is a slow leak of gas
pressure.
> Such a slow leak of gas would in no way be noticed in the above design as
> such gas would merely pass harmlessly to another cylinder or to the
> atmosphere. It is the small gas leak into the water jacket (or oil
> gallery) that causes the damage to today's cars.
>
> As for me, I will not buy any new car which has a tell tale chip in it
> design to reveal to the police all the information needed to put you in
> prison. This concludes my eludicating presentation for today, Daniel.
>