Coolant in the oil

Nomen Nescio wrote:

>>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.
>

So you're saying people intelligent enough to work their way into a
position of designing machinery should be held to a standard of
perfection, but its OK for everyone else to be stupid blithering idiots.

Figures.

Personally, I'd rather eliminate idiots than demand perfection from anyone.

Nomen Nescio wrote:


> 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.
>
<snippage of overly technical unfeasible resolution>
The answer comes in 5 words; Copper O-Ringed Block and Heads
Gaskets could be made this way...
--
Paul
'91 XL1200
'77 GL1000 (W.I.P.)
"I feel more like I do now than when I got here"