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Admiral Memo@TechConnectify I learned this the hard way! That wasn't fun!
Baloo Uriza@AdmiralMemo Only time I've ever had it come on was about 3 seconds after the timing chain in my EJ22 Subaru decided to fail catastrophically in the middle of US 169 in Tulsa. Damn near every valve got hammered shut and I had to import a junkyard engine from Japan, twice, to fix it.
Ari [APz] Sovijärvi@BalooUriza I had the sadly infamous VW 5 cylinder 2.5L TDI engine to lose oil pressure during the emission testing. It was effed up in a glorious way, the camshaft lobes ate their way into the valve tappets. RIP that engine.
@apzpins Wow, I can't even fathom how that would happen.
@BalooUriza Volkswagen finds the way!
It was an interesting engine. No belts, no chains. Everything, from auxliary systems to AC directly driven. Yet they found a way to make it suck.
Their old Diesel found in T4 Transporters was a tank, I've seen 600k - 1M driven ones with original engines and after a rebuild it reliable for another 30 years.
The T5 and beyond were just technical disasters, although very nice to drive for a van.