If your car is having 'crank' problems, then you can assume that the transmission input shaft could very possibly be seriously damaged as well and at the very least needs inspection. Since removing the engine means removing the trans, its cooling lines, etc its possible they didn't reconnect everything properly.

I suspect its not a pursuit car, or in fact a transport. Its probably used for writing traffic citations, neighborhood patrols, alarm calls (which are something like, 95% false), administrative functions, etc.

At takeoff you can push the engines to 54"hg for less than 5 min. At cruise you need to keep her under 45.5". I've setup detents and setscrews to give a firm reminder where takeoff power is now.

I typo'd and ninja edited you ;) Its around 91-95/hr for both engines combined at cruise, the variation is caused by the constant speed props and their wonky governor. Our particular example is home based out of Tennessee, and is slightly modified with some strange wing work done by the company that previously owned…

Shes not to bad, at cruise, lightly loaded its around 91-95 gal/hr if you dont mind running pretty lean. And 2 gal/hr of oil. 100LL is 5.30 at the local field. I'm in the US.

The airspeed thing is supposed to be a design artifact caused by how air flows over the wing root and the engine nacelles. She was designed in a time when sliderules were king, and aerodynamics was tested at 1/16th scale in a wind tunnel and called good.

Shes a strange bird. I particularly love how you have to descend to gain speed at cruise, but once you level out you don't lose the gained speed. Unique behaviors, which is why you have to be type certified to fly her. Shes also amphibious, so you can land on runways as well. You can also land on water, sail up to…

I thinks its more to do with people not understanding how large aircraft are flown.

I cut up and modified the old boxes, so I could fit deep cycles. I have 4 8D deep cycles under there now, along with an AGM group 65 for starting the engine. Since my van has been engine swapped the single 800CCA battery is more than enough to crank it. The batteries are wired to be flexible, and under the hood are…

The second battery was attached to the frame rail under the passenger seat, in a box that drops down. Both were group 65. On my van, I abuse this. There is room for four of these boxes, 2 on the passenger and 2 on the drivers side. My van runs 5 batteries. drivers side requires some fabrication to make spacers to…

Gassers are not so bad. They are cheap vehicles (you can get an 09 for under 10,000) and will work very hard. Once they fail, it tends to cost more to repair than replace. The labor to remove and reinstall the engine from the van is booked at 40 hours. That's around 4 grand at most shops equipped to actually do…

Fords pretty good at packaging engines via VooDoo.

As a white person who is so white I can hide nekkid in a freshly painted empty room, I can assure you this has nothing to do with whiteness.

Lots of people have said it, but here is the simple truth about 4WD/AWD.

Probably more in the 3-7mil range. Big cuts of land farmland are generally 5-10k/acre if they are usable for crops. Less if they are not arable. Only 18% of the US is actually arable/farmable land.

When you look at how high the engine/trans sits, you'll see the center of gravity is actually below the top of the tires. Plus its pretty wide.

Yeah, you get it wrong once it might affect you confidence to attempt soft field landings in the future.

Possibly a wet field landing. You have to come in low and slow. Friction is limited, you may have to reverse your pitch if you are so capable.

Those offroad LED lights are okay, and can be quite bright, however, HID assemblies put them to shame. They also cost less (a full proper 30 inch LED bar made with Cree or similar units will run about 1000, and make 14000 lumens. 4x blitz 240 HIDS with 100w upgrade will pump out around 28,000 lumens and cost half…

We run one Deere. The gin loves the hell out of those modules, and will pay for half the cost of the tarp/wrap. They have a machine that will unwrap them quickly, but they also want is to deliver them arranged how the video shows them after being dropped the first time. Its easier for their onsite equipment to…