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  1. 09-02-2014, 06:44 PM #16
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    I always find it funny that people love the sound of a lopey idle yet a lopey idle does not necessarily mean it makes more power.
    Many times the even sounding engine will make more peak HP.

    Also, I work on fleet vehicles and see some of the "35 years of experience" stuff myself, left over from the old mechanics that used to work there.
    For some reason silicone must have been like magic or something because they seem to like to put it on everything LMAO.
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  2. 09-02-2014, 06:57 PM #17
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    If it didn't leak then the mechanic thought his 35 years of experience told him it would hold long enough to get it out of warranty. Same reason I find cars the dealerships worked on where they just leave out the hard to re-install bolts. Helps you beat the flat rate book every time.
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    Quote Originally Posted by vegasmarauder View Post
    If it didn't leak then the mechanic thought his 35 years of experience told him it would hold long enough to get it out of warranty. Same reason I find cars the dealerships worked on where they just leave out the hard to re-install bolts. Helps you beat the flat rate book every time.
    I have seen this several times myself, I really wish the Ford dealerships still had SVT specific dealers and mechanics. I never had an issue back then.


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    Quote Originally Posted by vegasmarauder View Post
    leave out the hard to re-install bolts
    Like the one damn PS pump bolt I can never get on ANY Panther I've worked on?

    Feckit, 3 is good enough!
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    You just never know what you'll find....

    Coarse threads make more power. True story. It's like 1HP per bolt. The silicone is there to keep all the power manageable.
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    I don't get it. So why did he have the water pump bolted to a block of wood? If this is a horse power gain I'll bolt mine to a block of wood this afternoon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Granddaddy Marq View Post
    I don't get it. So why did he have the water pump bolted to a block of wood? If this is a horse power gain I'll bolt mine to a block of wood this afternoon.
    You want me to mail you the lag screw?
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    Quote Originally Posted by martyo View Post
    You want me to mail you the lag screw?
    No thank you Marty, I have a lot of them. I just didn't know you could use them to bolt on a water pump........LMAO

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    Finding the use of this screw as wrong only shows your lack of experience. When you have 35 years professional experience, you'll understand it completely.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Granddaddy Marq View Post
    No thank you Marty, I have a lot of them. I just didn't know you could use them to bolt on a water pump........LMAO
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    Finding the use of this screw as wrong only shows your lack of experience. When you have 35 years professional experience, you'll understand it completely.
    There ya go!
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    Quote Originally Posted by martyo View Post
    Somewhere there is a carpenter looking for his lag screw!

    Maybe he was multi tasking with projects and just got mixed up a bit...
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    you just never know what you'l find

    35 years professional experience??? I submit more like 6 months experience70 times!!!
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