View Single Post
Old 05-08-2012, 12:24 PM   #52 (permalink)
tjts1
Banned
 
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: california
Posts: 1,329
Thanks: 24
Thanked 161 Times in 107 Posts
Quote:
Originally Posted by trooper Tdiesel View Post
ive found a inline 4 vibrates side to side.

where a inline 3 vibrates front to rear.
are little tractor eats up the splines on the clutch disc if you let it sit and idel a lot. using 1,000rpms as idle, makes the splines last a few hundred hours more.

are old 76 ford 300-6 is a engine that was originally thought up back in 1965 or so and its spooky smooth. for a old farm truck.
that is until the EGR fouls a plug or two.....

unlike a modern EGR its truly just a tube, no control at all on it.
An inline 6 is configured like a pair of 3 cyl engines. The crazy end to end vibrations of the 3 cyl cancel each other out on an inline 6 hence the smoothness.

4 cylinder is much smoother than a 3 cyl.
  Reply With Quote