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A whatziss for Og...

By The Armorer on May 31, 2009 | | Comments (26)
Here's a Whatziss of the Oggian School:
An Og-style Whatziss
 
In all honesty - we've had those before.  Anyone remember this one?
 
Remember this one?

 

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By og on May 31, 2009 12:23 PM
HAHAHA!!

Nice.

I'm gonna recuse myself, of course, but you are a sick, sick man.

And I hope, someday soon, to be able to come live in your basement, spending my final days on earth oiling bores and waxing stocks.

Nice.
 
By La Migra on May 31, 2009 3:49 PM
Internal combustion engine, for sure, maybe a jeep?
 
By La Migra on May 31, 2009 3:57 PM
Internal combustion engine, possibly out of a jeep.
 
By La Migra on May 31, 2009 4:02 PM
Jeep engine.
 
By John of Argghhh! on May 31, 2009 4:58 PM
Lemme make sure I understand you - you think the second thing is a jeep engine?
 
By Jon The Mechanic on May 31, 2009 5:32 PM
That is too big for a jeep engine, I am thinking that we are looking at a power plant for the M-113, and the second item is related to that same power plant.
 
By SezaGeoff on May 31, 2009 6:03 PM
M113's use Detroit Diesel V6's, Jon.  That engine looks very similar to a Chevrolet 4 from the early '40s.  It also looks like it is adapted to a boat.  That would make the second item some kind of heat exchanger.
 
By SezaGeoff on May 31, 2009 6:08 PM
If Og comes to live in your basement to live out the rest of his life, that would mean he is retired. Therefore you would have an Og(re) living downstairs!  Beats a troll, I suppose.
 
By John of Argghhh! on May 31, 2009 6:11 PM
I think Jon is reacting to the paint color as much as anything else, Geoff.

That said - two pictures, two different items, both unrelated to each other except as an example of a Whatziss of the Oggian school - which is discussed in a different post downstream there... (hint, hint)
 
By Rivrdog on May 31, 2009 6:34 PM
Count the sparking plugs: 3. Not a Jeep engine. Also has a serious tranny on the output end. Jeep trannys were not that shape and breadth. Probly some sort of small equipment engine, or from a two-bottom tractor of the 40's or so.

The other whatziss is NOT a marine heat exchanger: not enough water inlets/outlets. Maybe some sort of water-pressure regulating device, though.
 
By Eric Wilner on May 31, 2009 8:24 PM
And, if you look at Og's comment that led to this, and then rummage around at www.[vehiclename].de, there's a photo of the very same engine!
Man, that's a weird vehicle....

 
By og on May 31, 2009 8:54 PM
Rivrdog, I'm fairly certain that's a four, and the last plug is hidden behind that rectangular thingy.

But that's all I'm gonna say.
 
By Argent on May 31, 2009 9:21 PM
I suspect the first item is not a primary engine.  It also seems to have a rather squashed in space

The second item looks a lot like a pressure relief maybe for steam but I'm not sure why there are three.
 
By Cannonshop on May 31, 2009 10:27 PM
I'm gonna take a blind guess here,but it looks like maybe a pressure-washer.
 
By MCart on June 1, 2009 2:37 AM
I can't get to it right now, but in my garage I've got a 10kw Hercules generator, with a broken crank. The navy apparently used them for backup power for AA guns, in case shipwide power failed. The original engine doesn't look like that, but the 'spare' I have over behind the shelving has a very similar head and valve cover arrangement, plus placement of the dipstick and oil filter. It's a funny manufacturer too, like 'Universal Engines' or something like that. But this one looks like it's got a different purpose, like a marine application.
 
By Old Fat Sailor on June 1, 2009 6:10 AM
LL injector lines rather than plug wires, doesn't ll a marine engine, minimog or early unimog engine?
 
By Old Fat Sailor on June 1, 2009 6:26 AM
Nope, I was wrong-now as to the second whazzit
 
By John of Argghhh! on June 1, 2009 6:46 AM

Wheee!  This was mostly a joke, but you guys have fun with it!  Way to follow instructions, Eric!

 
By Blake Kirk on June 1, 2009 9:53 AM
Looks an awful lot like that horribly noisy 3-cyl Detroit Diesel-Allison diesel that used to power the old M561 GamaGoat..  The only reason I would know that is that thirty-odd years ago I was the primary driver on one of the damned things, and spent an inordinate amount of time head-down in the engine-compartment of CSC-3. 
 
By Fishmugger on June 1, 2009 12:12 PM
Since I don't know the difference between a motor and an engine, I'll leave the first pic alone but I think the Maytag Repairman knows what it is.

The second item looks like a piece off a grape canister with the protrusions part of the locking device.
 
By LaMigra on June 1, 2009 2:17 PM
"Also has a serious tranny on the output end. Jeep trannys were not that shape and breadth."

That's a bellhousing, covers the clutch assembly and flywheel.
 
By LaMigra on June 1, 2009 2:23 PM
"Lemme make sure I understand you - you think the second thing is a jeep engine? "

No.  I thought you were asking if we remembered the second pic.
 
By Grimmy on June 1, 2009 11:40 PM
The second thing looks like something I saw a 'lady' playing with as part of the entertainment at a certain bar in Subic City once upon a time.
 
By MCart on June 2, 2009 12:40 AM
Pics or it didn't happen.
 
By Old Fat Sailor on June 2, 2009 4:24 AM
Jolo's Bar?
 
By John of Argghhh! on June 2, 2009 6:20 AM
Heh.  I better put an answer up quick.