Comments for A whatziss for Og...

A whatziss for Og...

Sun, 31 May 2009 11:49:41 -0600

Here's a Whatziss of the Oggian School: In all honesty - we've had those before. Anyone remember this one? ...

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2009-06-02

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:20:20 -0600

Heh. I better put an answer up quick.

Comment from Old Fat Sailor on 2009-06-02

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:24:09 -0600

Jolo's Bar?

Comment from MCart on 2009-06-02

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:40:25 -0600

Pics or it didn't happen.

Comment from Grimmy on 2009-06-01

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:40:54 -0600

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.

Comment from LaMigra on 2009-06-01

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:23:11 -0600

"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.

Comment from LaMigra on 2009-06-01

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:17:28 -0600

"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.

Comment from Fishmugger on 2009-06-01

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:12:15 -0600

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.

Comment from Blake Kirk on 2009-06-01

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:53:15 -0600

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.

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2009-06-01

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:46:07 -0600

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

Comment from Old Fat Sailor on 2009-06-01

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:26:04 -0600

Nope, I was wrong-now as to the second whazzit

Comment from Old Fat Sailor on 2009-06-01

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:10:26 -0600

LL injector lines rather than plug wires, doesn't ll a marine engine, minimog or early unimog engine?

Comment from MCart on 2009-06-01

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 02:37:58 -0600

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.

Comment from Cannonshop on 2009-05-31

Sun, 31 May 2009 22:27:22 -0600

I'm gonna take a blind guess here,but it looks like maybe a pressure-washer.

Comment from Argent on 2009-05-31

Sun, 31 May 2009 21:21:29 -0600

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.

Comment from og on 2009-05-31

Sun, 31 May 2009 20:54:05 -0600

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.

Comment from Eric Wilner on 2009-05-31

Sun, 31 May 2009 20:24:20 -0600

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....

Comment from Rivrdog on 2009-05-31

Sun, 31 May 2009 18:34:18 -0600

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.

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2009-05-31

Sun, 31 May 2009 18:11:47 -0600

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)

Comment from SezaGeoff on 2009-05-31

Sun, 31 May 2009 18:08:12 -0600

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.

Comment from SezaGeoff on 2009-05-31

Sun, 31 May 2009 18:03:13 -0600

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.

Comment from Jon The Mechanic on 2009-05-31

Sun, 31 May 2009 17:32:11 -0600

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.

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2009-05-31

Sun, 31 May 2009 16:58:22 -0600

Lemme make sure I understand you - you think the second thing is a jeep engine?

Comment from La Migra on 2009-05-31

Sun, 31 May 2009 16:02:09 -0600

Jeep engine.

Comment from La Migra on 2009-05-31

Sun, 31 May 2009 15:57:20 -0600

Internal combustion engine, possibly out of a jeep.

Comment from La Migra on 2009-05-31

Sun, 31 May 2009 15:49:28 -0600

Internal combustion engine, for sure, maybe a jeep?

Comment from og on 2009-05-31

Sun, 31 May 2009 12:23:46 -0600

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.