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Replies to Reader Comments: Why and where I went wrong (diesel slant six, driving a Valiant videos)
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Feb 4, 2025
Mistakes I made, mistakes I didn’t make, and a vague note of what’s coming up. Watch me start a 1974 Valiant in one try if you want ;)
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hi this is Dave and I've been doing
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these videos uh I also run mot tales.com
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which has text and pictures and I just
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wanted answer a couple of questions and
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concerns about articles that have been
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up here I'm sorry videos that have been
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up here new thing for me so uh first of
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all on the diesel slant 6 yes I got a
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lot of criticism for making two big
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mistakes uh one of them is that yes
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indeed there is more energy in diesel
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fuel than in gasoline
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I was trying to say that diesel engines
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normally have a lower horsepower output
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than equivalently sized gasoline engines
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isn't what I said so I apologize but I
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can't go back and change it because of
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the way YouTube works and I can't even
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go back in and put in a disclaimer much
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as I would like to so it's in the
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description of the video now but I can't
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change the actual video and the other
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statement was that I accidentally read
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uh newton meters as nanometers uh but
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obviously I did mean newton meters since
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nanometers are a unit of length that are
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very small so I apologize for that screw
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up I do know what a Newton meter is I
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also know what a nanometer is I just
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can't go back and fix it which would
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have been nice on the Valiant uh most of
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the criticism that I got on that one was
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for the initial video where I'm starting
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up the car and two things happen one of
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them is I realize that my phone is more
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sensitive than my ears and yes I am
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re-engaging the starter before it
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finishes
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going and so I no longer do that I now
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put in a couple of seconds after the
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noise has completely dropped off as far
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as I can tell the second thing is that
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the reason why it is so hard starting at
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first is because the fuel in the
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carburetor evaporates and it's got to
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get that fuel up via the mechanical fuel
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pump I do know how to start up the car
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and if it's been running the last couple
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of days and there's some fuel avail in
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the fuel lines and the carburetor it
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will start up pretty quickly with a
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couple of quick cranks and I don't have
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to go w w w w all day here I am again
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I'm back in the car this time I'm on the
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correct side of the car which is always
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nice and I'm going to start the engine
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Place obviously that includes all of the
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county and there we
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go and there we go starts right up
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although the radio was on too
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let's see now just to uh prove a
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point let's try it again with the radio
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off Tada beautiful quick start I've done
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a bunch of videos so it's not that bad a
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record and I'd like to thank you all for
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being understanding and going on with me
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in the future I'm going to be working on
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improving the audio and getting new
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topics and new people in involved Pete
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Do's demonstration on axles is just the
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start we're going to do more interviews
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and those should be coming in the next
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week so please stay tuned
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