"Guy,
My most sincere apolo
"Guy,
My most sincere apologies to you given your explanation of your statement "enough said". I took what you said the wrong way.
I openly admit that my posts were long winded. I`ve been involved in internet forums for pushing 15 years and I`ve seen far too many posts which don`t provide enough information to work with, where you then end up with 10 pages of back and forth between the guy asking the questions and the guys trying to help him out before they know what the actual question was and the pertinent details, I wanted to avoid that unnecessary back and forth and to a certain extent have done so.
This is also why I read through the archives prior to posting my question, how many times have you wished that a new poster would do that?
Unfortunately, I also saw a distinct trend as I read through the archives on this topic, generally the respondents would answer questions about using auto engines in boats in somewhat vague terms, often alluding to but never completely fleshing out all of the differences. Some people, I put myself in this group, both need to know what the differences are and feel confident to determine how important those differences are to us.
For example, I`m not the least bit concerned about using non-stainless head gaskets in my fresh water only boat. The stainless head gaskets are a primary difference between marine and auto engines but it`s a difference that just isn`t important to me, probably just like the spring rates aren`t going to be important to me and the combustion chamber volume, unless vastly different is not important to me. I am not building a race boat, I just want something that first of all is going to work to propel the boat to and from the fishing, and second, will run well at low rpms as we troll with the downriggers. It`s a fishing boat plain and simple however I am confident that if the auto 4.3 will work for me, it will work for a person pleasure cruising or pulling a tuber.
I was not however, educated on this topic before coming here, I now have a much better understanding of what I`m up against thanks to several posters, including you, Guy. This isn`t rocket science so the uptake isn`t that difficult, a few well placed leads by guys such as yourself, Scott, "ME" et al gave me the threads that I needed to pull to conquer my lack of knowledge on this subject, the final test will come when I do the actual teardown and installation.
Now I do have to disagree with your assertion that I slapped everyone around. Was I brusque? More than likely, after seeing the quality of the initial replies which suggested I was a fool and inconsiderate of my son`s safety.
Did I openly and clearly state in the beginning of thread that I didn`t want opinions, just the factual differences? I think I did. Through my vocation I have been on both ends of Incident Command communications for 23 years and have thus learned to focus what I`m saying and to focus the instructions or reports back to me which are meant to be primarily devoid of opinion. Certainly not the most personable way of communicating but very effective. At least I didn`t try to get repeat backs out of you guys!
So in summary, I don`t consider myself anyone`s savior, but once and for all it seems that the topic of can an auto 4.3 be used in place of a marine 4.3 has been fleshed out enough to be clear to anyone with at least a modicum of mechanical understanding. If all new posters would read the archives you will never have to answer this question again, and frankly I think that some of you have also learned a thing or two in this thread about the 4.3s.
In regard to other posters who needed your help while you were here posting a reply to me, well c`mon guys, you choose where to post, I can`t make anyone reply to my thread and in fact it seems like everyone avoided it for about a day initially, and second, how long did it take any of you guys whose knowledge base resources were being wasted on me to make the couple of very brief posts that you made?
It will probably take me a couple of weeks to get the swap done in my spare time, I`ll post the results here and then this thread can become even more of a resource for those with the same questions. I`m sure that I`ll find a trap or two and maybe my mistake will save someone else from the same aggravation.
<font size=""+2"">A HEARTY THANKS TO ALL WHO POSTED HELPFUL INFO!</font>
And a special thanks to Troy for another useful post on 7/1/08 @0627!"
