On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:51:34 -0500, wrote:

On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 13:00:42 -0600, dpb wrote:

On 2/18/2013 11:03 AM, wrote:
On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 09:02:20 -0600, wrote:
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What I didn't realize until just now is that the 3800 has been
discontinued from production since '08 ...

No, they finally put the old horse out to pasture. Not sure any of
the current engines will survive the market as long - the 3.4 sure
didn't. For good reason.

Hard to imagine w/ the ever-increasing mandates that there's much
possibility regardless of whether it's solid design or not--but surely
the 3800 was a reliable workhorse much like the old 283 was in its day...
The 3.4 was a "time bomb"

I'm curious about what you're referring to here. Are you talking about
the old Fireball V6 (90 deg. V6 that started out as 3.2 l, was punched
out to 3.4 l, and then sold to Jeep)?

What made it a time bomb?

--
Ed Huntress