# Name some ways we have come full circle in our automobiles **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [August 26, 2026, 11:30am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/name-some-ways-we-have-come-full-circle-in-our-automobiles/206129 "2026-08-26T11:30:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2026, 10:21pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/name-some-ways-we-have-come-full-circle-in-our-automobiles/206129/22 "2026-08-26T22:21:05Z")
To paraphrase an old saying, you’re entitled to your own opinions, but you’re not entitled to your own facts. ---
**Author:** ![asemaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@asemaster](https://community.cartalk.com/u/asemaster)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2026, 11:26pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/name-some-ways-we-have-come-full-circle-in-our-automobiles/206129/23 "2026-08-26T23:26:25Z")
> [@Old-Days-Rick](#): > > have a mechanical high pressure fuel pump that is very similar to fuel pumps from 50 years ago? Not at all similar. Unless you consider 7psi similar to 3000psi. ---
**Author:** ![Mustangman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mustangman/32/44130_2.png) [@Mustangman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Mustangman)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2026, 2:01pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/name-some-ways-we-have-come-full-circle-in-our-automobiles/206129/24 "2026-08-27T14:01:15Z")
And that modern mechanical fuel pump is a piston pump, not a diaphragm design. ---
**Author:** ![texases](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/texases/32/862_2.png) [@texases](https://community.cartalk.com/u/texases)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2026, 2:26pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/name-some-ways-we-have-come-full-circle-in-our-automobiles/206129/25 "2026-08-27T14:26:58Z")
And all DI cars with the modern high pressure pump also have a low pressure electric pump. ---
**Author:** ![Nevada\_545](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/nevada_545/32/41232_2.png) [@Nevada\_545](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Nevada_545)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2026, 2:47pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/name-some-ways-we-have-come-full-circle-in-our-automobiles/206129/26 "2026-08-27T14:47:21Z")
The high-pressure fuel pump on a Chevrolet V-8 is located in the valley below the intake manifold, Rick can’t see it or how it differs from a diaphragm pump. ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/a/b/ab42701bc7823f534fa4e4956767eb202456ab53.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Rod-Knox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Rod-Knox](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Rod-Knox)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2026, 3:05pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/name-some-ways-we-have-come-full-circle-in-our-automobiles/206129/27 "2026-08-27T15:05:45Z")
I drove a 1981 E150 with the 4.9l engine 390k miles and neither the fuel pump or carburetor were ever replaced. ---
**Author:** ![Mustangman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mustangman/32/44130_2.png) [@Mustangman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Mustangman)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2026, 3:29pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/name-some-ways-we-have-come-full-circle-in-our-automobiles/206129/28 "2026-08-27T15:29:46Z")
Would it be correct to say it wasn’t the engine that caused you to stop driving this? Those 4.9s seem to run nearly forever! ---
**Author:** ![bcohen2010](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@bcohen2010](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bcohen2010)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2026, 3:31pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/name-some-ways-we-have-come-full-circle-in-our-automobiles/206129/29 "2026-08-27T15:31:28Z")
> [@texases](#): > > HAHAHAHAHAHA…oh, you’re serious? The carb was the single most _ **unreliable** _ part on any car, any year Can confirm. I had a 1988 Toyota Corolla base model, and we had constant problems with the carburetor. It required frequent adjustment by a professional mechanic to avoid difficulty starting, etc. ---
**Author:** ![FoDaddy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/fodaddy/32/717_2.png) [@FoDaddy](https://community.cartalk.com/u/FoDaddy)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2026, 6:11pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/name-some-ways-we-have-come-full-circle-in-our-automobiles/206129/30 "2026-08-27T18:11:51Z")
> [@Old-Days-Rick](#): > > A 80s chevy caprice has a 400k mile engine. Unlikely, early 80’s 305’s were known for poor metallurgy on the camshafts. The lobes would be smoothed out to the point the engine wouldn’t run well before 400k miles. ---
**Author:** ![asemaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@asemaster](https://community.cartalk.com/u/asemaster)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2026, 6:40pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/name-some-ways-we-have-come-full-circle-in-our-automobiles/206129/31 "2026-08-27T18:40:36Z")
> [@Rod-Knox](#): > > I drove a 1981 E150 with the 4.9l engine 390k miles and neither the fuel pump or carburetor were ever replaced. I’ll bet you never replaced a timing chain on that one either! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Cavell](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/cavell/32/43396_2.png) [@Cavell](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Cavell)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2026, 6:53pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/name-some-ways-we-have-come-full-circle-in-our-automobiles/206129/32 "2026-08-27T18:53:19Z")
Buy an Audi for TC fun. ---
**Author:** ![Rod-Knox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Rod-Knox](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Rod-Knox)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2026, 8:15pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/name-some-ways-we-have-come-full-circle-in-our-automobiles/206129/33 "2026-08-27T20:15:08Z")
I sold that truck and I was honest about everything then one day I stopped at a RR crossing and recognized it. The driver bought it from my customer who told him the mileage was 112k. My reason for selling it was I quit my contract driving job ---
**Author:** ![LoudThunder](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/loudthunder/32/27769_2.png) [@LoudThunder](https://community.cartalk.com/u/LoudThunder)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2026, 2:30am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/name-some-ways-we-have-come-full-circle-in-our-automobiles/206129/34 "2026-08-28T02:30:08Z")
> [@Cavell](#): > > Sometimes even safely. 18,000 personnel, military and civilian, work on Langley AFB; granted not all are day workers, but the vast majority of them do work days and they get off between 4:00 PM and 5:00PM… and this roundabout is the cause of many a nightmare… ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/8/1/817fbc627ce9c0ee92f40b9d383934ba868bb5a6.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/christhetirewhisperer/32/34798_2.png) [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ChrisTheTireWhisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2026, 7:13am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/name-some-ways-we-have-come-full-circle-in-our-automobiles/206129/35 "2026-08-28T07:13:04Z")
It’s actually simple, having driven in the Caymans myself: In North America, yield to occupants on your left before entering. In British subject countries: Yield to occupants on your right before entering. Leave “Me First” outside the roundabout. ---
**Author:** ![LoudThunder](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/loudthunder/32/27769_2.png) [@LoudThunder](https://community.cartalk.com/u/LoudThunder)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2026, 2:50pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/name-some-ways-we-have-come-full-circle-in-our-automobiles/206129/36 "2026-08-29T14:50:02Z")
> [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](#): > > It’s actually simple, having driven in the Caymans myself: Well, here in Virginia, we have created and even stranger “animal…” It is called the displaced left-turn intersection and it looks like this… ![vdot](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/8/e/8e9b9e6b889fb4b337d25c79c48cbd618f845c1d.jpeg) And it even comes with a YouTube video to explain it… In the beginning, businesses complained that it reduced their business as some people would shop elsewhere rather than risk the “maze of death”. [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/4/a/4a63c0678d6822c13a6660a47c2dd4b9e383e44c.jpeg "VDOT's Innovative Intersections: Displaced Left Turn") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1ZtO9cwmyY&list=PLiCpIfP-UWcAyWyzg75uZ0UI6m44evCeT) Some new reports likened it playing the computer car crash games like: “Wreck Fest” or “Burnout Paradise” ---
**Author:** ![davesmopar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/davesmopar/32/41750_2.png) [@davesmopar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/davesmopar)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2026, 4:06pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/name-some-ways-we-have-come-full-circle-in-our-automobiles/206129/37 "2026-08-29T16:06:21Z")
All I can say is I hope google maps would help me through it or I would probably have a melt down at one of those… 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![Rod-Knox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Rod-Knox](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Rod-Knox)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2026, 2:23pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/name-some-ways-we-have-come-full-circle-in-our-automobiles/206129/38 "2026-08-30T14:23:10Z")
the 4.9L had timing gears ---
**Author:** ![davesmopar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/davesmopar/32/41750_2.png) [@davesmopar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/davesmopar)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2026, 2:54pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/name-some-ways-we-have-come-full-circle-in-our-automobiles/206129/39 "2026-08-30T14:54:04Z")
> [@Rod-Knox](#): > > the 4.9L had timing gears > [@asemaster](#): > > I’ll bet you never replaced a timing chain on that one either! Hence he bet you never replaced a timing chain in it… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![asemaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@asemaster](https://community.cartalk.com/u/asemaster)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2026, 3:26pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/name-some-ways-we-have-come-full-circle-in-our-automobiles/206129/40 "2026-08-30T15:26:44Z")
> [@Rod-Knox](#): > > the 4.9L had timing gears Yes, hence the winking emoji in my post. 😀 One thing I never liked about those, even though you never needed to worry about a chain, the crank seal in the timing cover would leak oil and the seal was installed from the inside, so you were pulling the cover off anyway… ---
**Author:** ![glasspilot](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/glasspilot/32/27886_2.png) [@glasspilot](https://community.cartalk.com/u/glasspilot)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2026, 12:01pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/name-some-ways-we-have-come-full-circle-in-our-automobiles/206129/41 "2026-08-31T12:01:58Z")
> [@Rod-Knox](#): > > the 4.9L had timing gears I had a 1988 Olds Ceira with the GM “Iron Duke” 4 cyl engine. It was used in many smaller GM cars and it used timing gears instead of belt or chain. You’d think it would be very robust. But to reduce “gear noise” some Einstein thought would be a good idea to make the larger gear (on the camshaft) out of a composite material. Yes, I was driving to work and my car just quit. It was fixed under warranty, the fix was to replace it with a robust steel gear. I did not hear any noise out of that engine after, so I don’t know what they were thinking. [Previous page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/name-some-ways-we-have-come-full-circle-in-our-automobiles/206129.md?page=1) [Next page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/name-some-ways-we-have-come-full-circle-in-our-automobiles/206129.md?page=3)