Show me your intercoolers

[The FLU farm]

With a name like "the flu farm" how bad can it be?
I've gone through, let's get the fingers and toes out...
2 transfer cases (aluminum 208s)
3 transmissions (700r4s)
2 sets of heads (1 coolant loss, one blown gasket)
1 engine (turbo blew the head gasket, coolant into the oil)
1 set of crank bearings (cut oil line)
2 radiators (one old, one thin aluminum)
Bought 3 np205s to make one good one for a 4L80E (one was wrong, one was right, but bad input shaft, one for the right input shaft)
That's the big stuff.
But things are going to get better, I can feel it...
At least that's what the musician Beck says in his song.

Man, you have a knack for breaking stuff. Have you tried putting fluids in those things? It's my understanding that most drivetrain components work longer with lubrication.

 

[The FLU farm]

Since you just want to cool the air between the turbo and the intake. I think the proper terminology is aftercooler. Since it is after the last air compressor. At least that is what Cummins calls the 4BT cooler mounted on the valve cover. However, intercooler might be appropriate depending on what parts you find. People taking the cooler that went between several stage compressors on airplanes and such is how intercooler became such a common generic name.

Maybe it is semantics, but it bugs me when things are called something different than what they are. An aftercooler, charge air cooler, or intercooler could well be the same item, but referred to by different names depending on its application. Although, aftercooler and charge air cooler appears to be completely interchangeable.
Then there are other common expressions that makes no sense whatsoever to me. "Semi truck", for example. Yes, I know that people mean "tractor trailer", but why on earth come up with a name that makes it sound like it is an incomplete truck?
It's probably the fact that English is not my native language that makes me sensitive to these things, if that can count as an excuse.

 

[JPx187]

Maybe it is semantics, but it bugs me when things are called something different than what they are. An aftercooler, charge air cooler, or intercooler could well be the same item, but referred to by different names depending on its application. Although, aftercooler and charge air cooler appears to be completely interchangeable.
Then there are other common expressions that makes no sense whatsoever to me. "Semi truck", for example. Yes, I know that people mean "tractor trailer", but why on earth come up with a name that makes it sound like it is an incomplete truck?
It's probably the fact that English is not my native language that makes me sensitive to these things, if that can count as an excuse.

Semi truck, because the other half is the trailer. It doesn't have a bed, so it's incomplete without some way to haul a load.

 

[The FLU farm]

Semi truck, because the other half is the trailer. It doesn't have a bed, so it's incomplete without some way to haul a load.

Not quite. They are tractors pulling semi trailers (which almost all trailers are, but that's another story).
But yes, they're not true trucks as there is no bed to put a load on. Truck tractor seems to be a common description, presumably to differentiate them from farm tractors, but since they are designed to pull things, tractor is the key work.

 

[corelokt]

Cool, I can remove the bed on my 1008 and make it a semi!

 

[JPx187]

Only if you put it on a trailer! Lol

 

[The FLU farm]

Cool, I can remove the bed on my 1008 and make it a semi!

I tried that with mine, remember? Didn't work. It refuses to self-indentify as a semi. But it does get used to pull many more semi trailers since the bed came off.

 

[corelokt]

I'm going to put dual wheel, dual axles in the rear by welding another spring arch onto the frame, that'll do it.
Might go all out and make them both drive axles.
Now that would be so stupid it might be cool.