In my 53 years, I have destroyed a shocking number of engines. Some died from neglect of routine maintenance, some expired from old age and high mileage, and others suffered a failure of a critical component like the oil pump. The cost of replacing some of those failed engines was what led me to become a mechanic for most of my 30s, and I have not had a car engine die on me since then. Part of the reason
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