What is this??!!

[Starbuck]

What is it?
Can you be specific?

[ABC in Georgia]

What is it?
Can you be specific?

Yes, if you can soon give us some *clues* to your question as does Pat45!

OK, just to get away from all the unpleasant news these days ... will hazard a guess.

Looks like a whopping great shaft, perhaps an elevator shaft for a 2 story building of some kind.

No? Ha! Ha! Oh well!

[Rockntractor]

What is it?
Can you be specific?

It isn't from a Geo Metro.

[ABC in Georgia]

It isn't from a Geo Metro.

And it isn't a gigantic potato masher either!

[Rockntractor]

And it isn't a gigantic potato masher either!

It would certainly push a spud in the mud!

[marv]

It's a crankshaft.......

[ABC in Georgia]

One more guess then outta here.

Is a male Horn Shark protective device to be used when mating with the dreaded female Horn Sharks from the last quiz! ...

[ABC in Georgia]

It's a crankshaft.......

Sorry Marv ...

Not specific enough! Think he wants the make, model, year, color etc. of the car!

[marv]

Okay, so I was a bit off. It's a piston rod for a DU-Sulzer 12RTA96C.

Added:
MAKE: Wartsila-Sulzer
MODEL: RTA96-C
YEAR: 2003
COLOR: Polished steel
CAR (?):

But everybody knew that........

[Starbuck]

Okay, so I was a bit off. It's a piston rod for a DU-Sulzer 12RTA96C.

Added:
MAKE: Wartsila-Sulzer
MODEL: RTA96-C
YEAR: 2003
COLOR: Polished steel
CAR (?):

But everybody knew that........

MARV FOUND IT!
The square plate at the bottom of the piston rod is called a crosshead. It is where the connecting rod connects and then goes to the crankshaft. Its purpose is to redirect the thrust so that the cylinder doesn't wear in an elliptical pattern.

Here's a picture of the engine itself: This is a six cylinder version:

Described as freakishly huge, these engines have up to 14 cylinders and put out upwards of 100,000 HP. They are 2 stroke, supercharged diesels, with a stroke of 98 inches !

Here's the crankshaft for the 10 cylinder version: