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arse_sidewards said:
What an enlightening response. I hope you lose a hand to an errant transmission/engine/axle/other heavy object.
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Fuck off. The enlightened response is there. Stop talking shit about stuff you are fully ignorant about and you won't get the single word replies that dismiss that level of stupidity. As for losing a hand, if ignorance was terminal you would have been dead long ago.
 
mrblaine said:
Fuck off. The enlightened response is there. Stop talking shit about stuff you are fully ignorant about and you won't get the single word replies that dismiss that level of stupidity. As for losing a hand, if ignorance was terminal you would have been dead long ago.
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Ok then asshole, please show the class a modern-ish semi float rear end that isn't made by Toyota, is common-ish in the North American market and doesn't use rollers straight on the shaft.

Pretty much everyone (except Toyota, who's holding onto their separate races for some reason) switched over from tapered rollers and a discrete race to a machined and hardened shaft during various product redesigns of the 80s and 90s for reasons that basically boil down to technological progress making it viable to do so.
 
arse_sidewards said:
Ok then asshole, please show the class a modern-ish semi float rear end that isn't made by Toyota, is common-ish in the North American market and doesn't use rollers straight on the shaft.

Pretty much everyone (except Toyota, who's holding onto their separate races for some reason) switched over from tapered rollers and a discrete race to a machined and hardened shaft during various product redesigns of the 80s and 90s for reasons that basically boil down to technological progress making it viable to do so.
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Every fucking Jeep Wrangler axle made after 2006. 2006 and before back to 1997 was every Dana 44 under the rear of a Wrangler. Close enough fucktard?
 
mrblaine said:
Every fucking Jeep Wrangler axle made after 2006. 2006 and before back to 1997 was every Dana 44 under the rear of a Wrangler. Close enough fucktard?
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Fine.

But you're still an asshole and when you roll your truck without a seatbelt I'm gonna show up to the GCC thread and tell everyone you had it coming.
 
Whatever fucktard engineer and/or designer at GM decided to stick the evap core in the dash and make it removable only by taking apart the dash.

Im using a hack method of cutting the airbox and wouldn't you know it, instead of being able to just slide the fucking thing out, there are 2 little nubs hanging down that make pulling it out a mf'er.

And fuck every other car maker who does the same thing.
 
One peeve I've always had is the manufacturing different parts for nearly identical fitments. As in, why make a different blower motor for every model car on the line, and change it every few years? Seems to me the cost to design, tool, catalog, and stock all these different parts is kinda stupid when one part number would work.

Another thing that botherd the luddite in me is the sheer amount of comfort and convenince tech. Do we need foot activated automatic tail gates? But that's my cross to bear. Of course if people want to spend for it, they'll keep making it.

Today I got a twofer. Today I learned that on a 2011 Grand Caravan, Dodge lists two different front brake rotors- with fixed foot pedal assembly or adjustable foot pedal assmbly. wtfsmhjtdfc.

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Fivepointfive said:
One peeve I've always had is the manufacturing different parts for nearly identical fitments. As in, why make a different blower motor for every model car on the line, and change it every few years? Seems to me the cost to design, tool, catalog, and stock all these different parts is kinda stupid when one part number would work.
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Because some middle manager gets to jack off about how he reduced the HVAC BOM price by $0.65, reduced warranty rate by 0.07%, or whatever corporate's initiative this quarter is, and the dumbass fresh out of school engineer who's never seen the product assembled, used or serviced is dumb enough to go along with it.

On a long timeline this does add up to some progress but it also results in fucktons of bullshit designs in the wild.
 
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arse_sidewards said:
Because some middle manager gets to jack off about how he reduced the HVAC BOM price by $0.65, reduced warranty rate by 0.07%, or whatever corporate's initiative this quarter is, and the dumbass fresh out of school engineer who's never seen the product assembled, used or serviced is dumb enough to go along with it.

On a long timeline this does add up to some progress but it also results in fucktons of bullshit designs in the wild.
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Yea, everyone is clipboard and backpack now and there's no voice of reason in management... that old guy chewing on the unlit cigar, grumpy asshole that says no to everything, who actually has a reasonable thought process because he started out 100 years ago working on the floor, and he's quick with math so he knows your $1.2mil blackbelt project that's going to shave $1000/month out of production is fucking stupid and will only pay off on some laptop graph in a meeting somewhere.
 
45acp said:
that old guy chewing on the unlit cigar, grumpy asshole that says no to everything, who actually has a reasonable thought process because he started out 100 years ago working on the floor, and he's quick with math so he knows your $1.2mil blackbelt project that's going to shave $1000/month out of production is fucking stupid and will only pay off on some laptop graph in a meeting somewhere.
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HEy! Why the f' you gotta bring ME into this? Get the hell back to work!
 
arse_sidewards said:
Because some middle manager gets to jack off about how he reduced the HVAC BOM price by $0.65, reduced warranty rate by 0.07%, or whatever corporate's initiative this quarter is, and the dumbass fresh out of school engineer who's never seen the product assembled, used or serviced is dumb enough to go along with it.

On a long timeline this does add up to some progress but it also results in fucktons of bullshit designs in the wild.
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Yeah I get it. It was a rhetorical question. Everything is decidied by bean counters, pencil necks, attorneys and shareholders.
 
Fivepointfive said:
Yeah I get it. It was a rhetorical question. Everything is decidied by bean counters, pencil necks, attorneys and shareholders.
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Where I work we get told to take cost out of the design so we change the design and materials. Then within a year or two we get warranty claims and get told to strengthen the design so we don't have claims. We end up changing everything back to the "expensive" design in the end.
 
arse_sidewards said:
Fine.

But you're still an asshole and when you roll your truck without a seatbelt I'm gonna show up to the GCC thread and tell everyone you had it coming.
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Most fucks on here are more than smart enough to just consider the source so I think we'll all be just fine with that.
 
665.0coupe said:
Where I work we get told to take cost out of the design so we change the design and materials. Then within a year or two we get warranty claims and get told to strengthen the design so we don't have claims. We end up changing everything back to the "expensive" design in the end.
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I read that backwards- "take cost out of the design"? Woohoo, sky's the limit!
 
45acp said:
Yea, everyone is clipboard and backpack now and there's no voice of reason in management... that old guy chewing on the unlit cigar, grumpy asshole that says no to everything, who actually has a reasonable thought process because he started out 100 years ago working on the floor, and he's quick with math so he knows your $1.2mil blackbelt project that's going to shave $1000/month out of production is fucking stupid and will only pay off on some laptop graph in a meeting somewhere.
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^This. The company I USED to work from went from guys who knew how to make product (you know, the thing that the company actually makes money on), what corners could be cut and what needed to be improved, to people who knew how to make a snazzy powerpoint. Profitability used to be 3-8% above industry average, to now, where they are firing MBA's they put in charge to squeeze a nickel so they can put into place younger MBA's who don't even know what a nickel is and had to mortgage a chunk of the company a year before COVID in order to stay afloat when they were completely debt-free a decade prior. Glad I left when I did, feel sorry for those friends I have that are tied to a sinking ship.
 
Coolant reservoir on my International CV/ Chevy 5500
Notice anything about the fill cap that is odd?

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clodhopper said:
Is that a drain? if so, looks like it would make a hellava mess. Chevy does some weird stuff.
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I don't think there is even any coolant behind that cap, like its not through drilled or something.
i'll jump out and get more pix...

Edi: yep the bottom is empty, no coolant in there at all.


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HillbillyDeluxe said:
Whatever fucktard engineer and/or designer at GM decided to stick the evap core in the dash and make it removable only by taking apart the dash.

Im using a hack method of cutting the airbox and wouldn't you know it, instead of being able to just slide the fucking thing out, there are 2 little nubs hanging down that make pulling it out a mf'er.

And fuck every other car maker who does the same thing.
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On the 72 Chevy I bought last year the inner fender has to be taken off to get to the bottom bolts on the housing to swao out the heater core, since I got the truck with an extra heater core box and the 50 year old inner wheelwell bolts were rusted in place I cut the heater box on the truck off around where the heater core is and pulled the leaky one and used T Rex duct tape I got as a gift to put the little cap I cut off back on. Of course the interior mounting bracket didn't work right either because the aftermarket heater core was slighty different and it wasn't easy to get to through my new smaller opening than when the whole thing is off so I had to reweld the screws from innies to outies. Mission accomplished. :laughing:
 
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