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Knock off the dick-waving BS. It's part of the rules that it doesn't turn into this, and its turning into this, so enough.
What did you do to your non-G body project today? [2022]
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Well I'd like to have it back just a little bit of slack LoL no wonder Duramax wire harnesses have chafing problems there stretched over under and threw the engine compartment.
Pretty much every engine harness is built flat on a board, with pegs at points where it branches and spec'd lengths for it to run out. Not all are spot on. Seen many in many vehicles over the years with issues.
Made a little bit more progress tonight. It's amazing how walking away when your frustrated can help. Today I walked in and things I didn't understand last night just fell right together like it had eyes 👀 didn't stay at the shop long tonight made a list of things I needed then went shopping at EJ'S shop lol found some push lock fittings I needed and a piece of steel to make a bracket for the filters. Still have to hit a few stores in the morning for stuff but it's a much shorter list now.
Been there, any of us that build stuff. Walk away, re-group.
been there done that, building servers at the Dell factory. would it really have killed them to put an extra millimeter or two in the flat ribbon cable and raised the price by a couple pennies?
Yup that's the engineers that are looking at length x numbers of units = screwing over the people who own and work on the stuff.
YUP. Some bean counter in audit did a cost/benefit analysis that concluded that all those unused millimeters could be added together to create another cable and save some money; more product from the same amount of raw materials. As for the notion of raising the price a penny or two to compensate, those pennies would not have shown on the spread sheet as profit, they would have been an expense and decreased the msrp out the door to the vendor; all of which means less profit per unit and less money to stuff into the pockets of the stockholders. Ain't life wunnerful??
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Hopefully not adding fuel to anyone's fire here but did spend part of the day sitting at a traffic light and listening to the maraca sound of a 5.7 Hemi as it sat there at idle, waiting for the light to turn. The truck did move out when the light went green; guess the driver was already late and trying to make up some time by shaving a point or two off the speed limit.
Did have to wonder if the maraca racket was normal or a consequence of normal wear and tear or something poorly designed in the engine?
Being a resident of the Land of the Frozen Chosen, around here the local transportation buying habits tend heavily towards trucks. Something macho about the image of being a truck owner that the manufacturers prejudice their marketing and advertising towards heavily promoting.. Just for comparison, five trucks equal the cost of a newly built home out in the subdivision. Granted that the house comes with builder's grade components and finishes, but then again so do the trucks.
For me, the only qualifiers of importance as they relate to a truck, any truck, is that it have a truck box that can accept a 4x8 sheet of plywood or wall board, that i can get into it without having to have a crane, or elevator, or some kind of rising/falling side rail, added to it as an accessory, and that it get mpg in the 20 miles/gallon department. Filling a truck tank right now is a 200 dollar per fill bite in the wallet and diesel is no longer cheaper. This is a forum and board that embraces all aspects of both the best and worst of the G-Body genre, but, at the same time, iis also broad minded enough to allow thought and comment on a wide range of automotive and not so automotive subjects. I'd hate to see Non G-body threads become anathema; declared politically taboo and cast out of heaven as untouchable.
Nick
Did have to wonder if the maraca racket was normal or a consequence of normal wear and tear or something poorly designed in the engine?
Being a resident of the Land of the Frozen Chosen, around here the local transportation buying habits tend heavily towards trucks. Something macho about the image of being a truck owner that the manufacturers prejudice their marketing and advertising towards heavily promoting.. Just for comparison, five trucks equal the cost of a newly built home out in the subdivision. Granted that the house comes with builder's grade components and finishes, but then again so do the trucks.
For me, the only qualifiers of importance as they relate to a truck, any truck, is that it have a truck box that can accept a 4x8 sheet of plywood or wall board, that i can get into it without having to have a crane, or elevator, or some kind of rising/falling side rail, added to it as an accessory, and that it get mpg in the 20 miles/gallon department. Filling a truck tank right now is a 200 dollar per fill bite in the wallet and diesel is no longer cheaper. This is a forum and board that embraces all aspects of both the best and worst of the G-Body genre, but, at the same time, iis also broad minded enough to allow thought and comment on a wide range of automotive and not so automotive subjects. I'd hate to see Non G-body threads become anathema; declared politically taboo and cast out of heaven as untouchable.
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