Working for a living...

[DG Rider]

But think how much money they saved...

I tend to do OEM parts, no need to do the job twice.
But I am always intrigued to see the sales copy telling me it has the same quality as OEM.
Have they ever seen the OEM specification test documents?
I'm guessing not.....

LOL...that's one of my little quips here in the shop. If you're walking by and hear my saying repeatedly "OEM fit and quality", that's means I'm dealing with s*** parts.

 

[ToddACimer]

Vehicle test engineer for commercial and defense products.

 

[Bighat]

I'm semi retarded. I run cattle and farm to see if I can spend the last dime I made when I was working. I did build a new retirement house of the farm for me and the wife. It's small, but I'm slow, took two and a half years. Daughter and kids moved in my old house and ran the old people out. Ha, ha. Below is pictures of the house under construction and some of my lady friends I hang out with.

 

[DG Rider]

Another day, another Nissan with CVT with issues...

You know the irony here...I don't think I've ever worked on, or done diag on, a conventional Nissan transmission. And the engines seem to give no trouble at all.

So it's sad that Nissan continues to use these s***ty transmissions. Don't buy one.

 

[DG Rider]

I'm semi retarded.

Me too.

 

[highpocket74]

I went to college for the 2 year drafting program in 1992 and have been doing that ever since. Down in Southwest Louisiana I work as a Senior Piping / Mechanical CAD Designer for an engineering firm that provides design services for the local petro-chem industry. I've been with the same engineering firm for almost 24 years, mainly because I never liked jumping around companies.

Good and bad that I spend nearly all of my day in an office cube. It's great when the weather sucks because we don't rain out. But when the weather is nice like this week it sucks.

I love the occupation, not so much the company as of late. The owners are the same but the management is sometimes full of crap. They come up with some very inefficient ideas. But, one day I won't have to put up with that.

 

[scttwlsn45]

I literally work in a hole in the ground. So, I spend most of my time under a rock. I am a coal miner when most people tell me they’ve had a bad day I constantly think “that’s so cute” sadly picture taking machines aren’t allowed but I have one or two outside the mine. First picture is the last time I got hurt. I smashed my finger so bad the skin burst open. That’s the safety lesson for the day kiddos. Watch out where you’re putting your booger hooks. Second pic is why I think most people’s hard days are cute. She's last pic is where I relax, under a ferocious 70 pound pit bull who thinks she’s a 10 pound lap dog

 

[DG Rider]

Nissan. Built for the human race.

 

[Average_Joe]

My main little office for imaging puters, I spend more time in the company car than I do in this office, 1 of 3 that I have.

 

[Average_Joe]

I literally work in a hole in the ground. So, I spend most of my time under a rock. I am a coal miner when most people tell me they’ve had a bad day I constantly think “that’s so cute” sadly picture taking machines aren’t allowed but I have one or two outside the mine. First picture is the last time I got hurt. I smashed my finger so bad the skin burst open. That’s the safety lesson for the day kiddos. Watch out where you’re putting your booger hooks. Second pic is why I think most people’s hard days are cute. She's last pic is where I relax, under a ferocious 70 pound pit bull who thinks she’s a 10 pound lap dog

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I can relate to the finger smash, I have co-workers in this industry that get paper cuts and piss and moan like they lost an appendage, my previous career I've had a drill slip and drill into my palm with a #10 drill bit, I broke my front tooth with a steel punch knocking rivets out of a DC-9 belly skin and had to buck rivets using my finger tips and bucking bars thick as a quarter. I want to call them little b****es but I have to be pc.

 

[DG Rider]

Speaking of electrical shyte, love making my fingers cramp de-pinning and re-pinning TIPM connectors....

Hopefully after this, i can chew broken glass.

 

[toddvdh]

Don’t put your finger where you wouldn’t put your wiener. Problem solved.

On the other hand…….maybe not….#Ntc

 

[540RA]

I build transmission lines for a living . I am a crane operator. We are currently building 50 miles of line in the Tuscaloosa, Fosters area of Alabama . Here's a new 140 H frame weighs 77,000lbs per pole . The steel tower is what it replaced , it crumpled on the ground now.View attachment 149857 View attachment 149858 View attachment 149859where I spend a lot of my workday. But I have many other duties as well.

My hero!!!!

I was up that high only on a few occasions, and loved the view. I'm now retired after 30 years.. spent the last 4 years troubleshooting. The operators loved pictures of the faults, so i took quite a few for them. Squirrels were the OT makers.

this one took out two circuits, one of which fed my house service...

Kaboooom...

fireman and friend wanted his pic taken......

 

[DG Rider]

NO GUARANTEES with anything but factory parts...

Chasing moving targets is fun.
2017 Ram with the melted power distribution center/TIPM connector I posted above. Blower motor is dead, and in dying took that connector with it.

Then...new Duralast blower randomly stops for no apparent reason. Everything checks out. Warrantied another one... same thing (as I suspected would happen). To make matters worse, many parts come from the same source and simply have different boxing. Looking at O'Reilly's at a Murray brand, it appeared to be quite different in construction, so I tried one of those, and fixed the problem and spins much faster than the duracrap.

If you have a 4th gen Ram with the 3 prong connector (auto), the Murray (Continental made) seems to work fine with it, and is 1/2 the price of OEM.