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DG Rider

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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.
 
Bighat

Bighat

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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.
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DG Rider

DG Rider

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

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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.
 
highpocket74

highpocket74

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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

scttwlsn45

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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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Average_Joe

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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.
 
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540RA

540RA

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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...

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

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DG Rider

DG Rider

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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.
 
DG Rider

DG Rider

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On today's episode of "The s***tiest transmission design", we're doing another CVT. Sharp eyes may notice the GM badging. This is a surprise, it's going in a 2020 Chevy Malibu with a 1.5 turbo. I wasn't aware they were putting these trannies in those cars.

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I'm looking into who builds it, to see if it comes from the same company that builds all the other s***** CVT trannies. This one did beat the average, with about 160,000 mi on it, but a 2020 with that kind of mileage it's probably seen a lot of highway mileage.

In the meantime, I'm simply astounded that someone sat around making decisions about Chevy malibu's and openly chose to pick the one tranny that might make the car even s***tier than it already is.
Right before I started this swap, I did a swap on a mid-2010s Hyundai Elantra. These cars couldn't be more dissimilar. The Elantra is simple, easy to work on, and seems to have been well designed.

By contrast, everything you touch or do on these malibus is a pain in the f****** ass. If the person who designed this is reading this, you should throw a rope over the rafter and end it right now, and spare the world from your f****** foolishness from here on.
I know GM can do better because they have. In the past anyway...Nothing they building right now seems to be worth a s***. Buy a new Chevy truck? Be prepared to replace that 9 speed at 100,000 mi. It's ironic that the company once built probably the most reliable automatic transmissions is now turning out such garbage slush boxes.

Stalantis seems to be dead set on killing off Dodge / Chrysler. Why else would you stop producing the products they make that sell and replace it with an EV with fake exhausts, or an inline 6? The hurricane 6 sounds like it will be a very powerful and sophisticated engine. I'll let you know soon as I have to tear into one and replace the s***** valve train components they seem destined to use in everything. I had high hopes when Fiat took over... That quality would improve a bit. And it seems it did. But now... How many of you think about French and Italian cars when you think about quality? Yeah, exactly.

Ford, to their credit...the f series seem to be doing okay. I've actually done more engine swaps on those than other work, due to the local speedy oil change facility not putting oil back in them. Hardly Ford's fault. Well...the countless number throw away fasteners that have to be replaced and dreaded "special service tools"...That's Ford's fault, but they weren't designed to run without oil.
Perhaps they should stick to pickups ( which seems like they are moving forward ) since they've been involved in a series of recalls about s***** DCT transmissions control units on cars, not to mention the three cylinder "wet belt" fiesta time bomb. Google it, if you like. Oh...The new Chevy Trax apparently uses a "wet belt" timing system...so get ready to start flushing that turd as well.

Don't know if you can tell, but over the past couple of years I've become inecreasingly disillusioned by domestic products. It kind of reminds me of late 70's and the terrible quality control and designs that came out of that era.

I'm becoming a bigger Toyota fan by the day...

RANT OVER
 
NTCPrezJB

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On today's episode of "The s***tiest transmission design", we're doing another CVT. Sharp eyes may notice the GM badging. This is a surprise, it's going in a 2020 Chevy Malibu with a 1.5 turbo. I wasn't aware they were putting these trannies in those cars.

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I'm looking into who builds it, to see if it comes from the same company that builds all the other s***** CVT trannies. This one did beat the average, with about 160,000 mi on it, but a 2020 with that kind of mileage it's probably seen a lot of highway mileage.

In the meantime, I'm simply astounded that someone sat around making decisions about Chevy malibu's and openly chose to pick the one tranny that might make the car even s***tier than it already is.
Right before I started this swap, I did a swap on a mid-2010s Hyundai Elantra. These cars couldn't be more dissimilar. The Elantra is simple, easy to work on, and seems to have been well designed.

By contrast, everything you touch or do on these malibus is a pain in the f****** ass. If the person who designed this is reading this, you should throw a rope over the rafter and end it right now, and spare the world from your f****** foolishness from here on.
I know GM can do better because they have. In the past anyway...Nothing they building right now seems to be worth a s***. Buy a new Chevy truck? Be prepared to replace that 9 speed at 100,000 mi. It's ironic that the company once built probably the most reliable automatic transmissions is now turning out such garbage slush boxes.

Stalantis seems to be dead set on killing off Dodge / Chrysler. Why else would you stop producing the products they make that sell and replace it with an EV with fake exhausts, or an inline 6? The hurricane 6 sounds like it will be a very powerful and sophisticated engine. I'll let you know soon as I have to tear into one and replace the s***** valve train components they seem destined to use in everything. I had high hopes when Fiat took over... That quality would improve a bit. And it seems it did. But now... How many of you think about French and Italian cars when you think about quality? Yeah, exactly.

Ford, to their credit...the f series seem to be doing okay. I've actually done more engine swaps on those than other work, due to the local speedy oil change facility not putting oil back in them. Hardly Ford's fault. Well...the countless number throw away fasteners that have to be replaced and dreaded "special service tools"...That's Ford's fault, but they weren't designed to run without oil.
Perhaps they should stick to pickups ( which seems like they are moving forward ) since they've been involved in a series of recalls about s***** DCT transmissions control units on cars, not to mention the three cylinder "wet belt" fiesta time bomb. Google it, if you like. Oh...The new Chevy Trax apparently uses a "wet belt" timing system...so get ready to start flushing that turd as well.

Don't know if you can tell, but over the past couple of years I've become inecreasingly disillusioned by domestic products. It kind of reminds me of late 70's and the terrible quality control and designs that came out of that era.

I'm becoming a bigger Toyota fan by the day...

RANT OVER
Toyota FTW!
 
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