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Thought I'd share something positive today. I had been having issues with my local Veterans administration hospital, my school not providing proper students services and my veteran counselor for school assistance. After 4 months of dealing with all this crap. It's all been fixed as of yesterday. I fixed it my contacting my local Congress person, the dept of education and a Washington dc hotline that deals with VA complaints. What amazing me is that persistence pays off and that It has to come to this level for someone to do there job. It sucks but such is life and more importantly is even though it caused me great grief it gave me a sense of accomplishment. I will celebrate by doing more school work :rolleyes:.
 

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Jaimito is in class, and the teacher asks him:

- Jaimito, if there are five birds on a tree and I throw a stone at one, how many are left?

- None, teacher.

- Why no Jaimito?

- Because, with the fright, the others fly away.

- The answer is not correct, Jaimito, but I like the way you think.

- Could I ask you a question, teacher?

- Of course, Jaimito.

- If you see two women eating ice cream and one of them is sucking it and the other is biting it, which of them would you say is the one who is married?

After thinking about it a bit, the teacher, quite puzzled, and flushed, says:

- I guess the one who is sucking it ...

- No teacher, the one with the ring on her finger. But I have to say that I like the way you think.
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Thought I'd share some more positively. So today I ordered a wrench for the steering nut that I googled and found a recommend on the forums. It amazing that wealth of information that's on here. People have gone out of there way to share at no cost. Next I order a bearing driver for the front wheel. The last job I have done which was changing the fork oil on st. So in past I've had issues with dealerships. But after thinking about it I'm pretty lucky to be able to buy these tools, to do a google search to find all this information. I have space, mechanical knowledge and two hands to do it. IMG_20200929_164326_926.jpg
 
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Am keeping my eye out for those too, but hesitant with the repair costs, as they are more complicated.
I had a former colleague who had leased a Promaster van. I drove it from Phoenix to Dallas and back, and it was the most uncomfortable vehicle I have ever driven. I could not get the seat/steering wheel/pedal configuration into anything resembling normal, and cruise control was my only saving grace on that trip.
 

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I had a former colleague who had leased a Promaster van. I drove it from Phoenix to Dallas and back, and it was the most uncomfortable vehicle I have ever driven. I could not get the seat/steering wheel/pedal configuration into anything resembling normal, and cruise control was my only saving grace on that trip.
I wondered about that, so thanks. Maybe designed for Italian delivery drivers? ;)
After seeing how that one was built, Promasters are out of my search. Typical MOPAR in having great features from a usability view or being pretty, but built in the cheapest ways possible.

fwiw - I've paid my dues to in getting to my own thoughts on MOPAR, having owned a number of Dodge/Chrysler/Plymouth products. Their minivans and cars were what the ex insisted on and iirc, we had to replace 5 transmissions in three of them. The Promaster uses pretty much the same 3.6L Pentastar engine/trans as in the minivans, but moves a lot more weight.
The RAM diesel trucks are great trailer pullers, but that's a different category.
 

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The RAM diesel trucks are great trailer pullers, but that's a different category.
Have one, and they are great pullers, but what the heck with the defueling on shifts. The Aisin is basically a Allison, and is suppose to be able to handle all the torque. Yes, my first RAM, and frustrating without doing mods to correct. Maybe if I put one of those big "C" stickers in the rear window, 6" lift, and 37" tires, it would be better.

(Yes, the Duramax defuels, but nowhere near the amount of the RAM.)
 

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Have one, and they are great pullers, but what the heck with the defueling on shifts. The Aisin is basically a Allison, and is suppose to be able to handle all the torque. Yes, my first RAM, and frustrating without doing mods to correct. Maybe if I put one of those big "C" stickers in the rear window, 6" lift, and 37" tires, it would be better.

(Yes, the Duramax defuels, but nowhere near the amount of the RAM.)
I just got rid of my 6.0 diesel Ford. It is the most maintenance intensive motor I have ever dealt with, and I was done with it. When it worked, it was a great vehicle (I went all over the country with it) but the fear of the unknown (whats going to break next?) made the 6 years and 100K miles I racked up enough to call it quits when I needed to replace the oil cooler less than a year after doing it (and it's not an easy swap, you have to disassemble most of the top of the motor to get to it).

I went small, light and easy to maintain (Toyota Tacoma, 2.7 and a 5-speed manual!), but I certainly miss the towing capacity as I look to set up for my dune trips. I may try to go back to a motorhome, but I've also been looking at cargo trailer conversions to create my own tiny toy hauler.
 

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I don't know what problem you had with the Ford diesel. I'm a fan of diesels, but if you want them to last a long time, you don't have to follow the maintenance plan. I always maintained my diesel vehicles myself (rear-front differential every 100000km ... manual gearbox every 100000km) ... automatic gearbox (50000km oil and filters) (engine 7500km oil and filter) air and fuel filter every 10000km ... with that maintenance I have and have had several diesels and I never had a problem with them
90’ chevrolet Blazer V8 diesel 400000 km
95’ Ford 250 diesel 400000km
00’ Ram 2500 diesel 300000km
05’ Ram 2500 diesel 400000km
09’ toyota diesel 300000km
2012 toyota diesel 350000km
2016 toyota diesel 280000km....
and never, never repair or had any problem with them, something minor, but never anything serious
Now, with the anti-pollution regulations, diesels use particulate filters, and I will start to have serious problems with their "filter regeneration" systems .... That's why I'm looking at which one to replace the one I have, which "doesn't have a particle filter”.... I don't know, I will probably buy a gasoline until I see how they solve the problem of the particle filters
 

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In the US, particulate filters have been mandated since '07. Here in Texas, diesels, motorcycles, and cars older than 25 yrs, do not have to pass an emission check. They're working/threatening toward making the diesels pass one. . . . but, no time soon. Therefore, all the bro-trucks have gutted their exhaust systems, claiming the turbo(s) function as mufflers.
 

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The system used to regenerate it is based basically on injecting more diesel, (closing the intake butterfly so that it does not accelerate) .... that excess diesel ends up in the particle filter, where it “cooks” the soot. so that it falls to the ground instead of flying through the air ... but (and here is the problem) ... that excess diesel, not only goes to the particle filter, it also runs between the rings towards the crankcase, causing the oil level to rise. If the vehicle is used at medium / high power ... the temperature of the exhaust gases plus the almost complete combustion, make it not so necessary to regenerate the filter. But if it is used at low power or in the city, it is where they have the most problems
 

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The system used to regenerate it is based basically on injecting more diesel, (closing the intake butterfly so that it does not accelerate) .... that excess diesel ends up in the particle filter, where it “cooks” the soot. so that it falls to the ground instead of flying through the air ... but (and here is the problem) ... that excess diesel, not only goes to the particle filter, it also runs between the rings towards the crankcase, causing the oil level to rise. If the vehicle is used at medium / high power ... the temperature of the exhaust gases plus the almost complete combustion, make it not so necessary to regenerate the filter. But if it is used at low power or in the city, it is where they have the most problems
The DPF on my car has the diesel squirted directly into it. It smokes like hell too when the cleaning cycle starts and you're supposed to let it complete the cycle before you switch off the engine. The snag is you get no warning that it is going to do it or a chance to cancel it, so if it kicks in just as I'm arriving at work then I'm not sitting there waiting. It's a PITA...
 

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The DPF on my car has the diesel squirted directly into it. It smokes like hell too when the cleaning cycle starts and you're supposed to let it complete the cycle before you switch off the engine. The snag is you get no warning that it is going to do it or a chance to cancel it, so if it kicks in just as I'm arriving at work then I'm not sitting there waiting. It's a PITA...
yes ... it's another regeneration system. Instead of using the injectors of the same engine, it has other injectors that inject the diesel directly into the particulate filter. This system is safe for the engine, the downside is that when it regenerates, it smokes as if you had broken the engine. ... but both, when they start the regeneration process, you can't stop the engine. you have to wait for it to finish. If you stop it in the middle of the process, the bonded / cooked charcoal sticks to the filter, and clogs it .....
 

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I just got rid of my 6.0 diesel Ford. It is the most maintenance intensive motor I have ever dealt with, and I was done with it. When it worked, it was a great vehicle (I went all over the country with it) but the fear of the unknown (whats going to break next?) made the 6 years and 100K miles I racked up enough to call it quits when I needed to replace the oil cooler less than a year after doing it (and it's not an easy swap, you have to disassemble most of the top of the motor to get to it).

I went small, light and easy to maintain (Toyota Tacoma, 2.7 and a 5-speed manual!), but I certainly miss the towing capacity as I look to set up for my dune trips. I may try to go back to a motorhome, but I've also been looking at cargo trailer conversions to create my own tiny toy hauler.
The 6.0 was one of the worst, and Ford ignored the problem. I am surprised you made it with that many miles. It's a great motor if you bullet proof it, dumping $5-6K for that, but even that is no guarantee. Buddy of mine put close to $10K into his before giving up.

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In the US, particulate filters have been mandated since '07. Here in Texas, diesels, motorcycles, and cars older than 25 yrs, do not have to pass an emission check. They're working/threatening toward making the diesels pass one. . . . but, no time soon. Therefore, all the bro-trucks have gutted their exhaust systems, claiming the turbo(s) function as mufflers.
It is still illegal to gut the exhaust system per the feds. The EPA has been going after the companies doing it, ask the "diesel brothers" from that show, they got their we-we wacked by the feds. Funny enough, it is still okay to do it in Canada apparently.

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When a friend is a good friend *:

One guy took his best friend home for dinner without warning.

When they arrived the wife started yelling at her. The surprised and scared friend heard:

-My hair, my nails, the makeup I have not fixed !! The house is a mess. Dirty pots and I didn't even do the fucking shopping !! I'm already in pajamas to go to bed, I'm with pre-menstrual tension and I'm not going to cook a shit tonight! Why the fuck, you son of a bitch, did you bring him home just tonight?

And the husband replied:
-It's because he's thinking of getting married ... I brought him to he see with his own eyes how is ... because no friend did this for me.:):)
 
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