People Never Seem to Amaze Me

[COBRAJET]

I am fueling my truck this evening at a local favorite when a guy in a brand new PSD pulls up next to me. He is looking at my truck as I ask him how he's doing. We talk for little bit when he asks why Dodge uses simulators on the DRW trucks instead of aluminum rims like what is on his Ford. I have no answer for him other than that it makes it easier to rotate the tires. He responds that the least they could have done was installed the hubcaps on so the Ram emblem was in the same place on all the wheels. He said it looked funny the way they put them on. I about wet my pants in laughter. By the way he said he got 23mpg on his first tank... . Crewcab DRW 4X2 with the new 6. 0 and 5 speed auto..... my diaper could hold no more... . CJ

 

[Shovelhead]

If 'ya gotta explain... ... they just wouldn't understand. :-laf... . all the hucaps turned the same way:-laf

 

[Joe G.]

You mean they're not all turned the same way? Ya gotta be kidding! I'm gonna check mine first thing in the morning. :-laf :-laf :-laf :-laf :-laf

 

[Deezul1]

I have fixed mine 3 times and its really getting old, cant figure out whats wrong.

 

[illflem]

I got tired of jacking the truck up to fix mine so I started going to the tire shop to get them fixed. They got tried of me so I mounted them on bearings with a fishing sinker on the goat's chin. Now they all stay in the right position even when moving. If you don't want to do the bearings the trick is to make sure you turn left and right the same number of times.

 

[Deezul1]

illflem

Can we get a group purchase with you on these "Bearing" thingies? I bet a lot of members have the same problem.

 

[Ncostello]

When I was in highschool, I worked the summers at a Dodge dealership washing cars. The only other thing they let me do was "rotate" the hubcaps on a Dodge Shadow this little old lady always brought in. She would complain to the manager that the hubcaps were not even and looked funny. They tried and tried to explain to her that the wheels rotated at different speeds at times and there was no way to prevent this. She couldn't understand, thus would bring the car in every week to re-align the hubcaps. They just did it anyway so she would buy her next car there. Now thats 5-star service!! I would have convinced her she would look better in a car with the wire spoke hubcaps.



Maybe this guy was her relation or something.

 

[work2muchplay2little]

I hope that in spite of this chap's apparent density you were kind enough to inform him that he could get his truck rewired for 120 volts and to try out the now standard "auto-floatation" feature that all Fords come with this year to allow "Fording" (hence the name ) of rivers and small lakes

 

[Kernel]

Sounds like the type you could sell headlight fluid to . At the same time you could probably get him to buy sparkplugs .





Scott

 

[CPG]

Guess I better hurry down to Les Schwab's and have

My Ultra 50 wheels retimed again.



Chuck

 

[klenger]

And why is the flat spot always on the bottom?

 

[illflem]

Ken, the flat spot is caused by the earth's magma pushing up against the tires.

Environmentalists are always laying the blame for global warming on motor vehicles when in fact the weight of all the cars and trucks holds the earth's crust in place preventing volcanoes from popping up all over the place.

 

[COBRAJET]

I bet he ordered muffler bearings and a spare bucket of steam in case of an overheating problem. I can still muster up a laugh even thinking about the ignorance associated with the statement. I tried my best not to bust a gut... something I am afraid I was not very good at.



The best was still when I lived in Seattle and worked for a Mechanical Contractor which was a Union shop. They would constantly send apprentices to the parts house or to the in house tool department in search of a pipe stretcher. I never laughed so hard in my life at the guys who bought into it and headed off to retrieve it... . CJ

 

[Shovelhead]

Every carrier field has it's snipe-hunt for the newbies.



A hundred yards of Flight-line, and a 5 gallon bucket of Prop-Wash... ... . Cable stretchers... . Sky-Hooks..... :-laf the list is endless.

 

[Pit Bull]

Originally posted by COBRAJET



He responds that the least they could have done was installed the hubcaps on so the Ram emblem was in the same place on all the wheels. He said it looked funny the way they put them on.

How would you like to be the service manager at the Ford shop when this guys brings his truck in for service I bet he is real hard to please

 

[Andy Perreault]

Did you ask him if he ordered the heated tailgate option that Ford offers?

 

[C Schomer]

CJ, you should have told that guy you were a Ford man til you drove a Dodge! I'm a service tech but I was in the tinners union for several years. When doing duct jobs, I used to ask my pups to give me the "duct stretcher"! BTW there really is a tinners tool called that, but they didn't know it Craig

 

[John Berger]

Shovelhead, don't forget the mail buoy watch. Or the square needle in the left cahone, of boot camp lore. I keep an extra set of muffler bearings in my tool box, just in case. I'm out of headlight fluid, though.

 

[Champane Flight]

Propwash

Don't ever underestimate the power of stupidity. Back in my service days we would get newbies all the time and forever send them after lefthanded monkey wrenchs, 100' of flightline, ect , ect.



We got a bunch of newbies one day and they assigned one to work with me. We were draining, sampleing, tail rotor gearboxs when he says "The tail rotor blades are dirty, how do you get them clean?" . This was perfect, I had a live one here! I reply " Go to the parts room and get a gallon of prop wash" , man I was laughing inside already. The kid leaves and I prepare to laugh my bu!! off, with a group of mechs from the other ships. About ten minutes later the kid comes back with a gallon jug of detergent! You got it, the parts guy was a newbie too! We all just went back to work shaking our heads... ... .

 

[Will24]

Wouldn't that be rotor wash?



-Will