Your amount of knowledge regarding this particular TSB is immense; your ability to "deliver" it without being demeaning falls somewhat short in my eyes, and perhaps in the eyes of other members in the TDR community.
I read and gather information more than I post, as evidenced by my post count & join date.
Most of the replies I've reviewed by you in other threads to members sure do come across abrasive... ... at least in my eyes.
Greg
Greg,
I'm sorry that you feel that "most" of my replies seem "demeaning", or "abrasive". Thanks for the feedback, ... but I am sure you will understand if I perceive things somewhat differently.
I believe we and the forum are best served if we discuss the truck-topics, rather than each other, ... but I will offer you some thoughts:
I spent 37 years in the company of men who can take the "heat" of the kitchen, ... and who dish out a bit of &*%# to each other in as much a fun-spirit as anything else. They are mostly "aggressive" by nature (in a take-action sense, not a hostile one), and work in a profession where this is a virtue.
Communications on the fire-ground, or at other emergency scenes, must be quick, accurate, and loud-and clear.
No Frills. No nonsense. PC or kid-glove phrasing is not a priority. Effectively transmitting the info is the point.
No time is alloted to measuring variations in skin-thickness, and searching for words to fit.
I am aware that such an approach is somewhat habitual with me,... and know many men who do not find it disturbing. It is to these people, with whom I feel most at home, that I adapt my style. Frankly it is too much trouble to worry about the possibility that any given word, or capitilization-for-emphasis, etc. , will be felt to be "offensive" by some individual.
To such people, I would point out that I rarely intend to demean anyone, hopefully only when it is "asked-for" or truly deserved, ... but do not intend to avoid saying something like "read the manual",. . if that happens to be very good advice in a given situation. . (I use this example, because it is commonly given, on the inter-net, commonly appropriate,... and commonly reacted-to by taking unwarranted offense. Quite often the fact is that the offended party is simply being offered a reasonable suggestion,... but the reaction is as-if they had been called "stupid").
Frankly, I am old enough to have decided that egg-shell walking is a waste of diminishing time.
Since in your last post, and this one of mine, we are speaking more about one another than TDR topics, I feel it fair to point out that you say absolutely nothing about the usefulness, appropriateness, or "sensible-ness" of any of the advice I gave you in my reply to your earlier post.
You do compliment my "knowledge"(Thank you, whether that opinion is deserved or not
, ... but the main focus of your remarks seems to be how you feel yourself ( and the "others" you refer-to) to have been treated.
Forgive me (or not, as suits you), but beyond the apology in my first words of this post, I have little patience for such sensitivity.
I will let you know what kind of thing offends ME. It is the use of other peoples mouths, to speak one's own words.
Here is an example - "... perhaps in the eyes of other members in the TDR community. "
Yes, ... of course, ... "perhaps".
This sort of phrasing tactic smacks of the spin-meister talk-show host who constantly seeks to add weight to HIS opinion by offering it preceded by "some people say... ".
I suggest letting those other members offer their opinions themselves.
A final note:
I have repeatedly made it clear that I consider myself to be anything-but-an-expert or "authority" on these subjects, being instead a newcomer to diesel ownership. To emphasize this, I usually try to remember to take care to invite correction or additional comment from anyone.
Beyond this effort at a reasonable display of humility, I am not prepared to tiptoe.
One of those acronyms that people use to say something, in abbreviated form, to those in the know, fits my general attitude about overdeveloped offendability.
FEITCTAJ!
It offers instruction as to what to do with "'em" if they can't take a joke.
It simply means that worrying over every possibility of 'offending' is not neccesarily time well spent.
Although not an "old-timer" here at TDR, as I write this I have posted 150 times. I believe this is the second where any personal "abrasion" was the topic.
Both were equally un-interesting from an "on-TDR-topic" perspective,... and I offer apologies, as I did the first time, to spectator-members.
Greg, as far as I am concerned, we have each said our piece. You, of course, are free to post as you choose, ... but if I have anything further to offer on this subject, it will be via PM.
Public and private responses to my posts indicate that I please "some of the people, some of the time".
That's good enough for me.
Attention: TDR Forum Junkies 
so I apologize in advance.
