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"...my Dodge broke electrically so much they bought me a new Chevy"
I'll bet you let the bulkhead electrical connector on that Dodge get all dirty and corroded. Chrysler uses quite a high-quality bulkhead connector on its vehicles, but even a good connector needs SOME periodic maintenance! |
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On 7/13/2011 8:44 AM, Peter Cole wrote:
On 7/12/2011 3:18 AM, Tºm Shermªn °_° wrote: See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CUgUhu5Vd0&feature=player_embedded#at=90 . So much for Mopar quality. It's not all that unusual a hazard. Crap is always falling off/out of vehicles.[...] This particular failure *is* unusual. -- Tºm Shermªn - 42.435731°N, 83.985007°W I am a vehicular cyclist. |
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On 7/13/2011 6:44 PM, Tºm Shermªn wrote:
On 7/13/2011 8:44 AM, Peter Cole wrote: On 7/12/2011 3:18 AM, Tºm Shermªn °_° wrote: See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CUgUhu5Vd0&feature=player_embedded#at=90 . So much for Mopar quality. It's not all that unusual a hazard. Crap is always falling off/out of vehicles.[...] This particular failure *is* unusual. Perhaps a half shaft and wheel coming lose is, I don't know, but dropped drive shafts aren't that rare, nor are wheels coming off. If you're riding behind on a bike I think the difference is academic. |
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On Jul 13, 4:59*pm, Bill wrote:
"...my Dodge broke electrically so much they bought me a new Chevy" I'll bet you let the bulkhead electrical connector on that Dodge get all dirty and corroded. Chrysler uses quite a high-quality bulkhead connector on its vehicles, but even a good connector needs SOME periodic maintenance! It's been a long time but I wouldn't be surprised in this fleet, noted for historically poor maintenance. The final solution turned out to be replacing a worn ignition switch which I figured was the case in the first place, having read of this in Gus's Garage in Popular Scichanics magazine in the late 50's or early 60's ("Gus noted the heavy key ring with many keys on it"), but was "not allowed" to offer an opinion, if you know what I mean, by the self-appointed electrical genius who worked on my poor van. Wasted money and then bought me a new one, and kept on using and paying that mechanic-- what can I say? Thanks for the info, little gems that sometimes are recalled and useful, as the time 20-odd years ago when I helped a stranded family get going from a rest stop because I knew a "recently rebuilt starter problem" for some era of cars, where there were three possible whingdings, of different shaft lengths, used to rebuild I believe it was Chevy starters. Wrong part = jammed starter. Cure = sharp rap on the right place which I also knew (since forgot) and a couple of the menfolk crawled under with a hammer and got the starter working again. OK, did I give enough time for Chevy/GM? Including the electrical system switching which let you play the radio (this was in the 70's) without the key in the ignition, let alone turned on? Sold them a lot of batteries, that one did. OK, then there was my 65 Mustang. Bad valve early in life w/no abuse. Early demise of starter motor. Forgive me if I don't dredge up any more unpleasant memories. Honda? Hey, take my Odyssey-- please! Two rear motor mounts, AC out, fortunately not Black Death, brake/transmission interlock switch ($100), rear light assembly that could not be taken apart to change a burned out bulb without breaking the damn thing, $120 and a time I should have let the dealer do it g. More, again I have forgotten, thank you. Oh yeah: front brakes. Potato chip rotors and dissolving pads. Then there was the 2001 Camry 4cyl stick. Faithful and true except for inept service later in life, an improperly replaced cam belt, a Mystery Noise, and inept alignment. A very nice car that didn't deserve that bull**** and only needed an inline six for step-off torque to make it "perfect" for what it was intended to be. Well, Toyota caught theirs in good time, even if most of the problem was idiot operator error-- "The State Trooper followed the runaway Toyota for 37 miles before the elderly driver lost control and slammed into a bridge abutment at high speed, bringing down the bridge, killing 14, injuring 57 and causing a power outage for the three surrounding counties". Instead of _reaching down and turning the key off_. I've had a couple of good mechanics down through the years, guys who knew what was what and did the work needed. Rare. Essential for at least relative happiness, no matter what breaks on the damn things. I still would have backed way the hell off that pickup truck just on general principles but also, on consideration, in case that axle somehow turned forward and dug into the pavement. --D-y |
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On Jul 14, 1:25*pm, " wrote:
OK, did I give enough time for Chevy/GM? Including the electrical system switching which let you play the radio (this was in the 70's) without the key in the ignition, let alone turned on? Sold them a lot of batteries, that one did. OK, then there was my 65 Mustang. Bad valve early in life w/no abuse. Early demise of starter motor. Forgive me if I don't dredge up any more unpleasant memories. Honda? Hey, take my Odyssey-- please! Two rear motor mounts, AC out, fortunately not Black Death, brake/transmission interlock switch ($100), rear light assembly that could not be taken apart to change a burned out bulb without breaking the damn thing, $120 and a time I should have let the dealer do it g. More, again I have forgotten, thank you. Oh yeah: front brakes. Potato chip rotors and dissolving pads. Then there was the 2001 Camry 4cyl stick. Faithful and true except for inept service later in life, an improperly replaced cam belt, a Mystery Noise, and inept alignment. A very nice car that didn't deserve that bull**** and only needed an inline six for step-off torque to make it "perfect" for what it was intended to be.... Really, cars are _so_ much better than they used to be. I've always kept notepads with my cars' maintenance notes, including things like "to get the alternator out, had to jack up left side, remove wheel and twist clockwise to clear half shaft" or whatever. Anyway, I once browsed back over the notes for the '60 Fiat, '66 Corvair Corsa and '70 Fiat 124 Spider. Talk about a litany of horrors... or, um, projects. Until I got married, I looked on all that as interesting challenges and learning experiences. Then for a long time, I looked on such things as maintaining "street cred" with my motorhead students. But the last two mechanical emergencies just became good reasons to pay the guy with the big air impact wrenches. - Frank Krygowski |
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On Jul 12, 11:08*am, Chalo wrote:
Tºm Shermªn wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D5CUgUhu5Vd0 So much for Mopar quality. The guy with the beard bike needs to learn to trim his front derailleur, or fix whatever's wrong with it. Are you referring to the horrible noise at the time he was coasting by the disabled truck? |
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On Jul 12, 8:26*pm, " wrote:
On Jul 12, 3:08*am, Chalo wrote: Tºm Shermªn wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D5CUgUhu5Vd0 So much for Mopar quality. The guy with the beard bike needs to learn to trim his front derailleur, or fix whatever's wrong with it. Maybe he has a hard time convincing a legitimate bike shop to work on his ride. Q: When is a crossed chain even worse? A: When it's on a bent. what is a bent? |
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On Jul 13, 2:26*pm, Bill wrote:
"So much for Mopar quality." "It's the axle retaining clip..." Wrong. The Dodge dually uses a Dana 70 differential and axle assembly. Did you ever see one? It's a really huge mofo with a 10-1/2" diameter ring gear. Most truck manufacturers spec it on 5-ton trucks, while Mopar uses it on a one-ton. And it definitely does not use an axle retaining clip like smaller differentials sometimes do. It uses two locking axle retaining nuts on each axle with an indexed lockwasher between them to keep them from loosening, the same as a standard headset does. If that one loosened, then somebody didn't lock the retaining nuts. "Surprising, it's usually the electrical system that fails on Dodge trucks." Chrysler electrical systems are no worse than any other brand. And at least they never tried "green" insulation on their wiring harnesses like some of the European manufacturers did. You self-professed Mopar experts have been reading Consumer"s Reports too much. Grren signifies the wiper circuits on British cars. |
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Anton Success wrote:
On Jul 12, 8:26 pm, " wrote: On Jul 12, 3:08 am, Chalo wrote: Tºm Shermªn wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D5CUgUhu5Vd0 So much for Mopar quality. The guy with the beard bike needs to learn to trim his front derailleur, or fix whatever's wrong with it. Maybe he has a hard time convincing a legitimate bike shop to work on his ride. Q: When is a crossed chain even worse? A: When it's on a bent. what is a bent? a mockery of bicycles -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org/ Open every day since 1 April, 1971 |
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