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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CUgUhu5Vd0&feature=player_embedded#at=90 . So much for Mopar quality. -- Tºm Shermªn - 42.435731°N, 83.985007°W I am a vehicular cyclist. |
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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. Chalo |
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On 7/12/2011 3:08 AM, Chalo Colina 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. Think it is the rear derailer indexing being off. Maybe he has a hard time convincing a legitimate bike shop to work on his ride. His bike worked well enough to finish the ride. Cannot say the same about the Mopar product. -- Tºm Shermªn - 42.435731°N, 83.985007°W I am a vehicular cyclist. |
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On 12 jul, 09:18, Tºm Shermªn °_° ""twshermanREMOVE\"@THI
$southslope.net" wrote: See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CUgUhu5Vd0&feature=player_embedded#a.... So much for Mopar quality. -- Tºm Shermªn - 42.435731°N, 83.985007°W I am a vehicular cyclist. Sandals, bare feet and bad toenails. Disgusting. Lou |
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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. Phew, ugly nasty feet. Of course, when you ride a bent I guess you get used to that sort of thing... Surprising, it's usually the electrical system that fails on Dodge trucks. --D-y |
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"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. |
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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. I was following a guy on a long descent who dropped a driveshaft. He never noticed. This guy probably forgot to tighten something, that was probably his wrench several miles back. I mountain bike on a trail that runs at the bottom of a ravine, whose top is the shoulder of an interstate. The debris at the bottom has apparently been collecting for decades. The amount of crap is amazing, and that's just the stuff that made it over the guard rail. A modern-day midden. |
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On Jul 13, 6:44*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#a.... So much for Mopar quality. It's not all that unusual a hazard. Crap is always falling off/out of vehicles. I was following a guy on a long descent who dropped a driveshaft. He never noticed. This guy probably forgot to tighten something, that was probably his wrench several miles back. I mountain bike on a trail that runs at the bottom of a ravine, whose top is the shoulder of an interstate. The debris at the bottom has apparently been collecting for decades. The amount of crap is amazing, and that's just the stuff that made it over the guard rail. A modern-day midden. There is a place on HWY 18 in a heavily forested area on the way out to the Oregon coast where there is a persistent pot hole. I hit that pot hole, and it popped-off my hub cap -- which rolled off in to the forest. I stopped my car and went hunting for my hub cap. As it turned out, just beyond the road edge, the forest dropped down a hillside in to a small ravine filled with ferns . . . and hubcaps. There must have been hundreds. It was like some forest gnome hubcap kingdom. Around here somewhere. http://www.flickr.com/photos/4279167...n/photostream/ -- Jay Beattie. |
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On Jul 13, 8:26*am, 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. Yes, just a swipe-- but, my Dodge broke electrically so much they bought me a new Chevy. Fortunately, an automatic so I didn't have to crawl under and unjam the shift linkage as with another, earlier work vehicle from The General. I mean, I'm only woofin' in the cause of humor here, because the broken truck bought me some on-bike ride time and I didn't tell the boss what I was doing with my vacation, either. BTW: "No worse than any other" is not exactly high praise g. Talking "Euro" is reaching. --D-y |
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