| |
Subject |
Author |
Date Posted |
Forum
|
 |
RE: Stopped by the Ram dealer
They already posted us full for the weekend. The plant went to the Union to force seven days a week in the two launch departments for the next three months. Per the contract they OKed it.
Don
Well it;s time to hit the road....have fun guys. :B
|
Perrysburg Dodgeboy
|
05/21/13 11:34am |
Tow Vehicles
|
|
RE: Stopped by the Ram dealer
Well if we don't get on the stick we will run out of the new 8 speed transmissions and the new 9 speed delays have pushed the new Liberty launch back to late June. To say Sergio is mad an understatement, look to see more of the UMC boys and girls hitting the road. Very busy at the plant right now, a lot of area managers and up are playing coveryourbutt right now.
Don
|
Perrysburg Dodgeboy
|
05/20/13 09:40pm |
Tow Vehicles
|
|
RE: ATF temp sensor install....very simple
Well **** sorry for not drinking my coffee before reading you post. Push on barbed fitting not the shark bite style. Hope you have a better day. BTW my truck has metal lines at the trans, not rubber. Since the prob is to be as close to the trans as possible I figured your Honda also had metal AT the trans.....bet it does.
Don
|
Perrysburg Dodgeboy
|
05/20/13 12:12pm |
Tow Vehicles
|
|
RE: ATF temp sensor install....very simple
Having powersports as my #1 hobby, and a Honda TV that doesnt allow us to access ATF temp thru OBD2, I came across the Koso battery operated temperature sensor, designed for 2 strokes sleds and bikes that don't have 12v power. MEANING...there are NO bare wire connections required. Not only that, but its digital and small!
I paid $66 plus the brass T and nipples, total cost was $75.
Full name to search by: Koso North America Mini Thermometer BA003035
There are 4 basic steps:
1. Install the sensor in the ATF out line from the transmission. Use a brass T with barb ends and a reducer to fit the 1/8"NPT sensor.
I hope this is not a slip on fitting like a "Shark Bite" fitting used in plumbing!!!! These fittings are NOT a good idea for use were constant movement is present! I would replace it with a fitting like this ASAP if it were me.
http://i1343.photobucket.com/albums/o790/Dtropnevad/2004%20Ram%202500%20Cummins/2423345470034694626CPlVcU_ph_zpsddaabede.jpg height=150 width=150
2. Run the wire thru some big grommet in the firewall.
3. Mount the gauge with adhesive Velcro
4. Snap together 2 wire connections...the sensor & gauge.
Done.
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o250/rinconvtr/Honda%20Pilot%20ATF%20temp/IMG_20130519_163138_008_zps4c13886d.jpg
|
Perrysburg Dodgeboy
|
05/20/13 10:25am |
Tow Vehicles
|
|
RE: The continuing Saga waiting for my new Ram 3500
Instead of moving the block heater, I'd just move to a place where I didn't need one.
I dream of moving to the Mojave desert, but don't see that happening soon.
Don
|
Perrysburg Dodgeboy
|
05/14/13 05:12pm |
Tow Vehicles
|
|
RE: Battery strap corroding
Anyone have any idea why a battery strap would be corroding? It is covered with the usual white powder. The pos and neq terminals are clean. I guess I'll stick an insulator under it but I was just wondering what's going on. There is a stray current obviously. This is on the cranking battery. The strap on the aux battery is clean.
BK
Out gassing of the battery do to overcharging or a bad battery. Have the charging system and battery checked and NOT AT AUTO ZONE!!! Go to a local shop that rebuilds alt. and have them check it or a good repair shop.
Don
|
Perrysburg Dodgeboy
|
05/13/13 04:27pm |
Tow Vehicles
|
|
RE: GMs new secret weapon......LOL
Travelnutz,Chrysler has not been sold three times. There was the "Merger of Equals" when that POS know nothing Bob Eaton merged us with Damn-Lire. Who by the way was cash poor before the merger but soon and a major cash infusion thanks to Chrysler. Good ole Bobby Boy received a $100,000,000.00 buy out for him to step down. He only had 9 months left on his contract and he could have been let go for not a penny. Think maybe there was a little per merger negotiation in place? Lee Iaccoca told the Board that if they put Bobby Boy in charge Chrysler would be doomed and he was right. After D-L ran Chrysler into the ground they took what they wanted and sold us to the Hell-Hound's. As for the Bankruptcy I do believe your great GMC was in the Court Room right next door with us TN. We where forced through Bankruptcy both GM nor Chrysler wanted it.
As for the rest of your post it don't hold water my friend, when CEO's are being paid hundreds of millions in pay, options and benefits plus their golden parachutes they all have then nope sorry not buying it. By the way for someone that claims poverty you sure are living the high life TN. Don't throw stones if you live in a glass house.
Don
|
Perrysburg Dodgeboy
|
05/13/13 04:22pm |
Tow Vehicles
|
|
RE: The continuing Saga waiting for my new Ram 3500
That's a clean looking shield Don.
After I installed the Air Dog system I know it was not a good idea to leave those filters unprotected. Now if a stone gets kicked up I have no worries of it punching a hole :R in the filter. :C
BTW it's made out of SS.
Don
|
Perrysburg Dodgeboy
|
05/13/13 11:34am |
Tow Vehicles
|
|
RE: The continuing Saga waiting for my new Ram 3500
That is where I moved the block heater plug to.
http://i1343.photobucket.com/albums/o790/Dtropnevad/2004%20Ram%202500%20Cummins/2153414160034694626XChBpY_fs_zpsef363ae5.jpg height=600 width=600
using this
http://i1343.photobucket.com/albums/o790/Dtropnevad/2004%20Ram%202500%20Cummins/2123393740034694626OfYyEy_ph_zpsd415ec4a.jpg height=600 width=600
makes plugging it in a whole lot easier....only if DW would remember to unplug it when she uses the truck in the winter :R .
Don
|
Perrysburg Dodgeboy
|
05/13/13 11:29am |
Tow Vehicles
|
|
RE: GMs new secret weapon......LOL
Travelnutz my point was that saying "Priced and regulated out of being competitive with and in the world market place we are a part of." the reason you are regulated to death is because without regulation our planet would be a giant cesspool. The businessmen are to blame for that not the government.
I would love to see more things made here in the good ole USA but until the big boys decide they don't need to make hundreds of millions a year it is not going to happen.
Don
|
Perrysburg Dodgeboy
|
05/13/13 11:23am |
Tow Vehicles
|
|
RE: GMs new secret weapon......LOL
Not slamming any American worker as I want all manufactured products sold in America to be made in America. "What has this country come to." Are you blind? Priced and regulated out of being competitive with and in the world market place we are a part of. How do you think that was allowed to happen anyway? We are not the "island" in the sky scenario and haven't been for 25+ years.
Are the trees blocking your ability the see the forest? OR Have you been brainwashed? Open your eyes and look around you, go to the stores and see where the goods are made, better not look at the label of your clothes for where made, lately checked where much of the food you eat is grown, talked to a bankcard or credit card rep or about any info source? Not even going to mention vehicles driven here as they were once nearly ALL American made. 60 years ago all televisions were made in the USA, today none and everyone has from 1-6 or more of them. How do you think we lost all those jobs? Most intelligent people know! Be truely competitve or get lost is screaming at us every single day but so many have their earplugs shoved in deep and tight!
Well, just push your head down deeper into the sand a everything will become so much better, right?
So do you want to go back to the good ole days, when companies dumped waste in streams, rivers, lakes and the ocean? Buried toxic waste in land fills. The American Business owner by his greed brought this onto himself! Why have companies moved off shore because third world countries don't care how you dispose of the waste as long as your paying them (the government) off. That is why they moved.
Don
|
Perrysburg Dodgeboy
|
05/13/13 09:28am |
Tow Vehicles
|
|
RE: GMs new secret weapon......LOL
Buckeye Chuck,
"Why was that necessary?"
Perhaps Terryallen etc others will be finding out in the not very distant future. The competition's present or past technical and quality productive skills will only improve with time and the lure of increased profit potential from added customers and products produced. Not sure you have any knowledge as to what's in the works but some on this forum do. Just because these or a supplier made some errors in the past does not mean they will go away and nearly all will return and soon doing the job right. They wiil not stay as the "new" kid on the block and it's too late after one's job is actually gone or diminished or has been replaced by that once labled "poor quality supplier" who now produces superior quality at a much lower cost!
All successful manufacturer's in every country learn from and by their past mistakes. The clock is ticking and getting ever closer to that wakeup call. Instead of bragging and blowing your horn to the choir, put you voice and efforts into being more competitive in the world and produce even higher quality in every part or product you touch. Doing that alone keeps the door nearly shut tightly for a foot thru the door for foreign/offshore outsourcing.
It'a a world economy and it's not going away! How many times do our country's workers and manufacturers have to be bopped on the head with the reality they have wittnessed for many years now before the message actually sinks in? Sink or swim and fast because the skark is closing in on you! Stay tuned!
Arn't you a "tier supplier" also? Seems to me you have said many times that you are. Still waiting to hear wha Company you own. Care to tell one and all?
|
Perrysburg Dodgeboy
|
05/13/13 09:17am |
Tow Vehicles
|
|
RE: GMs new secret weapon......LOL
If you do the research you find these numbers and facts:
Number of employees per corporation of the Big 3 in year 2012. Rounded off to the nearest thousand world wide and in the USA, nearest hundred in Mexico.
GM:
205,000 world wide --- GM has 157 plants/locations
96,000 in the USA
11,300 in Mexico
Ford:
166,000 world wide --- Ford has 70 plants/locations
54,000 in the USA
10,800 in Mexico
Chrysler:
59,000 world wide --- Chrysler has 25 plants/locations
37,000 in USA
14,300 in Mexico
I noticed you forgot (this time) about Fiat. If you are going to include ALL of GM's gobble alliances then maybe you should fix this.
Yes Chrysler/Fiat are a little smaller then GM but that can be a LARGE benefit in lean times as GM found out the hard way. Not staring a pi$$ing match here just post the true facts and not the facts as you want them to look.
Some web sites list hourly only and others include all management. My list includes total direct employment for all three corporations only. Does not include any supplier employment.
|
Perrysburg Dodgeboy
|
05/13/13 09:12am |
Tow Vehicles
|
|
RE: The continuing Saga waiting for my new Ram 3500
what like this?
http://i1343.photobucket.com/albums/o790/Dtropnevad/2004%20Ram%202500%20Cummins/2524233510034694626cfxyZL_fs_zps856ef834.jpg height=600 width=600
http://i1343.photobucket.com/albums/o790/Dtropnevad/2004%20Ram%202500%20Cummins/2080564700034694626QmrWNn_fs_zps9b27fb1f.jpg height=600 width=600
http://i1343.photobucket.com/albums/o790/Dtropnevad/2004%20Ram%202500%20Cummins/2548103590034694626dNHXIx_fs_zpsea00a216.jpg height=600 width=600
I should market these :B
My number one mod bar none
http://i1343.photobucket.com/albums/o790/Dtropnevad/2004%20Ram%202500%20Cummins/2739807720034694626MPHvir_fs_zps18e5b107.jpg height=600 width=600
|
Perrysburg Dodgeboy
|
05/12/13 09:16pm |
Tow Vehicles
|
|
RE: GMs new secret weapon......LOL
I just can't see how they can have 70,000 people out on the street and hiring people here a Toledo Power Train :h
I'm sure the Union would have something to say about that. Now they did offer a lot of buy out before the bankruptcy but none after, same holds true for Chrysler. I know GM/Ford even hired some trades people back that took the buy outs.
But at any rate buyouts should not be considered as lost jobs. GM has always been overstaffed both union and non union workers. Were you once needed 40 people to staff a line you now can do it with 15 do to robotics and modern production techniques. But I can assure you GM does not have any workers laid off.
Don
|
Perrysburg Dodgeboy
|
05/12/13 07:13pm |
Tow Vehicles
|
|
RE: The continuing Saga waiting for my new Ram 3500
The fuel caps on all cars (as far as I have seen) tighten to a set torque then they start to click. My dad has complained about the cap on his 2012 Caddy being hard to remove. But he is 85 so I bet he would like a cap-less fuel tank.
Don
|
Perrysburg Dodgeboy
|
05/12/13 02:15pm |
Tow Vehicles
|
|
RE: GMs new secret weapon......LOL
Terry do you have a link for that story. I haven't seen anything about GM shedding jobs. Just the opposite they have added jobs here in the US.
Don
|
Perrysburg Dodgeboy
|
05/12/13 02:07pm |
Tow Vehicles
|
|
RE: GMs new secret weapon......LOL
JALLEN4 it is no surprise since most of our jobs have been sent over there. The Chinese market rose to 13.6 million total units (cars, buses and trucks) compared to 10.4 million here in the States. Again thanks to Corporate America's greed and their pursuit too put as much money in their grubby little (large really) pockets as they can.
Don
|
Perrysburg Dodgeboy
|
05/12/13 11:46am |
Tow Vehicles
|
|
RE: The continuing Saga waiting for my new Ram 3500
Well I was told that it was done as a convenience, in that Chrysler was hearing from their customers (older ones I bet) that it is hard to remove and then tighten the gas cap properly. Remember if the cap is not tightened correctly you will get a CEL for the emissions.
So they came up with the idea of sealing the fuel door area so they could eliminate the cap. Nice idea just they some how forgot the door latch on the Ram.
Yes fish your wrong. :B I bet also the other manufactures will fallow.
Don
|
Perrysburg Dodgeboy
|
05/12/13 09:45am |
Tow Vehicles
|
|
RE: The continuing Saga waiting for my new Ram 3500
Here's the model for RAM to copy for solving this issue with the lack of a fuel cap.
A larger fuel flap door to accomodate a standard fuel cap along with the DEF cap.
Enjoy...:B
Or they could have just put the latch on the door like we did on the other vehicles without a cap. Hello left had meet right hand try and work together won't you. :R
Way to many egotistical big headed engineers not talking to each other. I see this every day, day in and day out. Point it out and your labeled a "trouble maker" or "a angry union worker". How about just someone that gives a s%^t and wants our customer to get a quality vehicle? When it gets to the point when I no longer care it will be time for me to retire.
Don
|
Perrysburg Dodgeboy
|
05/12/13 08:36am |
Tow Vehicles
|
