Game changer propshaft

[Tazzieman]

I wonder if perhaps we give these engineering teams too much respect...

Here you go

 

[Ovrland Bill]

Spot on!

“ Legal telling them not to admit to anything and finance saying that they can afford to fix every unit out there.”

Thanks for your insight (assume intent was “…finance saying that they canNOT afford to fix every unit out there.”…)

 

[Zimm]

Spot on!

I do have a very highly placed contact at IA NA and he keeps saying that engineering is investigating and that engineering is talking to the part vendor. We have been going around and around since last November. I’m getting close to posting our message exchange. It seems to me that they have legal and finance involved. Legal telling them not to admit to anything and finance saying that they can afford to fix every unit out there. Hell, legal might also evaluating what recourse they have against Magna Styer and Carraro, and Dana. All of those companies were party to the design and implementation. Surely they all must have understood the shit show that was going to happen.

they can, or cannot?

 

[TD5-90]

I wonder if perhaps we give these engineering teams too much respect...

I guess the opposite is true. Legal & finance don't respect engineering appropriately. I'm absolutely sure engineering is (and always was) aware of what's going on. But I can imagine when the first engineer said "We cannot take this axle design as it is, we have to introduce changes to fit our application", some PM or financial guy said "We're already late, and this would cost money".

 

[255/85]

It’s not just a material problem. It is a mechanical issue. At full articulation the boot gets squeezed between the driveshaft and the metal collar of the CV. Changing the boot material isn’t going to fix this on a truck that actually gets used off road. It might help on pavement princess.

So don't lift the left front tire when I see an open parking spot at the patisserie and start jumping curbs?