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That's one of those European tow hooks that got mandated here in the US because of Europe with the jerk strap hooked on. We fought tooth a nail to keep them off cars in the US just because of this kind of thing. However the Government thought it was a good idea IMO.
Some day I'll tell you some of my engineering nightmares I worked with at GM & the Government's meddling!!!
Didn't bother the truck though did it?? It has a real bumper on it with a frame, not a unibody!!
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All's well hear also!! [/hope she paid the bill this month]
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Why should they??? The car companies put on that nice little hook for you called a tow hook. It tells you that you can't use it to pull the vehicle in the owners manual, but then again who reads them??? Nope we heard about this all the time after we had to put them on our cars. After Europe mandated it, should be good for the rest of the world, Huh??
Samething, almost with daytime running lights. Why Canada mandated it for there country. Being GM sells almost as many cars in Canada as the US, with parts management & all, we'll just put them on American cars for you as well. (This one wasn't mandated, GM got it's tit in the ringer over this one though).
It started out that the power to the vehicle with all the mandated safety equipment that we're flat out of power to run everything. So a Power Boost Module had to be added under the hood. Ever look under a hood of today's cars?? Where you going to get a box the size of a cigar box under the hood, let alone the wiring harness to run it. Then the Headlights were burning out before GM wanted them to. Idea #2. Reduce the power to the headlights during the day as they don't need to be as bright, thus the bulbs last longer. We had to mount a resistor on the tie bar, that got to something like 300 degs while it was operating. We affectionately called this resistor Hot Finger, because that's what it looked like.
There wasn't room for it there, but there was no place else to put it. The airbag sensor is in the very same place. So now we're fighting for real-estate for Hot Finger with the airbag people & they get there way. So after about 1 1/2 years of packaging, testing & validating, we got our Canadian daytime running lights.
Something that was supposed to come along free for the ride, ended up costing $450 per car. So the new car buyers got to shell out that money for nothing that was never mandated!! Think about that as you drive around during the day & see all the headlights on. The ole Skinny one had a hand in that fiasco IMO 
Engineering fiasco's, I've got a thousand of them!!
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I got a Jeep Wrangler, and when I pull someone out of the snow, I make sure that they have a clear path and I have a good spot to hook that won't screw up their bumper. Also, if it doesn't come with a gentle tug from the Jeep, I give up and tell them that I tried...
I HATE NET NAZIS!!!
Aubie, you best hope that you don't get a whole lot of snow, because someone might come over and try to pull your truck out of the front yard. 5 - 6" of snow should cover those concrete blocks and make them invisible!
I HATE NET NAZIS!!!
We've got the snow coming down here. Must be several inches a hour now. I can't tell by it falling, but there isn't much visibility & a lot of the cars have gotten off the road already. 
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That would be awesome!!! People get real stupid in the snow... It took me an hour and 25 minutes to get to work today, normally 40 - 45... That sucked my bawls... Took wife 2 hours, normally 50 minutes!!!
I HATE NET NAZIS!!!
Good Idea, but it's snowing to hard for that. I wouldn't be able to keep the camera dry out there today.
I was out in the 4x4 a bit ago & cars are just getting off the road & going home. That's unusual, really.
I'm just now getting dressed to go out & pull the cover off the sled to go to the gas station to fill it up for a ride.
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Footage of that would have been 10 seconds worth IMO
I'm going to shoot some footage of the trip on the 8th. Maybe I can find some place to post it.
Hey, you want to take a ride & follow my raggidy old ass?? I've got a sled I'll set up right on!!
[can't hold back the laughing] Turn NW out Chicago after your stop there. Around the lake & right up to my place. I'd love to see that IMO [/can't hold back the laughing]
Man I can't find the url in the properties of these 2 short sled videos. They play on media player, but I can't find them the same way as a photo to post. What can I do about that? You'd like tham IMO
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I almost turned around and went home, but I was already 45 minutes into the trip and I didn't want to waste a sick day when the wife couldn't... That would have been a fun day, too cold to do anything but stay in bed!
I HATE NET NAZIS!!!
Try <A HREF="http://www.johndee.com/movies/2004/jan26-1.AVI" target="_new"> here </A> & <A HREF="http://www.johndee.com/movies/2004/jan26-2.AVI" target="_new"> here </A>.
It's safe for work, but turn down the sound, sleds cranking up!!!
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Nothing wrong with that, for sure. The only thing I'd be worrying about was getting home!! That can be a bear.
I'm just going to play today in it.
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Maybe I will pack up the girls and the dog and take them out sledding tonight! (Regular sleds, no motors, unless you wanna come down and pick us up? Lots of THOSE sled trails in my town!!!)
I HATE NET NAZIS!!!
That is one thing that the Net has done for us... Your 15 minutes of fame is now like 15 seconds. Like the Star Wars Kid...
I HATE NET NAZIS!!!
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Hey if you want to go to work in Toluka Mexico, no problem, I can get you in there at GM's design house tomorrow, if you can run Unigrapics. I can't even use my contacts to get myself work in the US IMO
Now a Astro isn't a car, it's a truck. At least in design. Trucks can beat a lot of validation & don't have as strict of standards as cars. That's why they are pushing SUV's. Company's can get away with a lot by calling any vehicle a truck. It's not the American's love of SUV's, It's the Company's love of not having to jump through so many hoops to sell it, like a car. Last thing I did was the new Saturn SUV. What a POS. There's a case where the laws & validation was stretched to the max. GM said it was a truck, LMFAO!! Do you see them advertised as trucks? Thing has axles the size of my little finger. You tell me that's a truck. Government bought it though.
| Quote : Here's an engineering Q for you: Why not have a separate circuit to run the DRL's in series instead of parallel to increase the resistance and thereby decrease the output? It could be autoswitched when the headlights are turned "on" to eliminate the crossed circuits. |
Don't take that to GM with you. You'd be labeled as an out of the box thinker & be mover to the left out of the main stream for that. No good ole Hot Finger was an ole 60's, carry over design. Hey no tooling, no validation & Delco is ready to supply them. End of story. That's the way a lot of it's done. We fought that battle all the time. I could always find smaller parts in the Competitive Assessment Area ( that's where they buy competitors cars & take them apart & lay them on a table the length of a foot ball field for you to asses) that were smaller & our competitors were using them. But Delco didn't have them & wouldn't tool them. Your very limited like that. You pretty much take a POS & make it work. Not the engineering you see advertised in car ads IMO
If you want to see my patent, PM me. You can find it on the web, but it has my name & address on it. Not going to post a link here with it. It's self locking upper radiator mount. Took 5 years to get it & was out of production in 1 years run.
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Unigr...GRR I should have went to GMI (Kettering now). They wanted me, but...I didn't want to go to school another 4 years
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BTW, you know a switch can be made to turn one thing off and another on simultaniously...a light switch could disconnect the serial headlight circuit and connect a parallel one simultaniously. And without wasting power on a resistor...perhaps increasing CAFE...OOOPs, I'll never get anywhere thinking like that
You do know that the PT Cruiser is considered a minivan by the EPA didn't you? That makes it a truck. It's economy is averaged in with DC's truck line to raise their CAFE.
Now you and I know that the PT Cruiser isn't a minivan (it got that rating with fold flat cargo area), and that most minivan's aren't trucks. In fact the only 2 minivan's I can think of that really are trucks are the Astro/Safari and the Aerostar. That is, if you can call the Ford Ranger a "truck", lol.
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The PT Cruiser is the 4th generation of the K-Car.
1) Aries/Reliant
2) Shadow/Sundance
3) Neon/SX2.0
4) PT Cruiser
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It's a good thing you didn't go to GMI. We had students from GMI, every summer as assistants. After seeing what we did, some wanted to change there field a bit. But GMI was very narrow, but good. Biggest problem for them, the credits earned at GMI were non transferable to another school. They would have to start over again to do it. Most GMI students were execs. kids.
I do know about the switch you talked about. It's just engineering & the limits put on engineers.
Funny you should mention PT Cruiser. That was designed in , you guessed it, Toluka, Mexico. Yes, it is a Neon. To tell you the truth, PT Cruiser might have just saved DC, but there not out of the woods yet. The DC guys stayed in the same hotel as we did. You go to Toluka & you will see businesses there that used to be here. All big company's as well. I could talk to you all day about what has gone down there.
One of the big benefits that the Mexicans got at Toluka was a free catered lunch. Yea, lunch. With the living standards down there, food is a big thing. GM felt that a well feed employee was a productive employee!! So they set it up that way. It's so well received that the Mexicans will do almost anything to work overtime, to be able to get in on second shifts lunch. That way they had 2 free meals a day. These are friggen engineers for christ sakes. However there was no discount on a new car for them. Most of them can't afford a car. Several that had cars, they were Toyota Taxi's. That's right, they drove Taxi at night to make ends meet.
Sad to say, we can bit-h cry, wine & moan, that business is never coming back to the US. Breaks my heart, really. I loved my job, but it's gone. I believe we can thank the Government & the Green Winnie's for that. First time I heard Service Society was 10 years ago, but that's exactly where we're headed. UAW is history, they just don't know it yet. We need a country that is so squeaky clean form any form of pollution, that businesses that manufacture anything, pollute to much. EPA will get then & eventually, they'll go south or somewhere else in the world. That's so ironic to me. After all the $$$$ that have been spent on pollution, I still can't swim in the Grand River here in my town. So to me we're barking up the wrong tree. But it's been decided we're going to a Service Society & that's what is going to happen, in the long run.
If you want a job that can carry you through your life & your in your 20's, get into health care. That's where the moneys going in this country. It's sad to me. I've been in the auto industry my entire life, racing & wrenching is my life, sad to say it's going to be a different world for my Grandson. Better or not, he'll have to decide. He won't be doing what his Grandpa & Great Grandpa did. Sad, real sad to me.
A bunch of the guys I used to work with, that are in the same boat as I am, have talked about building our own car. A nitch car like the Prowler. I know the talent that can pull it off in a heartbeat. We know all the vendors & validation. We've looked into it a bit & the thing that has stopped us so far is money. Ungraphics licensee is & 30,000 a pop last I knew & we'd need a min. of 10. We figure 3 1/2 years to do it. We could have a prototype in 1 year, but the validation would eat up the rest of it. We can't lay out that type of $$$$ in the hope our car sells & we can recoup our investment. If you know anyone that wants to bankroll such a thing, let me know, I'm up for it.
Lake racing this weekend IMO
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Same thing my Unigrahics education, engineering training & the hundreds of hours I put in with in house training 14 years on the job is getting me!
I'll tell you this, get the DRE (Design Release Engineer) degree & your in like Flynn. That is the people they want. After all they spearheaded in the schools I mentioned & that's who there hiring. Right wrong or indifferent, that's where the bear sh-t in the buckwheat & that's the way it is.
BTW A DRE is a clerk really. Your job would be to take the designs from Mexico & China & put it in the system. That's it. No travel, no proving grounds, no vendor oversight, just put it in the system & kick it off. That's why I turned it down. I've never been a clerk, I had clerks that did that for me. They let 1500 engineers go because of it. That was in the plan as well. Get pissed off & they'll leave. Traditional engineering at GM in the US is a thing of the past. But it makes good commercials. I love the one about GM being a people company!!
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You still up??? Time for bed, I'm hitting it!!
No I didn't take a nap either.
I worked my ass off pulling a tractor into a garage with the 4 wheeler. Got it about 20' from the door & had to use a come along to get it in the rest of the way. Then the neighbor called & is stove up with a bad back he's' going under the knife tomorrow for & wanted me to do his plowing for him. Spent a few hours doing all of his jobs. Then I rode the sled for a couple of hours. Took the Grandson with me. No I didn't get the night lights. I'm wore & beat.
I do more work by mistake than most people set out to do!!
In the morning Man!!
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Friggen time zones on the forum!!!
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