2021 Diesel break in

[diyer2]

3 minutes ago, Grumpy Bear said:

Yes some of the dumbest people I've ever met were engineers.

Yes sir. Why I said what I  posted.

First hand experiance with this. 

Tried to tell an engineer how to repair a piece of equipment I had experiance with. Turned into an argument and me telling him to call me when his way didn't work and bring your wallet.

[Grumpy Bear]

Anyone who has ever read my drivel knows I am in first place in questioning 'engineering'. Not so much engineers. 

What is unknown to the public it the engineers goal. That he doesn't always get to choose. Sometimes that is give to  him. 

But whatever than goal my be it WILL be self serving to the company he works for. I trust the engineering to meet the goal. I don't trust the goal is in my best interest. Don't confuse the two. After than it is common sense. Something not commonly used. 

 

Example: OEM say change ATF ever 100K unless the service is severe, if so then every 45K. This instruction is meant to get it to the end of warranty. An ever small number it seems.   Current warranty is:

 

All 2020 Chevrolet and GMC cars, vans, crossovers and light-duty pickup trucks come with our Powertrain Limited Warranty, which is 5 years/100,000 miles^†(2) for customers^†(1) with a qualifying fleet account(s)^†(1), 5 years/60,000 miles^†(2) for retail buyers and 5 years/100,000 miles^†(2) for HD diesel pickups.

 

Here's the common sense part. Forum guys say. "I never change my ATF and got 200K form my transmission" and then the forum engineering propagates into never change your oil if you want it to last. This is zero common sense. 

 

Forum guy says use the severe schedule for ALL service. There's some common sense.  

 

 

[Grumpy Bear]

4 minutes ago, diyer2 said:

Yes sir. Why I said what I  posted.

First hand experiance with this. 

Tried to tell an engineer how to repair a piece of equipment I had experiance with. Turned into an argument and me telling him to call me when his way didn't work and bring your wallet.

Stories are a dime a dozen. So let me ask you then as you were smarter than he was. Can you design the thing you repaired? 

[diyer2]

Couldn't design the equipment but knew how to repair it. So who's smarter, the public would say the engineer. I say me in that instance. 

Edited November 14, 2020 by diyer2

[txab]

I like trains.  

 

[Grumpy Bear]

7 minutes ago, diyer2 said:

Couldn't design the equipment but knew how to repair it. So who's smarter, the public would say the engineer. I say me in that instance. 

 

Everyone has some area of expertise. It isn't a competition. It isn't a matter of being smarter at/in your area of 'better'. It about knowing when you're not. If his ego took a hit he didn't check it at the door. He did not recognize he wasn't in his area of expertise. He was in yours. That makes him suborn and arrogant but not dumb or dumber. His mistake.

 

It would likewise be a mistake that because you excelled in an area he was deficient in that it makes you 'smarter'. It make you proficient at your skill. Him out of his depth. 

 

I like little trains too.  

 

 

[diyer2]

OK

I get your point. 

He was an a$$ to me. 

I'm not college educated and have experinced the attitude of people with a degree many times. On the job and my personal life. A piece of paper doesn't make you a better person. 

That's my point.

[Grumpy Bear]

4 hours ago, diyer2 said:

OK

I get your point. 

He was an a$$ to me. 

I'm not college educated and have experinced the attitude of people with a degree many times. On the job and my personal life. A piece of paper doesn't make you a better person. 

That's my point.

You have no idea how much I understand "your point". 

 

It does seem that many educated people believe education and intelligence are the same thing. I even have a younger brother that displays this attitude. He has an honest to goodness University of Iowa Engineering degree. I contend that an aboriginal in his environment is 'smarter' than Einstein would be outside his. 

 

Smart and intelligent are not the same thing anymore than intelligent and educated are. Break down the IQ test and you know what you find? A test that scores intelligence based on....."How rapidly one solves problems they are FAMILAR with". Yea. Give Albert the test designed to test an aboriginals intelligence and he scores like a monkey would Alberts test.

 

These test..... Oh...now you went and got me started............ My entire working career I battled this attitude.

 

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So this priest give Sunday to a younger priest under his tutelage to go play a round of golf. He doesn't want to get caught so he goes to a small course in a neighboring town and dresses accordingly. God and Peter are watching and God tells Peter he will punish him for his lack of respect. On the back nine after being several strokes under par the priest sinks a 330 yard hole in one!!! Peter looks at god and says, "How is that punishment"?  God says....

 

"Who is he going to tell?" 

 

 

 

[Bayou Cajun]

Thanks, I am going to take the back roads home.  Instead of the 13.5 hours, it is going to take around 18.  I hope to see some beautiful country on the way back.  The truck was supposed to be here in November, but still no production date. The order was accepted in early October by the production plant. I wish I could run up there and give them a hand.  Snowmobiling is coming quickly; I am going to have to thumb a ride up to the mountains.

 

Thanks and everyone take care,

Paul

[Colossus]

Back to the topic on hand, to break in- just take it easy for the first few thousand miles if you can and then go for it. 

[Colossus]

And damn it Jim, I'm a doctor, not an Engineer!! 

 

 

[diyer2]

[Arkangel]

Damn, guess I shoulda read the manual. I have been cruising the freeway doing 70-75 in my brand new AT4 on my way to and from work.

[Grumpy Bear]

8 hours ago, Arkangel said:

Damn, guess I shoulda read the manual. I have been cruising the freeway doing 70-75 in my brand new AT4 on my way to and from work.

No one said it would explode if you ignore the instructions. Just wont last as long.

 

The difference between the guy whose truck is aging like it has Progeria and another who gets to be as old as Methuselah?

IS?

 

[ShotgunZ71]

The odds of anyone buying a truck today that intends to keep it until it dies of old age is very slim. People are getting vehicles more frequently for many reasons, one of which is new technology.

Edited November 17, 2020 by ShotgunZ71