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Couldn't someone just install an inline water separator? Seems like a pretty easy fix to me.

 

At a young and single stage absolutely. But the people I personally know who get govt money are single parents. That takes care of the feeling productive problem....

 

People that did had great luck. However GM was aware of this and refused to do it from the factory. Still low power and louder than most wanted. But why not take a bad situation, double down and make it worse. Sometime early 80's they redesigned the block. Cutting weight. Adding windowed mains, like the other small cubic in olds motors. That was a epic fail lighting the blocks of a diesel. By then people were done with them. Corporate greed and budget ruined a well designed idea well ahead of it's time.

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Remember logical thinking has not been a strong suit in this country a long time. Just like today most people buy a new car and just drive it, then go to dealer when they have a problem.

The conversation the other day is another reason I dont like dealers. They are instructed how to repair something under warranty. No room for logical thinking. You see the problem, you know the cause, and the book tells you how to repair it. I like analyzing failure and using that to determine proper repair. Not just replace the broken part with new and shipping it. Just for it to happen again.


Sorry so long.

 

Yes sir. I'm in agreement. It's one of the big issues we have in modern trucking... not many real mechanics. They're mostly parts changers that call themselves technicians.

I had an uncle, who passed several years back. If you had a problem with your car, he'd tell you to pull it up, pop the hood and leave it run. Within 5 minutes he would tell ya what the problem was, what it would take to fix it, and how much money was needed. All he had to do was listen close for a minute and watch it run.

Too bad they don't make mechanics like that anymore. There are some out there that really do try to do right, but they need older hands to teach them.

 

Great post. I will agree on the corporate greed aspect. I was involved in a lot of failure analysis in my tenure at the mine site. It was used as a field proving ground for gm. I can without a doubt say that many of the issues we had, and the fixes we came up with, made it into newer models as we knew who to complain to. I own a '17 Silverado, and I find it fascinating when I look it over and I can see things that are done that way because of the effort we as a dealer made to highlight them to the correct people.

As for the 5.7 diesel, i had a freind who used one for a pilot truck in an 80 chev truck. The truck rusted out in the 90's and had to be retired. Had 1.4 million on it, never had the valve covers off. He had a aftermarket fuel filter/separator installed. Only issue he had was every couple hundred thousand km it would twist off the oil pump drive shaft. He always carried a spare.

 

True, but I had worked with some older guys that were hacks too. We have engineered vehicles to just replace parts too. We dont fix fenders, we replace them. It's cheaper. They can train them less and get more out of them.

 

Most of the time Now days going outside what the “book” tells you to do will get you fired.

 

When the manufacturer is paying the bill for warranty, technically they are the customer. If they tell us to do something, no matter how irrelevant or pointless it is, we have to do it.

 

Understood. Just like replacing a part with high service failure and no redesign when anyone can see that a small change would be a permanent repair. Yet the average purchasing consumer is not aware.

 

Easily the best one is when they tell you to update the software before doing any more testing. Yeah because outdated software is going to cause the machine to suddenly act up, even though it ran perfectly fine the first 2000 hours of its life on that old file.