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<blockquote data-quote="Trickymissfit" data-source="post: 607057" data-attributes="member: 25383"><p>I just can't get past the way the made the grill in the Tundra. I also have problems with the grill on the newer Dodges. For looks, it's hard to beat a Ford F150, or a 1972 Chevy step side. And lets face it nobody made an uglier bed than the old Toyota step side!</p><p> </p><p>Further food for thought:</p><p> </p><p>* Honda virtually tests zero drive trane parts before assembly, and the actually test is when they start up the engine and put it in gear. I was stunned about that. I do gather that if they have a failure they will pull everything ahead of the failure to a certain extent and test everything till it stabalizes again. Some folks think this is great, and others think it's flat stupid. I'm a one in twenty-five person if the product line is running as it should.</p><p> </p><p>* Dodge does a 100% test on every hemi engine, and Cummins does a similar thing with every deisel that they build for Dodge</p><p> </p><p>G.M. does a one in ten test at the start, and from there will expand to one in twenty five engines. Similar testing for the transmission as well. Allison does two tests. One is a short power test, that last three or four minutes under a variable load. Then a blind draw computor selects a transmission for a complete test. Should a transmission fail, they will go back as many as fifty units. The computor also will cull a transmission from the field for inspection. It's a blind draw, and nobody knows where it is when drawn out for inspection.</p><p> </p><p>*what Ford does nodays I can't say, but they used to do things similar to G.M. with their gas engines. Navstar tested every deisel, but that's over with.</p><p> </p><p>In about four or five years all heavyduty trucks will probably have an Allison or ZF gear box (even the Asian is an Allison built on license). The "no compete clause ends about then. There are two new gear boxes in the pipe line that will be a nice addition to the truck market, and the heavyduty versions are already in production as I write this. So it becomes a trickel down affair. The medium duty stuff literally exploded in their laps, and they cannot keep up with the demand from folks like Fed Ex and UPS. I gather they thought the demand would be about seventy five units a day, and it topped that three months into production. Then there is the otherone that will require a frame redesign. It has four moving parts and runs on about 1/4th the horsepower that the others require. Is probably good for 1000ft. lb. of torque short duration, and earns another 1.5 mpg.</p><p>gary</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trickymissfit, post: 607057, member: 25383"] I just can't get past the way the made the grill in the Tundra. I also have problems with the grill on the newer Dodges. For looks, it's hard to beat a Ford F150, or a 1972 Chevy step side. And lets face it nobody made an uglier bed than the old Toyota step side! Further food for thought: * Honda virtually tests zero drive trane parts before assembly, and the actually test is when they start up the engine and put it in gear. I was stunned about that. I do gather that if they have a failure they will pull everything ahead of the failure to a certain extent and test everything till it stabalizes again. Some folks think this is great, and others think it's flat stupid. I'm a one in twenty-five person if the product line is running as it should. * Dodge does a 100% test on every hemi engine, and Cummins does a similar thing with every deisel that they build for Dodge G.M. does a one in ten test at the start, and from there will expand to one in twenty five engines. Similar testing for the transmission as well. Allison does two tests. One is a short power test, that last three or four minutes under a variable load. Then a blind draw computor selects a transmission for a complete test. Should a transmission fail, they will go back as many as fifty units. The computor also will cull a transmission from the field for inspection. It's a blind draw, and nobody knows where it is when drawn out for inspection. *what Ford does nodays I can't say, but they used to do things similar to G.M. with their gas engines. Navstar tested every deisel, but that's over with. In about four or five years all heavyduty trucks will probably have an Allison or ZF gear box (even the Asian is an Allison built on license). The "no compete clause ends about then. There are two new gear boxes in the pipe line that will be a nice addition to the truck market, and the heavyduty versions are already in production as I write this. So it becomes a trickel down affair. The medium duty stuff literally exploded in their laps, and they cannot keep up with the demand from folks like Fed Ex and UPS. I gather they thought the demand would be about seventy five units a day, and it topped that three months into production. Then there is the otherone that will require a frame redesign. It has four moving parts and runs on about 1/4th the horsepower that the others require. Is probably good for 1000ft. lb. of torque short duration, and earns another 1.5 mpg. gary [/QUOTE]
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