The last straw

On 7/24/2015 5:23 AM, batty505 wrote:
> Folks,
> The petty fighting isn't helping.
>
> Budd, it comes down to this, stick to what you know or pay to have some fix your jeep for you.
> Swapping out to an all carbed, points ignition will mean switching/adoption costs and legacy technology will cost more time and money to maintain. Older parts will cost more, simply because of rarity.

Read my OT post and you'll see I got an 85 Dodge truck which I can work on.

But not all parts have to be bought ... my step-=dad taught me to make
gaskets for carbs, for example, with a small ball-peen hammer and a
cereal box.

> Or spend the money and have someone with better tools and skills do your work for you. Where you get to kick back and have someone else be responsible & find a solution.
> When I was IT, I had 2 labor rates. 1 with and without instructions. I can fix your IT problems, quickly. But, if you make me explain to you what I'm doing and why, that drives up YOUR TIME.

Two labor rates is not good public relations, in my opinion, but then
I've only started four businesses (I can start them but I don't like to
run them) since age 14.

> I get that living on fixed incomes sucks and discretionary spending applies but..it's about values. Which is more valued, driving an older jeep, or... Something has to give.
> There's a reason why technical education is expensive, (plumbers, electricians, auto mechanics) because the technology behind it continues to evolve. If you can't keep up, do something else.

Oh this is really helpful ... In case you hadn't noticed, I DID admit my
skills were lacking and that, for reasons other than laziness, I hadn't
kept them up.

> If you're conservative, and believe that it's the govt fault, you can blame it all on greed. Why should I fix your problem for free, when I can charge you for it? It's also called free market enterprise, it's the basis for every GOP puke, says is great for America..

Why, yes, I am a conservative and I believe in free enterprise over
entitlements, big government and straying from the Constitution as written.

FYI, like I said, I started my first business at age 14 (1961) and I was
mowing lawns in a grassless prairie town in Colorado making miore money
than the president of the local bank.

> In the end, You can complain all you want about the government, but they aren't going to fix your jeep.

Einstein said that the definition of insanity was doing the same thing
over and expecting different results.

I don't blame the government for my Jeep troubles, I blame unqualified
government employees/appointees that have been allowed to circumvent the
Constitution to enact laws forcing their opinions and interpretations of
specious facts upon the automotive industry.

I worked for a major OEM exhaust system supplier (Arvin Ind. Inc.) when
the laws were passed forcing Ford to lose 50% of the fuel economy, GM
and Chrysler lost 30-40% plus all lost performance. Dieseling, stalling
and worsened emissions were the results.

Then we worked with engineers from GM, Ford, Chrysler to set up to run
catalytic converters (AMC used cats from GM or Chrysler) While the Big
Three's engineers spoke among themselves of how the substrates have to
reach 900+ degrees (unobtainable around town) from exhaust flow to
"light off" at all.

Then we got stuck with computers like the infamous Chrysler "lean burn"
which was an absolute failure but led to what we have today: cars that
could be knocked out of service by a lightning strike a few feet away
(EMP) or a small nuclear device a few hundred miles away.

So, all in all, your post was no more helpful than some others.

Budd


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