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today is gonna be a damn good day brothers HH
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Bruh so many fucked up looking trucks in service rn.
I believe this is a collapse symptom.
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I work for a company that doesn't believe in preventative maintenance. The few times I can get em in here because they don't schedule maintenance I don't get em long because they also believe in 120% usage. So they're usually royally fucked when I get em. Also it's a 500k mi 579 with an mx13 epa10, not worth the 20k to fix in house IMO.
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Well here's the first one, mind you this is a 15 minute visual inspection after I got it aired up and in the shop
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Says you. These assholes have already blown my phone up while I was taking a shit and blown up 2 trucks before 7am. Today can go fuck itself
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@Evil_Bender @d0c40r0 So an average day then.
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@pyrate @Evil_Bender @d0c40r0 @DemonSixOne CVTs could be so good if they cared at all. I like the modern approach of using 1st and maybe 2nd gear for launch and city with CVT for cruising. Just wish they were so loud.
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Ugh, the CVT.
I mean, fine. For a commuter car that just needs the basic performance standards to be road worthy. Spare me from putting it in machines that demand high torque. If so, build it to transfer the heat away from the belt.
Yet to me it's literally.
"Lol, lmao, we'll just hold it together with a rubber band 🤡 :clussy2: "
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@pyrate @Evil_Bender @d0c40r0 Just like Nissan CVT fail around 60k miles and they have no parts available.
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So it's more or less just rendered to scrap worth. Disposable equipment -_-
Yet this is a norm in many industries. Got a family member in the dealer service department at Hyundai. Explaining they are basically cutting corners with critical frame parts, thinner square tubes/stamped frame parts. Insufficient mounting bolts, inferior metals and so on. Like literal tin cans only designed to last 100k/within dealer warranty then fall apart.
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They're our 2 oldest trucks, and they refuse to part with them for some reason. I'm a Peterbuilt certified master tech and warranty certified. The mx13 is a terrible engine, and this level of repairs is end of service life for this power plant. The trade in value on a new almost $200k 567 is $10-15k for a 579, they don't want them either. It's my expert opinion that fleets operating 579's with a Paccar motor are bankruptcy machines post factory warranty.
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that and, design it to be replaceable, if not, even modular with different CVT units that have varying performance ratios.
> towing
> commuter/economy
> speed
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@pyrate @Evil_Bender @d0c40r0 @DemonSixOne Absolutely. It's nice that they're smaller and lighter, so they should be made to be easier to maintain or replace. Unfortunately that's one of those situations where legislation might have to be used because automakers love their planned obsolescence, especially with transmissions. Lifetime transmission fluid comes to mind...
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@pyrate @Evil_Bender @d0c40r0 @DemonSixOne >Lifetime transmission fluid
>Life expectancy much shorter than the average automatic transmission.
>But hey you never had to cycle out fluid, a simple task which can be done with a single bolt turn and a funnel in your driveway.
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@pyrate @Evil_Bender @d0c40r0 @DemonSixOne If you want to be a sneaky boy about it, you can actually cycle slowly and carefully with vacuum through the fill port. A bunch of sedans have hidden ports behind the driver's side wheels for their "lifetime fluid", which can be vacuumed out by hand pumping past initial drain and cycling fluid while dry shifting on jack stands.
>pour ½ quart of water into empty gallon jug. Mark line with permanent marker. Repeat until marked up to 3½ quart. Drain and pump until dry. Fill up to nearest mark. Attach hose. Shift through all gears for a few. If you have enough new fluid left, repeat process.
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I just have a little fluids vacuum I got a while ago. Replacable diaphragm in a polyethylene housing. Should handle most fluids without issues. Think I got it for like $12. I will say if I tried this trick, I would probably create a basic filter to put inline with the vacuum side.
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@pyrate @Evil_Bender @d0c40r0 @DemonSixOne If you're concerned about the pump and tube getting gross, tubing is cheap enough to get one to use for draining and another for clean fluids, or you can pull the hose and pump a small amount of clean fluid through it until it looks good. Everything that comes out of there should, theoretically, be okay to put back in. Doing it through the reservoir method gets something like ¼ to ½ the fluid each go depending on the transmission, so you don't run the risk of dislodging too many particles or any of the other nonsense. Every time I work an older car I change fluid and I'm always shocked with how much of an improvement there is.