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[Hay Dude]

Wonder if the HD’s will come home from Mehico?
I really don’t care, prefer US made, but the Mex. trucks seem like good quality.

 

[paulsharvey]

Our brick houses fall into 4 categories.
1) very old, and structurally, the brick is often load bearing, double coarse with wooden beams.
2) Kinda old, concrete block structure with brick veneer (single coarse), tied back to the structure with metal tie backs
3) Wooden frame, and bricks tied back to the wood structure for strength
4) "lick and stick brick", about 1/4" to 1" brick "tiles" that can come in sheets or singles, and are attached with thin set mortar to the wood framed structural part

Concrete block, is almost always it's own structure, and is painted, sealed, stucco'd, or has a veneer of brick or stone.

In the early 2000s, they found that most stucco wasn't really water proof, and was heaving problems. So, now most "stucco" is actually not a Portland cement base, it's an acrylic synthetic stucco, that is much more water proof. I remember in like 2004, a QC guy sent us a copy of a study saying that it took like 7 coats of paint to completely make stucco water proof. Funny part, great, interesting study, but your plans/specs only call for 1 coat primer, 1 final coat, and that's what your getting.

 

[paulsharvey]

Wonder if the HD’s will come home from Mehico?
I really don’t care, prefer US made, but the Mex. trucks seem like good quality.

I always find it kinda funny when people complain about Mexico manufacturing and forget just how many cars/trucks are made in Canada. Foreign but friendly, is foreign but friendly, and I prefer tacos to beans on toast, with maple syrup

 

[Hay Dude]

I hear the trucks from south of the border have much better paint than US built.

 

[Renze]

There seem to be many factors driving this.

1. Cost of land. Here, just as in Europe, better-quality houses are built on more expensive land. The cost of housing is so high in much of Europe, that it makes little sense to build cheaper housing on it. With that comes the reality that few young Europeans can afford a house, we tend to achieve ownership at a much younger age, here.

Absolutely true... as long as we give bamboo wankers from Africa a privilege above our own we are doomed... pardon my French.

4. And here's the kicker... Europeans do build OSB stick frame houses, now. I have a few friends in Germany, living in new houses that are the same stucco on stick-frame and OSB that you'd see here, all jammed on 1/4 acre lots located on cul de sacs. I guess they're chasing the American dream, too.

Yeah but how American is that, after all...

 

[paulsharvey]

Apparently Ram announced production of a mid sized truck in Illinois, available in EV, gas, and whatever PHEV is. Part of the same story mentions adding investment into an engine plant in Indiana. Don't know that two are linked or not?

Don't know which "mid sized" truck it is; they have the Fiat fwd car with a truck bed thing, and they have Rampage AWD unibody one. Or maybe the Rampage is the same? I remember reading about a really small fwd only unibody,

Edit; also US production doesn't guarantee US sales, but i would assume...

 

[Renze]

available in EV, gas, and whatever PHEV is.

Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle.

Here, due to subsidies it was a very popular option for salesmen. But when they pay the electricity meter at home out of their own pocket and the boss gives them a gas credit card, none of them actually charges the batteries from the grid..

 

[paulsharvey]

103K views · 12K reactions | Jeep Grand Cherokee in for new motor mounts at Jerry Ulm Tampa. Keeping it running strong! #jeep #carservice #cars | Jerry Ulm Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram

Jeep Grand Cherokee in for new motor mounts at Jerry Ulm Tampa. Keeping it running strong! #jeep #carservice #cars.

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So, this was a short video with a mechanic replacing electro-hydralic motor mounts on a Jeep Grand Cheeroke... Why? That seems like an expensive, difficult, complicated replacement for steel with rubber bushings, that will last 20+ years. Do people care that much about whatever dampening or sound isolation these mounts produce?

 

[kenmbz]

103K views · 12K reactions | Jeep Grand Cherokee in for new motor mounts at Jerry Ulm Tampa. Keeping it running strong! #jeep #carservice #cars | Jerry Ulm Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram

Jeep Grand Cherokee in for new motor mounts at Jerry Ulm Tampa. Keeping it running strong! #jeep #carservice #cars.

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So, this was a short video with a mechanic replacing electro-hydralic motor mounts on a Jeep Grand Cheeroke... Why? That seems like an expensive, difficult, complicated replacement for steel with rubber bushings, that will last 20+ years. Do people car that much about whatever dampening or sound isolation these mounts produce?

I looked at JGC to 2024 and not seeing what he is talking about ?
The motor mounts do contain hydraulic fluid, but no electronics.

The real issue is where they are and how hard they are to replace, they are not really that fancy.

 

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electro-hydraulic motor mounts have sensors and can vary the dampening properties of the mounts

the general idea is that vehicles with varying vibrations, particularly due to cylinder deactivation, can be difficult to manage because this mount is good for this type of vibe and that mount for that type but what do you do when sometimes it's this and other times it's that?