Truck question

Chuck52 · Feb 22, 2002

I've got a '91 F150 with the big six engine. Can someone tell me how to adjust the #%^ switch on the clutch so that I don't have to put my foot entirely through the floorboard to start the engine? I have a Chilton's manual which I think would be a fine sustitute for the old Sears catalog in the outhouse. By contorting myself upside down in the floor of the truck, I can see what I think may be the switch. At least there's a device on the clutch shaft with wires coming from it. Naturally, the wires are in one of those clips with retaining ears, only one of which is accessible, so I can't easily disconnect the wires without breaking it. Who designs these things?/w3tcompact/icons/mad.gif

My next rant will be about how I just paid the shop $71 to replace a burned out wire up under the dash of my Caravan that they should have found when they replaced the headlight switch which probably caused it to over heat, for which they charged me about $150! AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!!! If I can get to it, I can usually fix just about anything. So I guess that's the idea....make whatever is likely to break so hard to get to that you'll give up and just pay them to fix it. /w3tcompact/icons/mad.gif/w3tcompact/icons/mad.gif/w3tcompact/icons/mad.gif

Chuck

rdln · Feb 22, 2002

But if they itemized the bill it would say:

Replaced wire= $5.00
Knowing which wire to replace $66.00
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Those things are designed for quick assembly, not disassembly/w3tcompact/icons/sad.gif

find the hot wire and jump it to the wire that starts your truck.

Egon · Feb 22, 2002

Chuck:

All Vehicle design engineers should have to do repair work on the designs they have created. And it should be done in -20 F weather with a strong north wind blowing and no HOT COFFEE at hand. Then maybe, just maybe they could come up with a workable design. The Managers of the design team should also have to do the same repairs but at -40F temperatures with bare hands and no rerspite till its running.

Egon

Egon · Feb 22, 2002

Chuck:

Forgot to add:
All menbers of the board of directors and the three major stockholders of the company should have to sit in the vehicle wearing swim suits till the CEO can fix the problem at -50F with a strong north wind blowing.

Egon

Chuck52 · Feb 22, 2002

Egon, on re-reading my post I find that I have succumbed to the very thought pattern I have chided others for. I must keep repeating, "Assign not to malice that which can be adequately explained by ignorance." I'm sure the designers and their bosses aren't deliberately trying to cause me pain. They are simply ignoranuses. (spelled correctly) /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Chuck

TerryinMD · Feb 22, 2002

Chuck,

Are you calling them Anuses? tsk-tsk.... /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Terry

RobS · Feb 22, 2002

<font color=blue>Those things are designed for quick assembly, not disassembly</font color=blue>

A lot of truth to that, although there is increasing effort put into servicibility and recyclability (including disassembly). The other thing to remember is a '91 truck is nearly 15 model years old in design and many of the components may be much older.

I'm not saying it's right, just felt the need to defend my industry a bit. Kind of a micro-patriotic thing /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

rdln · Feb 22, 2002

I wish the government would stop making us cram the interior with safety devices and features which crowd in the occupants, kills babies in car seats, adds weight which we have to take away from other areas like STEEL panel thickness just so we can stay within CAFE standards.... Oh wait a second all that just spells job security/w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif.

rdln · Feb 22, 2002

Thats true also, that connector was probably first used on an Edsel/w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif
By using that off the shelf item, Ford saved enough money to hire another line worker so the first one didnt have bend their waste more that 10 degrees while installing the IP.

Chuck52 · Feb 22, 2002

Geez. Eight answers and not a one any more useful than my offer to help someone on another discussion grow a third arm so he wouldn't have to buy a cordless grease gun.

Chuck