Today's funny

[jon f mn]

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[chuck machinist]

I?m headed to engineering as we speak with this one! CM

 

[Phil9N3667]

That'd be me, bit'hin' about auto/truck engineers/designers where ya gotta take five parts off to access a $10 part to fix something!!

 

[Dachshund]

I all the years I worked for the highway department (Construction Inspection), I met only a handful that were worth the cost of the paper their diploma was written on. Most used it as an excuse to sit in the office, and take credit for something others did.

 

[oldrocks]

I always wondered why I turned out this way. Dad was a civil engineer.

 

[paul]

Yea, my high school friend is gonna get this...... his response will be its the bean counters that mess up the good designs....

Paul

 

[oldsarge]

During every project,there comes a point when it becomes necessary to shoot the engineers and ship the product!!..........................................................gtm

 

[jacksun65]

Been there done that. "You guys need to weld this 1/4" gap shut on the corner of this 16 gauge box without warping or deforming it. Oh by the way we don't want production to slow down."

 

[JMS/.MN]

What, there is civility in engineering? Who wudda thunk?

 

[YprDave]

The worst engineers are the ones fresh out of college.
No experience whatsoever, but know everything.
They'll engineer something to the bare minimum and wonder why the part prematurely fails.
Ford did this starting around the mid '90s with a couple of engines: the 4.0 sohc with the 3-4 timing chains and the cheaply built chain cassettes that barely lasted 60k miles, then a little later with some of the V8s with the cam phasers...no doubt the same green engineers. Didn't allow for normal wear and tear...just used the bare minimum in materials to get 'er dun.
There are more examples, but these 2 are the ones I could think of offhand.
Other manufacturers are guilty of this as well in one way or another, I'm not trying to single out Ford, just citing personal experience.

 

[Sprint 6]

I better tell my customers with their 200K+
mile SOHC 4.0s and 5.4 Tritons that their
trucks don't run anymore. Obviously a
comment by someone with no experience with
these engines. Change the oil, they live a
long time. Don't change the oil and they
die, just like anything else. For every one
of those engines that dropped early, there
are 1,000 with high miles.

 

[Ozlander]

(quoted from post at 08:46:03 04/26/18) Been there done that. "You guys need to weld this 1/4" gap shut on the corner of this 16 gauge box without warping or deforming it. Oh by the way we don't want production to slow down."

And don't burn the paint.

 

[YprDave]

(quoted from post at 17:10:28 04/26/18) I better tell my customers with their 200K+
mile SOHC 4.0s and 5.4 Tritons that their
trucks don't run anymore. Obviously a
comment by someone with no experience with
these engines. Change the oil, they live a
long time. Don't change the oil and they
die, just like anything else. For every one
of those engines that dropped early, there
are 1,000 with high miles.

Question: what years are these trucks?
With the 4.0 sohc which came out in either '96 or '97, it took around 5 years before Ford came up with cassettes that actually held up (around 2002 IIRC) along with a new design hydraulic tensioner AND an oil passage flow restrictor.
With the 5.4 w/cam phasers, when they first came out (early 2000s give or take), lots of issues there too(ever hear of the "Triton tick?", 'til they redesigned the CPs.
Point being, there wasn't enough thought put in to these parts when first implemented, hence the large number of failures despite many that had seen regular oil changes. Only one with limited experience with these engines would say otherwise.

 

[wisbaker]

Sounds like Winnebago