Hey Folks are you ready for a tale of american engineering gone wrong? Well ready or not here it comes!!
About a year ago after my dad sold our old home for a good profit. He decided to buy a brand new 2005 Dodge RAM 1500 V-6 pickup truck. He likes Dodge trucks because the first one he bought carried himself and many other things before its original engine and transmission went at around 3 hundred thousand miles or so.
Anyways this new truck was doing fine for the most part until my Dad hit something and managed to have the plastic piece on the bottom of the front of the truck tear partially off. Well it stayed that way until today when he asked me to take it off for him. He can't really do it due to the fact that his shoulder, lower back and knees hurt him quite badly from time to time. (He works on vibrating concrete, which really isn't all that good for your body. Top that off with fifty extra pounds, well you get the idea)
So I take on what I think is going to be a simple job. Well things get rapidly complicated from there. It turns out that although this bumper piece is plastic. There are approximately five metal clips that run the length of the front of the front of the truck from right to left.
The metal clips in turn are held on by a bolt. Which it turns out that due to the design of the underside of the truck. Are near on impossible to get to. To get these metal clips off I would have to match the bolt head with a socket wrench connector and then find a way to maneuver the socket wrench into very contorted and cramped spaces that even a mechanical gremlin with advanced yoga skills would find hard to get into.
So I wiggle under the front of the truck and with a pair of snips I simply cut the plastic bumper so that with a bit of work I will be able to work it off of the metal clips. Man I turned the air blue while under there. I still may have to go back and remove the metal clips with a sawsaw.
I would just like to know why this plastic piece of crap was even on there. It really serves no purpose that I can think of. The piece is hollow and flimsy. Its not going to block anything. After deciding on a course of action I tore the thing out in about ten minutes.
Stupid ass rubber bumper.
About a year ago after my dad sold our old home for a good profit. He decided to buy a brand new 2005 Dodge RAM 1500 V-6 pickup truck. He likes Dodge trucks because the first one he bought carried himself and many other things before its original engine and transmission went at around 3 hundred thousand miles or so.
Anyways this new truck was doing fine for the most part until my Dad hit something and managed to have the plastic piece on the bottom of the front of the truck tear partially off. Well it stayed that way until today when he asked me to take it off for him. He can't really do it due to the fact that his shoulder, lower back and knees hurt him quite badly from time to time. (He works on vibrating concrete, which really isn't all that good for your body. Top that off with fifty extra pounds, well you get the idea)
So I take on what I think is going to be a simple job. Well things get rapidly complicated from there. It turns out that although this bumper piece is plastic. There are approximately five metal clips that run the length of the front of the front of the truck from right to left.
The metal clips in turn are held on by a bolt. Which it turns out that due to the design of the underside of the truck. Are near on impossible to get to. To get these metal clips off I would have to match the bolt head with a socket wrench connector and then find a way to maneuver the socket wrench into very contorted and cramped spaces that even a mechanical gremlin with advanced yoga skills would find hard to get into.
So I wiggle under the front of the truck and with a pair of snips I simply cut the plastic bumper so that with a bit of work I will be able to work it off of the metal clips. Man I turned the air blue while under there. I still may have to go back and remove the metal clips with a sawsaw.
I would just like to know why this plastic piece of crap was even on there. It really serves no purpose that I can think of. The piece is hollow and flimsy. Its not going to block anything. After deciding on a course of action I tore the thing out in about ten minutes.
Stupid ass rubber bumper.
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avalon:
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laika:
Tom Petty certainly is. I cant fucking wait to see him.