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12-15-2013, 09:12 AM | #1 |
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My 351 sure has longevity
Anyhooey TW if you can help me troubleshoot my 3414 hydrostatic loader tractor's transmission pressure problem, {Low (All Gears)} I would be extremely grateful.
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12-15-2013, 10:36 AM | #2 | |
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Transmissions are an art. Engines are typically simpler. However you can do what so many entertained consumers have done. Call Click and Clack - the Tappet brothers. Tom and Ray have a call in show on NPR every weekend called "Car Talk" - sometimes at 10 AM in some regions. They love solving problems such as yours. And if not, we will be entertained while they try to wiggle around your problem. If the problem is particularly interesting, then become their contestant months later on "Stump the Chumps". Important is to practice duplicating each noise coming from that transmission. Since we will want to hear it on our radios to appreciate your problem. |
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12-14-2013, 11:43 PM | #4 |
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I'm not angry at all tw. I didn't buy the jeep for its HP/ltr ratio. Or for how much noise it makes. I bought it for partially emotional reasons. It's cool as shit. Looks awesome, great four wheel drive, comfortable, loaded with convenience features, gobs of low end torque. I think you've missed my point about 4wd, too. I posted the video about jeep because you said they use expensive computer systems to control them. They don't. The Subaru video was to highlight the difference between actual 4wd vs all wheel drive.
I didn't recommend the Jeep to Lola, either. In a 4x4, low end torque is more important than horses, in my opinion. The 4ltr straight 6 jeep used to make was excellent in this category. In 2000, I had a 99 Cherokee back then. Loved it. Too small for 2 kids though. What car would you recommend for Lola, tw? What do you drive?
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My $.02 recommendation for Lola would be a Toyota. Their reliability, ease of maintenance, longevity, and ability to hold Blue Book value make them my favorite cars. Budget and personal philosophy would determine the choice, whether a Prius, a Tercel or Camry, one of their SUVs ... buyer's choice. We own a Hyundai Sonata that is also a fantastic car and very reasonable to maintain. I don't know anything about the rest of the Hyundai line. But my favorite car so far has been my 2005 4Runner.
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12-15-2013, 05:59 AM | #6 |
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I think a Hyundai product might be an excellent choice when you consider their warranty. I understand Kia has extended warranties also.
I made the statement that the V8 is the way to go. I have owned V8s most of my life for the power/pulling capabilities. However to be truthful, I haven't owned a V8 in almost 2 years. I have a 4 cylinder Geo Tracker to use as a "mini-jeep" and my M35A2 with an inline 6 cylinder multifuel engine as a work horse. I prefer an all wheel drive option. To me, they greatly improve handling in rain or mud. We don't get much snow here. One final point, there were WMDs recovered in Iraq. No yellow cake, but we did find mustard gas in my AO. This is open source. I know of 2 soldiers in the Iskan area received minor burns from a mustard gas exposure.
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12-17-2013, 01:29 AM | #9 | |
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Let's take the WMD issue to a new thread. I want you to make sure you document your time spent in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Also tell me about your time as a 74D
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12-17-2013, 08:37 AM | #10 |
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Over 10 years fighting the Bush/Cheney- and other Gulf-of-Tonkin-like decisions...
and over 65 years opposing nuclear/chemical/biological warfare. |
12-15-2013, 10:27 AM | #11 | |
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If a four wheel drive can get you moving, then it also seriously decreases safety at speed. To increase safety on four wheel drive vehicles (so that the vehicle crashes into guard rails less often), then four wheel drive is less robust at getting unstuck. To increase safety, interlocking is reduced to the point that it sometimes does not work well on shear ice - as the video demonstrates. As you admit and what I said repeatedly, the Jeep is not purchased for logical reasons. The Jeep is designed to make you feel (emotionally) superior. Why is it so high with poor ground clearance? Why does it hype four wheel drive? Almost no Jeep owners need it or use it. FWD makes Jeep a more dangerous vehicle in inclement weather and at speed. It makes many feel superior and cool. Jeep is a lesser vehicle with a massive profit margin. It sold on emotion; not on vehicle quality, safety, or innovation. Every Jeep model has appeared in Consumer Report's "Used cars to avoid" list. Their safety abilities (including accident avoidance) is often marginal or among the worst. History defined reliability as poor. So yes, Jeeps clearly violate Lola Bunny's requirements. Jeeps do not sell on quality, safety, reliability, or innovation. They sell on image. Torque is a sales gimmick. Anyone can see through that myth using high school physics. Torque (that matters) is defined by gear ratios. Even a mechanical clock can create as much torque as a car by changing gear ratios. What is the difference between a clock and a Jeep with same torque? The clock moves slower due to less horsepower. Horsepower (not torque) is the relevant parameter. That physics formula is simple. Torque times speed equals horsepower. Any drivetrain can create the same torque. Only horsepower is relevant. Since domestic engines were so crappy (so low performance), then spin doctors (advertising) invented the torque myth. Hoping naïve consumers would believe it and buy obsolete technology V-8 engines. If torque is so important, then why are V-8s no longer found on Indy and Formula One race tracks? Torque myth only exists when high school physics is ignored or forgotten. A torque myth exists to divert attention from what is relevant: performance (Hp/liter). Hyundai has competitive products due to major changes that occurred in Korea somewhere around the early 1990s. A major overthrow of top government and corporate leaders (chaebols) occurred across the entire nation. As a result, stoic and staid management was replaced by innovators. Some of the world's best steel now comes from Korea. The world's most technically advanced ships are built in Korea which also has the world's largest and most profitable shipyards. LG and Samsung make world class appliances. So good that companies such as Panasonic and Sony are abandoning markets including TVs or semiconductors. Hyundai best accomplishments are in both cars and ships. Over the past six years, Hyundai still does not have quality numbers found in Honda and Toyota. But Hyundai has a best improved product line in the past 20 years. It takes decades (as the above Ford story demonstrates). One need only view Consumer Report's "Used cars to avoid" list to see the difference. Every Jeep and every Chevy model (except the Volt) at some point appears on that list of the 15% worst products. Almost no Hyundais are listed. Hyundai products are that significant. |
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12-15-2013, 10:49 AM | #12 |
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Tom and Ray are retired and no new "Car Talk"s have been made since October 2012.
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12-15-2013, 11:18 AM | #13 |
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Let me Google that for you
http://www.defense.gov/News/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=15918 The WMD found was not considered serious enough to warrant invasion at the time. This mustard gas "doesn't count". |
12-15-2013, 12:18 PM | #14 |
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TW I am already past those elementary suggestions.
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12-15-2013, 01:07 PM | #15 |
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Good lord, so much wrong, backwards, and completely without basis, I'm not going to even bother, because it doesn't affect Lola.
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