wana talk about fun?

[CAP1]

the other day, one of my neighbors brings me his 99 chevy silverado. 5.3L v-8, 4 door, etc.

 he wants me to put in a heater core. no problem. i look at alldata. it calls for 1.7 hours, if there's an access panel, and 4.9 if not.
 first off, how the HELL do some of these have a panel that others don't??

 anyway, this one doesn't have the panel(lucky me). so it takes me the better part of the day to get it taken apart. in the past, i've been able to sneak the cores past the mess, if i just move it a little. not gonna happen on this. i have parts of the dudes interior in the roof, some in the bed, some in the back seat, some hanging by bungie chords....

 now, i figure i can simply sneak it out, now that the dash is completely out of the way. nope. the entire HVAC box has to come out.

 i get it out, grab the new one from napa. IT DOESN'T FRAKKIN FIT. it's ever so slightly different, not allowing the lid to be put back on.
 it's 4:30pm when i find this out. they tell me first thing in the morning. that brings us to today. i finally got it at 11am today. after 4 phone calls, and the right one coming from someone else.

 i was seriously dissappointed with this truck.........cheapish plastic all over the dam place.........


anyway, i hadda rant, as i've been in a slight bit of a mood lately, and this had me wanting to injure someone.......

[uptown]

I feel you pain man. I hate the late 90 ford pickups. It's damned near easier to lift the body off than try to sneak it out from underneath the firewall. Lucky for me i don't have to put it back together 

[1pLUs44]

I feel you pain man. I hate the late 90 ford pickups. It's damned near easier to lift the body off than try to sneak it out from underneath the firewall. Lucky for me i don't have to put it back together 

Late 90's dodges were no better. From I 99 to atleast 02 (Earliest and latest proof) The paint peels off.

[CAP1]

at least as far as heater cores go..........ford vans used to be easy. chevy trucks used to be easy.

 these dam engineers design em as if they never go bad, and bury this crap where it should never be.

[phatzo]

Hmm had a similar bad weekend a few years back with a Landrover discovery Aircon.

[maddafinga]

the other day, one of my neighbors brings me his 99 chevy silverado. 5.3L v-8, 4 door, etc.

 he wants me to put in a heater core. no problem. i look at alldata. it calls for 1.7 hours, if there's an access panel, and 4.9 if not.
 first off, how the HELL do some of these have a panel that others don't??

 anyway, this one doesn't have the panel(lucky me). so it takes me the better part of the day to get it taken apart. in the past, i've been able to sneak the cores past the mess, if i just move it a little. not gonna happen on this. i have parts of the dudes interior in the roof, some in the bed, some in the back seat, some hanging by bungie chords....

 now, i figure i can simply sneak it out, now that the dash is completely out of the way. nope. the entire HVAC box has to come out.

 i get it out, grab the new one from napa. IT DOESN'T FRAKKIN FIT. it's ever so slightly different, not allowing the lid to be put back on.
 it's 4:30pm when i find this out. they tell me first thing in the morning. that brings us to today. i finally got it at 11am today. after 4 phone calls, and the right one coming from someone else.

 i was seriously dissappointed with this truck.........cheapish plastic all over the dam place.........


anyway, i hadda rant, as i've been in a slight bit of a mood lately, and this had me wanting to injure someone.......

Man I have to respect you for all that.  I absolutely hate working on cars and have no talent for it whatsoever.

Now, I need the evaporator replaced in my 99 Cadillac Deville, I've been talking to shops, that one shows 12.5 hours labor.  I sure don't envy the guy who will end up having to do that.  Not to mention me having to pay that guy.  So my point is, it could be worse. 

[Strip]

I love doing the Dodge Caravans, they call for about 9.0-10.0 hours depending on source and exact model. I can bang those out in around 3.5-4 hours, learned most of that from a 10-15 year veteran Dodge tech.

Those Chevy's still kick my arse though......

Drives me nuts!

Strip

[CAP1]

I love doing the Dodge Caravans, they call for about 9.0-10.0 hours depending on source and exact model. I can bang those out in around 3.5-4 hours, learned most of that from a 10-15 year veteran Dodge tech.

Those Chevy's still kick my arse though......

Drives me nuts!

Strip

the first 2 caravans i did kicked my ass.....after that, it seemed as if i can roll through them like anything. same with the fox bodied fords.......i had them down to less than 2 hours easily.

 just this dam truck for some reason got under my skin...........and it has nothign to do with it being a chevy..........

[nirvana]

I feel your pain and as a young tech starting out with the boss breathing down your neck it wasn't much fun.

Now I work on government boats and there aren't any hours for how long a job takes, just a chief saying it gets done NOW.  Oh and sleep?  Forget it.

[DaCoon]

these dam engineers design em as if they never go bad, and bury this crap where it should never be.

"The job of the design engineer is to make things difficult for the fabricator and damn near impossible for the repair tech."
Sign seen at a shop I worked at for awhile.

[CAP1]

"The job of the design engineer is to make things difficult for the fabricator and damn near impossible for the repair tech."
Sign seen at a shop I worked at for awhile.

ya know what?
 i may have a sign made up like that to put up in my office. 

[gyrene81]

"The job of the design engineer is to make things difficult for the fabricator and damn near impossible for the repair tech."
Sign seen at a shop I worked at for awhile.

That's been a fact since the first pyramids were built.


Cap, I don't have the patience to do stuff like that anymore... ...I get irritated when people bring me their effed up computers to fix.