TerribleTom <silvereightynine@aol.com> wrote:
> On 5/26/2011 8:47 AM, jon@dakota-truck.net wrote:
>> "Ken Allgood"<kenallgood@cox.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Ding ding! We have a winner!!!
>>
>>> http://members.cox.net/kenallgood/dakota/S1070002.JPG
>>
>>
>> Cool - glad to hear that it wasn't something major! Its a bit of a
>> bummer that Chrysler switched to stud mounted rockers during the
>> Magnum changeover - that certainly wouldn't have happened with a shaft
>> system. :-) Folks who build brand x race motors regularly convert
>> their stud mount rockers to shaft mounted, but for decades, Chrysler
>> used shaft mounted rockers in their stock engines, both big block and
>> small blocks. Yet another example of the over-engineering that
>> Chrysler was famous for. I assume the accountants eventually cut it
>> for cost reasons.
>>
> Beg to differ there Jon :) I think General Morons takes the award for
> the most over-engineered stuff out there on the roads...
> Some of the biggest "WTF" moment's I've had in almost 10 years of parts
> slinging was stuff that either GM, or Ford came up with.
> Doesn't mean Chrysler doesn't have their share of WTF were they
> thinking... just a little less in my opinion :)
> The Jeep Grand Cherokee might be a perfect example... there isnt a
> single damned thing that is easy to do on those Jeeps with the exception
> of pump gas into the tank at an alarming rate.
Tom,
I actually meant it in a good way - "over engineered" in the sense
that they built things a lot stronger than was actually necessary to
accomplish the task at hand - not like today where it seems everything
is designed at the altar of planned obsolescence.
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