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  1. Replacing the axle assemblies with failed/failing CV joints is normal; the CV joint itself is usually not field-replaceable. FWIW, the only CV joint-related reason you'd replace both front axle assemblies is if you had bad CV joints on both; they're independent parts.
  2. I wouldn't go quite that far; I like having it, but I don't think I've ever used the keypad on the Flex. All I have to do is pull the handle to unlock or touch the pad on the handle to lock, so I don't really have a use for the keypad. My truck doesn't even have one; I could buy the door handle surround with the keypad and pair it like any other remote, but the juice isn't worth the squeeze to me.
  3. I don't think his point is to match the fine to the depth of the pockets, it's just to make sure the fine is more than the profit they realized from the cheating. That doesn't mean that you take it as a percentage of the over-all business's profits, just the profits on that program--it's possible, and even likely, that the fine could make that particular engine program a money loser without affecting the position of Cummins as a whole.
  4. That's kind of impossible. It's right there in the First Amendment: That is, basically, lobbying.
  5. Farmers aren’t using regular diesel, they’re using “off-road” diesel, which has no taxes applied, so it’s $0.30 or more cheaper than the diesel you buy at the “regular” diesel pump. (It’s also dyed red, so if the revenuers put their stick in your diesel truck’s tank and it comes out red, you’re in deep doo-doo.) Personally, I don’t see much future for gaseous engines in ag. We went down that road with propane from the ‘50s to ‘80s, and diesel curb-stomped all the other fuel types.
  6. Yeah, no, they didn't. I see a LOT more PIUs than Dodge SUVs wearing law enforcement livery, and a lot more PIUs than Chargers, too.
  7. And agriculture--I don't know if anyone is even making gasoline-powered tractors these days, not even in the compact or utility tractor lines. There's just no comparison between the burn rates of diesel and gasser tractors while they're working.
  8. Looking at what happened to VW as a result of their similar scandal, it's likely that Stellantis/Ram will be having to deal with fixing the trucks. I'd imagine that they will at least try to charge most (if not all) of that back to Cummins instead of having to eat all of the costs like VW.
  9. I paid $2.30/gal for E10 87 yesterday in Norman. Sucks that I was getting terrible gas mileage because I was dragging my brother's sea anchor, err, 2-horse trailer so we could move more junk and stuff and things from my folks' place before closing in a couple of weeks. I swear, it was like towing a drag chute; I've towed far heavier loads, but nothing made my truck suck down gasoline like hauling that little trailer.
  10. It's not really as boxy as it looks. It has lots of sloping surfaces and smooth, gradual transitions between planes, and what would traditionally be called rocker panels are part of the door skins that wrap underneath the chassis. It's surprisingly quiet at speed on our 80mph turnpikes due, in part, to those aerodynamics.
  11. So, you're bustin' it to get ahead. That's excellent (and I mean that sincerely). Let's roll the clock forward to a time after you finish the apprenticeship and become a fully-fledged electrician, makin' them big electrician bucks. When the next contract rolls around, should the company then reduce your pay to increase the pay of the guy who took your place in the body shop? If not, then why should they reduce the CEO's pay to increase anyone else's?
  12. Too many think they should have the same things they grew up having, not realizing that what they had wasn't where their parents started, but was the end result of years, or even decades, of hard work.
  13. What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. -- Ecclesiastes 1:9 The 1600-ish sqft house my parents bought new in 1973 cost $30K. When they sold it in 1990, it went for $100K. Today its estimated value is $206K. The only thing new in this inflation is that 20-somethings haven't been around long enough to see it, so they think it's new (which is pretty much universally true of 20-somethings throughout history).
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