On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 13:38:41 -0400, TS#15 <laptop@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Apparently you work for a taxi cab company where the engines are rarely
>allowed to cool. Heat and cooling cycles on a set of bearings, the
>frequency of when the oil has been changed, even the viscosity of the
>oil used will all be a factor in how long the motor lasts. Since you
>work for that low end taxi cab company (no other professional company
>would want the liability of a 300,000-400,000 mile automobile in it's
>fleet), I'll bet that you raise the point value on the oil long before
>you would even think of a low oil pressure reading, maybe disconnect the
>oil pressure sensor just to play it safe, what would the driver know
>since it never goes on, right. Then again your fleet is most likely
>categorized a a local gross polluter as the engines puff out blue smoke
>constantly due to your lack of proper maintenance. Your apparent lack of
>common sense is due to your lack of a true work ethic, run the car till
>it won't run any more is not what I consider a work ethic, as it is
>counter culture to the rest of the real world. But again, none of us
>have to deal with the cheap owners of the taxi or limo service you work
>for, so we have the luxury of taking our time and doing it right.....
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Taxi operators have some of the most unsafe, least maintained and most
worn vehicles on the planet. Any "tips" from a taxi mechanic would be
the same as plugging a leak in Roosevelt Dam with a wad of bubble gum.
Having some experience in fleet operations, I know of what I speak.
A close second: charter bus operators. I worked my way through
undergrad shoving chater buses across 7 western states, mostly mid-50s
GM PD-4104s with more than 10 million miles on them, with some of the
6-71s having more than 600K on them since the last in-frame rebuild.
This was the trash that TNM&O, LTR, Trailways and other operators
would get rid of due to approaching high mileage costs, and the
dirtbag operators like I worked for would run them into the
ground...literally. Not many dirtbag operators would use old
Greyhounds...they'd be worth less than scrap by the time they'd get
done with them! It was the old Greyhound Cor****ation that pioneered
the "Maintenance? Who needs it?" philsophy of fleet maitenance,
something later picked up by the railroads.
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