Tranny Delayed Engagment Fixed

Bill.Barg · **Posted:** Wed Sep 03, 2008 1:54 pm

With the replacement of the TC, pump and filters, the cold delayed engagement and groaning noises are gone.

The old filters looked very clean, so I think the pump seals were the culprits.

midwest · **Joined:** Tue Apr 25, 2006 12:03 am **Posts:** 173

I have the same problem. This vehicle could have been built right the first time with just a bit of forsight by Chrysler engineers. Hopefully, with everything you did, the transmission should be bullet proof.

dgeist · **Posted:** Wed Sep 03, 2008 4:33 pm

midwest wrote:

I have the same problem. This vehicle could have been built right the first time with just a bit of forsight by Chrysler engineers. Hopefully, with everything you did, the transmission should be bullet proof.

Haven't we all learned that Automotive engineers don't produce vehicles? They produce prototypes and non-production models. It's just not cost-effective to let them have their way with the bottom line. That's why we're all here...post-sale engineering

warp2diesel · **Posted:** Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:30 pm

dgeist wrote:

midwest wrote:

I have the same problem. This vehicle could have been built right the first time with just a bit of forsight by Chrysler engineers. Hopefully, with everything you did, the transmission should be bullet proof.

Haven't we all learned that Automotive engineers don't produce vehicles? They produce prototypes and non-production models. It's just not cost-effective to let them have their way with the bottom line. That's why we're all here...post-sale engineering

A typical engineer spends more very high quality time with their spouse than they spend doing actual engineering.
The majority of the time is in:
1) meetings,
2) answering email,
3) listening to bean counters in charge who tell them to cut costs,
4) studying regulations composed by burned out idiot lawyers who get elected to public office, and
5) Taking HR classes that are taught by Oxygen Thieves.
Now you all know why an engineer only gets to do about 1 hour of engineering a week :!:

Pablo · **Joined:** Thu Feb 02, 2006 10:06 pm **Posts:** 1201

warp2diesel wrote:

A typical engineer spends more very high quality time with their spouse than they spend doing actual engineering.
The majority of the time is in:
1) meetings,
2) answering email,
3) listening to bean counters in charge who tell them to cut costs,
4) studying regulations composed by burned out idiot lawyers who get elected to public office, and
5) Taking HR classes that are taught by Oxygen Thieves.
Now you all know why an engineer only gets to do about 1 hour of engineering a week :!:

OMG! How did you know my life? I thought I was going into a nice non-political field of creative endeavor when I became an engineer. Boy was I wrong! I am everyone's punching bag. Everyone is constantly making piss poor decisions about engineering, which they know nothing about, and which they require me to be responsible for. I have all the responsibility and none of the authority. I am the only soul who actually knows WTF is really going on where I work. It is so frustrating. I am so tired of staying late so I can actually do my job instead of listening to everyone else tell me how to do it. I am going on strike soon, I hope the rest of you will join me.

Signed

Jon Galt

dgeist · **Posted:** Thu Sep 04, 2008 10:11 am

warp2diesel wrote:

A typical engineer spends more very high quality time with their spouse than they spend doing actual engineering.
The majority of the time is in:
1) meetings,
2) answering email,
3) listening to bean counters in charge who tell them to cut costs,
4) studying regulations composed by burned out idiot lawyers who get elected to public office, and
5) Taking HR classes that are taught by Oxygen Thieves.
Now you all know why an engineer only gets to do about 1 hour of engineering a week :!:

OMG! How did you know my job? Seriously, though, having some good policies for the engineering work (like making people give you their requirements BEFORE you start working on it) does help. I think many foreign automakers learned that from the US way back when and then the US companies abandoned the sound engineering philosophies since they might make someone feel sad. Here's another number for ya:

6) Filling out time sheets completely unusable by salaried employees (weekly totals MUST equal 40 or the submission is refused) so the bean counters can tell who's been padding their project budgets at the end of the year

ATXKJ · **Posted:** Thu Sep 04, 2008 11:56 am

We have more meetings than that......
(and you have to read your email in the meetings - that's why everyone has a laptop)
it is possible to have more than 40 hours of scheduled meetings in a week (and a manager upset if you aren't at all of them)

Uffe · **Posted:** Sat Sep 06, 2008 3:07 pm

warp2diesel wrote:

A typical engineer spends more very high quality time with their spouse than they spend doing actual engineering.
The majority of the time is in:
1) meetings,
2) answering email,
3) listening to bean counters in charge who tell them to cut costs,
4) studying regulations composed by burned out idiot lawyers who get elected to public office, and
5) Taking HR classes that are taught by Oxygen Thieves.
Now you all know why an engineer only gets to do about 1 hour of engineering a week :!:

I'm not so bad off then. In my last project (production test DSP software for the Vestas converters) I got to write the requirement specification myself

I found it to be a bit tricky since I was a new man in the company, but it worked out so well now, that my software is being upgraded to be used in testing more of the turbines than just the converter. It's brilliant

Actually I am now working on control software for turbines for you guys over there - if you spot some new V80 2MW or 1.8MW Vestas turbines in America this fall, you might be able to see if I failed (them not turning at all

) or if I managed it (they work). I'm not alone thankfully, I'm in a small group of 4 people making software/parameter adjustments from former Vestas turbines.

Currently we're sitting at the testing facilities playing around with a 16,000 horsepower AC motor, boy that thing is a huge witch!! Makes the shed jolt around when changing speed

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