Trailer Trash?

[vswingfield]

Check out the crimp in the gas line to my refrigerator I found hidden under the floor of the compartment!

[Gene]

How can anyone have a couch for 3 weeks and not know a cat is hidden in it? If the cat is quiet, hard to believe, the smell… Maybe the couch was thrown in with a bong.

Gene

[FLYNCLD]

This is a good one. A friend had a Georgie Boy Motor Home. From the very beginning there was a persistent shimmy in the front end. The dealer tried everything, alignment, replacing ball joints and bearings, etc. Finally someone said "let's try some new tires", and low and behold, when the left front tire came off the was a Coke can stuffed inside it! Things DO NOT go better with Coke!

FLYCLD

[Silverwanabe]

Where is the QC?

[richinny]

Originally Posted by FLYNCLD

This is a good one. A friend had a Georgie Boy Motor Home. From the very beginning there was a persistent shimmy in the front end. The dealer tried everything, alignment, replacing ball joints and bearings, etc. Finally someone said "let's try some new tires", and low and behold, when the left front tire came off the was a Coke can stuffed inside it! Things DO NOT go better with Coke!

FLYCLD

i was wondering where it went!

[Nuvite-F]

Originally Posted by Silverwanabe

I hope the commercial aircraft manufactures are not this lax in the cleanup.

True story from many years ago when a new fighter aircraft was beginning production. (I think it was the F-14--the story was in Aviation Week.)

Production was way behind schedule and the president of the company called a big meeting on the factory floor. He asked the workers, "What do you need to speed up production?"

A worker shouted out, "We need a fixture to turn the whole airplane over and shake it."

The president said, "You got it", and they made the fixture ASAP.

The first time a worker dropped a tool into an inaccessible place they picked up the airplane, turned it over and shook it. Not only did the offending tool come out--but also a shower of other tools, hardware, etc.

From then on they shook out all the airplanes coming down the line whether they needed it or not. And it turned out most of them needed it.

Fortunately we seldom pull negative Gs with our trailers!

[markdoane]

Don't know if this is a true story or not, but years ago whenever an "executive lease car" came down the line at Ford, it got special treatment. Usually a coke bottle in the rocker panel, or some other hard to diagnose rattle.

The same thing may have happened at Fisher Body and Chrysler too.