DOTS: Priority Fail Edition

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura) 11/04/2018 at 10:10 • Filed to: None

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Oops.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 11/04/2018 at 10:17

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huh.... normally they just lose your mail

wafflesnfalafel > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 11/04/2018 at 10:23

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those trucks have got to be awfully long in the tooth - kinda surprised we don’t see more mechanical oopsies with them....

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 11/04/2018 at 10:23

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They actually do a pretty good job, most of the time.

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 11/04/2018 at 10:23

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Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds—aw, screw it. 

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 11/04/2018 at 10:28

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yeah i know...

having worked that kinda job... its quite impressive really... and most of the mistakes happen on final delivery (most of the breakages happen before that)

winterlegacy, here 'till the end > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 11/04/2018 at 10:32

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More like Priority Fail.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > wafflesnfalafel 11/04/2018 at 10:33

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They are all being updated under a giant contract with Grumman. At least I think it’s Grumman... I’d like to buy one of those surplus and install a 400 hp small block V8 and call the thing Priority Male . My wife does not approve of that moniker, for the record...

winterlegacy, here 'till the end > wafflesnfalafel 11/04/2018 at 10:33

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They were built to survive long past their shelf life by simply being as dead simple as possible.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 11/04/2018 at 10:33

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Some day, I’d like to customize one of those with a tire-roasting V8.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 11/04/2018 at 10:35

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There’s a weird dichotomy about USPS where they do a remarkably good job given their proclivity for hiring a few spectacularly lazy people and then making them entirely unaccountable and unfir e able.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > winterlegacy, here 'till the end 11/04/2018 at 10:35

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Beauty!

Kiltedpadre > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 11/04/2018 at 10:39

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I want one of these chopped, channeled, and with an LS6 shoved in it’s snout.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Kiltedpadre 11/04/2018 at 10:41

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Me too, although I wouldn’t do anything to it besides give it a 400-hp V8 and a GearStar transmission and upgraded suspension and brakes. Then I’d call it Priority Male . (Actually, I wouldn’t, because my wife objects to that moniker.)

Kiltedpadre > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 11/04/2018 at 11:00

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I’d really like to toss in something with a blower sticking out of the hood, but an LS would be much more budget friendly.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Kiltedpadre 11/04/2018 at 11:07

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The more it looks like the original beaten USPS vehicle, the better.

Urambo Tauro > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 11/04/2018 at 12:30

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Did the outer bearing fail? I do n’t see an inner stub, where a bad bearing could have “milled ” through it. Did the entire shaft slide out?

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Kiltedpadre 11/04/2018 at 14:16

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Why not both? You can supercharge an LS

shop-teacher > Urambo Tauro 11/04/2018 at 14:49

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I’m sure it’s a c-clip axle, so the while axle co ming out is definitely a possibility.

Kiltedpadre > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 11/04/2018 at 14:49

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Yes, but to keep the price realistic, at least for now, I’d need to go with something I could pull from a wrecked car or truck.

shop-teacher > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 11/04/2018 at 14:50

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Yeah, it's Grumman.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Urambo Tauro 11/04/2018 at 15:22

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Axle shaft and all, looks like to me.

Urambo Tauro > shop-teacher 11/04/2018 at 15:35

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Yeah . There ’ d be another root cause , though. C-clips don’t just fall out on their own - s omething has to allow that much axleshaft movement first.

shop-teacher > Urambo Tauro 11/04/2018 at 21:49

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30 years of abuse aughta do it!

pip bip - choose Corrour > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 11/05/2018 at 03:53

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oops indeed