Sigh...Sgt. Howard wrote:[
Al, if we stop using materials from ACME and LUCAS, we'd be just fine... but NOOOOO, you gotta have your discount coyote bait and your useless limey 'lectrical crap...
... now, if we could just look at some other sources here...
{deep breath}
Okay. Just because you are addicted to technology on cars that (in some cases literally) came off TRACTORS and is still used on them doesn't mean we all have to be.
Yet more overweight, cast-iron crap made with concepts that were obsolete when steam engines ruled the roadways...I just don't even begin to know where to start. Stovebolt Ford flathead V8s...really....
For your information CAV Lucas is still one of the largest suppliers of Diesel engine injector pumps and such in the world - right up there with Bosch. As a matter of fact a large number of the pumps John Deere uses are Lucas CAV...so there! Not to mention a huge number of marine Diesels.
Even the electrical items - they're still repairable and have parts availalbe - as opposed to box-level swaps for illiterate, innumerate mechanics who need to be led to the problem by the hand by a computer. A bit of contact cleaner, and some buffing rouge on an orangewood stick and things go right back into service to last for years.
And as for ACME...IIRC you're the one who bought that job lot of anvils...only dropped once...
Off to bed now...g'night all. Al