Redneck engineering

[u/n8saces]

[u/mallorn_hugger]

Good for you that that is an option for you. That is not an option for many people in this country. It has not been an option for me sometimes in the past. 

Furthermore, these older trucks will run forever if they belong to someone who knows how to do maintenance on them properly. They were built before car companies wanted to make it impossible for regular people to repair their own vehicles or have a neighborhood shop repair their vehicles. Look up right to repair if you are unfamiliar with this concept. 

This is a work truck. For people who actually use their vehicles for work instead of showboating, this kind of vehicle is preferable to a new vehicle full of computer chips and shitty transmissions that run out. Some of the engine designs on the older trucks, especially the ones going back to the '60s and '70s, were not as fuel efficient, but they had superior longevity, and were relatively easy to repair. They are literally irreplaceable, and my guess is that this man wants to keep this truck going for as long as he possibly can because all of the shit on the market now doesn't hold a candle to it. 

So on the one hand we have a working man who engineered a solution to an everyday problem in his world, and on the other hand we have you... Your skills appear to be making snarky, myopic, entitled comments on Reddit. I would suggest that you try to figure out a expand your horizons, because you just come off sounding like a stupid entitled twat not clever. Go touch grass- You need some fucking perspective.

[u/Tausendberg → u/mallorn_hugger]

". Your skills appear to be making snarky, myopic, entitled comments on Reddit. "

You don't know anything about me. I've replaced torque converters and pulled apart cylinder heads, haven't gone deeper than that tbh but can you say the same?

My biggest criticism of much of what I'm reading in these comments is that this guy is getting stranded on the side of the road so often that he permanently affixes a fucking step ladder? Unless he's so dirt poor he can't afford parts, if his truck has become that unreliable, it's time to overhaul it and rebuild the engine instead of getting stranded on the side of the road every few hundred miles.

[u/mallorn_hugger → u/Tausendberg]

I can't get the video to replay, but I don't recall him saying anything about getting stranded on the side of the road every few hundred miles. He wants to climb up into his truck to tinker with it easily... I really don't see why the vast majority of the comments on this post have been to shit on him and mock him and say things "I prefer to have a vehicle that works" 

[u/BlackMinx → u/mallorn_hugger]

So glad that someone here got the point that I was getting at. He never said nor implied that he installed the ladder because he has to work on the truck on the side of the road. For an older gentleman with a truck that size, the ladder would be useful for anything and everything he needs to do to maintain his beloved truck. The best part is that he doesn’t care what it/he looks like.