Matt69olds
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- Jan 8, 2018
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- Location
- Central Indiana
- First Name
- Matt
- Truck Year
- 81
- Truck Model
- GMC 1/2 ton
- Engine Size
- 455 Olds
With the constant battle the bean counters and engineers are fighting, I’m really curious why the engineers were victorious with this argument!
On my son’s 92 Yukon, the transmission crossmember is held in place by bolts that are twice as long as needed, with spacers on top of the crossmember to take up the clearance. I have taken enough of these trucks apart over the years to know it’s not some backyard hack, GM really did this.
On a subject a little closer to “home”, I have taken apart lots of truck th400 cores with big heavy spacers (about the same size as thimbles of sewing thread) on the bolts that hold the transmission mount to the extension housing.
I have little doubt shorter bolts were already in GMs parts inventory. And even if those spacers cost a penny per truck to install, multiple that penny by a few million trucks and that penny quickly adds up to real money. So why did GM use them???
On my son’s 92 Yukon, the transmission crossmember is held in place by bolts that are twice as long as needed, with spacers on top of the crossmember to take up the clearance. I have taken enough of these trucks apart over the years to know it’s not some backyard hack, GM really did this.
On a subject a little closer to “home”, I have taken apart lots of truck th400 cores with big heavy spacers (about the same size as thimbles of sewing thread) on the bolts that hold the transmission mount to the extension housing.
I have little doubt shorter bolts were already in GMs parts inventory. And even if those spacers cost a penny per truck to install, multiple that penny by a few million trucks and that penny quickly adds up to real money. So why did GM use them???