You Know What Grinds My Gears???
#1
02-07-2010, 12:54 AM
You Know What Grinds My Gears???
The diesel world is a great place to be. There are great people who are more than willing to help eachother; there are great bench racing conversations with fellows who also have #2 running in their veins; there are competitions that are both fierce yet friendly. Yes, the diesel world is a truly awesome place to be, but it's not perfect. Naturally, there are clowns who abuse the benifits of diesel mills, just as "ricers" can ruin the car tuning world with annoying buzz mufflers and B-52 bombers wings mounted on the trunk of their FWD cars.
This thread is devoted to those irritating little things that drive you crazy about the diesel world we live in.
Please, no comments or questions, just keep the trend going and post "You know what grinds my gears?" followed by your peeve.
It's interesting to see the things that the diesel world needs to work on yet. Granted, the world will never be perfect, so why not gripe about it in the meantime and maybe get people to scratch their chins wondering if that bothers them too but they really didn't take the time to think about it. You never know, you might mention something that reminds another that they need to fix that on their own diesel rig.
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You know what grinds my gears?
People who have cab or marker lights with bulbs burned out.
This thread is devoted to those irritating little things that drive you crazy about the diesel world we live in.
Please, no comments or questions, just keep the trend going and post "You know what grinds my gears?" followed by your peeve.
It's interesting to see the things that the diesel world needs to work on yet. Granted, the world will never be perfect, so why not gripe about it in the meantime and maybe get people to scratch their chins wondering if that bothers them too but they really didn't take the time to think about it. You never know, you might mention something that reminds another that they need to fix that on their own diesel rig.
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You know what grinds my gears?
People who have cab or marker lights with bulbs burned out.
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#2
02-07-2010, 03:00 AM
Chevy's with only one running light.
Every douchebag who assumes that your auto is a piece of crap.
People that aren't tired of the smoke after a year or so.
People that leave their trucks running all the time just to let everybody else know how special their Diesel is. The 20 minute warm up/ 10 minute cool down/ leave it running while pumping gas/ going into the store noise pollution jackasses.
"Cummings".
Any snakesucker who feels it necessary to go out of his way and demonstrate how impeccably well educated he is by clarifying that "pumps make flow, not pressure" while you're talking about pumps that make, you know, different pressures.
Every moron that repeats the mantra "I want a Cummins with an Allison in a Ford" like it's something insightful or original.
Every moron that arrives at the conclusion that the Cummins is the best engine, the Allison is the best transmission or the Ford is the best chassis without having any kind of experience regarding the matters themselves.
Every Allison transmission KoolAid gargler who will endlessly preach about how the Allison is the best transmission ever, just because he feels smart since he knows the name of the transmission manufacturer, not realizing that his opinion would be entirely nonexistent if GM didn't put an "Allison" badge on the side of their trucks.
HEUI injection.
People who use "NOS" as a genericized term.
Obviously ignorant people, who despite having to know that they're ignorant, will nonetheless argue with you that you can't run nitrous on a Diesel and have to run propane instead.
People who think that finny leaker intercooling is a necessity.
Superduties with lift kits. Every poser on the planet spews manjuice when they see a lifted Superduty.
Superduties with lift kits... At Glamis.
Women.
Exhaust tips bigger than the exhaust pipe.
Intake modifications that don't do crap but nonetheless invoke endless holy war arguments over which is better.
Stickers advertising what crap you have on your truck or want to have on your truck if you're not being reimbursed for displaying the sticker in some manner.
Stacks. At this point, just about any pickup with stacks.
Guys who listen to anything other than mid-80's to mid-00's alternative/ pop rock with female vocalists.
Anybody who talks about how awesome some online forum discussions were when I meet them in real life.
People who constantly brag about how they "blow peoples doors off" in 14 second trucks. Anybody else notice how it tends to be the slower trucks that claim the most kills, while the really fast trucks hardly claim any "kills" at all? It's almost like people with injectors and a chip are convinced they're fast while people with built engines realize that they're not nearly fast enough? Hmm...
The phrase "rolling coal". I don't know where it came from, but it's been around forever and it's never been anything but annoying.
People whose entire understanding of Diesel engines leaves them imagining a gasoline engine with glow plugs in place of spark plugs. These people get special credit when they argue with you that your Cummins has to have glow plugs because it's a Diesel and there's no way it could light the fuel off if it doesn't have glow plugs because all Diesels have glow plugs in place of spark plugs yeah totally lets go to Glamis and spooge on lifted Superduties.
In the same vein as the "pumps make flow" jackholes, the "it's not an 'injector', it's a 'nozzle'!" jackholes. Congratulations, you have a menial education from somewhere. Unfortunately the people who taught you are morons too, sorry, but I guess it won't stop you from interjecting your arrogance into our discussion through inflexible terminology anyways.
"Ford owns Cummins" parrots; a close second to these people are the people who don't understand my intentions when I fully support the misconception just to make sure those out of the loop never get in the loop because we don't want those idiots in the loop anyways.
DTR.
Every douchebag who assumes that your auto is a piece of crap.
People that aren't tired of the smoke after a year or so.
People that leave their trucks running all the time just to let everybody else know how special their Diesel is. The 20 minute warm up/ 10 minute cool down/ leave it running while pumping gas/ going into the store noise pollution jackasses.
"Cummings".
Any snakesucker who feels it necessary to go out of his way and demonstrate how impeccably well educated he is by clarifying that "pumps make flow, not pressure" while you're talking about pumps that make, you know, different pressures.
Every moron that repeats the mantra "I want a Cummins with an Allison in a Ford" like it's something insightful or original.
Every moron that arrives at the conclusion that the Cummins is the best engine, the Allison is the best transmission or the Ford is the best chassis without having any kind of experience regarding the matters themselves.
Every Allison transmission KoolAid gargler who will endlessly preach about how the Allison is the best transmission ever, just because he feels smart since he knows the name of the transmission manufacturer, not realizing that his opinion would be entirely nonexistent if GM didn't put an "Allison" badge on the side of their trucks.
HEUI injection.
People who use "NOS" as a genericized term.
Obviously ignorant people, who despite having to know that they're ignorant, will nonetheless argue with you that you can't run nitrous on a Diesel and have to run propane instead.
People who think that finny leaker intercooling is a necessity.
Superduties with lift kits. Every poser on the planet spews manjuice when they see a lifted Superduty.
Superduties with lift kits... At Glamis.
Women.
Exhaust tips bigger than the exhaust pipe.
Intake modifications that don't do crap but nonetheless invoke endless holy war arguments over which is better.
Stickers advertising what crap you have on your truck or want to have on your truck if you're not being reimbursed for displaying the sticker in some manner.
Stacks. At this point, just about any pickup with stacks.
Guys who listen to anything other than mid-80's to mid-00's alternative/ pop rock with female vocalists.
Anybody who talks about how awesome some online forum discussions were when I meet them in real life.
People who constantly brag about how they "blow peoples doors off" in 14 second trucks. Anybody else notice how it tends to be the slower trucks that claim the most kills, while the really fast trucks hardly claim any "kills" at all? It's almost like people with injectors and a chip are convinced they're fast while people with built engines realize that they're not nearly fast enough? Hmm...
The phrase "rolling coal". I don't know where it came from, but it's been around forever and it's never been anything but annoying.
People whose entire understanding of Diesel engines leaves them imagining a gasoline engine with glow plugs in place of spark plugs. These people get special credit when they argue with you that your Cummins has to have glow plugs because it's a Diesel and there's no way it could light the fuel off if it doesn't have glow plugs because all Diesels have glow plugs in place of spark plugs yeah totally lets go to Glamis and spooge on lifted Superduties.
In the same vein as the "pumps make flow" jackholes, the "it's not an 'injector', it's a 'nozzle'!" jackholes. Congratulations, you have a menial education from somewhere. Unfortunately the people who taught you are morons too, sorry, but I guess it won't stop you from interjecting your arrogance into our discussion through inflexible terminology anyways.
"Ford owns Cummins" parrots; a close second to these people are the people who don't understand my intentions when I fully support the misconception just to make sure those out of the loop never get in the loop because we don't want those idiots in the loop anyways.
DTR.
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#6
02-07-2010, 10:12 AM
Diesel Wrench
You know what grinds my gears??
The cops that are impartial because my truck smokes and is loud and since they cant get me for that they find every lil podunk thing they can and write me up for.. This is no lie about 5 or 6 months ago i was sitting at a stoplight behind a ''GEO METRO'' when the light turned green i blew some smoke a cop saw it and gave me a ticket for excessive acceleration.. Behind a ''GEO METRO''
.. i was not polite to him.. i just couldnt do it.. And i will be the first to admit that i prob do deserve it for the things that i have done and not got caught..
The cops that are impartial because my truck smokes and is loud and since they cant get me for that they find every lil podunk thing they can and write me up for.. This is no lie about 5 or 6 months ago i was sitting at a stoplight behind a ''GEO METRO'' when the light turned green i blew some smoke a cop saw it and gave me a ticket for excessive acceleration.. Behind a ''GEO METRO''
.. i was not polite to him.. i just couldnt do it.. And i will be the first to admit that i prob do deserve it for the things that i have done and not got caught..
#7
02-07-2010, 10:18 AM
you know what grinds my gears?
Ricers. A cold air intake and fart can muffler plus all the stickers they could buy. They think they are the best mechanics in a 15 mile radius. They blab on about how there car can corner yet they still insist upon racing in a straight line between lights?????? And apparently power to weight ratio is a good defense against the fact that the car has no torque...
Ricers. A cold air intake and fart can muffler plus all the stickers they could buy. They think they are the best mechanics in a 15 mile radius. They blab on about how there car can corner yet they still insist upon racing in a straight line between lights?????? And apparently power to weight ratio is a good defense against the fact that the car has no torque...
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