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Re: Hummer taken down by a few pebbles
The video IS really old.....what 4 or more years?
Regardless, I think it's funny how all of us keyboard commandos can arm chair quarter back this guy's folly.
Okay, tough guys.....how would you have handled it differently? He didn't get on the gas that hard. If you ask me (and no one did) this is a design defect, not driver error.
How many of you guys have actually, really wheeled with IFS Chevies recently? How many of you know that this is an extremely common failure point for ALL Chevy makes, not just the H2 and H3? How many of you have bothered to poke your head under a brand new, Duramax equipped, 4x4 Chevy or GMC 3/4 or 1 ton truck? Go do it and then report back to this thread.....
What you are going to find is a set of tie rods that are designed for a Caprice. That's right, car sized components on a 1 TON 4wd truck! GM should be ashamed. They are about the size of your pinky finger in diameter. The FJC's tie rods are bigger for a vehicle that weighs 2/3rds or less of the Duramax 1 tons. Some engineer was asleep at the wheel.....this isn't driver error, it's blantant under-engineering of a part that needs to be stronger. The H2 and H3 are no different.
Before you bash some poor bastard that just broke his junk on the internet, just try and realize that many times it's an engineering problem....not necessarily a driver error one (unless you want to attempt to say that a vehicle with such a weak front end design has no business on the trail in the first place and that a buyer of such a vehicle is at fault for pushing it beyond it's design parameters.....in which case, you might be able to sucessfully make the argument).
2 unasked for cents,
Sean
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