Author: ehostler

Russian company expected to bid on Air Force refueling tanker

How can this happen? It was bad enough when Airbus wanted in on the deal. Now a Russian company wants in.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/03/19/us.russia.refueling.tanker/index.html?hpt=T2

Russian company expected to bid on Air Force refueling tanker
By Mike Mount, CNN Senior Pentagon…

Gotta love FORD – NOT

My company loves FORD. That’s all they buy. Then they buy el cheapo maintenance programs.

When of my Field engineers was driving a FORD Exploder back to the office, when it began to slip in and out of gear. He pulled into a service station and couldn’t find anything obvious. He went to check…

And yet GM gets more money from Obama

Funny how Obama just keeps giving them money, yet Chrysler was forced to be sold to foreign ownership and they needed far less money. This will bring them to $17.3 Billion.

http://money.cnn.com/2009/12/30/news/companies/gmac_bailout/index.htm

Can’t hold onto my drivers side mirror

What can I say, a year and a half ago, I high fived another truck and we both lost our drivers side mirrors. I replaced the mirror and all was good.

Well until today… lol

I took the kids out ice skating and had to parallel park on the main road. when we came back, four hours later, the…

Gotta love it

Some school districts are now removing Chocolate milk from the cafeteria. They have determined that it contributes to obesity.

I had lots of chocolate milk growing up. I didn’t get my keg belly until my late 30s.

What they don’t comprehend is that we got home, did our homework and then went…

rough running

OK, I have an intermittent problem.

The other day, I started the engine and it ran really rough. I was able to rev it up, but it stumbled all the way. Then I released the pedal and it took a lot longer than normal to back down to idle. I attempted to drive it and it had very little power. …

MFS failure

The Multi-function switch, on my 2006 Ram 2500 is beginning to fail. I went to find a part number for it. When I did a quick internet search for it, I was very surprised by the number of complaints of this unit failing.

NHTSA had launched an investigation, as it is a potential safety hazard. …