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[GMCnet] Re: Steering box centering [message #367329 is a reply to message #367287] Wed, 27 October 2021 12:54 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Do I hear an "Amen!" ?
 
Having been "in the business" for nearly 50 years, all I can say (without writing a book) is anybody who hasn't done it has no idea what it takes to do it. Even the Duane Simmons Onan video I did at the Mariposa rally some years ago was a bear to do as it was a spur of the moment, hit and miss, hope-you-get-something-because-there-is-not-another-chance type of thing. And Duane had the vocabulary and presentation skills that made it relatively do-able. Don't ask about post-production. It's a miracle anything came of it at all.
 
 
Toby Maki
73 Glacier 230
Riverside, CA
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I have some experience in doing tech video presentations for rallies. All I
can say is "It ain't as easy as it looks" I have shot, then reshot, and
sometimes reshot again to get a sequence that comes out the way it needs to
be.
I spent many years in a shop setting as a Vocational instructor trying
to make technical points about certain processes that I found easier to do
myself, rather than trying to explain it to the un-informed.
But, watching someone else do something technical is NOT THE SAME as
actually doing it with your own two hands.
Doing it in front of a video camera and facing concerns of proper
camera angles, focus, lighting, AND keeping the nomenclature specific and
exact is no easy task. Oh, yes I forgot about sound quality when you turn
away from the camera, too. Easier to wear a microphone that you have to
manage cords to. I have thousands of dollars worth of cameras, lighting,
monitors, patch cords, software mixing and editing programs just to do this.
"It ain't as easy as it looks, folks". Cut Jim Bounds a little slack,
please.
Jim Hupy
Salem, Oregon
 
On Wed, Oct 27, 2021, 7:03 AM Jim Kanomata wrote:
 
> GMC Motorhome business is so small there is no one that can finance a
> professional aids.
> If you feel you can pull it off , then I suggest you do it.
> In our case, if it was not for our Air Filter parent company, we could not
> tie up funds on lot of the projects we need to invest.
>
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 10:56 PM wrote:
>
>> I watched them too, a lot of rambling and more of a commercial for those
>> new intermediate shafts than any real info. Plus he needs a cameraman so
> he
>> can zoom in on the things he refers to. No doubt there is some value in
>> his presentations but as a relative newcomer to these TZE's, I find the
>> presentations hard going. He needs a script/producer/cameraman IMO
>>
>> Larry
>>
>> RF_Burns wrote on Tue, 26 October 2021 18:13
>>> I watched JimB's steering videos both parts 1 and 2 this past week. In
>> part 1 he was calling the output shaft the input shaft and he corrected
>>> himself a couple of times. He talked about making the pitman arm
>> parallel with the cover mounting surface when I believe he was wanting to
>>> reference the flat spot on the input shaft.
>>>
>>> In part 2 he came back and tried to clarify the position of the input
>> shaft with the cover mounting surface. Except this time he stated it was
>>> the intermediate shaft's pinch bolt groove that you line up to the
> cover
>> mounting surface. This is not correct, it is the flat milled surface on
>>> the input shaft that is to be parallel to the cover mounting surface as
>> shown on page 9-39 of the manual. It would be really nice if the pinch
>>> bolt was the reference point, then you could see at a glance, but the
>> pinch bolt is at some random angle that does not match to anything when
> on
>>> high-point.
>>>
>>> I hope he clarifies this before people get this messed up... Or if I am
>> wrong, please advise me and I'll delete this post.
>>
>>
>> --
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>>
>> 1977 Palm Beach 40,000 miles, PO said everything working but forgot the
>> word NOT. New Atwood fridge, water heater & furnace. New SS exhaust
> system,
>> 6000w Onan, Iota Converter, R134A A/C, New fuel lines & heat exchange
> hoses
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