Labor Day

From : azwiley1

Q: in response to max dodge s post. i thought everyone should know any of you who work at a dealership have a flat rate incentive plan by which you get paid if so im interested in hearing the details of the system. lol denny may or maynot agree with me.....its sucks. you get paid say 14 hours for a 5.2l engine swap irrc this is book time for the br/be and the an/i forget the body desg for the durango now this is the pay doesnt matter if you spend 24 hours or 8 hours doing the work. of course you really want to be able to do the work in 8 hours right same goes for other stuff there are recalls that pay as alittle as .2 of an hour. warranty rates are less for the same job as what customer pay is these are usually lunch eaters when it comes to engine work witch was what i did when i worked in the dealership needless to say if your not turning a wrench your not getting paid....and sometimes just because you are turning a wrench doesnt always mean you are getting paid....or atleast not being paid for all your time anyways. i didnt mind the pay so much when i was single. but it really sucked during slow times when i was married and a kid i was the only income for quite some time does any of that answer your questions -- chris thats about the way it was when i was doing it in the 70s. its why i got out of it and into construction. the work isnt a whole lot better but at least there arent schemes to not pay you for working. pontiac had a recall on v6 sunbirds. the fuel line came up the transmission tunnel to the back of the engine where they put the rubber fuel line/vibration connection. unfortunately thats where buick put their egr valve. so the rubber line was too close sometimes. the recall paid .2 hours. theyd hand you the work order with a piece of rubber hose two clamps and send you to work. the rubber hose was in case the hose was damaged never found one that was. if there was no damage the procedure was to bend the metal line to gain more clearance. takes less than a minute. i asked the service writers to tell me when someone brought one in for just the recall and id do it on the line so the people wouldnt have to leave their car for the day. no dice wouldnt do it. so sometime during the day when theyd decide to issue the work order to me id take my bending tool big honkin screwdriver out to the parking lot perform the procedure and walk back to the desk. that didnt work either i guess it didnt waste enough time to suit them you must drive it into the shop perform the recall and then drive it back to the lot. now its taking 1520 minutes to perform and theyre happy and im gone. .

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From : mac davis

anyone everyone i am stumped. i have a 1996 b2500 5.9 mpfi. i have replaced the iac valve the map and the intake air temp sensor but i still have an idle problem. oh yea i checked the tps voltages and they were correct. when its cold it idles ok and sometimes when it is warm it will slowly raise the idle rpm and slowly fade back to normal. i can not really call it a rumble surge or loping. i can call it irritating. no codes no vacuum leaks no egr and i cleaned the throttle body. i am not sure what the water temp sensor does but this is my next attack. does anyone have any wizdom other than take it to a dealer. i personally would like to learn what is going on here. of course i could pay but what good would that do for me to learn thanks fred .