MouthBQ98 said:
I never understand this. I have a 40 year old tractor with all sorts of 1500 psi hydraulics on it and it has had 2 leaks, both of which were caused by things I did to damage or loosen something, but they can't design a new car with 8 psi fittings that don't break and leak within 5 years?
Yeah...but...Your tractor was designed to meet a need with very little restraint on performance or cost.
Modenr vehicles have to meet all sorts of regulation, cram 1200lbs of **** into a 1000lb bag, and then do it for less than 100,000 so the cross section of America can afford to actually buy it.
Engineers spend their entire careers finding where to cut costs to make that happen. Looks like they picked a pretty good part to do that with and roll the dice. Non catastrophic, easy to replace. ??
I bet a 2018 Tractor has similar issues. :/
I get your point, I have old equipment too, and it just works...the wife's expedition leaked washer fluid into the rear cargo area...why? Because of a .15 hose that pulled off of a nipple in the headliner. The fix was using .37 vacuum hose. LOL.