Hot Water posted:hullmat991 posted:Did I hear that correctly at 1 hour 7 minutes in; that the challenger has rubber hoses installed instead of the normal steel pipes in the frame? When would that have been done?
Typical BS from the current manager to downgrade the previous crew/crews. He always has to include such innuendoes in all of his presentations. Of course there are "rubber hoses" at some specific locations such as high pressure lube lines, which were replaced with HIGH PRESSURE flexible hydraulic hoses (yes, they may even LOOK like 'rubber hoses').
I think he was talking about old solid pipe and fittings that were buried in the front engine of 3985 that were not easily accessible that had been bypassed with replacement external flexible hoses due to leaks. The point was that in 4014 they had replaced all of that with new hard tubing with no fittings in those inaccessible areas to avoid that issue in the future. My take on it was that he wasn't ripping on past work but was explaining why they were doing what they were doing.
