The customer service at blackmagicbrakes.com is unparalleled. Clean your threads and loctite your knuckle to saddle bolts each time you take them off and on kids!
@mrblaine
@mrblaine
The customer service at blackmagicbrakes.com is unparalleled. Clean your threads and loctite your knuckle to saddle bolts each time you take them off and on kids!
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If any of you were wondering what it’s like to cut off outboard shock brackets that @mrblaine welded on, it’s not fun
I’m cutting off this outboard shock mount and anti rock tab. The reasoning is that these were one of Blaine’s first outboards and he has since changed where he places the lower mounts. They now go all the way outboard to the rings. This makes it so you don’t have to tip the upper tower out at all and creates more clearance for the tires.What no pics?
How's the customer service at brakes.com?The customer service at blackmagicbrakes.com is unparalleled.
I’m cutting off this outboard shock mount and anti rock tab. The reasoning is that these were one of Blaine’s first outboards and he has since changed where he places the lower mounts. They now go all the way outboard to the rings. This makes it so you don’t have to tip the upper tower out at all and creates more clearance for the tires.
Kaizen is a beautiful thing to understand and witness.
I'd say its more continuous improvement over time vs true Kaizen, but beautiful, nonetheless!
Kaizen is often used in the western context to mean continuous improvement. But there is an even deeper and richer meaning.
If you look at the two symbols making up the word in written Kanji script, the symbol for “Kai” is made up of two sub-symbols representing “self” and “whip”. This refers to the discipline we need to have in order to change who we are. It’s about starting with ourselves to make change.
And while “Zen” is often translated to mean “good,” the symbols actually represent the meaning of “highest good.”
So the real meaning of kaizen is about having the discipline to ‘whip’ ourselves – to sacrifice ourselves – to find the very best in what we do.
And in the Japanese sense .. the "continuous" is always implied in the context of "betterment" and "improvement".
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The western, Automotive MFG way its been described to me is a rapid, all encompassing, change for the better. It makes sense, in the context you've provided that it was explained that way. Kaizen to me was always an event. We would schedule the event, stop production, tear the cell apart and experiment with new ways to run it, and then build it back the best way we discovered. The "whip" part of it was the events were a maximum of one week long...sometimes shorter. LOTS of hours. When I lead the lean transformation at my last shop, I was doing an average of one event a month...it was killer.
Fuck, you're already ahead of me.
Another one and yes I will but as a different phase. Wanted to midarm first because you need to modify the raised mounts with the midarm bracketFuck, you're already ahead of me. You gonna raise those mounts?
You need to post less and work on the Jeep more!
Not hard enoughThis week I'm in Texas, last week New Hampshire and the week before Arizona. I'm trying.
Not hard enough
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This week I'm in Texas, last week New Hampshire and the week before Arizona. I'm trying.