ronbeatty said:
Bob, I ask the manufacturer why they set the blower on the angle. My response was that they did not know, that is the way it had always been done. Tuthill's manual stated that the blower was to set level so that is what we did. The angle seemed to create some excessive bearing and seal problems. I have not had any issues with the blowers since it was corrected.
if you look exactly at just about any engine and how it sits in the engine bay in most vehicles it tilts backward, this also means the trans is angled backward or rather slighter downward in the rear of the trans, this makes it so its a straight shot with the driveshaft to the rearend. that would explain why the blower is tilted that way.
as for expenses you can't look at it "the expenses are paid during the week" I have a dodge pickup with less than 100k miles on it, its falling apart, I have spend 7k in out of pocket repairs getting it to 90k miles. I hadn't planned on buying a new truck but I need to it appears, so I have been doing a bunch of calculations and figuring what it will cost me per mile to operate a given truck, be it new or used or whatever, having to buy a new truck buying 2 new sets of tires for it and all the fuel and maintaince it requires is costing me over 10k a year, I personally think that is way too much money and I am trying to figure out a way to lessen that. I think we all should look at our machines the same way, it will cost this much to run this machine per hour. that way you know if you clean a whole house is it actually costing $70 bucks in equipment usage and depreciation fuel, repairs etc, or is it costing us $90 dollars to clean a whole house. with that said without even running the numbers a
vortex is not going to be a cheap way to do it.
for 100k you can have 2 decked out vans with big slide ins installed, instead of 2 trucks only being at 2 places, you have 4 trucks that can be at one place or 4 places, its double the potential profit, if one
vortex goes down you are at half the capibility if one van goes down you still have 3/4 of your operation. not to mention you can be more places and working at different locations.
add to that its a machine that is no longer made, you can't get parts for it, if one of your techs wrecks the truck how are you going to move it to a new truck. and who is going to do the work doing it even if it can be done, with all the new diesel regulations that are in place that restrict tampering with the exhaust. the fact is the
vortex is a white elephant machine. those machines have likely depreciated to half their original value, half of 100k is 50k X2 is 100k in depreciation, its going to take a bunch of carpet cleanings as a bonus to pay for that. at the end of the day its how much money goes in your pocket, not how great you look doing it or how much power your machine has. frankly buying a
vortex is a dumb business decision if you are in business to actually make money. I like the dave ramsey way, pay for everything in cash if you do that once you realize half your money is gone, you will not make that mistake again.
