Parts Terminology

Scott86MJ

Scott86MJ

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I hear people west of the Mississippi calling driveshafts drive lines all the time on youtoob. I've heard them say, I ordered this drive line from Adams drive shaft.:laughing: I wonder what we call some car parts around here that is wrong?
 
spinny long dohicky under the cruck
 
I have a good friend in PA that calls the fold down doohickey on the back of a truck an “end gate”. First time I heard him say that I said,”no, no, no! You nor anyone else you know has ever been “end gating” or to an “end gate party”!
We pick on each other a lot for our language but I won that one.
 
untchabl said:
All the West Coast guys that call an off-road buggy a car.
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This one irritates me bad enough I had @Ron wife print me some stickers that said “it’s not a damn car!” And put one on the back of my BUGGY. Start talking about your “car” or “race car” having a front axle, 16” travel shocks or 40” tires around here and you’re probably going to get a confused look and, “Dafuqs wrong with you son?!?!”
 
mbalbritton said:
Then there’s the British…. It’s a Prop shaft to them.

That sounds like it belongs on a boat to me.
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Chrysler tech manuals and instructions call them propeller shafts. When we'd get a new parts guy, it was always a chore to order a front drive shaft. They'd say "catalog doesn't list one. You sure it has one?"
 
When I had my Ford pages, this was a daily argument in damn near every thread. Tough to diagnose something when a bruncledaddy uses a colloquial part term. One of the primary reasons I invested in Master Parts Catalogs and OSI catalogs. Never failed though, someone had a relative that worked at XYZ manufacturer and they used whatever term was being justified all the time.
 
I can't stand it when people call them "rears". A front rear and a rear rear?

Front end/rear end or front axle/rear axle is much easier to understand and doesn't sound completely stupid.
 
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