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Speedzzter Says: Why Do Automotive Engineers Hate Us?
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Re: Speedzzter Says: Why Do Automotive Engineers Hate Us?
Amen!! I'm in total agreement, I have cursed my share of engineers working under a car or in a server/ disk array farm...sometimes it seems they never considered anything beyond even general maintenance.Rich
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Re: Speedzzter Says: Why Do Automotive Engineers Hate Us?
Originally posted by studemaxIf ONE GUY engineered the whole car if would turn out OK...
You forget it's a committee of thousands that contribute to the whole.
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Re: Speedzzter Says: Why Do Automotive Engineers Hate Us?
lmao....great story!
and of course we all know the answer:
Now it just about takes a friggin? college degree to keep one of these modern wonders of planned obsolescence running.
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Re: Speedzzter Says: Why Do Automotive Engineers Hate Us?
Originally posted by squirrellmao....great story!
and of course we all know the answer:
Now it just about takes a friggin? college degree to keep one of these modern wonders of planned obsolescence running.
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Re: Speedzzter Says: Why Do Automotive Engineers Hate Us?
although things have changed, working on the 99 silverado (200k miles on it) is a lot easier than working on the 87 Suburban (140k miles on it and needed a lot more work).
Generally that 80s stuff really sucks from a repair viewpoint. Ever count vacuum hoses on a 80s hondacar?
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Re: Speedzzter Says: Why Do Automotive Engineers Hate Us?
Originally posted by squirrel
Generally that 80s stuff really sucks from a repair viewpoint. Ever count vacuum hoses on a 80s hondacar?Doing it all wrong since 1966
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Re: Speedzzter Says: Why Do Automotive Engineers Hate Us?
<<<<<<<<<<<<Maybe you've been there. The in-tank fuel pump on some aging EFI car has quit. You're in the shop lying on the frigid concrete. The cheap plastic siphon pump you bought to drain the nearly full tank just made a huge mess before it broke. (In-tank fuel pumps never seem to poop out when the tank's empty--in contrast to Chinese siphon pumps that blow out when the tank's about full.)
The tank strap bolts are somewhere in the dark void between the rear axle and...who can see what?s up there? The ?rough service? light bulb in your trouble light just quit, so you?re working blind again!
It doesn?t matter much anyhow because there?s so much corrosion on the strap bolts that the ratchet (fitted with a huge ?cheater? pipe) can barely turn them a quarter turn.>>>>>>>>>>>
All that describes my last job at work, changing a fuel pump in a rusty 2002 Chevy pickup. The cage nut for the back tank strap spun in the frame, and of coarse its in no-mans land. I tryed everything (the bad lanaguage tool didn't help at all) to remove it WITHOUT using the torch, only to give into the blue tip Gods.
My biggest fear, a plastic gas tank, and a red hot cranberry crossing paths.
The pump took 30 seconds to swap once the tank was on the floor-but it took me three hours to R and R the tank.
Jeremy George in Windsor NY
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Re: Speedzzter Says: Why Do Automotive Engineers Hate Us?
you need to move to AZ, we never get rusty tank strap problems here.
But of course every tank gets filled up when the car acts like it's out of gas because the pump died
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Re: Speedzzter Says: Why Do Automotive Engineers Hate Us?
a good read, I liked it!
Reminds me of last Thanksgiving where replacing a simple fuel filter on my brother's Yukon (03 I think?) turned into a seven-trips-to-the-parts-store pain in the butt.
Special tools required for ONE of the two fittings on the fuel filter. The filter was a part number that WAS NOT the same s the one all the computers said it should be (Autozone, Advance, and O'Reilly's). Who knows, maybe it had been wrecked by previous owner... anyways, finding the right tool became quite the challenge, took us about 3 hours to get the job done...
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