2strokerfun
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- May 19, 2006
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I think all automotive engineers and designers should have to spend one week a month working on the products they design.
This next weekend, my project is replacing the alternator on my wife's Mazda Tribute (aka Ford Escape). In order to do this, you have to remove the right wheel and right front drive axle !!! Oh boy!! And if I want to replace that pesky humming power steering pump, I get to block the engine and remove the right side motor mount!! (pump tucked in the V between cylinder banks). Wheee!! In order to replace the rear spark plugs, you have to take off the manifold.!!
I swear I think these guys sit around with Tequila shots trying to outdo each other and laughing their asses off as they come up with the most difficult way to access wear and tear parts. Every time I change the No. 6 spark plug on my Nissan Frontier, I wear a bloody badge of courage on the back of my right hand from the sharp lip of the firewall. I know this is going to happen, no matter what type of extension I use. Thank goodness I only change them every 90,000 miles. Of course you have to have faith the engine even has spark plugs since there is no physical way to actually ever see one of the spark plugs once it descends into the depths of engineering hell to be installed in the cylinder head.
Oh well, I whine too much, but I bet I'm not alone.
This next weekend, my project is replacing the alternator on my wife's Mazda Tribute (aka Ford Escape). In order to do this, you have to remove the right wheel and right front drive axle !!! Oh boy!! And if I want to replace that pesky humming power steering pump, I get to block the engine and remove the right side motor mount!! (pump tucked in the V between cylinder banks). Wheee!! In order to replace the rear spark plugs, you have to take off the manifold.!!
I swear I think these guys sit around with Tequila shots trying to outdo each other and laughing their asses off as they come up with the most difficult way to access wear and tear parts. Every time I change the No. 6 spark plug on my Nissan Frontier, I wear a bloody badge of courage on the back of my right hand from the sharp lip of the firewall. I know this is going to happen, no matter what type of extension I use. Thank goodness I only change them every 90,000 miles. Of course you have to have faith the engine even has spark plugs since there is no physical way to actually ever see one of the spark plugs once it descends into the depths of engineering hell to be installed in the cylinder head.
Oh well, I whine too much, but I bet I'm not alone.