[AT] Chevy Astro

[Francis Robinson]

	"Trying" to work on later model (after mid 1980's) stuff really makes you
appreciate how easy it is to work on our old tractors. Years ago I drove a
1969 Mercedes 240-D. Gee, that thing was easy to work on. I always said that
all automotive design engineers should be required to work in a dealer's
service garage for about a month every year. Really work, not some walk
through. There is much to be learned from physically working on a
10-year-old car that has seen plenty of the real world, not a lab tested
car. It would also help if one week of that month was spent in a small auto
repair shop that "did not" always have access to special tool #999876-q.
	When you get right down to it they are still just re-inventing the
horseless carriage and many of the "new" innovations over the years had
already been invented. History gets lost and too many lessons have to be
re-learned over and over again. Simple stuff many times... One hot spot with
me is how many vehicles I have owned where the fuse block was hidden up
under the dash where you have stand on your head in a half twist with a
flashlight in your mouth just to change a simple fuse that is designed to
fail... The 1948 Chevy truck had them in a simple metal covered box under
the hood that was opened by popping off a couple of latch springs like on a
distributor cap. Then some dummy said "lets see if we can make that harder
to get to"...    ;-) IHC did a good job in the 60's and 70's of making fuses
easy to change. You didn't even have to open the hood, just the glove box
door... Today they are again doing a better job at making them accessible,
usually up on a wheel well in a box along with several relays etc. but it is
only a matter of time before some dummy says "lets see if we can make that
harder to get to"...    ;-)


--
"farmer"

The brave may not live forever but the easily frightened may never live at
all.

Francis Robinson
Central Indiana, USA
robinson at svs.net

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Thanks, Charlie, for my first good laugh of the day!!

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Gene Waugh
Elgin, Illinois USA


CEE VILL wrote:

> I believe the accepted method of finding the engine in your new
> vehicle, Ralph, is to start at the tail pipe and gently feel your way
> foreward along it.  You will sooner or later end up at the motor.
> (Grins)
>
> Charlie V. in very rainy WNY  (4 degrees above freezing)
>
>
>
>

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