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Bextreme04

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1. Thats M.E. vs M.E.T. (DOWN WITH THE M.E.'s) :p

2. Another engineers fault, just not the one who drew the starter assembly.

3. Paper theory and bean counters

Im really jusy here to start **** because i happen to like you, and you stated youre an engineer;)
:893Chainsaw-Smilie-

Not wrong... the worst thing is having 50 parts to an assembly that all work perfectly by themselves and no chance of working at all together. Its getting more and more common in the modern world of standards based requirements.

Its similar to software that does EXACTLY what you told it to do... which is nothing like what you meant for it to do.

I can't tell you how many times i've talked to someone about a design and then asked them "what do you do when that thing breaks?" and their, no ****, response is "it won't break". I have never in my whole life seen a component that "wont break". Some things may last longer than others, but eventually some poor sucker is gonna have to put their dick beaters on it and replace it.

Without reading the whole thing, idk man, it sure sounds malicious to me!!!! infact, its personal. you thought "lets **** with her" when designing something far before i was alive

I'll go with maliciously lazy..... they just didn't care that it was going to be inconvenient for anyone needing to work on it later.
 

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The single best vehicle I have ever seen from a maintenance perspective is the M1 Abrams. It was obviously designed by a group of engineers that knew what they were doing and had extensive experience in field maintenance. You can have an entire engine/trans pulled out and swapped with a brand new one in under an hour, including removing armor. A Bradley on the other hand can take 2-3 days to swap an engine. An M88 recovery vehicle is also a complete shitshow to work on(designed in the 50's and all kinds of changes since), but has the benefit of almost never breaking anything, unlike a Bradley that is basically always broken.

Watching a young gunner simply clear the main gun of a Bradley is amusing enough, barring all the colorful language.
 

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pf58 is for a oldsmobile 260 :)

And a lot of smaller gm small blocks


That explains it clearly!! Usually, I change the oil filter of a 260 with the engine still attached. About al that can be said about the 260 Olds is they were reliable. They are too weak to break anything. Pretty bad when driving a 260 powered car makes you long for the “power” of the might Olds 307!!!
 

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That explains it clearly!! Usually, I change the oil filter of a 260 with the engine still attached. About al that can be said about the 260 Olds is they were reliable. They are too weak to break anything. Pretty bad when driving a 260 powered car makes you long for the “power” of the might Olds 307!!!
Well you gotta consider its got 1/3 more meat to every surface the pisabove 400 ci engines get thin on, its got hardly any combustion relative, its also prob got low compression so not a lot of shock on the internals, etc all on originally much larger intedned ci. I wonder how a olds 260 mated to a good trans with a lot of speeds put in a small car like a nova, etc that can breathe would perform HP and Gas mileage wise. I imagine a v8 would hold road speed decently but more gears would be letting you cruise reasonably too
 

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I had a 85 Cutlass years ago with a 260, I bought it with a mild rod knock. My plan was to swap in a 403 when the 260 finally died. Wouldn’t you know it, the one engine I could not care any less for, didn’t take care of, and tried to kill just wouldn’t die. I drove it 2 years, never changed the oil, never even checked it. Eventually, I decided I would see just how long it would go before it quit. I sold it to a guy that just had to have it. It was a good looking car, T tops, Olds rally wheels, etc. It always started, even in below zero temps, and 23-24 mpg was typical. Best 900 bucks I ever spent.
 

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based on color and size i think these are the factory wheels off my 1980 cutlass supreme heres the pics i have on hand. it was a nice car 20 years ago
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