OK Now I need Help - Putting your thinking caps on !

[Roscobbc]

Working on an American car of 'only' 30 odd years of age.......one would thing that access to component etc would be simple. Kinda reminds me of working on some French manufactured cars where no thought has been give to access of certain engine parts, needing multiple other parts to be removed to do the simplest jobs.
Having said that its seems that is the way with most cars today where even someone seemingly simple (like replacing a side-light or indicator bulb) requires perhaps removal of front grille, bumper and anything else close behind the lamp assembly.

 

[teamzr1]

Cars like this 1993 Sedan Deville 60 Special were built like a tank and had that crappy uni-body
How this design got past GM Corp is beyond me other than they wanted a design that only DM dealers could work on
This is like shoving 10 pounds of crap onto a 5 pound can

As you see, there is no free space anywhere in the engine bay
Sticking a 4.9 liter V8 sideways, transaxle and FWD in that engine bay is total crap for doing service and repairs
That means front of engine faces right front fender, so anything like CAM, timing chain, crank pulley, coolant pump, even A/C compressor are trapped where cannot even get tools in that area without lowering all if it

Hell cannot even see the sparkplugs much less swapping new ones in

Now C8, all buried in the ass end and have to drop all that, is not owner friendly for working on them

 

[Chuffer]

Cars like this 1993 Sedan Deville 60 Special were built like a tank and had that crappy uni-body
How this design got past GM Corp is beyond me other than they wanted a design that only DM dealers could work on
This is like shoving 10 pounds of crap onto a 5 pound can

As you see, there is no free space anywhere in the engine bay
Sticking a 4.9 liter V8 sideways, transaxle and FWD in that engine bay is total crap for doing service and repairs
That means front of engine faces right front fender, so anything like CAM, timing chain, crank pulley, coolant pump, even A/C compressor are trapped where cannot even get tools in that area without lowering all if it

Hell cannot even see the sparkplugs much less swapping new ones in

Now C8, all buried in the ass end and have to drop all that, is not owner friendly for working on them

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The problem is ... cars are not meant for `self maintainers ` like us anymore !

 

[Nassau65]

The problem is ... cars are not meant for `self maintainers ` like us anymore !

So true. I remember the old days seeing people fix their cars in/on the street. Most people did or would try to fix their cars back then, if they couldn’t they new a man who could.
Now you open the bonnet take one look and close it again. Sometimes you need to be Albert Einstein to find the dipstick.