It's like car heater cores:
Visualize an assembly line.
At the far end, completed cars roll off.
Ever wonder what the first piece to go on the line is?
Gotta be the heater core, then they build the rest of
the car around it!
Carter,
(trying to decide whether to sell my Escort, to avoid
changing the leaky heater core)
--- "GIBSON,PETE (A-England,ex1)"
<pete_gibson@agilent.com> wrote:
>
> I take it Fred you mean you can't tihten the studs
> up? I had to remove the
> head from my car recently and took the opportunity
> when doing the removal
> (leaving both manifolds connected) to tighten the
> studs up given that I had
> unimpeded access from the block, water pump etc. I
> did use a spanner that I
> had deformed get round the exhaust manifold, even
> then I could only rotate 1
> flat at a time.
>
> You're right though, it does deserve to be way up
> there in the crappiest
> design stakes.
>
> Pete.
>
>
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> 1976 Spitfire 1500
> Body off restoration and hopefully soon to be a fair
> weather driver
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred Thomas [mailto:vafred@erols.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 1:07 PM
> To: triumphs@autox.team.net
> Cc: spitfires@autox.team.net
> Subject: stupid engineering
>
>
>
> If an award could ever be presented for the worst
> engineering design, it
> would have to be for the Spitfire 1500 carb., intake
> and exhaust manifold
> setup. It has to be the very worst design ever for
> any automobile. It is
> certainly easy to understand why the lower studs
> were never in place on my
> car. I hope this engineer is stocking shelves in a
> dept store someplace in a
> very hot climate. "FT"
>
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