Re: Measure without tape measure.

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:33:51 -0500, dpb <none@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Robatoy wrote:
On Sep 15, 10:54 am, DerbyDad03 <teamarr...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sep 14, 6:22 pm, Nova <nova...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
"J T" <Jakofalltra...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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3. Replace burnout lights on a vehicle.
That may be one of the toughest on any list, the way cars are designed
today. Depending on the light, it may take an hour or more to remove all
the panels and covers to get to the bulb.
To replace a rear tail light on the company Silverado pickup I drive you
have to either remove the "Fibre Body" cap/box or chop a hole in it to
get to the lens cover screws. See:
http://www.brandfxbody.com/fibrebody/inserts.htm
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Jack Novak
Buffalo, NY - USA
nova...@xxxxxxxxxxx
Reminds me of the vehicle from the 70's where you had to tilt the
engine up to remove one of the sparkplugs. This was back when tune-ups
were a common preventative maintainence. A typical case of the design
engineers not getting the maintenance folks involved earlier enough.
No one asked "Hey, guys, if we build it like this, can you fix it when
it breaks?"

It took some backyard mechanic to figure out that if you drilled a
large hole in the wheel well, you could get to the spark plug,
Mechanics would use a hole saw, then install a *** metal plug to
seal the access hole.

IIRC, the Chevy Monza ( late 70's) with a 307(?) had a few issues like
that.
The hole in the inside fender was the only way to go.

Late sixties (like '68, '69, ...) Charger w/ 383 or larger CID.

But, nothing then was even close to the nightmare of the modern
transverse engine jobbies w/ smaller frames to cut down weight...look
into how to replace a battery on a modern Chrysler 300M or similar... :(
Were they hard to change in Mopars? We had a 67 Monaco with a 383, a
70 Fury with a 383, a 75 Gran Fury with a 440 and a 72 Polara with a
440. I don't recall swearing over spark plugs but my Dad was the son
of a minister. I was a kid who was not in charge of spark plug
changing. Maybe taking the garbage cans to the street and shoveling
snow. I do recall it being tight but do-able unlike the infamous Monza
spark plugs.
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