RE: Engineering Yak, no Dak...was: Speaking of oil and valve covers...

From: Bridges, Bruce (bbridges@alarismed.com)
Date: Wed Mar 17 1999 - 19:18:32 EST


I can vouch for that! if I didnt have a schedule and a budget Id design
some really neat things... Sometime, whenever... Alright, a little
discipline is also required...

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Clark [mailto:magnumv8@wt.net]
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 1999 2:21 PM
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
Subject: Re: DML: Speaking of oil and valve covers...

I may be wrong but I always envisioned the engineers as pretty good guys,
but it's the bean counters that force them to design all the crap like this.
My parent's riding lawn mower is like this. Everytime I use that thing I
can't help but think that no self-respecting engineer would have designed
that thing the way it is, it's got to be the bean counters who force them to
design the machine so cheaply...

---Mike, near Houston.---
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----- Original Message -----
From: Jon Smith <jdsmith4@yahoo.com>
To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 1999 7:17 PM
Subject: Re: DML: Speaking of oil and valve covers...

>
>This is why engineers should not be allowed to design
>anything in use by the general public. DISCLAIMER :)
>
>
>--- "Edward J. Abrams, Jr." <superdak@bellatlantic.net>
>wrote:
>> DMLer's:
>>
>> By the way, how many you out there think they put
>the
>> oil filler cap on
>> the wrong valve cover--that is, on the wrong side of
>> the engine? Could
>> they have made it more awkward? I think about this
>> every time I push
>> the radiator hoses out of the way to add oil
>> (somehow, a little always
>> manages to run down a hose), and see that the other
>> cover is clear of
>> any obstruction. It even looks like it was molded
>to
>> allow a
>> relocation...
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Ed
>>
>>
>
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