Posted by donjr on January 12, 2014 at 09:20:38 from (71.246.92.60):
In Reply to: Re: Silverado 2500HD posted by Duane WI on January 12, 2014 at 07:29:11:
Since you have to comment, it makes me want to comment. One of the most perfect examples I can think of is my 6400 John Deere. It was designed by a mad, Bavarian puzzle maker. The electrical connector under the deck took me two days to cut apart with a Dremel tool after it melted and I had to replace it. Terrible location, and designed to try to do ten things at the same time- but could have been much simpler and just as workable. The hole that the AC line, along with about twenty other lines and cables, near the rear of the engine compartment could have been a bit bigger to facilitate repairs. As it was, it was barely big enough to accomodate what was in there. The newer versions later were bigger. But the real pain was cheap fuel lines from the tank to the injector pump. They deteriorated in less than ten years. And, they were routed from under the left deck, around the rear of a hot engine, to a filter on the right side on the engine behind a piece of trim that made it difficult to replace the fuel filter. Then the line ran back around the rear of the engine again to the injector pump on the left side of the engine. I made a new bracket that fit on the left side of the engine, made the filter simple to get to,and rerouted the lines to the left side of the engine, eliminating about five feet of rubber hose in the process.
This kind of stuff should have never made it from the testing stage to the production stage, which is why I think engineers should work on this kind of stuff BEFORE it is produced and sold to the general public....
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