I have always felt a prerequisite for being an automotive engineer should be a year of working on engines and transmissions and then working on vehicles they themselves had designed.
While there are probably many noteworthy human engineered parts on cars and trucks there are two that I have noticed that I came to appreciate.
The Datsun/Nissan L20B engine and related engines have an oil pump that can be removed and replaced without pulling the oil pan. An internal oil pump on tractors is not that difficult to access on most tractors, but on a car it is not always easy to pull the pan without removing other parts or the engine has to be pulled.
The second item is the clutch on a front wheel drive Datsun 310. The clutch disc can be removed and replaced without pulling the engine.
Sure it can be a pita to remove or open frozen brake bleeders+, but it is worse with these two items.
The worse thing I am experiencing right now is trying to remove the timing chain cover on a 2005 Camry 4 cylinder.
In the past I could pull and replace the timing chain cover on most in-line mounted engines fairly quickly. but this thing is tedious with its transverse mounted engine.
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