This came from a Facebook meme so I don’t know if it is real or photoshopped. I seem to recall the Cadillac Northstar starters being under the intake manifold so that has to come off but having to remove the transmission takes it to a new level. I have complained about having to jack an engine out…

Escort/Lynx trans axle design. In order to remove the left side half shaft, right side half shaft had to be removed first so this tool could reach into the right side of the trans axle and knock the left side half shaft out. https://www.otctools.com/products/escortlynx-half-shaft-removerdifferenti…

On my Corolla, starter is quite a challenge to diy’er replace, if done by the shop manual method, removing it from the bottom. Much easier diy’er accomplished by removing it from the top. The other one on the Corolla that gets my attention, water pump pulley removal requires removing motor mount & …

That is one thing you can’t say about the Geo Metro! There is actually a lot of room to work under the hood and the car was designed to be repaired. I understand there wasn’t quite the room under the hood of the 4 cylinders but I always had the 3 cylinders. I once changed a broken timing belt on …

[image] Tester: so this tool could reach into the right Boy, you really had to dig into the time capsule to come up with this piece of vintage auto equipment, didn’t you? I don’t remember the last time I used this. [20220913_152120]

Remembering our mechanic complaining about larger Fords, crew cab or bigger, that you had to remove the cab to work on the engine

[image] Barkydog: you had to remove the cab to work on the engine [20171207_152731]

I never had to deal with one, but I remember looking under the hood of a 2010-ish Ford pickup with the Power Stroke turbo diesel. Nothing under there looked like an engine, pipes and wiring everywhere. Would be a challenge to work on, I’d think.

Remember the Toyota Carina? Last small RWD Toyota if I recall. I-4 engine mounted front to back. Intake and exhaust manifold bolted together on the same side of the engine with the starter in between them and the block. Absolutely nothing on the other side of the engine. Easiest starters to chang…

[image] oldtimer-11: Easiest starters to change of any car? Any slant six Mopar. Yes, that engine was incredibly easy to work on. I well remember my father’s '63 Plymouth Slant Six. A few years later, my brother’s first wife bought a Datsun SPL-310, which was the absolute worst new car that…

I think that it was a Toyota Cressida (spelling ? ) which according to rumors was developed with a late 1970’s Ford Crown Victoria as a guide.

Worst or most unserviceable designs?

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