Thread: BADLY DESIGNED

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"WHAT bad design, at least jap stuff can be taken apart, REALLY bad design with no thought gone into it"

Jap stuff like a 75's rear wheel bearings... sure you can take it apart (catch them cones washers)... but then when the bearings have collapsed and the seal surface is shagged - YOU CANT PUT IT BACK TOGETHER, well not till you buy a new axle housing. The spindle / stub is the axle housing. stooopido no serviceable toy motor.

When it comes to overall servicability I rate my old D1 and the deefer light years ahead of mates Troopies/80 series/pusluxes and pootrols. Maybe it cos LR just know you gonna be fixing things for 50 years or something and toymotors et al are made to go until they roll over or get junked after 15-20.

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i used to be a ford man until i started doing the maintanace on my ef falcon .ever tried changing a spark plug in one

How about changing a sump gasket on a GD Mazda 626 / AR Ford Telstar,
First remove the front right wheel, remove all the wheel arch trim,remove the upper torque limiter, undo the front right engine mount, jack the engine up, sump is then removed through the small gap created, through the area once occuppied by the front wheel.

I'm convinced that vehicle engineers do this deliberately either because they are sadistic or are making sure that most people won't attempt their own repairs.

Originally Posted by defmec

i used to be a ford man until i started doing the maintanace on my ef falcon .ever tried changing a spark plug in one

Its about the easiest thing on earth to do

Maybe the plug leads, they're a bit of a pain, but you just need to tackle the cap and leads from underneath

Working on machinery that could have relatively easily been far better designed regarding servicing and repairs often seems to make you feel racially prejudiced against the nationality that built it!

On many things I have owned and had to work on, including Defender, some modifications have been for the purpose of improving access.
Probably some threads on these should be useful, especially where these modifications can only be done while something is apart that will make future accessability easier,

I am not talking aboutCamry, mitsubishi, Nissan or anything else
I am talking about our L/R`s
These ******* have had 60yrs to get stuff like this right, AND we still get bollocks like this, BAD

Originally Posted by INDABA

I am not talking aboutCamry, mitsubishi, Nissan or anything else
I am talking about our L/R`s
These ******* have had 60yrs to get stuff like this right, AND we still get bollocks like this, BAD

Its LR, your a fool if you'd expected anything more