Big hands are a pain

[medicboy]

I was doing the 60,000 mile service on my 4-runner today and decided that whoever designed the engine layout had very small hands.  Im 6'3", 210lbs, and have size 13 feet.  xl gloves are too small for me, so needless to say I don't have any skin left on my knuckles.....

And why the he!! do you have to take most of the intake system off to get to the spark plugs???????????????????????????????

[Gunslinger]

try working on F-16s and have big hands.  You'd think all engineers are midgets/small children  lol I feel your pain

[Torque]

Gurls luv big hands it's a fair offset to the other afflictions they bring.

[Nilsen]

that is what garages as for

yes....i have no clue when it comes to mechanical things but i can replace a ram chip if i have too

[Tarmac]

That's what you get for buying a foreign car.

[Nilsen]

or one made after 1980...with all them puters in them

[capt. apathy]

it's my opinion (From years of research) that when engineers design anything that a man has to work in( or reach into) they make all access points optimal size then when the prints are drawn they scale everything back 25% and laugh theri tulips off

[Gnslngr]

Originally posted by capt. apathy
it's my opinion (From years of research) that when engineers design anything that a man has to work in( or reach into) they make all access points optimal size then when the prints are drawn they scale everything back 25% and laugh theri tulips off

this sounds just about right with air craft mait.  There's times were i'm in a cockpit with my arms reaching behind my back in a hole half the size of a small shoe box safeywiring somthing blind while upside down.  There's just no other way to get to it.


the other thing that makes me mad when i'm working on the jeep is when I have a drive shaft on one side and a transmission on the other....the wrench only has about 5 degrees of movment and my ratchet has so much slop I can get it to click.

[capt. apathy]

Jeeps are one of the worst to get too anything

[Gnslngr]

Originally posted by capt. apathy
Jeeps are one of the worst to get too anything

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underbody yes.  Underhood NO.  One thing but jeeps is you never have to take the hood off and you have ALOT of room to work on the inline 6.  underbody though.....forget it lol

[DREDIOCK]

Rule #1
Engineers that design these things that fit perfectly on paper rarely if ever work on them themselves

Rule #2

95% Of all Engineers are all stuck in what I call "Rube Goldberg" Mode and insist on making everything about 30 times more complex then it needs to be. Instead of taking something complex and making it something easy to deal with. they take something that should be easy and try to see how complex they can make it

[lazs2]

my hands are big but my fingers are very long.  It is a real pain because my trigger finger allways hits the trigger on like the back of the second pad... some guns the end of the trigger finger hits my thumb on the grip...  

A bad situation for rapid zombie killing.  

oh... try working on a 100 healey with a small block in it.   By contrast I can allmost stand in the engine bay of my big block Elky.  Fastest plug change I ever did... took about 10 minutes just messing around gapping em and all.

lazs

[rpm]

Originally posted by Tarmac
That's what you get for buying a foreign car.

Have you tried to change the plugs on ANY V-8 built since 1990? Granted there have been vast improvements in engine design (serpentine belts, ect) that have cleaned up the looks, but they managed to make some simple projects like changing a timing belt and made them like building a nuclear reactor. The idea behind this is to eliminate the ability to repair outside of a Factory Authorized repair facility. It's not far from happening either.

[Ripper29]

Be thankful that Medicboy is not your Proctologist.........

[rabbidrabbit]

Originally posted by Ripper29
Be thankful that Medicboy is not your Proctologist.........

Coming from a guy anmed Ripper... I'm disturbed..