- @wendyneu make sure you get the school pizza, if I remember it was good back in the day. #
- Fire Alarm at work uneventful. But did force us into a burrito situation. #
- So, why… Why is php support under IIS still such a pain? This is the 21st century isn’t it? #
- If they can make Vitamin water, why can’t they make Vitamin coffee? #
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- Soccer game, 8 year olds! It’s almost as good as T-Ball #
- Palm Treo Pro is now shipping http://www.engadget.com/tag/treo%20pro, nobody cares. Please Palm just die-off already. #
- Culvers is delicious #
- The Bank of ‘Matt’ is now open to take deposits of any size. #
- Apparently the sink has a leak and the septic system needs pumped. These items are not related. #
- this cold is still kicking my buttocks. #
- Really digging CodeIgniter: http://codeigniter.com/ #
- Today is share the Google wealth day… Visit a random website and click on an adsense link… A good random link might be http://www.dishers.com #
- Watched the Mentalist tonight and it didn’t completely suck. #
- Watched House too, it may have jumped the shark. Don’t know if the PI can save that show. #
- @tboland they are ‘in Production’ which is better than before… EST delivery 10/2.. Aren’t you on vacation that week?
# - Hi, I’m Tim Boland, and I may kill you. #
- Grillin porkchops in the dark, courtesey of my handy enegizer strap on head light. #
- These headlights are cool, until the bugs take note of it and start trying to land on it and you. #
- I just grilled 9 Barbecue pork chops, with sauce brushed on each side, multiple times, and ate 1.5 in a white shirt and didn’t get any on me #
- The problem with Sunday’s Bengals Game… They were competitive, through 4-Quarters. That alone accomplishes Mike Brown’s goal this season #
- Obama is a nut job… Just sayin… #
- @wendyneu I’m a PC and I don’t wear glasses, though I do often wear sunglasses. #
- There should be a penalty, a severe penalty for taking the last cup of coffee and not making another pot. #
- @wendyneu It was you wasn’t it. I’m on to you now. #
- @tboland duh… #
- Duke, down to 1200 users out…http://tinyurl.com/6kt3dr Of course the Enquirer says 800 but we know they can’t count. #
- String Cheese Tip of the day: Keep it refrigerated. Even as few as 5 hours un-refrigerated, turns it into something that is not cheese. #
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Ford engineers, I hate you.
September 23, 2008 in Commentary, Vehicles by MAD | No comments
I’ve changed the oil in most of my own vehicles for most of my life. That’s a fair number of vehicles, most of the Fords, with some Honda’s, a Chrysler, and a Nissan thrown in there.
Sometime around the early 90’s the Ford engineers got stupid. This was first witnessed making oil changes on our 1993 Ford Econo-line van with a 302. This is down right stupid. You need to be double jointed at the elbow and wrist to get up in there to get that usually HOT oil filter out. It’s the only vehicle that I’ve routinely let someone else do it because it’s just such a pain. I mean it really sucked.
The Kawasaki ZX-11 that I had wasn’t a bundle of fun with it’s cartridge filter. But at least it was doable.
Tonight I helped teach Michael how to change the oil in "his" car. That 1998 Ford Escort ZX-2.
You have got to be kidding me. If there’s a reason these motors don’t last, it’s simple because nobody change the filters. It’s ludicrous. It’s up high, in the back, under the alternator. You can’t get to it easily from underneath, and you can’t get to it from the top either, at least not and see what you’re trying to do.
Yep, this car is destined for Jiffy Lube… What a pain in the @$%@#. The Excursion is a piece of cake. But this, this is so dumb, that I’ll make darn sure what ever new vehicle we buy is serviceable without any special tools or double jointed anything.
Ford if you haven’t fixed this on new vehicles, you can count us out as potential customers.