Posted by Fritz Maurer on September 19, 2012 at 17:35:00 from (216.137.136.60):
Been working on a '85 Jaguar XJ6. The car sat for about 15 years, so it needs general maintenance from one end to the other. One thing I realized right off was that the whole car was put together with fine-threaded bolts which seemed to be 224 threads per inch. Other features like having to drop the entire rear suspension/differential group to change calipers, extra-long bolts to secure 2 or 3 different components (into which the bolt seizes), 12 or 13 bolts to hold in a transmission the size of a C4, which uses 6, got me to wondering how did those poor field mechanics keep the Spitfires flying, with manufacturing practices like these?
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