I am an engineer and one of my pet peeves is having people rip on engineers. For all you non engineers take the blank paper test. Take a blank sheet of paper and draw out what you want to fix. Not a sketch but a true scaled drawing with all dimensions and specifications. Remember to draw out everything else that needs to change because you moved something around. After about a month of this you will have a much better appreciation for the profession. You still won't be done but you will be tired of trying.
People look at problems like this in complete isolation. Putting that brake bleeder there was the best overall design when everything got considered. And there where a lot of considerations. Cost to produce, ease of assembly, use of common parts, design schedule, reliability, maintenance, the list goes on and on. Yes I said maintenance. The fact you where able to get to it at all and fix is says it was maintainable. Not every part in a truck can be in the perfect spot to maintain. Of course we only want the part we are working on at the moment to be easily accessed. We don't think about the other 10,000 parts of the truck at the time.
Not every engineer is a good one. Same as any other profession. But that old truck looks pretty good so I am thinking the overall engineering effort that went into it was pretty good.
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