I have had similar discussions many times with my Dad. He is a retired farmer and I am an engineer. In the end he just doesn't know what he doesn't know. When designing something the placement of any one part effects the placement of other parts. Not every part can be top and center for easy access. The part you want to access today could have been top and center but then the part you easily accessed last year wouldn't be. Very few machines are 100% new designs. Parts are used from previous models. So engineering decisions made 10 years ago are effecting the design on the new model. Very often engines are reused on new models. That is to keep costs down because the tooling to make the engine are already paid for. So now the engineer has to make the best of it and use that engine and locations of other things are impacted. At the point of repairing a 30 year old machine you just do not know the constraints placed on the original design that the engineer had to make do with. So my standard response is here is a blank sheet of paper. You design the entire machine and show me how smart you are. And by the way that machine has to be able to made at a cost competitive price. It doesn't work to design the perfect machine and it cost twice as much as the competition. Hind sight engineering is like hind sight farming. It doesn't work very well.
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