well I for one see an incredible advantage to changing the bolts, I have been driving this truck for 27 years and the only reason I had to pull the pan was to pull the cam. Which was the breaking point for me on that particular project. The new engine will be converted as I intend to replace the cam at some other point in the future. I have also converted to full pressure and have no shims, so there will be no adjustment possible. My first experience with these bolts was complete disbelief and near rage that eventually subsided into near tears. Besides the fact I have never pulled a main cap on an engine I haven't been rebuilding any way. As far as the engineers at GM goes,they gave us the VEGA, I don't know what else needs to be said. Very little of what they did was done because it was the best idea, they had to please a whole lot of people, mainly the money people, and the about the only reason they made things dependable is they didn't want to...you guessed it spend MONEY on warranty repairs. Which is kind of synergetic with customer loyalty. They didn't care too much about how you had to go about working on your vehicle, as long as it was easy to assemble in the factory (cheaper assembly costs) I'm sure the engineers given free rein would have come up with something a whole lot better that our beloved engines, (which is fine, don't get me wrong, but there is a whole lot of room for improvement.
Which the engineers knew as well as we do, but they had to make it cheap to build)
Last edited by brokenhead; 12/06/2011 1:18 PM.
