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Originally Posted by Richard2112
Well it's true that one might not need to remove the tunnel frequently but I am working on a speedometer gear set for an NV4500 which requires I access it regularly as I work on it. Also, it very convenient to be able to remove the fill plug from above and fill the trans through the shifter hole while watching the level at the plug. Then there's access to the front u-joint through the tunnel cover also and including the top cover of the trans, that's a lot of things which could or should be easily accessible. Working on any of those things, should not also require working on the front seat.  |
So you think the engineers were smoking something because they failed to leave you even more convenient access than already provided to the transmission hump so 45 years later you can do your modification more conveniently?
I think these trucks are some of the best engineered and easy to work on vehicles made. I think the seat is ridiculously simple to remove and so is the transmission tunnel. How would you remove the tunnel without removing the carpet and how can you remove carpet that is under a seat without removing the seat? You do like having a full floor covering, don't you? How else could it be done? They didn't build these trucks for us to play with and nobody said working on vehicles, let alone old ones...restoring them and modifying...was easy