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Had a chat with a client's grandpa about his old 1998 Compaq and it made me miss when you could just open things up.
He said 'back then, you could fix anything with a screwdriver and a prayer' and idk, maybe it's just me but that hit different after spending 2 hours on a glued-shut laptop just to swap a battery.
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paul_morgan3mo ago
My uncle's 1992 Ford pickup had the whole engine bay laid out like a map. You could see every hose and belt.
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brown.reese3mo ago
My grandpa's old farm truck was the same way, a 94 Chevy with the 350. I read a forum post once where a mechanic called those 90s trucks "the last generation you could actually work on without a computer." Everything was right there in the open, you could almost trace the fuel line by hand from the tank to the carb. Now you pop the hood and it's just a plastic cover over a maze of wires. They made things simple back then because they expected you to fix it yourself.
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leet322mo ago
Hold up, you really think that plastic cover is hiding something good? My buddy @paul_morgan's '92 Ford left him stranded twice last year because a simple sensor failed and nobody could even find the part.
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