Re: Some details of the 2AZ-FE engine

Scott Dorsey wrote:

> 
> This means hydraulic lifters, but it also means sealed chassis
components
> that don't need regular greasing with every oil change but which fail
> before 80,000 miles is up.  It means "sealed for life" transmissions,
where
> that life is about half what it should be.

Here here!  Eliminating the dipstick on automatic transmissions has to 
be the single most unnecessarily STUPID thing car makers have done in 
the last 50 years. Maybe since the dawn of the automobile.