jbeenz
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Mini Master/Pedal box clevis pins Removing uderseal Mini Gearbox roll pin Agreed Why the head gasket on the Essex tho? Have I got fun in store for me on the Scim? Yes, it was on an SE5a that I did it, there is no room in the engine bay, and the heads have bolts, and no dowels to hold the head in place while you put the bolts in, so it all slides away from you, while you are reaching over the wing. - Have fun! Oh, also bad, Power steer pump and pime on rover 220 turbo!
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I'd go with Lupo pedal box.
£35 part, the clutch pivot cracks off.
You need to take all the dash out, and to get the dash out the rest of the car needs to come to bits. Took me a solid day of anger and bending my arms into small places.
I'd rather change the engine 5 times than do one more pedal box. I counted something like 2 dozen random parts need to come off before you can even get the dash out, and even with that out the pedalbox is so wedged in behind the steering column it took me 90 minutes to extract it. AAARGH!!!!
Oh, and front brake disks on a newish transit - the whole front bearing assembly needs to come off, but its held into the hub on a rusty taper. The manual makes no mention of "this will be a nightmare"
After belting the disk for 2 hours solid and smashing it to pieces, I phone my cousin who used to work on them at ford, and he brought his "special crowbar" that wedged perfectly in a gap. It only took us another hour to free that side, and half an hour for the other.
Some jobs go unexpectedly smoothly though, which I enjoy, like the Lupo engine. Looking at it with all the covers and no access I was a bit daunted, but I had the thing changed in a day, on my own without much in the way of aggro at all.
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Retrojunkie
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The drinking team with a racing problem!
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Any unplanned maintenance! The planned kind is lovely, theraputic and can take place in all weathers other than snow and driving rain
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'84 Mk1 Golf GTi Cabby '99 Saab 9-5 Estate (lpg) 2.3 Turbo
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bortaf
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Jag IRS diff change. Done it twice now and never sworn at a car so much. Try doing the diff output/drive shaft inner bearing with the diff in place I think the XJS IRS is the same ? It's just such a long time for such weeny items that got me, asked at a local jag specalist and they laughed at me and said good luck, they wernt frikken wrong
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Last Edit: Mar 1, 2010 23:08:31 GMT by bortaf
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Mondeo clutch mk1/2 closely followed by mk3 escort cvh sump gasket. Sounds innocent enough but I had 4 attempts at fitting my sump with a new gasket each time before eventually removing the gearbox ! Was beginning to wish I'd took the engine out.
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life's short & it's hard, like a body building elf.
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stealthstylz
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Club RR Member Number: 174
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worst job on a car ?stealthstylz
@stealthstylz
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Headlamp bulbs on most modern cars are hideous to change. They're not really, yes they're not as easy as on older cars but even when they look complicated they're usually not. Matt
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Pretty much anything on my audi s2 was overly complicated, and massively, massively, expensive.
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Rear wheel bearing on a mk2 golf gti are a git to do, took 2, yes TWO WHOLE DAYS just to get the pad carrier off!! I'll never do another.
Also tidying up that "little" bit of rust that's just starting to come through, when it turns out it's been rotting from behind and that "50p size scab" turns out to be half the bloody car, and after a week of chasing rust and holes your left with a big pile of rust and your mrs comes out to find you a jibbering wrek just mumbling over and over "why did I start"
i hate rust.
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Remember the days when sex was safe and motorsport was dangerous. Vintage bling always attracts pussy.
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Headlamp bulbs on most modern cars are hideous to change. They're not really, yes they're not as easy as on older cars but even when they look complicated they're usually not. Matt ;D I know newer Mondeo headlights are like this, but I've had to try change out headlamps in the howling rain in Halfords carpark before and I appreciate where the manufacturer has given it a bit of consideration. No tools required (except for the one holding the camera!) --Phil
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koma
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worst job ive ever come accross was removing an auto spigot bush on the crank of an s13 ca18det engine for an auto manual conversion i lost a finger nail cos of it
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anything on a False Wheel Drive as it will meen haveing to dismantle half the vehicle to just get to the job.
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theres more to life than mpg & to much power is just enough.
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Nar, mech jobs are just mech jobs. No pain there, just work Don't think that means I'm ever doing a pug 306 heater matrix again tho.. haha. The worst, worst job ever is factory immobilizer systems. From the day the car won't go but the light keeps flashing on the dash to the replacement engine that wont run to Lost key turns from new locks to "Oh dear, you owe ford a kidney" so they will recode your ECU to a new key. This is even more annoying when you know that (if you knew the code) you could do the job yourself in about 5 mins with a laptop.
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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llamaboy
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I can't believe it's not better.
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Changing the thermostat and housing on a BMW e36 (1.8). Sounds simple but "Oh, just these 3 simple bolts..? @&*$ no! The last one is just gonna shear off inside the block as Bimmer make the block and bolt out of 2 reactinve metals that bond togeher for life!" Cue drill out and re-tap of engine block for a 10 min job...
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1992 Rover 214i (scrapped)
1995 Rover 214Si (sold)
1975 Rover P6 3500 (scrapped)
1984 Vauxhall Chevette (bangered)
1971 Rover P5b Coupe (sold)
1995 BMW 318i (sold)
2001 Peugeot 206 (sold)
2000 Rover 25 (gave back to father in-law)
1989 Lancia Prisma (swapped)
1985 Volvo 340 (sold)
1997 Daewoo Nexia (hmmm...)
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spiny
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I am abivalent towards car electrics ...
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worst job on a car ?spiny
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doing the starter motor on a mondeo wasn't fun, and swapping the alternator on a kseries rover 214 was a right pain - it comes off easy enough but the brackets appear to me designed so that the alt is fitted when the engine is out, so access is a little tight to say the least.
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saw a cheap land rover disco for sale as the clutch pedal had dropped to the floor and it couldnt be driven,spoke to my brother whos a mechanic at a jag and land rover dealer,thought it wouldnt too bad a job! he said you have to drop the whole gearbox and transaxle out to get to the broken clutch lever out,which snap the box is so heavy youll never get it back in without either a hoist or lots of people needless to say i didnt buy the car !
mondeo clutchs he mentioned b4,same as the x types,with have to drop the complete front crossmember and have the engine half out even then its stilll awkward,progress eh , i will stick to my classics thanks
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Water pump on a Volvo 440. It's held on by a million 11mm bolts and there's no room for a socket. It's not hard as such, it just takes forever.
Clutch ratchet thing on a MIII/VI Escort or Sierra.
Anti-roll bar droplinks on my Alfa. In theory, you jack it up, take the wheels off, undo a couple of nylocs and they are off. The idea is that you put an allen key in the end of the thread rod then undo the bolt. In the real world, the slot for the allen key rounds off and you're knackered and have to drill/chisel it off because there's no room to get the grinder in.
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Jaguar S-Type 3.0 SE
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stuey
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ram thruster 4000
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replacing the chrome frames around the the rear side windows on an mgb... an entire day... and much hair lost.... ;D
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1987 fiat 126-nearly actually done! 1972 beetle - lawn art 2003 z4 daily-new wheels a comin! 2008 R56 Mini cooper "mental Mickey"
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Anti-roll bar droplinks on my Alfa. In theory, you jack it up, take the wheels off, undo a couple of nylocs and they are off. The idea is that you put an allen key in the end of the thread rod then undo the bolt. In the real world, the slot for the allen key rounds off and you're knackered and have to drill/chisel it off because there's no room to get the grinder in. I found a little trick for this after owning a 106 for a while (which with the way I drive go through cheap drop links in a matter of months) If you get a long bar and lever the arti roll bar itself down/up against the hub quite hard, it pushes the thread on the joint to one side and it binds up inside the hole, stopping the whole lot from spinning. The cheapo droplinks I bought generally didn't even have an allen key end (occasionally they did, but like you say they round off as soon as you look at them) and this method took a half an hour a side job with the grinder down to about 5 minutes
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Isn't it supposed to be the headlights on a megane or something? My dad's got a Megane CC - it created a lot of headscratching when a headlight bulb blew a while back. Turns out you have to take the wheel off and go in through the wheelarch to change it.
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Headlamp bulbs on most modern cars are hideous to change. They're not really, yes they're not as easy as on older cars but even when they look complicated they're usually not. Matt This - Like mat says, once you've done a few you grow and extra elbow and get the feel for the clips, and it all just "makes sense". You can almost never actually see the back of the bulb you are trying to fit. Saying that, I changed a front indicator bulb on my mini - What a ballache getting the lens back in that rubber seal thing, took me ages.
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