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Part of things
Praise The Lowered
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The ones I never want to do again.
Oil scarper/sump baffle on a BMW m10 motor while it's still in the car. Gear box in a FWD car. Heavy, hard to hold, hard to line up and no space to move. Replacing the head unit in a Holden VL Commodore. I ended up taking 95% of the dash out TWICE!
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jonw
Part of things
Can open a Mouse with a File
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In no particular order...
Re-fitting Spi Mini inlet coolant hoses... no room, cut hands!! Re-fitting Mini rad bottom hose... THE legend!!! Gearbox engine mount on the mini Spi Mini exhaust header to down pipe connection...
Plugs on a Alfa 145 boxer... you heed a special tool and knuckles of steel... Headlight bulb change on a Isuzu pickup... oh boy.. I think it would have been easier to drop the engine out!!!
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Suzuki SV650R The good Triumph T20 The Bad BMW G650GS The Ugly Matchless G12CSR The Smokey Toyota Hybrid One pint or Two?
Ingredients of this post Spam Drunken Rambling of author Bad spelling Drunken ramblings of inner voices Occasional pointless comments Vile beef trimming they won't even use in stock cubes
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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 Why am I not surprised this thread started with Jag back axles? If you're playing with discs, pads or diff on the back of these it's bad news. I've got to the point where I'll drop the cage out as it often works out quicker. Last time I did discs on one, the bolts on the output flange stripped. The problem is you can't get the bolts out, without removing the out put flange, and it's bearings. So I ended up removing it with the diff in place.... so I know exactly how much of a pain it is. Other Jag fun and games... Rear wheel bearings Series 3 XJ bonded screens... they will always smash. Manifold to downpipe nuts on a V12 Steering rack top mount on a V12 Oil cooler pipes on a V12 ....most things on a V12 really!! ;D Ric
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"You're about as likely to come across a fully functioning old Jag, as you are a taxicab that smells agreeable." - James May
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Dez
Club Retro Rides Member
And I won't sit down. And I won't shut up. And most of all I will not grow up.
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Club RR Member Number: 34
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worst job on a car ?Dez
@dez
Club Retro Rides Member 34
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mk4 golf suspension was a pain, normally simple, a few bolts and swap over a few bits and back up. o no. the suspension is clamped in, and that combined with rust and general curse word, makes it a pain lol. once you have done the passenger side, and move onto the driver side, they are different!!!!!! on the driver, you have to drop the whole subframe about 3" so you can get the hub low enough to remove the suspension. nightmare. id have to disagree with this one. me and a mate fitted his front coilovers to his mk4 in less than an hour, and that was filthy, muddy and rusty. rear was jsut as quick too. not quite as quick as amk3, but not far off!
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GJM
Posted a lot
Alloy engines; like communism- great in theory.
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Just gotten in from replacing the fuel line on the Imp, a god forsaken job if there ever was one. 3 hours crawling around under a dirty car, no space to move trying to bend copper piping around suspension and trailing arms- blind. Eyes and hair full of understeal and dirt. JOY!! ;D
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Hm, well not the worst jobs but just extremly frustrating. No particular order: Cambelt on 1.8 CVH - Trying to re-fit the belt against the tension of the tensioner. I really struggled first time round keeping the tensioner away enough to fit the belt. Crank pulley on 1.8 CVH - I guess this applys to most cars really with a pulley on a tight fitting shaft. I spent a good hour with a rubber mallet, 2 screwdrivers and copious amounts of WD40. This was on my hands and knees. Rear bumper on MK2 Mondeo - Haynes manual was a lie, and the SH!TTY pattern part bumper I bought didnt fit. All the bolt holes were there, but nothing lined up AT ALL. Ended up bodging it on with all my weight against it and 2 self tappers. And anything front wheel drive. And modern.
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1992 Sierra XR4x4
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