bluethunderhorse

I know a lot of you work on your own cars. So name something that you have done that you hope you never have to do again.

Mine would have to be changing motor mounts with the motor still in the car.

officespace56

+1 on the motor mounts.
On my header install that I did in my garage, that was the scariest thing, jacking up that motor.

Blue Notch

Not quite as bad, but spending nearly seven hours in my puny little trunk trying to fit my speakers was a huge pain! And then having to maneuver (sp?) in and out to get something every five minutes. I'm not little either, lol! Plus it was 95* and horribly humid.

theedge67

I would say putting a clutch in my old 89. The old one siezed the throwout bearing while I was coming to a stop 90 miles from home. Clutch pedal worked, but it would not disengage the clutch. Needless to say, it was an interesting ride home with no clutch. I managed to shift it by rev-matching, and at stop lights I would shut off the car and restart it in 1st with the car rolling forward slowly as the starter groaned and moaned. Once the engine caught, it bucked like crazy until it got the car up to idle speed.

Anyway, taking out the tranny was no big deal. Getting the bearing out was a different story. It was siezed in there darn good. Dad tried a chisel to cut it out, and got the chisel stuck in there so tight it took 3 days to figure out how to get it out. It took us a log chain and the 4wheeler to jerk it out of there. That sucked!!

theedge67

I also replaced the head on that 2.3L one time. That was quite a job. Although it wasn't terrible, it was not terribly easy either. It was more of a pain in the butt than anything.

future9er24

Swapping the intaake and carb on an 86 camaro 305...

so many problems... distributor is on the wrong side of the motor, original intake wouldnt get the hell off, gaskets took forever to get on, needed to find a custom throttle bracket, then i had to reset the timing to make the **** thing run, then we realizeed the hood wouldnt close, so we had to cut it

blah blah blah

screw that car

theedge67

I found your problem!!

future9er24

And I got rid of it

it was a car to teach other kids at school how to work on cars, something we wouldnt care about if we broke it. definately glad i learned what i did on THAT car, versus my own

bluethunderhorse

I know that problem I had to completely take out my back seat to get my speaker box in and the thing is so big there's only 1 foot of room between it and the trunk latch. plus I have the old Kicker Free air's in it mounted backwards with the magnets out and that gives even less room

cntchds

I got nothing on you guys, but in my dad's 99 Dakota ALL of the freeze plugs went bad... Needless to say it took us days to get them all out, most were rusted through, but quite a few were still bad enough to still make us want to take them out. For some reason we ended up taking off the head, and snapped a bolt putting it back on. That whole week was the worst.

Then that **** coolant temperature sensor in my 94. The originals were plastic so taking it out, after I'm fairly sure it melted in, was not an easy task. Drilled out the center, then had to buy one of those dremel metal brush tips and get the rest of that plastic out. Bought a brass plug the same size, and filed two small grooves in it. Twisted that in, and got a bunch more of the plastic out, then I could FINALLY put the new BRASS censor in.

burningman

Changing the springs on a drum break set up without the right tools.
Changing out a manual tranny in 10 below weather + snow on a car on jackstands in an open air car port. I'm honestly suprised I never got frost bite.

bluethunderhorse

Oh yeah, pulling the engine out of my car was no piece of cake either.

Poisoned Pony

short tube headers on a friend's 2001 Stage 3 Roush I got smart with my GT, I paid a shop to do my long tubes