Poor design

If he talking about the guy who decided to bury the oil filter on a Miata, I've got to agree with him.

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Curmudgeon wrote: Not far behind: Fiat X1/9 master cylinders. AAAAAAUUUUUUGGGHHHHH. Particularly when the damn plastic pedal pivot bushing gets soaked with brake fluid, swells and rusts to the pedal pivot bolt. Exxie owners know what I am talking about. Dammit.

I completely forgot about that one. One of the worst "easy looking" jobs.

Other things that come to mind.

Alternator on my brothers MX6. Unbolted in 5 min 2 hours removing the rest of the junk to get it out.

The easiest heater core ever was my 94 explorer. Literally a 15-20 min job.

Oil change on a 928s4 is fun. Getting all the plastic bits off the bottom of the car to get at the filter. Porsche should have made an access panel. It would make a 2 hour job a 15 minute one.

Then there is indexing the torsion bars in a 944. Do it once and you will make the coil over conversion.

Oil pump on a MR2 is fun.

Gas tank on a 944. Trans has to come out.

dean1484 wrote:

Curmudgeon wrote: Not far behind: Fiat X1/9 master cylinders. AAAAAAUUUUUUGGGHHHHH. Particularly when the damn plastic pedal pivot bushing gets soaked with brake fluid, swells and rusts to the pedal pivot bolt. Exxie owners know what I am talking about. Dammit.

I completely forgot about that one. One of the worst "easy looking" jobs. Other things that come to mind. Alternator on my brothers MX6. Unbolted in 5 min 2 hours removing the rest of the junk to get it out. The easiest heater core ever was my 94 explorer. Literally a 15-20 min job. Oil change on a 928s4 is fun. Getting all the plastic bits off the bottom of the car to get at the filter. Porsche should have made an access panel. It would make a 2 hour job a 15 minute one. Then there is indexing the torsion bars in a 944. Do it once and you will make the coil over conversion. Oil pump on a MR2 is fun. Gas tank on a 944. Trans has to come out.

On my old 924, replacing the antenna motor took forever (4-5 hours). Remove wheel, remove charcoal cannister, scrape knuckles all over inside of fender. Of course, I was 16 and not great with my hands back then.

Worst thing I ever did was the timing chain on my VQ35 swap. Had to remove the camshaft sprockets and it required 1 guy to hold the camshaft, 2 guys to hold the engine stand, and then I took a 9 foot fencepost cheater bar to break the bolt. Used a similar strategy on my crankshaft pulley bolt.

In reply to ampire: ummm why not use an impact gun... wouldnt made it alot easier,...... just saying.

KATYB wrote: In reply to ampire: ummm why not use an impact gun... wouldnt made it alot easier,...... just saying.

Don't have a impact gun LOL.

Rear hub bearings in a 85.5+ 944. The one that was good I changed in about 2 hours. The one that had failed welding the outer race to the swing arm and the inner race to the stub axle took all day. I started at 11:00 AM and finished at 7:00 PM And the fun part is when they fail and you try to press out the stub axle and it is welded to the inner race it presses out the entire center section of the bearing so there is nothing left to press on to get the outer race out.

What eventually worked was applying heat to the aluminum swing arm while cooling the race with compressed air.

I did however come up with a working home built bearing installer/extractor using an 8" carriage bolt, 2 nuts 6 washers and two black iron pipe mounting plate things I got at the local hardware store. For future ones I am going to get a grade 8 piece of threaded rod or a bolt that is threaded the entire length. I kept snapping the carriage bolts during the extraction process and they were only good for the insertion of a single bearing as the threads became so deformed. But considering the cost of the tool for this job was something like $260 and no local parts store had one to rent my $19.00 worth of nuts and bolts tool seemed like a bargain

dean1484 wrote: Rear hub bearings in a 85.5+ 944. The one that was good I changed in about 2 hours. The one that had failed welding the outer race to the swing arm and the inner race to the stub axle took all day. I started at 11:00 AM and finished at 7:00 PM And the fun part is when they fail and you try to press out the stub axle and it is welded to the inner race it presses out the entire center section of the bearing so there is nothing left to press on to get the outer race out. What eventually worked was applying heat to the aluminum swing arm while cooling the race with compressed air. I did however come up with a working home built bearing installer/extractor using an 8" carriage bolt, 2 nuts 6 washers and two black iron pipe mounting plate things I got at the local hardware store. For future ones I am going to get a grade 8 piece of threaded rod or a bolt that is threaded the entire length. I kept snapping the carriage bolts during the extraction process and they were only good for the insertion of a single bearing as the threads became so deformed. But considering the cost of the tool for this job was something like $260 and no local parts store had one to rent my $19.00 worth of nuts and bolts tool seemed like a bargain

You're supposed to use heat on the rear bearings to change them:

http://clarks-garage.com/shop-manual/susp-11.htm

The torsion bar reindex was pretty easy for me, just find the spreadsheet with the formulas, apply your torsion bar diameter and then set the trailing arm to "banana" arm measurement to what the output says it should be.

Another option is to cut the end of the torsion covers off, drill and tap the end of the torsion bars and cut an access hole in the body. Then you can use a slide hammer to change/index the torsion bars.

However, fun would be changing the exhaust manifold on a Porsche 924, even changing spark plugs isn't a lot of fun.

dean1484 wrote: Alternator on my brothers MX6. Unbolted in 5 min 2 hours removing the rest of the junk to get it out.

88-92?

Yeah. They suck. Easiest way is to fish it out the driver's side, believe it or not.

Unless you have no A/C. Then it's a 10 minute job, total.

car39 wrote: If he talking about the guy who decided to bury the oil filter on a Miata, I've got to agree with him.

Miata oil filters are a little annoying. They are the worst when it comes to buried filters.

I always was annoyed by the Miata oil filter on my 91. I changed the oil in the new-to-me 90 a couple weekends ago and I was surprised when I just reached under the intake manifold and unscrewed it. I swear I could never fit my arm in there on my other one.

turboswede wrote: You're supposed to use heat on the rear bearings to change them:

I know that. for that matter you do for the installation as well. However this was a case of many times more heat than what is called for. To the point where I was worried about damage

92CelicaHalfTrac wrote:

dean1484 wrote: Alternator on my brothers MX6. Unbolted in 5 min 2 hours removing the rest of the junk to get it out.

88-92? Yeah. They suck. Easiest way is to fish it out the driver's side, believe it or not. Unless you have no A/C. Then it's a 10 minute job, total.

88 I think I don't really remember

head gaskets on the subaru 2.5. really, did they not know that corrosive agents would eat the things? and they kept using the same dang gaskets for YEARS?????

and i have yet to find a way to change them with the motor still in the car.