jobs that shouldnt take that long but something goes wrong

[andyztouring]

Stupidest five minute job was replacing bulbs on a mate's Mondeo- bulb covering is held in place with a wire coat hanger style clip. As I was putting the bulb in, the clip came out... five minute job took three hours of trying to get the fricking clip back into the mounting...

4AGE engines were nightmares to get filters off- trying to get the filter by reaching under the 'warm' exhaust manifold.

That, and the next job I'm looking forward to is replacing the sunroof motor on the Curren- only tool four years to find the information on the internet, since not a single mechanic/ panelbeater/ electrician wanted to touch it... looks to be an easy enough job lol

The sunroof job-
That job will be easy,drop the headliner,undo the drain tubes on each corner of sunroof frame,undo wires,undo all bolts holding sunroof to car roof,take out of car,remove motor ,change over motor,lube all cables etc,test everything works with allen key inserted in motor drive,then reassemble.

[FLAWLES]

jzx100 HID bulb covers

three out of the four screws are easily undone, the last one is hidden behind the fender

out comes teh hole lamp assy

[Sick Puppy]

... the next job I'm looking forward to is replacing the sunroof motor on the Curren- only tool four years to find the information on the internet, since not a single mechanic/ panelbeater/ electrician wanted to touch it... looks to be an easy enough job lol

The sunroof job- that job will be easy,drop the headliner,undo the drain tubes on each corner of sunroof frame,undo wires,undo all bolts holding sunroof to car roof,take out of car,remove motor ,change over motor,lube all cables etc,test everything works with allen key inserted in motor drive,then reassemble.

yeah, that is pretty much my plan... talk to the experts though and you'd think I'd asked them to perform brain surgery... from the looks of it it should be a job of a few hours tops, so why am I getting told either 'no way jose' or 'about $800 + parts'? Either way, they don't want the job...

How do you get the A & B Pillar panel covers off? I take it they are clipped on, so (carefully) lever them off?

[andyztouring]

... the next job I'm looking forward to is replacing the sunroof motor on the Curren- only tool four years to find the information on the internet, since not a single mechanic/ panelbeater/ electrician wanted to touch it... looks to be an easy enough job lol

The sunroof job- that job will be easy,drop the headliner,undo the drain tubes on each corner of sunroof frame,undo wires,undo all bolts holding sunroof to car roof,take out of car,remove motor ,change over motor,lube all cables etc,test everything works with allen key inserted in motor drive,then reassemble.

yeah, that is pretty much my plan... talk to the experts though and you'd think I'd asked them to perform brain surgery... from the looks of it it should be a job of a few hours tops, so why am I getting told either 'no way jose' or 'about $800 + parts'? Either way, they don't want the job...

How do you get the A & B Pillar panel covers off? I take it they are clipped on, so (carefully) lever them off?

Yes they are clipped,the A pillar has a hook at the bottom which usually hooks into dashboard,start unclipping at top and work down.

[Boosted_162]

Worst job was a clutch job in my RC. Planned to do it over the 4 days of easter..... 9 months later its still not finished

[jakesae101]

i have another to add to the list nothing went wrong we just underestermated time loudtoy said ive changed gearboxes before its easy as onece you get evrythn out of the way it will only take a couple of hours fastforward 10 hours later and we were done putting the lsd box in my trueno

[thornz]

HFH on a MR2, who would have though replacing a bit of coolant hose could take soo much time/effort

[iOnic]

HFH on a MR2, who would have though replacing a bit of coolant hose could take soo much time/effort

and skin

[Brick]

putting an engine back together when half your bolts have been stolen

[Mr Revhead]

putting an engine back together when half your bolts have been stolen

Hmmm and I have bought a car in kit set form that I have never worked on before.... and I bet half the bolts aren't even there....

[Bling]

In my experience, you only need half the bolts anyway.... well going by the number i've had left over the years

[captain crescent]

funny thing that i work as a mechanic and i always see the other mechanics dropping bolts in to one of the many boxes of nuts and bolts sitting in a corner in the work shop then half an hour later they are scraping through the boxes looking for those bolts lol DUH!!!!!