A special hell

I have a camry that blew a head.

I thought to my self, hmmm i may aswell do it my self because ive got nothing to lose if it goes wrong.

I stripped the front bank down to find some horrible special Toyotas own shape bolts holding stuff together =/

And the rear was so badly under so much manifold and other stuff i gave up and today its still in my mums shed how i left it :p
 
Rich_L said:
So, to make this more than just a self-congratulatory/frustration-releasing thread - what are your experiences with cars where you just scratch your head and wonder whether the designers actually thought things through when putting consumable parts in ridiculous locations :p
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Good to see ya again Rich!

I feel your pain. I changed the headlight unit on her old late 90's Scenic. It took me 2 1/2 hours based on the fact that it looked like the headlight unit went on the chassis before anything else on the car did. After wriggling it and struggling to get to bolts for nearly an hour and a half it looked like I would have had to have taken off the grill, which would only come off if I took off the bumper, which would only have come off if I'd have taken off both wings. I stopped there, forced the old unit out and modified the new one to get it back in :eek:
 
One of the worst I can remember was when changing an Alfa 164 V6 clutch with the engine still in the car. It's necessary to remove the starter motor, and one bolt is as close to inaccessable as I've ever come across. You have to go in from the driver side wheel arch, completely blind with about 2.5' of extension bars. You can't see it at all and have no idea when your floppy string of extension bars is anywhere near it. Head-on-wall-bangingly annoying. Of course would have been trivial with the engine out. So many times your shortcuts give you more grief than the extra disassembly you were saving!

Then there's the only time I've ever thought **** that and given up (well more like never started in the first place) - and that's anything to do with the inboard rear brakes on a Series III XJ6. Complete exhaust and rear axle assembly removal :(.
 
MikeHunt79 said:
Nice use of Paint there... :D 16 spark plugs on a V8? Sounds a little strange but it goes to show that a 10 minute job on 1 car can take much longer on another with a cramped engine bay... Still at least they only have to be changed every 100k.
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16 spark plugs in Merc V8s as well...
 
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