your biggest spannering win against the odds...
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JUST got in from doing a tie rod and a drop link. the drop link was an UTTER, UTTER c*** to get off. i ended up sawing the bottom swivel cup with a junior hacksaw fitted with a wood blade to break it so i could get stilsons on it. i heated it, froze it, hammered it, shouted at it, pleaded with it, shouted at it a bit more, drank tea, hit it again, hit myself in the process, pulled muscles i didn't know i had but now am scared to poo because of and FINALLY it came off. the tie rod by comparison took less time to do than this post took to type.
so, after i beat this thing armed only with tools from a xmas cracker it seemed to be the best win i've got from inappropriate or inadequate tools for the job. anyone beat it?
so, after i beat this thing armed only with tools from a xmas cracker it seemed to be the best win i've got from inappropriate or inadequate tools for the job. anyone beat it?
hur, couldn't get a driveshaft out of a Subaru front hub. I read elsewhere on the net that if they're stuck that's pretty much it. They should just push out or maybe if you lightly tap with a hammer. I had to replace the whole hub. I've got a 10-ton hydraulic press and all the different kinds of hammers... nothing would move it. Not quite the same as your tale in that I had to actually buy new parts to get it done... but that was a ba5tard
ejenner said:
hur, couldn't get a driveshaft out of a Subaru front hub. I read elsewhere on the net that if they're stuck that's pretty much it. They should just push out or maybe if you lightly tap with a hammer. I had to replace the whole hub. I've got a 10-ton hydraulic press and all the different kinds of hammers... nothing would move it. Not quite the same as your tale in that I had to actually buy new parts to get it done... but that was a ba5tard
stuff getting stuck is a proper demoraliser. had the m3 sat on the drive up on 3 looking like a broken p*k*y wagon and could NOT shift it. in the end i think i used every sodding tool i have and it took frigging HOURS t do what should have taken 20 mins. i was so chuffed i nearly kept the piece for a picture but sometimes you just have to move on with your life, you know?supersingle said:
Buy an angle grinder!
I'm currently in the process of rebuilding a 205 rear beam. It's making me insane.
i have an angle grinder. a broken one on the shelf in the garage that i really must get round to replacing. i actually had to use a creme brulee blowtorch at one point. it was all very civilized.I'm currently in the process of rebuilding a 205 rear beam. It's making me insane.
would not have made any difference for me. I had the whole hub with driveshaft off the car and was pounding it in the bench vice, heating it with MAP Gas, pressing it with 10-tons in the hydraulic press... wonder what that would have looked like if it had suddenly freed off... 10-tons of force pressing a driveshaft out of a hub?
ejenner said:
would not have made any difference for me. I had the whole hub with driveshaft off the car and was pounding it in the bench vice, heating it with MAP Gas, pressing it with 10-tons in the hydraulic press... wonder what that would have looked like if it had suddenly freed off... 10-tons of force pressing a driveshaft out of a hub?
In my case, half a dozen interested co-workers jumping like a bomb went off. 
can i join the fail side of things please,
did an oil and filter service on the 328 today, all went swimmingly.
perfect says i, oooooohh no you don't says 328.
1 of the bonnet latches decides to jam up, in the process of trying to un-jam the catch i snapped the cable. Happy days eh?
Now i cant get under the bonnet to re-check the oil post service. super.
Oh and im mid way through a career changing course 75miles from home and need the car on monday.
did an oil and filter service on the 328 today, all went swimmingly.
perfect says i, oooooohh no you don't says 328.
1 of the bonnet latches decides to jam up, in the process of trying to un-jam the catch i snapped the cable. Happy days eh?
Now i cant get under the bonnet to re-check the oil post service. super.
Oh and im mid way through a career changing course 75miles from home and need the car on monday.
Very timely thread 
Just finished changing the engine in a fiesta, on a budget of £100 quid. Half of that was the cost of the car. Made slightly more complicated due to me buying an engine that is very subtly different in many frustrating ways (carbed mk2 engine into a mk3) The smooth-as-silk purr that i can hear now brings a massive sense of accomplishment.
Just finished changing the engine in a fiesta, on a budget of £100 quid. Half of that was the cost of the car. Made slightly more complicated due to me buying an engine that is very subtly different in many frustrating ways (carbed mk2 engine into a mk3) The smooth-as-silk purr that i can hear now brings a massive sense of accomplishment.
sparkybean said:
Very timely thread
Just finished changing the engine in a fiesta, on a budget of £100 quid. Half of that was the cost of the car. Made slightly more complicated due to me buying an engine that is very subtly different in many frustrating ways (carbed mk2 engine into a mk3) The smooth-as-silk purr that i can hear now brings a massive sense of accomplishment.
good feeling innit? for the first time in god knows how long my m3 doesn't shake like hell when i brake. Just finished changing the engine in a fiesta, on a budget of £100 quid. Half of that was the cost of the car. Made slightly more complicated due to me buying an engine that is very subtly different in many frustrating ways (carbed mk2 engine into a mk3) The smooth-as-silk purr that i can hear now brings a massive sense of accomplishment.
i done that.
Y282 said:
... pulled muscles i didn't know i had but now am scared to poo because of ....
Shouldn't laugh, but it's good to know it happens to everyone!
My worst one was not on a car, but a garage door. It was a roll-up one, which are all spring loaded and covered in warnings that they must under no circumstances be unrolled until everything's fitted in place.
But we were lifting it into place, we dropped one end of it, which bent it all to buggery. We had no choice but to unroll it, hammer it back into shape, then somehow roll it back up. It was like trying to roll up an enormous clock spring. I forget how many times it all sprang out again, but it was lots. A 1 hour job becomes an entire weekend job in the blink of an eye...
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