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[Richie London]

Cleaning off the Pigeon Sh..............!

pigeons? we must have eagles condors and teradactils round Slough. Regular bombing runs straight accross the car park. 

 

[Hannah Judes Dad]

Starter motor removal that requires removing an engine mount,to put it all back in again.How daft is that?

[feeutfo]

Doing the Head Gasket on a 2.5TD, getting it back together and running like a dream only to discover it was faulty and leaked I cannot put into words the complete and utter feeling of dejection I had at that point and I (honestly) put very serious thought into scrapping the bloody thing and buying a Rover 75.

Thankfully I saw the light and tackled it all over again, and in less than quarter of the time it took me originally. I really enjoyed it too!!!!

So, not really in the top ten of worse jobs, sorry to waste your time

Thats the spirit Squealy, easy when you know how. 

Poor servicing by the previous owner, i bet. 

[Squealey]

Thats the spirit Squealy, easy when you know how. 

Poor servicing by the previous owner, i bet.  [/quote]

How on earth did you know! He must have been a right bodger, rounded off bolts everywhere and the ones that werent rounded were loose. I could swear there was also dried blood and skin off knuckles under there too

ONLY JOKING JAIME 8-) 8-)

[TheBoy]

You were right about the blood and skin. Not all of it mine - Omegatoy's, Kevin Wood's, Sassanach, Bo Bo, Jay W, LFF64 all lost blood, sweat, toil and skin in that engine bay

[hoofing it]

taking the wrong part off and end up looking like a right fa**y  .
I hate the smell of petrol love diesel simpler to work on

[Psychoca]

Clutch replacement on your own using a pair oftrolley jacks on a gravel driveway...

Bleeding said clutch through the "old fashioned way" and having to add the clutch fluid after every single pump of the clutch...

Adjusting the handbrake shoes, that poxy little star nut that refuses to release itself from the back of the spring...

Handbrake cable replacement - No space to swing the spanner, I ended up using every extension bar I own and then connecting to the air gun...

Following the Vx/BMW guide (TIS) for the removal/replacement of the Alternator belt...  Removal not too bad, on replacement I snapped the tension arm trying to get everything back on... 

[Elite Pete]

Timing chains on a wheesel isn't at all fun