Least favorite work to do on your stang?

The Green GT

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I did gears this past week and they werent really HARD, but it was dirty and smell as hell.


And projector headlights.

 

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Yeah, rear-end fluid ranks up there too...

 

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Oh yeah rear end fluid.. I had to drain and refill mine and it sucked big time

 

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69clark said:

Good call Grady, under the dash. If it weren't for the seats being in the way, it probably wouldn't be a problem.

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I've been known to take em out
if
I got a big project that requires a lot of time where I'm gonna be all
bent up like a pretzel

They come out pretty easily and quickly ... if you think about it

Grady

 

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how hard is upper control arms in the rear i was thinking about getting a set of uppers and lowers??

 

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final5-0 said:

I've been known to take em out
if
I got a big project that requires a lot of time where I'm gonna be all
bent up like a pretzel

They come out pretty easily and quickly ... if you think about it

Grady

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That is unless you already started your battery relocation and are skeered to hot wire the seat as you aren't sure if 12volts will burn it up. LOL Then they are a PITA to remove.

I have mine out now. Converting the driver seat to manual. That power chit is heavy.

 

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Uppers are really easy actually. I did both of mine in 2.5 hours only because I decided to replace the axle bushings as well and they are pressed-in.

 

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How are UCA's and LCS's hard? I took my rear end out the other week to do my gears, and it seems like it would not be bad at all.

 

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I just remembered another chit sandwich kinda thing I did years ago

I had a C-4 in a little 66 Stang

Taking it in and out ... and the tc in and out

Got that red stuff all over every where

What a friggin messy bunch of chit that was

Grady

 

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We dropped my tranny once and I was on the tail shaft end. We didn't really have a good "routine" on this or a good balance. When my buddy pulled the converter out, the weight on the back of the tranny shifted to HEAVY. No tail shaft plug, so a quart or more of fluid ran from my hand, down my arm inside my sleeve, and exited my t-shirt at my arm pit. Now THAT was a fun time.

 

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Filling up at the gas station.

 

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Low-5.0 said:

Exhaust and rear brakes. Adjusting the rockers is a pain too because you have to remove all the spark plugs....Which is also a pain with large headers.

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Why are you removing the plugs to do rockers? I've never had to do this ever, unless i'm missing something? Its simple, I just put a socket on the alternator bolt and turn it from there.

My least fav is tranny/clutch swaps on my back and bolting up longtubes.

 

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The worst, most frustrating job I did was trying to get my brake booster back in after I had painted.

 

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Grn92LX said:

Why are you removing the plugs to do rockers? I've never had to do this ever, unless i'm missing something? Its simple, I just put a socket on the alternator bolt and turn it from there.

My least fav is tranny/clutch swaps on my back and bolting up longtubes.

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You don't HAVE to remove the plugs, but I've found it makes the engine much easier to turn over. I also did not know you could roll the engine over with the alternator...

 

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everything

 

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WhiteStallionGT said:

Filling up at the gas station.

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Setting up pedestal mount rockers for the first time and determining pushrod length and valvetrain geometry is the death of me. I really hate working on the car PERIOD, I think I forgot that until the last few days when I've been working on it again.

 

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Also body work sucks major ass.

 

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filling hail damage... it isn't so bad the first time around, but when you find out that you have to do 2 or 3 coats on over 100 small dents, that's when the sucky-ness hits you..


surprising, spark plugs are actually kinda fun now that i can get to them easier w/out all the smog stuff in the way. even the driver's side isn't bad at all.

headers for sure, and that's cause i have shorties.

electrical gremlins SUCK, too!

 

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69clark said:

Good call Grady, under the dash. If it weren't for the seats being in the way, it probably wouldn't be a problem.

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Removing the seats is no big deal, two bolts & two nuts (and the power connector if you have a power driver's seat). But you're left with two threaded bolts that like to stick in your back the whole time. A blanket over them helps, but not much.