Least favorite work to do on your stang?

Rootus · Apr 25, 2007

MysteryMachine said:
everything

Indeed!

Exhaust tops the list of my hates. But having had the whole engine torn apart, I can say for sure that I really don't care to work on much of anything on this car anymore. It's easy, and that's good, but it's a chore.

And for the guy who mentioned the differential.... yeah, that's a pretty crappy job. I think anybody who has to change the differential fluid should just go out and buy the aftermarket cover with drain/full plugs. It's a huge mess to fill the diff from the front...

The Green GT · Apr 25, 2007

Rootus said:
And for the guy who mentioned the differential.... yeah, that's a pretty crappy job. I think anybody who has to change the differential fluid should just go out and buy the aftermarket cover with drain/full plugs. It's a huge mess to fill the diff from the front...

Tell me about it.

AFTER I got all the spilt fluid cleaned up, I went to put the plug in and for got to taek the hose out of the hole. Since the plug is magnetic, it stick next to the hole and i thought I had started it.

I turned for like 5 minuted before I realized something wasnt right.

95riosnake · Apr 25, 2007

I agree with anything to do with the dash.

By the time you contort yourself upside down to snake under there, you realize you forgot a tool. So you nearly break the steering wheel trying to pull yourself up. After aquiring your forgotten tool and bending yourself to get back under the dash, you put your hand behind a panel to find where they keep all the sharpest objects on the face of the planet. You once again nearly break the steering wheel pulling yourself out, only this time with one hand because your other hand has a deep gash spewing blood onto your floormats.

After a couple hours, a few pints of lost blood, a bunch of band-aids, damning to hell "whatever stupid son of a b**** designed this", and LOTS of cursing....your wiring is done.

FUN!

I can't wait for my next dash project!

Therian · Apr 25, 2007

long tube headers...

trav_19 · Apr 26, 2007

yeah i remember being a noob at rear ends and cracking open my stock cover...and my arm got soaked in diff. fluid it was horrible and i had to throw that shirt away....i decided right then that i wasnt going to close the cover till i had one of the nice aftermarket ones

MI95Cobra · Apr 26, 2007

mine is the cam...i love the feeling of accomplishment when done, but i hate the time it takes to do it.....this is the second time putting a cam in a car....the first was in my 92 gt...plus i changed the heads, lifters, pushrods, intake, throttle body, and injectors....this time i'm changing the cam, lifters, pushrods, timing chain, water pump, coil, plug wires, and cap and rotor......but i'm only doing it a few hours a weekend.....

gcomfx.com · Apr 26, 2007

95riosnake said:
I agree with anything to do with the dash.

By the time you contort yourself upside down to snake under there, you realize you forgot a tool. So you nearly break the steering wheel trying to pull yourself up. After aquiring your forgotten tool and bending yourself to get back under the dash, you put your hand behind a panel to find where they keep all the sharpest objects on the face of the planet. You once again nearly break the steering wheel pulling yourself out, only this time with one hand because your other hand has a deep gash spewing blood onto your floormats.

After a couple hours, a few pints of lost blood, a bunch of band-aids, damning to hell "whatever stupid son of a b**** designed this", and LOTS of cursing....your wiring is done.

FUN!

I can't wait for my next dash project!

It's like you wrote part of my biography.

Oh and good call on the "electrical gremlins" Punisher302. I HATE those too.

WhiteStallionGT · Apr 26, 2007

95riosnake said:
I agree with anything to do with the dash.

By the time you contort yourself upside down to snake under there, you realize you forgot a tool. So you nearly break the steering wheel trying to pull yourself up. After aquiring your forgotten tool and bending yourself to get back under the dash, you put your hand behind a panel to find where they keep all the sharpest objects on the face of the planet. You once again nearly break the steering wheel pulling yourself out, only this time with one hand because your other hand has a deep gash spewing blood onto your floormats.

After a couple hours, a few pints of lost blood, a bunch of band-aids, damning to hell "whatever stupid son of a b**** designed this", and LOTS of cursing....your wiring is done.

FUN!

I can't wait for my next dash project!

Hilarious!

MI95Cobra · Apr 26, 2007

another is the heater core...pain in the a$$....took all day....tehn when i got to the box i fought just to open the box......

blksn955.o · Apr 26, 2007

Exhaust for me too, more-so the stock H-pipe than anything, I HATE THAT part the MOST. I can get my O/R pipe on/off in 5min...but not the heavy POS stocker.

I have gotten the t5 in and out (besides the stock H) in 30min or less.

The 4 rear DS bolts sucked for me too along with the gas tank gasket.

The WORST thing I ever have done...put a new AOD into my bronco by myself in the winter with ice and stuff on the ground and doing it outside as it would not fit in the garage. In a lifted bronco it was . The worst is the damn cross member...some stupid brace/bracket that you cannot get to the tops of the bolts and can only get less than 1/4 turn on the lowers to get off to drop the crossmember.

ProKiller · Apr 27, 2007

anything with antifreeze pisses me off. it gets everywhere and its a royal pain to clean off. under the dash work sucks too the older you get. i remember when i first got a mustang back when i was 18 and didn't have a problem, now only 5 years later and its painful. electrical gremlins i think are the worst though, mentally anguishing.

MattZ281LE · Apr 27, 2007

Anything underdash. Otherwise these cars are simple.

I had to change the waterpump on my Mazda MX6. I cursed the whole time. Small V6 FWD cars suck to work on.

OrangeMustangGt · Apr 27, 2007

for me it was changing sparkplugs on my turbo kit. That is why its sitting in a box

cbarr300 · Apr 27, 2007

anything under the car sucks....I can't just crawl up under it anymore thanks to the lowering springs.

also, as was mentioned earlier, filling the diff. from the front was horrible.

Not to mention those craptastic long tube headers....

but...the worst (as most have stated) is any dash work.

sade04 · Apr 27, 2007

+1000 on the diff fluid...filling it up was a pita.

the catback sucked major a**

and while doing the rear springs, trying to remove/install the bolt that mounts the lca to the axle...i dunno it took us forever

juiced_94gt · Apr 28, 2007

A CLUTCH JOB ON YOUR BACK WITH NO FRIENDS IN SIGHT FOR HELP, also the heater core wasn't fun but all other work is pretty easy for me, even the clutch just not on the floor.

95five-oh · Apr 28, 2007

anything involving coolant/cooling system
EDIT: After today i'm gonna have to say brakes as well

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