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Old 30-09-2013, 12:54 PM   #1
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... for me was replacing all the water hoses on my JB Camira.

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Old 30-09-2013, 12:57 PM   #2
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removing a rounded sump plug from a ba
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Old 30-09-2013, 08:08 PM   #3
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There is EASY maintenance????

I must be doing it wrong....
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Old 30-09-2013, 08:26 PM   #4
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Air con filter on a Mazda 3
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ANYTHING in a V12 jag engine bay
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Getting the oil filter off an early LS1 Commodore
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Old 01-10-2013, 01:15 AM   #7
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Ford x series steering arms (all of them!)
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Difficult maintenance you say !.........Once upon a time i would do a 12 hour shift then come home and pull heads off a v8 and put it all back together without batting an eye lid, these days in my old age with dodgy bones and being a bit more porky just thinking about getting up from under the car is difficult maintenance, i end up getting there, but it takes a lot longer.
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Changing the fuse in a LV Focus. The book instructions are useless and the guy at Ford wanted to charge me 70 bucks to do it for me, that was probably his trial and error pay as not even he could tell me where the fuses were located...

Harder still, the cabin filter, which requires removal of the whole fuse assembly...
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Old 01-10-2013, 11:12 PM   #11
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Mazda 3 cabin filters are a two piece affair, requiring the fuse panel to be removed beforehand.
I remember removing a crank bolt off a VB-C(?) Commode V8 that had snapped off below the level of the balancer. Took an hour with a hammer and chisel lying on my back.
Although that's not really "maintenance".
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Old 02-10-2013, 12:28 AM   #12
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Ha ha, very funny. Same would go for husbands I would say....
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Ha ha, very funny. Same would go for husbands I would say....
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my girlfriend and 2 sisters, very annoying haha
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Cleaning intake plenum on NS Pajero... never, ever again.
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Ford x series steering arms (all of them!)
Getting the pitman arm off was easy, but only if you had the special puller supplied by Ford. Normal pullers would not grip the arm properly.


How about changing the power steering box in a EFI unleaded XF or ZL Fairlane, in the XD and XE the job was a bit awkward, so Ford fitted a bigger brake booster and a cat to the XF/ZL to make it a real challenge
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I remember spark plugs on VK V8 Calais... near brake booster.
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Old 27-10-2013, 08:52 PM   #19
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Not that "difficult" but still a real pain:

Timing belt on a 1989 Camry.

Lots of skin taken off the knuckles and a fair amount of swearing too....
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Headlight globes on AU/BA Falcons...

If you have big hands like me its not easy.
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Bypass hose between the head and block of the early BMC minis and 1100's.
Anyone who's ever done them will know what I'm talking about.
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Replacing the accessories fuse in my niece's 2011 Suzuki Swift.
Actually I never found it; I laboriously pulled out and checked every fuse I could find in the two fuse compartments.
None of them were blown. In the end she had to wait until it went in for a service, and Suzuki fixed it then.
But nobody would tell me where the fuse is actually located; they just waffled on about it being "in the handbook".
It's a really crap design; it has a vertically mounted "cigarette lighter" type socket (except you can't use a lighter in it as it's only meant for low-power gadgets), and if a coin falls in there, ♪♫*splat* goes the fuse-ee♫♪.
If I could have found the fuse I would have done what I've with similar setups in other cars: Solder a Polyswitch (self-resetting electronic fuse) across the old fuse and plug it back in. Never fails after that.
I don't suppose anybody here knows where the fuse lives....
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Bypass hose between the head and block of the early BMC minis and 1100's.
Anyone who's ever done them will know what I'm talking about.
I remember them, it was almost easier to lift the head to get the hose in.
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there is a compressible hose availabe
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Actually in the 1960s I had this rev-head neighbour who'd fitted some sort of V8 engine to an old Mk I Ford Zephyr. (In case you don't know, that was a 1950s Pommy car that Ford USA copied to make the Falcon. Yes, they actually sold left hand drive Mark I Zephyrs in th' USA!)
I didn't know much about cars then, but I remember my brother saying that to change the spark plugs he had to remove the front mud guards!

Given the Mk I's propensity for breaking axles even with its original smallish 6, I presume he must have also improved the back end somewhat :-)
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Headlight globes on AU/BA Falcons...

If you have big hands like me its not easy.
Worst one I have found so far is globes on a Ssanyong Acyton ute. Front bumper has to come off.
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To replace the turbos on a late model diesel LandRover, you have to take the body off the chassis.
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