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younganreckless
03-18-2011, 08:21 PM
I tried for 4 hours to get a set of bearings out of the rear end of my r, so wats the most frustrating thing you have done?:confused:

dcreel
03-18-2011, 08:23 PM
Replacing the clutch on a Ford Ranger pickup (the slave cylinder is inside the bellhousing), and that 250R right hand hub bolt I fought for 2 weeks.. :lol:

younganreckless
03-18-2011, 08:25 PM
Ya and once after riding for 6 hrs of hot humid woods riding my 350x would start, o ya I had falling in a creek too

Yamaha_Rules69
03-18-2011, 08:27 PM
Siezed swingarm bolt - on an 84 250R that was blown up, partialy parted out, and left outside for 15 years in the weather to die. That is the R that I bought. That swingarm bolt was a real biotch. I used heat, penetrating oil, and a real big railroad track sledge hammer, 25lbs plus easy. After at least 100 hits, it started to budge.

jeswinehart
03-18-2011, 08:47 PM
Not so much frustrating but to me, more incredible as to how many things you need to take apart and get out of the way on the P-3 (Polaris trike) to replace the starter.
A couple of bolts are easy to get to. Then you start taking off side cases (both sides), clutchs and all sorts of unrelated stuff just to get the starter off.
I strongly feel they built the whole machine around the starter.

atcpunk107
03-18-2011, 09:10 PM
Convincing the wife to let you buy another trike.

HONDA_ATC_FREAK
03-18-2011, 09:11 PM
Replacing my rear axle and rear end bearings in my 200es it took forever to get the axle busted loose.

SWIGIN
03-18-2011, 09:18 PM
Deal with the ex wife........

dcreel
03-18-2011, 09:22 PM
Deal with the ex wife........

Been there done that.. :lol: :D

RIDE-RED 250r
03-18-2011, 09:22 PM
Replace tracks, drive gears, undercarriage rollers and all pins and bushings on the 6-way blade of a JD450g dozer.....LOTS of siezed bolts that broke when attempting to unscrew. LOTS of time getting to know a cutting torch, 1" rosebud and welder....not a fun job and Im glad i dont turn wrenches for a living anymore. I would gladly work on the most stubborn trike ever than do that kind of extensive work on a dozer again!

xlover
03-18-2011, 09:25 PM
talk my dad in to drive hours for anoter trike lol hes gotta love me

Brockey
03-18-2011, 09:33 PM
How about Change the back three plugs and wires on a Buick Rendezvou with the back plug wires stuck on. You gotta let go the dog bone top motor mounts and pull the motor forward allowing you just enough room to scrape my big hands in there. Now introduce a knife to the little space your hands take up and cut the old plug boots off and replace the plugs. I swear the motor belongs on the floor for such a job. Even a little Japanese man would find this task hard.

scottyms
03-18-2011, 09:51 PM
How about Change the back three plugs and wires on a Buick Rendezvou with the back plug wires stuck on. You gotta let go the dog bone top motor mounts and pull the motor forward allowing you just enough room to scrape my big hands in there. Now introduce a knife to the little space your hands take up and cut the old plug boots off and replace the plugs. I swear the motor belongs on the floor for such a job. Even a little Japanese man would find this task hard.

Try doing the lower intake manifold gaskets in the same machine.... i swear the devil was the man that designed that POS engine... who ever thought that it was a good idea to have the valve train pushrods go through the intake manifold should be analy probed with the pushrods from every one of those ever built.... 6 hours of taking shiz off to do a 10 min gasket change then having to reset the entire valve train and put the whole thing back together....

scotty

Brockey
03-18-2011, 10:02 PM
Try doing the lower intake manifold gaskets in the same machine.... i swear the devil was the man that designed that POS engine... who ever thought that it was a good idea to have the valve train pushrods go through the intake manifold should be analy probed with the pushrods from every one of those ever built.... 6 hours of taking shiz off to do a 10 min gasket change then having to reset the entire valve train and put the whole thing back together....

scotty

LMAO, oh my!!! I can clearly see your pain. I agree with you totally on the pos and what should be done with the designer.

dksix
03-18-2011, 10:05 PM
Right now coating a Bultaco cylinder and head, but that's cause it what I did tonight, lol. Those are some deep cooling fins on that jug and the steel sleeve was causing the powder to back ionize, it took 2 hours to mask them and I'm working with a new system. I blew the powder back off the jug 5 times before I got the system set up to get deep into the fins.

mcgyver331
03-18-2011, 10:11 PM
trying to polish out faded plastics, not tightening clutch bolts on dr 350 and disenegrateing it, pushed 350x 2 miles in the woods with a broken chain.

tx200m
03-18-2011, 10:18 PM
Good stuff in this thread. Been a auto mech 31 yrs, seen a lot of trailprotrailprotrailprotrailpro. One that nearly kicked my ass was a 2001 corolla that spun a crank thrust washer. Wedged between crank and lower main cap assy, couldnt drop the trans and eng from the bottom (no lift). So.. separated the cap assy from the block, pried it all down till I could get the mangled washer out and turn the flywheel to get the 6 nuts off the torque convertor.Whew.

Xpress
03-18-2011, 10:23 PM
Replacing the clutch on a Ford Ranger pickup (the slave cylinder is inside the bellhousing)

This, except it's an 89 Jeep YJ.

younganreckless
03-19-2011, 12:17 AM
My dream trike being stolen!

bigbadktm
03-19-2011, 12:17 AM
cleaning a carb with the little straw on the carb cleaner and have it shoot out another part of the carb and right into your eye

Mosh
03-19-2011, 09:21 AM
Try doing the lower intake manifold gaskets in the same machine.... i swear the devil was the man that designed that POS engine... who ever thought that it was a good idea to have the valve train pushrods go through the intake manifold should be analy probed with the pushrods from every one of those ever built.... 6 hours of taking shiz off to do a 10 min gasket change then having to reset the entire valve train and put the whole thing back together....

scotty



I worked in a GM dealer for 15 years so I know these all to well. We had to do valve spring recalls on some before delivery to the showroom floors on Venture Vans. I have done maybe ? 1000's of those intakes and heads on those models, and are actually some of the easier things to work on these days for me.

How about a Saturn Vue..T stat requires intake removal.
Oil Pan on a 94 Ford F 250 4wd
Oil Pan on a 93 Camaro Z -28
Oil Pan and carrier gaskets on ANY Cadilac with the 4.6 V-8. (we call them the $3000 oil leak)
Pull a Trans on any Caddy mentioned above or olds Aurora
All Brake lines on any newer silverado
And Heads on a 4.0 explorer with the overhead cams and Jack shaft. You have to pull the engine to do the heads.
I have been wrenching for 20 years+ so i could go on with the cars.

ATV wise...
Once years ago I put a Shee engine together, did not adjust the clutch correctly and welded the pushrod to the clutch arm. 1 hour into a ride 2 hours from home.Had to split the cases to fix it.
I was jetting once a carb and the slide went to fall off the bench and I grabbed to catch it and sent the needle of the slide, ALL the way through my hand between my thumb and hand skin.
Another time I was trying to put a carb boot on and I was using a screwdriver to work the boot edge around the carb and the screw driver popped out and slammed me right in the eyeball..THAT FLIPPIN hurt..eye patch for one week. I thought I would be blind after that.
I too have fought the swinger bolts in many machines for hours on end.

Man I should have been a cook or something else..lol

82300R
03-19-2011, 12:22 PM
Buying an non running klt 200. Spending three times what i paid to get it running. Then believed that it would stay running.:rolleyes:

Dirtcrasher
03-19-2011, 02:14 PM
1) Tried to find a remotely attractive female who can take care of herself and isn't mental.

2) Rebuilt a Detroit Diesel 3-53 in a Dynahoe backhoe broken down 3' away from my porch. Then rebuilt all the hydraulic cylinders which I never did before either. Took all spring and summer to fix.

I'd say #1 is more frustrating :lol:

bcredneck
03-19-2011, 02:24 PM
trying to make a chinese pocket bike run for more than 30 seconds it may look like a simple motor but its will is greater than mine

HONDA_ATC_FREAK
03-19-2011, 03:05 PM
^ROTFL^:lol:

RubberSalt
03-19-2011, 03:12 PM
Trying to pee while doing a handstand at a party, without messing up.

bugler30
03-19-2011, 03:44 PM
1) Tried to find a remotely attractive female who can take care of herself and isn't mental.

LMAO!!! I second that

That and removing the axle from a 200x carrier that the bearings were totally seized to the axle and carrier. That and getting the outer races on the pivot bolt bearings out of the swing arm for a 350x. Or removing/installing the intake on a I6 4.0 Jeep engine.

Its so hard to choose a wrenching favorite... lol

90guy
03-19-2011, 03:50 PM
cleaning a carb with the little straw on the carb cleaner and have it shoot out another part of the carb and right into your eye

BAHAHAH! i know how that goes! Good stuff on this forum

84honda200s
03-19-2011, 05:28 PM
replacing a engine and trans in a pickup truck on a concrete floor in the winter.. or building a 3 inch exhaust in the middle of winter on a snow covered driveway.

jmax857
03-19-2011, 05:33 PM
Replacing the clutch on a Ford Ranger pickup (the slave cylinder is inside the bellhousing)lol:

lol imagine doing that, but by yourself, no shop, hand tools, by yourself without a jack.

jmax857
03-19-2011, 05:34 PM
oh and dont forget removine a stock headpipe from a ltz400.

sittinguy
03-19-2011, 06:15 PM
Tapered bearing kit for 350x steering stem

mdwohleber56
03-19-2011, 06:26 PM
trying to get my rear hubs off and take my axle apart to replace bearings. tryed for 6 hours with me and two 250 pound dudes....cant get the damn things off still! someone PM me with some help

fabiodriven
03-19-2011, 06:43 PM
Once I joined this forum I realized that I practically gave away a mint, low-hour 86/87 Tecate engine while simultaneously getting ripped off on an 86 Tecate 500 project. I was into the first gen Tecates and had no idea what a second gen engine was worth.

Also finding out how many people could have used the many perfectly fine first gen Tecate frames I put out on the side of the road for people to take for free.

ironchop
03-19-2011, 07:05 PM
cleaning a carb with the little straw on the carb cleaner and have it shoot out another part of the carb and right into your eye

LMAO...I`ve done that twice....then noticed I have 5 pr of safety glasses in my toolbox just to add insult to injury

most frustrated lately was the day I started to try and break a couple old tires off my rims to put on some brand new Trekkers...one tire off ok but the second one would budge at the bead seat...hammered on it with a tire wedge which didn`t phase the tire so I got the biggest screwdriver I had with 1/2 wide head, rounded the corners on the grinder like a tire spoon has, and proceeded to pound that in between the bead and rim....well the bead stayed put and the homemade spoon punched right thru the inside of the rim instead.....then while trying to mount the new 20lb. stiff as a rock fast trekker on a different rim, I promptly used my lubricated spoons to rip the rubber covering off a six-inch stretch of lubricated tire bead turning my Trekker into a tube-type tire....and off to the spare tire stack those went....right on top of the TP`s which were NEVER as hard to mount/dismount as most tires I`ve seen...imagine that

bcredneck
03-19-2011, 07:38 PM
totaly rebuilding a 83 250R just to see it fliping thew the air 30 seconds after it first start in one peice it just happend half an hour ago thank god it was the owner riding but now the nice painted swingarm i wasted a few hours on has a massive crack that needs to be welded after i take apart the entire rear end i just put together and i got to repaint the tank i finaly finished at least i got a good vid

tx200m
03-19-2011, 07:44 PM
^ here ........... take some of mine

younganreckless
03-20-2011, 02:37 AM
Sweet thread!

Tecate Karl
03-20-2011, 08:53 AM
trying to find parts for an 84 tecate

younganreckless
03-20-2011, 12:13 PM
Haha most of these deal with clutches and bearings?

90guy
03-20-2011, 12:52 PM
A ridiculous altenator job. The 3.4 DOHC in a 95 monte carlo. 4 hour job for an altenator

bigbadktm
03-20-2011, 01:05 PM
lol imagine doing that, but by yourself, no shop, hand tools, by yourself without a jack.

i put my 91 ford ranger tranny in by myself with a bar and a ratchet strap...lol lifted it a few inches at a time

Dirtcrasher
03-20-2011, 03:28 PM
^ I put a Toyota 4x4 truck standard tranny and transfer case in myself, on the snow, in the cold and supported by cinder blocks and wood.

When your 17 and broke, your BROKE!!

younganreckless
03-20-2011, 06:57 PM
Haha true that!

jays375
03-20-2011, 07:09 PM
As far as ATC stuff I would have to say putting all new bearings in a 73 ATC.Think I had over 3hrs in the rear axle assembly.Took over a few hours to get the front axle out.Then somebody told me about used a air chisel.I managed to get it all apart and not ruin anything though.Car wise would have to be a starter on a mid 80s VW Rabbit.You needed 3 extentions,and a wobble end.Started the bolts from the top,dropped them alot of times.Then I got smart and tied a string on it.Think I was around 12 when I did this.My dad said I was smaller and could do it way easier.Gets better probally did it a half a dozen times because he kept polishing up the starter.When the car was hot starter would expand and not turn the motor over.Bosh starters are exspensive and got a deal on this one.Like most of his deals there was a catch.Did a Corsica starter in the winter outside once,broke a bolt.Plus was given a dud rebuilt starter so I had to do it twice.Usually all my automotive repairs go bad.

younganreckless
03-21-2011, 12:41 AM
Bearings just all around suck balls wen it comes to changing

jmax857
03-21-2011, 06:33 AM
i put my 91 ford ranger tranny in by myself with a bar and a ratchet strap...lol lifted it a few inches at a time

thats genius, i wish i thought of that. i leterally just put the tranny on my chest and lifted it in. very bad idea, as soon as o got the first bolt to hold i was done. pulled a damn tit muscle.

Vealmonkey
03-21-2011, 12:17 PM
The most frustrating thing I do anymore is read through alot of these postings and threads. Poor or no spelling. Threads in wrong forums. People posting feelers in the classifieds.

ironchop
03-21-2011, 01:12 PM
The most frustrating thing I do anymore is read through alot of these postings and threads. Poor or no spelling. Threads in wrong forums. People posting feelers in the classifieds.

Amen...to all of that and then some

on the feelers, I wouldn`t mind if it was "Hey I was contemplating making new swinger bolts for a 3rd gen 250R and offering them for sale" But the whole "hey maybe my trike and/or spares are for sale, maybe not" is annoying to say the least...I won`t even open a 'feeler' thread anymore. If I want to be teased with the goodies, I`ll spend more time with my wife.

Leadfoot71
03-21-2011, 05:57 PM
The most frustrating thing I do anymore is read through alot of these postings and threads. Poor or no spelling. Threads in wrong forums. People posting feelers in the classifieds.

Ditto. It's like trying to read a spam e-mail sent from outer mongolia sometimes.

One of the most frustrating jobs I've ever done was replace the cylinder head on a '78 Ford Fairmont with the 200 I-6 engine. My girlfriend overheated it and warped the head. I had it milled down a bit and re-installed it.

Because it's a 6 cylinder, it's already 50% bigger and heavier than V-8 or 4 cyl. head. To make things worse, the intake manifold was cast into the head making it even heavier. There were no dowl pins in either the block or head so setting the head on top of the block without pushing the head gasket out of the way was almost impossible. As a bonus, the fresh machine work cut up my fingers pretty good while wrestling with it.

In the end I had to lay a 6' 2x4 across the shock towers and set a 20 ton bottle jack in the center of that (directly about the head). Next I tied a twine string to opposite ends of the head end and looped it over the bottle jack. Now all I had to do was raise the jack a little bit to lift the head, then align the gasket, and finally drop in the head bolts. An engine hoist would have saved my bacon but I didn't have one and I sure wasn't going to use a loader tractor to do this job.

I used to work in a junkyard. Trust me, bent cars are 10x tougher to work on! Probably the worst one was where I had to pull the carpet out of a Ford Escort that had been partially wrapped around a tree. Virtually every single nut, bolt, screw and washer involved in this was rusted butt tight. Naturally everything was covered in broken glass too. Since the glass was gone the interior was full of water...and mosquitoes, moldy french fries, something that looked like a diaper, and sharp pieces of broken plastic. I don't miss working at that place.

George_Doucette
03-21-2011, 06:03 PM
changing an alternator on my integra, the whole driver side drive train has to be removed to get the alternator out of the bottom...6 hours

oscarmayer
03-21-2011, 10:11 PM
#1 Got married
#2 had kids

;)

younganreckless
03-22-2011, 05:25 PM
Great thread!

fabiodriven
03-22-2011, 06:11 PM
I just remembered a good one earlier today.

When I was probably 20 or so TecateDan and I did a motor swap on a Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4. For anyone who doesn't know, this car is a six cylinder twin turbo with all wheel drive and four wheel steering. There is a lot to disassemble. The engine comes out from the bottom and we didn't have a lift so we hoisted the front of the car about 4 or 5 feet in the air and put a bunch of wooden blocks under it. We got the whole thing swapped back in and realized we forgot to hook up the steering shaft to the rack. I don't remember fixing that one problem. Maybe Dan did that by himself. He's got a pic somewhere with the thing up on blocks. I'm gonna see if he'll dig that out.

TecateDan
03-22-2011, 06:19 PM
I got that pic somewhere I just saw it not ot long Ago I'll try and get it up here ASAP.

texas 185s
03-22-2011, 06:28 PM
changing an alternator on my integra, the whole driver side drive train has to be removed to get the alternator out of the bottom...6 hours

im getting a teggy soon. hopefully i wont have this problem.

this past week has been hell with the trike. the starter rope snapped, so i had to remove the starter. its not hard, but then the recoil spring came out. i didnt have a spring tool, so i had to figure out a way to get it back in. after about 20 minutes, i figured it out. ill make a video if it ever happens again(im not purposely going to remove the spring). then i got another rope threaded in. went out to the country where my trike was, put it back on, it started up. but the rope slipped out. so i had to disassemble again. this happened about 3 times. then i got some good rope in. and that night it snapped.

yesterday i got the original rope tied back in, and then the pawls dont want to grab the dog catcher. the friction plate is screwed up along with the whole internals of the starter. so i need to pick up a new one soon. i actually got so pissed by it today that i threw a screwdriver at the wall and it stuck in about 2 inches.

fenderbender713
03-22-2011, 11:33 PM
trying to start my Yamaha...

scottp597
03-23-2011, 07:04 PM
Picking up a 350x to ride while getting the R put back together.... then having the stator go out on the 350x!!! =/ The circle of life....

younganreckless
03-24-2011, 05:40 PM
Haha tons of these are about cars

83ATC185S
03-24-2011, 07:38 PM
I would have to say the wiring harness for the EFI on my 84 ford bronco. Took a good month or so to figure out,and im ok with wiring. but not when it looks like this
https://www.supermotors.net/getfile/643640/fullsize/104_0508.jpg

and you gotta cut this much out

https://www.supermotors.net/getfile/715925/fullsize/picture-007.jpg

then figure how to make it work with your ignition switch,fuel pump,proper grounds,proper 12v spots for the ecu,and put in a safety inertia switch to shut off the fuel pump in case of accident.

code200k
03-24-2011, 08:00 PM
try doing an altenator on an 05? vw passat wagon..18 hours plus!!! have to remove the front end..but on a trike so far getting the damn airbox on my t3

Thorpe
03-24-2011, 08:48 PM
Most frusterating thing I have ever done...? My wife, when she is mad at me!! :lol::lol:

younganreckless
03-24-2011, 08:59 PM
^^hahahaHahaha

squirrel1182
03-24-2011, 09:02 PM
Buying an non running klt 200. Spending three times what i paid to get it running. Then believed that it would stay running.:rolleyes:

lol i know all too well about that! I paid 250$ for mine in supposedly running condition, 800-900$ later on top of the original purchase price and it runs. Not saying runs right but it moves. The dam thing still needs rebored, new pistion+rings, new shift drum, chain, sprockets, tires,front breaks, clutch(my fault!), headlight, and many more things that im just too tired to type.

oscarmayer
03-25-2011, 09:58 AM
hrmm, lets see... helps a former friend redo a honda del-sol. we had to mod the center console to accept a manual trans fro an auto. then mod part of the pass side frame cause the auto was shorter than the manual so had to cut and re-enforce the framing on the front. had to modify the civic shift linkage as it was too short (added peice and welded in and added extra weight to the shifter for smoother shifts). had to re-chip the ecu as we were goign turbo and needed to add a hondata system to it as well as mod it from auto to manual. then installed everything with custom aftermarket mounts. after 3 weeks he roasted the new clutch ( did not understand the meaning of break in east) so tried to uninstall and reinstall the trans w/o pulling the engine. THAt was a pain... then he decided to try himself to wire in a turbo timmer but forgot to wire it to aux 2 not 1 so the fans woudl run. so everytime it shut the car off and ran for 10 min it over headed the car for 5 min each time. 3 weeks later he shows up with motor runnign bad and white smoke. after yelling at him for not letting me do it liek I told him, we ulled the had and foudn eh crystilized the cyclidners so bad they had stress fractues all over them. motor had to be replaced. replaced with stock long block (other motor had rod and pistons and was somewhat done up nice) and kick him out the door.

he was a pain in my ass. i got nothing for it except heart ache and family time loss..

200XMichigan
03-25-2011, 12:30 PM
Traded a good woodstove for a Chinese Quad hoping my fiance would ride with me. The guy told me, "It ran great this fall, pulled 4 deer out of the woods with it, then is sat for a few weeks now the starter just clicks." Thought to myself, what an easy fix, battery, solenoid, or the starter. Start in on fixing it and it has hardly any compression, about 30 psi. Must have just ran awesome that deer season. Parts were hard to find and brake parts and other parts are almost non-existent and you just guess when ordering stuff. The service manual was all of worthless and once I got all the parts in the garage and finally found 2 manuals that together could make some sense she said to me, "I think I would rather ride a 3 wheeler."

It sat for about 6 months and I didn't know what to do with the retched thing since I didn't even want to ride it. Finally I traded it for a pair of non-running YF60's. So it had a good ending, but working on and finding parts for that Chinese Quad was terrible.