OMG just removing the engine is turning out to be really tricky she does not want to give you ANYTHING. Every single bolt is absolutely stuck in there :headvswal they either snap off they are so tight or round off making them near impossible to remove :nono:.

 

When you work underneath her she either spits brake fluid, or power steering fluid on you. The drops grase and rust in your eyes in the hope that temporary blindness will make you give up for a bit. :eek:.

 

Yesterday it took me three hours to remove three bolts holding the exhaust from the back of the O/S tub. I could not get at one of them as the starter bolts were almost welded in so needed a good soaking in WD40. I managed to get the bugger out from above with a ring spanner at length doing like 1-50th of a turn each time she cut my hand :wack:. I finally got the bugger off though!.

 

Today started really well the two bolts on the exhaust at the back of the other tub came off no problems at all :hyper:. One at the top came out and the other came loose real easy. One of the last bolts came out about 4 MM then to my amazement just completely jammed solid :nono:. Would not go any further from the top, from below with a ring spanner with a socket... what a bitch and it would be the hardest one to get to as well. In fact she must of planned this to break my will on the very worst one to get to.

 

I wound it back in and out again until it jammed rock solid in the same place again. A spanner and socket would not move it :headvswal . This went on for two more hours until I could see no way to get it out.. I then had a brain wave maybe my air wrench would fit on it from beneath... yes it did but dooooh it just jammed in the same place every time I tried winding it in and out.

 

Brolly OX it then rounded the bolt off in the jammed out position. WTF was I going to do now. Blanco had stopped me once again, bleeding hands oil and brake fluid in my eyes and I swear she was laughing at me :eek:.

 

I got a hacksaw blade and tried invane to get it to cut through the exposed bolt. All I did was cut my hands further :headvswal. Then after making futile attemps with a blade on its own for another hour or so I then found a junior hacksaw and tied it to a long file at an angle. It took me another hour but my tool managed to squueze into the back depths of the engine and slowly saw that mother off.

 

This broke her will to fight :smash: I then managed to rob her of her exhaust, heat shield, prop shaft, and even drop the back of the gearbox. All she could do to me now was continue spitting fluid at me. Tommorow I swear I am going to rip that bitches heart out at last LOL. But she will probably crush me in the process or something.

Thats a really nice zed you have there mate.

Thanks im sure it will all be worth it, I am enjoying it even if its a bit of a struggle. Paid for my big ass engine so looking forward to putting things in rather that getting these mothers of bolts out lol. In the meantime im gonna do all the chrome/ polish stuff waxoil the underneath and get the bonnett and engine bay airbrushed and fix a leaky master cylinder and clutch pipe.. etc rtc. OMG where will it all stop.

You have the writers talent there. I was right with you as I read that first post! Know exactly how you felt.

 

Brings back a memory when working under my 240Z years ago at my parents house where we had a garage with a pit. The light had gone and I used a torch. At one point I dropped my oily rag and reached down in the darkness to pick it up and found something soft and squidgy - a poor dead oily rat no less! Crapped it when I shone the torch on it and realised what I was squeezing.

Seen waxing, undersealing the car? what parts should you NOT put it on?

Brake lines, bushes, wires, pipes MOT faliures if they cant inspect the condition of those.

chin up mate, imagine what its gonna be like when its all finished :bow:

Got the engine and gearbox out now... that bar steward bolt will not come out the back of the tub with mole grips or even when we filed it and got an adjustable spanner on it.

 

So lucky to get it out enough to hacksaw its head off in the car! even if it was a 4 hour operation.