At around half 3 I decided it'd be a good idea to go out in this Arctic whether to try and take my BOV'S off the car and go back to stock recircs. 2 hours later and I've only done one side (passenger). What a nightmare it's turning out to be. Probably wouldn't be too bad if I wasn't trying to do it on my driver in the freezing cold.

 

I couldn't move a bolt on the other side and the head snapped off one of the camps so I gave up for a while on that one. Unsure if I could use the car now until it's finished as I'm guessing one BOV and one recirc would be a little weird.

 

Anywa, got me wondering, what jobs that you thought would be easy was actually a pain in the butt?

My least favourite thing to do everytime is jack the thing up to begin with, it's such a long winded affair.

 

The worst thing I've done is change the oil filter tree in situee, that was great fun.

I second that, block of wood, small jack, trolley jack, axle stand repeat :(

Fitted coilovers a couple weekends back. Thought it'd be straight forward and simple until it came to accessing the top mounts. Damn does a lot of interior have to come out!

That would be the rear top mount!

changing the double sided jubilee clip on the tubs in situ:no:

Fitted coilovers a couple weekends back. Thought it'd be straight forward and simple until it came to accessing the top mounts. Damn does a lot of interior have to come out!

 

I can sympathise with that, changing the strut takes minutes stripping half the boot out is a pain in the ass.

changing the double sided jubilee clip on the tubs in situ:no:

 

That rather depends on wether the last person to knob about in there put them on the right way round. I hated doing all those clips up with them orentated in such a way you couldn't get to them, so planning goes along way doesn't it. But yeah that whole area is tight esp the drivers side.

Drivers side recirc, couldn't access one bolt due to air con pipes in the way. Removal of egr with engine and gearbox still in. Trying to tighten the drivers side turbo oil feed.

Drivers side recirc, couldn't access one bolt due to air con pipes in the way

 

That's not good. That's the one I couldn't seem to do.

I was wondering why you had problems until you said that, I don't have aircon it's all stripped out took me about half hour to remove my recircs.

I know quite a few people have no problem with it. I had to remove the bumper, saved me putting a hammer through the engine in a rage.

Can't say anything I've done on my Z was that difficult to be honest. I am fitting a new engine harness and brake servo soon - I anticipate those being a nausea!

welding upside down sucks when your on your back and the car is barely a foot of the ground.

Removing the fuse box from the footwell unless you'rea yoga master

I don't think the job is that hard to be honest. More the fact I can't remove one bolt (one that's where the recircs bolt on) so I can't get the bov on that side out yet. Could be easier if I take the fan out I guess

Removing the hydraulic pipes from rear to front with the back wheels still on the ground lock bar in place only front jacked up and on stands so about an inch between my face and bottom of car at rear fiddly dosn't even come close and then there is getting the pipes out from the front that weave up and round through the engine bay a grinder with cutting blade would have been handy here took ages with a hack saw lol if i ever had to do it again would get ramps for front and jack back up on stands as high as could get it as I kept getting my head stuck every time I shimmied out like a crab to reach for extension bar or whatever

Removing the plenum to change No6 injector and not doing bypass.

I don't think the job is that hard to be honest. More the fact I can't remove one bolt (one that's where the recircs bolt on) so I can't get the bov on that side out yet. Could be easier if I take the fan out I guess

 

The question is: Would it be possible to complete the job with the fan removed? Bearing in mind this takes about 4 minutes.

I think removing the fan would certainly give a bit more room. Obviously it has the 2 bolts holding it at the top. I'm guessing I'll need to take off the small radiator thing (A/C Condenser) that's in front of it too as I can't see how it'd come out with it still there

That's face it every bloody job on a Z is a nightmare

Pmsl