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All that work is only to access the pump.  Trying to wrangle it out of the space between the block and the strut tower is the real challenge.

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I knew those tiny hoods on PT's would make working on 'em suck.

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newer dodges you open up the old hayes, and for everything it says take it to a dealer. You have to take off the front tire and undo lots of stupid things just to get the battery out on the stratus's
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newer dodges you open up the old hayes, and for everything it says take it to a dealer. You have to take off the front tire and undo lots of stupid things just to get the battery out on the stratus's

You oughta try to find places to mount police equipment in a Stratus. The mounties use 'em as undercover cars and they require sirens and (hidden) flashing lights. A siren speaker is about 6" X 6" X 3" and must have an open space in front of it (obviously, or it will be muted) and it must face forward. Try to find the space to mount one of those under the hood of a Stratus. We actually mount 'em to the battery tray, facing the back of the front bumper cover. Intrepids are just as bad. Not a fun job...
 
Undercover Tauruses are even worse. The only place to mount a siren speaker is the front bumper support, and that support is made out of titanium. Try to drill through that stuff some time, especially when your shop provides the cheapest drill bits they can find! If they made the whole car out of that stuff it'd smush even the biggest SUV in an accident
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In light of the "worst engines to work on" thread, what is the worst automotive job you have ever had to do on a car? I have a few, and I feel they'll be hard to top (at least the first two):


Years ago I swapped the frame under a 2dr '70 Galaxie with 302, three on the tree and a 3.08 gear. The donor car was a '70 four dr with 351, FMX and 2.75 gear. I completely swapped the engines/trannys/rears to keep the original(perfect) drive train(The 351 was trashed). On the plus side I gained P/S, that thing was a bear with manual stearing.

Carmen, probably not as bad as your frame swapping, but I do have a good idea what you went through.

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when i worked at a ford dealership not mensioning the name,... i was in charge of holding various things in place while someone welded them in...  my favorite quote their was "hold this bitch up hear while i weld it in" (seriously) things that are usualy bolted into place lol,... like transmission mounts. theirs also things that break off coustomers cars and the service righter makes the coustomer pay for em. like when someone had exhaust vent tubeing on a bronco, forgot it was their and backed out. well the tube got stuck under the wheel and ripped the tail pipe off, so the service righter said it was bad to begin with and he needs to pay for a new one or he cant have his car... kinda f'd up huh...

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This one wasn't realy all that hard,  just very time consuming,  spent about 8 hours with a sledge hammer and a comalong beating and pulling my core support back into shape after running over a piece of leftover speedlimit sign that someone else had hit and burried!  The hardest part was trying to swing the sledge and not hit the ABS pump or bust any brake lines.

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1.  Removing an oil filter from a Chevy inline 6 ('69 Nova) that was put on by a local Chevy place during a warranty repair.  I figure they put it on dry & probably with a wrench.  Removal took 3.5 hours & involved a filter wrench bent into uselessness, a big screwdriver that flew into the neighbor's yard & was never seen again, a 3# sledge hammer, & a 1" cold chisel for peeling the stuck filter base from the block.  LESSON:  NEVER LET ANYONE ELSE WORK ON YOUR CAR!

2.  Replacing the clutch on a friend's '63 Rambler American.  The only way to remove the drive shaft is to either unbolt the entire rear end & leaf spring assembly & slide it back far enough to slide the yoke out of the back of the trans, or remove the U-joint from the driveshaft by hammering it out, because there are no bolts, it's all pressed together.  I picked the latter method, & pounded & cussed on that POS until 4AM (it was daytime when I started), then cleaned up & drove to N.O. for Mardi Gras.  LESSON:  NEVER WORK ONE A STINKIN' RAMBLER, NO MATTER WHAT!