Auto repair nightmares

[AwPhuch]

In take fuel pumps in the suburbans.

Any fuel injected vehicle will have the pump in the tank

I replaced 2 of em...one on a Dodge Dakota pickup, the other on a Chevy S10...suck balls job is an understatement..however on the S-10...decided to just take the bed off....took a few hours unbolting the bed and the fuel neck and then lifting the bed out of the way...once it was off..it was a breeze...but those HUGE bolts holding on the bed took an act of congress and the will of God to get em loose!!

[jamoni]

No particular order:
ANYTHING engine related on my Saturn. Running gear and whatnot was easy, but that engine was like a solid block of plastic. I literally had to remove a motor mount to change the fanbelt. Swapping out the starter motor was just stupid.

I had a 73 VW Beetle for a while. Fun car. Burnt out the #3 cylinder after a while, so I pulled the old engine, bought a new long block, swapped all the junk over, and installed it. I'd never done it before, and while it wasn't too bad, I had to do it in the backyard, with not much for tools. I used a skateboard for an engine dolly.
So after a couple weeks of weekends I got it done, after exhausting my bank account and driving my wife up the wall. I loved that car. Anyway, the first time out the wiring harness caught fire and the car was totalled.

[eugene]

In take fuel pumps in the suburbans.

Any fuel injected vehicle will have the pump in the tank

I replaced 2 of em...one on a Dodge Dakota pickup, the other on a Chevy S10...suck balls job is an understatement..however on the S-10...decided to just take the bed off....took a few hours unbolting the bed and the fuel neck and then lifting the bed out of the way...once it was off..it was a breeze...but those HUGE bolts holding on the bed took an act of congress and the will of God to get em loose!!

I replaced the gas tank on my s10 when the bottom got a hole in it. Should have replaced the pump as it went out two weeks later, probably just from dirt from getting transplanted. So I got towed home, drove my wife to work so I could use her car, then drove to the auto parts store and got a new pump, went home and changed into old clothes. Dropped the tank swapped the pump and put the tank back up, went in and showered and drove to work by lunch time. Goes quicker the second time

[jamoni]

Oh, gas tanks!
On my Mazda B2200, the guy who sold it to me knew it had a leaking seam on the gas tank, but didn't tell me. He just kept the tank below 1/4.
So I bought it, put on a new bumper (story in itself: bought an S-10 bumper and "modded it" to fit with a hammer and a drill), new windshield, tires, brakes, wipers, fluids, etc etc. Got it legal, and then had to drive to Wichita (6 hours). So on the way out of town I topped off the tank, and dripdripdripdrip....
Had to siphon out the tank, and stop about 15 times for gas, then pay some dude in Topeka to put a new tank in.

[greenear123]

I had a '89 Subaru GL wagon that would snap the clutch cable about two days after you put it in 4x4. Standing on your head for 3 hours in a foot of snow trying to replace that twice damned cable was way to much fun. Once is bad luck, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action. I have no doubt that the Subaru engineers were laughing every time they shipped one of those cables to the U.S..

[williaty]

I had a '89 Subaru GL wagon that would snap the clutch cable about two days after you put it in 4x4. Standing on your head for 3 hours in a foot of snow trying to replace that twice damned cable was way to much fun. Once is bad luck, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action. I have no doubt that the Subaru engineers were laughing every time they shipped one of those cables to the U.S..

Now that one has me curious. Did you ever figure out why 4WD triggered the snap?