Worst pain in the ass projects when working with dsm's

[Onefast99gsx]

Last night i was replacing my master cylinder on my 99 GSX and i gotta tell you that is one pain in the ass. It got to the point where i said screw it and took the drivers seat out and still it's a pain. I said a few choice words in the process.

What projects would you consider the worst in addition to my list?

1) Changing master cylinder
2) Taking the 2g headlights out. The bolt under the light is one pain to get to.

3) Getting the tranny input shaft to slide into the clutch when bolting the tranny back up to the block. For some reason This is always as pain for me.

[ABV]

I helped swap out the clutch master cylinder on a fwd 2g in a couple hours. That was a while ago, but I don't remember it being too much of a pain. We had two people though.

But I do remember helping swap out a clutch on the same 2g, and everything went pretty smooth, except for one frickin bolt that goes through the rear tranny mount. I think it was cross threaded, and there's about 1.5" of room to work in to get that bolt started. I forgot what we ended up doing, but I remember it taking about as long to get the tranny back up and mounted as it did to get that one bolt in.

Other than that, I think that trying to get the timing belt tensioner set right when all you have is a set of snap ring pliers and a drill bit is a huge pain in the ass.

[Raptor]

Manual conversion from auto. In the middle of one and it definately sucks.

[Pushit2.0]

Its all seems the same for me. But the auto-manual swap sounds like a lot of fun.

~John

[DSMPARTSGURU]

just blame the parts... or me for that fact since i sold them to you...

cc

[tpunx99GSX]

the suspension was a bitch with no power tools and just me doing it. The front took like 8 hours and bleeding hands, the rear would have taken like 2 hours but i was missing a part, and something was messed up (dont remember what it was) so i had to get the rotozip out and cut the spring off of the strut.
I cant wait to do the manual swap sounds like fun to me.
OnefastGSX- did you put the bolts under the headlights back in? When i took mine out i just said fuck it and left the damn bolts out. what a PITA

[Onefast99gsx]

OnefastGSX- did you put the bolts under the headlights back in? When i took mine out i just said fuck it and left the damn bolts out. what a PITA

I haven't put it back together but I don't think i'm gonna put them back in. I had to put tape along the bumper cover just to keep from scratching it all to hell. If you don't put the bolts back in, the headlight still has 2 other bolts. I say screw those 2 bottom ones. It's almost a scenario where you gotta take the headlight out to get the bumper cover off but you gotta take the bumper cover off to get the headlight out. What a PIA!!!

On another note: I'm glad my car is already a manual. Sounds like you're just better off getting car that's already a manual.

[carltalon]

Right now Im in the middle off removeing my rear bumper. Notheing to hard so far. The pain in the ass would be the fact that Ive removed about 10 bolts so far and broke everyone. so after every bolt breaks I have to go over to the vice and get the bolt head out of the socket. I can't wait till I go to put it back on.

[scheides]

suspension techniques rear swaybar on a 1g w/ 4bolt rear end (actually putting the bar into position):

1 person: 1.5 hours
2 people: 5 mins

ahhh!

[Jakey]

Right now Im in the middle off removeing my rear bumper. Notheing to hard so far. The pain in the ass would be the fact that Ive removed about 10 bolts so far and broke everyone. so after every bolt breaks I have to go over to the vice and get the bolt head out of the socket. I can't wait till I go to put it back on.


Been there done that and definitely not fun. I ended up not securing the base of my bumper and only doing the sides and the top. It's a good thing I was using a cheap POS socket set because I damn near ruined a couple sockets trying to beat the heads out of the sockets.