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[clan chieftain]

The marina is not too bad. The most awkward part to change is the heater motor as you need to strip out half the dash. I always hated changing the brake master cylinder on the Morris 1000 until I discovered you could lever down the torsion bar to get the bolts out.
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[Rick]

A Mini's bypass hose, especially the solid type. Changing the rubber doughnuts on a GT6 Mk2 back end isn't much fun either!

RJ
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[Ray the rocker]

top of my list has to be starter motor on a citroen D series--strip half the car just to get a sighting !!! followed up by changing a clutch cable on a HA/HB/HC viva--you needed a universal joint in your wrist and one in the top of your arm !! you ended up with deep scratches the length of your arm.....cheers--ray the rocker....

[clan chieftain]

As far as I know you have to take the back off a Smart car to change the plugs
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[Inglewood]

The rear subframe on the Land Crab was pretty dire.

[ukdave2002]

The rear subframe forward mounts on Austin/Morris 1100/1300's, often an MOT failure... the subrame should be virtually removed.......or with brute force and some big leavers it is possible to persuade the new ones in with a lot less dismantling

Also headlamp bulbs on any French modern, it requires the loan of a small octopus

Dave

[JonV2]

Kingpins...

To get them out you use the following tools

Hammer
Bigger Hammer
Bigger hammer with two hands
Sledge Hammer
Car Jack with weight of car to press against.
prayer
blow torch
Bigger blow torch
forgetting how hot it is and touching it with your hand to steady your aim with the big hammer.
burn cream
Outsourcing to a machine shop with a press the size of a Kenworth.
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1950 MkV Jaguar Saloon (On the Road)
1968 MGB
1959 XK150

[baconsdozen]

[Bitumen Boy]

You might be surprised at the Smart car's hillclimbing ability, if not its out and out top speed (whatever that may be). I was driving once between Abergavenny and Brynmawr, where the road goes up a long and fairly steep hill, in the Triumph Acclaim I used to have. Now a manual Acclaim is no slouch on hills and I'd just passed all the moderns in sight (a regular occurence) with 70 on the clock - and yet a wee Smart car came flying up the hill, passed me as if I was standing still and disappeared from sight. I was impressed, but I still wouldn't want to drive round in something that looks like an an overgrown pram

[Jason]

[V8 Nutter]

What about the clutch on an early Ford V8, the rear axle has to come out. I believe the official Ford time to change the clutch on a Pilot, for a skilled mechanic with the help of an apprentice was over 8 hours.
For something more modern and even more impossible the two rear plugs on a 90's Camaro/Firebird

[Roger-hatchy]

I have been told it's an engine out to change the spark plugs on some of the early twin plug Porsche engines.

[Riley Blue]

As the years advance any part that requires kneeling, bending over or lying under becomes increasingly more difficult to fit

[Brian M]

Not found anything too difficult on the Amazon, but on my latest Jeep Grand Cherokee.......

Each diesel injector has a washer where it is screwed into the cylinder head, these cost 20p each. For cylinders 1 - 4 two minutes each, to do cylinder no 5, the engine has to be dropped 2-3 inches which involves disconnecting driveshafts etc. The dealership quoted £4-500!!!
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1970 Volvo Amazon and 1978 Safari 15-4 Caravan
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[D4B]

When working in a motor factors in the 1980's, one of our regular customers always used to return one spark plug for a refund from his Reliant Robin...... because it was too difficult for him to change as it was behind the distributor