worst thing you ever had to fix on your 3gee

[buds302]

Haha well so far the worst has been replacing the damn crank. I just don't have enough time to work on it and it seems like I run into one problem after another.

hey jim did you ever find the right size bolt you needed?? i would have went to the j-yard and got it but i havent had the time to do it i might make it next week. hey what size did you need again? it was the 17 mm right? or was it the 19?

[Versanick]

When I was backing out of my friends' driveway, my upper control arm FELL out of the fender well. The whole area was rusted and busted. I took it to a welder and he welded it back on.

The other worst thing (tied) was my entire right side suspension, from the lower arm, castor rod, and everything in between from smacking a curb at 50MPH... man that hurt... after spending $120 at the junkyard in new parts, almost nothing fit, because my FRAME (unibody) was crunched 3"+ in. I took it to a shop to get it pulled. But that was the worst mess I'd ever tried to fix. Sukc

[SephirXV]

This is now known forevermore as "the bitch bolt"

I hear that.

[Deadhead]

well, i've not gotten into that stuff too much yet, but the worst thing i had to do was probabaly backflushing the radiator. I had to get the lower radiator hose off of the housing.... it was stuck and i didn't have a good tool to get it off, i had to use my brute strength lol. took me about 20 minutes just trying to get the damn thing off

[gp02a0083]

replacing the drivers side axel, tried everything to get the lower control arm un done but the pin fused to the bushings and such also the power sttering line on the lxi goes behind the engine and wraps around the engine 3/4's of the way not to mention with the tight space and metal lines it wasa bitch

[ShimriC]

For me its everything ive ever had to do to that damn car, especially the alternator,. it was originally planned to be a days worth of work 2 max,. turned out it took almost a week. i thought i could just yank everything out of the engine bay and pull it out from there but that wasnt the case,. i had to take the drivers side axel just to get to the thing. Then i had to change my thermostat,. i thought that would take a couple of hours,. that ended up being a week. the stupid bolts broke off into the block! I had to get my step dad to get someone at his job to bore them out. and hes so slow with stuff. THEN! changing the down pipe you talk about pissing me off. I had to take off the entire exhaust. then i couldnt get the bolts to come off the pipe,. so i had to go out and buy a tool that forces them off(forgot the name). that project lasted almost a month. i dono why i like these cars so much,. they seem to really piss me off. then after all that the damn engine let go. and i had to go through another bad engine just to get to a good one,. that took almost a half a year. 3geez rule, but there a pain in the arse to work on.

[carotman]

Well, nothing was that painful on the car honestly..

Maybe the EFI conversion was a bit of a pain but it's not that bad.

[FyreDaug]

Well now, I have to replace a bolt that connects the lower control arm to the chassis. Thats gonna be a bitch. Head is sheared off, I'm actually sending it to a mechanic right now, I cant deal with it. I'm gonna smash something on that car soon.

[1ajs]

the hardest thing to do is undo the lower bolts on the intake manifold because you can't get at them took us 5 hours at home to get the botem bolts off and 5 hours to take the same bolts off at the recer not to metion pulling te fuel injection system off the car at the recors to get at the bults but the parts in side the cab for some one els to take don't you hate it when you go out there to get something to find that part was butcherd bye the preiuse person cause they don't know wtf they are doing

[HostileJava]

Please next time in english, and try to use these things -> .........

[carotman]

Well now, I have to replace a bolt that connects the lower control arm to the chassis. Thats gonna be a bitch. Head is sheared off, I'm actually sending it to a mechanic right now, I cant deal with it. I'm gonna smash something on that car soon.

Yeah thinking of this, this was probably the worst thing I had to do to the car too.

[im_shad]

Everytime I have touched my car with a wrench has been a nightmare.

Replace thermostat, bolts break off in the block

Do the rear shocks, and the bolts in that heavy duty rubber shit break out, then I had to drill out all the rubber out, to knock out the whole mount, and replace as necessary.

Pull motor to do rear main oil seal, something gets fuct in the harness and my carb lost all power, had to hot wire it

The list goes on, i hate my car, i hate 3geez but yet am still attracted to them.

[Ichiban]

heheheheh!

i cut out and weld repaired the following:
-both rocker panels
-one quarter panel (other one is on its way)
-multiple floor parts (the seams always rot out, never the middle of a panel)
-one front and one rear shock tower
-the entire rear frame rail on the drivers side and a large portion of the inner fender in the rear
-straightened the rad support (took about 4 hours of dragging the car sideways through a field with my toyota pickup)
-i'm sure there's more

after nearly three months of body work, mechanical is a joy now. so many hours of welding on paper thin rusty sheet metal has left me cross-eyed and stupid.

[cubert]

heheheheh!

i cut out and weld repaired the following:
-both rocker panels
-one quarter panel (other one is on its way)
-multiple floor parts (the seams always rot out, never the middle of a panel)
-one front and one rear shock tower
-the entire rear frame rail on the drivers side and a large portion of the inner fender in the rear
-straightened the rad support (took about 4 hours of dragging the car sideways through a field with my toyota pickup)
-i'm sure there's more

after nearly three months of body work, mechanical is a joy now. so many hours of welding on paper thin rusty sheet metal has left me cross-eyed and stupid.

this is the kind of stuff i shouldt be reading when im this tired


Yea..the passenger axle wasnt much fun to dothing was handing on for dear life..but other than that it wasnt too bad...

[BMS]

the biggest thing that i've ever done on the accord were all four upper balljoints. it wasn't hard per se, but it was time consuming and tiring and expensive.

[89AccordLX2dr]

I've done both c/v's, rear upper ball joints, oilpan, parking brake cable, front lower ball joint, fuel filters (on the drivers side btw, not by the black box). Hardest fix, was the Oilpan project, oilpan itself was easy enough, but the exhaust bolts at the manifold to collector were the BITCHBOLTS ROYAL!! First one came off fine, second one the nut rounded off, the third broke the stud. Had to chissel the one nut off, so I had two studs to replace, the one I could get out, the other? Had to take it to shop where it took the exhaust specialist 6 attempts at welding a nut on the stud and twisting the stud out. Then I had to special order new studs from Honda. As for every other project, no major problems. But I have to do the master cylinder tomorrow? Assuming the lines will twist when I try to loosen them from the cylinder, I'll (most likely) have to run new lines (which the fronts need anyways) but I don't want to do lines until I have time, need the car to get to work. Timing every light and keeping 30 car lengths away from anyone is getting on my patience, I think I need brakes!!

[lostforawhile]

heheheheh!

i cut out and weld repaired the following:
-both rocker panels
-one quarter panel (other one is on its way)
-multiple floor parts (the seams always rot out, never the middle of a panel)
-one front and one rear shock tower
-the entire rear frame rail on the drivers side and a large portion of the inner fender in the rear
-straightened the rad support (took about 4 hours of dragging the car sideways through a field with my toyota pickup)
-i'm sure there's more

after nearly three months of body work, mechanical is a joy now. so many hours of welding on paper thin rusty sheet metal has left me cross-eyed and stupid.

I forgot the joys of working on cars in the north I was born and raised orginally in extreme northeast Ohio, thank god my car is a southern car. i spend many hours growing up fixing beater cars with chicken wire and bondo i forget,do they salt the roads in BC or do they use gravel and sand? everyone used to steal street signs and make floor pans from them. my buddy got caught because he was too lazy to paint over the 55 miles per hour and a cop saw the numbers through the holes at a road block. they were trying to catch the sign stealers.

['A20A3']

i would say removing the EGR pipe, the intake manifold, and the head would probably the pain in the ass jobs. all 3 are related too.

Word. I'm doing this right now and I can definitely vouch for that.

[Ichiban]

...there might in fact be road sign in my floor pan

[rick_spiff]

Two words...

H22A swap.

New front crossmember, modified engine mount, modified rear crossmember, new exhaust routing, hacked together distributor cap, new CAI, modified firewall, REPLACED HEATER CORE ($&*&!!*%&$^!), new LXi front suspension, new master cylinder, splice in PGM-FI electical system into carb accord body, replaced gas tank, re-mounted battery... and that's the SHORT list.

By the way, does anyone have a stick welding machine for sale? This is on hold until I finish fabbing up the front crossmember.

Oh yeah, second hardest thing to fix: Wiring fault in the A/C system... in 108 degree F heat.

[Ichiban]

i don't think theres anything on a honda that you can stick weld! i haven't used mine for probably 2 years but i don't really want to part with it, i was gonna use it to weld my header tubes to the flange, to get the penetration, you know.

its funny out here they spread the salt down the middle of the highway, so every vehicle over 10 years old is mint on the passengers side and rotten on the drivers. most dealers and warehouses are full of parts for the right side only!

[rick_spiff]

I get ya. And yes, I've tried to stick weld on the Honda itself, but this time I need to build a new crossmember. Out of 1/8" steel. It'll work good, but the only machine I have access to I can only get on the weekends and it's over 20 miles away. Difficult to say the least.

I'm going to keep saving, route my new fuel lines, and if I have the cash together by the end of this month, get a buzz box and start on the *easy* stuff. Heh.

[alberto]

Well guys I can say I still havent fix the problem the cluch for some reson die's on me abouth evry year or so I meen 3 trany's and 4 cluches and the last one has been the longest lasting one a act cluch its on there for 14 monts the pedal feels low but it does drive just fine but when it gos out it allwas star frome 5th geer on down.

[A18A]

i hated doing the following jobs:

aligning pop-up headlights
power steering high pressure hose
swapping windscreens
aligning doors
digital climate control conversion / anything climate control related
installing the fuel tank
and i hate installing tow bars

[ChaseR]

Im about to do my heater core and I am getting scared.