2Gjunkie
Proven Member
- 92
- 39
- Aug 5, 2020
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Baltimore,
Maryland
Title says it. Car work rarely goes 100% by the book. Stuff happens, we get frustrated.
Write up about a time when your project went better than you expected, and restored your faith in your wrenching abilities. DSM or not.
Mine:
Upgrading the fuel pump on the GST. Everyone said to be prepared to cut the sheet
metal under the seat, because the upper line flare nut always got stuck, and cutting the metal was the only way to remove the pump assembly with the line attached. I put off the project for weeks because I hated the idea of cutting into pristine metal.
Finally got a new set of flare wrenches, got my tin snips ready, and *miraculously*, the upper flare nut breaks loose. No idea why I got lucky. It was pretty tight, but bracing the non-moving wrench against the body (so it wouldn’t twist the fixed line) allowed me to crank down on the moving wrench pretty hard and pop it loose.
Write up about a time when your project went better than you expected, and restored your faith in your wrenching abilities. DSM or not.
Mine:
Upgrading the fuel pump on the GST. Everyone said to be prepared to cut the sheet
metal under the seat, because the upper line flare nut always got stuck, and cutting the metal was the only way to remove the pump assembly with the line attached. I put off the project for weeks because I hated the idea of cutting into pristine metal.
Finally got a new set of flare wrenches, got my tin snips ready, and *miraculously*, the upper flare nut breaks loose. No idea why I got lucky. It was pretty tight, but bracing the non-moving wrench against the body (so it wouldn’t twist the fixed line) allowed me to crank down on the moving wrench pretty hard and pop it loose.