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From: Charlotte, NC
lets see I was drunk and hooked power to ground and ground to power on my amp and about caught my trunk on fire....
my civics passenger window jumped the guide 3 times so I had to keep taking the door off, cutting my hand on some screws for my crossover, and realigning the window....
i had to pull a dead bird out from my brothers legend that he just bought, grabbed onto it with a pair of needle nose pliers and accidently ripped its legs out, only after we washed the car, so as soon as that happened a nice thing of cold water (which i thought was bird) hit me evoking a 13 year old school girl scream out of me....
i dropped my resonator pipe from my civic on my head
cant think of any others right now
my civics passenger window jumped the guide 3 times so I had to keep taking the door off, cutting my hand on some screws for my crossover, and realigning the window....
i had to pull a dead bird out from my brothers legend that he just bought, grabbed onto it with a pair of needle nose pliers and accidently ripped its legs out, only after we washed the car, so as soon as that happened a nice thing of cold water (which i thought was bird) hit me evoking a 13 year old school girl scream out of me....
i dropped my resonator pipe from my civic on my head
cant think of any others right now
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From: Brisbane
Originally Posted by vader1,Aug 22 2006, 10:03 AM
I changed the "Hose from hell" as it is known among MR2 turbo owners. It is a tiny coolant hose that comes out of the block I forget what it connects to, basically a $4 part. It is between the backside of the engine between the block and the bulhead for the passenger compartment. It blows at about 100-130k miles on average. I decided to replace it out of preventative maintenance at 120K.
You have two choices, pull the whole head or contort like crazy and remove all kinds of stuff but work in space only a three year olds hands can fit. It took me ten hours of hand slicing work, much of which I spent upside down. In order to reach a couple bolts, I had to lean over the car, rest one shoulder on the engine a reach as far as I could with my legs up in the air. The bolts, upon reassembly were very easy to misthread so it took a couple dozen tries.
When the work was all done I find that not only do I need a couple weeks in traction (not literally) but the hose itself was in fine shape and could have lasted another 50,000 miles easy. I sold the car about 5,000 miles later.
The neighbor kids learned a whole bunch of new words that week.
You have two choices, pull the whole head or contort like crazy and remove all kinds of stuff but work in space only a three year olds hands can fit. It took me ten hours of hand slicing work, much of which I spent upside down. In order to reach a couple bolts, I had to lean over the car, rest one shoulder on the engine a reach as far as I could with my legs up in the air. The bolts, upon reassembly were very easy to misthread so it took a couple dozen tries.
When the work was all done I find that not only do I need a couple weeks in traction (not literally) but the hose itself was in fine shape and could have lasted another 50,000 miles easy. I sold the car about 5,000 miles later.
The neighbor kids learned a whole bunch of new words that week.
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