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One time I spent an hour trying to get off this nut on the susension. I gave it everything I had, breaker bars, impact wrench, everything. It was really pissing me off, so I finally took a break and when I came back I looked at the nut and realized it was welded to the frame, the bolt came out the other side! I felt like a complete dumbass.

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i took my intake manifold off to clean the inside and injectors, etc., when i put it back on, i snagged one of the injector plug wires between the head and i.m., then had to undo it all and re torque the hard to reach bolts, then i had snagged the coolant bypass hose between the i.m. and the brace that goes to the back of the block, had to undo and re torque once again, oh yeah, i also broke my knock sensor in the process. got it all back together and had a cel that i figured was for my broken knock sensor, so my car ran like ass for two weeks, finally checked my codes and i had one for the knock sensor, tps, and iacv, well i never even plugged my tps back in, and i had a small vacuum leak throwing the iacv cel because i re used my t.b. gasket ::) the only reason i even did this is because it was not suppose to cost anything (except i.m. gasket), and i just felt like working on my car. ended up costing me 100 bucks, 100 head aches, and my car ran like ass for a month. the sad thing is, i had done this before :P

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read the post called stupid mother fucker

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I pulled the dizzy on my 89 supra turbo after having to remove all the charge piping to get to it and didn't mark its position. I spent the next couple of hours putting everything back together, try to start car, pull everything apart, turn the dizzy one-two clicks, try again. fun stuff, I won't forget that again.

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I took my distributer off to polish it(make it shiney :P) and in the prosess some how broke a piece of the magnet that rotates and tell the I.C.M what the cam is doing.....it cost me $350 for a new dizzy at the dealer.
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i bet its still not polished.. lol

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NO its not.I put it on verry carefully and left it alone...now im even scared to set my timing :P

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Doing a head swap, i put the intake mani on the head outside the car, torque the head on then, realized i forgot to put the IM gasket on, kicked myself in the face, then spent the next hour getting the IM off and on without pulling the head. i cant beleive how much of a bitch honda made that.

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Replacing a head gasket for the third time or so I went to line it up with the block to set the head on and torque to spec and it didn't line up. I stared at it for a few minutes and moved it around and the fucker was not going to fit. I went to the auto parts store and made them take the fucker back even though it clearly said "NON-REFUNDABLE IF OPENED" in bold letters all over the fucker. I bitched and cried that it was the wrong head gasket and sat with the guy going over numbers and ---- until he gave up and gave me my money back. I went to another auto parts store and got a new gasket. Went home and it didn't fit either. I thought "WTF?". I stared at it again and moved it around trying to see what was wrong and why it wouldn't fit. I flipped the gasket over and it fit just fine. :-[ ::)
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went throught the agony of changing my whole harness to obd1 when i switched over to the d16z6 when it turns out i did not have to . NOw i have to a/c no heater no nothing i had to rig everything :-[ but the girls like the gutted look. :P