It seems that whenever i work on my car, i spend more time trying to figure out how to remove rusted / rust-welded on nuts and bolts than anything else. i just spent the entire morning trying to remove the bolts that attach the muffler to the pipe, and then trying to remove the O2 sensor. every time i look at my car, the hardware seems to rust before my eyes. this makes working on my car a never ending battle against the evil forces of nature and chemistry, and against a wall of personal frustration. can it be that ahrd to find hardware the won't rust itself into new, hitherto unknown materials that the DOD would love to make tanks out of? should i only be playing with a one-color rubik's cube? do others feel the same sense of frustration when a 1 hour job turns into a multi day ordeal of broken hardware, tools, late night trips to out of the way hardware stores in a vain attempt to get a bolt or nut to do its job? i am pretty much ready to quit the once-upon-a-time fun hobby and just buy a new car and let the dealer take care of all the pain and build balsa wood gliders. at least they don't rust, and the tools for working with them can be as simple as my fingernail.

p.s. i now have the O2 sensor (with 3 nicely rounded sides) soaking in WD40 in the hopes that i can get it off. i have been trying to reattach the old exhaust system so that i can go and pass emissions. GRRRRRRRRRRRRR


Modified by vactor at 1:00 PM 8/12/2006

 

rusted on bolts FTL

 

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bolts that dont even resemble a bolt; and are now just a randomly shaped blob of rust ftw.

 

no kidding. i wish i could cuss them off. they would not have a chance against me

 

frozen lca bolts are also tons of fun. either pb blaster or cut them off

 

Pb Blaster FTW! Its the best I use it all the time. And invest in a small propane torch heat helps hella lot.

 

if im using a wrench most of the time i got 5 cans of pbr and a rubber mallet in hand to help. ahaha i was doing front rotors and pads on my 91 da, looks like they have been done for about a decade almost.....anywhoo im having to drill out the two hub screws on my driver side because there so rusted in and i stripped the heads. it also took me like 102348723905783490 hours to get the caliper bolts off. god i hate rust. faux that ****

 

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hahhahahahha

What usually happens to me is i'm missing the correct tool, so I end up trying to screw around with the wrong tool and it just makes everything so much harder. During a 2-day lengthy drama of projects that included a headgasket, timing belt, and some axles, (nothing that should be that difficult) finally I got fed up with the tool fiasco after my 15th trip to the auto parts store, and said if I don't have the right tools I'll just forget it and buy a different car. Grabbed the credit card, bought myself a good compressor, set of air tools, an decent impact wrench, a 2-ft breaker bar, and a load of misc tools I'd been missing. No more problems getting bolts off anymore, and the days of letting them soak in PB Blaster are over. I've worked on some rusted exhausts and the impact will either drive the bolt right out or break it off. No more trying to stick a screwdriver in the flywheel while I use the breaker bar to loosen the crank pulley, or spraying axle /exhaust nuts, impact does it all.

So now I have $700 in tools out on the VISA, but it was well worth it

 

PB Blaster.

 

when i i have to work on a part of my car that is rusted and seized up, i will blast it with pb blaster the night before and let it soak. then hit it again in the morning. works every time. breaker bar is your friend too

 

Rounded off Guudness!!






did someone say "rust" ?? why yes, i DO have rusty crappy hardware


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stock header back on the car. i thought i was halfway to getting my car smogged! boy was i about to eat a double helping of shut up cake!!

hole rusted in the muffler? that's a "feature" so you can hear vteck kick yo!! waaa aaaa WAAAAAAAAA!!!! awww YEAH! i gots vtech !





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I have owned many different types of cars. The Honda products have always had the worst hardware. Especially on the brakes and suspension.

 

see, all i wanna do is put the stock exhaust abck on. oh, and as an added bonus, i found the hole in my muffler that yes, more rust, caused!! yay!! more money spent for the privilige of living in the midwest as you can see, i cannot get the O2 sensor off, and as it is made of low grade recled shasta cola cans, the edges round off perfectly when any pressure is applied by a wrench. this is in accordance with EPA section 21-3(a)D(1)*3 that states that any emissions device must be installed and manufactured in such a way that attempted removal of said part destroys the part and the part it is attached to. bravo honda on epa compliance!! w00t also, see the additional hardware i have soaking in WD40, as when it came off, the cacophony of shrieking metal would leave AC/DC fans reliving times of yore when they actually ahd hearing. needless to say, this ~1.5 hour project will now probably take me more than a week as now i need to find an O2 sensor somewhere, buy it, and get it shipped to me. werd!


Modified by vactor at 1:25 PM 8/12/2006

 

hahah theres always more work to do then you wanna

 

wouldn't mind doing more work as long as i could get closer to completion. nothing i can do right now other than wait

 

if this was me id buy a new header and new o2. leave the old 2 together and sell em on ebay for $1.43 +$80 shipping.

 

i don't need a new header, i just need the O2 to use on the stock cat so i can go to emissions.

 

Why does your sig say you have an ITR when the car in the pics is a GSR?

 

i have 2 cars. one i never drive, and one that is sitting on jackstands as i cannot get it to emissions. and only 1 garage door, where car number 2 is sitting in front of LOL

 

 

ohh nice, man I would say expletive it. Buy a new car and keep that ITR. Thanks for proving me wrong didnt mean for it to come out like a jackass.

 

man, i wish i could read that photochop handwriting. yes, that is the ITR on the left. the other writing i cannot read LOL

 

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Hey .. that was MSpaint dammit .. lol

Says "ITR .. moo .. omghi2u"

I have undiagnosed ADD, sorry haha.

 

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Man i hate that ****.