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Having 'one of those days'
Slimy38 - 9/9/13 at 07:48 PM

I've been stripping more of the donor, this evening was separating the two subframes by removing the powerplant frame attaching the two subframes (MX5 donor). The rear bolts were trouble, but I eventually got them open. Then I moved to the front ones...

They were bolted on to the gearbox by what looked like quite substantial nuts. So I got a breaker bar and started pulling. Absolutely no movement. Next job was to give them a scrub and see what was going on. It turned out they were welded to a plate of some kind. It looked really odd, I'd never seen anything quite like it. Would I have to break the welds? Would I have to chop up the plate?

Ten minutes of thinking later, I wondered what it would have been like if it was still on the car. Then I realised I would actually be going in from UNDERNEATH...

Yep, I had actually been able to undo the captive nuts that were deliberately welded in place, when I should have been undoing the bolts that went into them from underneath. And guess what? They came out first time...


mookaloid - 9/9/13 at 08:28 PM


fimi7 - 9/9/13 at 09:51 PM

Been there done that.

Spent a couple hours late one sunday night fighting with a set of uprights off the car. Then early monday morning was awake with the thought, hmmmm???, could I have been tightening instead of loosening?

Ran downstairs, into the garage at 3am, with a simple one hand pull the stupid thing came right off.. GRRRRRR!!!!

Sometimes you just gotta know when to take a break.