Porsche Air Oil Seperator - What a PITA

[morfiend]

Also Chevy Asto van had one plug in almost impossible location.

  Was it the 3.8 front driver for chevs?   There were many built that you had no choice but to reef the motor over on it's side to get the rear plug!

  The astro was an easy fix,a bimetal hole saw made it so you only had trouble the first time you removed that darn plug!


   

[USRanger]

Poor guy.  We feel for ya.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

  Was it the 3.8 front driver for chevs?   There were many built that you had no choice but to reef the motor over on it's side to get the rear plug!

  The astro was an easy fix,a bimetal hole saw made it so you only had trouble the first time you removed that darn plug!


    

My parents had an all wheel drive EXT LT 8-seater version. The rear plug gave great grief. The engine was ruined by the mechanic, he installed a wrong type of spark plug that was too long. 2000 bucks later the engine was still knocking and ate gas like nuts. Finally electrical problems forced us to let the car go. We all loved the van if we overlook the heavy fuel consumption (gas is 8,9 USD/gallon down here).

[FLOOB]

Have to remove the compressor on the v12 xjs to get to two of the plugs. Also have to remove the rear end to do the back brakes.

[Skuzzy]

Ahhh, remember the old Impalas you had to either remove the passenger fender or cut a hole through the steel wheel liner, in order to replace the heater core.

Or how about the 69/70 Shelby GT500 and changing the driver side rear spark plugs?  Yes, unbolt motor mount and jack up engine.

The good ole days.

[ROC]

One thing about toying with cars is that something else will come along to make the hard part look easy.
Swapped out the oil separator after some creative new yoga poses.  Cleaning out the intake, throttle body and the rest of the intake system of oil that blew by the failed part makes the AOS seem like it was too easy

You'd think they would learn after years of customer complaints about making the simple things in life far more complicated than it needs to be.  I've got a new Ford Escape.  Easy job to tune it up.  Small little issue when it came to what has always been a very simple task of swapping out the pcv valve.  Not on the valve cover?  Noooo, let's put the stupid thing under the exhaust manifold.  The parts guy just grinned when I picked up the parts and asked what the heck they were thinking 

[Widewing]

If you've never serviced a Sunbeam Tiger (260 ci or 289 ci), you have never experienced true frustration.

[Widewing]

Ahhh, remember the old Impalas you had to either remove the passenger fender or cut a hole through the steel wheel liner, in order to replace the heater core.

Or how about the 69/70 Shelby GT500 and changing the driver side rear spark plugs?  Yes, unbolt motor mount and jack up engine.

The good ole days.

The Tiger is worse... Much worse.

Also, GM has not forgotten the old days. A co-worker has a 2010 Malibu. He needed to replace a headlight bulb. Here's the process.....

1. Open the hood and remove the plastic cover above the radiator (14 screws).

2. Jack up the car and remove the wheel (five lug nuts).

3. Remove the wheel-well liner (15 screws and pop-rivets).

4. This exposes two bolts that hold the bumper in place; remove these bolts and slide off the end of the bumper.

5. Now, you can reach the three bolts that hold in the headlight assembly; remove the headlight assembly and replace the bulb.

6. Replace everything (29 screws, nuts, bolts, and pop-rivets).

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[Skuzzy]

I had forgotten about the Tiger.  My neighbor had one of those with a 289 in it.  Whoa!

Oh, I am sure there are many of those kinds of problems with cars.  I am over them.  Just going to build my own and move along.

[morfiend]

 I never worked on a tiger but heard lots of cursing from the mech who worked on the one that came into the shop!

  Roy,which motor was in the shelby that needed the motor mount trick? Oh and did you have to remove the montycarlo bars when you did this?

  My Dad had a MkIII conti with the 460 in it,as big as that boat was there were many tight places in the engine compartment,even if you could hide a VW under it!



   

[Widewing]

I never worked on a tiger but heard lots of cursing from the mech who worked on the one that came into the shop!

  Roy,which motor was in the shelby that needed the motor mount trick? Oh and did you have to remove the montycarlo bars when you did this?

  My Dad had a MkIII conti with the 460 in it,as big as that boat was there were many tight places in the engine compartment,even if you could hide a VW under it!



   

The Tiger has the V8 stuffed so far back that the rear spark plugs are inaccessible. To get to them, you have to remove the driveshaft. Then, unbolt the rear tanny crossmember. Then you have to remove the boot from the gearshift. Now, you have to pull down on the transmission, to pivot the motor on the mounts. Once you have it low enough, you shove a wood block in place to keep it there. Still, you need a ratchet with a 3" extension and two universal joints to get the old plugs out. To get new ones in, you must push some rubber tubing over the spark plug, and carefully try to get the new plug to thread correctly. Can't afford to cross-thread either of them. Once you get the plugs threaded in, reverse all previous instructions. Takes several hours, if you're lucky. Now remember, back in the 60s, there was no such thing as 100,000 mile platinum spark plugs. You changed them every major tune-up, which was about every 12,000 miles.

[Golfer]

And I was cursing at a rusted in place wheel bearing hub assembly on my Silverado...

At no point in those steps do fire and big hammers make an appearance. I should feel fortunate.