205 Jobs That You Hate Doing

[skinner2k3 3]

As of last weekend - Removing the old rubber mounts on the rear beam tube, happily never to that again. Didnt try the blow torch method mind.

[Paul_13 212 1 Cars]

One I missed off list is fitting an OMP roll cage, I swore to myself I'd never do it again but here I am fitting a mates at the weekend

[kyepan 291]

Wishbone bushes, not hard, but i've done it 4 times on this car, and am just plain bored of it.

[Tom Fenton 1,541]

As of last weekend - Removing the old rubber mounts on the rear beam tube, happily never to that again. Didnt try the blow torch method mind.

 

This is a twat of a job, I have now devised a method though, holesaw through, grind returned flange off one side, then I have made a press tool to press out both steel shells in a one-er.

 

OK as long as its stripped totally and off the car....

 

I now have any beam I plan to strip shotblasted first, they come to bits far easier and with much less hassle.

[Baz 421]

As of last weekend - Removing the old rubber mounts on the rear beam tube, happily never to that again. Didnt try the blow torch method mind.

 

Again, right tools (Blow torch & Air chisel) and it's a doddle, can be done in a few minutes, which really annoys people when they've been trying to remove them for hours!

[Simes 248 2 Cars]

Exhausts - with no ramp.

[trogboy 17]

I'm another one voting for taking out the interior plastics, especially the A-pillar covers and the internal wing mirror covers/trim. I can't ever seem to manage it without breaking a clip. Every spare you pick up seems to be missing the same ones.

[Simes 248 2 Cars]

I'm another one voting for taking out the interior plastics, especially the A-pillar covers and the internal wing mirror covers/trim. I can't ever seem to manage it without breaking a clip. Every spare you pick up seems to be missing the same ones.

 

I only do those in the summer - once it gets cold it all gets a bit brittle.

[brumster 135 1 Cars]

Wiring. Fitting a bias pedal box. And compressing the rear shocks to get them onto the bottom pins. That's about the most difficult I can think of in the context of 205s, but in the context of cars in general, they're all a piece of piss

 

I don't complain... I've worked with far worse...

[205_sunderland 4]

Door pins!!! the shell is always worn so bad that the standard replacement pin is like chucking sausage down a back alley so you have to try and jam a drill in tiny gap without chipping your paint as you drill the whole bigger

 

Removing red strips wit-out kinking them is also a nighmare

 

And the worst of all..although not 205 related.Taking a beam off a saxo vts.not expecting the sudden weight as it was hanging on the body by threads and petrol tank so as a result been sonic boomed in the face off it when my m8 leaned on the disk...i had a lump like a sausage off my face

[ORB 227 1 Cars]

I agree with Surgie, welding. It's very hard not to blow through the tin foil.

 

Tiger seal can hide loads!!

[harryskid 193]

Removing the stupid plastic petrol tank and exchaust manifolds!

[Phil H 16]

For me I hate doing clutch cables...seized at the box end and laying on my back trying to fix it onto the pedal afteer prising off the sound deadening clips that ping in your eyes.

 

I wire brush those 11mm driveshaft bolts and use a ratcet spanner...simples.

 

Also like to add how much I love reassembling driveshaft joints when all the needle bearings fall out on the floor and in the gaitor.

[Anthony 1,003]

For me I hate doing clutch cables...seized at the box end and laying on my back trying to fix it onto the pedal afteer prising off the sound deadening clips that ping in your eyes.

You're making life very difficult for yourself doing the pedal end that way.

 

Remove the nut and bolt that the clutch pedal pivots on and holds it in place, remove the pedal, pull the cable through, clip it on the pedal, and refit the pedal. Takes two minutes tops and no faffing around with the sound deadening clips or having to contort into strange positions.

[Baz 421]

 

Also like to add how much I love reassembling driveshaft joints when all the needle bearings fall out on the floor and in the gaitor.

 

Forgetting the PITA/Time aspect, i actually find that a little therapeutic.

 

F*ck knows why!!

[Petrolsniffer 3]

Can't say theres a job i've come across I don't like?

 

Although I do own a tu 205

[Cameron 16]

Forgetting the PITA/Time aspect, i actually find that a little therapeutic.

 

F*ck knows why!!

 

I'm with you on that, but only if you're intending to re-assemble them. If you're just doing a quick job when the knuckle drops off and all the needles fall onto the gritty garage floor / driveway it's a right PITA!

Edited August 26, 2011 by Cameron

[lewis205cti 12]

Anything with the rear beam. Aprart from removing it. The two manifoild exhaust bolts if they are rusted....

[peter 20]

I agree with the TU's being the easiest car to work on. ever.

[Tom Fenton 1,541]

One I have just thought of that can be awkward, getting the engine mount off the side of an 8v XU to do the cambelt. Even a short socket/ratchet is too long to get in.

[madspikes 41 1 Cars]

Mark me down for as another vote for refitting the gearbox whist the car is on axle stands! Oh the other job I hate is refitting the lower arms with some types of ploy bushing, the last lot I did were a total pain the backside.

 

Deep sockets, ratchet spanners, long socket extension bars and small hands help with most jobs....

 

I do enjoy working on the 205 when its not my daily driver... which it is now!

 

Mad.

[lemmingzappa 75 1 Cars]

Refitting a gearbox with the engine still fitted gets tiresome - literally - when you're trying to bench press the 'box back into place and it stubbornly refuses to locate the input shaft in the splines of the clutch plate while your strength saps and arms turn increasingly to jelly...

 

I hate this

[allye 530 3 Cars]

I agree with the TU's being the easiest car to work on. ever.

 

Agreed, cambelt in about an hour!

[james_pug 26 1 Cars]

Steering rack on a v6 205 without taking the sub frame off is probably the worst job I've ever done one a 205 I would of dropped the subframe but I'd just struggled putting it on.

 

 

Beam bushes aren't to bad atall if it's off the car, I holesaw the centre out (20 or 25) then cut the sleeve then hammer the lip up and knock it through, probably doesnt even take 10 min.

[SurGie 54]

I hate this

 

 

There's really no need to, with a make shift lift its well easy as Miles said. Its all about the input shaft needing a good little wiggle once its up against the fly wheel's splined hole, it goes straight in with a little help from wiping a bit of grease around the splines. Bare in mind the gearbox needs to be level with the engine, so it slips into the splines easier.