A pain in the rear called honda
 

why does honda have to make it so diffcult to work on their cars ? i was taking my engine mount out this morning and guess what ? it took me the hole morning just to get 2 screws out. it was a fairly easy job until i got to the bottom screw when i relised that i have to turn it from the right side of the mount, where all the cooling and oil lines are. it took me 3 hours just to have the thing unscrewed, when very simple it could have been put on the left side of the mount and in 5 minutes out, done, kaput. i wonder how the mechanics are dealing with crap like this. oh boy !! . i'll put in on thursday or friday after the custom mount dries out. and i wonder what am i gonna run into this time ?

sorry for the long post but i needed to vent it out

its cause we have compact cars. i knwo what you mean, i have needed to get my hand under the intake manifold to grab a droped screw because i didnt have enough room by the TB. thats was definitaly a pain

after my suspension gets done i won't touch it ( at least that's what i'm saying now)

Re: A pain in the rear called honda
 

i work do a mentorship at a mechanics and i can tell you hondas arent the hardest to work on. if the engineers who design the cars had to fix them it would be a whole different story.

Sounds like you guys just need the right tool for the job. i have no problems at all. If you want a pain is the ass work on an Eclipse.

work on a cadilac if you want to have fun. they suck so much

Go change the spark plugs on a LT1 F-Body and then complain. That hurts just thinking about it.

Max

is the trans am a v6 or v8. i know on some v6 gm's the plugs are accesible only from underneath the car.

what i was saying is that if the screws were from the other side i wouldn't have any complains about it. anyway it was easy but a full morning just to take 2 screws out is a lot of pain.

Update
 

i put the mount back in today and it took me less than one hour. i took the car for a testdrive and it seems ok, not a lot better than begor but i did not notice major engine movement in the bay. also i do not have any wheel hop when trying to move on wet asphalt. i gunned the mofo to the redline, and no hop. i guess that's a good sign.

one more question thou: does it make any difference if i do not have the heat shield on my manifold ? i really don't feel like putting it back on if there are no downsides of that.

put the heat shield on or you might melt your fan

Hondas are alot easier to work on then a lot of other cars..:yes:


Ill second that... Especially AWD Turbos..;)

the new celicas arnt nice either. installed a CAI on my friends.. definitely more painfull than mine