Why did mazda make this car sooooo hard to work on! I have one bolt on my oil pan i cannot get off even if my life depended on it...........

 

thats not really the carmakers fault

moral: loosen all bolts before removing any of them


also know what you are unbolting, i almost unbolted my camshaft cover when doing my spark plugs on my saab once

 

Well i do know what i'm doing, i didn't mean get off, i meant i can't get to the bolt, so its the makers fault buddy

 

You should try and work on a VG30DETT 300ZX...


-Ted

 

I bet you can get to it somehow... maybe a special tool or something. I don't understand why they would make something impossible to work on.

 

You've gotta lift the engine up a bit to reach a lot of those bolts... it's not so hard since you have to take off the mount that bolts onto the oil pan anyway.

 

HINT: the oil pan was not designed to be accessible with the engine mounted in the engine bay


-Ted

 

OMFG you are not bullshitting... That's about the biggest load of impossible CRAP to work on EVER!!!

BTW ever see the guy who dropped one in an S13 chassis? Way to make it even HARDER to work on buddy!

 

LOLZ

 

I find the Fc very easy to work on. One you remove all the unnessesary crap, you have all the space in the world.

 

+1 this car is pie. not that i've ever worked on anything else, but so far, easy, i gotta do my oil pan soon, it leaks . . . i have ratcheting box wrenches so i think i'll be set . . .
did ou un do the motor/tranny mounts and raise the engine a bit?

 

Hah! Try working on a 944. The engine is stuffed in there so tight they had to lube the sides to get it in. Practically anything other than an oil change and you have to take the engine out. I almost laughed the first time I looked at the engine bay of an RX-7... there's more airspace than engine.

 

We had to remove my girlfriend's engine in her Olds Aurora to change the AC compressor and idler pulley...

 

Try messing with a Fiero with a 350 packed in the back of it...hahah... it dosent have enough room back there with the v6 let alone a v8.....

 

try a timing belt on a Mitsu VR4 3.0DOHC TT

 

Aight, haha, i guess I'll try all the engines, but hey its my first time working on an Rx7 like this, and yes I did raise the engine.............

 

The RX-7 has to be one of the easiest cars ever produced to work on...Lots of room in the engine bay, especially when the car is a base model.

The trick to getting the oil pan bolts is to raise the engine an inch or so, then use a universal swivel 10MM socket on the front bolts. A swivel extension won't work as it's too large. To reinstall, thead them in by hand and then use the swivel to tighten to 8 Ft-LBS.

 

Can I see what the tool looks like? I've raised the engine and I still can't get in there, so i gave up and i'm starting to to tighten them all up once again, so i can drive it, I was planning on just taking it into pineapple racing and having them do it for me, and pick it up on friday or so

 

I'm going to try one more time tomorrow before i give up totally........

 

I enjoy the easy of working on my FC. My other car is a Toyota Celica All Trac.

Its an 88 with the 2nd gen All Trac motor (3S-GTE, that Toyota also put in MR2-Ts)
This is a pic of my engine bay, with the TMIC removed, bettery relocated to the back and a straight intak installed. And a lot of other stuff off. This was the afternoon of the latest turbo swap, and it was still crammed as hell in there.

 

yup my friends 300zx is hell to work on.

 

If you think an FC is hard to work on I'm sure I could come up with a few bills to take if off your hands

I've done the 300ZX, and I've got a junker 86 cleica, but the stupidest thing I've seen is getting the tranny out of a S10. The instructions from the maual say you have to raise the BODY off the car 6-10 inches to get to the top 2 bolts.

 

1986 Porsche 911 Targa.

I win. In the Bible it even said that He created the 86 911 Targa to be the bane of man's mechanical existence on the planet. I swear....

Multiple HOURS to change the plugs. I needed TWO different tools in different stages to remove and replace each plug with the motor in.

I don't even want to talk about the oil sending unit I replaced. I still curl into a ball and cry at night thinking about what that car did to me.

 

FC's are the easiest car Ive ever worked on,..

 

or a turbo conversion awd converion and engine swap.

i about +32nd that.

I love my 3kgt and all but these rx7's roomy engine bay and easy access areas make this motor a dream to work on.


thread starter: if you "knew what you were doing, you wouldnt be beeyatching in here"