Ok I just got done doing a brake booster last week and its a toss up between the top nut on the inside of the car on the right which only will let you turn it 1/4 to 1/8 a turn at a time :tapemouth or the damn passenger side bumper bolt next to the tank which has similar qualities. Anybody have any other favorites?

Flange joining the tailshaft to diff.

Ok I just got done doing a brake booster last week and its a toss up between the top nut on the inside of the car on the right which only will let you turn it 1/4 to 1/8 a turn at a time :tapemouth or the damn passenger side bumper bolt next to the tank which has similar qualities. Anybody have any other favorites?

That passenger side bumper bolt is the worst one I've come across so far. I cast my vote for it, haven't attempted the other one you mentioned.

The steering coupler is mine. Had to replace the old rubber one with the urithane one from Victoria British. Spent about 3 hours on it because I had put it back together wrong! :stupid: :stupid:

My vote goes to the hose clamps on the internal heater hoses under the dash. Can't even get the screwdriver in there.

My vote goes to the hose clamps on the internal heater hoses under the dash. Can't even get the screwdriver in there.

try pulling the heater core without pulling the whole housing around it, thats a real bitch but better than pulling the whole unit at once.

I can now do a heater core swap in just over an hour, and that includes pulling the glove box, fan, air intake assembly, and pinching and pulling the hoses so I dont make a mess, then reassembling the whole thing.

You tend to get good at some thing once you've done it twice already.

The other worst bolt has to be the BIG 15/16th bolt on the front part of the lower control arm where the big new polyurathane bushings go, I've yet to find a torque wrench that will go on there with a socket attached or not. I have to use a box wrench w/ another wrench attached to properly torque it down.

well I my back and neck say brake booster but after just now getting the back bumper on from cleaning it my left hand says definately that bumper bolt

Has to be that bumper bolt Jeff,

Might be O.K. for a Japanese gentleman's tiny little hands but it's pure pain for big hands like mine. I had real trouble getting my hand back out of there. Bled like a stuck pig from the skin scraped off the back of my right hand and was in mortal fear of slicing my wrist. OHHH, the things we do for those we love. :stupid:

Rick.

my favorite is the door mirror. i have to use a big flat head screw driver and connect it to an extention arm of a wrench and connect that to the correct sized piece. it sucks

Worse for me are the bolts that attach the front fenders to the chassis down at the bottom near the doors. They're not hard to reach but they're always rusted through and snap off. Removing the broken off screw is the really hard part because it's very close to the floor and you have to work upside down.

Implementing Escanlon's drainage system shoudl fix that though.

I hate rusty bolts. They are pains

Always put a little grease on your bolts if you can, it reduces the chance of rust and gives you a more accurate torque.