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some great stories here.
my most loathed job was reinstalling the engine on an '82 air-cooled VW westfalia parked facing uphill on gravel. pushing the loaded engine hoist was a nightmare. that one is my fault though.
next was trying to replace a CV axle on the same van. it's a big enough PITA to start with, what with the allen bolts for the hub being so far inside the trailing arm. what made it worse was that the bolts wound up being a dreaded cousin of the allen bolt, the 12-pointed star bolt. i stripped almost every one until i finally got one out and managed to clean all the dirt off of it and see why the standard tool for the job fit perfectly but ruined each bolt. i guess someone thought the 12-pointed star bolts were an upgrade.
next would be any other job on that ****ing van, or any other VW i have had the displeasure of working on.
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