After a few oily jobs that went well recently, I though I'd treat the old girl to a shiny back door threshold (ooh er!)
Just a 30minute job I thought....
A few minutes with the drill taking the heads off the old rivets and off it came. Easy peasy.
But the door wouldn't shut, it was a few mm too low at the lock side. Bugger, and I have a spare wheel carrier that bolts though the door.
Big intake of breath then:
Unbolt the rear wheel carrier.
Adjust the door height with washers under the brass balls then hold the door up with thigh whilst wiggling the pins back in.
Tighten door hinge nuts and check - still too low. Bugger. Elongate the tub/hinge holes a few mm and try again - closes OK.
Now the wheel carrier doesn't fit back onto the door. Adjust the carrier? - the back of the carrier/chassis bolts are covered with wheel arch liners, bugger.
Drill the door plates to make it fit? Broke two drill bits because the overlap between the plates snagged them. Bugger.
Third drill bit just about did it.
4 hours.

So what's your longest easy job?

I had a small leak from the oil filter housing
had to remove the injector pipes oil filler pipes were stuck on bolts came out ok in the end
them I spend over 30 mins trying to get the old filter off in a vice
so basically 3-4 hours for a oli change ffs!

If you had a leek in the oil filter housing no wonder you had problems!!!

TheQ said:

If you had a leekView attachment 108608 in the oil filter housing no wonder you had problems!!!

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ha ha smart arse

I went to change the water pump on a 1600 ford cross flow when I was a spotty but keen yoof.
Engine ran like a dream btw.
One of the bolts snapped off in the block and I spent hours trying to get it out by drilling and using easy outs, fecked the block after trying to drill out the resulting broken easy out
Ended up fitting another lump from the scrappy 2 weeks and 2 pay packets later.
New engine burnt oil anorl.

I brought a land rover thinking I would buy it and just play in it. 4 years later I'm still constantly fixing it....

All of my jobs are like that

Another little delight today. The reverse light would only come on after a tap, so I thought I'd clean the bulb and holder connections. The wire broke off the power feed terminal almost as soon as I moved the bulb holder - it was riveted on in my case, so I couldn't just crimp a new connector on. Then it started raining. I managed to solder on a length of wire to the terminal, then solder this onto the original wire and heatshrink the join. Time for a pint.