Fuhaxian
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So, I'm a new Jeep owner, in fact, this is my first vehicle.
Anyways, as regular maintenance requires, and being a second owner for a Jeep with such high mileage, I decided to replace both my u-joints being that the left side broke. You know, might as well replace both rather then just one. I finished repairing the left on about a week ago and while I had problems trying to break the normal rust seals I could confidently say everything went fairly well being my first 'major' repair.
Well, I just decided that today would be a good time to replace the other side and what could possibly go wrong, Right? Everything going smooth, until I get back to the part I had trouble with on the other side, the rusty hub. Got my breaker bar, manage to unbolt the first bolt with no complications besides it being so rusted. Well, I go for the second one with the breaker bar as I push down, it suddenly snaps. No torque now. Turns out I broke the bolt inside the rusty hub, in which I'm already freaking out.
Long story short we spend a good while drilling out the bolt hoping that by some shear luck we don't manage to strip the threads. Turns out I now need a new hub assembly.
But, back to the point, what is the worse thing while you were trying to repair/fix/install and made things way more complicated then what it should have been?
So, I'm a new Jeep owner, in fact, this is my first vehicle.
Anyways, as regular maintenance requires, and being a second owner for a Jeep with such high mileage, I decided to replace both my u-joints being that the left side broke. You know, might as well replace both rather then just one. I finished repairing the left on about a week ago and while I had problems trying to break the normal rust seals I could confidently say everything went fairly well being my first 'major' repair.
Well, I just decided that today would be a good time to replace the other side and what could possibly go wrong, Right? Everything going smooth, until I get back to the part I had trouble with on the other side, the rusty hub. Got my breaker bar, manage to unbolt the first bolt with no complications besides it being so rusted. Well, I go for the second one with the breaker bar as I push down, it suddenly snaps. No torque now. Turns out I broke the bolt inside the rusty hub, in which I'm already freaking out.
Long story short we spend a good while drilling out the bolt hoping that by some shear luck we don't manage to strip the threads. Turns out I now need a new hub assembly.
But, back to the point, what is the worse thing while you were trying to repair/fix/install and made things way more complicated then what it should have been?