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Old 12-27-2009, 12:24 PM
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The ones you're not sure you'll eventually get are always hard. Replacing a split radiator hose in a 79 SAAB 900 was like that. Had to sneak the new one under a manifold or something. Wasn't til I saw the sun setting, snow in the field and felt the engine getting cold that I had the desperation and extra 1/2" of finger needed to get it on the t'stat nipple.

Saabs are horrible to work on! I remember having to unbolt and raise the motor for a damn alternator and water pump on 1999 9-5 se.

Hardest job on a Mercedes must have been the head job on my 1985 500sel.
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