Things that don't go to plan!

Bloody typical, planned on doing radius arm bushes (96 300), they haven't been done before (I've got full service history) so a bit of forward planning required. Got new nuts & bolts and bushes already but have read some horror stories about getting radius arm to axle bolts out. Off to screwfix and got 10 x 1mm steel cutting disks. Made a start on the job and nuts came off easy enough and the bolts just slid out with a slight tap! Now got 10 new cutting disks waiting for some future job - not complaining though, now just need to press out the bushes in work tomorrow

Anyone else not had the hassle they were planning for?

Passenger side undone a treat just a crack of the breaker bar,
Drivers side bent a 3ft breaker bar that was holding the weight of my 90 off the ground as had a jack on the bar.
Managed to crack them off with a 8ft length of scaffold tube haaaha ..
That was with heat and plus gas soaking 2 days before lol

much better than the other way round ,i find that kind of thing happens regularly

in short NO ! every job I seem to do on both my TDI and TD5 is a pig

After doing a few jobs now, Ive decided theres a landrover law of inverse preperedness that reads as such:

The less prepared you are for a job directly corrolates to the pigness of a job.

So even a simple light bulb change requires tools and crimp connectors if you do not have them in the toolbox.
If, however the job has been fully prepared, and you have every conceivable nut, bolt, cutter, tool, extractor fluid that you would ever need, you will not need any of them.

Also any roadside maintenance required will require the one tool/part/fluid thats run out or you left at home when you had a clear out that morning.

I find that the more you prepare yourself for a job that will take ages it will actually be done very quickly and work out well. A recent example is my water pump change. I expected the bolts to shear and to meet some kind of obstacle but thankfully some smart gentleman had copper greased them so it was a doddle.

However, what should be a simple job never bloody goes as such as you end up with the motor off the road for ages because you don't have a part you need or you've broken something else in anger

I changed the oil filter housing on Itchy (Series 2a Diesel) just before a 150 mile round trip, expected the worst but the old came off and new went on with nay bother at all. First time for me that a simple job has been, well, simple. Life is full of little surprises!