A while back I picked up a junker for parts. It's a 2010 and for the most part it's in good shape but was sold as having a bad engine, so there's no telling exactly what all is wrong with it.
I'm a busy person and it can take me a while to get around to finishing some tasks, this one included, so I tend to work on projects in small spurts of an hour here and there. This is one aspect of the Smart I really like, I can fit two of them into my garage bay so I can work on the parts car and still park my daily driver in there as well. Because it can take me some time to finish a task, it's important that I provide enough documentation for me to get things back together again after I've forgotten many steps, ergo this thread. Related is part of my disassembly process, I tend to take a number of pictures and most importantly I put all fasteners and removed parts into ziplock baggies labelled with what they were assosciated with.
I've done a little work to my other Smart and I'm no stranger to general automotive maintenance, but this will take me into previously unexplored territory so it should make for a fun ride.
Just so we know what it should look like when I'm done, here it is before I started molesting it. If you think there's a lot of "stuff" around it, be glad you can't see the entire garage; this area is relatively tidy!
I will need to drop the engine sub assembly to see what I've got, so the first part is getting at it. I will need to remove the side skirts, rear valance, rear panels, and crashbar; in order.
It sounds like a lot of work, but previous experience replacing the muffler showed it's really not that hard.
I'm a busy person and it can take me a while to get around to finishing some tasks, this one included, so I tend to work on projects in small spurts of an hour here and there. This is one aspect of the Smart I really like, I can fit two of them into my garage bay so I can work on the parts car and still park my daily driver in there as well. Because it can take me some time to finish a task, it's important that I provide enough documentation for me to get things back together again after I've forgotten many steps, ergo this thread. Related is part of my disassembly process, I tend to take a number of pictures and most importantly I put all fasteners and removed parts into ziplock baggies labelled with what they were assosciated with.
I've done a little work to my other Smart and I'm no stranger to general automotive maintenance, but this will take me into previously unexplored territory so it should make for a fun ride.
Just so we know what it should look like when I'm done, here it is before I started molesting it. If you think there's a lot of "stuff" around it, be glad you can't see the entire garage; this area is relatively tidy!
I will need to drop the engine sub assembly to see what I've got, so the first part is getting at it. I will need to remove the side skirts, rear valance, rear panels, and crashbar; in order.
It sounds like a lot of work, but previous experience replacing the muffler showed it's really not that hard.