My Duster Adventures

racerjoe said
I missed that ya'll had a baby. Congrats! I hope to see you at Moparty again this year....

Thanks! And I definitely plan to be there again this year. Got my power steering leak fixed, so hopefully I won’t be running on intermittent power steering like I was last year.

MopaR&D said
Congrats on the baby! I think I saw your FB post about it, love the pic of you and the little one with the pizza shirts that was pretty great.

You might be spending a lot of money but it sounds like you'll be making some back on selling your farm too. I've had to put my automotive projects on hold as I can't really afford to buy parts right now. I got the front end alignment on my Duster dialed in so it's actually pretty neutral in corners now but going through slalom-type sections it's obvious I really need some good shocks... don't quite have the $800 to spend on a set of adjustable Foxes right now but that's what I have in mind. I'm sure Bilsteins would be an improvement but I want the adjustability.

That rear sway bar will make a massive difference btw, I think all classic Mopars need one if running any kind of half-decent modern tires. The risks people talk about of making the car oversteer are way overblown, might be true on skinny 1980s or older-spec tires but I found that to not be the case at all on my car.

Thank you! And yeah, my wife surprised me with those shirts on Father’s Day. I definitely got a kick out of them for sure!

As far as the farm, we didn’t make enough to retire off of just yet (unfortunately:D ) but we made enough off the sale that it definitely made the past 6 years well worth it! I wouldn’t want to go back and have to do it again, but definitely worth it now.

The plan is to take the Duster to an empty parking lot once I have the sway bar installed, and see how much a difference the different settings make. I also need to upgrade the rear shocks sometime. I’ve got single adjustable QA1’s on the front with the HDK but just running junk Monroe’s on the back right now.

Here’s that pizza shirt pic for the rest of y’all.