What 6 bushings exactly are you talking about. I haven't found a prior reference to them.
massive reconfiguration time again.
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What 6 bushings exactly are you talking about. I haven't found a prior reference to them.
I have some John Deere Green and John Deere yellow left over from a painting project that I would gladly send you.
j par
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Thanks...lol
j par
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The two in each of the upper a arms and the two in the
end of the torsion bars.
j par
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Had a good day. Got the lower control arms, torsion bars, headers, and exhaust installed. I customize my header gaskets so they slip over the end studs. Had to weld a ring on one of the upper control arms as l let a jackwheel Chevy guy booger one of them up. I went bought a cheap Harbor Freight press and finish them myself. I got them all cleaned up and in primer. I'm not sure if I'm going to paint them black? I'll probably get all my ball joints and tie rod ends tomorrow morning and get this thing bolt together. Or just sit back on the ground for the first time in over 6 months. I'm feeling a couple weeks away at the most.
Also you can see the lower control arm bushings both inner and outer where a little Battle of their own LOL
Also you can see the lower control arm bushings both inner and outer where a little Battle of their own LOL
j par
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And as of now all four dogs look fine...
The one in the bottom right corner of the picture must be a result of intense inbreeding.
j par
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Honestly that's my most loyal dog. She doesn't like going for car rides at all but she always is in the garage keeping me company while I'm working. I never did like those kind of dogs, but I can appreciate loyalty.
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I was able to get quite a few things done again today. Also I've got all the ball joints and tie rod ends supposed to be in tomorrow. I've got all the other parts cleaned up and or painted the best I can and that was the majority of the work. You know doing the greasy dirty part that lots of people write checks for. Actually the funny part is I go through those cheap Harbor Freight gloves like water. It's nice to be able to do a crap load of work like that and barely need to wash your hands when you're done. Anyways I got the crossover brake line cleaned and painted. I got the upper A-Arms painted and installed. I got the front fender splash guards all scrubbed up and ready to go on. I got all the break stuff and rotors all lined up and both sides ready to go on. I finally got a minute today to just tighten up those wires from the fans on the radiator. They used to go straight across to each other and kind of come close to the electric water pump. The wiring on it would also go up from there and be very visible as it went across to the rest of the harness. As it is now I'm hoping that it will travel under the bottom hose and up near the alternator we're all the rest of the wires will be coming from. I also had a great surprise when the UPS man pulled up. I knew it was not for me because less than a week ago they said it'll be 3 or 4 weeks before your front bumper is here? But Here Comes the UPS man with a big bumper shaped box and I'm thinking no way?! BAZINGA???! WAY!!
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Also there was a distinct difference in the quality I believe of the Two bumpers that I have now. I got the back bumper couple two three years ago for 60 bucks at the Swap Meet. It seems much thicker and stronger. And finished kind of nicer on the outside and needlessly on the inside as well. The one I just got for the front seems a lot thinner. Now this one also could be a Racewieght kind of thing where it's just a little bit lighter. This new one I've been looking at for quite some time for $129 and of course when I order it it's $139? The price went up since I looked at the computer the night before? Anyways and then I think he'd quoted me before it was going to be 60 bucks or so to send it and it ended up being 200 and eight or nine or something? Anyways it got here lightning fast that's for damn sure. They probably just had one on the shelf and didn't know it either that or he made it that minute that I called him.
yellow rose
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That stuff right there ^^^^^is why I am KING check writer. I ain't painting that dirty stuff let alone touching it.
But that's just me.
j par
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What dirty stuff? Oh yeah and I took my wife to get this yanked out of her hand today but she's a trooper got her home with her new cast put a glove over it and a wrench in her hand and she was good to go!
yellow rose
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Holy crapoly.
How did that happen? Another reason to just write the checks.
How did that happen? Another reason to just write the checks.
j par
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Here in the Jpar camp right hands are for wrenching, not writing checks!
It was elective just like her two knee Replacements last year. And I'm sure I posted the x-rays of those, quite gnarly. She was definitely my third hand when I was pressing in those moog bushings in the control arms and A-Arms
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When I seen this the other day I thought it quite picture Worthy. Upon second thought I believe they were probably right that there wasn't enough power in that vehicle to create enough G-Force to make that ladder over power that tape.
yellow rose
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If you think that ladder thing is weird what do you think about J Par transplanting a third hand onto his wife to twist wrenches?
yellow rose
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I looked at those stitches and that pin sticking out of her hand like that and dang near blew my cookies.
That looks bad. And PAINFUL!
j par
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First of all this whole Portland weird thing is one of my pet peeves. Portland is not weird! It's the people from California and back East that move here with their preconceived ideas of how it's supposed to be weird and then try and make it weird. I know of not one Oregonian that's lived here all their life that one has a electric car or to ride your bicycle to work. Yet everybody thinks that's what's going on here because everybody's coming here and creating their own Oregon that they think it's supposed to be.
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Haha that was a sneaky moment there. The doctor came in and unwrap the cast and neither I or my wife knew that big pin was coming out! Then he pulled the stitches out put some gauze around it and wrap the cast on it and just before we went he didn't say a thing and reached over and grabbed a pair of pliers and yank that thing out of there! Without saying a word! You only see the inch-and-a-half sticking out its the 4in that was down in there that came out that was the real drama! Neither one of us seen it coming! And I can tell he knew better than to say anything ahead of time..
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A little bit of baby step process today but a lot of getting things sorted out. I went and picked up my tie rod ends from AutoZone and I s*** you not I had four different brands and four different boxes and four different looks at4 different tie rod ends! F that! And of course the two things that weren't identical of the lower ball joints they gave me two driver side ones! So tomorrow I will take back 5 of the 8 things that I got. I already went to O'Reilly's and got four new tie rod ends that all match and all came in the same matching boxes. I understand that this doesn't make the world of difference if they all fit but I'm trying once again to unjankdify this car.
yellow rose
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I agree. It's not the native portlanders who are the issue. It's all the tricky hipsters and cool cats that want to make Portland weird. I grew up there. In St Johns. A pretty rough area. On the north side I have the Tamaracks and the Columbia Villa. Straight low income housing. Had several friends in there. To the west we had real St Johns. Then it kinda turns north, and the further north you went the tougher it was. I wouldn't change a thing about St Johns. Now I hear it's all trendy little sissies, beta males with their alpha females. Just wrong Wrong WRONG.
I was driving a dump truck with mechanical injection. I carried between 104,000 pounds to 105,500 (and maybe a bit more depending on the route I had to take). The bicycle riders were the biggest pricks out there. They are really a hazard out there like that. I have cure to if not get them back on the sidewalk, to at least move them closer to the curb.
I'd see them pedaling their asses off up the road so I would speed up and catch up to them. The first time I did it, the poor fools had no idea what me a the truck behind me were about to do to them. We get up behind them...maybe 70-75 feet behind them but we kept slowing down. Not a lot at first but by the time we were about 20 feet away from them we stayed in a very high gear. These were 15 speeds so I lots of good gear choices. At the 20 foot away mark I would be in a very tall gear...like 12th or maybe 13th if I thought I could still pull it. Once I had my gear selected and was 20 feet away, I would mash the throttle to the floor!!!! Since the speed was so slow and the gear so very tall the truck would hardly move...you know...about the speed of the average bicycle rider. So mashing the throttle to the floor with mechanical injection with all the load and no road speed to speak off...those old Mack truck and pups would blow smoke out the exhaust pipe like a locomotive.
There was usually two of us running together and sometimes three. And we would all just cover them in warm, smelly diesel fuel ash. It would cover them and just piss them off.
The cyclists learn fast. One or two teaching lessons like that and they pull over when the big trucks come by. Or they get a snoot full of nasty tasting and nasty smelling ash all over their clothes and bikes.
Yep......keep Portland weird.
j par
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On Division Street from 52nd to 82nd they went from two lanes each way to one lane each way because they added a bicycle path on each side. It's been a year and a half maybe 2 years now and I'm not seeing more than two or three bicycles in all the time I've went up and down that road?
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I've been experiencing some pretty bad back pain lately since my wife had that elective surgery on her right thumb. It's been slowing me down, but not stopping me. I had my wife take a picture of me using the new Ratchet my son gave me and I couldn't laugh anymore when I seen that my big nose actually made it into the photo LOL it's the downside of all those long extremities LOL.
Also also the car is on 4 jack stands that Jack is just extra. I've always said no sense it just sitting there in the corner when it could be keeping me safe or an extra thing to do so...
Also also the car is on 4 jack stands that Jack is just extra. I've always said no sense it just sitting there in the corner when it could be keeping me safe or an extra thing to do so...
How's that third hand you had attached to your wife working out has she manage to use it with the ratchet yet?
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