A '54 named Busty

[Gregski]

the Good News

[Gregski]

... and the Bad News

[Gregski]

well since it's hotter than a two dollar pistol, let's meet the contestant's and see where they is from?

looks like the Blood Stain Shock-You-Laters hail from Deutschland - guten Tag

[Gregski]

and let's say hola to our American made MOOG lower control arm bushings, Made in Mexico

[Gregski]

holy frijoles the lower control arm ball joints were made in some alphabet soup place called USA, man I thought MOOG was made in 'merica?!

[Gregski]

and here's why we are going through this exercise, one side be from Mexico while the other is from Turkey (note the difference in the packaging amigos?)

upper control arm bushings

[Gregski]

chalk another one up to team USA, upper control arm ball joints

[Gregski]

USA, USA, USA!

looks like lower control arm bumperets were American made!

but these contents are driving me "nuts"

[Gregski]

how hard could this be ?

[texxxan]

Originally Posted by Gregski

how hard could this be ?

Make sure to post an injury report after you are done.

[Wide Open]

Originally Posted by texxxan

Make sure to post an injury report after you are done.

[Gregski]

so spent the better part of this morning chasadizing rent a tools from seven different Auto Zoners

[Gregski]

and I'm glad I did as somebody went all Medieval on the nice black kit and ruined all the threads

[Gregski]

I like to use the proper frying grease where appropriate if you get my meaning, so I use white lightning to improve the slideage of things (ie bushing sleeve inserts) and I use anti seize to prevent stickage and bondage (think the un threaded rod ends)

[Gregski]

it's very common for these poorly designed factory upper control arms to get all pretzeled in, needing some gentle persuasion to expand back to proper form

a bottle jack I swore to throw out half a dozen times while tripping over it on my garage floor comes in most handy for such an expenditure

[Gregski]

and a few donations to the swear jar later and the upper control armistices were done

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by texxxan

Make sure to post an injury report after you are done.

why you smart @..

[Gregski]

then it was on to the lower control arms

[Gregski]

and before they could find a vaccine for Covid-19 three of the four control arms was done, and it was Beer [ahem] lunch time

[Gregski]

and Flo's your aunt

[Gregski]

wow I felt it was gettin' hot

wait is this what they mean by Hot Roddin'?

[MiraclePieCo]

Excellent job on the bushings. The first time I used one of those AutoZone rented bushing presses, I put an impact gun on it. It smashed the bushings into the A-arms so hard that it split them. The money I had to pay for new control arms taught me that I should have just used a wrench...

BTW, "Made In USA" could mean Usa, Japan, a city in the southern part of Japan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usa,_%C5%8Cita

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[8man]

You go Gregski! That was a lot of running around to get the bushings done, but well worth it.

[Wide Open]

Nice idea with the jack.

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by MiraclePieCo

Excellent job on the bushings.

thanks appreciate that

Originally Posted by MiraclePieCo

The first time I used one of those AutoZone rented bushing presses, I put an impact gun on it. It smashed the bushings into the A-arms so hard that it split them. The money I had to pay for new control arms taught me that I should have just used a wrench...

Oh no, impacters can be a blessing and a curse in the hands of a mad apprentice, hee he

Originally Posted by MiraclePieCo

BTW, "Made In USA" could mean Usa, Japan, a city in the southern part of Japan

Say what? ha ha