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Re: A '54 named Busty
USA, USA, USA!
looks like lower control arm bumperets were American made! but these contents are driving me "nuts" |
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Re: A '54 named Busty
how hard could this be ?
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why you smart @..
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so spent the better part of this morning chasadizing rent a tools from seven different Auto Zoners
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and I'm glad I did as somebody went all Medieval on the nice black kit and ruined all the threads
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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)
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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 Last edited by Gregski; 08-15-2020 at 02:18 PM. |
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and a few donations to the swear jar later and the upper control armistices were done
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then it was on to the lower control arms
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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
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and Flo's your aunt
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wow I felt it was gettin' hot
wait is this what they mean by Hot Roddin'? |
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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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You go Gregski! That was a lot of running around to get the bushings done, but well worth it.
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thanks appreciate that
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Nice idea with the jack.
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ok this is gettin' redunculous
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111....That's unreal....that would really be awful if you added our humidity to that...
Oh and I need me one of them ( days since last accident ) signs..
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you mean like so ...
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I'll give you credit for the temp, but 55% humidity is dry around here. With the AC running full speed we get down to that inside.
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You’re embarrassing Texas. And probably Arizona too.
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