astroracer wrote:
...page 1 of this thread and scroll down about half way you will see what was done to these spindles to make them work for my suspension design...

Just beautiful...


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That long antenna rod that musicman describes...

Stick that through the rubber/door jam, reach tip of antenna to opposite side of the cab, hit UNLOCK button. Used to be called a "Corvette Master Key", CB antenna whip was the tool of choice.


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Roger that on clean engines for those two.

Let's get busy and fab up some bagel toasters and burrito warmers for those engines.


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What's it like welding to those big cast spindles?

What weld process are you using? MIG? Stick?


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I like red heads.


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You want opinions on how they LOOK, or something else?


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Everytime I see that Jeep bumper on your Safari ...

Let's change that badge to read -

"Safareep"


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Pengyou wrote:
I just put rancho 7000's on my front end. I chose them.because I though they would be better for the front end of my awd - is that right?...

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Your van. You installed them. You drive it under your conditions. You tell us. Are they "better"?


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Is the rear fan the same part as the front fan? So those of us deleting the rear can keep the fan for a spare?


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I'd do increasingly larger bits. You've got a through hole. The metal holding that thing in place is getting less and less thick (it's going away!). Drill it out a little, bang on it a little, bang from another direction, Drill a little more, eventually (maybe now) there's only a foil sized piece of...

Astrodawn wrote:
I just attached the drill to the punch and started spinning it around...

Perfect...


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Mmusicman wrote:
...I guess next time I will have to make a video of my spring easily falling out unloaded the way I do them...

Not for me you don't. Yours don't, mine do. That simple.


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VERY proud of you Dawn... I sure am. She's getting the job done with the tools at hand. I don't think it's job that could be done easier by "A Man". It's not a strength issue. And I don't think she's using a tool incorrectly. I've sacrificed a wood chisel to get something metal to move. I...

[chaining the coils] You DO realize the spring can't go anywhere with a shock running thru it, don't you? Plus... with the FULL weight of the vehicle on it, you couldn't pry is out if you wanted to. To get the spring out, you have to actually remove the shock, then keep lowering and finally pushing...

It's moving, even though you can't see it. The surfaces that are binding each other are microscopic. Oil, repeated hits/vibration all break the thing free. Just plain hitting it modestly over and over again is a pretty good technique. When it does break loose you can "reverse cuss". That's...

97cargocrawler wrote:
..full axle droop...

Is that the ice skater turned rapper?


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I used to have a hard mount welded between the body metal and my exhaust. At a certain RPM it was like the pre-chorus on a dance-trance song. Raise it 20 RPMs and it's back to 1960s library quiet. Cut the steel, replaced with rubber trucker's load straps that several here said would fail within elev...

Willy Loman, Tom Joad, Vladamire and Estragon, Kerouac, Ghengis Kahn, and I think Justin Bieber, many famous personalities started out by tackling their vacuum lines. Once armed with that kind of confidence, nothing is impossible.


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Geez, I need some SimpleGreen on my own grease goobers.


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...he does other electrical and mechanical work that includes tow bar installations and high end media (radio and TV) sets making those Astro vans he got in the showroom look like executive jets including the leather seats... In that case, it should look great. Every Mexican shop in Phoenix does th...