When I bought both my Van ($700 and $300) it took me a couple of months to get both of them sorted out. My Safari still has problems that need to be addressed, but it will just have to wait.
New Astro owner from W. Mass
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Hello all, I am 22 and live in the Springfield, Mass area. I just got myself a Blackish 94 AWD Astro Van with 249,900 on the clock for $500. I got it as my winter car so that I can put my Subaru STi away for the winter. It def isnt the prettiest looking van but it will do for now. Surprisingly the only problems that I have found so far is that the air bag light stays on on the dash and I have a pretty bad power steering leak. The whole reservoir empty's out over night.
Anyways, looks like there is a pretty good following for these things so I look forward to learning some new things. I will post pictures as soon as I get it repainted...(rattle canned of course! :lol: ) This picture is from the add:
-Ryan
Anyways, looks like there is a pretty good following for these things so I look forward to learning some new things. I will post pictures as soon as I get it repainted...(rattle canned of course! :lol: ) This picture is from the add:
-Ryan
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I am in the process of painting the can as we speak...spent a whopping $12 on paint for 11 cans haha.
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I will keep updating as I go... I'm going for the murdered out look haha, black EVERYTHING
BEFORE:
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I will keep updating as I go... I'm going for the murdered out look haha, black EVERYTHING
don't feel too great after going through 10 cans of paint in a garage haha. overspray everywhere!!!!!
crappy dark crackberry pic, I will try to take some tomorrow if the weather is decent.
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crappy dark crackberry pic, I will try to take some tomorrow if the weather is decent.
hey Trip thanks for the kind words haha. MY power steering leak is gone since I put a new/used pump in I got from another member on here last week. As for the linkage, I will let you know today or tomorrow if that is the right one because I will be attempting the lift this weekend! 
I dont have wheels yet but I am working on that. I'll keep ya posted!!
I dont have wheels yet but I am working on that. I'll keep ya posted!!
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I found some steel leafs today at the j-yard so I'm havin my friend talk to the owner on monday to see how cheap I can get them91astroluv said:
These are going in tonight. I had my friend weld in some supports to the $20 shackle lift to sturdy them up. Only cost me a subway sub for the welding :rockon:
little teaser of the jeep wheels I just got for the time being. I worked on the lift for about 7 hours tonight and its still not even close to being done. I found out that I had the wrong bolts for the body lift and that there are 2 different sizes of body bolts. In the rear I had 3 of the 4 leaf/shackle bolts out and the last one was completly seized in the spring. The sleeve that the bolt slides through within the leaf bushing fused with the bolt and are now stuck... Looks like I will be needing a spring as that seems to be the only way to fix the problem...I definately did not think that it would take this long but I guess that 250,000 miles takes a toll on nuts and bolts...
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