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Gregski 08-22-2020 03:14 PM

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...What paint did you use on the A-Arms, they look nice...

thanks found a brush on can of the same ACE brand black paint I've been spray painting with so I went with it cause I did not have to mask much and just ended up with a black forearm ha ha

Note: a quart was way way too much as my mima says a pinch would have done it

Gregski 08-22-2020 03:42 PM

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everyone's a ganghstah 'till it's time to do ganghstah stuff

Wide Open 08-22-2020 03:57 PM

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Those turned out nice. What do you do this time? Not the wire brush method right?

mongocanfly 08-22-2020 04:08 PM

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Yeah...we got hurricanes pushing in...we always get crazy weather when they do

Gregski 08-22-2020 04:22 PM

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Those turned out nice. What do you do this time? Not the wire brush method right?

wire wheels FTW

Gregski 08-22-2020 04:27 PM

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Yeah...we got hurricanes pushing in...we always get crazy weather when they do

We'll see your gusts of wind, and raise you a couple EARTHQUAKES and a dozen Hell Fires !!!

mongocanfly 08-22-2020 04:53 PM

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We get a few quakes here, but not like yall...to wet here to worry much about fires....
we got hurricanes and tornadoes and humidity and skeeters

Gregski 08-22-2020 09:03 PM

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then I went out and rented this completely useless coil spring compression kit

and after badinkering with it for an hour or two I decided to give up on the passenger side cause clearly installation is NOT the reverse of removal, ha ha

Gregski 08-22-2020 09:05 PM

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:devil: THIS MUST BE WHAT HELL LOOKS LIKE !!! :devil:

Gregski 08-22-2020 09:10 PM

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... but we still had beer so we pressed on

I decided to do the driver side My Way (hang the upper control arm, conjoin the spindle to it with the lower control arm attached only at the front to the spindle) then insert coil spring and gently jack the whole contraption up and whalla job done!

Gregski 08-23-2020 03:42 PM

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and today we completed the B Side of the Symphony of Destruction

join us next month as we overcome our money problems and set out to do the brakes

texxxan 08-24-2020 08:33 AM

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Man, that looks so good. Well worth the effort of cleaning everything and painting. Awesome job!!!

Gregski 08-25-2020 10:01 PM

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Man, that looks so good. Well worth the effort of cleaning everything and painting. Awesome job!!!

much appreciate it, thank you, it was a ton of dirty work

Gregski 08-25-2020 10:08 PM

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oh give me a brake!

Gregski 08-25-2020 10:09 PM

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so since the front pads looked like they had plenty of meat on them I decided to see if I can salvage the front brakes and save a few duckets

Gregski 08-25-2020 10:10 PM

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they actually cleaned up real nice and even passed the drop test, ha ha

Gregski 08-25-2020 11:30 PM

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the passenger rotor cleaned up real nice as well

Gregski 08-25-2020 11:31 PM

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and the mandatory stare and compare

Gregski 08-25-2020 11:33 PM

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honestly the only thing wrong with these rotors was that the passenger side had a broken lug, simple fix really

Gregski 08-25-2020 11:36 PM

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the calipers were next to get some love

Gregski 08-25-2020 11:37 PM

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Ridges? We don't need no stinkin' ridges!

Gregski 08-25-2020 11:41 PM

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and just like that we knocked off another 2 seconds off our quarter mile putting us well under 45 seconds, ha ha

so I used a sanding disc to take the ridges down, but here I just show you how I get every inch of bristles off my wiring wheels

Gregski 08-25-2020 11:43 PM

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chics dig smooth calipers, just sayin'!

daddyjeep 08-26-2020 08:29 AM

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That is a whole lot of work right there. Now are you going to get some of that fancy red caliper paint on there?

8man 08-26-2020 08:53 AM

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I like the brake work.


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