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... and the Bad News
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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 |
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and let's say hola to our American made MOOG lower control arm bushings, Made in Mexico
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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?!
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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?)
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chalk another one up to team USA, upper control arm ball joints
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USA, USA, USA!
looks like lower control arm bumperets were American made! but these contents are driving me "nuts" |
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how hard could this be ?
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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 |
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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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Nice idea with the jack.
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