Recent content by redline4

Which arms fold? Those pics show broken tie rods, not control arms. Only CV's I see exploded are on the ones with ripped boots and neglected or the dude who totally brodonkulated his ride, gave zero shìts about the joints being beyond their maximum working angles, tossed on their bedazzled...

So my wife's boss was telling her how her youngest daughter got on a plane to NZ with a suitcase of clothes and some cash. She bought a camper van and is now living in it doing some type of work on a fruit farm of some sort? She was saying there's a bunch of people who do that... Ever hear of it?

Good enough for today..

Somewhat coming back together

Once in a while. I dont mind the challenging stuff, really. But when everyone else is doing brakes, used and new inspections and stuff it does at times get me irritated. I wouldnt find something simple once in a while Incorrect. If I could find someone to pay me to go ride around on my...

That pic is with the new chain. I had to remove the old chain to get the holding fixture on, so it was out of time. If you look at the shoe on the right, you can see the tensioner plunger was fully extended This is the old chain..

Drugs are bad, mmkay..

Good stuff.

I'd be willing to wager both of these guys are in the "what's a grease gun"? Crowd. I had over 200,000 on oem tie rods on my 06, and there's 180,000 on my 12. And they get grease every 3,000. Most of those guys who are into pulling only seem to think about traction bars and garbage can exhaust...

@Woodrow

Efi

No. Just a cam.

Wiring issues. Emissions issues. I hate them. They just plain suck to work on. I'd much rather be working on a real 6.6 duramax. And to put it in real perspective, I'd rather be working on that pos 3.0 opal v6 the put in the Cadillac Catera. Forcreal. Here's the timing stuff, in the rear of...

Same old crap at work. I do need to get my 5.3 block in for cleaning and cam bearings. Then I can see where I need to position the mounts to hopefully finally get my Chevelle moving.

Sup Mike? How's things?