Boy, I can't afford that. I'd buy a second car first. Since my (soon
to be ex) wife crashed my Neon it's my daily driver. I don't need any
44" tires and big manly dents for that. I don't think I could fit in
the parking garage downtown with a truck that high. ;)
M.B.
On 09/19/2010 10:14 PM, Barry Oliver wrote:
>
> Isn't this how Mikes Dak got started on having a solid front axle? Look
> how well that turned out.
> http://i560.photobucket.com/albums/ss43/mrmindless/Rausch%20Creek%2020090821/P1000628.jpg
>
> http://i560.photobucket.com/albums/ss43/mrmindless/P1000397.jpg
>
> M.B. wrote:
>>
>>
>> Well, I finally found the banjo bolt after 2 hours of driving around
>> today from Napa store to Napa store until I found one willing to
>> actually look hard enough to find it as it wasn't listed in the computer.
>>
>> I got it all back together except the top pin in the drivers side
>> caliper (the one that had the messed up banjo bolt), and found out the
>> reason it was loose to begin with - the hole on the steering knuckle
>> is completely stripped.
>>
>> So now I'm screwed - all I can figure is that I either have to find a
>> pin with a larger diameter threaded end and tap the hole to that size,
>> or I have to helicoil it, or I have to replace the entire steering
>> knuckle. All because some idiot probably used an impact gun to tighten
>> it.
>>
>> Back to driving my Dad's '00 Merc Sable that eats sparkplugs and has
>> 60psi compression on two cylinders...
>>
>> M.B.
>>
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