Do you know the paint code?
Hahaha, I'm kidding.
Chris, sorry for the tough day with the 80...
Sob story. Can change the channel, if uninterested.
A humbling day, not that I attest to being a mechanic, because I'm merely a student.
Was headed to wheel, but experienced a death wobble that was first thought to be a wheel bearing. Tear into everything to tighten and they're fine, so start checking everything else and lo and behold.....
That'd have sucked falling out at 75mph on way to Disney.
Anyhow, no one has the nut and can't find in my bin, so rounded up a temp (and another cheap c clio plier, to replace what I'd broke) and locktited in, but still too late in day to wheel.
Putting everything back together and
and they're ARPs!!
(Yes, I know the wheel studs are too long. My dumbass installed them all few months back, systematically on the hubs, and didn't realize how much too long they were, until mounting tires, after all was put back together. I'm learning)
Top all that off with failed attempts at paint removal
Soaking in a stripper bath (ahhh) now and it's not doing.
Wire wheel digs into way too much. Even a wire brush ate into one.
Don't know if removing these pins
Is a good idea, and the rubbers are aged to a point that one tore when trying to remove.
I "think" these should be bare, but have no way of knowing, so don't know really what to do to return then to.
Already battling pins on the hinges, so not really wanting to disassemble and attempt to replace, unless that's half assing it. Call me out, if so.
