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I just got a tracking number today, hopefully these will balance.
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justbecause
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I am interested in coming back up to b-ham, I am making a moose rack out of a 4wheeler ramp, i just heard from summit, it wont ship out till the 10th but they are giving me free shipping b/c of the delay. I hope you have everything taken care of and straight by then but if not maybe I can come up and do some manual 
for you... maybe you could bend a light bar for me? I am thinking just a hoop welded to some angle iron feet that I will screw on top of the ramp.
When are you putting the springs on?
for you... maybe you could bend a light bar for me? I am thinking just a hoop welded to some angle iron feet that I will screw on top of the ramp. When are you putting the springs on?
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I should have everything done by then but the light bar shouldn't be any big deal. Do you have an example in mind?
justbecause
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I can not find the exact rack I am trying to copy, but this is basically all I want out of the hoop
The back of my rack will be flat, I ordered a RTT
This is the platform I am copying, + a hoop on the front. http://www.wildyoats.com/the_j-rack.htm
somewhere here on mud someone has done pretty much exactly what I am thinking. even stuck some of that expanded metal like I have on my sliders behind the lights so nothing could grab the wires (at least thats what I think its there for, the builder may have had other ideas....)
I am thinking 2 bends, weld a few inches of angle iron onto the bottom of the bends, bolt the angle iron to the rack. I have some pipe and angle iron at the house, just no bender and I cant weld.
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ClankBang
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So what happened?
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Fedex dropped off two tires on Saturday. I have one installed on the spare rim but haven't had time to mount it on the truck. The tires they sent look much better than the first five, I guess I got the rejects on the first go round.
Glad to hear they are better than the first go round.
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Got them mounted and it looks like I am getting close. I have only replaced the one known bad tire so far but it is drivable, although still out of balance. I am going to mount the fifth tire and see if I can get it better. The new tire does have a noticeable flat spot, I am hoping it will work itself out when I can drive long enough to warm it up.
Also mounted the new coils - OME 419 in the front and 422 in the rear - 4" comp. only took about an hour and a half:
I like the ride with the stiffer coils a lot more than I did with the ome heavies. The rocking boat feeling is finally gone.
Also mounted the new coils - OME 419 in the front and 422 in the rear - 4" comp. only took about an hour and a half:
I like the ride with the stiffer coils a lot more than I did with the ome heavies. The rocking boat feeling is finally gone.
jemsec
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Looks like it was worth all your trouble.
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update - finally got four of the tires balanced enough to actually drink a cup of coffee on the way to work. Considering the condition of the roads in downtown Bhm I am actually pretty happy with my setup now. All total I have received 8 tires now and 4 are good. I may be able to get my spare balanced but I will have to break it back down and spin in to the rim. It took close to 8 oz of beads which about twice what the balanced tires took.
justbecause
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bhmmapping said:
How is the cruiser doing as DD? My mom has the Honda for a couple of days. Her liberty is in the shop again. Once the jeep gets "fixed" Kait may be getting the Honda for a bit. Her rodeo leaves a trail of coolant everywhere it goes but some how doesn't need coolant added
I thought I had found the source of the leak, but after cleaning the area and taking a test drive coolant is still dripping but the source isn't where I thought. No codes and runs fine, I'm thinking about just building a catch pan and selling the stuff since her car appears to be producing coolant.posted with my thumbs.
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Oh man, glad the Honda is working out for you. I hope the transmission is still working? uh oh on the leaking coolant. I don't think it is manufacturing it, you probably will want to keep an eye on the oil level too. Was she in Bham yesterday? A girl in a Rodeo that looked like her with a 64 tag pulled out in front of me in Homewood yesterday.
Cruiser is fine as a DD. I've still got some vibes but I think I have narrowed it down to the rear driveshaft. I never reset the pinion angle after the trans swap and lift. Now that it is a DD I have to actually worry about fixing it.
Cruiser is fine as a DD. I've still got some vibes but I think I have narrowed it down to the rear driveshaft. I never reset the pinion angle after the trans swap and lift. Now that it is a DD I have to actually worry about fixing it.
justbecause
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bhmmapping said:
I do need to check her oil... She wast in bham and she has Illinois tags.
Tranny is still working.
posted with my thumbs.
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good to hear on the tranny - definitely check the oil since it could be mixing with the coolant for some reason. Bad oil cooler or headgasket.
justbecause
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I just dont think it could be the HG, car still runs fine.
I put a carboard box under it one night just to make sure I am not going crazy, it caught clean green coolant. radiator was still full and reservoir was still good...
I havnt had any day light to get out there and really poke around. maybe saturday before I start building my chicken coop I can figure out where it is coming from. I hope to find a busted line.... but I wont hold my breath.
Did I ask you if the timing belt has ever been done on the honda?
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I can find out. not recently but I would assume that it was changed at the 90K or 100k interval or whenever it was supposed to be originally.
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After talking to Jim the other day about driveline vibes I thought I would pull the rear driveshaft to see if I could isolate the last of the vibrations. I realized I had never checked the pinion angle since the trans swap and lift. Turns out, after ordering tube to sleeve the control arms, cutting it and splitting it down the middle that my rear axle and TC pinion angles are both 86 degrees. Also, one of the ujoints was so far gone that I could barely move it by hand in one direction. Swapped in a spare u-joint, turned the shaft 90 out of phase for the angles and it drives like a different truck. I have had a lot of popping from the rear end that I thought was from the aussie in 2wd - gone. It must have been that joint binding up for some reason. I also notice that a lot of the noise that was being transferred into the cab through the shifters is gone.
In the process though I decided to let my 5 yr old hammer out the old joint and she decided it would be better to hammer my thumb. I also put the shaft up into position, turned around to ask her to hand me the bolts and it fell out on the side of my head - not fun.
In the process though I decided to let my 5 yr old hammer out the old joint and she decided it would be better to hammer my thumb. I also put the shaft up into position, turned around to ask her to hand me the bolts and it fell out on the side of my head - not fun.