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Replaced tie rod ends today, took about 45 min total. As much as I hated working in a basic automotive shop last year I got really efficient at doing brakes and suspension components... did ALOTTTT of brakes. But also just a lot of really boring work on really boring cars that were also all rusted out from the salt up here. Made me realize I don't want to be a generic mechanic for every average Joe's car
Steering feels tighter! Hopefully that weird loose feeling wont come back as it "fixed" itself a couple day before I did this repair.
No shop has ever been able to balance the Red Rocket's tires properly. It's always just been shaky when steering to the left or right at high speeds, which I know could be other suspension components but I've checked everything for wear for the past couple years and nothing shows... its in the tires/wheels. Anyways I bought some balancing beads to put into the tire and hopefully sort this issue once and for all. Spent 5 hours trying to break the bead on a single tire. I have now given up but I tried 20 or so different methods, guess I never have to worry about bead locks. I got so fed up at the end that I put both front tires on flat and drove a half mile... STILL NOTHING!!!!!!!!! Whatever I guess Mr.Tire will get 40 of my hard earned dollars, not worth my time messing with that any more. Below are the only 2 things I documented.
snow!
Steering feels tighter! Hopefully that weird loose feeling wont come back as it "fixed" itself a couple day before I did this repair.
No shop has ever been able to balance the Red Rocket's tires properly. It's always just been shaky when steering to the left or right at high speeds, which I know could be other suspension components but I've checked everything for wear for the past couple years and nothing shows... its in the tires/wheels. Anyways I bought some balancing beads to put into the tire and hopefully sort this issue once and for all. Spent 5 hours trying to break the bead on a single tire. I have now given up but I tried 20 or so different methods, guess I never have to worry about bead locks. I got so fed up at the end that I put both front tires on flat and drove a half mile... STILL NOTHING!!!!!!!!! Whatever I guess Mr.Tire will get 40 of my hard earned dollars, not worth my time messing with that any more. Below are the only 2 things I documented.
snow!
I have done this aswell! Freshman year the troopy was the only car that could drive out in the snow so we got my tow ropes together and someone's beater skis. My friends and I had our fun for an hour on tubes and skis behind the troopy, then got cold so they all loaded up in the back and started getting a bunch of random people around campus to ski behind the troopy. Lasted about 3 hours until the cops eventually made it out into the snow and were NOT HAPPY. Had this guy screaming and yelling at me for a while, this was prior to my "police immunity" here in boonenow you need to add winter car skiing to your troopy repertoire