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[bcredeur97]

19 minutes ago, arnavvr said:

Yikes....

-snip-

 

They just fired up that pipeline that was down.

 

in a few days these dudes will be stuck with their gas. let them be stuck.

 

freaking idiots makes me mad. Just like the toilet paper thing all over again 

[arnavvr]

12 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

They just fired up that pipeline that was down.

 

in a few days these dudes will be stuck with their gas. let them be stuck.

 

freaking idiots makes me mad. Just like the toilet paper thing all over again 

I understand having some gas at home in the event of natural disaster, but hoarding at these levels is absolutely INSANE.

[AlwaysFSX]

1 hour ago, arnavvr said:

Yikes....

-snip-

Raleigh, lol, explains everything.

[OldFord76]

My beach trip was almost cancelled, luckily out troop bus is Diesel. Thankfully, we got our gas back! 

[Jarsky]

On 5/7/2021 at 1:38 AM, TVwazhere said:

So I spent the night replacing the ball joint I left on initially because I thought we could get away with it since the CV axel would not come out of the steering knuckly..... A lot of jerky steering later and I'm back under the car.

 

The nut cant come off the top without the whole control arm moving slowly down, so it's a slow panful 1/6th turn wrench at a time job.

 

 

 

 

I know this pain, I had to do mine in the R33 Skyline recently in the rear to install my new Lower Control Arms and it had the same issue with clearance between the ball joint and the axle. I didnt want to go through the effort of taking the axles out so had to use a pickle fork and a trolley jack as well. Had to also cut away the boot on the balljoints (otherwise the pressure would pop the fork back out) and hammer it with a mallet while i jacked it up to keep the fork in place..absolute pita. 

 

Heres with the new coilovers, lower control arms, camber arms, sway bar, and toe arms and lock arm (to remove rear steering). I don't miss working on the suspension

 

 

 

[TVwazhere]

On 5/12/2021 at 8:59 PM, arnavvr said:

Yikes....

Spoiler

 

Screw Scalpers

[flibberdipper]

The other day the old man bought parts for da whip and you already know it was gonna be origami time. Not pictured is the swaybar because I'm a dumb idiot and forgot it was under a table inside. Very interested how this thing will handle, even though I have no reference as I haven't even driven it yet. Stiffer struts all around plus a 33mm solid swaybar for up front as opposed to the stock 22mm hollow one (which was snapped to begin with). Theoretically the students at his school should have 'er all wrapped up by the end of the day on Monday. Then maybe just another week after that for title/plate and insurance.

 

[Bitter]

FCS are bottom barrel garbage, I hate using them on customer cars because they don't last but sometimes that's all they can afford when a spring is broken they're cheaper than buying a spring and the extra labor.

[flibberdipper]

1 hour ago, Bitter said:

FCS are bottom barrel garbage, I hate using them on customer cars because they don't last but sometimes that's all they can afford when a spring is broken they're cheaper than buying a spring and the extra labor.

Dad used the same brand on our 2004 LeSabre like 60K miles ago and at this point they've well outlived the car itself so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Evolution.]

On 2/13/2020 at 10:16 PM, pinksnowbirdie said:

Tried again for my full license and I was SOOOOO close. Sadly a One-Way to a Two-Way on the test course confused me and lead me to an automatic failure. Aside from that the examiner essentially said I did well otherwise.

I went to an exam station with their own track for testing.

 

this thing is fucking sick

[Bitter]

43 minutes ago, flibberdipper said:

Dad used the same brand on our 2004 LeSabre like 60K miles ago and at this point they've well outlived the car itself so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Out of the 10 or so pairs we've sold in the past year we've had 3 struts come back failed, one was knocking like something inside broke, the other two had failed top mounts that were binding and clunking when turning. 15% failure rate is pretty bad. KYB we've had zero failures, Monroe we've had a couple over the past few years fail from leaking. You've got a sample size of 4, I have a sample size of almost a dozen and can compare to several other brands.

 

The FCS units we have installed ride hard, it feels like a combo of damper valving being too hard and the spring rates being too high. Manufactuers will pick a higher than needed spring rate to combat sag because they're using lower grade spring steel, sure it won't sag but the suspension also won't deflect like it should when you whack a bump and the car now rides like a dump truck. The worst was a 4cyl Caravan, it wad better than the broken spring that ripped a hole in her tire but man did it ride bad. The lowest I'll go for my own vehicles is Monroe, KYB would be my go-to for anything Asian.

[flibberdipper]

6 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Out of the 10 or so pairs we've sold in the past year we've had 3 struts come back failed, one was knocking like something inside broke, the other two had failed top mounts that were binding and clunking when turning. 15% failure rate is pretty bad. KYB we've had zero failures, Monroe we've had a couple over the past few years fail from leaking. You've got a sample size of 4, I have a sample size of almost a dozen and can compare to several other brands.

 

The FCS units we have installed ride hard, it feels like a combo of damper valving being too hard and the spring rates being too high. Manufactuers will pick a higher than needed spring rate to combat sag because they're using lower grade spring steel, sure it won't sag but the suspension also won't deflect like it should when you whack a bump and the car now rides like a dump truck. The worst was a 4cyl Caravan, it wad better than the broken spring that ripped a hole in her tire but man did it ride bad. The lowest I'll go for my own vehicles is Monroe, KYB would be my go-to for anything Asian.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ We've had good luck with them on a handful of cars, and if they're really truly garbage and eat ass after 20K miles I really don't care. I'll only be into this car for 1,300 US pesos or so, throwing another set of struts onto that is diddly shit.

[vetali]

24 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Out of the 10 or so pairs we've sold in the past year we've had 3 struts come back failed, one was knocking like something inside broke, the other two had failed top mounts that were binding and clunking when turning. 15% failure rate is pretty bad. KYB we've had zero failures, Monroe we've had a couple over the past few years fail from leaking. You've got a sample size of 4, I have a sample size of almost a dozen and can compare to several other brands.

 

The FCS units we have installed ride hard, it feels like a combo of damper valving being too hard and the spring rates being too high. Manufactuers will pick a higher than needed spring rate to combat sag because they're using lower grade spring steel, sure it won't sag but the suspension also won't deflect like it should when you whack a bump and the car now rides like a dump truck. The worst was a 4cyl Caravan, it wad better than the broken spring that ripped a hole in her tire but man did it ride bad. The lowest I'll go for my own vehicles is Monroe, KYB would be my go-to for anything Asian.

I rarely if ever do shocks. I think the last set I did at Honda was on a s10 lol. Only ones I see blown out are on odysseys and people rarely want to do them. The monroes on my durango are absolute shite. Was gonna go to bilsteins but I'm probably yeeting that thing with the inflated used car market + wanting something more fuel efficient over the passport. 

[bcredeur97]

25 minutes ago, vetali said:

I rarely if ever do shocks. I think the last set I did at Honda was on a s10 lol. Only ones I see blown out are on odysseys and people rarely want to do them. The monroes on my durango are absolute shite. Was gonna go to bilsteins but I'm probably yeeting that thing with the inflated used car market + wanting something more fuel efficient over the passport. 

I did kyb’s on my corolla and they were fine. Only did it because I was autocrossing that car lol. Just having new ones made it handle a little better. Otherwise it probably didn’t need it. 
 

my civic sags on the front left. It also makes noises when turning so i assume the mounts are bad. Just nothing feels worth to do anything to that car so I’ll leave it I guess. How long do I have before the mounts come apart and leave me stranded? Lol 

 

my Miata? I take care of that thing so I recently redid all the suspension. Koni’s with FM springs and poly bushings with Custom sleeve bearings so they never seize up/squeak. It’s pretty nice; just a bit more maintenance to grease all them bushings 

[Bitter]

39 minutes ago, vetali said:

I rarely if ever do shocks. I think the last set I did at Honda was on a s10 lol. Only ones I see blown out are on odysseys and people rarely want to do them. The monroes on my durango are absolute shite. Was gonna go to bilsteins but I'm probably yeeting that thing with the inflated used car market + wanting something more fuel efficient over the passport. 

I do everything, from diagnosing communication faults to tires. Quick trick for tires, use a pin stripe eraser wheel to yeet the fuck out of the tape weight backing that's left behind. No scraping, no bitching, no moaning, that rubber wheel on high speed on the pin stripe remover takes it right off and polishes the wheel to clean paint ready for new weights.

 

Bilsteins are the only shocks that ride like Bilsteins, lol. They do got some secret sauce inside them.

[vetali]

3 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

I did kyb’s on my corolla and they were fine. Only did it because I was autocrossing that car lol. Just having new ones made it handle a little better. Otherwise it probably didn’t need it. 
 

my civic sags on the front left. It also makes noises when turning so i assume the mounts are bad. Just nothing feels worth to do anything to that car so I’ll leave it I guess. How long do I have before the mounts come apart and leave me stranded? Lol 

 

my Miata? I take care of that thing so I recently redid all the suspension. Koni’s with FM springs and poly bushings with Custom sleeve bearings so they never seize up/squeak. It’s pretty nice; just a bit more maintenance to grease all them bushings 

Those older hondas and suspension clunks/noises go hand in hand. Usually start with sway bar bushings and links. Sometimes strut mounts. Past 150k miles you are looking at stuff like control arm bushings. Luckily that gen doesn't have the trailing arm bushings that are trash in the rear.

 

2 hours ago, Bitter said:

I do everything, from diagnosing communication faults to tires. Quick trick for tires, use a pin stripe eraser wheel to yeet the fuck out of the tape weight backing that's left behind. No scraping, no bitching, no moaning, that rubber wheel on high speed on the pin stripe remover takes it right off and polishes the wheel to clean paint ready for new weights.

 

Bilsteins are the only shocks that ride like Bilsteins, lol. They do got some secret sauce inside them.

Yeah same here but I have been doing a loooooot of warranty diags now that the other tech above me has been slacking like crazy and having an insane comeback to flag ratio. I am still doing like 13+ hours a day with that, but its been rough on a few. I pretty much do tires on used cars only right now. So I really don't care about residue like I do on customer cars for stick on weights.

[Bitter]

Every old Honda has a bad trailing arm bushing back there, but they're always waaaayyyyy too rusty to fix. Cracked, ripped, torn but trying to replace it would mean cutting access holes in the body and frame to get to the welded nuts inside, labor alone would be more than the cars are worth at that point.

[bcredeur97]

50 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Every old Honda has a bad trailing arm bushing back there, but they're always waaaayyyyy too rusty to fix. Cracked, ripped, torn but trying to replace it would mean cutting access holes in the body and frame to get to the welded nuts inside, labor alone would be more than the cars are worth at that point.

i think I remember watching ETCG pull one of those out of an odyssey and it was a complete nightmare. Maybe it wasn't the same thing... but nightmare for sure

[vetali]

7 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

i think I remember watching ETCG pull one of those out of an odyssey and it was a complete nightmare. Maybe it wasn't the same thing... but nightmare for sure

I think it was a civic, but yeah I have never recommended a set of bushings on those because of that vid lol.

[bcredeur97]

17 hours ago, vetali said:

I think it was a civic, but yeah I have never recommended a set of bushings on those because of that vid lol.

Where’s your shop? I’m gonna buy one just to ask you to do it /s 

[vetali]

45 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

Where’s your shop? I’m gonna buy one just to ask you to do it /s 

You remove it and I will press it out and install the new bushing.

[bcredeur97]

5 minutes ago, vetali said:

You remove it and I will press it out and install the new bushing.

[PandaCopyRight]

@bcredeur97future plans? 

 

[PandaCopyRight]

5 minutes ago, Benji said:

You're right, there's less fun ways to kill yourself. Cars like this are not supposed to have such engines.

i mean ... the typical LS swap is a tad boring and the stock engine is dog shit

also you wont die unless you have a lack of skill

[iDeFecZx]

44 minutes ago, Benji said:

Going way over what the dampers and aerodynamics and all are capable of achieving has nothing to do with "skill". The entire car is way too "underpowered" to make use of such an engine.

What are you on about?