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Picked up another first gen Dodge.
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Top picture isn’t good but it shows galling on the outer bearing shaft surface, it’s the one that didn’t want to come off and had to drop it on its nose a bunch of times to get the hub off. Took about an hour to carefully polish it down with Emory cloth to get the bearing to slide on. Sometime in the passed it appears hat it did something that caused the bearing to gall on the shaft.
Got all the hard parts cleaned up and painted, some more of the rebuild parts should show up tomorrow.
Got all the hard parts cleaned up and painted, some more of the rebuild parts should show up tomorrow.
Didn’t go that far, just wire wheel, some brake cleaner and rattle can black, the truck is 33 years old and after cleaning the grease and grime, they still had a lot of the original paint on them, you get rain there in in the SJ valley but no snow, things stay pretty clean under there.
First I want to say that energy suspension parts suck and so does there tech employees.
Got what was supposed to be the right parts after receiving the wrong parts and sending them back.
The lower control arm bushings are correct and we’re not too bad to install.
The upper control arm bushings only came with the polyurethane parts with no bolt sleeve, instructions said to burn them out with a torch to recover the bolt sleeve, I was able to do that and install the bushings, but can you imagine paying a shop an extra hour to do that so they could save a dollar for a couple pieces of the correct tubing.
The stabilizer bushings for the anti sway bar that attaches to the frame for the bar to pivot is correct but the bushing for the strut rods that support the end of the anti roll bar, are not even close to working and that was after a long phone call with there tech with me saying it doesn’t look right and them telling me it is, I even sent pictures. I will temporally use the old ones as they are not in bad shape and return those bushings and buy from another vendor like PST. The special socket for the upper ball joints, tomorrow I have to pack the wheel bearings and assemble the hubs to the spindles and attach to the lower control arms. Then put it all on the truck.
Got what was supposed to be the right parts after receiving the wrong parts and sending them back.
The lower control arm bushings are correct and we’re not too bad to install.
The upper control arm bushings only came with the polyurethane parts with no bolt sleeve, instructions said to burn them out with a torch to recover the bolt sleeve, I was able to do that and install the bushings, but can you imagine paying a shop an extra hour to do that so they could save a dollar for a couple pieces of the correct tubing.
The stabilizer bushings for the anti sway bar that attaches to the frame for the bar to pivot is correct but the bushing for the strut rods that support the end of the anti roll bar, are not even close to working and that was after a long phone call with there tech with me saying it doesn’t look right and them telling me it is, I even sent pictures. I will temporally use the old ones as they are not in bad shape and return those bushings and buy from another vendor like PST. The special socket for the upper ball joints, tomorrow I have to pack the wheel bearings and assemble the hubs to the spindles and attach to the lower control arms. Then put it all on the truck.
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Big handling improvement right there!
Sway bars?
I like them a lot.
Sway bars?
I like them a lot.
It was a bitch, but it’s back on the road. She drives nice now, I marked the cam adjusters when I took it apart and measured the tie rod lengths also. It should be pretty close, gave it 1/16” toe in. O pulling, wandering or tire wear, I made an appointment for a professional alignment for Monday. The new springs leveled it out pretty good too, just a slight rake, the way it should be, now a good clean up and get back on the other one.