90 days and I will have a six pack. Fit, trim and hope to fit inside my U.S. Marine Corp dress grays.
Cheers everybody.
90 days and I will have a six pack. Fit, trim and hope to fit inside my U.S. Marine Corp dress grays. Cheers everybody.
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Ah ha. I see none of my recent posts. Lets try again to post to facebook. What is the big idea? Nothing posted. A Nissan swerved in front of me. I attempted to swerve around the object, a camo pillow, it went into my wheel well and jammed the brake line between the tire and strut. The brake line wore through. Ain't nothing like driving a car with no front, or very little, rear brakes. I'll update with a picture next weekend. Disaster abounds in misfortune. Our brethren fell to a heeded call. An oath we took, one and all. Brandished courage forged in blood soaked mires. Brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers. Blood lust spawned by familial discord. Flames of civil war sparked by politicians greed, Registered citizens up in arms stampede, A dictator is hung for crimes against humanity, His family stripped of citizenship and banished. Repealed communist laws overturned by politicians swamped in cowardice. Illegal immigrants shipped back to their homes. Commerce by train and truck cut off at the borders to Mexico. Veterans paid their dues. Homeless clothed and put up in homes. Economy given life by United States Citizens ingenuity and strife. Long live the Red, White & Blue. We will sing the Star-Spangled Banner with our hands over our hearts. Hats off our heads, stand up in the classroom at the first bell. The pledge of allegiance is our patriotic due. If you refuse to abide by the rules of the nation you live in, their laws will find you and a price will be paid. Freedom is not a cage of fear from the laws of the land. Live life, love life, cherish life. Heroes fall, Villains rise up. Families explode apart, When death plays it's harp. Benign friends of seasons past, Emerge to shatter fears grasp. Old dogs of war with physical and mental battle scars, Reunite and show youngins might don't make right. -:- Two men took up arms, In tow were their beloveds smiles. Little cheeks brushed by scruffy gruffs, Imparted tears of resolute passion. Two old women with daughters in tow, Chat of courageous husbands. Two daughters impart their resolute hearts, Imprinted by memories of fathers last kiss. Two Jewish women hug two German women. -:- Fallen, never forgotten. A side is chosen. The sacrifice is equal. Deaths scythe isn't picky. It'll come and someone will go. 1. Begin by chocking your wheels and setting your parking brake. 2. Take a random picture HAHAHAHA! 3. Loosen your lug nuts. 4. Jack up your front tire and place a jack stand under car for safety. 5. Remove tire. 6. Use a 12mm socket or wrench and remove the lower caliper bolt. 7. Use a small bungee cord or rope and attach somewhere out of the way. 8. Use a 17mm socket or wrench and remove both of the torque plate bolts. 9. Take a screwdriver and gently hammer it in between center hub cap and hub. Carefully pry it off. You can also use a large pair of vice grips. 10. Use pliers and remove the cotter pin. 11. Use a 22mm socket or wrench and remove the nut retainer and nut. 12. Remove the rotor/hub assembly. Make sure the outer bearing doesn't fall out. Remove four of the 14mm dust cover bolts. 13. Use a 17mm socket and a breaker bar to remove the steering knuckle to strut bolts. 14. Use vice grips and remove the clip holding the brake line to the strut. 15. Use an adjustable wrench and pry open the bracket. 16. Remove your brake line. 17. Here you take your brute strength if you're alone. Or grab a buddy and put your feet on top of the lower control arm and push down really hard. Use what ever you deem necessary to get that strut off the steering knuckle. 18. Use a 12mm socket or wrench and remove all the strut mount nuts. Be sure to grab it so it doesn't fall and hit the ground. 19. Put something around the strut case and stick it in a vise. Grab your spring compressors and attach them per the manufacturers instructions. 20. Mine are Craftsmen so they used a 24mm socket. I had a half inch breaker bar of sufficient length. Use a cheater pipe or use an air compressor. 21. Relieve the tension on the strut mount. Attach vise grips onto the spring seat and the spring. It sits below the strut mount/suspension support. Now break that 19mm nut loose and remove it. 22. Remove the spring and store somewhere away from people. 23. After you remove the rubber bumper, you can grab a pipe wrench with or without the teeth and remove the big ass nut that holds the original oil filled strut cartridge which can be rebuilt or replaced with a gas shock. 24. Use an angled pick and remove the flat rubber o-ring. 25. Now pull it straight out and dump the oil into a container. You can clean the inside of the strut case or leave it. 26. Grab a new strut cartridge and place it into the strut casing. Use the new hardware and add a little anti seize for insurance. There isn't a torque for the nut that retains the strut cartridge. Get it as tight as possible without ruining the new nut. 27. Grab your Hi-temp grease and work the grease into both sides of the bearing of the strut mount. I spun it on my finger. 28. Reinstall the rubber boot then the coil spring. 29. Align the cutout of the spring seat with the cutout of the new strut cartridge cylinder. 30. Put the suspension support back on top of the spring seat and line up the old depressions in the rubber with the spring.(if you're reusing and not replacing). 31. Clamp the spring and spring support together and decompress the spring. Make sure the bottom coil is against the bottom rise of the strut. 32. Install the new 19mm suspension support nut and torque to 34ft lbs. 33. Reinstall the strut and torque the 12mm nuts to 14ft lbs 34. Reinstall the 17mm steering knuckle to strut bolts and torque 58ft lbs. 35. Put the brake hose back into the keeper tab and bend them straight and insert the clip. 36. Reinstall & tighten the 14mm dust cover bolts and torque to 20-25ft lbs(I didn't see a torque value in the FSM). 37. Clean the spindle and add fresh disc brake grease. Add fresh grease to your wheel bearings. 38. Reinstall and torque the 22mm rotor/hub nut to 21ft lbs. Spin the rotor and work the grease around. Loosen the nut. Tighten it around 15-19ft lbs.(I know the FSM talks about preload. Many of us do it another way). 39. Reinstall the nut retainer and cotter pin. (Use a new one.) 40. Reinstall and torque the 17mm torque plate nuts to 47ft lbs. 41. Reinstall the caliper and tighten the 12mm caliper bolt to 15ft lbs. 42. Reinstall your wheel and torque the lug nuts. 43. Bounce the front bumper and test drive in a safe area. 44-46. Enjoy, drink, and laugh. Easy and quick eh? Here we be at the CONEXPO CONN-AGG & IFPE. This be my first time he'ar. My pops jawed on aboot it many a time. Be right nice to scrounge me some money before I be moving to Seattle, WA. No sightseeing for me. Greet lookie-loos & then back to the house. That or we go out to eat and drink with his buddies Dirk and Reiner from Germany. They be representing Frietsche's fittings, blocks and hoses. A salesman be not, I am. Ke ke ke. After I return home I'll clean and pack my essentials and then drive over to Auburn, WA. SEE YA'LL WHEN I RETURN. All mothers are good, Mine is great! She works real hard, And she stays up late. When she makes up her mind, She finds no problems to hate. Solutions abound, Where mistakes lie in wait. She gives great advice, Quell your heart and your mind. Find a happier place when you think of your mom, Because mine is the best. Happiest of birthdays mother. Love ya. 👒 FRIGGIN HolidaY! A bull shitting is more than enough crap to deal with. Perpetrated lies by the Catholics about Jesus birth, life and death built them a wealthy foundation with marionettes as walls to hold up the fattened pockets of the 'holier than thou' platitudes spewed by pulpit thumping hypocrites. The other side of the KoiN. I believe in people and their integrity of spirit and conscience. Beliefs based solely on sight, touch, taste, smell and noise develop a cohesion of people and their cultural endeavors. I am not a believer of one or all truths. I am a human being. I stumble. I crash into oblivion. Others coax me to health and show me their individual strengths and weaknesses. With a renewed fire and vigor of spirit I plow through life towards an honorable death. This moment, with you, means I'm alive and my soul intermingled with your soul, grew beyond my own failings and blew out of this plane of existence with no regrets. I love and cherish all humans. I am human. Hate me. Love me. You choose. |