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Just shove some grease in there and wrap it in a condom and it's good as new!
When the bottom finally came off it shot out like a bullet, I still can't find that top piece. Thing almost broke my cheesy harbor freight press... If I got a boss hog press like your getting I would probably lose an eye or impale my leg with something.
When the bottom finally came off it shot out like a bullet, I still can't find that top piece. Thing almost broke my cheesy harbor freight press... If I got a boss hog press like your getting I would probably lose an eye or impale my leg with something.
That's why I got one that's pneumatic; I don't want to stand next to the press at chest-level while I'm pressing out bearings, bushings, ball joints, etc. at 30 tons. I know that bad things can happen that way. When I used to work at a garage, things used to go flying out of our antique hydraulic press more often than I was comfortable with. It would have probably been nice if the damned thing was square. It looked like someone built it in their back-yard.
For what it's worth, all your recent posts kind of got me off my butt to go out and finally buy a decent one, so thanks for that.
Washed it before wraping it next week
Matte black coming up!
OK, maybe it's just my "old schoolness" coming out here but seriously, I don't get covering up nice, shiny paint with what looks like black primer. I watch all those car building shows on Velocity and while a couple of the cars (on the shows that I don't like - whose clients are among the alleged "rich and famous") have gone matte but every other show do the cars up in beautiful PAINT.
But then again, Dave Kindig had his personal Benz matte wrapped.... and I hate it too.
Just my $.02 though....your car to do with as you please.
OK, maybe it's just my "old schoolness" coming out here but seriously, I don't get covering up nice, shiny paint with what looks like black primer. I watch all those car building shows on Velocity and while a couple of the cars (on the shows that I don't like - whose clients are among the alleged "rich and famous") have gone matte but every other show do the cars up in beautiful PAINT.
But then again, Dave Kindig had his personal Benz matte wrapped.... and I hate it too.
Just my $.02 though....your car to do with as you please.
Its probably popular because its affordable, body work and a quality paint job cost more than most are willing to spend. I know I'm couldn't stomach a quality paint job on a car I actually drive on the public roads.
For the price paid for this paint and body work my brother could have gotten a brand new mustang. Although you know people used to sit on the roofs of their cars back in the 60s and 70s so their was a healthy amount of body work involved.
I don't think most people wrap their cars hiding a mint paint job unless they are trying to preserve it, and temporarily change the color.
Stared at her as I got my STI today, really wish it wasn't cold out. She's been sitting outside, itching to drive her again:
Plan on getting the diff bushings done (still unsure between Z1, Energy Susp, or Whiteline) along with compression rod bushings and maybe do STI-R lens with black housing over the winter as well as install my Nardi Grinta and Graffiti K Harness bar.
Plan on getting the diff bushings done (still unsure between Z1, Energy Susp, or Whiteline) along with compression rod bushings and maybe do STI-R lens with black housing over the winter as well as install my Nardi Grinta and Graffiti K Harness bar.
From my personal experience, get the Z1 Motorsports bushings (the blue ones.) You're free to borrow my Z1 subframe bushing removal tool as long as you cover the postage. My experience is that the tool doesn't work though; at least on my car it didn't and wasn't worth the $100. It's a hundred times easier to remove the stock bushing with a sawzall and air hammer.
That said, the Z1 bushings have made the shifts and acceleration SO MUCH crisper that the car feels better than it did when I rolled it new off the lot.
From my personal experience, get the Z1 Motorsports bushings (the blue ones.) You're free to borrow my Z1 subframe bushing removal tool as long as you cover the postage. My experience is that the tool doesn't work though; at least on my car it didn't and wasn't worth the $100. It's a hundred times easier to remove the stock bushing with a sawzall and air hammer.
That said, the Z1 bushings have made the shifts and acceleration SO MUCH crisper that the car feels better than it did when I rolled it new off the lot.
Thanks! From your personal experience, you mean as you have installed the other options or felt them?
I do all the work out of my buddy's shop, so it will definitely be straight sawzall and airhammer from the beginning. The tool definitely seems hit or miss and we have plenty of blades and air tools so i rather go that route from the get, however I do appreciate the courtesy!
Nope, as in I've only installed the Z1 and was VERY happy with the result. Z1 put a lot of thought into their design and went in a different direction than Whiteline based on their track experience.
You'll be really happy just dropping the muffler and knocking out the bushing from the rear with the sawzall. Easy peasy.
Whichever product you go with, I'm sure it'll be WAY better than OEM. Now I know those OEM liquid silicone bushings were junk from day one and really mushed up the ride. Liquid silicone is for fake boobies, not for rear differentials.
I agree whatever you go with will be a pleasant upgrade, I did whiteline bushings with no regrets. They didn't have the Z1 bushings when I replaced mine. I didn't go with energy suspension because I didn't want to mess with reusing the washer from the oem bushing.
Its probably popular because its affordable, body work and a quality paint job cost more than most are willing to spend. I know I'm couldn't stomach a quality paint job on a car I actually drive on the public roads.
I don't think most people wrap their cars hiding a mint paint job unless they are trying to preserve it, and temporarily change the color.
I have no issue with wrapping nor the desire to change the color, however temporal.
It's the flat (matte) finishes I don't care for, they just look cheap to me.... like primer, or an unfinished job. But again, I'm just old.
12-20-2017, 11:57 AM
I watch all those car building shows on Velocity and while a couple of the cars (on the shows that I don't like - whose clients are among the alleged "rich and famous") have gone matte but every other show do the cars up in beautiful PAINT.
