Thread: What did you do to your Car today?

Originally Posted by TexasTanker19kilo20

Wow, I have not seen a Full service gas station in a while. Kinda wish someone would pump gas for me LOL.

They have them in Canada, sometimes not the best service, but curtious.
Fast Gas, some Esso's, and Mohawk come to mind.
I use Fast Gas.

and while im saying stuff, Safeway gas here is sh*t.

I did all 4 struts on my car today, the ride is much better and I'm happy with it. But I will say SOMEONE needs to mention if you get KYB struts and say Monroe mounts, the mounts come with 3 new mount nuts for the towers, but they don't come with the one center nut that bolts mount to strut. So I had to go out of my way and have someone drive me to buy 4 new nuts and locking washers.

And as always, something goes wrong every time. I always round a head or strip threads, and of course it happened. Since I was not aware that the strut mount nut wouldn't fit, I put the impact on the stock (coarse threaded nut) on the KYB fine threaded shaft. So I had to go get a tap and die set and fix that screw up. And the fronts are cake, but the rears..heh. I think my bolts were seized up so I had a hell of a time getting them to pop out of the knuckle. And I was getting tired and kept running into little set backs and I had had enough. The springs kept wanting to slide off the isolator, the isolator kept moving out of place, the spring compressors hit either the mount (since it's so big on the rears) or the strut (long bolts on the compressor) and it's just a pain imo.
My advice, buy your struts and mounts, take em off, let a shop load them for a few bucks, and then reinstall them. It's not hard or anything its' just...annoying imo.

And also, my alignment is so out of whack it isn't even funny. My wheel is cocked at least 30-45* to the left. Granted I have camber bolts up front. So I'll have to get an alignment this week for sure. Didn't touch a thing else. I planned on an alignment I just get tired of folks saying undoing the strut to knuckle bolts won't mess anything up. Yesh it does. Even before I had the camber kit it did that.

AND I got some poly upper mounts for 45 shipped, brand new. Overall I'm proud.

Blam, Vagina.




What can brown do for you?

how pissed was the wife?

Extraordinarily such. LOL

wives are like that.. specially about car parts.

Checked out the stock seat brackets, looks like the Corbeaus will work with just some adapter brackets, the seat will only be raised 1/8" it looks like.

i always convince my wife I need that part for some reason or another. She's not very smart so she buys it most of the time.

Drove it to work, a funeral and back home.

Took my niece and nephew for a ride.

-worked on getting to rest of the water out of the floorboards(still there)
-washed it
-waxed it
-put 52 bucks of gas in the *****
-cleaned out trash in back seat
-thought bout finding a better car(again)

thats it for now

Somewhat fixed my exhaust leak.

I drove it. Wished my project was almost done. But no such luck lol

new tires, oh yea!

i like presenting the REALLY super expensive option, then showing the less expensive one.. and i get that option lol still not the Cheap cheap option

disabled DRL's
in the mail was the projector headlights with angel eyes(halo's).
Just have to make up a wiring harness for the angel eyes.
And then install, if it doesnt rain.

Also: Took the decals off the roof of the car.

^ This calls for a celebration.