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Originally Posted By: aquariuscsm One of the many reasons I despise having neighbors. When it's time for me to buy a house,it's going to be out in the country. I've been contemplating this as well. both sides of me are rentals right now. I remember growing up in the country and it was nice but...

I grew up in upstate NY and remember the dread of trying to get my car passed. ball joints and tie rods almost always made me fail, and I was a poor teenager that couldn't afford replacing them so often (roads up there will destroy a chassis in a year's time). Eventually I found a garage that...

Are you saying you can see the center section of the rack move? that sounds really odd.

Originally Posted By: JHZR2 Even with the vehicle listed, I can't say that it is very descriptive. Are you talking about an idler bushing that has play? pretty sure this vehicle doesn't have an idler arm.

Thanks. I had to go buy a new (huge) torque wrench.

My factory service manual has the torque in one chapter as 221 lb-ft and in another chapter as 250 lb-ft. Does anyone know which one I should follow? How important is this torque?

mosquito dunks. they kill the larvae in the pool. and you can spray the foliage with talstarP. I battle the mosquitos here in south carolina and they would be so bad I was unable to work in my detached shop with door open or even let my son go outside. the talstar p works wonders.

It is possible that it was delivered to the wrong house. I had UPS deliver a package to the wrong house (so tracking was updated as delivered), the UPS driver went to the house where he said he delivered it but was unable to retrieve the package after several attempts. Eventually UPS reimbursed...

Originally Posted By: RiceCake All my tie rod ends are righty-tighty, lefty-loosey. The locking nut on them is what holds them in place, so its just easier to machine them with standard threads. I've never seen one with reverse threads so you can turn them the 'same' way to do the alignment...

8.8 is easier to rebuild.

...then use a 1/4 of whatever cheap ply you want on top and change it ut when necessary. This is what I do, learned it from my Dad. On one of my benches I have a sheet of clear plexi from lowes. This is where I mix paint, or rebuild a cv joint, stuff like that; I can wipe the oil and paint...

It shows that engines aren't as fragile as some people try to lead on. I remember scoring a rod journal a bit on a ford 4.0 and was told not to put it back together, that it would be dead within a week, but I ran it for tens of thousands of miles more before selling it. And another truck I...

It is a very severe binding right now. I'm ok with a functioning limited slip.

Originally Posted By: punisher I thought this carrier had already been worked on? I bought this Expedition with 150,000 miles on it, and unfortunately I don't think any part of it was ever worked on.

I have read the tsb and I am slightly concerned that the new carrier will chatter and bind at some point just like this one. I priced out the trak loc tools I would need, the cost of having the dealer do it, and the cost of replacing the whole carrier, and it came out cheapest for me to buy the...