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  • Dropping a turd
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  • Member For: 17y 1m 25d
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Pulled it apart and put it back together with new stuff.

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But I need to do some work on the cold side as the piping is hard against the bumper underneath. I might have the 2 45 deg silicone joiners if the opposites position.

I see a drop saw, Must be a Rapids cooler.

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No its plazmaman, and the drop saw wasn't used. Just happened to be lying around in the garage wanting to be in on the action.

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Changed front springs from the Kings to cobras with a 20mm lift. So now 20mm below factory but 20mm up from the kings. Time to figure out height of rear and get the leafs out and reset.

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Old oil and filter out

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New oil and filter in (filter courtesy of turbotrana at my 30th, thanks mate hahaha)

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New belt on (fans out this time, slowly learning)

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Clean throttle body/butterfly and crossover piping, lube pullies as best I can

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Put it all back together and ready to go for a test drive, let's check torque of wheel nuts first.

Should take all of 2 minutes.

Mofo.

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New mission, remove all 4 lock nuts without a functioning lock nut key. Remembered the tip I've read on here any times before, bashing on sockets! 22mm was too tight...7/8" socket was perfect.

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After 5 minutes of trying to pry the thing back out of the socket to get the other 3, I had a rethink and remembered sockets have a hole through them :ermm:

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Grab a bigger deep socket to brace it against and for the nut to fall into loosely (a tip I worked out after the first go with a 22mm deep socket that got stuck on it...doofus)

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Now I know why I didn't throw out my broken $2 ratchet. Re-purposed as a ram rod! Also decided to place some metal underneath after digging a chunk out of the concrete floor on my first go at it.

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I'm glad to be rid of the lock nuts. They are piss easy for thieves to remove and can only stop me from changing a wheel in the rain on the way to a wedding or something. :bs:

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  • Dropping a turd
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You got it Steve, that's exactly how you do it.

Hey Steve are 2 of your wheels +27 rear use only. My origin FPV wheels were like that. You can tell as the wheel nuts are different lenghts

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