The CZickness X

[churchmouse]

No one

Whew that was a close one.

 

[RustyHornet]

Brother just dropped his "kids" off. Babysitting Cledus and Darla the weiners till tomorrow.

 

[RustyHornet]

Window shopping at CGW. Trying to decide the diriection for the SP01c. I think I'll be going along the same lines as 88 when I get the funds. Not full pro package, but picking and choosing a defensive package. TFX Pro's and a nice set of grips. All of this is subject to change as the day goes on...

 

[88E30M50]

Right now, I'm hating dealership mechanics. Doing a brake job on the wife's car and that dealer monkey that replaced the driver's side rear tire put the lug bolts on with an impact wrench. One will not budge no matter how long I hit it with my impact. In 30 years of working on cars, I've never run into a lug bolt this stubborn. It's killing the momentum of the job pretty quickly.

 

[T-DOGG]

Right now, I'm hating dealership mechanics. Doing a brake job on the wife's car and that dealer monkey that replaced the driver's side rear tire put the lug bolts on with an impact wrench. One will not budge no matter how long I hit it with my impact. In 30 years of working on cars, I've never run into a lug bolt this stubborn. It's killing the momentum of the job pretty quickly.

German torque spec, goodentight.
I always used a torque stick on my impact to get me close to spec and then tightened with a torque wrench the rest of the way. Some folks depend on impact guns too much and some trust torque sticks the same, I learned that lesson the hard way at an early age.

 

[RustyHornet]

Hate that for you, 88. I was taught long ago to always use torque wrench. I witnessed first hand what happens when you don't. Few years back we were doing a project for a good friend who was dying of cancer. His dream was to see his '75 Trans Am finished. We put a plan together and got the car painted in two weeks. The day that we revealed the car to him, he took it out around the lot and started coming back towards us, he hammered the gas and we all saw the left front wheel fall off and he drove over it causing the fender to be folded beyond repair. We got the car back in the shop, felt terrible thinking we had not torqued the wheels. Pressed on finding a fender and repairing the car a week later. It wasn't until we took the car down the road for an alignment that we discovered the studs had been stretched from years of someone using an impact to run the lugs on. They weren't holding torque..... All studs were replaced, he got to drive the car a few times before he became to weak..... People don't understand how unsafe it is to do that.....

 

[RustyHornet]

Double tap. Not sure why INGO is being so screwy with me.

 

[churchmouse]

Hate that for you, 88. I was taught long ago to always use torque wrench. I witnessed first hand what happens when you don't. Few years back we were doing a project for a good friend who was dying of cancer. His dream was to see his '75 Trans Am finished. We put a plan together and got the car painted in two weeks. The day that we revealed the car to him, he took it out around the lot and started coming back towards us, he hammered the gas and we all saw the left front wheel fall off and he drove over it causing the fender to be folded beyond repair. We got the car back in the shop, felt terrible thinking we had not torqued the wheels. Pressed on finding a fender and repairing the car a week later. It wasn't until we took the car down the road for an alignment that we discovered the studs had been stretched from years of someone using an impact to run the lugs on. They weren't holding torque..... All studs were replaced, he got to drive the car a few times before he became to weak..... People don't understand how unsafe it is to do that.....

Chasing the book being in a big a$$ hurry.

 

[canterbc]

Different problem with my lug nuts. The way Ford does them, on F-150s anyway, is there a cap on top of the actual nut. Over time the nut swells up and can become much more difficult to get off. Already had to go up a size socket to get it off. I'll replace them soon. It's kinda expensive for 24 little ole nuts though!

 

[RustyHornet]

My inner cowboy is begging to come out.... I miss my lever gun.

 

[churchmouse]

Different problem with my lug nuts. The way Ford does them, on F-150s anyway, is there a cap on top of the actual nut. Over time the nut swells up and can become much more difficult to get off. Already had to go up a size socket to get it off. I'll replace them soon. It's kinda expensive for 24 little ole nuts though!

I really wanted to go somewhere with this but I can not.....

 

[Birds Away]

My nuts are fine in case anyone was wondering.

 

[Birds Away]

They are neither too loose or too tight.

 

[Birds Away]

I have to admit that I haven't gotten them off in a while, so....

 

[bjenkins]

They are neither too loose or too tight.

 

[Birds Away]

I guess no news is good news.

 

[RustyHornet]

Sounds like your nuts are perfect, BA.

 

[RustyHornet]

The wiener I'm petting now doesn't have nuts. Neither do the other three in the house, they did at one point.... Poor guys.

 

[Birds Away]

The wiener I'm petting now doesn't have nuts. Neither do the other three in the house, they did at one point.... Poor guys.

That's a lot of weiners.

 

[RustyHornet]

That's a lot of weiners.

No kidding. Two of them are even black! Only one of them is hairy though...