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    1 hour ago, SwampNut said:

     

    Same question, only as of a few hours ago?  Multiple browsers or devices?

     

    Yes, multiple browsers and my android phone.

    I wasn't on between 6 am and 2 pm, sometime between then I think.

    Replacement springs or helper springs?

    in Handyman

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    1 hour ago, Zero Knievel said:

    Truck is done.  $434.99 to install the springs.  Took the guy 5 hours at $85/hour.  Quite reasonable.  I'll get a better look at how much OEM parts he had to change out, but I saw he did the rear hanger on the driver's side, and there is NO WAY I could have gotten tools in place to loosen the nuts mounting them to the frame.  Commented that it was a bitch of a job, which I believe with over 200K and 25 years.

    When you can't loosen them, you cut them (in general).  On mine, they were riveted to the frame so the heads had to be cut off and then driven out.   I replaced both sides on my Ranger, have done far worse jobs.   Saying that, I'm sure you made the right decision to have it done. 

    Sticking doors

    in Handyman

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    Just a quick tip for a sticking wooden door.  Due to the ever changing weather here lately, the front door was sticking in one area.  I was going through the door and had a can of Honda spray polish in my hand when the light bulb went off.  The door opens as slick as snot on a knob now. 

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    Replacement springs or helper springs?

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    6 hours ago, superhawk996 said:

     I have reused them many times without an issue, but I shy away from giving it an automatic blessing.

    I have never bought new and haven't lost my rear yet?  😃

     

    6 hours ago, superhawk996 said:

    I ran into several "one time use" bolts on my Porsche when I was reassembling it, and they're much more expensive than hardware store bolts.

    Torque to yield bolts?  I normally replace the important ones like head bolts but some others, not.   Like you said, opinions.

    Replacement springs or helper springs?

    in Handyman

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    4 hours ago, Zero Knievel said:


    Don’t have the right tools.  Assholes at Mazda/Ford used an assortment of SAE and metric sizes.  I got the u-bolts on the left side undone…which I thought would be the worst.  However, the mount bolts on the ends use a 13/16 nut.  I don’t have that in a closed end wrench, and after trying as much as I dared with an open end wrench, I decided it was smarter to pay my mechanic than to risk rounding off nuts with inadequate tools.  I even had mom pick up a 90 degree impact wrench from HF in town, but it was too large to access the problem nuts.

     

    Yeah, I could look and buy a single 13/16 closed end wrench, but that’s a trip to/from town and if I need yet another tool…another trip…plus the risk of it fucking up anyhow.  Sometimes, paying a mechanic is better than dealing with it yourself.  I kid you not, I bought impact drive sockets after breaking a regular socket working on mom’s car with the impact gun.  Every fucking place I could use an impact gun either is inaccessible (can’t get the tool in there) or had bolts so long the socket can’t sit on the nut…even with deep sockets.

    I guess you are right but then we don't get to live it through you.  😃

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    23 hours ago, superhawk996 said:

    Hornady One Shot gun lube helps triggers

    I bought some One Shot because everyone talking it up here.  I found it made my knives super slick opening and it did clean but didn't last long.  So regular type lube was better in the long run.  

    I'm not a real biker.

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    26 minutes ago, RXX said:

    "It was just gangbanger on gangbanger," Johnson told a press conference in Red River, adding that no bystanders were injured.

    So was he implying nothing to see here folks, move along.?    😉

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