Elle wrote:
> "jim beam" <nospam@example.net> wrote
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>>Elle wrote:
>>
>>>I trust you already own a torch, 'cause this was one time when PB
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> Blaster
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>>>just wasn't enough. Also, I trust you've read the archives for the
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> various
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>>>techniques for dealing with those lower control arms. Like snapping off
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> the
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>>>welded nut...
>>>
>>>Jim Beam knows all. ;-)
>>>
>>
>>what's that supposed to mean???
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>
> 'sa compliment. To be more precise: You have a lot of suggestions on this,
> with the exception you're not completely acquainted IIRC with the effects of
> northern winters on those control arm bolts.
>
> We went through dealing with those ridiculous control arm
> bolts-frozen-in-bushings (well, the middle and outboard one, anyway) this
> past fall, with some other folks also contributing to the thread.
>
> Buy the torch.

fair enough - won't labor the point about the californian idyll.

>
> Otherwise, you'll forgive me for rolling the dice on my trailing arms. I'm
> figuring four more years on my beloved 91 Civic, so it won't be worth it.
> Though I must say she is running s-mooooth after my coolant change
> yesterday. Temperature gage even seems to be indicating a wee bit cooler.
> And shucks yes still over 40 mpg this fine spring.
>
> What is it exactly that you do when driving your Honda that made you
> comment, not long ago, that I was less likely to notice new trailing arm
> bushings than you were? Simply boy-stuff like fast cornering?

i guess. i've torn old cracked bushings in the middle of a turn - can
feel them go when the car suddenly becomes all sloppy & hard to control.

fast cornering? moi? it's never a point of honor to double up on an
exit ramp's speed limit. ever. especially not when the car behind you
is a rodded mustang. no sir.

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> Back to Tegger's project...
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