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I've started thinking the back looks slightly lower than normal, the shocks are fine, they don't bounce and they're not leaking, but the lower stance could be the cause of the remaining rubbing, i'm going to take the spare out the boot and see if it goes away, tbh I didn't hear any rubbing at...
If he'd had known how much of ball ache the job was going to be I think he'd have told me to f*ck off too, luckily I bribed him with a 6 pack of DR Pepper, I also gave the garage owner 2 bottles of Ale for letting us use his sh*t, he's the Dad of Ryans girlfriend so we need to keep him sweet...
Planted, it's amazing how used you can get to how a car feels on knackered parts, with new bushes and ball joints it's back to how it should handle, i'd almost forgotten how good these things are through a series of S-bends.
So it turns out my old bushes had indeed seen better days.
Sadly I forgot to get photos of the new bushes while it was on the lift, so this was the best I could do with it on the ground.
What a monumental pain in the arse that job was, even with an entire fully equipped garage it still...
Yeah i'd have been pissed off if i'd paid for it, although Mike Brewer was handing out free boom shakes if you were willing to stand in line with the other mentally disabled people, seriously they were a weird deformed bunch that wanted to meet him.
My Powerflex ARB bushes don't squeak, although between my exhaust and the stereo I couldn't hear them if they did, seriously though everything on my car is polybushed and nothing has ever squeaked, at normal driving speeds with the stereo off the only thing I can hear is the general rattle of...
I was at the Classic Car & Restoration Show today, there was too many cars to get photos of them all, so I just stuck to the Fords, they are a bit sh*t as I took them with my potato phone and it was extremely busy so I couldn't far enough back for some of them.