bldeagle10
Explorer
^ can't wait to see it finished, looking good buddy,
today me, my dad and grandpa stood looking under my hood with a bottle of soapy water with dumb looks on our faces for the better part of an hour, tracking down where my A/C is leaking from, no luck finding the leak, so we threw a bottle of stop leak in that has a red dye in it. it is a really slow leak (bout a week to leak out) so this is probably the best course of action. I also adjusted the rear brakes for the first time, WORLD of difference. I can actually stop now, ALSO, laid under the front axle for about 30 minutes day dreaming and out of boredom pushing up on the sway bar like i was bench pressing it, just memorizing where everything is, looking at stuff i should replace, looked for cracks in the unibody rail (none) tried to wiggle the steering box, it's still very solidly mounted after 325k miles, talked to my dad about wiring in a second aux cooling fan, i looked around and figured out how i would do a "wire tuck" to get the wires out of the engine bay so i could clean it up a bit... cleaned battery terminals ( i need new cables and a new battery one day...)
come to the conclusion that i should get a new tie rod, TRE's, drag link, adjustable track bar, needs new steering damper deal, new strut/shocks (what is the difference?) new coils, new leafs, new rear shackles, u-bolts, complete poly bushing kit (quadratec has one IIRC), I will be buying a new cylinder head (hopefully comes with valvetrain) the head will be port and polished, hot tanked possibly media blasted, rebuilt, thrown on my motor, new rockers, rocker arms, lifters, rod bearings, main bearings, rear main seal, complete gasket kit.. head will be painted with high temp silver paint to make it look clean. new header and possibly down pipe, possibly new O2 sensor's... Just Empty Every Pocket...
today me, my dad and grandpa stood looking under my hood with a bottle of soapy water with dumb looks on our faces for the better part of an hour, tracking down where my A/C is leaking from, no luck finding the leak, so we threw a bottle of stop leak in that has a red dye in it. it is a really slow leak (bout a week to leak out) so this is probably the best course of action. I also adjusted the rear brakes for the first time, WORLD of difference. I can actually stop now, ALSO, laid under the front axle for about 30 minutes day dreaming and out of boredom pushing up on the sway bar like i was bench pressing it, just memorizing where everything is, looking at stuff i should replace, looked for cracks in the unibody rail (none) tried to wiggle the steering box, it's still very solidly mounted after 325k miles, talked to my dad about wiring in a second aux cooling fan, i looked around and figured out how i would do a "wire tuck" to get the wires out of the engine bay so i could clean it up a bit... cleaned battery terminals ( i need new cables and a new battery one day...)
come to the conclusion that i should get a new tie rod, TRE's, drag link, adjustable track bar, needs new steering damper deal, new strut/shocks (what is the difference?) new coils, new leafs, new rear shackles, u-bolts, complete poly bushing kit (quadratec has one IIRC), I will be buying a new cylinder head (hopefully comes with valvetrain) the head will be port and polished, hot tanked possibly media blasted, rebuilt, thrown on my motor, new rockers, rocker arms, lifters, rod bearings, main bearings, rear main seal, complete gasket kit.. head will be painted with high temp silver paint to make it look clean. new header and possibly down pipe, possibly new O2 sensor's... Just Empty Every Pocket...
