AlpineFunco

Hoping it’s the 91 1/2 in the drawing...

On 5/9/2021 at 8:40 AM, onanysunday said:

I had seen Outfront John do it so when I did my S4 I added an additional gusset on each side of the trailing arm perch and then installed a larger bolt. IIRC it was a 9/16 super high strength bolt. This job is tough for two reasons. Number one the stock perch is very hard material and hard to drill or get a reamer through. Access is hard to get in there with a drill. Number two it is hard to get in there to weld those tabs in. But doable. Beefy! Also notice I took some 1/8 plate, wrapped and welded to the tube where the uniball presses in. I have heard of at least on failure there and did not want to take any chances. On those tabs I did machine thick spacers to move each gusset away from the tab slightly. Needed for clearance and to get it welded in.

Is that -10 or -8 line running from the tank to the filter and from the filter to the pump? If it’s -10 did you have to open up the outlet from the tank? 

Got them torn down and cleaned up.

Taking arms to Funco for the uniballs and also going to have them rebuild the shocks. Time to spend some money on parts and start putting it back together.

Can anybody confirm if 95 is width at the paddles??

9 hours ago, Grease Monkey said:

Saychz316 was Kevin's board name. I got to know Kevin later in his life. He was fighting cancer and I had my first battle at hand at that time. We had quite a few pm's back and forth regarding our issues that I would go back and read from time to time. One I always wanted to find the right time to post and share with you all. What I can say from that post was he loved his wife and kids to the moon.  He had his fight but he didnt want to burden others with it.  I hope he found some comfort in talking with me as I did with him.

RIP Kevin

Somebody posted a great picture of him. It was one of the map programs street views and he was in his driveway, beer in hand, and flipping off the camera. 

A friend and his girl disappeared from the fire and walked down to the canal, for what we could only assume was some romantic time alone. We hopped on the 3 wheelers and went looking to do a welfare check on them. We didn’t find them but they later told us we almost saw a couple of full moons...

Damn... only one slide out on that rig, that roughing it.

44 minutes ago, Snap-On Chris said:

Might need a steel stretcher, Pat

HAHA. I want remembering to take my whip off to be the hardest part about loading the car into the trailer.

Used to be able to just search here and find them but obviously that's changed. I put the car on jack stands, pulled the wheels, pulled the trailing arms, then remembered I need to be on the lookout for an enclosed over the summer. So, anybody know the width of a Gen 4 with paddles (Dunesport 14.50)? Feel free to add front tire widths and lengths as well as I'm sure the question will be asked in the future.

Gen 4 #38

I'll have to give John a call after I get the uniballs put into my arms.

Got it out with a little tap of the hammer, should’ve kept going before posting. But now that it’s out don’t see how to get the bearing out, back to needing a press again I presume. Don’t think that race is just going to pop out.

Guessing this stuff hasn’t been apart since 2004.

Ok, I’ve had a Gen 3 all these years. Just got a Gen 4 and it’s time to take things apart. Got the trailing arms off, had to use a sawzall as two of the bolts had welded themselves to the bushings.

On to the Cv’s. Got them out, soaked in diesel, and wiped down. Not super impressed with how they look, but I may be able to squeeze another season out of them before replacing. 
 

The hubs; got most of it apart. Got the CV body out and the bearing that it goes onto it.  got the inner piece that it bolts to out and wiped down as well. Pulled the 5 bolts that hold the housing to the trailing arm and thought maybe it’d just pop out like everything else, but it didn’t. 
 

So the question of the day is will it take a press to get that out, or more importantly get it back in? I don’t mind beating on it a bit but don’t want to eff anything up. And if it’s going to take a press to put it back in then there is no sense in me beating it out. Arms are going to Funco to have uniballs welded in, so I could probably just have them do it if it’s going to turn into a big pain in the ass.

Had a gen 3 for years and loved it. But picked up this Gen 4 in February. Got one trip in before my season ended. Going to go through it over the summer and maybe change up a few things. 😎 

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Going through the new to me car.