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Daryl LBZ Senior Enthusiast

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Put some Silverstars in my low beams, fogs already had them. Also got it into the garage to figure out why my steering is loose. I have a bad inner tie rod end, and the other is on it's way out. Going to replace them both with some new ones from MOOG.

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I need to go through my whole front end. I need new coils and joints. I would like to do a set of actual coilovers and 4 link the rear, but i dont want to do custom parts

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Put some Silverstars in my low beams, fogs already had them. Also got it into the garage to figure out why my steering is loose. I have a bad inner tie rod end, and the other is on it's way out. Going to replace them both with some new ones from MOOG.

That would be my guess as to why your steering is loose, possibly your ball joints and pitman arm and idler arm.

Daryl LBZ Senior Enthusiast

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That would be my guess as to why your steering is loose, possibly your ball joints and pitman arm and idler arm.

Yea, it seems to just be the inner tie rods that are bad. Dad laid under the truck while I moved the steering wheel back and forth, and he said everything else looked tight, and okay. Edited by Daryl Z71
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I drove my truck to get some new tools and a tool box to add to my current setup for the garage. Got some good black friday deals on them.

SnakeEyeSS Senior Enthusiast

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Hauled home a new artificial tree.

 

My old Christmas tree is around 9, and last year I had re string two pre-strings that had diedz and it was huge. 9 foot tall and 70 inches wide.

 

Downsized to a 7.5'/60". Got the one Lowes had in their ad for $289, has the real looking leaves/needles, and LED lights that are white OR multicolor, and memory steel branches that never need adjusting. Supposedly a No-maintanence artificial tree.

RyanbabZ71 Senior Enthusiast

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I drove my truck to get some new tools and a tool box to add to my current setup for the garage. Got some good black friday deals on them.

I went to one store, picked up a 20v dewalt drill to replace my dying 18v

 

 

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I added 631 miles to the tally from a quick trip to Las Vegas for turkey day. Right now I'm less than 100 miles from hitting 226k!!

 

Ane she's dirty as hell from an outing on Thursday to shoot my cousins ar15 in the desert right outside of the city. Hopefully I'll be able to hand wash her in the upcoming days, and the interior needs a ton of attention too.

 

And im planning on swapping out the idle air control valve in the upcoming weeks. I have a rough idle on cold starts (overnight) and its the lowest hanging fruit along with giving the MAF a cleaning.

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Let my dad drive my truck and when hopping out, he said and i quote "feels like I'm at Ft. Bragg again jumping out of a dam airplane" I busted out laughing

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