Minnesota Focus Owners Club

Steve it's not the big buttons-it's the damn hand crank on the side of the computer !!--o6designs-Bob

focinite wrote:ok, first get a map gas torch and heat the piss out of the nylock nut welded to the rear arm, this will alow you to remove said bolt.

Not in mine. I was able to turn the bolt in the nut, but the bolt is frozen in the steel sleeve in the bushing. No go without destroying that bushing and bolt.

FORDSVTPARTS wrote:

focinite wrote:ok, first get a map gas torch and heat the piss out of the nylock nut welded to the rear arm, this will alow you to remove said bolt. then with car fully, and i mean fully jacked in the rear and on stands( use a 4x4 under the rear sub frame center and be careful not to crack the evap canister) set jack under arm that goes from the center out and remove shock bolt, lower jack and tug spring out. to install cram spring in( this will require swearing and some way to stop the bleeding) jack up and insert shock bolt, you have now installed a rear spring.

I'm not even going to try to remove any rear suspension bolts, I don't want to buy control arms.

mine came right out, course i had all of 20 k on the odometer when i did mine at work,on the clock

don't, under any circumstances, EVER touch that bolt. I had to buy a new control arm when I tried to do mine

oh god!!!!!!!! if you use heat and some time and a shit load of foamy penis-trating oil it will come out. if the bushin is crusty, fuckit!!!! get a urathen replacement and bang the fucker in with a hammer. people must think when a mechanic does things like this we have a delicate touch, fuck no!!!!!!! i cook the fucker out witda torch and press the new sumbich back in with a 5 pound maul!!! you think i got these guns nilly prancing around the shop, no!!!!! when you work on shit it breakes, take my wifes honda......ahhhhhhh the number two strikes again!!!!!!!!!!! a week to do rear struts!!!!! its a 2 hour job!!!!!!! but i had 3 bolts snap and one bushin fag out, so i thought on my feet( actually i was on my back, the car was 6 inches off the ground) so i got my tap kit and i got a bushing that was from a prelude, a few hours of inventing new swear words and the loss of two pints of blood, its fixed.....point is dont get scared till youve done the whole job,and if you fuck sumtin up, stop have a(insert poision of choice) and think how can this be fixed with what i have in my garage.

nilly prancing around the shop

you must do that alot to get your "guns" that big, lmao

focinite wrote:oh god!!!!!!!! if you use heat and some time and a shit load of foamy penis-trating oil it will come out. if the bushin is crusty, fuckit!!!! get a urathen replacement and bang the fucker in with a hammer. people must think when a mechanic does things like this we have a delicate touch, fuck no!!!!!!! i cook the fucker out witda torch and press the new sumbich back in with a 5 pound maul!!! you think i got these guns nilly prancing around the shop, no!!!!! when you work on shit it breakes, take my wifes honda......ahhhhhhh the number two strikes again!!!!!!!!!!! a week to do rear struts!!!!! its a 2 hour job!!!!!!! but i had 3 bolts snap and one bushin fag out, so i thought on my feet( actually i was on my back, the car was 6 inches off the ground) so i got my tap kit and i got a bushing that was from a prelude, a few hours of inventing new swear words and the loss of two pints of blood, its fixed.....point is dont get scared till youve done the whole job,and if you fuck sumtin up, stop have a(insert poision of choice) and think how can this be fixed with what i have in my garage.

Yeah, but the point is that most people don't have the tools on hand or the mechanical ability to do it that way.

I could do it that way but guess what, I'm old and I've learned over the years to do these jobs by taking the path of least resistance.

I just try to help people avoid the problems associated with these tasks.

FORDSVTPARTS wrote:


I could do it that way but guess what, I'm old

.

oh noooos yer like 13 years oler than me carefull now i dont want you fall down a break a hip!!!! j/p. no im in my 30s now and trust me i feel you on that old thing, im looking to get out of wrenchin, but stay in the field. i think id make a good foreman or maybe a dealer service manager some day.... id rule like hoff, hes my hero.

focinite wrote:

FORDSVTPARTS wrote:


I could do it that way but guess what, I'm old

.

oh noooos yer like 13 years oler than me carefull now i dont want you fall down a break a hip!!!! j/p. no im in my 30s now and trust me i feel you on that old thing, im looking to get out of wrenchin, but stay in the field. i think id make a good foreman or maybe a dealer service manager some day.... id rule like hoff, hes my hero.

Wait, you're in your 30's and you're saying I'm 13 years older than you?

Thats nice, make me older than I am, I'm the only one allowed to call me old

I just turned 41 if it makes you feel any worse

I got out of full time wrenching when I was in my late 20's, I actually miss it sometimes.If I could get a job working on the cars I like working on I'd quit this gig in a heartbeat.

FORDSVTPARTS wrote:

focinite wrote:

FORDSVTPARTS wrote:


I could do it that way but guess what, I'm old

.

oh noooos yer like 13 years oler than me carefull now i dont want you fall down a break a hip!!!! j/p. no im in my 30s now and trust me i feel you on that old thing, im looking to get out of wrenchin, but stay in the field. i think id make a good foreman or maybe a dealer service manager some day.... id rule like hoff, hes my hero.

Wait, you're in your 30's and you're saying I'm 13 years older than you?

Thats nice, make me older than I am, I'm the only one allowed to call me old

I just turned 41 if it makes you feel any worse

I got out of full time wrenching when I was in my late 20's, I actually miss it sometimes.If I could get a job working on the cars I like working on I'd quit this gig in a heartbeat.

We should open a parts and cool car parts store and install...

o2designs wrote: I got out of full time wrenching when I was in my late 20's, I actually miss it sometimes.If I could get a job working on the cars I like working on I'd quit this gig in a heartbeat.

We should open a parts and cool car parts store and install... [/quote]

We just need to work for Bob.

ive wanted to do a auto salon for years now. but dont nkow how to start a bidness.