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How useful is the sellers car without it's steering wheel?

15 minutes left and my boys are 6 seconds out of 2nd place (but 12 laps behind?). When I went to bed the first 4 cars were on the same lap, now the leader has 12 laps on all of them, I wonder what happened?

Stewart into the lead at 200 laps. He is one of the few Nascar guys that can really drive anything, Sprinters, Indycars, Stockers, Road racers. And he's not a kiss arse corporate spokesmodel.

The track for 24 of Daytona sucks for spectators. Would have to be LeMans, though I've never been there. Better food, drink, women, oh and cars!

Geez, I belived the propaganda about the sunshine state and went in a golf shirt and Members Only jacket (ya back when they weren't comical!). The generator was loud and stinky, and they stopped selling coffee about midnight. Man was I happy to see the sunrise. Awesome watching 962's lap Roush Mustangs, lapping RX-7's at night on the banking!!!!

You are probably right about inners, although I don't recall them being split (wouldn't have to be to be installed). Having problems with playing videos, will keep trying.

Tony Stewart/ Jan Lammers/ Andy Wallace are running second 7 seconds back. Probably one of the strongest diver line ups, with Dixon/Manning/Mears. Went to Florida once to watch 24 hours. Got freaking cold, spent all night standing next to light generator exhaust pipe!!! I'd never go again without motorhome.

I believe the plastic vent tube has a curve on the end that goes into cover. The longer side of tube should go towards the rear (shorter side towards gears).

Carl, correction, there are 4 full inner control arm bushings and 8 half outer bushings (but only when you buy urethane upgrades). Stock rubber replacements are 4 and 4. Either way, just order a kit.

Nobody here has driven with a vise-grip on steering shaft? Jed Clampet yes, but when moving around boneyard dogs it works. Sorry, but horn doesn't work that way though.

Will, at least one of the revisions had to do with slightly different cradle for steering rack. Check on urethane steering rack bushings (application dates for early and late builds) to give idea about when cradle changed.

hey chopped liver, I've got some good joke/boobs e-mail to send you.

How come I see so many pick-up trucks with no bumpers? Different rules for trucks? I've been pulled over once, got a warning for no front plate. Cop didn't notice, or care, about race slicks and no bumpers. Another time I was followed by cop for 10 miles back to my garage, he just wanted to talk cars (no bumpers and race slicks) he hung around for 30 minutes and checked my car out top to bottom. He said "cooool".

50+ here. I was about BillRamsey's age when they came out. I've owned two (not including 3 parts donors) and both were racers. Started building my first racecar after getting a full blown ride in Camel GT Z pacecar (previous years Posey championship car) with Don Devendorf and also with Jerry Hanson. Sorry guys, but professional Devendorf wasn't as fast as 26 time national amature champ Hanson. Have had my present car for almost 25 years now. When will it be finished????

Don't want to hijack this thread, but can anybody tell me the diameter of the two stock size tires (175R14 and 195R14)?

Bambi, aren't there two "ears" on the thrust bearing collar? Maybe fork got bumped during installation and came undone from "ears" (collar rotated). This could also cause spring clip to come undone from pivot ball (I think from no resistence at end of fork opposite slave cylinder?). I'd drop the slave cylinder and pull boot from fork and have a good look. Maybe possible to re-engage fork to "ears" and spring clip to pivot without dropping trany. Good to have a look see anyway before pulling gearbox.

I think you will have to crawl inside and remove plastic piece that covers inside back of boot (trunk?). A couple of screws (maybe none), and push the center pins thru plastic rivits. Panel will pull out and you should have access to latch strike. Remove two bolts and bingo your in. Find the plastic center pins from rivits, you'll need them again to put it back together.

Scrapers made from old files work great where you can't reach with your fingers. Triangle files can be ground on fine bench grinder wheel to almost any shape. Dip file in kerosene to lubricate file so as not to gall surface. The edges of the file must be burr free, use a stone to slick off burrs. Use the files before wasting your finger tips on the sandpaper. Cotton wheels (stack two together) on your bench grinder with various rouge compounds work wonders after good sanding. Polishes up so nice your new raw fingerprints will actually scratch surface. First (and last) valve cover I polished took about 40 hours. I sold it for 600 bucks. The guy who bought it ruined it with wrench scratches and wipe downs with filty grease rags full of road grit within a week.

khughes, You will not be able to weld a new caliper bracket to the axel housing. The housing is ductil iron and is not weldable. It can be brazed, but I wouldn't trust brazing for critical application like brakes. Plus you would probably want to heat housing in oven before brazing, this would not be good for bearings (you didn't want to disassemble axel) and definately not good for silver solder joint where strut tube meets housing (will come apart). Stick to bolt on caliper adapters.