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Looks great!  You should be happy with that job! 

Great work! If you get bored you can always come over and do mine!

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Dave C..........My mantra: I can not be bought!!      Long and short term leases available.

What's wrong with Cooper Cobras?

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I like em! Just not Firestone Wide Ovals. Smile...

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Nice work! And it only took a week?! Wow!

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Yes, just a week. But I still have to go from the differential forward. Then I'll go over it again to get better detail and hit the hidden and harder to reach places. But now a casual observer would think she looks pretty new.

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Nice work on the cleanup detail.  I'm retired too and have spent lots of hours cleaning, scraping, and painting.  I bought my '73 as a project car and it's been just that.  It seems that once I start to work on something on this car, it always leads to other things.  It's been fun!

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1973 BB 4-Speed Coupe Project Car

So true, John. When this latest saga started, I just wanted the ball joints and control arm bushings replaced. I didn't feel comfortable doing the ball joints so I farmed them out.

Now the list and price tag grew. A lot!
All new U-Joints. All bushings replaced. Right wheel bearings being replaced.

In the process of replacing the wheel bearings things went haywire. The mechanic has a tool used to press out the bearings in place. The bearings must have ceased since the bearings won't come out and the tool broke in the process. AND the caliper mount was bent. So I will probably be stuck buying a bearing assembly.

My gut told me to use a local shop that does this a lot and uses a big hydraulic press. But no...I let my friend do the job. Big mistake!

So what started out as a $600 job will probably hit $3,000. At least he let me clean and paint the undercarriage while it was on his lift!

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OUCH! Was it a "tool" like this one, Dave?



While I've never used one, the design is prone to damaging the hub/carrier if the bearings are tight on the spindle. I would rather take the thing off the car and use a press. A hunnert years ago, the first rear bearing job I ever did on one of these things almost kilt me. I spent the better part of a day gettin that dang thing apart....with NO special tools, or press. Just a BIG hammer, and a LOT of heat(and not just a few choice werds of encouragement)! Never again....off she comes for me.

The detailing looks really nice, tho!


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Yup...that's the tool. I learned my lesson the hard way (like most lessons). Next time I either send it in to be rebuilt or I just take it to my local driveline guy and let him do it. A few things I will never try. 1) Rebuild a tranny 2) rebuild an engine 3) paint my car (unless I have a partner who knows what he's doing 4) service the rear wheel bearings. Just about all else is fair game. My reconditioned A-Arms. Not bad!

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