Re: Henry's 55 Constellation

Posted by Cli55er On 2009/3/26 9:02:44

yeah, i feel like i might as well be sleeping in there right now. it sux...i am surely taking a good break after this.

looks like the Saturday weather might be crappy...as long as it doesn't rain i will take it with me, but man if after all this i can't take it i will be a bit disappointed. the work wasn't for nothing, but this Salado was part of the reason to get it done quicker. i hope it doesn't rain on my parade.

anyways, sorry for the crappy pics, but my cell phone is all i had this morning on the way out and it sux bad. you can see at least that the Eagle has half way landed. i am alittle concerned about the upper a-arms smashing the upper rebound bumpers to bits, but they were cheap, so i can always order new ones if i needed too later when i get more weight on the frame. with this humidity lately it has a been a turd getting the paint to dry in timely manner, but i was patient and didn't touch it for a day or so, which it was dry by then.

i had 4 guys, count it FOUR guys on my frame last night and all that weight, about 800 pounds or so, couldn't budge the torsion bars up enough for me to pull the pins from the hangers to let them down. So, my friend backed up his big ass suburban and i put some towels over the frame and jacked the frame up to the rear bumper of his truck. then used another jack to raise the lower a arm to get the torsion bar up. this worked, but even that lifted his suburban in the air a bit. i was suprised! anyways, i got everything together now, but i have to borrow the suburban again as the base plate with the rubber underneath came out of the hole, didn't have the clip on yet, so when i let the tension down i had to try to bet it back in the hole with a pry bar.....this worked fine, but the rubber underneath didn't move and so the base plate is now smashing the rubber in the wrong way. so, i will again attempt to use the suburban to rehang that side so i can fix the rubber piece. it probably isn't that big of a deal, but it is bothering me.

i also noticed that the lower outer bushing pin that i used from MAX (mine was bad and worn down) is longer than the original i had on the other side. even the worn original and the other lower pin from MAX i didn't use is shorter too. it doesn't look like there are hardly any threads showing on the original one.....should i be concerned about that....i know the lock washer is on there, but i was just thinking i since have to redo that side, i can just us the lower pin from MAX and have more thread sticking out.

you will also notice i put the pins in backwards. i didn't like the grease-certs facing the front of the car where dirt, etc....can slam into it. i don't know if that matters, but it seems to work fine. the only thing i have noticed is that the backing plate on the passenger's side, where i used the MAX lower pin, hits the pin, but not on the driver's side where it is shorter. i know the wheel will only turn so far side to side, but i don't know how far and i don't want to have it hitting that lower pin all the time, since that is probably not good either.

thoughts.....???

thanks and enjoy the crappy photos ;0)

Hank

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