Got the new Moog steering knuckle/bearing/hub assembly installed tonight. WITH filming and explaining, I was done in 23 minutes. (This is on the 2011 Escape)

 

sold a few of those in my day at the dealership(until ford started penalizing us for that), they always worked out really well

 

The moog assembly?

 

yep, some on escapes, mostly on focuses

 

I might just go this route from now on. I was REALLY hoping that Moog would release a Problem Solver series for the Escape with bearings that aren't press fit.

I also love that Moog provides you with a new factory style CV nut with the integrated washer. That is the ONLY way to get the proper preload on the bearing. I hate those "pinch nuts" that other brands try to pass off.

 

What is the penalty?

 

so what ford starting doing is judging you on whats called OEM loyalty(basically looking at non OEM part numbers on FMC vins less than 15 years old ) and if you were below a certain percentage you had stock order discounts taken away

 

I ordered 32GB of RAM for the Dell Server/Workstation that my Buddy got for me. I was looking at some of the CPU upgrades, and I can put a 14 core Xeon in there.... wow! I think I'm going to put an NVME SSD drive in it to run the OS and do my video editing off of that. Then put a couple of larger drives in there for file storage. My 2TB drive is filling up on my laptop.

 

so i think when the time comes i found the dealer i will be working with for my next vehicle. They actually offered me a decent trade in(even my old employer low balled me), quoted me a truck under sticker price and actually listened to me. I just cant justify the payment jump for essentially the same truck i have now. Only difference is the color and its a crew cab long bed so it won't fit in my garage.

 

Well, did the stress test, I know I failed that, barley got through it. Just won't know how bad off I am yet, or what they plan do until Monday. On top of that, wasn't feeling good , went to my regular doctor a couple days ago and he drew some blood for labs. Hemoglobin was way too high, which in essence means my blood is currently too thick, so now I'm going in tomorrow morning to yet another hospital for blood transfusion. I'm not sure if that's the dialysis thing you were referring to white. There's different types of that procedure. They're afraid it's going to clot at the moment. Not sure if that's going to be a reoccurring thing. It's something they want to take care of ASAP though. What a PITA, still fighting it.