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Old Sep 18, 2024 | 11:23 PM
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I think mine were dry, too. I overfilled them and Lord, what a mess! My whole front end is Moog, so I spend a good while greasing at oil changes now. I went from never greasing a thing on any car I've ever owned, to now having two grease guns and it seems I'm constantly greasing crap. I'm changing oil on the 150 and greasing AGAIN this weekend (just wrapped up greasing the other one tonight).
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Old Sep 18, 2024 | 11:29 PM
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Samsung is having Best Buy ship the SSD to me. It's a V-NAND too, which is twice as fast as the NAND SSD's. Also supposed to last 10 times longer.



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Old Sep 18, 2024 | 11:31 PM
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Originally Posted by COStruck
I think mine were dry, too. I overfilled them and Lord, what a mess! My whole front end is Moog, so I spend a good while greasing at oil changes now. I went from never greasing a thing on any car I've ever owned, to now having two grease guns and it seems I'm constantly greasing crap. I'm changing oil on the 150 and greasing AGAIN this weekend (just wrapped up greasing the other one tonight).
Mines all Moog now too. The idler drag link might be factory, but those really should never need to be replaced.

I kept calling it a damn idler in the video too.... LOL. I even said I thought that was the wrong name for it.

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Old Sep 18, 2024 | 11:33 PM
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The more i think about it, I think my inners do have zerks. I'll confirm this weekend or sooner, but not tonight (it's in the driveway and it's dark).

Mine actually had a bad idler, and that's what kicked off the whole rebuild.
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Old Sep 18, 2024 | 11:35 PM
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Every oil change? Ok... mainly, after fording deep streams. Backing a boat trailer down a wet dock, when you fo its wheel bearings, right after pulling out to go home. ESP if salt water.

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I think mine were dry, too. I overfilled them and Lord, what a mess! My whole front end is Moog, so I spend a good while greasing at oil changes now. I went from never greasing a thing on any car I've ever owned, to now having two grease guns and it seems I'm constantly greasing crap. I'm changing oil on the 150 and greasing AGAIN this weekend (just wrapped up greasing the other one tonight).
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Old Sep 18, 2024 | 11:38 PM
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Way back, sealed bearings were not as common.

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The more i think about it, I think my inners do have zerks. I'll confirm this weekend or sooner, but not tonight (it's in the driveway and it's dark).

Mine actually had a bad idler, and that's what kicked off the whole rebuild.
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Old Sep 18, 2024 | 11:41 PM
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They were done.


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Old Sep 19, 2024 | 09:18 AM
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Tried to remove the front shocks yesterday. Definitely stock, soaked it with atf/acetone, lucas penetrating and wd-40, barely able to get the nut to move, and when i do its a struggle, going to cut it off today, then the shocks all around will be done.
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Old Sep 19, 2024 | 10:26 AM
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Originally Posted by BillSF9c
Every oil change?
Twice a year here..Before and after winter. That was after drilling most everything out and installing self tapping zerks. Purchased u-joints for it but never installed them..the gen 10 still had the original greaseless joints in it when I got rid of it. Doing your own alignments pays off in more ways than one or two.
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Old Sep 19, 2024 | 10:28 AM
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I'm also moving to 2X/yr. this year.
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