Sunday, August 13, 2006

Suspension And Steering

Today and yesterday I applied a little time and effort toward disassembling the front steering and suspension components. I spent a lot of time tapping a ball joint separator with a hammer. I also applied a lot of penetrating oil (Not WD-40) to stuck nuts and bolts.

I managed to separate all the ball joints but two, the lower ball joint on the lower a-arm on boths side of the truck. Why not these? My separator is 3/4" and these need one that is roughly an inch, maybe 15/16" or even 7/8"s but definintely not 3/4".

It is amazing how greasy, grimy, grungy these pieces are. I thought I was done with most of the grim when I finished up the engine. Nope.

I got the top a-arm removed, pulled the rotors, removed the wheel bearings, etc.

I have also looked up which piece the pitman arm is. And the idler arm. And a couple other necessary for steering type pieces. And then I prompty did _not_ commit them to memory because it doesn't really matter. Actually I was afraid if I tried to remember which piece was which I might forget my name or telephone number or some other useful piece of information.

Now I have to ask you a grammar question. Is it bad form to end a sentence with the word is or are? Assuming it is, re-write the following sentence:

It is amazing how greasy, grimy, grungy these pieces are.

(You will receive extra credit for correctly diagraming the sentence.)

4 comments:

Mike said...

Dunno.

But if you wanted it translated into binary,

01001001011101000010000001101001011
10011001000000110000101101101011000
01011110100110100101101110011001110
01000000110100001101111011101110010
00000110011101110010011001010110000
10111001101111001001011000010000001
10011101110010011010010110110101111
00100101100001000000110011101110010
01110101011011100110011101111001001
00000011101000110100001100101011100
11011001010010000001110000011010010
11001010110001101100101011100110010
000001100001011100100110010100101110

Here is the site,
http://nickciske.com/tools/binary.php

Rick said...

I convert between hex, ASCII, and binary almost daily at work.

Show me something impressive. Teach my kids to put away their milk cups or the ketchup bottle.

Terry said...

These pieces are amazingly greasy, grimy and grungy...

Brian the Red said...

It be amazin' pieces is greasy, grimy, grungy dese how, so cut me some slack, Jack.