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I paid almost $500 from a vendor in Minnesota for a bald treaded, dry rotted sidewall tire and shipping to Nebraska. Took them 6 weeks to send it 2hrs from where I live and within a week of mounting it and not driving it more than 20miles I woke up to it completely flat. They refused to replace it or do anything to make it right, tried to blame it on the tire shop that mounted it, except it was already on the rim and me removing and reinstalling lug nuts didn’t do anything to the sh*t tire they charged me out the a** for
There are a LOT of new-old-stock and barely used tires floating around the various markets - always always ask for the tire's date code before negotiating. I've seen sellers advertising brand new tires that were brand new in 2005, but are not worth the money and time-suck involved.
I’m all for an 8 lug rim and tire combo, but alas I got other things I need done and can’t afford already. Like a 4 man conversion….
Know where Concordia KS is at? Do an bay search..... A one day road trip from you. Eye ball before you buy. My 2 cents.
on the ECV/REV trucks. Had to remove half shaft to get enough working room on the bolts of the rear most A arm bracket. Much easier as a two man job for bolt loosening/tightening.
I did this on my M997 ambulance recently; I know what you mean. I think I spent half the time just figuring out how to get access to all those completely hidden bolts. Taking the halfshafts out is a must, I think.This job is a bearon the ECV/REV trucks. Had to remove half shaft to get enough working room on the bolts of the rear most A arm bracket. Much easier as a two man job for bolt loosening/tightening.
Where did you put that gauge to get the measurement?Rear camber alignment correction.
LR was at +2.3 +/-.02
Took out all (3) thick shims for a -1.5 correction.
This job is a bear
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Machined steel plate over hub face. The face area has a machined section with four holes for the recovery bracket.
I’m maybe 3-4hrs from Concordia. I got a hell of a deal after scouring the auctions every week for well over a year. It didn’t start at auction time which turned out to be a blessing and luckily I had retiredwarhorses pick it up for me and he was kind enough to go over everything for me and informed me that I did in fact have a hidden gem with 35 miles on it and only needed a few parts to get it back to drivable condition. I HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend retiredwarhorses for any of your work if you’re close enough to him. As far as tires though, I learned an expensive lesson, and hope to swap to 17” rims and as big of tires as I can get for selling a kidney
A: Concordia was in reference to your tires. From time to time I've seen hundreds of them stacked outside.
The tapered trip pins should be 5/32" OD (like AR15 hammer and trigger pin OD), I found 5/32" OD zytel nylon round stock on ebay to replace the pins with a more durable plastic chemistry.
