Intrepidation

Glad to see he isn't the only one who thinks the Giulietta isn't good looking. Aside from the 8C and the recent concept, Alfa's styling has gotten worse since the 159 with its extremely handsome and serious front end to this and the MiTo's surprised faces.

Can't wait to see it!

Yes please, should have done this years ago.

Ah, yeah, I see what you're saying. Interesting, so there is no adjustment shims on the bolts holding the whole apparatus to the frame? Working on suspension is a lot less stressful when you know the alignment isn't very good. Usually, good parts bring things back to normal enough and I've had pretty good luck with tape measures, string and levels to put cars back into alignment. Sure, you can mark the strut mount, or in your case, the cam bolts... but I know that a little error on the mark translates into a lot of error in the alignment, and that parts have different tolerances... so my paranoia gets the best of me. After the Bonne gets a transmission, I think struts are next, so I'll be seeing how bad I can F-up a car that has been historically very well aligned. It will likely get lower balls at the same time. The shims are the two larger "nuts" under the two smaller nuts that secure the ball joint to the upper control arm. You rotate them certain ways to change the position of the ball joint. Anyway, today I replaced the primary parking brake cable. Much tauter now, but the brakes still aren't strong enough to hold the car on a hill. The shoes have plenty of material n them, they're adjusted, and now there's anew cable. I'm stuck.

Looks great. Didn't know Momo supplied the steering wheels for Legacies. This is the best looking car Subaru has made to date, IMO. How far they have fallen... May it give you many happy miles.

Yep, GM, Intrepid has struts all the way around. All cars should be so easy to work on as this. However it is possible to mess the alignment up as the two bolts which hold the upper ball joint down are adjustment cams. I tried to get them as close as possible to their original location. It was out of alignment before so its hard to say.

Oh man, that looks awesome. Love the steering wheel. This car will look sinister in all black.

Today's little project: First time working on suspension parts. Gotta say it was pretty easy. Only part that have me any difficulty was popping the old one out. PB Blaster made getting the nuts off easy, and everything had plenty of clearance.

I'd check the door switches.

It comes in both. CRC and Liquid Wrench make it in spray cans. You can get either spray or can/tube grease at your local auto parts store.

So I was close. A fine choice indeed.

Agree on the Lithium Grease. It's specifically designed for lubricating metal to metal parts. PB Blaster is an excellent penetrating oil but not so much a lubricant (although they do make a multipurpose lubricant). WD-40 is sort of in the middle of the spectrum, as it does some of both, but definitely go with Lithium Grease

And with that ladies and gentlemen, as per request, this thread has run its course.

Looks sharp!

That's awesome, good luck.

I've said it before: Panther cars are the jack of all trades; they can do anything.

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Looks like I've got another project. Upper ball joint for the Grand Marquis.

It's super effective.

I guess you could say... *puts on glasses* Your tire got bent out of shape over the incident.

What a bargain!

The speed has me interested as well, but like you, I enjoy my capacity. I'm not willing to give up my 1TB of space for 120 GBs, and I'm not willing to spend five grand to get an SSD with more than 500GB.

It's a big hobby around these parts, but also an expensive one, having to make repairs after an outing is almost certain.

SSDs are still very expensive especially if you want something resembling decent storage space. It's pretty inconvenient to choose between a patch for your game or your System32 folder.