What are you working on?
09-15-2014, 07:18 AM
#8212
2nd Gear Member
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Waxhaw, NC
Posts: 445
09-15-2014, 07:21 AM
#8213
3rd Gear Member
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Rock Hill, SC
Posts: 957
09-15-2014, 07:22 AM
#8214
3rd Gear Member
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Rock Hill, SC
Posts: 957
So far I've used meguires wash & wax on it and it works fine and I have used Nick's Detailing spray and also Chadwick's triple play with no problems. I try to find out before I get anything to make sure.
09-15-2014, 07:26 AM
#8215
6th Gear Member
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Thomasville, NC Where we beat headers into submission!!
Posts: 7,233
Can't feel anything, even through the shift handle. Doesn't jerk the Jeep or anything.
09-15-2014, 08:06 AM
#8216
2nd Gear Member
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Waxhaw, NC
Posts: 445
Well, 3 of the wheels showed up on Thursday. The 4th one is MIA. The last tracking activity through UPS had it in Greensboro on the 10th. But somehow it disappeared and didn't show up with the others on the 11th. UPS is "investigating" it and told me to allow up to 8 days. I'm not too happy, but it's not American Muscle's fault. UPS are the ones who lost it.
09-15-2014, 08:07 AM
#8217
2nd Gear Member
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Waxhaw, NC
Posts: 445
I see. Is Chadwick's that waterless car wash stuff? If so, what are your thoughts on it? Does it really do a good job?
09-15-2014, 08:27 AM
#8218
3rd Gear Member
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Rock Hill, SC
Posts: 957
yes it's the waterless stuff. However, I have found it to do the same as any wash/detail job and I am only going to use it solely as a detailer. IMO, it is an amazing detailer and worth it since it will last a while as that. For a waterless wash...I mean it does the job but uses too much for me to use it as that. I'll stick with wash/dry then detailing it afterwards.
09-15-2014, 08:30 AM
#8219
$300 worth of bearings and seals for the Scooby transmission, plus another $150 for strut mounts that I foolishly didn't have on hand to replace when we did the struts, so that will mean another $70 trip to the alignment rack...add that to the $820 I paid last month to have wheel bearings installed (I should have just gotten a press instead, it would have been cheaper) and the $150 in drive shafts and the $50 in ball joints and the $150 in struts...
Of course the truly painful thing is, all it really needed was the struts to cure the clunking in the front end...but the ball joint and drive axle boots were torn, so they needed replacement. I sure didn't need the wheel bearings though, so that was $$$ down the
This should take care of all of its ills, and then I'm going to drive this thing until it falls apart underneath me. It shouldn't need anything major for at least another 30K miles, and that's when I'll have to put another timing belt on it.
I will say in its defense that this little trucklet doesn't need a lot of repairs...but when it does need them...
I'm going to stop complaining now.
Of course the truly painful thing is, all it really needed was the struts to cure the clunking in the front end...but the ball joint and drive axle boots were torn, so they needed replacement. I sure didn't need the wheel bearings though, so that was $$$ down the
This should take care of all of its ills, and then I'm going to drive this thing until it falls apart underneath me. It shouldn't need anything major for at least another 30K miles, and that's when I'll have to put another timing belt on it.
I will say in its defense that this little trucklet doesn't need a lot of repairs...but when it does need them...
I'm going to stop complaining now.
Last edited by lpcard; 09-15-2014 at 08:32 AM.
