Your going to like the look a lot.....make sure if you take your ride to a shop and they have to remove the wheels confirm that they will use a torque wrench only or they'll hose your lugs with an impact wrench.......
What did you do to your FX / QX70 today?
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Your going to like the look a lot.....make sure if you take your ride to a shop and they have to remove the wheels confirm that they will use a torque wrench only or they'll hose your lugs with an impact wrench.......
Yes! I ran into this issue when I tried swapping my winter tires off. The shop that installed my springs torqued them on SUPER tight. I bent my stock lug wrench trying to get them off.
mrzorrillanyc
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well last week Sunday I got a pair of 22" rims (I'm loving it)
Today I did the following:
* Oil change
* Installed KYB schoks and struts
* Cut and installed HR springs
* Got a wheel aligment
* finally a hand car wash
all in a days worth of work (by the end of it all I was exhausted) of waiting for the work to be done ... lol.
Today I did the following:
* Oil change
* Installed KYB schoks and struts
* Cut and installed HR springs
* Got a wheel aligment
* finally a hand car wash
all in a days worth of work (by the end of it all I was exhausted) of waiting for the work to be done ... lol.
FXchris305
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some pics please lol :wink (2):
Yes! I ran into this issue when I tried swapping my winter tires off. The shop that installed my springs torqued them on SUPER tight. I bent my stock lug wrench trying to get them off.
hate it when that happens, Rich! What i ended up doing now is just slipping a 3-4ft PVC pipe onto the handle of the lug wrench for more leverage and everything comes off very smoothly
Be careful with the PVC pipe. That stuff is made to be moderately flexible, can fail suddenly (as opposed to something like iron that would deform significantly before breaking) and can leave very sharp edges when it breaks. Not very well suited to the "breaker bar" application as a material. Obviously it's worked for you with lug nuts so far, but I wouldn't go putting all my weight on it trying to loosen an axle nut or anything.
I don't ever post in this thread... cuz frankly.... I don't drive my FX much lol... but tonight was bored and I've been bored of the pics of my FX, so I took it out...
Dropped off my relatively new 10.5 GTR wheels for fresh paint to cover up a couple of blemishes. One was actually pretty tight but figured "why not" as they are already on-site. Re-installed my mirrors, tails and third brake light last night, shop didn't get to them while I was gone :mad.:
That is scary, & we do learn from our mistakes.
Last week I drained half my pool cuz the CYA level was too high from previous owners years of Trichlor tabs that leave traces of the stuff w/ every tablet. Then at 2 in the morn. I was reading threads on forums that talk about how peeps have had their pools pop litteraly outa the ground with all the displacement from unknown groundwater levels. I couldnt sleep all night w/ the thought of not having done enough research, dumping 10K glns, & taking A chance on a killed summer & a 50-75K bill to correct if it did happen. All was good in the morning, & while not as bad as a car falling on your head, sometimes you risk those failed results for not seeing the whole picture or cutting safety corners of a job before you take it on.
Anyway, the rewards were good in the end
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You and me both brother.......Just ordered a set of four 295/40/20's Proxes ST II's.....HAH - less than 300 miles on my Hankooks!
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That's wild, just spent a week back east and listened to a story how a family friend pool hydraulic'd out of the ground and hosed the whole set-up. Really screwed it up......before that I'd never heard of the "displacement effect". Glad to hear that didn't happen to you as it would have messed up the national annual IS meet.
haha. Almost forgot to send out the invites.
I had no idea how much water it really was . . & heavy. Fortunately, them gunite & rebar tubs are built crazy tough out here in Cali, & really had nothing to worry about in the end, but I was already thinking of opening a skate par here in the backk.
I had no idea how much water it really was . . & heavy. Fortunately, them gunite & rebar tubs are built crazy tough out here in Cali, & really had nothing to worry about in the end, but I was already thinking of opening a skate par here in the backk.
mrzorrillanyc
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I am going to try to post some pics of my ride, with all the recent work that has been done to it, but quite frankly I always forget to take out the camera, and my blackberry will not do any justice. Worst case scenario I will take pics during the BIG BBQ on Sunday.
Got oil change done and I washed and cleaned inside :sluggish:
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Looks like a pebble tech pool
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That is scary, & we do learn from our mistakes.
Last week I drained half my pool cuz the CYA level was too high from previous owners years of Trichlor tabs that leave traces of the stuff w/ every tablet. Then at 2 in the morn. I was reading threads on forums that talk about how peeps have had their pools pop litteraly outa the ground with all the displacement from unknown groundwater levels. I couldnt sleep all night w/ the thought of not having done enough research, dumping 10K glns, & taking A chance on a killed summer & a 50-75K bill to correct if it did happen. All was good in the morning, & while not as bad as a car falling on your head, sometimes you risk those failed results for not seeing the whole picture or cutting safety corners of a job before you take it on.
Anyway, the rewards were good in the end
Looks like a pebble tech pool
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Just your standard plaster coat. I have the returns aerating up . . so gives the ripple effect. This is at running 1.5 horse
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& this has nothing to do with the FX. Why do I always do this to our threads, duh.
FX is dirty & shown no love. I'm refinishing a dinette set right now. Strip, stain, varnish, the works. FX's home is now a sawdust workshop. poor thing. I gotta clean her this weekend.
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& this has nothing to do with the FX. Why do I always do this to our threads, duh.
FX is dirty & shown no love. I'm refinishing a dinette set right now. Strip, stain, varnish, the works. FX's home is now a sawdust workshop. poor thing. I gotta clean her this weekend.
