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Dan Byers works on Stay Puff....gets new t-bars and bushings
Getting dirty on a Sunday.....
   Now he can make it around Willow Springs without crapping his pants.....next week...the rears..... 
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DAMMM, Nice garage addition Mike!
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SWEEEET.
(The work space and the car improvements). 
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Thanks....here's the view of the house....under construction. Nice to get AWAY from THAT.....
Crud....wrong pic.
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One more time.....
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Garage is looking a lot better than when I saw it last! Lift really looks great... now were to put one in my garage! JoeA
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Hey, I dont krap my pants! I just leave little brown stains.
 Thanks for the use of the lift and tools Mike (and the help!). It made it alot easier. The suspension on Stay Puff hasnt been touched in 33 years! Needless to say some things took a little persuasion. Thanks to Mike and his vast inventory of tools we were able to find just the right hammers and pipes to do the job right.  Next weekend the rear. Then CB and alignment and we will be ready for WS!
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08-22-2004, 03:38 PM
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Great stuff, Dan and Mike. Where are the 15 x 7's? Can't be far away. You will have them on for the alignment, right? You're ahead of me now. Way ahead. I'm remodeling too. Damn houses get in the way of real progress
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Way to go, Dan!
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Nice work boys!
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08-23-2004, 04:06 AM
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You guys and your lifts....................
 You gotta get down and dirty, upside down in filth on your back on the garage floor for it to be considered a success! It'll feel like a totally different car when you're done. Very rewarding.
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Nice work Dan! See ya at WS! I'm feeling motivated, maybe I'll give the front t-bars it a try.
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08-23-2004, 08:04 AM
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Milt, Dont know if the 7's will be ready. May stash them away until the P fund builds back up and mount them next year. I dont think things will change in the alignment & CB going from the deep 6's to the 7. Kevin, we got plenty dirty. Its not fun unless your playing in the mud. Jim, You found my logo! BRJ - OTR is a go. Hope you can make it. Ingo, where ever you are we missed ya!
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Very nice Dan! You'll surely get that 6-7 seconds back now
 I would rather have been up there with you guys, rather than getting a really bad sunburn at the waterpark......doh! Mike, dat garage be da bomb.
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Looks like them tiles are a little dusty
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08-23-2004, 09:17 AM
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Frank had some fiberglass flare "massaging"....
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08-23-2004, 10:15 AM
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better get a fresh propane bottle for next weekend and the rear spring plate bushing... i got the rear bushings burning like a marsh mellow then used a sharp carpenter chisel, about 1' wide and cut along the torsion bar tube and pried the melting rubber away. it was much easier to do with the rubber soft from the heat. then a small grinder with a wire brush disk cleaned them right up.
get mine back from alignment and cb this afternoon. today is dragging by, time has come to a stand still.....
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08-23-2004, 11:27 AM
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I used an air chisel on spring plate bushings, and they came off like butter.
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