These were taken at the beginning of the month at the Auto and Technik museum in Sinsheim Germany. Pretty cool place. I thought i would share with you cool cats. The link is to the Flicker photo stream. I am trying to get a couple of the pics on the post. We will see if it works. http://www.flickr.c...

8-[ :cry: :-k :yikes: :yikes: :yikes: :yikes: :yikes: :yikes: :yikes: :yikes: :yikes: :partyman: ok. that looks like alot more than i can do myself right now. and that is kinda what i thought. if indeed the transmission needs that level of rebuilt i guess i am going to have to take it somewheres.. L...

Well i got some time to do the research. I won't have money to have it done for a while. and the time is a stickler here. I can't do it at home (not allowed). and i don't have another vehicle while i use our auto shop. (do it yourself. But proper shop with tools lifts etc.) Anyone think it could be ...

ok sorry. i am seriously on crack here. i only have 130k mi not 230. don't knw what i was thinking there. sorry.

But. still.. same on the burnt brown fluid then???

anyother advice.

Worth it to do the rebuild/maintainence myself or .....

what peices would need to be replaced for sure..

ok so the 'puter has thrown a p-1870. transmission component slipping. And the 1-2 shift is like a boot in the butt. especially when the gas is on. but only when hot. I don't have a tranny cooler, or temp guage, i don't tow anything yet. It shows up after 10-20 minutes of hiway speed driving. In tow...

cleaned it out. yay. got rid of the crap. Looking at an 8 hour drive with the fam fam this wheeekend

Plugs, wires, cap and rotor.... 2hrs Oil change.... 20 minutes chit chat ..... the rest of it.. went in through the wheel wells for all the plug. a bit of a pain but better than through the doghouse. Finally have my new wheels on.. (Pic to come later) I wanted to take pics of the whole procedure but...

I really love the tool one.

Thats great... and so true

so my wheels arrived and i picked them up yesterday.

whee. now to find time to mount and balance.

hopefully this week.

and maybe my tuneup parts will come in too and i can get it all done in one day.

then i can.....

well. i work in germany for the army.. the guy had bought the drums to do his brakes. but by the time they got here he had to ship his car on orders.. had them extra then. The pick a part in question is basically the only place for US personnel to dispose of vehicles, (and parts sometimes) quickly a...

Measure the bolt pattern. If it is 5 x 5" it will be for an Astro or Safari 99% of the time.

I guess after the crazy headaches i had searching for used wheels (round my area) i should figure that...

hmm.

thanks guys

First off.. i just did my rear brake a coupla months ago. not looking at needing it done soon. But my local used pic-a-part says he has a set of drum from a safari. only thing i got to go on is his word (i believe him) but his word is based on the word of the guy that dropped them off. They are bran...

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Kudos to discount tire. I brought up the lower price on the cragers at summit. Gave them a print out of the online card with the product (with shipping calculated). And... They have already refunded the difference. Kewl..


Thanks for the tips guys.

if its bolted all may not be lost. woo hoo.

soon i will have to take it apart and see whats under there. I am thinking a bit of wledng and proper painting under the plastic to fix.


then again i have been thinking about doing the running boards too.

Hmm.

either way it will have to be fixxed.