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Mr ERFisher
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On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 9:28 PM Rob Mueller wrote:
> Rick,
>
> You weighed up your situation and decided installing the one ton was best
> for you. I weighed up my situation and decided upgrading
> the OEM suspension was best for me.
>
> And that's that. :-)
>
WHATS WHAT .?
>
> Regards,
> Rob M.
> Sydney, Australia
> AUS '75 Avion - The Blue Streak TZE365V100428
> USA '75 Avion - Double Trouble TZE365V100426
> USA '77 Kingsley - TZE 267V100808
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gmclist [mailto:gmclist-bounces@list.gmcnet.org] On Behalf Of
> Richard Denney
> Sent: Monday, August 14, 2017 1:27 PM
> To: gmclist@list.gmcnet.org
> Subject: Re: [GMCnet] Check your Lower A arm ball joint
>
> Rob,
>
> Very few of the things you describe are easy to do, even for someone with
> mechanical skills, and having them done costs very much
> more than the one-ton kit. Strengthened lower control arms and bushings
> alone, considering the unreturnability of my cores, costs
> more than the one-ton kit, and that doesn't include ball joints, knuckles,
> hubs, rotors, and halfshafts that come with the kit. And
> all of those on my coach also have
> over 100,000 miles on them. Replacing all that with rebuilt original stuff
> costs about $3K just for parts, and the labor is greater
> than with the one-ton kit.
>
> Photos of what Steve Ferguson does to strengthen '73 lower control arms
> just make me realize how much I need to replace them. The
> pictures don't provide much guidance--I'm not going to be cutting and
> welding them. That would NOT make me feel safer. :)
>
> I've heard Dave's talks several times, and I know it's possible to get
> good service from the stock bearings, if everything is kept
> perfect. Making it perfect in the first place is the tricky bit, and it
> usually requires using
> knuckles and hubs that have been spray-welded back to original size. When
> I bought a knuckle from him (in 2008), one that had a zerk
> installed wasn't available. And then the spacer still has to have grooves
> cut in it to pass injected grease. And I still worry about
> the knuckle I didn't replace. I certainly didn't have time to drill for
> zerks--I barely had time to get the project done as it was,
> and still park next to you in Delaware. I had not
> known it had failed and discovered it when I was removing it to replace a
> CV boot.
>
> There have been lots of vehicles that have camber that varies with
> suspension travel, including the old Ford twin I-beam suspension.
> Those weren't great--they have faults common to all swing axles--but they
> also weren't race cars. And they were serviceable. Camber
> increasing with jounce isn't really such a terrible thing for vehicles the
> understeer severely as we hope a GMC will do. A few have
> the skills to notice a difference, though it's hard to compare unless one
> is willing to take the coach to the limit of adhesion. The
> vast majority of people only notice an improvement, maybe because they
> restored their coach to a state of good repair for the first
> time in their experience.
>
> And then there's the 12" brakes.
>
> Rick "for whom time is even more elusive than money" Denney
>
>
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