No, not the movie - although if you haven't seen it, rent it and watch. I jacked the front of the 26' up to pop off the drivers wheel whose new tire is losing air and found gobs of nice clean Syntek or something like all over the lower control arm and elsewhere close by. The boot, which looks new, is dimpled as though it didn't sit correctly for whatever reason. At any rate, after I got all the grease off it - or at least enough to feel the boot itself, there's a finger sized hole in one of the inner creases. A bit of conversation with Jimmy the K and a bit of advice, and there's a new boot on the way. I have a can of Syntek I packed the new rear bearings with to use. After discussion of the split boots, I'll go ahead and yank the axle out and put an OEM on it and replace. The splits do well as long as you don't turn tight too often... but moving around my yard and shop requires lock - to - lock turns quite often, leading me to the conclusion that a bit of time spent will pay off six months from now when the OEM is still sound but the split would have failed. They worked great on the swing axles on my VW bus though.
If it ain't one thing it's another. Jim also advised checking the timing and stepping it out a couple of degrees with the MSD injection system in hopes of improving fuel mileage. He's adamant that the 3.70 doesn't degrade the mileage so there must be something else going on here.

--johnny

This one didn't have inner bands. I've no idea why it pulled in on a couple of the ridges, but it did. You'd expect that if it were twisted at install, but without the inner band it ought to untwist. We'll see how the new one does and go from there. New front brake pads in the offing... as you pointed out, these are too soft. Dust everywhere.

--johnny

Rob,Rob,Rob...off net means no one else knows what you are saying because
you have to actually go Off Net
I don't have an alum rad, but if I did I'd sell it to you...

Mike in NS
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Michael Beaton
Antigonish, NS