I'm getting old and cant get it up...

[alamantia]

I discovered last night (at about 2am) that swapping rears used to be easier on a lift... If anyone's in the area of Midland Park NJ after work on Wendsday and would like to help me balance this boat anchor on my floor jack while I try to fanagle the springs in I could use about 30min of your time. My brother and Father are both away racing this whole week at some IHRA event in Michigan so Im screwed unless I can get Sach or maybe even recruit one of my non-mechanically inclined buddys to swing by... let me know.

Thanks

[The Fixer]

Looks like fun! I'd definitely help, but my wife is working tomorrow so I gotta watch the kids.

[alamantia]

oh yeah, so much fun.

[Savage_Messiah]

If by "After Work" you mean after 10 PM then I may be able to

[alamantia]

i was thinkin 4pm but thanks anyway, Sach said he will help.

[NJSPEEDER]

Originally Posted by TPI Monte SS

Looks like fun! I'd definitely help, but my wife is working tomorrow so I gotta watch the kids.

just make them help too. time for them to start learning how cars go together anyway

[trashman01]

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[ar0ck]

haha I'm a town away in Hawthorne. If I get out of work before 4 I could give you a hand. PM me your cell phone #.

-Alex

[Mike]

i know its like playing monday morning quarterback, but i was off, and bored today.....if i didnt have a doctor appt i would have driven up

[The Fixer]

Originally Posted by NJSPEEDER

just make them help too. time for them to start learning how cars go together anyway

Agreed! Anthony is 4, and is out there every time I'm working on the car. Giada is only 1 though; kinda tough to make her work when she can't stand on her own yet.

[Savage_Messiah]

Originally Posted by TPI Monte SS

Agreed! Anthony is 4, and is out there every time I'm working on the car. Giada is only 1 though; kinda tough to make her work when she can't stand on her own yet.

She can hold sockets and bolts and such

[alamantia]

yeah, when I was five or six my father promised to let me help work on the family car, which was a 1980 suburban. I remember sitting there for like 2 hours, which you know for a 5 year old with obviouls ADD syndrome its like 2 days, eagerly waiting in anticipation so that he would let me do something, once I realized whatever he was doing he was almost done with I remember crying that I didnt do anything, he felt so bad he said "hey, I still have to put on the air cleaner, do you want to put it on with the wing nut?" i nodded yes, he said "all you have to do is put the wing nut on the stud once I get back from cleaning off the air cleaner cover, can you do that?" i nodded yes, so he took off to go get the new air cleaner from out of the box and to hose off the debris from the lid, naturally, I wanted to do a supurb job once he got back so I figured I would get a feel for how the wing nut would thread onto the stud..... well, I crawled up onto the bumper, placed the wing nut on the stud and I droped it, It's amazing how big the primarys were on big block q-jets. I also learned how to properly remove and reinstall a carb that day. It was from that moment forth that I knew I was destined to work on cars.

[The Fixer]

Originally Posted by alamantia

well, I crawled up onto the bumper, placed the wing nut on the stud and I droped it, It's amazing how big the primarys were on big block q-jets. I also learned how to properly remove and reinstall a carb that day. It was from that moment forth that I knew I was destined to work on cars.

That sounds soooooo familiar! Awesome story! So, how did it go, did you get the rear in??

[alamantia]

naaa.. I had a game last night, maybe tonight or tomorrow... I have the drive shaft and torque arem suspended by welding rod, I figure I could drop either one of those and bolt it to the rear to keep it from torquing over as I lift it with the floor jack and try to get the springs in that way, but since I never drive that thing it can wait a while till i get a second pair of hands and just do it right. Sach is supposed to swing by today or tomorrow, I'll find out later. Worst case, I wait for my brother to come home.

[trashman01]

hook up the rear control arms and it will pivot in